Hughes, Tommy

Contents

BA Year 3 Semester 2: Comprehensive Design Project

BA Year 3 Semester 1: Weather of Not x

BA Year 2 Semester 2: Building in the City

BA Year 2 Semester 1: A Space for Crafting

Curriculum Vitae

Below, top: Site at corner of Hamilton Square

Bottom: The last buildings to occupy the site in the 1920s, likely a victorian terrace

From plan central and it had

1:500 plans and final plans

From this I drew up two designs based on the Palazzo and Courtyard typologies. The Palazzo plan had a central orctagonal circulation space while the courtyard plan wrapped around a central courtyard and had an additional chapel-like gallery for displaying Religious artworks and ceramic wall panels produced by the Della Robbia Pottery. I chose the Courtyard plan as it had a wider variety of forms and sizes of rooms, and could accommodate the chapel gallery.

Key for final plans

7. Small gallery

8. Offices

9. MVHR unit/plant duct above storage room

10. Main staircase with lift

11. Secondary staircase with lift

12. Toilets

Perspective view from ground level

View from bottom of triple-height vestibule

Tommy Hughes

View of chapel-like gallery with double-height vaulted lantern

Interior of large second-floor gallery with rooflight

Sections

445mm stone facing with 5mm joints

1:200 detail section

Waterproof membrane

215 x 150 mm stone facing with 5mm joints

150mm x 450mm glulam beam

75mm x 250mm glulam beam

Hardcore Concrete slab

Screed Finish

Cavity tray

Concrete lintel

Concrete lintel

Stone faced precast lintel

Stone cill

CLT slab

Stone coping

Timber joists

Vapour barrier Timber upstand

Plywood deck

Section of chapel gallery and second floor gallery with roof light

Section through triple-height vestibule wit dome and large second-floor gallery

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BA Year 3, Semester 1, Weather or Not Project

(Deferred, yet to be completed)

This project explored the use of natural and non-industrial materials and building methods, taking inspiration from vernacular architecture (particularly the vernacular architecture of the Lake District, including the bank barn). The building incorporates the crooked and wonky forms of natural materials, symbolising the natural forms of the surrounding landscape and the intent to harmonise with and imitate it. Rather than relying on gadgets and flashy technology, the building connects the way we build with the way we are, and with nature, by building at a human scale (acknowledgeing our limitations and our dependence on nature) and building to last, using time-tested materials and techniques, including the cruck roof, a feature of traditional farm architecture in the Lake District.

The main building is built into a slope, with access from the top and bottom, and has a bridge over to a pavilion for exhibitions with a viewing platform and canopy on top.

Exploded Axonometric

Side elevation of main building and pavilion with canopy

Front elevation of main building

Section through main building showing cruck roof and interior arch

Section through stairs of pavilion and main building

Key

1. Exhibition space

2. Lecture room

3.Reception desk

4. Lift

5. Toilets

6. Viewing platform (topped by canopy)

7. Bridge

8. Library

9. Meeting room

10. Cafe seating area

11. Kitchen

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Second floor plan

Level 5 project: Building in the City

Photography Studio

My design for the photography studio reflected the surrounding victorian brick warehouse vernacular, and the alterations to the existing building at ground level (including a new row of windows on Audley Street and a new Arched doorway with two windows on Ilford Street) were designed to fit in rather than contrast with the existing building and surrounding urban fabric. Because of the small site, organising the plan was mainly a matter of fitting in the rooms (which were of a fixed size) in the most convenient way.

Elevation of renovated building and new building

Section through renovated building and new building

3.

1. Main entrance

2. 200m² photography studio (double-height)

3. Large door to bring in large items

e. g. cars

4.Reception desk

5. 50m² photography studio

6. Lift 7. Toilets

8. Kitchen 9. Office 10. Cloakroom 11. Equipment store and repair

Audley Street Elevation with new door and ground floor windows Ground floor plan First floor plan

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Perspective of existing building and new building

Section through new building

Section through new

Perspective of existing building and new building

through new building

Section through stairs in existing building

A place for crafting

Windsor chair crafting studio

My chosen craft was Windsor chairs, which were to be displayed in the balcony of the rotunda above the staircase, visible to those walking past on the street.

Floors were separated into private and public, with the ground floor being public and the lower ground (crafting studio) and upper (residential) floors private.

Key

2. Kiln room

3. Rotunda balcony for displaying chairs

4. Reception

Offices

6. (All of first floor) residential space

1. Chair crating studio

Structural options: loadbearing brick cavity wall or timber frame Section through rotunda

Model photos (of corner of building, showing cavity wall structure)

Curriculum Vitae and contacts

Thomas Hughes, 6 Hillary Road, Eastham, Wirral, CH62 8AN.

Date of birth: 07.07.2003

Mobile: 07541 146 156 Email: tommy.p.hughes@hotmail.com

Personal Profile

I am studying a bachelor’s degree in Architecture at Liverpool John Moores University.

I gained 3 A Levels, in Year 13, summer 2021 at St John Plessington Catholic High School, Wirral, in Applied Science; Computer Science; Product Design.

8 GCSEs summer 2019; English Literature, English Language, Mathematics (Higher), Combined Science, Religious Studies, Geography; Computer Science, Design & Technology

Previous employment

McDonalds restaurant, Bromborough, Wirral June 2022 - September 2022, June 2023 - September 2023

Responsibilities include;

Customer care team member (seasonal) – greeting customers; assisting with ordering; attending to customers’ needs; shop floor assistance; hygiene and cleaning duties when required; and any other duties as necessary.

Asda, Ellesmere Port Superstore December 2021 – February 2022

Responsibilities include;

Home Shopping Operative (seasonal) – using the IT system to collate and collect home shopping items, and preparing for delivery, working to tight deadlines in the Christmas season.

I also worked on the shop floor, providing personal customer assistance to all visitors; as well as a replenishing operative, stocking the shelves and preparing the retail areas, to enable a pleasant shopping experience for customers.

Architecture skills:

• Hand drawing

• Graphic design (indesign and Photoshop

• AutoCAD, Revit and Sketchup

• Enscape and Lumion rendering

Other key Skills:

Leadership qualities and an ability to work well with colleagues

• Community Leader Award, Level 1, St John Plessington School 2018

• Prefect duties, supporting younger children; and giving school tours to parents etc

• Member of Scout group, Bromborough, working with younger children

Problem solving; and good with people

• Voluntary work St Mary of the Angels Primary School, Ellesmere Port, 2019

• Volunteer ‘buddy’ to younger pupils in sixth form; and School Guide, welcoming visitors.

• Volunteer once a month at Our Lady Star Of The Sea church foodbank, Ellesmere Port, giving food to families in need.

Commitment to work and initiative

• Member of School Orchestra, playing the cornet; hard work and commitment outside school, including at various recitals around Wirral.

• School exchange link with a school in China, which I visited, in 2018.

Other Interests;

• I enjoy sports and have been a member of Port Sunlight tennis club

• I play the cornet; and have performed in local venues with my school orchestra.

• I enjoy reading and drawing/model making.