Gome Muwowo 2021 Portfolio
Master of Architecture Liverpool School of Art and Design
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‘About me’
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Confident, purposeful and creative Architecture masters student with 3 years experience in industry. Competent with architecture drawings, 2d and 3d visualisations, measured surveys, landscape design, interior and urban design.
MArch Year 6 Semester 2: Thesis Project
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MArch Year 6 Semester 2: Live Project (Liverpool)
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MArch Year 6 Semester 1: Urban Design Project 2 (Liverpool)
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MArch Year 5 Semester 2: Housing Project (Liverpool)
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Approachable and friendly individual with a positive outlook. Calm in stressful situations. Highly adaptable, determined and very teachable with a love for learning from others. Urban sketching enthusiast with over 8 full travel sketchbooks.
MArch Year 5 Semester 2: Specialist Study 35 MArch Year 5 Semester 1: Urban Design Project 1 (Chester)
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Thesis Design Project Year 6 Semester 2 7222AR
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HUMANS DEPEND ON PLANTS
PLANTS ARE UNDER THREAT
SEED STORAGE PROLONGS PLANT LIFE
- FOOD - MEDICINE - AIR - WELLNESS
- CLIMATE CHANGE - LAND CONVERSION - POPULATION GROWTH
- SEED BANKS - SEED CONSERVATION - CURRENT & FUTURE USE Section
Brief: A building for seed conservation and research as well as academic and public viewing facilities.This project looked at global and national seedbank centres and sought to create a catalyst scheme for regional storage of seeds in the United Kingdom. Located in the docklands area of Dingle, Liverpool, the scheme was part of a wider area masterplan developed in the first semester to revitalise Dingle as a gateway from the south into the centre of the city. The scheme includes a landscape strategy, environmental and structural elements that further bolster the proposed development.
Leeds
Preston Manchester
United Kingdom
Sheffield
Liverpool
North West Region
Chester Stoke-on-Trent
Dingle
Environmental Strategy
Riverside Ward
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The building sits on land currently used as dock warehouses and is adjacent to a Grade II listed building, Bradley House. The public part of the scheme will replace the end unit of the warehouses with a pedestrian path dissecting the two buildings and connecting the public square to Sefton Street. The building uses a structural timber frame with CLT floor panels at intermediate floors. As it is excavated down one level into the dock, piled foundations have been used to uphold it. The internal spaces circle around a central atrium with a plant exchange at lower ground level. This keeps the central focus of the scheme at the heart of the building.
Critical Internal Relationships Diagram
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EXISTING WAREHOUSES TO BE REPLACED
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Demolition and Retention
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Ground Floor
DELIVERY ACCESS UNDERSGROUND CAR PARK
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NEW BUILD EXISTING BUILDINGS
LANDSCAPE STRATEGY 1.Steps to waters edge 2. Public square 3. Dark brick paving for contrast 4. Water feature (cascading from GF to LGF) 5. Access stair / ramp 6. Lift 7. Open sunken courtyard entrance 8. Enclosed Sunken courtyard 9. Soft landscape for Bradley House 10. Timber Post (alternating with 11) 11. Street Lamp (alternating with 10) 12. Landscaped Park 13. Recessed Arched Walkway 14. Bike Lane 15. Sefton Street
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Live Project Year 6 Semester 2 7231AR
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Brief: To create a small free standing welcome pavillion for ‘The Friend’s of Williamson’s Tunnel’ group, Liverpool. This site is a heritage centre with large tunnels dug underneath the city. Working as a team of 5 students, this project was an opportunity to work on a ‘real-world’ project using the skills gained from the course. My personal involvement was as designer in the team and through collaboration developed a low budget proposal inspired by shipping container architecture. The facade of the old house was required by the client to be kept and the new timber structure with ETFE roof would provide structural support as well as shelter from the elements.
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Urban Design Project 2 Semester 1 Year 2 7211AR
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Brief: This project developed ideas to revive the area of Dingle, Liverpool through a series of nodes. Working in groups of three, the big idea was to have a Botanical Garden as the catalyst for development, with a music centre, market, gallery and various housing types alongside it. Located in the docklands area of the city, this scheme developed 2no. design codes for all new buildings along Sefton Street, namely: 1. The use of arches 2. All parking should be underground. A new consolidated green park towards the east is surrounded by new residential housing designed to be dual facing for a sense of security at all times of day.
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First Study
Second Study
Final Study
During the first attempt in looking at the Dingle, the group wanted to explore the Northern part of the site towards ‘Cains Brewery’, developing the whole area adjacent to Sefton Street right down to the docklands area. However this site area was too big to develop an enhanced study and had to be reduced in size and focus.
The second study identified the specific area of focus within the site. The desire was to focus on the area around the Docks. At this stage, the big idea was to create an ‘Opera House’ as the main node, Sefton Street as ‘Boulevard’ and a Botanical Garden in between the two existing warehouses. However through feedback, it was determined that an Opera House would not be viable as it will only be used a certain amount of time in the year. There is less justification for people to be there when there is nothing on.
Previously, it was concluded by the group that the Opera House should be developed to have several functions and it should not solely be an Opera House but a music centre. Therefore, the final solution was to develop a programme to house other uses, such as performance spaces, studios, etc. This would enable it to be open the majority of the year, and people would be able to gather within the public square.
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Environmental Considerations: The scheme includes several environmental considerations, such as the use of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDs) and the planting of more vegetation to attract wildlife like birds and bees. Given it’s location alongside the River Mersey, it was important to provide adequate wind blockage from the high westerly winds while still allowing pedestrians access to the east of the warehousese.
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Housing Design Project Semester 2 Year 1 7122AR
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Housing Design Project
United Kingdom Brief: Based in the Prince’s Park ward of Liverpool, this project sought to provide dense social housing in a neighbourhood with various social-economic challenges. Statistically, Toxteth has a population that is both older and younger than the national average, with high unemployment, low education and low home ownership. This scheme seeks to address the above through intergenerational housing, providing on-site employment opportunities for resident’s in rented accommodation. It also reinstates the existing Caribbean Community Centre repositioning it at the corner of the Upper Parliament Street and Mulgrave Street for Liverpool prominence.
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North West
Proposed Site Plan
Toxteth
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Housing Design Project
Housing Type 1
Sun-path analysis
The design of the facade was developed through a careful analysis of the surrounding buildings which revealed a vernacular colour palette. There is a defined building rhythm to Upper Parliament Street, which influenced the back and forth elements of the facade design. This also influenced the choice of materials, with red brick a predominant feature in the surrounding area. The elevation design emphasises an internal change of use to the stairwells by changing in materiality (i.e. softer timber to the ground floor and zinc to match the standing seam roof above).
Colour palette
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Housing Design Project Housing Type 2 & 3
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Housing Design Project
Balcony View
Staircase
Duplex Flat
Young families & retired housing court
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Inward facing communal garden
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Dual aspect flat
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Specialist Study Semester 2 Year 1 7112AR
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HOUSING FUTURES: Building in Layers
SPATIAL AMBIGUITY AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC & SOCIAL MATTER February 2020 By: Gomezga N. Muwowo Word Count: 8,876
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Specialist Study
CONTENTS
1 The specialist study set out to illustrate different examples of housing that have been built or adapted using layered façades. This was done to establish a convincing case for building in layers as a potential solution for the current and future needs within the housing market. By examining the case studies, it established key social, economic and environmental benefits of building incrementally using layered façades.
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HYPOTHESIS
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To examine contemporary housing design, in order to establish a critical understanding of spatial strategies acting simultaneously as environmental mechanisms and social devices, whilst maintaining a low cost.
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REFERENCES
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INTRODUCTION
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BUILDING IN LAYERS
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CASE STUDIES
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- Introduction
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- Pillars of Sustainability
- Engawa, Japan
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- Tour Bois-le-Pretre, France
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- Stoa, Ancient Greece
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- Ellebo Garden Room, Denmark
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- Social Connection
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- Economic Connection
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- Environmental Connection
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- Hortsley, Seaford, England
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Ellebo Garden Room: Adapted through adding layers
Chapter one, established the aims and objectives of the study, highlighting the primary and secondary methods of research used to gather information, including books, website and a site visit by the author. It also introduced the three pillars of sustainability: social, economic and environmental. Chapter two analysed the works of others, establishing the motives of layering in architecture: safety of the inside from the unknown outside. It further looked at the historical use of layering in architecture, namely the Engawa from Japanese Hortsley, Seaford, UK: architecture and the Stoa from ancient Social winter gallery Greece. Chapter three built on the findings of chapter two by analysing three case studies: (a) Tour Bois-le-Pretre, Paris, France, (b) Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen, Denmark, (c) Hortsley, Seaford, East Sussex, UK. The chapter established that by building in layers using existing infrastructure, it is possible to prolong the lifetime of the building, promoting sustainable values of preserving resources. This was revealed as being more financially sustainable than demolition-reconstruction, which could also have negative social impact on surrounding communities by pollution.
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Ellebo Garden Room: Seasonal use of space
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Urban Design Semester 1 Year 1 7111AR
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Urban Design
Group Members: Zubair Hoque & Gome Muwowo
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Chester is a historic city in the north-west region of England and was the location for this years collaborative urban design project. The site is outside the historic city walls, to the west of West Gate, and the initial analysis revealed that Chester has good connections within the wider context of the North-West region. However, within the city centre, high car usage affects air quality and the overall pedestrian experience. In addition, most of the tourist activity happened within the city walls with few pedestrians heading towards the site. With the site being along the river front, it provided an opportunity to expand the tourist experience outside the city walls linking existing to existing routes elsewhere. It was a positive and enjoyable experience working with the team as reflective of life in architecture practice, where multidisciplinary skills are required.
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Urban Design
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Curriculum Vitae & Contacts
Work Experience:
Software:
Contact email:
David Brain Partnership, (Part 1 Assistant) Bath (Aug 2017 - Aug 2018)
Vectorworks AutoCAD Photoshop Indesign Sketchup Illustrator
gomezga91@yahoo.co.uk
CL Architects, (Part 1 Assistant) Folkestone, Kent (Feb 2016 - March 2017)
Working knowledge:
Kappa Planning (Architectural Intern) Orpington, Kent (Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
3Ds Max Revit
Education:
Interests:
Liverpool John Moores University, MArch Architecture (2019 - Present)
Urban sketching Spoken word / poetry Drumming Piano Football Art
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol - Part 1 Architecture and Planning - Built and Natural Environment (Foundation) Ashford School of Art and Design 3D Design (2007 - 2009) 48
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