ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2024

Hello! I’m Aldrin Estillore

This is my Portfolio

I’m a recent graduate at the University of Westminster where I’ve completed my Masters degree. Situated within DS13, I’ve always wanted to work with larger development, retail, commercial projects. I wanted my final academic year to push boundaries and explore typologies that haven’t yet been considered and creating playful and collective spaces that best reflects on the projects ambitional narrative.

During my time working for ON Architecture, I’ve helped with projects ranging from residential and commercial projects from all scales. As a personal matter, I enjoy travelling around the world to go and visit architectural landmarks, I like to sketch, draw, reading architecture magazines. During my spare time, I like to help other architects with their practices and businesses with their marketing efforts, and having networked alongside with Architect Marketing Institute, The Business of Architecture, and being selected with Two Worlds Design Podcast as a past

Currently, being a recent graduate, I am now a junior architecture assistant with professional experience who have assisted in the residential and commercial projects from past experience and has tackled RIBA work Stage 0-3 and has a passion to work alongside the top leading architecture practices around the UK.

Im excited to showcase you some of my latest selected architecture works that I’ve been working with for the past years.

-Aldrin Estillore

ABOUT ME

A junior architecture assistant professional who have assisted in the residential and commercial projects from past experience and has tackled RIBA work Stage 0-5 and has a passion to work alongside the top leading architecture practices around the UK .

ALDRIN ESTILLORE

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EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

September 2020 - July 2022

September 2017-

July 2019

Masters in Architecture / RIBA Part 2 Accredited

University of Westminster

MArch | 1st Class Honours Degree

Bachelorss in Architecture / RIBA Part 1 Accredited

University for the Creative Arts

BArch | 1st Class Honours Degree

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

July 2023Febuary 2024

“Buildings are not for monuments and power. It is to create neighbourhoods, communities, opportunities, activity and so much more. We do this by creating a better world through the power of Design.”

July 2022July 2023

Junior Designer / Architectural Assitant Part 2

GENSLER

Wapping | London

-Heavily involved in international residential and mix-use projects

-Delivering technical drawing sets and drawing packsages within tight deadlines

-Assisting in competition based architecture proposals with creating compelling visuals and architectural forms

-Participating in Design Synergy Groups and focusing on Practice Areas

-Insights on in-house programmes to help aid design: gBlox, gFloors, Climate Studios

July 2020March 2021

Junior Designer / Architectural Assitant Part 2

Broadway Malyan

Waterloo | London

-Taken part of a large residential development for Stage 4 technical drawing deliverables

-Assisting with Project deliverables through BIM modelling programmes

-Delivering tender, costings and contracting through project managers

-Assisting in delivering drawing sets, technical and architectural packages.

Architectural Assitant Part 1 ON Architecture

Farringdon, Clerkenwell | London

- Tasked to make Design Access Statements for current and future projects

- Project Assistant for a Modular Residential Project from Latis Group

- Assisting on Pre-App and Consulation Meetings from clients

- Research and Fact finding for design preparation

- Assisting in RIBA work stages 0-3 for multiple selected projects

EXTRACIRICULAR ACTIVITIES

September 2021

- July 2022

September 2017-

July 2019

Reservationist & Receptionist

Luton Hoo Hotel Golf & Spa

Luton, Bedfordshire

University for the Creative Arts Student Ambassador

University for the Creative Arts

Canterbury, Kent

PUBLICATIONS

June 2021

September 2019

July 2018

University of Westminster Top Design Studio StudentArchitecture Journal Student Award Winner.

RIBA Bronze Project Selected NomineeCrypto Currency Exchange Project - Servita Ter, Budapest

The Archiologist - Project and Drawing Entry Publication

- Dine to Infinity - Cable Street, London.

SOFTWARES

3D Modelling + 3D Printing

Rhino 6/7 - Sketchup - 3DS Max

3D Rendering

Enscape - V-ray (Latest Updates)

2D Drawing

AutoCAD

Adobe Creative Suites

Photoshop - Indesign - Illustrator - Lightroom - Acrobat

ACHIEVEMENTS

2019

Student Award from Architectural Journal

Architectural Journal

Online Publication

Student Candidate

AIA Charrette Competition

London

-Worked closely with my colleagues from UCA

Physical Modelling

Hand Sketching & Drawing Photography

-Able to finish the competition at 3rd Place out of a team of 10 Universities around the UK 2019

Godalming, Surrey 2016

Awarded for best student in Product Design Team

Godalming College

ESTATE 360

MULTI-GENERATIONAL RESIDENTIAL AND MIX-USE DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Max Estate 360 is a multi generational residential development, approx 1.85 million sq/f that consists of MEL (Max Estate Living) and ASL (Antara Senior Living) a hybrid of modern residential homes, apartments and penthouses and retirement homes, apartments and duplexes. Developed by RSP, Antara by Max Estates Group, the scheme provides 39 floors, 1350 units of typical residential and senior living apartments with duplexes and penthouses situated at the top floor of the towers.

The overall podium level consists of clubhouses for a twin tower floor (MEL & ASL) Clubhouse with provision to add Townhouses as a subsidiary private house complex. Amenities from both Clubhouses have an underground arrival lobby, gym, pool, restaurants, theaters, and wellness center programmed within the ground floor level. Our mission was to put Max Estate at the forefront of specializing and redefining the way of living in Delhi, India and to realize their development to follow their main core ethos and purpose of this multi-generational development.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau Maritime Expo

LONDON CANCER HUB

REVOLUTIONISING RESEARCH AND TREATMENT

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The ambition of the project resonates with Gensler’s aspirations as a design practice: to deliver world class spaces and places that can impact people’s lives for the better.

To cultivate innovation a purpose needs to be shared by all those involved, it becomes a foundation to all subsequent decisions and helps maintain a cohesive approach as work gets underway.

This project benefits already from such a cohesive purpose, and it is one that our masterplan hopes to support: to create the world’s leading centre for cancer research, treatment, education and enterprise.

Innovation comes from things being close together, whether they be people, ideas, or needs and opportunities. It is the result of combinations of people, ideations on previous approaches and settings, and testing and failing, rather than individuals working independently, or from some outlandish idea from the heavens never seen before.

KIRKSTALL ROAD

RE-IMAGINING A NEW CRYPTO CURRENCY EXCHANGE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The development aims to transform the River Aire’s frontage and support the ‘green corridor’ along Kirkstall Road. The high-density residential development will provide a new riverside park, a river crossing and a range of creative and commercial areas to host art, cafes, a food hall, independent shops and public workspaces.

The proposals also include a supplementary social project to tackle local homelessness in and around the city. Work on the Kirkstall Road site, which is expected to generate an estimated £300m in social value to the city economy, will begin in summer 2022 with an intended completion date of 2029.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau Maritime Expo

“The landmark development at Kirkstall Road will help to address these issues, delivering scale and acting as a catalyst for further regeneration in the wider area.”

“The site and the location offer a rare opportunity to kickstart regeneration in this part of our city and build a sustainable, inclusive community.”

WEST ANGLIA SQUARE

CREATING PLACES. TOGETHER

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The completely revised scheme for Anglia Square aims to create a new place to live which will sustain and enhance the existing retail uses, significantly improve the public realm and pedestrian links to the wider neighbourhood, and create a new residential heart, of eventually up to 1,100 homes.

The full proposal will bring forward a replacement local centre complete with 8,000sqm of flexible retail and business space, provide a brand-new Community Hub for local use, new cycling routes and two new public squares, as well as up to 450 car parking spaces, car club spaces and improvements to existing highways and public realm.

The new homes will include a mix of townhouses and apartments with heights across the site ranging from three to eight storeys with a variety of tenures types, designed to offer a mix of homes for all.

ALPERTON, BRENT

CREATING PLACES, TOGETHER

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Broadway Malyan was commissioned by Zed Homes to prepare designs for a new mixed-use community, which included the delivery of 684 high-quality new homes (35% affordable housing), flexible commercial space and a mix of indoor and outdoor communal areas for residents and the wider public to enjoy, in six buildings ranging from 2 storey houses, up to a 16-storey apartment building.

As part of the project brief, our designs looked to create a stronger communal ethos for the development, providing spaces and facilities which could be enjoyed by residents and the wider public.

Alperton is an excellent example of a place that is adapting to meet the demand for high quality housing and employment spaces. In developing our urban strategy, we sought to respond positively to the local landscape, focusing the taller buildings in the plans towards the centre and south of the site, with the mid-to low rise townhouses situated around the east, west and northern boundaries.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

HYLANDS ROAD

DEVELOPING A BETTER COMMUNITY

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Hylands Road Development provides 120 new homes for social rent in the Walthamstow area of London.

An extensive site analysis was conducted to address the site constraints and social challenges within the area, enabling an informed production of a spatially considered and thoughtful layout.

The proposal steps away from the existing built environment to reduce impact, whilst public and private amenity space and views from each unit have been prioritised. The result is a high-quality attentive scheme serving the local community whilst also respecting the existing built environment.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

05 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGES

ELEVATION 2 (WEST)

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

BRINGING KINGSTON TO LIFE

KINGSTON UPON THAMES, LONDON

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

A Mixed use development comprising the retention of 127 Chiltern Drive in association with the demolition of remaining buildings and erection of 2 no. 7 storey buildings for the provision of 56 self-contained residential units, situated at Chiltern Works, Berrylands, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The scheme consists of 43 apartments and flexible commercial space on the ground floor.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Latis Homes has given us the task to design 5 house types that provide a 2B2P, 2B3P, 3B3P, 3B4P, 3B5P. These houses are pre-fabricated and designed to suite building regulations. Each floors are designed to be modular and constructed per-floor. The houses are then inreturn are customised so that each house can fit the home occupancy.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

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11 BRANNAN STREET

TYPOLOGY:

11 Brannan Street is a waterfront high-rise production tower, the typology revolves around a speedcraft production warehouse and maritime museum. The intent of the project derives from the dying profession of boat building, and aims the revival of traditional speedcrafting with contemporary boat building production in order to host The America’s Cup.

The project consists of having mix-use production zones, museum spaces that promotes exhibitions and events. But unlike any other boat house, this building provides an alternative approach towards facilitating high-end boats as well as giving an extraordinary way to view a museum within a high-rise tower.

Shipbuilding: 1800–Present

From the 19th century onwards, ships began to be built from iron and steel. Sails were also replaced with steam engines and paddles with propellers.

For thousands of years people have navigated the world’s oceans by ship, whether it was to trade, travel, fight or explore. Up to the 19th century, ships were made out of wood. It was only in the 1800s that iron and steel ships were introduced and sails were replaced with steam engines.

Iron ships

Ships built out of wood could not be built much longer than 80 metres. The timber frames also took up quite a lot of space. In the 19th century, the industrial revolution meant that shipbuilders could buiald ships using iron. These iron ships could be much larger, with lots more space for cargo. They didn’t need as much work to keep them in good condition. Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Britain, built in 1843, was the first ship to be built entirely of wrought iron.

Steel and steam ships

In the 1880s steel began to be used instead of iron. Ships also began to be fitted with steam engines. Steam engines were first used in paddle steamers. The engine turned two paddle wheels. Paddle steamers were not suited to the open sea because in heavy seas the waves lifted one wheel right out of the water while the other one went right under, and this strained the engines. The first steam-powered vessel to be introduced was the Charlotte Dundas, engineered in 1801 by William Symington, the Brit

Shipping today

Since around 1940,

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THE REVIVAL OF SHIPBUILDING

Towards a Contemporary & Traditional Crafstmanship

Shipbuilding or shipwright is a profession that is increasingly becoming obselete, a dying profession under craftsmanship that is now replaced with mass production, technologically driven processes which aims to be the forefront future of crafting and manufacture. The basis of this project comes from the notion of reviving the lost craft and bring a contemporary standard of traditional boatmaking processes and bring it to life within the architecture.

THE DAWN OF A NEW KING OF THE SEA RACE

A DYING PROFESSION?

The Need to Revive a Long Profession 03

The Americas Cup is the world’s leading national boat racing competition. Originally based in New Zealand, the narrative of this project derives from the notion of having The Cup to be a potential relocation within Canary Wharf that aims to revive traditional speedcrafting and contemporary boat building methods to host the worlds global boat racing competition.

THE BEAUTY OF BOATBUILDING AND SPEED CRAFTING

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

A NEED OF RELOCATION:

The AC40 hull shape is based on that of Te Rehutai, the boat Team New Zealand sailed to victory in the last America’s Cup, with a few developments and the 40-foot boat will be used in competition by both the Women’s and Youth America’s Cup’s.

Hulls are being made in China by McConaghy Boats with specialised elements like the rigs being built by Auckland-based Southern Spars, the foil arms being produced in-house by Team New Zealand and North Sails Marine group doing the aero package.

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GLOBAL GATHERING:

Earlier this week it was announced that the New Zealand entry in The Ocean Race 2022/23 was withdrawing, citing COVID issues and the bypassing of Auckland as a stopover port.

On Friday it was announced that the Auckland Boat Show, which had been heavily oversubscribed for space, and due to be staged in mid-March was being cancelled - due to the COVID restrictions imposed by the New Zealand Government after some very creative modelling of the impact of the Omicron variant of the virus.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

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SITE HISTORY

Preserving the Dry Dock-Lands

Canary Wharf is significant in Maritime history including shipping, ports and marine science. Ships from every corner of the world would navigate in and out of the Lodnon Docklands, importing raw materials such as tobacco, timber, and animal skins. By 1802, the West India Docks were open for business which was known as the greatest civil engineering structure of its day in England it became soon after one the world’s busiest shipping ports.

Row of cranes on dock edge - dockworker warehouses in front of the dockland rivers.

Dockers with sacks of sugar marked for British expditionary forces in France. Circa 1940.

The windmills disappeared and new factories began to pop up in their place on the banks of the river Thames to allow ships to be unloaded.

Dockside image showing cranes, ships and cars. Circa 1950.

of re-working

REDOCKINVENTING LANDS THE the challenges

an industrial past for the tenants of the future.

WOOD WHARF IN NUMBERS

1.9

MILLION SQ FT OF WORKSPACE

350K

SQ FT OF HAND PICKED RETAIL & LEISURE SPACE

3,300

NEW HOMES WITH 25% AFFORDABLE HOUSING ONSITE

9

ACRES OF RIVERSIDE PARKLANDS AND GARDENS

200

DIVERSE AND INSPIRING EVENTS

WOOD WHARF

THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF CANARY WHARF 2.0

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CONTEXT ANALYSIS

Canary Wharf is now a growing district for London’s new financial district that quickly progressed of high-rising buildings all around the Isle of Dogs within Canary Wharf consisting of 100,000 people during work weeks. Most people who live in Canary Wharf are mostly for work and high-leisure lifestyle and it is a great place for dining and shopping. Most of the wokrplaces consisting of investment banks, large shopping districts and large corporate companies.

Canary Wharf, London’s future financial district

STRATEGICPLACEMENT POTENTIALSITELOCATION

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

SHAPING THE FUTURE

How can architecture cultivate a city? How will we concieve our Free Zone?

The short answer iswithin a single building. Site

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WOOD WHARF

Wood Wharf offers a very different district because it’s effectively an island connected to Canary Wharf by an isthmus or bridge. As a site of interest Wood Wharf is made up of a series of major buildings – the main generators of activity. Because of the water side city, unusually the buildings get taller towards the edge, because they’re near the water. Wood Wharf is for people that love their city and make the most of it. A neighbourhood curated by the world’s leading leisure hotspots where cafes, bars, workspaces and independent retailers sit within 9 acres of riverside parklands and gardens

SITE LOCATION

The site location will be at 11 Brannan Street near Timber Quays. Adjacent is One Brannan Street, a large high-rise development. The reason for the site is that often masterplans are more of a pie shape, with the taller buildings in the centre. In this case, it’s almost the reverse: lower in the middle and higher at the edge, to deliberately exploit the views seen from a long distance because of the wide horizon of the waterscape. This produces a composition of buildings along the water’s edge that will be a prime location for a boat house.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

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DESIGN PROPOSAL

What happens if we re-invent the wheel of a production line?

When we look at Warehouses and Manufacturing Buildings, they are composed of typically having a linear line-up arrangement whereby the goal of the process of the built product is derived from a straight line, from start-to-finish, this gives allocations of facilities to be arranged in a linear fashion that can maximise the production process and maximise output and time. We can say that typically a production process begins and ends within a linear arrangement. But the Design proposal for this building will change this processes into a looping process where we can re-use and manipulate the production line to be circulated around these spaces.

SPEEDCRAFT PRODUCTION

A Historical Respect in Reviving Traditional Craftsmanship

The building will be derived through three specific zones. The Production Zone, Museum Zone, and the Public Zone. The intent of the building programme is to understand and learn about the importance of traditional towards contemporary craftsmanship. A place of activity in building, constructing and learning the process of building ships, boats and shipdocks. The idea stemmed on having an apprentice to be able to teach and support the user to learn the craftsmanship in building ships and boats.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

I took inspiration of marine characteristics in order to create five sets of distinctive characters that are able to demonstrate the effectual spaces needed to inhabit the programmatic zoning within its volume.

The design is conducted through a series of Boolean Operations. These objects are a combination of subtractions and intersections in order to convey the characteristics of these objects. Through Object Manipulation we can create a set of characters that conveys the effectual qualities of objects that defy gravity through Character Study.

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C5

C2

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

PHYSICAL CONSTRUCT

The model consisted of 3D printed characters with detailed interiority of floorplates within the character cavity. The accomodation blocks are laser-cutted using frosted acrylic which gives a translucency within the frontal view of the characters which are nested within the middle zone of the construct.

This gives an inviting creation of from the street level which entices views to wander within the ground alleyways into the greenland archipelagos.

1:200 Scale Model of Building Proposal

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

DESIGN EVOLUTION

Effectual and Programmatic Study

The design processes is as follows, that when we take a typical production line and somewhat manipulate the production to be in a repeating circular pattern that creates a looping effect that creates the production line to be reused and re-structured. On the other hand, another relationship that we can also look at is to enhance the typology of a production building and create objects that can be inserted within these volume and form an advancement crafting space.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

Cross-Section Drawing | 11 Brannan Street | Wood Wharf

The project consists of two distinct relationships that derive the final proposal.

First is the normative structure, mostly consisting of steel frames, trusses and floor plates to encapsulate a high-rise boat production warehouse.

Secondly is the Object Structure which is designed in a monoque, stress-skinned structure that are wrapped to form the built form. Water is the “common space” par excellence because, at the same time, it brings us closer and distances us from the Other, that is, from the unknown and the unpredictable - everything that contemporary cities seem to deny symptomatically.

It is precisely there, in this inconstant “common space”, that the navigations cross, articulate, and dispute the different cultural and natural identities. Therefore, if before the horizon of the navigations was the encounter with new lands, today it is the encounter with new waters, or rather, with new “commons”.

Boat House + Maritime Museum

A PLACE OF HISTORY

Effectual Experiences

A place of activity in building, constructing and learning the process of building ships, boats and shipdocks. The idea stemmed on having an apprentice to be able to teach and support the user to learn the craftsmanship in building ships and boats.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

A PLACE OF MEMORY

The long and noble history of the British Maritime history unfolds in a continuous motion within and around the London docklands, 7 metres (23 ft.) below the ground. All floors - connecting exhibition spaces with the auditorium, classroom, offices, café and the dock floor within the museum - connected escalators creating exciting and sculptural spaces.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau

Re-INVENTING THE WATER LINE

The Docklands offers a historic uniquness within the area, the best way to honour and preserve history is through people, blending the edges of Canary Wharf into the remaining community of those who used to live and work on the island. Many of their family histories go back to working on the docks.

As part of the output production boats, we can create a place that links the past to the present and invent a future mode of transportation within water buses or owning your own boat to travel around the The London River Thames Services. A Freezone of water-transports.

Re-INVENTING THE DOCKLANDS

In order to achieve the transition, these new buildings employ brick and masonry materials, as well as colour to keep people engaged with the wateredge, rather than raised above it, to connect them with the docks. Allowing the buildings to face the water, building them with materials that feel significant and providing for houseboat moorings are all things that enhance rather than take away from the waterscape. The other thing is the way in which we name and brand the place, the parks, the streets to connect the history. These effect help evoke memories.

TUtors: Andrei Martin & Andrew Yau