Carl Brooks 2020 Portfolio BA(Hons) Architecture Liverpool School of Art and Design
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Carl Brooks During my three years of university I have developed a lot of skills I believe would be beneficial to any practices. Being a mature student, I believe I have had the life experience to help me though university. My greatest achievement? It would have to be the birth of my two girls in 2019. As you could imagine, third year was a difficult one. However I will be ending my degree with a strong 2:1 or possibly a first. This can only indicate that I am a hard working individual but also enjoy working in group projects. Aside from my academia, I am a guitarist that I still enjoy today. I also am an Everton season ticket holder for nearly 12 years now. Above all else I enjoy time with my family. Whenever I havnt got deadlines fast approaching that is.
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First Name Surname 2020 Portfolio
Contents BA Year 3 Semester 2: Comprehensive Design Project
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BA Year 3 Semester 1: Weather of Not 15-31 BA Year 1 Semester 1: Anatomy of a building
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Curriculum Vitae 35-36
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Comprehensive design project Future of work
This CDP project considers the future of work in Liverpool. Other than tourism, what kind of environments can be created in the city centre to promote Liverpool as a place for increasingly educated, mobile and flexible workers? This project looks into not only the future of work but the future of cities. As the population is ever growing it is inevitable that the majority of people are soon to live in dense, high rise cities.
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Comprehensive design project Future of work
Food/drink on ground floor Commercial business Derelict
Facades that require natura daylight.
Listed buildings
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Moorfields elevation. Silkhouse Court. 54m
Turning the place over. 17m
Comprehensive design project Future of work
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Level 0. 1. Restaurant. 2. Retail units. 3. Shared ally for retail waist storage/removal 4. Fire escape from upper floors. 5. Reception storage. 6. Staff room. 7. Reception. 8. Atrium. 9. Staff bike racks. 10. Public realm. 11. Gym reception. Level 0 12. Male/Female changing rooms. 13. Staff bike rack. 14. Possible future development between two bars to link to public realm.
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8. Level 6-12. 1:200. 1. 2 bed residential. 2. Server room for office/heat exchanger to residential. 3. 1 bed residential. 4. Atrium. 5. Office space. 6. Staff room. 7. Double skin facade maintenance accessibility. 8. Staff balcony. 7.
Black box theatre
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1. Terrace decking. 2. 3x2 timber screwed into insulation boards. 3. Waterproof membrane. 4. 200mm insulation board. 5. Vapour proof barrier. 6. Gutter channel. 7. Flashing to overlap gutter. 8. Pre-cast concrete up-stand. Pre-cast channel for glass balustrade and steel fitting. Bolted through concrete and glass. Finished with rubber sealant on flashing and glass. 9. 80m concrete gladding fitted to up- stand and roof slab with steel L bracket. 10. Flashing. 11. Corten louvres fitted to RSH steel channel with bracket and bolted to RSH. Each then fitted to the concrete gable ends. See plans 6-12. 12. Heat recovery unit. Ducts to run to server room on level 12. See plan. 13. External curtain wall. 14. Cable trays suspended from ceiling for services. 15. Internal shaders. 16. Internal curtain wall. 17. Raised floor for services. All services to run to and from the server room on each floor from 6-12. See plans. 18. Gangway bolted to concrete upstands.
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Structural axonometric
1. Double facade. Used to shade from the southern sun and to capture the heat it creates. 1.
2. 600x300 rectangular columns. I have chosen rectangular as opposed to circular as it makes it easier to fit the office furniture around it.
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3. Deep concrete beams in the cinema to support the green roof terrace above but also give an aesthetic, brutal effect in the space below.
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4. Angles L beams are used to create the sloping floors on the black box roof/terrace and the cinema floor. Three beams to be fixed to load baring walls then pre cast floor slabs to slot inside.
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5. 100mm precast concrete is used to finish the building. There is no structural element to them, the structure lies in the inner leaf of the wall in the block work.
Comprehensive design project Future of work Environmental stratergy.
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1. Fresh air intake through steel mesh walkway. 2. Stack ventilation pushes warm air through multiple walk ways. 3. Warm air is extracted on twelfth floor roof. Vent at to of curtain wall for fresh air intake. 4. Warm air is transferred via duct system. 5. More warm air is extracted in the server room before entering air handling unit. 6. Air handling unit to distribute the warm air to multiple floors. 7. Stale air outlet via vent. 8. Underfloor heating system underneath risen floor in office spaces.
Floor plan 6-12 showing the path of the ducts from the double facade, through the office ceiling, to the server room, then distributing the energy to crate hot water to the residential.
Design project Weather or not
Weather or not? Today architects face the challenge of tackling climate change through design. In this assignment I explored the possibilities of a building that could give back to a community as well as addressing one of the biggest carbon footprint we have today in agriculture.
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Residential Business/ Commercial
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Concept To encourage architecture to incorporate vertical farms into our designs to seriously cut the carbon footprint that is agriculture. As well as an vertical farming facility, this building will house a research lab (wet lab) to carry on development of agriculture in a controlled environment. Using its own product in the cafe, the farm will also distribute to the local community.
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Material/construction axonometric
1. Larch roof. 2. Glulam Primary structure. 3. Timber sub-structure. Used as storage for lab, reception and vertical farming. 4. Larch exterior/white interior walls. 5. Larch balustrades on terrace 6. Internal glass curtain walls. 7. Control room for hydroponics and heat recovery system. 8. External raised planters used to hold water and released slowly. 9.Southfacing hydroponics system. Exterior glass curtain wall. 10. Horizontal mullions used for irrigation to vertical farm. 11. Beam and post construction.
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1. Permeable paving. 2. 50- 80mm laying course. 3. Permeable geotextile. 4. 200-250mm sub base. 5. Permeable geotextile. 6. Sub surface drainage to water tank. 7. 200mm prefabricated steel flitch pinned to glulam and raft foundation. 8. Stone slip fixed to glulam beam with bracket. 9. Under floor heating. 10. 150mm insulation. 11. Raft foundation with 200mm up stand to allow floor to finish flush. 12. dpm. 13. 75mm sand layer. 14. 150mm hardcore. 15. Earth. 16. Hidden drainage for hydroponic system to run down notch in glulam. (see plan detail left) 17. Horizontal mullion on curtain wall and to hold the irrigation system. 18. Module hydroponic system to fit in-between glulam columns. 19. Galvanised steel walk way fitted to glulam. 20. Heat recovery vent to run along to control room. Hung with steel wire. 21. Internal curtain wall. 22. Glulam beam. 23. Glulam beam. 24. Secondary structure. Plaster board. Skimmed and painted. 15mm shadow gap from the glulam beam. 25. Internal curtain wall. Openings where glass runs along glulam for passive heat to cafe. (See vertical farm visual) 26. Glulam primary structure. 27. Flitched steel plates 28. British larch wrapped around to meet glulam. 29. Vapour barrier. 30. Aluminium channel gutter. 31. British larch to run vertically down the roof slope. 32. Counter battens.
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1. Switch to pump. Rainpool water harvesting. 2. Mixing for nutrient solution. 3. Underground water tank. 1. litres Switch pump. (158 pertoday needed Mixingfarm). pool for nutrient for2. vertical solution. 4. Overflow to street. 3. Underground 5. Raised planters/ water tank. (158 litres per day needed permeable paving to for vertical collect water. farm). 6. Irrigation system. 4. Overflow to street. 7. Hidden gutter to collect 5. Raised planters/ rain water. permeable paving to
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1. Fresh air intake from outside. 2. Contaminated air from inside to Heat recovery system outside. 3. Heat exchanger. 4. Air extraction vent in vertical farm. 5. Underfloor heating run outside. 1. Fresh air intaketofrom throughout building. air from 2. Contaminated 6. Warm air fro curtain inside todouble outside. wall/thermal massing. 3. Heat exchanger.
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Anatomy Of A Building. The Woolton House.
In this assignment I was asked to analyse a selected house given to me. The Woolton house by James Stirling. Research through books and online, I was able to create plans, elevations and two models. One at 1:100 and 1:50. All walls where made removable so internal spaces could be viewed more clearly.
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Left to right. North elevation. East elevation.
Left to right. South elevation. West elevation.
Left to right. Long section. Cross section.
Carl Brooks Part One Architectural Assistant
Education.
Work experience.
Higherside comprehensive school 2001-2006 Qualifications: BTEC physical education - Distinction GNVQ science - Merit Graphic design - C
Mersey timber Ltd 2006 - 2016 Job role/responsibilities - Beam saw operator.
St Helens College 2016-2017 Qualifications: Diploma in Art & Design (access course) Mathematics - 4 English - 5 Reasons for gap in-between education is due to me working for a few years before realising what I really wanted to do with my life. Therefore, re entering education to get the required GCSEs and a diploma to be accepted into university. Liverpool John Moores University 2017-present Architecture Predicted degree - 2:1
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Wardrobe designer and fitter (self employed) 2012-present Job role/responsibilities - meeting clients to measure and design fitted wardrobes, using the above software to provide imagery. Ellis Williams Architects (Runcorn) 2018. Roles/responsibilities - A brief work experience of how a practice works. During my time here I was working under Michael Kavaghner (project architect) and putting together a proposal for and extension on Stretford Grammar School. Software used in the office was SketchUp, Photoshop, InDesign. Although i was only there for a short period of time I took on board anything they could teach me and took that into my second year of studies.
Technical & design skills.
Hobbies & responsibilities.
I have a variety of design skills/tools that I feel would be really beneficial in engaging in projects around the office. I have a good understanding of AutoCad Architecture, SketchUp, Photoshop and InDesign. In my last two years of my degree I have also been working fluently in Revit on my on going projects and feel I have a confident understanding of the BIM software. Other skills that practices may find useful include the ability to prepare and laser cut files. In addition I am fairly confident in using Cura Ultimaker to produce 3D printed models. In collaboration with all of these software skills i’m not adversed to hand drawing; that can be quickly produced to get my ideas across to clients.
As well as playing football on a Monday evening, I have been an season ticket holder for Everton since 2004. Another hobby of mine is playing guitar, self taught, which I have been playing since 2008. As well as a mortgage to maintain, I have two other big responsibilities; twin girls which me and my wife had in April 2019.
I have also had a valid, clean driving licence from 2014.
References. Debbie Bennent Funeral directors 31 High Street Prescot fd03deb@yahoo.co.uk Jamie Scott Liverpool John Moores University J.T.Scott@ljmu.ac.uk
carl-brooks@hotmail.com 07584435122