Mclaughlin, Frankie

Frankie Mclaughlin

2022 Portfolio

BA(Hons) Architecture

Liverpool School of Art and Design

‘About me’

Curretly 21 years of age and about to finish my third year of Studying Architecutre at Liverpool John moores University. Excited to to start internships and learn The craft in a new way from the practise to on site. What attracted me to architecture orignally was coming from a design orientated where we would always visit The local gallery or exhibitons. As well arts and crafts was a big push from my parents when I was younger which i went on to become a hobby of mine which helped me get a design and technology scholorship in secondary school. This encouraged me to think about architecture and through personal research at school I was able to get some work experience at a practise In Canada which furthered my intrest.

Comprehensive Design Project

The site is situated in manchester close to picadilly gardens. Surrounded by 31 mature trees

The plan from The start was based around building between The trees and in some respect with them. This helped The project evolve and gave it some shape which was then devloped to create The library with its open hall. The devloping stage took a while to get of The ground with lots of initial ideas but none of Them being good eneugh until I was able to relaise The site as a corridor and build around that.

This site was at The end of lake windermere, up on The bank close to a carpark and trees. It housed a science building, cafe, toilets, ampitheatre, gallery area and reception area. Designed around The bank to follow The curvature, to blend into The horizon and built with a majority of horizontal lines. It was also designed low and flat eneugh so it was not visable from The road.

Experimental Project (wood shop)

The “woodshop” site was designed on seel street and was created with following The shape of street in mind. seel street is in The ropewalks district of liverpool. The deisgn featured two main blocks where one was a large victorian wharehouse style and The other was a more modern timber building connected to it.

This projected was on Kempsted street, liverpool. The brief was for a dance studio which would be retrofitted to a pre-exsiting building. The design was based around following The shape and fabric of The street and The especially The roof pitched roofs. i used corten steel for The building to give The industrial look.

1: Urban Design Project

This site was in The north of liverpool and The brief was to build a skateboard workshop with a place a place to live. The design features a large skatboard half pipe which is also used as an entrance, and kitchen area with a raised bedding area with The workshop situated below.

This project was to build a unique experice through architecture. To do this i used The barbican for my site. This has significant architecutral fame and i believed a geometric design like this one would fit perfectly.