PORTFOLIO Amy Aquilina
RIBA Part II Architectural Assistant
PG Dip.Arch, Mackintosh School of Architecture
This portfolio contains selected works and images from my time at University as well as in practice. I am passionate about environmental and social justice, architectural conservation, and natural construction. My recently completed postgraduate studies at the Glasgow School of Art allowed me to explore some of these issues in more detail. I used my Stage 4 project, the Theatre of Mythology, as an opportunity to learn more about wood construction and detailing. For my final year design thesis I focused in on ‘resilient cities’ with a particular focus on sustainable food growing and earth construction since agriculture and the construction industry are each responsible for about a third of GHG emissions globally.
key interests: low carbon construction natural building conservation & restoration
contents // curriculum vitae
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university projects // project 01 THESIS PROJECT - RESILIENT ANTWERP stage 5
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// project 02 THEATRE OF MYTHOLOGY stage 4
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// project 03 ADAPTIVE RE-USE OF GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART stage 3
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practice projects // project 04 THE KINGS LIBRARY part 1 year-out
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// project 05 CHELSEA DESIGN CENTRE part I year-out
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Amy Aquilina BSc Hons, BSc Arch RIBA Part I, Dip Arch RIBA Part II
relevant work experience
contact email
amyaquilina1@gmail.com
telephone
+447397241330
skype
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www.linkedin.com/in/ amy-aquilina-arch
Ingarden & Ewy Architects, Krakow 2015-2016 Internship Assisting with various projects and competitions as part of a team. Responsible for the concept development, modeling and the installation of a piece for a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
GIS Architecture Expo Conference , Krakow 2016 Two-day architecture conference assistant. Assisted in setting up the event space and conducted interviews with the award-winning architects and designers that presented at the event.
education Diploma in Design
Robin Partington & Partners, London
2011-2012 University of Malta
2017-2018 Part I Architectural Assistant Assited in delivering two projects which were undergoing construction in London; The King’s Library: adaptive re-use of an existing Edwardian period school, and The Chelsea Design Centre. During my time in this studio I ran design team meetings and wrote meeting minutes, surveyed ongoing construction on site to ensure it adhered to the architect’s drawings, was the primary contact for the King’s Library project, and provided architectural drawings as required.
BSc Hons Built Environment Studies, 2:1 2012-2015 University of Malta
Erasmus exchange 2013-2014 University of Rome Tor Vergata
BSc Arch, RIBA Part I, Distinction 2016-2017 Robert Gordon Univerisy, Scott Sutherland School, direct entry to third year
installations | competitions | awards Warsaw Station Museum Competition
Dip Arch, RIBA Part II
(2016) Museum complex competition with Ingarden & Ewy architects
2018-2020 The Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh School of Architecture.
‘Time, Space, Existence’ Installation (2016) Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale with Ingarden & Ewy Architects
Innovation Hub Student Competition
software & skills Autocad Revit Vray Rhinoceros 3D ArchiCad Microstation
Sketchup Adobe Suite Microsoft Office Model Making Sketching Painting
(2017) Awarded 1st Prize
Rob Hunter Prize (2017) Award winner for adaptive re-use project
The Big Crit (2017) Selected to present adaptive re-use project at end of year event
Chambord Castle (2019) International university student competition
academic projects
PROJECT 01
Stage 5
RESILIENT ANTWERP Food resiliance and food sovreignity for a sustainable city
thesis statement A City must be resilient in order to absorb, recover and prepare for future economic, environmental and other shocks. For a city to be resilient and sustainable, it must strive for self sufficiency in its food demands, feeding into the local and circular economy and placing food ownership in the hands of the consumers. This thesis seeks to address how food production can be integrated into a city’s existing urban fabric, using Antwerp as an example. We view cities and agriculture as separate things. Food has always shaped our cities. In river cities like Antwerp it came in from the river, was grown in and around the city and walked into the city as livestock. Cities were once busting with activity as a result of the buying and selling of produce as well as managing the waste. While cities still rely on the land for sustenance, this relationship is no longer explicit and the effects of industrial agriculture on the planet are devastating and in many ways unethical. Access to healthy, sustainable and affordable food is made difficult when the majority of food shops are owned by private corporations who put their pockets ahead of the population’s health. Only 5% of all food sold in Belgium comes from independent markets. Currently half the world’s population lives in cities and consumes 75% of the World’s food and energy resources. By 2050 it is estimated the population in cities will increase to 75% the global population, and with the increasing global population that means effectively double. Where are all these food and energy resources going to come from? The production, processing and transportation of food is responsible for around a third of our greenhouse gas emissions, and then a third of all food goes to waste with less than 2% of valuable nutrients being looped by cities. This is all before we consider the effect it is having on our wildlife such as the current mass insect extinction which, if it continues at this rate, means the insects global agriculture relies on for pollination will be extinct. For a city to be sustainable it must strive for self sufficiency in its food demands.
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A city the size of London consumes the equivalent of all the agricultural land in the UK*
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This thesis establishes strategies which look at how urban space can be maximised for food production within people’s domestic environments, neighbourhoods, parks as well as in new housing projects, working through the scale of the city as a whole down to domestic-scale growing environments. This thesis is rooted in permaculture principles: Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.
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Project 01 // Resilient Antwerp
the city
From precedent studies, around 91km2 of land would be needed to feed the city of Antwerp through Aquaponics, seasonal gardens, greenhouses , solar panels, water storage and a small amount of livestock. While the image to the right illustrates this area without taking into consideration land lost due to infrastructure, it does indicate that sustenance can be grown within reasonable distance to the city. Havana produces 90% of its food locally, organically, with little fuel and largely through urban agriculture. Its population density is comparable to that of Antwerp.
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58% aquaponics 19% seasonal garden 9% greenhouses 6% solar cells 4% water storage 4% livestock*
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farmers markets, food storage & production nodes Ease of access to the products grown locally, as well as the facilities for this production to take place is key. Farmers markets should be located within a 15 minute walk from all residences, and veg box schemes available throughout for those who are less mobile as well as for schools and businesses.
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city strategies for urban food production
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strategies
The city can be defined by three main urban forms, each with their own attributes and strategic responses. Together, they tackle food production in the city by adapting the existing built fabric, maximise public space, and make use of under-used green space.
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Inner City The historical part of the city within the confines of the river and the motorway ring. Grow: Fresh and frequent use foods.
ii. The Ring Park
A ring of infrastructure (motorway and rail) with pockets of greenery, with plans for the development of a green route and covering the motorway in areas. Grow: Staples and food to store for peaks in demand and winter.
iii. The 20th Century Belt
Suburbia outside the Ring Park and on the west bank. As Antwerp’s inner city has reached maximum capacity in terms of density, planners are looking towards the 20th century belt for densification and to prevent further sprawl of the city. Grow: Fresh and frequent use foods.
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inner city strategy Grow:
Fresh seasonal produce. The benefits of inner city growing is that fresh produce can be supplied in proximity to where is it consumed. Other than provide nutrition, this would also bring more greenery and enjoyable green space into cities, helping to satisfy biophilia and connect city dwellers to nature.
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Tomatoes, beans, potatoes, squash, berries.
Project 01 // Resilient Antwerp
20th century belt strategy Building on lessons from “The Autonomous House� - building resilient homes or reighbourhoods which manage their own waste, produce the majority of their own food and operate with their own circular economy - minimising dependency on public services and decreasing - and in an ideal world eliminating, waste going to landfill.
*Diagram reproduction of The Autonomous House
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Each zone will house numerous staple crops which will rotate annually within their zone, and to the next zone every five years. City dwellers will be able to observe the change in the crops grown in their localities from one season to the next, and one year to the next.
The Resilient Agriculture Centre
The Resilient Agriculture Centre is one of several nodes located around the Ring Park. This node serves primarily as an educational centre, displaying the process of growing, havesting and processing food, and how visitors can apply this knowledge to their own domestic or community environments.
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City Seed Bank
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A facility which produces biodegradable packaging for the storage and transportation of food and goods within the city. Packaging made from agricultural waste produts and/or other natural products such as mushrooms.
Construction typology bridging over the motorway connects suburbs to city and focuses on vertical growing using Aquaponic systems in controlled internal environments.
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The main seed bank of the city assisting with the collection and dispersion of seeds where needed. Safe storage of seeds for times in need and Preservation of genetic diversity.
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Biodegradable Packaging
Turning agricultural waste and food waste from the city into energy using Anaerobic digestion - a sequence of processes by which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen to produce fuels. Park Public wild park area to the North of the city
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the resilient agriculture centre
the resilient agriculture park The resilient agriculture park comprises a collection of buildings and grounds where visitors can learn about the process of growing their own food at home and in their communities, from seed saving through to harvesting and storage. One of the buildings mimics a city block, housing the various methods of food growing within various domestic environments and orientations, such as windowsill, garden and rooftop.
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the resilient agriculture visitor centre The centre is rooted in natural construction materials, primarily Rammed Earth, striving for zero use of concrete. The route through the centre is guided by a set of principles relating to plant growth and the with reference to the external ground level, so as visitors are walked through the process of drying seeds for storage they are traveling further underground, and will emerge again once the seeds have germinated and their leaves break through the surface of the soil in the ‘seedling’ space. lower level plan
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growing environments & earth construction The construction will be almost entirely made from natural materials and entirely concrete free. Reasons for this are twofold; firstly,emissions from the construction industry are comparable to that of industrial agriculture and secondly, the spaces should re-connect users with nature. Rammed Earth
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height: length of shadows
width: length of day
The seasonal calendar space is a large circular room with an oculus, open to the elements. The walls are punctuated with 12 recesses to mark the 12 months of the year. As issulstrated in the diagram above, sunlight from the occulus reaches the wals at different heights depending on the season, and so that sets the datum level for the heights of the resesses. The widths of the recesses are dictated by the length of day, so the summertime recesses are short and wide, and the wintertime recesses long and narrow. The recesses contain information on what can be grown and harvested each month of the year, acting as a seasonal calendar for visitors. The floors are sloping towards the centre of the room where water is quickly drained away.
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PROJECT 02
. theatre of mythology .
Stage 4
. writer’s theatre .
The advent of television and the internet brought with it the demise of the
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PROJECT 03
Stage 3
ADAPTIVE RE-USE OF GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART Aberdeen
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Gray’s is a 1960’s steel and glass structure designed by Architect Michael Shewan. Deemed unfit for purpose due to its high energy consumption and glare related issues to name a few, the building is now under threat of demolition. As one of few examples of modern architecture in Scotland, indeed in the North-East, and with its striking resemblance to Mies van der Rohe’s ‘Crown Hall’, the building may be deemed culturally significant and therefore worth preserving. This project deals with the adaptive re-use of the school and addressesw its energy performance failures whilst transforming it into RGU’s new Conference and Exhibition centre.
The brief required the following provision of spaces: ∙ A multi-purpose lecture hall ∙ Exhibition space ∙ The Centre for Northern culture and Design ( Reception, meeting rooms, offices with access to the exhibition space and Lecture Hall) ∙ Accommodation for visiting lecturers ∙ Creative Starter Units
Images of East wing section physical model
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Project 03 // ADAPTIVE RE-USE OF GREY’S SCHOOL OF ART
Retaining the memory of the school retaining the aesthetic of the exterior All exterior glazing replaced with double glazing or light diffusing insulating panels. The light diffusing panels used extensively on Northern elevation to prevent significant heat loss. Northern facade glazed down centre to highlight interior staircase during evenings, acting as a beacon to attract people to the roof.
emphasising the existing central staircase The central staircase currently dominates the main entrance. Add emphasis to draw visitors up through other parts of the conference centre.
original glazing as interior space dividers The central staircase currently dominates the main entrance. Add emphasis to draw visitors up through other parts of the conference centre.
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the creative starter units The original exterior frames are re-used in this space in the form of movable suspended partitions located under the mezzanine, this allows the central space to be divided into individual areas for small groups or opened up to allow a single area for a large group. Individual work spaces on the mezzanine allows for more privacy for individuals without cutting them off from the double height group working and meeting spaces on either side of the mezzanine.
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PROJECT 04
part I year-out
THE KING’S LIBRARY
Retrofit of Grade II listed edwardian school into apartments
Studio: APT London (previously Robin Partington & Partners) Project phase 2 construction, stage 5 fit-out The King’s Library, also referred to as the Sloane School, is a Grade II listed Edwardian Baroque School in Kensington restored and transformed into eighteen luxury apartments. I was part of a three person team working on this project for the majority of my Part I year out. After a few months on the project, I was trusted with running the weekly Design Team Meetings on site respresenting Apt Architects. My other contributions on this project included designing the basement gym, lightwell and plant room; producting construction drawings and details and submitting them for instruction; mark-ups of contractor design portions; design intent drawings; consulting with material suppliers; assistance and coordination with relevant parties to facilitate works on site; weekly snagging visitis; and attending all progress meetings.
Floor plan showing the adaption of the school gym into a habitable space
The King’s Library, rear facade
New entrance, previously windows
The King’s Library, Front
Stairwell converted into bathroom
Project 04 // THE KING’S LIBRARY
Herringbone flooring, original handrails and restored corbels in the old gym.
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Project 04 // THE KING’S LIBRARY Various drawings issued for construction for basement gym, lightwell and plant room package
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PROJECT 05
part I year-out
CHELSEA HARBOUR
DESIGN CENStudio: APT London (previously Robin Partington & Partners) Project phase 2: Construction
The Design Centre houses retail units leased to high end suppliers associated with the interior design trade. The project involves the refurbishment of the existing Design Centre and its extension through the addition of ‘The Avenue’: A central triple height walkway bridging the space between the Design Centre and Design Centre East. My contributions to this project to date have focused on the detailing and preparation of tender drawings for the entrance canopy, coordinating the designs for which with the structural engineer.
Design development sketch for entrance canopy
Project 05 // CHELSEA DESIGN CENTRE
Canopy section drawing issued as part of tender package
Detail through steel base plate showing cladding, internal floor build up and channel drain detail
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thank you
RIBA Part II Architectural Assistant