Rebecca Crompton
BA(Hons) Architecture Liverpool School of Art and Design
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I’m a 21 year old Architecture Graduate from the Bachelors Class of 2020. I have followed Architecture as a career path since the age of 16. I have always been passionate about improving the quality of living that we surround ourselves with through built environment. I believe that as architects we should design for the people, and their personal experience. My personal strengths lie within creativity, I try to enrich this creative flare both professionally and personally and would love to travel to broaden my cultural knowledge. I enjoy working as part of a team, my outgoing personality means I prefer to bounce my ideas off others.
Contents BA Year 3 Semester 2: Comprehensive Design Project
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BA Year 3 Semester 1: Weather of Not 18 Curriculum Vitae 24
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The Liverpool School of Digital Art will redefine the relationship between builidng and perspective. The building will act as a pinnacle, land-marking point to the area and is inspired by the geometry behind a triangle. The idea of geometry is thematically present throughout, the building design creates vistas to the surrounding area, otherwise unviewable.
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CDP - The Liverpool School of Art and Design
Sitting in the immediate south of Liverpool’s city centre, the Baltic Triangle is bounded by Liver Street in the north, Mill Street to the south, St. James Street to the east and Wapping to the west. As a result of the areas short walk from the city centre and its newfound creative popularity it has attracted significant levels of development. The Baltic Triangle has proven its name as the “digital and creative hub of Liverpool” making it the perfect site to home the School of Photographic & Digital Image. The Liverpool School of Digital art is proposed to be situated in the centre of the Baltic Triangle where St James Street and Jamaica street form a point. The site currently consists of three spaces; green space with an old railway track, a car park and green space.
Naturally Lit Spaces Dark Spaces Exhibition Spaces Foyer/Spaces Lecture/Function Spaces Utilities Car Park Fire Escape Systems Bicycle Storage Ramp
Jamaica Street Elevation
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CDP - The Liverpool School of Digital Art
Surrounding the East side of the building will be a set of exterior stairs running from Ground Floor to Third Floor. These stairs will be encased in a copper metal mesh that from a distance looks like a solid form, however from the stair well, vistas and views of the surrounding site will be possible. This idea of mesh was inspired by the work of Bridget Riley, a perspective artist, who heavily inspired the concept analysis of this project.
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The Liverpool School of Digital Art
The Liverpool School of Digital Art will The building will consist of public Ground Floor, Basement) and private (First floor to third floor) spaces. In terms of security, all staircases from the Ground floor upwards will require an ID pass. The building will pay homage to Bridget Riley, a perspective artist, whos work made Digital Art history. With this proposal, the LSDA will create a new depth to the Baltic Triangle by increasing footfall. The building will have a capacity of 1000 students which will naturally feed into surrounding businesses such as student accommodation, bars, barbers etc. The building will create a new purpose as to why one would be visiting the Baltic Triangle.
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The Liverpool School of Digital Art
The initial spatial massing concept derived from the environmental study combined with the idea of light and dark spaces. As lighting is a very necessary aspect to a photography studio and it’s room uses. The building will mainly have it’s greatest footfall between the hours of 9AM and 5PM however will have flexible openinghours of 7AM till7PM to be used at the students wishes. With the building’s use being a school of Photographic Image, it will require light rooms, dark rooms, teaching spaces and computer rooms - all will require different climatic strategies. The dark rooms will contain no windows and optional artificial lighting methods. The lighter spaces e.g. studio spaces, exhibition space, teaching spaces will have large windows to allow natural light with optional artificial lighting methods. Computer rooms and lecture rooms will have windows with optional roller blinds and optional artificial lighting methods. The ventilation strategy uses natural cross ventilation throughout the building using outlets in the roof and windows. When elevated in summer as shown in section these will also let in natural light. Possibility of solar panels on roof for energy production and/or geothermal energy creation embedded below green space.
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CDP - The Liverpool School of Art and design
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The chosen site contains an old Railway tunnel that must go untouched. The building massing pushes this boundary between site and design by using a cantilever form to hang above it. Situated in this space above the tunnel will be exhibition space, with windows to allow for views down the tunnel. This again follows the theme of perspective as it allows views into the tunnel that cannot be perceived from street level.
This visual shows how the copper mesh texture will act against the exterior stair well. It will sit as an entity within it’s own right against the mass brick of the main body. From afar the warm tones of the copper will blend into the brick, allowing it to become almost illusive.
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CDP - The Liverpool School of Art and Design
The lower ground main space will feature a public exhibition featuring Bridget Riley’s work. As a digital artist who explores perspective and illusion this building is inspired by her work. Bridget Riley was a painter born in 1931, known for her singular op paintings. She created a new style of painting that is now commonly present within many digital artist’s work. The importance of this creative influence is to highlight how ever-growing digital art has became.
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It would be morally corrupt if as architects we did not design for the future. It is our requirement as designers to create innovative ways to solve problems within society. We must design for the people. Covid-19 is an issue none of us expected, it transformed the world overnight. It was due to this global pandemic that certain design choices have been made. The LSDA will explore learning and design in a solitary space. With individual learning pods running central through the design allowing for social distancing whilst working. It is transparent that the future of education and work will never be the same.
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The Weather or not project explored a site in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. The site is heavily affected by extreme weather conditions and flooding. My response to this site was to create a vertical farm that will not have it’s crop yield affected by the flooding. The farm also acted as a Learning Centre and Cafe, using fruit and veg produced on site.
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Weather or Not Farming for the Future
Embodying the historic characteristics of an Edwardian growing space the design features a first floor, south facing glass structure with a metre-thick masonry wall towards the building’s North axis. This masonry wall will act as a thermal conductor and primarily aid the growing space by creating a warmer environment. The wall will stem basement to roof and act as a spine to the building’s design. The wall will also be beneficial in winter when artificial heating will be required in other public areas of the building. The metre-thick masonry wall central to the building will sit behind the glass structure and use passive solar tactics to conduct heat throughout the building. When the wall is heated up, it will release the heat throughout the night to the interior spaces and keeping the building’s heat regulated. Building flood barriers within design will only push the water to another part of the river, therefore, sacrificial flooding space has been allocated in the basement. This space will allow water from floods in if Hebden Bridge has another disaster. The space will not be accessible to avoid stagnancy and upkeep and will be there solely to house water. Tanks from the water systems will also be kept there completely sealed to avoid any possibilities of cross contamination. With this feature and the first-floor growing space, it means that Hebden Bridge could potentially still farm when effected by heavy rainfall and flooding. push the water to another part of the
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Heat Recovery System In the winter when the building will also need heating up in places, a heat recovery system can be used. This means there is less heat loss around the building and the building is using what is already there. Passive Lighting StrategyNatural daylight will be provided through the positioning of windows and glass on the South and West elevations of the building. The first floor will embody a sun space design which will allow for a great amount of lux levels. The positioning of thresholds in this space will allow for lighting in the hall and partially in the ground floor spaces. Artificial lighting will be necessary in spaces to meet the minimum lux levels of according to the Health & Safety executive guidelines. Similarly, blinds for shading will be provided where necessary, specifically in the laboratory where computers may be used. Rainwater Harvesting SystemsThe building will use a lot of water, however recycled water can be used for the supply of hydroponics, central heating and plumbing systems. One roof will have a green roof strategy with the capability of harvesting rainwater. This harvested rainwater will be stored in the coolest area of the building, the basement. This system will be channelled around the building through pipes.
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Age // 21 Drivers License // Yes Instagram // r.c.archi LinkedIn // Rebecca Francesca Crompton Email // rfcrompton@outlook.com
Education
Liverpool John Moores University Bachellors in Architecture 2020 Winstanley College Art, Economics & English Lit A level Grades C 2017
Software -Revit -AutoCad -SketchUp -Photoshop -Indesign -Illustrator
-Enscape -Lumion -Adobe Spark -3ds Max -Rhino 3D -Microsoft Suite
St Bedes Catholic High School Gcse Grades A-C 2015
Experience
C.G.Cladding Architects Summer Internship 2016 -Using Revit to draw up plans. -Experiencing how the team met with clients and developed design principles. -Understanding for efficiency and deadlines. -Shadowing an Architect allowing an improved comprehension of a firm’s design process.
Kurt Geiger Sales Assistant 2018-2019 -Time management and efficiency -Visual merchandising -A strong knowledge of sales & KPIS
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