Andreea Ioana Pirvan Portfolio Sample
Par t I RIBA UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Studio 1 Masterplan- A new centre for Woowlich, London
Year 3 Masterplan This year our Studio worked on a group exercise to create a masterplan for Woolwich, an area of intense change in London. The masterplan addressed a string of sites located South of the A206, or Woolwich High Street, which was identified during a reasearch phase as the main physical, economical, historical and ethnical boundary in Woolwich. Measures such as traffic calming on the A206 and a series of routes accross the site were proposed in order to create a connection beteen the Old Town and the Arsenal, which is undergoing major redeveopment. The aim was to provide a meeting ground for locals and incomers by a series of Ground floor public functions and to address pressing housing and employment needs. The masterplan was then divided in four main quarters (W to E): The riverside- an entertainment location meant to bring the public to the river. Callis Yard- A cultural quarter with sports and education facilities Murray’s Yard - An entertainment quarter including a brewery, cinema and Maker’s Yard: Historic evolution from suburbian quarter to Ad-Hoc urbanism and proposed reorganisation
culinary school Maker’s Yard - A light industrial quarter providing workspace as well as housing and a District Heat centre
Year 3 Design Project A textile Manufacture for Woolwich Above:Visualisation of proposal from Maker’s Yard
Year 3 Design Project A textile manufacture forWoolwich Along with the other proposals within the Maker’s Yard Quarter of our Studio Masterplan, he building addressed three main needs in the Woolwich, London: employment affordable housing training facilities for makers and artists This project explored the possibility of a new urban typology by including large production spaces dedicated to textile manufacture on the ground floor of a high rise live-work residential scheme. By doing so, it looked at an alternative to the typical high rise development, which provides ground floor retail. In order to offer much needed workspace in the area, this project turned to Woolwich’s industrial past for present solutions. A variety of public functions, including an information centre, a cafe, a library and teaching spaces are knitted within the Ground floor of the building in order to integrate the building with users accross Woolwich.
Approach from CrossrailFraming the entrance to the Makers’ Yard
Ground Floor Plan In urban terms, the massing aimed to frame the entrance to the Masterplan area as viewed upon arrival from the Crossrail station. Thus, a couple of plynth and tower structures are employed a ‘gateway’ to the Maker’s Yard.
Grond Floor Production Hall Establishing an industrial language of material through a solid brick base and lightweight steel roof. Interior model 1:50
Visualisation of public space within Makers’ Yard
Live-work Apartment Within the tower, a series of apartments addressed the need for workspace as well as housing in Wioolwich. An industrial language that is different from that of the heavyweight plynth is established through the use of lightweight steel structure in the live-work apartments (below), situated in the lower levels of the towers, whereas a variety of family housing units is povided on the top floors (left: Typical floorplan).
An industrial atmosphere within a live-work apartment Interior model 1:20
Facade development The facade is a based on the existing industrial language of Woolwich. A strong rhythm is established in the brick base by expressing the buttressing of the loadbaring masonry, with a double window bay. The structural rhythm is continued into the tower, which is clad in steel to create a contrast between the vertical and the horizontal elements of the building. In the interface between the tower and plynth, a staircase is inserted.
Year 2, Project 2
A theatre for Peckham Arcola international theatre on Peckham High Street Building on a case study of Arcola Theatre, this project aimed to create a lively presence and harvest the busy activity of the high street. The building is composed of a timber auditorium, situated in the centre of the building, surrounded by a series of brick vaults which host the foyer spaces. The ground and top floor include a Jazz bar and a rooftop terrace, with views out towards Southwark.
TheAuditorium
Arguably the most important spae in the building, the auditorium is placed in the ‘heart’ of the plan, and is an independent timber structure amid the brick ‘crust’. The initial intent to create a small scale, intimate auditorium merged with the desire to create an adaptible performance environmen through low-tech transformations. The design focused on strategies which would allow the space of the auditorium to open up to the rest of the building by opening of plywood panels fixed to a Glulam frame, thus spilling out into the rest of the building, and the street.
Year 2, Project 1
Mixed Use building.Yoga Studio +Actor’s Hostel Moncrieff Street, Peckham This project was an exercise in designing a small scale building which can encourage interaction between locals and visitors to Peckham through vertical layering and fluid use of spaces. A focus on the experiential aspect of the Yoga Hall emerged alongside the desire to create a dyniamic setup for potential encounters between locals and actors’ rehearsals.
Material explorations The yoga hall was designed a a sensory exprience. For this, a series of CorTen custom perforated screens were placed on the facade, in order to create light effects on the floor and partially separate the yoga students from the street. The floor, designed to be experienced barefoot, consists of different types of concrete - chiselled and smooth.
Andreea Ioana Pirvan RIBA Part I Department of Architecture University of Cambridge Mob.: +4 0 740 670 792 E-mail: andreeaioana.pirvan@gmail.com Home Address: 73 B P Hasdeu Street Cluj-Napoca, Romania 400371