"Infrastructural Transposition"_ Spyridon Kaprinis + Margarita Germanos + Larry Allison _ 2025-2026 The thematic focus for this year is Infrastructural Transposition: a critical exploration of vertical and horizontal infrastructural typologies, their latent spatial potential, and their architectural re-imagination. Within the city, infrastructure is too often relegated to the margins: positioned apart from other programmes due to issues of accessibility, aesthetics, and environmental impact (noise, pollution, scale, etc.). Vertical structures such as water towers and horizontal elements such as bridges are traditionally conceived as singular utilities, isolated, disused, or instrumental in linking only roads, highways, and rail lines. Yet, because of their scale, footprint, structural ambition, and interstitial positioning, these infrastructural systems harbour untapped opportunities for occupation, appropriation, and transposition. Through precedent studies, diagrammatic analysis, and transformative design exercises, students will critically reframe infrastructure as architecture, no longer isolated artefacts of utility, but symbiotic frameworks for social, cultural, and ecological inhabitation. Our ambition is to move beyond the commodified, objectified, or “luxurious” additions that dominate much of contemporary urban development. Instead, students will be encouraged to cultivate a site-specific and relational design methodology, one that challenges conventions of segregation and reveals how infrastructural typologies can act as scaffolds for new forms of urban commonality, continuity, and belonging. SK+MG+LA _ 2025-26
“Infrastructural Transposition: Blackfriars Cultural Hub / Living Bridge”, London, England, UK _ Student: William James Garner Roberts / BA3 _ 18.05.2026
LSBU School of Architecture _ End of Year Catalogue _ June 2025
Editors: Daniel Wing Hang Tang _ Editorial coordination: I. Troiani, S. Kaprinis, M. Germanos, D. Tang, I. Petkova, V. Massaro, M. Jociute, E. Hasa, E. Valikhani, S. Bowkett, M. Starzynska, C. Sanchez, A. Hill, M. Patru, C. Stewart, J. Bush _ Cover design: Valerio Massaro.
Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [04.02.2026]
“The #LSBU #Architecture End of Year Catalogue celebrates the excellence of our students’ work throughout the Academic year of 2025. The catalogue showcases some of our most exciting projects from this academic year, and we wish to celebrate the efforts that our students have made throughout their architectural education. Here you will find illustrated projects presented at the annual End of Year Show by students across the school’s professional programmes and includes selected work undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes, and offers a glimpse of what our Architecture school at #London_South_Bank_University has to offer.”
BAS2 _ Design Module 301 _ Cockfosters Water Tower Proposal _ 3D models _ Students: Joe Bray and Akram Ahmed / BA3 _ Cockfosters Road, Enfield, London, England, UK _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [11.12.2025].
“A little way along the ridge the uninterrupted views of countryside which estate agents would no doubt be carefully noting were compromised by the uncanny helical concrete stem of Cockfosters Water Tower. Built in 1968 for the Lee Valley Water Company, the elegant hyperboloid latticework twisted into a bulky drum festooned with telecom aerials and conductive spikes. The architect was Edmund Percey - veteran of a number of fascinating similar constructions. On leaving the RAF, Percey began work at the London County Council before moving to Scherrer & Hicks where he was involved in numerous industrial architectural schemes. His work includes the Lee Valley Water Company headquarters in Hatfield which incorporated a full-height relief by William Mitchell, another former LCC employee.”
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BAS2 _ Design Module 301 _ Cockfosters Water Tower Proposal _ 3D models _ Students: William Roberts and Joe Bray / BA3 _ Cockfosters Road, Enfield, London, England, UK _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [09.12.2025].
“A little way along the ridge the uninterrupted views of countryside which estate agents would no doubt be carefully noting were compromised by the uncanny helical concrete stem of Cockfosters Water Tower. Built in 1968 for the Lee Valley Water Company, the elegant hyperboloid latticework twisted into a bulky drum festooned with telecom aerials and conductive spikes. The architect was Edmund Percey - veteran of a number of fascinating similar constructions. On leaving the RAF, Percey began work at the London County Council before moving to Scherrer & Hicks where he was involved in numerous industrial architectural schemes. His work includes the Lee Valley Water Company headquarters in Hatfield which incorporated a full-height relief by William Mitchell, another former LCC employee.”
Lost::MikeGTN - Another largely irrelevent personal blog, mostly featuring trains, music and musings on place...
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