Degree Show 2026 – Lancaster School of Architecture

The 2026 Architecture Degree Show gathers work produced by 3rd Year students at the BA Hons Architecture and 5th Year MArch Students.

BA Hons Architecture Degree Show

The exhibition presents a collection of third‑year projects that reimagine Lancaster’s Canal Quarter at a moment of urgent environmental and social transformation. Each proposal begins with a deep reading of place, uncovering the historical legacy, industrial traces and mid‑century ruptures that have shaped this underused district. Through this lens, students propose new thresholds, public routes and community‑centred spaces that reconnect the Quarter to the city.

Responding to the climate emergency, the work embraces holistic sustainable design—addressing mitigation, adaptation, restorative strategies and climate justice. Students explore bioclimatic design, biomimicry, biophilic principles and regenerative thinking to shape buildings that work with, rather than against, natural systems.

Material sufficiency is a defining theme. Existing structures become material banks; components are catalogued, disassembled and re‑used. Many projects adopt design for disassembly, using reversible fixings and separable layers to reduce embodied carbon and support future reuse. On both proposed sites, students test how frugal construction and inventive reuse can generate new architectural identities.

The programmes—learning centres, repair cafés, community workshops, exhibition spaces—position architecture as a catalyst for renewal. Buildings are conceived as flexible systems capable of adaptability, transformability and convertibility, ensuring longevity in a changing world.

Exhibiting students:

Amy Beddal
Sana Umarji
Junyoung Samuel Choi
Luke Offer
Luca Bregazzi
Justin Corbishley
Jon Sreeves
Jason Zhou
He Zhu
Georgie Lewis
Charlotte Varghese
Ayisha Bawla
Alistair Styler
Aaryaa Belsare
Dyan Azemia

MArch Architecture Degree Show

The MArch exhibition brings together the architectural research, manifesto development, and technical design investigation shaped by an intensive engagement with the landscapes and communities of North Wales. The primary design brief focused on the Vale of Ffestiniog undertaken by final year students, where students worked within a territorially complex landscape defined by the Vale of Ffestiniog, the Afon Dwyryd corridor, the boundaries of Eryri National Park, and the UNESCO-recognised slate landscape surrounding Blaenau Ffestiniog. Students developed individual architectural manifestos that established critical positions on climate resilience, social responsibility, environmental systems, structure, and material practice, using these as frameworks to guide proposals grounded in the ecological, cultural, and economic realities of the valley. Through iterative processes of drawing, prototyping, model-making, and technical testing, projects were developed from conceptual research through to detailed architectural resolution.

A second parallel brief investigated by he first year MArch students shifted focus toward the south-east coastline of England, examining lifeboat stations as forms of critical infrastructure operating at the intersection of environmental change and political tension. Students investigated how architecture responds to coastal erosion, sea-level rise, managed retreat, and the increasingly contested humanitarian role of Royal National Lifeboat Institution rescue operations amid migrant crossings in the English Channel. Together, both briefs position architecture as an adaptive practice capable of engaging urgent environmental, territorial, and social challenges while questioning how future architecture can operate responsibly within conditions of uncertainty and change.

Exhibiting students:

Katie Phillips
Davyd Tolkach
Bramham Aram
John Bell
Ben Pomfret
Libby Barnes
Kai Coleman
Ruth Adu-Dwumaa
Nora Anyaehie
Oneli Lavinya Edirisooriya
Freya Gallagher-Dickens
Charlotte Pugh