Two students were selected for the AJ Student Prize by London South Bank University: Dola Mukta, BA (Hons) Architecture (Undergraduate) and Yianna Moustaka, March (Postgraduate). A big congratulations go out to the students on behalf of the School of BEA.

Dola Mukta, BA (Hons) Architecture (Undergraduate)
Project title Education of Autonomy
Project description In a society where the idea of community is vanishing in between the vastness of tall institutional buildings and skyscrapers, the proposal of a live-work educational centre located near Canary Wharf is a result of the interpretation of socio-economic factors of migrant families in the area, as well as aspiring new entrepreneurs. The research focused on the specifics of the surroundings and the response to these. The architectural approach responds to this data to deliver protected live-work spaces formed by a series of separate buildings used for counselling residents in need, and all facing towards the central market space, a soc