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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 student guest.
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 EstilloreABOUT ME
A junior architecture assistant professional who have assisted in the residential and commercial projects from past experience and has tackled RIBA work Stage 0-3 and has a passion to work alongside the top leading architecture practices around the UK .
“Buildings are not for monuments. It is for our neighbourhoods and
ALDRIN ESTILLORE
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EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2020 - July 2022
September 2017July 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 2022Current
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.
July 2020March 2021
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
RIBA Mentorship Scheme
December 2018 - January 2019
RX Architects
Rye, East Sussex| Kent
- Learning fundemental practices for running an architectural studio - Strategies for pricing and overheads - Site visits and conducting initial site research for an upcoming local seaside projects including Seabreeze, Bridgepoint and Tillingham Winery
Intern / Assistant
September 2017 - July 2018
Angus Brown Architects Architects Canterbury| Kent
-Assisted on large Residential Projects in Central London and Kent. -Attended in assisting on-site feedback reviews and meetings -Structural Details and Architectural Drawings fit for Planning Application
EXTRACIRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Reservationist & Receptionist
Luton Hoo Hotel Golf & Spa Luton, Bedfordshire
University for the Creative Arts Student Ambassador University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, Kent
PUBLICATIONS
University of Westminster Top Design Studio Student - Architecture Journal Student Award Winner.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Methodology
Professional Academic II
11 Brannan Street Academic Kirkstall Road Professional
West Anglia Square Professional
Hylands Road Development Professional
Berrylands Development Professional
Latis Modular Housing Professional
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Martime Expo Academic / Masters
Heron Crypto Currency Exchange Academic / Masters
Crypto Currency Exchange Academic/Competition
Co-living & Co-working House Academic
Dine to Infinity Academic/ Competition
AP AP AP AP AP
CONTENTS
Kirkstall Road Leeds West Anglia Square, Norwich Alperton, Brent
Hyland Roads Development Berrylands Development Latis Modular Housing
11 Brannan Street, Wood Wharf
KIRKSTALL ROAD, LEEDS
B1,400 HOME DEVELOPMENT
Project Details
STATUS : ONGOING LOCATION: KIRKSTALL ROAD, LEEDS CLIENT: LATIMER LEVEL: HIGH-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
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.
“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, NORWICH
CCREATING PLACES. TOGETHER
Project Details
STATUS : ONGOING LOCATION: WEST ANGLIA SQUARE, NORWICH CLIENT: WESTON HOMES LEVEL: 1,100 RESIDENTIAL HOMES
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.
CALPERTON, BRENT
CREATING PLACES. TOGETHER
Project Details
STATUS : ONGOING LOCATION: ALPERTON, BRENT
CLIENT: ZED HOMES
SECTOR: RESIDENTIAL / URBAN REGENERATION
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
“In addition to new public routes to the canal, a number of courtyard gardens and children’s play areas will be provided across the development, creating a space where people can relax and socialise with friends and family.”
HYLANDS ROAD DEVELOPMENT
WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON
Client London Borough of Waltham Forest Sector Residential Location Walthamstow, London Ward London Borough of Waltham Forest Status On site
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.
ELEVATION 2 (WEST)
ELEVATION 5 (EAST)
Cycle storage access
Communal Amenity Space
Amenity
Incorporate Soft Landscaping,
A SERIES OF INTERLINKED SPACES FOR MULTI-GROUP USE (AS OPPOSED TO A LARGE UNDEFINED SPACES), WITH INTEGRATED PLAYSPACE WITHIN THE CENTRAL AREA
The amenity space elements enable the home to be a comfortable place of retreat, both in an internal and external environment. The proposed scheme’s amenity provision is formed from a series of spaces, ranging from public, to semi-private and to private. Materials that are repeatedly used in all levels of spaces provides a coherent visual narrative as the resident passes through the scheme to their private retreat.
Designed to maximise tenure integration, the spaces between the buildings form areas that can be appreciated from the proposed dwellings through private terrace design, increasing visual security of the scheme. The landscaping engenders ground floor activity, complimented by an active frontage provided by the flexible office space, and designed to promote informal social activity and play opportunities for various age groups.
POLICY REQUIREMENTS
Private Amenity Space Req. 10 sqm per dwelling + 1 sqm per additional occupant
ECommunal Amenity Space Requirement 50sqm per development plus where less than 10sqm private amenity space is provided per flat, the shortfall in provision should be added to communal amenity space
Unit type no Amenity(sqm) per flat Amenity(sqm)
1 bed 2person 18 10 180
2 bed 3person 7 11 77
2 bed 4person 15 12 180
3 bed 4person 3 12 36
3 bed 5person 13 13 169 Total 56 642
Communal 50
TOTAL AMENITY REQUIREMENT 692
TOTAL PROPOSED AMENITY SPACE (PRIVATE)437.7 + (COMMUNAL)650 = 1087.7sqm
BERRYLANDS DEVELOPMENT
KINGTON UPON THAMES, LONDON
Client: Bugler Homes Limited Sector: Residential Location: Kington Upon Thames Ward: London Borough of Waltham Forest Status: On site
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.
Railway Line
Typology:
Client: Latis Group Sector: Residential / Modular Location: Pre-Fabricated Status: Planning
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.
11 BRANNAN STREET
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 commercial and residential spaces, restaurants, 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.
TIMELINE
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 British pioneer of marine steam propulsion. She was used on the Forth-Clyde canal to tow vessels.
Shipping today
Since around 1940, ships have been produced almost exclusively of welded steel. They are built in prefabricated sections and then lifted into place – this is known as ‘block construction’. As of 2014, the longest ship ever built was the oil tanker Seawise Giant, measuring 1,504.1 ft.
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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 OPPORTUNITY FOR AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
A DYING PROFESSION?
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 Need to Revive a Lost Craftsmanship
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 Mc Conaghy Boats with specialised ele ments like the rigs being built by Auck land-based Southern Spars, the foil arms being produced in-house by Team New Zealand and North Sails Marine group do ing 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.
SITE HISTORY
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.
REDOCK-
the challenges of re-working
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an industrial past for the tenants of the future.
INVENTING LANDS
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CONTEXT ANALYSIS
Canary Wharf, London’s future financial district
WOOD WHARF
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.
SHAPING THE FUTURE
How can architecture cultivate a city? How will we concieve our Free Zone?
The short answer iswithin a single building.
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WOOD WHARF
Site Location
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
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SITE LOCATION
Opportunities and Constraints
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.
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
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.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Tectonic Components / A Cast of Precarious Characters
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.
PHYSICAL CONSTRUCT
1:200 Scale Model of Building Proposal
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.
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.
As part of the buildings forefront features a double glazed glass facade. The part section explores the connection between the existing core, cantilevered floor-plates and the insertion of new fit-out architectures. These fit-out secondary structures are an example of what the final assembly could potentially look like.
Brannan Street | Wood Wharf
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.
A PLACE OF MEMORY
Effectual Experiences
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.
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.
Re-INVENTING THE
WATER
Cultural & Conventional Intervention
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.