A context and housing for students in Belfast

Architecture is better understood in a context, and this dissertation tries to provide the context for student housing on a city block in the centre of Belfast. The dissertation embodies the thesis idea of the building as a material organisation of the spatial and temporal history of its place; and in particular, how this reading might address a city that too often seems empty. The writing is structured as a spiralling description of context; from the widest, most generic terms towards the narrow and the specific.