Having recently completed Masters in Architecture, in LJMU, I’m currently looking for part Architectural Assistant position and looking forward to work in the profession I admire the most.

About me

Hello, I’m Ranjitha J Reddy, Part 2 architectural assistant from Liverpool John Moores University. Architecture though is known for its subjectiveness, I beieve in it’s evolution and story of a structure. Thus I am immersed in concept and context driven projects and am equipped to cater to your needs. My main goal is to learn and achieve to the highest as a designer. Furthermore, my endeavour always drives me to create best works.

I believe in hardwork and shall pride myself both on well coordinated team member and individual designer.

Apart from architecture, I am trained classical Indian dancer, singer and have taken interest in urban photography as they have a million stories to tell in silence.

Having recently completed Masters in Architecture, in LJMU, I’m currently looking for part 2 Architectural Assistant position and looking forward to work in the profession I admire the most.

Gmail: arranjithajreddy@gmail.com ph no: 07553461665

Contents

Thesis Design Project MARITIME MUSEUM

Urban Design Project

CONNECTING BIRKENHEAD

Live project THE CANVAS

Housing Design Project

MANURE TO MANIFOLD

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Urban Design Project URBAN PAUSE AND PLAY 54

Curriculum Vitae 62

THESIS PROJECT

Maritime Museum- Birkenhead

BIRKENHEAD IS KNOWN FOR IT’S FAMOUS SHIP MAKING COMPANY CAMMELL LAIRD AND IT’S RICH HISTORY IN CULTURE, WATER TRANSPORTATION AND CONTRIBUTION IN WORLD WARS. THUS AN ATTEMPT TO ENHANCE THE ESSENCE OF THE HISTORY, THESIS PROJECT IS SELECTED TO BE MARITIME MUSEUM IN WATERS OF RIVER MERSEY.

THE CONTEXT AND HISTORY DRIVES THE PROJECT THROUGH OUT.

INORDER TO THROW LIGHT ON CONNECTION BETWEEN BIRKENHEAD AND CAMMELL LAIRD’S HISTORY, THE PROPOSED THESIS DESIGN PROJECT IS MARITIME MUSEUM.

THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE WATERFRONTS OF BIRKENHEAD FACING LIVERPOOL ALONG WITH RIVER MERSEY AMIDST. THE SITE IS SELECTED IN ORDER TO RE-USE EXISTING GRAVING DOCK AND PROVIDE CONNECTION STARTING FROM BIRKENHEAD PARK ROAD, CHESTER STREET, PRIORY,AND WATERFRONT.

THUS THE THESIS PROJECT IS AN EXTENSION OF URBAN DESIGN WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONNECT ALL THE MAIN LANDMARKS IN BIRKENHEAD AND FORM A LONG PROMENADE FROM HEART OF CITY TO WATERFRONT NRRATING IT’S ROYAL AND PROUD HISTORY. THE CONTEXT DRIVES THE ENTIRE PROJECT. THE ACCENTUATING FACTORS LIKE BIRKENHEAD PARK ROAD, PRIORY, A GRAVING DOCK NEIGHBORED BY WORKING PRINCESS DOCK AND WATERFRONT OF RVER MERSEY. CHESTER STREET CONNECTING TO BIRKENHEAD’S KING SQUARE AND TUNNEL IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONNECTION FROM LIVERPOOL TO BIRKNHEAD.

THE STRENGHTS AND POSSIBILITES CONSIDERED IN THE PROJECT ARE THE WATERFRONT LINE, THE GRAVING DOCK, SIX METRE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE AND THE PRIORY. THE PARAMETERS SET FOR THE PROJECT ARE THE HEIGHT RESTRICTION WHICH SHALL RETAIN FROM DOMINATING THE SKYLINE OF BIRKENHEAD BUT ADD TO IT AND NOT CREATING HINDRANCE IN PRIORY’S TOWER HEIGHT.

CONSIDERING DOCK’S OUTLINE AND REPLICATING IT WITH BOATS/CANOES RECREATING 1800S WHERE THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH DOCKS ALONGSIDE DE CONSTRUCTING THE OUTLINES OF BOATS AND UTILISING THE M AS OPEN PLAZAS OR ARENAS.

ISOMETRIC VIEW OF SITE

ZONING SPACES BASED ON VICINITY AND POSSIBLE OPEN PLAZA FOR VISUAL CONNECTION. OPEN SPACE EXTENDING AS DOCKS. DE-CONSTRUCTED SPACES WRAP AROUND EXHIBITION AREAS. EXHIBITION SPACES ARE ALIGNED SUCH THAT IT OPENS OUTSIDE AND WITHIN GRAVING DOCK.

PROGRAMME

HISTORY OF BIRKENHEAD

HISTORY OF CAMMELL LAIRD

TIMELINE OF CAMMELL LAIRD

PROCESS OF BOATMAKING

CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN BOAT WROKSHOP

OVERLOOKING LIVE SHIPMAKING CRAFTSMANSHIP

MASTER PLAN

MASTER PLAN INCLUDES THE PATH WAY THAT IS DESIGNED FOR THE CNNECTION OF CITY,BIRKENHEAD PARK, CHESTER STREET, PRIORY AND MUSEUM TO WATERFRONT.

SECTION A-A’

SECTION A-A’ EXHIBITS HOW EXHIBITION WING AND WAREHOUSE WING IS SPACES IN THE INTERIORS.

IT IS SEEN THAT THE WAREHOUSE WINF CONSISTS OF A BRIDGE THAT IS OVERLOOKING CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OTHER REPAI WORKS IN WAREHOUSE.

IN THE EXHIBITION WING, EACH FLOOR IS DEDICATED TO DIFFERENT TYPE OF CAMMELL LAIRD’S HISTORY AND SHIP MAKING ART.

SECTION B-B’

SECTION B-B’ EXHIBITS THE VOLUME TREATMENT THROUGHOUT THE EXHIBITION WING.

THE ATRIUM IS GRANDUER AND IS OVERLOOKED BY EXHIBITION FLOORS AND OTHER END OF THE BUILDING HOUSES SECTION OF A FAMOUS SHIP BUILT BY CAMMELL LAIRD WHICH FRAMES THE RIB STRUCTURE AND LIVERPOOL’S SILLHOUETTE.

URBAN DESIGN PROJECT

Connecting Birkenhead

Over 200 years ago if you looked at the Birkenhead from Liverpool docks all you would have seen is empty beatches and rolling hills. The only building in the foreground would have been the Birkenhead priory.

However, it all changed in the 1820s because of the steam ferry across the Mersey and the start of shipbuilding on the river bank owned by William Laird.

Laird made a fortune and commissioned James Gillespie Graham in 1824 to design the new town of Birkenhead near his shipyard. However, the anticipated building boom Grham and Laird had anticipated did not materialize the only part that was built was Hamilton square. A recession took over and the plans for further expansion were abandoned When the area did pick up again it was for a very different purpose it was to squeeze in as much residential in the area to accommodate the thousands of dock laborers in the area.

T In 1985 there was a potato famine which caused lots of people to head for Liverpool to head to the docks for work. In the 1860s a large proportion of Birkenhead’s population was Irish. So much that they established a small town which was known as Little Ireland, a town where 15,000 Catholics centered around the new holy trinity church.

In 1986 the Opening of the Mersey tunnel brought Liverpool and Birkenhead closer together. However, after the turn of the century in 1934, the docks of Liverpool had closed which had a massive impact on the people living in Birkenhead. Most of the people who lived there moved there to gain work. So this caused a lot of people to move elsewhere to gain work similar to the Irish did in the potatoes famine. The addition of the Queensway tunnel, railway, and ferries gave a lot quicker route to Liverpool.

This resulted in the wider development of the Wirral area. Birkenhead today has very similar characteristics to Jersey city they are both living on the edge of the more successful city (ie Liverpool and New York City) and most people just commute through and never stop. V

INCREASE CHESTER UNIVERSITY’S PRESENCE PROVIDINF LINKS BETWEEN KEY SPACES

REUSE EXISTING WAREHOUSE BY TURNING THEM INTO CLUBS/BARS

REPLACING CAR PARKS WITH GREEN SPACE IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INCREASING CULTURAL DIVERSITY

ENHANCING BIRKENHEAD HERITAGE WITH MARITIME MUSEUM CREATING CYCLE ROUTE IN THE UNUSED TUNNEL WHICH CONNECTS TO NATIONL CYCLE ROUTE PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR LOCAL AND INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS