This year, for the building project, the brief asked us to investigate how buildings can be designed to nurture health and wellbeing. Health and wellbeing should be considered something that incorporates both animate and inanimate, medical and non-medical elements and forms of architecture. This is explored through both conventional and alternative practices, encompassing the mystical, profane and spiritual elements of buildings, as both sick and healthy constructions. We can relate health to active and non-active practices of the body, including the foods we grow and eat, the quality of air and the particles we breathe and the flora and fauna surrounding us.

We stepped into the shoes of the architect-surgeon, as we learnt to diagnose the city, our sites and their surrounding environments, while we dreamed about alternative realities, envisioning what a site can host or become in order to help the occupants and the wider city. The project worked on three scales: one-to-one actions and occupations for the body; the building as body; and the building within the embodied city.

The projects below chose side wall sites.