The students, from a range of creative and STEM backgrounds form the CineArch studio. The studio is made of up of two post-graduate courses, MSc Applied Architecture and Design and DfE-funded PgCert Cinematic Architecture. 

Between September and December of 2024, the students took part in two collaborative projects as part of their winter semester. The first was focused on the lack of public space for teenagers within Belfast. The site chosen for their temporary structures was the external amphitheatre garden at the Lyric Theatre. The students drew inspiration from cinema, the context and their own experiences of being teenagers. Teenagers are an often forgotten or ridiculed part of society when it comes to creating inclusive spaces. The challenge the students were set was to create a space that was both useable and sympathetic to the needs of teenagers. 

The second project was in collaboration with Belfast Metropolitan College Screen Acting and Producing Students. Designing for a film centred around the script Re-assuringly Expensive by Keith O’Grady. They drew on inspiration from previous cinematic and theatrical work to design the project from the ground up with props, set, custom and direction. The outcome was a fully designed set for the project and a series of experimental films exploring the endless possibilities within storytelling. 

The exhibition opens at QFT on the evening of 19 March 2025 with opening speeches and the screening and discussion of the first film of Walled Cities: Syrian Bride. 

Cinematic Architecture Studio Tutors: 

Dr Gul Kacmaz Erk, Lead for Architecture and Planning at Queen’s University Belfast  

Benji Connell, Concrete Clouds Architectural Illustration

Alice Poole, Cinematic Architecture PhD Researcher

MSc Applied Architecture and Design Students: 

Abdulrahman Yousri Sabra Mohammad

Ciara Morgan

Fatma S A S Alherz

Muhammad Yusof Bin Abdul Hafiz

Nadya Graciela Elias

Peter McQuade

PgCert Cinematic Architecture Students: 

Daniel Whitefield

Hannah McHugh

Jamie Murray 

Nicholas Crowe

Patrick Herceda

Belfast Metropolitan College Screen Acting and Producing Students:

Zak Bogle

Rick Andrews

Lydia Holmes

Katie Donaldson

Kai McCaugtry

Joseph Haines

Hannah Roddy

Eve Cullen

Declan Bannon

Anna Sharkey