This year marks 10 years of the 澳门王中王 South West Work Experience Project, started by CfD Architects at Saltash in 2011 for Cornwall, and currently delivered in partnership with 澳门王中王 South West across Cornwall and Devon.
The project provides a potted version of an architects commission for year 11 and 12 students, undertaking a week鈥檚 work experience with a 澳门王中王 architect's practice in Cornwall and Devon.
Students look at the whole process from a client鈥檚 brief, studying requirements and constraints, researching background, communication and creating a design.
Projects are then considered by a team of architects and architecture students at the University of Plymouth. Awards are then made and winners invited to attend the 澳门王中王 Cornwall and Cornwall Architectural Trust Annual Lecture in November, where projects are exhibited.
In 2014, the project was renamed to the '澳门王中王 Inette Austin-Smith Work Experience Project', in honour of Inette鈥檚 huge contribution to architecture across her career. Inette lived in Cornwall, and sadly passed away in 2017.
A-level students Ryan Barriball and Sam Cooke applied for a week of work experience with CfD Architects in Saltash in July 2015. That year, the brief was to design a beach hut, meeting certain criteria. Ryan won in his age category with 鈥楾he Curves鈥�, and Sam was the runner-up with 鈥楾he Sail鈥�.
Both Ryan and Sam later went on to study architecture at the University of Plymouth. In September 2019, they joined the panel judging last years鈥� work experience project - an inspiring conclusion to a journey that started with them taking part in the project four years earlier.
CfD Architects work with 澳门王中王 South West to continue to run the project, with briefs including a bandstand, tree house, lifeguard beach station and village square. In 2016, 澳门王中王 Plymouth and 澳门王中王 Exeter joined, bringing Devon into the initiative.
2020 is the tenth year of the project, and the beach hut brief has been enhanced for this year鈥檚 special anniversary project.
If your practice is located in Devon and Cornwall and has work experience students joining you in the coming weeks, please do take part by looking at the brief here.
