Architectural Portfolio 2021

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[ Selected works 2021 ]

[ Leith Timber Knot [ New Pudding Lane [ Paralel House [ Urban Species [ Music Library [ Rosebank Tree [ Dirleton Castle Pavilion

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

Abdulmuminu Yahaya

[ Arb/Riba II Architectural Assistant ] M.Arch, M.A. (Hons)

[ Leith Timber Knot ]

THE LEITH TIMBER KNOT At Home in the city - [2021 - Ongoing] The Leith Timber Knot takes an experimental approach to investigating the city through its material ‘makings’ and historical ‘markings’.

The investigation starts of at the New Club private dining room, with the focus on the Lorimer timber panelling. This touch stone leads to questions about the nature of the timber industry in the city in the late 19th century and early 20th century, a time where artisans and specialists in woodworking could be found all over the city. The city field is a study of this industry in the city and extends as far as Norway, a pivotal support for the industry at the time. In this journey across seas, the Stothert & Pitt cranes that lined the docks of the Leith port are of great significance to the industry. This investigation considers the ‘un-docking’ of the cranes of which 3 stand disused and ‘re-docking’ them along the site at Great Junction Street. Their ‘behaviour’ is also investigated and used in the synthesis of a design language. Of pivotal importance to the industry is also the sawmills, crucial for refining the raw material post-delivery into the port to allow it permeate the cities dense fabric.

These are thus considered ‘artefacts’ in this investigation.

Of no use of course is the machinery without the woodworkers and builders who were crucial in supporting the city and it’s built urban fabric. This couldn’t have been clearer following the protests of 1860 by the Edinburgh Building Co against their working hours. They were also strong advocates for affordable social housing.

The support ‘union’ type grouping of the construction trades against the city they are crucial in supporting raises a question of what relationship an architecture that serves as a meeting space for the trade’s men of the building craft and the public.

The architectural language aims to develop and take precedence from the ‘archaeological markings still present on the city by the wood craftsmen of the 19 and 20th century. The building is made up of a collection of community and member only spaces and studios aiming to give it the privacy of a private members club but also the openness of a community space. The platform that extends out from the buildings base will behave as a site for the manifestation of learnt knowledge in the club, with the end of year building of a stage structure for the Edinburgh Fringe by students and community members of the club.

The ‘Poet’ for the ‘Timber knot’ is a resident at the Knot and employed full time into researching the living conditions in social housing and timbers use in building, producing text for members to reference from the library and rare book vault.

The ‘Caretaker’ also lives on site and is responsible for ensuring the smooth day to day running of the clubs workshops. They also have a private workshop at their residence for personal projects creating a seamless transition between work, living and working from home.

[ Leith Timber Knot ] Introduction Video Leith Timber Knot City Field

https://youtu.be/VBkG0AikJDo

[ Leith Timber Knot ] Collage of physical model and digital form tests for light void

Second floor plan

[ Leith Timber Knot ] Wall bolted steel plates

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Service and drainage pipes

Steel anchoring rail

Norwegian Larvikite Facade Detail

[ Leith Timber Knot ] Roof assembly

Roof layers assembly

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[ New Pudding Lane ]

New Pudding Lane Tectonics of Fire: An alternative Post Great Fire Architecture - [ 2019 - 2020 ] On a cold evening in London on the 2nd of September 1666, a fire that would go on to devastate the city had started in the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane. The Fire lead to a complete destruction of much of the city as it was, leading to questions about how this happened and how the city could be rebuilt to stop this happening.

The agreed solutions were articulated in the 1667 rebuilding act.

This project questions the possibilities that existed for an alternative London architecture after the Great Fire. It explores the tectonics behind the architecture of houses in London pre and post the Great Fire of London. By breaking down the architecture of the house where the Great Fire started and exploring its failures, the project explores how the 1667 rebuilding act which emphasises the need to change materiality can be rethought through exploring the rebuilding act by arguing that the timber materiality of the city could have been maintained and its fire standards could still have reached the levels achieved in the post fire brick architecture the city adopted by focusing on the other failures of the cities architecture which compounded the fires spread on a street scape and building level.

Through a number of explorations using two fire defence apparatus derived from the tectonic studies, ‘Space’ and ‘Party wall’. The architecture explores the relationship between adjacent buildings proposing a layout that ensure the outbreak of fire in one buildings does not spread in the manner witnessed in the Great Fire.

[ New Pudding Lane ] New Territory performance 1

New Territory performance 2

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[ New Pudding Lane ] Thomas Farriner bakery - 1666

Typical post Great Fire house - 1667

New Pudding Lane bakery - 2020

New Pudding Lane bakery - Non-Combustible

New Pudding Lane bakery - Combustible

[ New Pudding Lane ] New Pudding Lane - Distillery

New Pudding Lane - Church

New Pudding Lane - Pottery

[ New Pudding Lane ] New Pudding Lane - Stables Timber Skyline

Brick Skyline

Concrete and Glass (Envelope) Skyline

New Pudding Lane - Housing

[ Parallel House

Parallel House Tectonics of Fire: An alternative Post Great Fire Architecture - [ 2019 - 2020 ] The pre and post fire Parallel House questions the possibility of the city of London’s architecture changing in a way different to that legislated in the 1667 Rebuilding Act. It argues that by using two apparatus’s, Space and the Party Wall, the building could maintain its timber materiality and achieve the same fire standards as where achieved with brick buildings post Great Fire. It takes the successful tectonic defences from a potential fire in both architectures and combines them in a hybrid new form where space and the party wall are the key fire defence elements. Space ensures that when an individual timber building burns there is adequate spacing between it and the next timber building unless a brick/stone Party Wall is between both timber buildings then space is not necessary as the Party Wall stops the flames from spreading from one building to the other.

[ Urban Sp-ecies ]

Urban Sp-ecies ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EXPLORATIONS UNIT 3: PROTOTYPING URBAN REALITIES [2017 - 2018] Urban SP-ECIES is a project looking at The urban conditions of sound in Edinburgh at night. The project provides an analysis of sound in the Grassmarket and proposes an architectural intervention via Architectural animals that roam the Grassmarket. The Animals are a new sp-ecies introduced to Edinburgh that responds to sound, wondering through the city navigating spaces using sound and leaving a trace of its movement through the city via its fibres and feet. We look into the possibilities of the spaces created and their possible uses.

The ‘Urban Sp-ecies’ allows us to explore the grassmarket in a new dynamic way, where the Sp-ecies reflect the sound of the city into the urban landscape. The very composition of the site provides the species with the possibility of weaving through the space. The Sp-ecies react to the changing sound of the Grassmarket and through weaving new dynamic forms are created accompanied by drawings of this movement. While the question of the use of the space is totally unto the occupant of the space and a use they deem fit, the project explores the question of how these spaces are formed.

In Collaboration with; Ali Cadir

Sound Sensor Humidity/Temperature Sensor Light Sensor Colour Sensor ULtrasonic Sensor Led Board

Vibration Sensor

Species - 01

VCC Cable Signal Cable Ground Cable Humidity/Temperature Sensor Sound Sensor Ultrasonic Sensor

Resistor Vibration Sensor LDR LED Board

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To allow us read data above our heads we came up with Sp-ecies SP-001. It Stands at 3 meters tall, a height we believed gave us relative information about sound at levels we can’t reach. Across her height of 3 meters she is further divided into 10 sections spaced at 300mm intervals. We identified a series of conditions we wanted to measure and divided them across her height. The conditions we decided to measure were sound, light, temperature and humidity and vibration. She also reads the texture of the ground using an ultrasound sensor located along her base. An important trait we wanted to ensure SP-001 had is the ability for her to simultaneously take recording across 9 levels. This simultaneous reading was crucial to ensure these factors at any moment of time where measured to allow for analysis of data at any given time across her height. Her frame is constructed from steel and has a fully exposed skeleton

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[ Urban Sp-ecies ] Species - 03

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[ Urban Sp-ecies ] Species - 01 - Urban choreography

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Music Library Architecture: Any place - Piazza di San Cosimato [ 2016 - 2017 ] Libraries should enhance learning, research and development of self interests. The increasing volume of digital information available means the sole purpose most libraries serve as points to collect information and do nothing more no longer serves as a definition for its existence and a need to redefine the library is arising. The library should now look to do more in the process of an individuals development by serving as a point for them to expand on interests and knowledge. I have come up with the 7 C’s as a framework to define this library I envision. They are, collaboration, creativity, community, culture, comfort, continuity and growth. The library has to allow for users to seek information off one another, in my experience libraries don,t allow for this, simply as a result of the mixing up of people who are chasing different interest and no clear indication of who can actually help on your subject matter to clarify questions. The library must now allow creativity to thrive within, the reputation of a library as a silent place I believe is a turn away for people of the creative form who express their creativity in the visual and audio formats. The library must embrace culture and as a means to be seen as a integral part of the community that stands for what the people do and allow for the expression of the culture of an area within it. The library should serve as a benefit to the community by offering something to it and allowing it to be used by all members of the community regardless of their background by offering multiple uses. The library should be comforting, the user should not feel surrounded and be in control of their environment, materiality of the library can also help to achieve this comforting feeling. And lastly not starting with a c but still included in the count is growth, the purpose of a patron embarking to a library is with the main aim of obtaining knowledge of some sort, the previous 6 C’s combine to allow growth.

[ Music Library ]

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Brass Chamber Woodwind Chamber String Chamber Percussion Chamber Social rooms Book storage Writing/Production Tutorial First floor plan 17/18

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[ Rosebank Tree ]

The Rosebank Tree Tectonics [open studio]- A Juxtaposing link between Industrial and Human Processes [2018 - 2019] The alcohol industry has a direct link to the issue of alcoholism in Scotland as is the same with anywhere the issue exists in the world. The industry which generates large profits year on year has not stepped in to address the social fallout that arises from the abuse of the substance, more often that not, the extremely strong cheap alcohol. While new minimum pricing law for alcohol by the Scottish government was introduced to try curb the high substance abuse, there has been little to no reported effect on the number of people abusing the substance. This action was also as a result of government legislation and not the industry taking proactive steps to cut down substance abuse.

This Project begins with an investigation into the now closed down but once glorious Rosebank Distillery. It’s old rubdown buildings stand on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal in Falkirk. The project then questions what it is to be an ‘alcoholic’ and how our understanding of alcohol addiction could be shifted toward an architecture of greater incluisvity. With little to no industry in the small town, social issue are rife and substance abuse in the town is high. The proposal is made to reopen the whisky distillery but only on the basis that it shares its site with a ‘rehab’ (the scope of its definition in recovery is broadly used here)..

In Collaboration with; Adeola Olanrewaju

[ Rosebank Tree ]

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ALCOHOL REHABILITATION CENTRE

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SITE: THE LOST ROSEBANK DISTILLERY, FALKIRK.

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ROSEBANK 5 - STAGE ALCOHOL REHAB STILL SET 2

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PRECONCEPTION - ATTEMPTING TO ATTRACT ALCOHOLICS TO REHAB

INGREDIENTS AT THIS STAGE – Education, Legal Help, Religious centre, Lecture centre

CONTEMPLATION - GETTING ALCOHOLIC TO RECONSIDER THEIR CHOICES

B1 THIRD FLOOR

INGREDIENTS AT THIS STAGE – Family Counselling, Family Private therapy space.

PREPARATION - MENTAL COMMITMENT OF THE MIND (FIRST STAGE OF RECOVERY) INGREDIENTS AT THIS STAGE – 1 to 1 counselling, Social hub spaces, knowledge centre.

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ROSEBANK DISTILELRY 1:200 GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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5 - Distilelry Office 6 - External green walkway from distillery 7 - Steeping Tanks 8 - Screw Conveyor

9 - Bucket Lift 10 - Equipment Store

ROSEBANK DISTILELRY 1:200 FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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ROSEBANK DISTILELRY 1:200 SOUTH WING 2.5 FLOOR PLAN

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[ Dirleton Castle Pavilion ] Great Hall

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[ Dirleton Castle Pavilion ] Technology and Environment - Timber Walkway [2016 - 2017] Twenty miles east of Edinburgh City lies the everlasting clustered ruins of Dirleton Castle, standing proudly on a colossal rocky mound, and overlooking the mesmerizing Victorian Bowling Green and Herbaceous gardens. This historical landmark serves as an exemplary residential fortification that had served three consecutive noble families for at least 400 years. Not only does Dirleton Castle embody a historical transformation in the character of its ruins, but it also conspicuously signifies a triumphant resilience against the invasions, sieges, and wars of independence that had attempted to demolish it. The Great Hall, in particular, had accommodated an assortment of administrative and recreational affairs, primarily serving as a festive banquet hall. Carefully scrutinizing the historical context of Dirleton Castle, it is our objective to reciprocate its qualities and capture the most prominent views in our walkway design.

Walkway site plan

In Collaboration with; Adeola Olanrewaju Ejatu Shaw Zain Al-Sharaf

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Column assembly detail

[ Dirleton Castle Pavilion ]

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