Alex Boyce
BA (Hons) 1st Class - University of Liverpool CV & Portfolio www.apb-works.com
Personal Statement My entry into the world of architecture stemmed from my long running interest in making, materials and inventive solutions to mundane problems. Architecture has allowed me to combine a large range of interests and skills. Utilising these abilities to tackle problems and broaden my knowledge of people, cities and culture. Otaku
This emphasis of research is a strong theme in my work, from radical technical advances to opposing and challenging social norms each project stems from a research exercise formed in a contextual manner.
Tokyo - Niseko, Japan 2016
This interest and methodology has been largely formed by the environment in which I have been educated and the tutors I have had the pleasure of working with. This constant learning experience has allowed me to develop into a highly knowledgeable and competent graduate, both in technical and conceptual approaches to design. Along side my studies I am a very high achieving athlete, competing internationally for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and multiple occasions and becoming a mainstay of athletics in the north of England and the UK. This experience hold me in a good place for the rigours of architectural practice; collaborative experience, commitment to work and a high level of self motivation have all been by-products of my time in the sport. The brief amount of time I have spent in architectural practice has further enforced these skills. Getting a taste of the range of responsibilities and projects one may expect to undertake while shadowing more senior architects not only allowed me to gain a greater understanding of the day-today tasks of an architectural practice but to also experience and become involved in these tasks.
Portfolio Contents
Through my Part 1 placement I wish to gain a range of experiences, most keenly in the
Personal Statement
I appreciate the time taken to read this and look forward to your response Yours, Alex Boyce
CV
(re)New Brighton Pharmacogenomics Laboratory The Social Garden The Physical Planning Portal The Flexible Terrace
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Arcades New Brighton, England 2014
Alex Boyce
Alex Boyce 14 Stockville Road Liverpool L18 3EJ 0151 421 0958
BA (Hons) 1st Class - University of Liverpool CV & Portfolio www.apb-works.com
Alexboyce1@googlemail.com
Modelling Skills:
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Academic Achievements:
Strong wood and card modelling skills with a special interest in casting using various mediums including plaster, concrete and wax. More recently digital fabrication technologies have become an area of personal interest and exploration during my studies.
June 2015 - John Rankin Prize Winner Pharmacogenomics Laboratory An award made for the best design prepared in BA2
‘13-’16 - Architecture Part 1 BA 1st Class (Hons) Liverpool School of Architecture ‘10-12 - A-Levels Physics, Geography, Economics [A2] Mathematics [AS] Calderstones School
Sport:
‘07-10 - GCSE 10 Subjects all A*-C Calderstones School
I have consistently been one of the best 400 meter runners in Britain for around 6 years, winning my first national championships in 2010 and winning the British University and Colleges Championships in 2015 and a British Senior Championships medal in 2016.
Professional Experience:
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2015 Stuart Forbes Associates, London (3 Weeks)
Dr Marco Iuliano: BA3 Design Tutor Marco.Iuliano@liverpool.ac.uk
2015 BLOK Architecture, Liverpool (2 Weeks)
Marcus Schofield: BA2 Design Tutor marcus.schofield@network.rca.ac.uk
Software: AutoCAD Rhinoceros Microstation Powerdraft SketchUP Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Bridge Adobe Lightroom Microsoft Office Apple Equivalents
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Ben Devereau: BA2 Design Tutor D.Devereau2@liverpool.ac.uk
June 2015 - Degree Show Pamphlet (re)New Brighton An image produced during my second year was chosen as the title image for my year group at the Liverpool School of Architecture Degree Show 2015. September 2015 - Work featured In the Architectural Review Drawing Folio A key title image for my project; (re)New Brighton, was featured in a curated selection of images published in the Architectural review website and blog November 2015 - Winner of Liverpool Invasions Tasked with recreating an area of the city of Liverpool as if it was invaded by the comic world, in conjunction with the Dessau institute of Architecture DIA and Design Studio 2. June 2016 - Short-listed for the John McCall Architects Housing Prize My final BA3 Project the flexible terrace was short-listed for the prize awarded June 2016 - Degree Show Pamphlet A New Model of Planning A piece produced during conceptual research was chosen as the key representative image for my Design Studio for publication.
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(re)New Brighton - Year 2
- Work featured In the Architectural Review Drawing Folio -
Martin Parr - The Last Resort
New Brighton has followed the path of the archetypal seaside town, huge success during the 20th century followed by a long and painful decline for some 30 years. The same story cane be seen in towns all along the British coastline. Marred by poor quality soulless developments aimed at rejuvenating the town into an out of town shopping centre the town Martin Parr has lost soul passion and most obviously fun. At first glance, his photographs seem exaggerated or even grotesque. This scheme aims to rejuvenate the town by introducing fun as a key The motifs he chooses are strange, driver, igniting the whimsical nature of the British seaside town as a the colours are garish and the commercially viable hotel. One which offers much more than just a perspectives are unusual. Parr’s place to stay, its a place to play, eat drink and embrace the overtly British term for the overwhelming power of seaside. published images is “propaganda”. But at the same time they show us Heavily influenced by the work of British Photographer Martin Parr in in a penetrating way how we live, the town during the 1980’s, the scheme embraces the over saturated how we present ourselves to others, tones of his work and mixes them with the cross program of a hotel and and what we value. arcade, creating a vivid and archaic composition, an embodiment of a seaside experience.
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New Brighton was a town founded and augmented on pleasure, it sold pleasure as a commodity. This project aims to explore pleasure as a program for the architecture to embrace and reimplement in the seaside town.
(re)New Brighton
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(re)New Brighton
Pharmacogenomics Laboratory - Year 2 This scheme for a community medical centre in a deprived and largely forgotten city centre area focuses on the future role of the National Health Service. The NHS is one of Britain’s greatest assets, the envy of all nations world wide. Its role as a leader in domestic health care is under threat as privatisation becomes a very real possibility under the free market economics of the current Conservative government. In a speculative proposal independent reactionary decisions are taken by branches of the NHS to support themselves and prevent full privatisation. Labs are set up nationwide to exploit certain areas of expertise and skills within local communities. Liverpool with its strong history in research into vaccines and disease prevention chooses to establish a clinic as the world first Pharmacogenomics Laboratory. The site is chosen due to its link via tunnel to the highly skilled University district of the city and its proximity to an underprivileged community in which the benefits of specialized medical care will be most legible.
Concept Axo
- John Rankin Prize Winner -
Phar•ma•co•gen•om•ics A biotechnological science that combines the techniques of medicine, pharmacology, and genomics and is concerned with developing drug therapies to compensate for genetic differences in patients which cause varied responses to a single therapeutic regimen.
Murray Ballard - The Prospect of Immortality
With large scale investment from the United States health insurance industry the centre is able to expand into the research of Sports Medicine. A high performance centre is located in the cutting of the tunnel to hide away from prying eyes of rival nations.
The plug in nature of the health centre allows the preservation of the key historic land mark - the Wapping Tunnel.
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Level -1 Plan
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The Social Garden - Year 3 Public space is a valuable social commodity, especially in dense urban settings. The Ropewalks area of Liverpool optimises the need for public space and amenity. Briefed with delivering a secret garden, this project takes this concept, a place of privacy and social exclusion and inverts it. Creating a community space in a deprived part of the city, giving a higher social presence to those who may otherwise be forgotten. Utilising the forgotten land in semi-derelict spaces a new programme of small scale cultivation would take place. Controlled by residents and concerned parties, food grown would be shared between all to tackle the growing issue of food poverty in deprived communities.
Food Poverty Latest figures show a 2% increase in food bank use on the previous year with 1,109,309 three-day emergency food supplies given to people in crisis by the Trussel Trust network of 424 food banks in 2015/16.
A Typological Study of Aluminium Construction in Liverpool
The buildings spatial arrangement is derived form an existing derelict party wall, five crumbling brick piers stand proud and from these piers a structural rhythm was generated.
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The Social Garden
Floor Plans
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A Resident Preparing Planning Application
The Physical Planning Portal - Research Project This Research project focusses on the role of communities in the process of planning and developing their community. Identifying the lack of involvement of communities as a whole in the planning process a speculative new format of planning procedure was developed.
Planning Packaging
Focussing heavily on design communication and the role of the physical model to discuss debate and evolve design proposals the scheme developed into a tool-kit for communities to use - a Guidebook for new and existing residents.
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The New Planning Portal
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A Flexible Terrace - Year 3
Existing Terrace- Horizontally Inflexible
Following on from my initial research into a new planning procedure I undertook the design of terrace houses. Allowing public involvement in the design and evolution of the street in question was key. This is to be achieved by utilising the most familiar and engaging methods of communication, the model.
Proposed Terrace - Post planning
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Creating a Guide book for residents within which they can explore the potential expansion of their own house allows for clearer debate and discussion with their neighbours - the people who will ultimately decide the fate of their proposition.
Adjusting the Landscape
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A The above section explores the ability for the terrace to be broken down within the physical parameters of the permanent structural grid. The living units evolve in their rigidity, moving towards more abstract uses of the space. The typical nuclear family of the 19th century, the era which popularised the typology, is less common than it once was. Creating a scheme which can adapt to this shifting way of living is key to its longevity and success
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Allowing Flexibility
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Conceptual Development
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The Flexible Terrace
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Alex Boyce
BA (Hons) 1st Class - University of Liverpool CV & Portfolio www.apb-works.com