Moorcroft, Rebecca

Rebecca Moorcroft 2020 Portfolio

BA(Hons) Architecture Liverpool School of Art and Design

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About Me / Amdanaf I

I am a 21 year old Architecture student, from North Wales currently in my third year of study at Liverpool John Moores University. My primary interest throughout the course of the degree has been on the environmental aspects of design. I also particularly enjoy the graphic communication aspects and developing both digital and hand drawings.

Rwyf yn fyfyriwr 21 flwydd oed o Ogledd Cymru, sy’n astudio Pensaernïaeth ym Mhrifysgol Liverpool John Moores.

Fy mhrif ddiddordebau yn ystod y cwrs oedd yr agweddau amgylcheddol. Mi wnes i hefyd mwynhau’r agweddau graffigol, a datblygu fy sgiliau dylunio, gan law ag yn ddigidol.

Contact E-mail: rebeccajmoorcroft@gmail.com Contact no: 07444 505 974

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Contents BA Year 3 Semester 2: Comprehensive Design Project

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LJMU Performing Arts School

BA Year 3 Semester 1: Weather or Not

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Curriculum Vitae

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*please note due to current restrictions I am unable to access my first and second year hard drive meaning this portfolio comprises solely third year work

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PR OJEC T 1 -

L J M U P E RFORM ING A RTS SCHOOL

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Project 1 - Conceptual Design Project LJMU School of Performing Arts

“The aim of the programme is to develop a performing arts complex for Liverpool John Moores University as a flagship building accommodating drama, musical theatre, opera and pantomime.

It should be developed along a conceptual basis that life is performative and that there are performative arts that enhance our understanding of that life such that we can better chose how to live our lives. The building should fully utilise the concept of motion and textual unfolding to orchestrate and display.�

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Concept: During the research component of the CDP Project, I came across Professor Robert Kronenburg’s book ‘This Must be the Place’. In the book Professor Kronenburg divides performing spaces into four categories. With these four categories in mind I began looking at and considering spaces myself, trying to ascertain whether Professor Kronenburg’s theory applied.

Following the research component, I wanted to further look into the concept of the 4 performance spaces. This led me to the concept of designing a performing art building that included all four types of performing spaces, creating a diverse and varied range of infinitely adaptable spaces over which performers could have creative control.

Adapted Spaces. Spaces which have previously been used for another purpose, but have been adapted for performance.

Concept 1, Positivity: to design a Performing Arts School which promotes mental wellbeing by creating social spaces which integrate nature into the design.

I have included a number of social spaces within the building, as well as designing heaviliy around the use of greenary and planting.

Concept 2, Flexibility: to design a Performing Arts School which allows the occupant to have creative freedom over the space.

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Adopted Space. Spaces which have been cre¬ated for another purpose, but are co-opted for performance.

Concept Created Space. Spaces which have been specifically constructed as performance spaces.

Mobile Spaces. Spaces which are temporarily erected to host a performance.

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tion of the adopted space in the foyer, where the space can be used as a social zone, exhibition etc,

Visualisation of the adapted space, the dance studio which opens onto the courtyard allowing the courtyard to become a part of the performance space

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The Sit e

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The building is located on the site of the now removed Churchill Way flyovers. It is a busy area where, despite the removal of the flyover, the traffic is still heavy and often congested with flows of traffic leading into the city centre, as well as to the Kingsway tunnel. The site however is well located for a LJMU building, with the LJMU Henry Cotton Building, Sports and Exercise Science Building as well as the James Parson’s Building, all located within a two-minute walk. There are also a number of student accommodation buildings surrounding the site, which have influenced the location of the entrances to the building.

Public transport to the site is readily accessible. Both underground and mainline rail links are located 0.4 miles from the site. Queens Square bus station is a 6-minute walk from the site and Elliot street bus station an 8 minute walk.

Both provide bus links to regions all across Liverpool.

Cycling to the site however is a problem, with a lack of cycle lanes and the main road with two carriageways running alongside the site. Pedestrian access to the site is also not ideal, because the roads in the area are busy and there are a lack of pedestrian crossings. I would therefore like to create an active travel route, incorporating cycle lanes and wide pavements, to give access to the building. I would do this by utilising the quieter road which runs to the west of the site for access.

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supporting space

Mobile Space

cafe / student zone

Partii Diagrams, the green spaces in the partii diagrams represent pockets of outdoor social spaces

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Adapted Space: Studio

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Adapted Space: Rehersal Room

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Luxury Student Accomodation Byrom Point Student Accomodation Adlington House Bispham House

Form explorations with rough models and the final settled upon scheme (right)

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Dark to light: created space, adopted space, adapted space

Circulation spaces. Darkest, staircases. Lightest, corridors

Ground Floor Plan: Pavilion: 1. Social Space 2. Computer Studio 3.Mobile Performance Unit Main Building: 1. Reception / Entrance with cafe 2. Universal Space - social space, exhibition etc.

3. Classroom 1 4. Studio 1 5. Classroom 2 6. Social Space 7. Workshop 8. Staff Offices 9. Staff Room 10. Rehearsal Room 1 11. Lecture Room 1 12. Lecture Room 2 13. Studio 2 14. Courtyard 15. Plant Room 16.Maintenance Cupboard 17. Cleaning Supply Store

Social spaces and study zones

Green spaces - the roof top garden and the courtyard

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First Floor Plan: Pavilion: 1. Study Space 2. Roof Space Main Building: 1. Drama studio 2. Studio 2 3. Acting Studio 4. Social Space 5. Auditorium 6. Wings 7. Platform Lift from workshop 8. Costume Store 9. Showers 10. Dressing Room 1 11. Dressing Rooms 2 12. Rehearsal Room 2 13. Classroom 3 14. Classroom 4 15. Studio 4 16. Music Studio 11. Recording Studio 12. Music Staff Office 15. Practice Rooms Second Floor Plan: 1. Box Office / Bar 2. Auditorium Foyer 3. Auditorium 4. Access to lighting and sound above stage 5. Lighting and sound Staff Offices 6. Lighting Studio 7. Sound Studio 8. Green Room 9. Kitchenette 10. Roof Garden with allotments

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East to West Section. Cutting through corridor, dance studio, courtyard, classroom, corridor (right to left)

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East to West Section, Cutting through on ground floor staircase, WC, Corridor, Workshop Store, Workshop, Corridor, Corridor, WC Staircase (left to right)

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North to South Section. Cutting through on ground floor workshop, offices, corridor, courtyard, cafe/reception,wc and auditorium, corridor, courtyard, corridor, music room, recording room (right to left)

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External visulisation showing the timber cladding

Walk-through of entrance to the building Internal visualisation showing the change in materiality between the exterior and the courtyard

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40mm Thick Acoustic Safety Glass 20mm Thick Air Gap 6mm Thick Safety Glass 300mm x 300mm Column at intervals of 3m 70mm x 50mm Vertical mullion at intervals of 3m 2500mm x 250mm x 20mm Timber Cladding 1 30mm x 30 mm x 2500 mm Horizontal Timber Battons 2 Breather membrane 3 4000mm x 100mm x 50mm Vertical Timber Studs 4 22mm Impregnated Woodfibre Insulation 5 300mm Woodfibre Insulation 6 Vent allowing cross ventilation through the service gap, filtering into the spaces below Recessed Lighting Unit Service space within the suspended ceiling for heating and cooling ductwork as well as ventilation, lighting etc.

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2500mm x 250mm x 10mm Timber Cladding 30mm x 30 mm x 3000 mm Horizontal Timber Battons Breather membrane 4000mm x 100mm x 50mm Vertical Timber Studs (100mm width in order to accommodate the downpipe) 22mm Impregnated Woodfibre Insulation 300mm Woodfibre Insulation 200mm Cross Laminated Timber Staggered Thermal Break Fitting

Weather resistant ledge Additional waterproof membrane

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Capping

1400mm High Balustrade

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L-Trim

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Roof Detail

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Timber Cladding

Soil For Planting Filter Fleece 150mm Enclosed Cell Insulation Waterproofing Membrane m Cross Laminated Timber two way spanning slab 210mm Woodfibre insulation Service Gap Timber Joists g with shadow detail with access points to service gap at recommended intervals

Capping

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1400mm High parapet wall

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Sealed Glazing Unit

Snap Cap

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Pressure Plate Formed Metal Base Rigid Insulation Damp Proof Membrane

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Timber Sill Exposed CLT Finish

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3 Courses of engineering brick Damp Proof Membrane 1 25mm Local Stone Paving

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2 150mm x 175mm Guttering 3 25mm Sand and Cement Base 4 50mm Hardcore base

Timber Floor Boards 60mm Void 100mm Jack-Up Slab 210mm Woodfibre Insulation 50mm Sand 300mm Hardcore Concrete ringbeam on Piled Foundations Underfloor service gap

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5 65mm Thermoblock 6 Metal Plate

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Technol ogy

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Load bearing columns

Load bearing colums

Cross Laminated Timber External and Internal Load Bearing Walls

Internal load bearing CLT walls External load bearing CLT walls

Foundation build up

Concrete ground beam Concrete ringbeam Pile Foundations Pile Cap

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The Breif: Following from the idea that ecological conscience and literacy should become a central tenet of design education, this brief asks to interpret climate change, interact with weather phenomena and consider how design could be embedded within a broader system.

Knowing that climate is a constructed notion, how could we re-shape it and its implications for our holistic understanding of the world, our ways of building and living in it? How could we address climate change in a more encompassing way, elaborating the fundamentals of meteorology, aerography, hydrology, or even gravity?

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WEATH E R OR N OT Concept Site plan sketch - on the north sits the outdoor auditorium and on the south sits the building - linked by pathway P31

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Concept: to create a series of flood water storage pools, which will sit in the uplands of Hebden Bridge. The purpose of which will be to alleviate rain water runoff during peirods of heavy rainfall and reduce the risk of flooding to Hebden Bridge.

1. Water Storage Pools : as well as reducing the amount of rainwater directed towards Hebden Bridge, these pools are also able to generate energy from the connecting stream.

low rainfall

high rainfall Water storage

Overflow connceting stream

Energy generation

2. Topography : the second focus of this design is to create a building which works in harmony with it’s topography.

3. Harmony with nature : the third focus of my design is to create a project which not only accomodates for, but will allow the nature of the site to thrive.

Introducing the greatest number of different biodiversities, through: - pond - plantation - retaining natural bog - creating "wild gardens" - disrupting the landscape as little as possible

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WEATH E R OR N OT Development Summer Solstice 6:00am

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Summer Solstice 12:00pm

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Orientiation of the site layout

Winter Solstice 12:00pm

Winter Solstice 10:00am

Winter Solstice 3:00pm

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WEATH E R OR N OT Development

Summer Sun - 59 To Luddenden

Summer Solstice 6:00am Winter Solstice 10:00am

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View over golf course

Wind circling

Public Footpath Public Footpath

Bus route 594 and 595

Site Bridleway

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Road Trafic Noise road running to west of site

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Pervaling Summer Solstice Westerly 7:00pm Wind Winter Solstice 3:00pm Analysis - averages of Hebden Bridge in 2018 Average Wind Speeds : Low - April through October with an average speed of 9.8 miles an hour High - October through April with an average speed of 11.9 miles an hour Average Temperature : Low - January at 0 High - July at 18 S Average Precipication : Low - April with 40.5mm High - October with 71mm Average Snowfall : Highest average - 5mm in January

View to Hebden Bridge

To Hebden Bridge

View to Wadsworth and windmills

Access and public transport

Willow weeds Braken Brambles View over mountains

Willow tree Heather Ground nesting birds

To Hebden Bridge View to Stoodley Pike

Nature and vegetation

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WEATH E R OR N OT Models Conceptual Model

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Technical Model

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1. Building 2. Main access to building 3. Flood water storage pool 4. Outdoor auditorium 5. Flood gates 6. Public car park with bike racks and electric charging stations 7. Private car park and minibus drop off point (for employees collected from the town or the train station) 8. Private access to building N

Site Plan

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1. Main entrance 2. Science and arts mixed exhibition space 3. Cafe 4. Kitchen for cafe 5. Disabled toilet with baby changing unit 6. Glass circulation space 7. Public and private toilets 8. Lift 9. Laboratory 10. Small Laboratory 11. Office 1 12. Staff eating and social area 13. Glass circulation space 14. Weather monitoring laboratory 15. Disabled toilet with baby changing unit 16. Store 16. Entrance to private quarters of building 18. Outdoor social and eating spaces

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1. Mezzanine social and informal meeting space 2. Lecture room 3. Lecture room and classroom 4. Walkway 5. Glass circulation space 6. Lift 7. Toilets 8. Meeting Room 1 9. Meeting Room 2 10. Meeting and lecture room 11. Office 2 12. Walkway 13. Glass circulation space 14. Office 3 15. Office 4 16. Social and informal meeting space

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Sloping roof mirroring surrounding topogra Charred timber cladding

Local stone used for paving and steps Floating walkway to auditorium

Floodwater storage pool

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North Elevation

Black aluminium roof sloping down to allow rainwater to cascade over

Glass circulation space

Main entrance to building Glass circulation space

West Elevation

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Technical Resolution

Winter Lighting Scheme Lighting Scheme: On the north elevation of the building is a large expanse of glass. As this opening sits to the north, shading should not be required. The roof does however jut out at this point as a part of the rainwater harvesting strategy, so some shading will occur. The south and east elevations of the building sit close to the cliff face, resulting in near to no solar gains from these orientations. In order to counter this, there are two glass circulations spaces, onto which internal windows face. This allows light into some of the central spaces. The scheme also has roof openings, which also help to allow light into the darker spaces. Sensors in the roof openings will be able to automatically change the opacity of the windows depending on the requirements, as well as being able to be controlled manually. Lastly, the more functional spaces, such as the toilets and store rooms have been placed at the back of the building, where there is the least daylight.

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Summer Lighting Scheme

Vegetation Scheme Part of the concept for this scheme was to reintroduce planting into the site after it was quarried, as well as to create rich a biodiversity within the area. The areas outlined in the diagram are areas in which rewilding will take place. Rewilding involves planting a mixture of local vegetation which have been outlined by biodiversity schemes such as the RHS and allowing the vegetation and wildlife to take over, as opposed to keeping the area well-groomed and ordered. Within the pool there will be oxygenating plants to keep the water healthy and allow for pond life. On the paved area surrounding the building there will be planting beds, which may grow wildflowers to draw in bees and insects, or vegetables, herbs or fruits to be used in the kitchens.

Ventilation, Heating and Cooling Scheme: The ventilation and heating of this building are both powered by a biomass boiler. This boiler sits in the middle section of the building in order to minimise the distance pipework must travel. There are three systems within the building, each of which connect back to the biomass boiler. An air supply and an exhaust run from each system into the required spaces in the building, e.g. laboratories and toilets. The demand for cooling isn’t too great in this area, so cooling will mainly rely on the opening and closing of windows to allow in cool air, as well as air conditioning units should they be required.

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Irrigation

Collection Water Scheme: The roof has been designed in a way to allow water to run over the three roof forms and fall into a pool at the end. This water is then stored in a water tank. This water, as well as water from the guttering is used in the building. This water is used in sinks, showers and toilets. The grey water is then reused for irrigation after being treated. Any additional demand in irrigation is supplied by the water tank. Any site stormwater runoff as well as water from the storage tank is used in the site’s raingardens and infiltration ponds.

N O IS REV T N 200mm Cross Laminated Timber

300mm Woodfibre Insulation

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Metal Plate Fixed With: Tight Fit Dowels, SFS Dowels or Bolts and Screws 1. 500mm Service Gap 2. 100mm Insulation 3. 600mm Ceiling Tiles 4. T-shaped Support 5. Shadow Gap Detailing 6. CLT Floor 7. 100mm Insultaion 8.Floor

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50mm x 50 mm Vertical Timber Batons 500mm Staggered Thermal Break Fixing

Breather Membrane

50mm x 50mm Horizontal Timber Baton

25mm x 1500mm Vertical Charred Timber Cladding Damp Proof Membrane Three Courses of Blue Engineering Bricks 25mm Local Stone Plaving Aluminium Gutter Filled With Gravel 50mm Sand and Cement Bed 50mm Hardcore Base

Concrete Ringbeam on Piled Foundations

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RÉSUMÉ -

Education

Rebecca Moorcroft, Liverpool John Moor es Uni ver sit y

University:

BA Architecture Liverpool John Moores University 2017 – Present

Prifysgol:

BA Architectu 2017 – Prese

A-Levels:

Ysgol Y Creuddyn, Bae Penrhyn 2014 – 2016 A-Level Chemistry, Biology & Mathematics AS-Level History

Lefel A:

Ysgol Y Creud 2014 – 2016 Lefel A Ceme Lefel AS Hane

GCSEs:

Ysgol Y Creuddyn, Bae Penrhyn 2009 – 2014 12 GCSEs inc. English, Welsh, Maths and Sciences

TGAU:

Ysgol Y Creud 2009 – 2014 12 TGAU yn c

Work Experience June 2019 - July 2019 Erasmus summer architecture programme, Malta

Employment History 07/2018 – Current 06/2016 - 09/2016 06/2014 - 09/2017 06/2014 - 09/2017

Library Assistant Creditors Assistant Leisure Assistant & Lifeguard Assistant Swimming Teacher

Volunteering 2010 - 2017 2012 - 2016 2012 – 2014

Ysgol Y Gogarth, Rangers Group Bryn Y Maen, RSPCA Centre Netball Coach, Urdd Gobaith Cymru

Hobbies Running, Swimming, Kayaking, Reading, Drawing, Travelling

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Cyflogaeth Orff 07/2018 – Presenol 06/2016 - 09/2016 06/2014 - 09/2017 06/2014 - 09/2017

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Contact Details Contact E-mail: rebeccajmoorcroft@gmail.com Contact Number: 07444 505 974 2020 Portfolio Rebecca Moorcroft P48