ARNOLD NYAWANGA Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio
TABLE OF CONTENTS Bachelor of Environmental Design(Architecture), Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi (Uganda.) A Sustainable Hotel at Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi.......1 Millipede Concept Lamp.........................................................................3 An Architecture Student’s Retreat.......................................................4 Uganda Martyrs University Student’s Hub......................................5 Lodestone Hospitality Centre................................................................7 Work Experience Studio Apartments Design......................................................................9 Double Storied Apartments Design....................................................10 Residential House Modification..........................................................11 Residential House Design on Narrow Plot......................................13 Let’s Design Uganda (The Garden House).......................................14
Architecture in itself is rather complicated and diverse, many a time containing fractions of other professions and subjects. My portfolio showcases the diversity of architecture and urban design.
Rural Residential House..........................................................................15
Master of Sustainable Urban Design, Lund University (Sweden) Citadellsfogen: A Place to live sustainably.....................................17 A Dynamic Zhangjiakou.........................................................................19 Masters Thesis............................................................................................21 Internship and Work Experience II Design Transformations, Malmö.........................................................23 A Vision for Nyahamnen.........................................................................24
A SUSTAINABLE HOTEL AT UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY, NKOZI Bsc. Env. Design (Arch) Year III The sustainable hotel acts as a link between the university, the community of Nkozi as well as the greater Uganda and even the world. The aim is to attract guests not only for accommodation but for other activities as well. Sustainabilty is a key factor in our projects today and will or rather should be in the future. The hotel projects breaks down sustainability into many different parts. That is to say from the social aspect where the hotel is open to the surrounding community by providing activities that would attract them. Economic sustainability is achieved by minimising construction costs and maximising returns. The largest and most important is the environmental sustainability where the hotel works as an organism creating as little waste as possible, harvesting clean energy and re-using and recycling. The project also avoids damaging the landscape and maintains the natural slope as much as possible.
SITE PLAN
KEY 1. Drop-off Point 2. Front of House
W
3. Conference Center
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DR
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4. Staff Lounge and Laundry area
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5. Regular Accommodation
16 x 0.181
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9 22
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= 2.900
BS
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= 0.550
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4 x 0.138
16
6. Apartments
5
14
= 3.000
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22 x 0.136
FP
7. Suites
= 2.900
1
= 1.300
3
0.181
23 x 0.059
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2
16 x
8. Swimming Pool
4 x 0.150
= 0.600
11 x 0.055
= 0.600
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9. Gym and Sauna 2
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W. Waste treatment
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22
x 0.136
= 3.000
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SV. Service Yard
8 x 0.167
= 0.450
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4 x 0.113
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15
3
5
= 1.333
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8
10. Bicycle parking
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9 1
FP. Guest Exclusive outdoor fire place 10
BS. Bio-Swales PK. Visitor Parking
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LEGEND
4 x 0.113 = 0.450
VG ST
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CT - Courtyard
2 3 4
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4 x 0.138 = 0.550
4 x 0.150 = 0.600
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BR - Walk-through bar and lounge
2 1 8 x 0.167 = 1.333
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BR
KT - Kitchen KT
ST - Storage VG - Vegetable and spice garden
11 x 0.055 = 0.600
23 x 0.059 = 1.300
Lounge: Solar Shading devices provide shade during the morning hours while the space remains shaded during the later parts of the day
FLOOR PLAN
Water Feature: Enhances the entrance experience by creating a calm environment and also guides guests towards the reception.
Convenience Store The space is an open display area giving a unique shopping experience inspired by the local market stalls.
Reception Location behind a display wall creates the surprise element as users have to go round the wall to get to it.
C
Restaurant The restaurant provides three different experiences A • Raised 700mm thus allowing patrons to access the distant views of the hills and lake victoria to the east and south east respectively • Scents from the vegetable and spices garden to the north east of the restaurant. • Courtyard view B •
Is enclosed using timber screens creating privacy from the passing traffic but allowing visual linkages to the outside.
C- “Under the tree restaurant” • Consists of steel braced timber sections that are integrated with plants to create the illusion of being under a tree with light incident on the spaces seeming like it is filtering through the branches and leaves of a tree • The hanging plants also enhance the under tree experience.
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MILLIPEDE CONCEPT LAMP
(Product Design; Group Work With; Agaba Joseph and Sidney Zziwa Timothy)
Bsc. Env. Design (Arch )Year I A bug that illuminates: this design was inspired by the interplay between the light and dark segments of a coiled millipede. The lamp mimics the outer shell of the millipede with the dark segments being the lamp frame and the light segments being the light emitted by the lamp. I was tasked with generating the concept the fabrication work was shared equally amongst my groupmates and I.
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AN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT’S RETREAT Bsc. Env. Design (Arch ) Year II Studies can be really stressful. Sometimes students need a place they can go to contemplate, rest and recharge. This could be done individually or in a group. This project targets selfreflection as an individual with a space creating to suit a particular student’s specific needs, requests and visions of what their ideal retreat would be like.My client, Mukiibi Dennis had two main needs; privacy and connection openness to the outdoors. He requested a place that was cool all day long, sheltered from the hot tropical afternoon sun while allowing the morning sun in. This was done by placing a thick concrete wall to the north and northwest while carefully placing plants to create shade at different parts of the day. Dennis also wanted his smell senses to be stimulated while at the retreat. The plants played this role too with various scented shrubs and flowers around the retreat. The interplay of light and shadow was a key element in this project with contrasting light and heavy materials used as well as undefined openings that could be adjusted depending on how much light the user wants to let in. Additionally, the client requested a viewing platform where he would be able to see the lake Victoria in the distance.
“I just want a place where I can go chill, relax and be me” CLIENT: Dennis Mukiibi
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THE POINT ZERO: Uganda Martyrs University Students’ Hub Bsc. Env. Design (Arch ) Year III
DESIGN GUIDELINES Transform and enhance outdoor environments by: • Creating more outdoor seating spaces and placing activities around them that will draw people to these particular features. For example shade, a juice bar and water features. • Create new outdoor experiences for example, a terraced landscape that can act as spillover space for the dining hall.
Proposed Student Union Offices
B Fire safety evacuation point
Create a context based architecture • Use of visual and physical links and movement patterns as a basis for the design. The alignment with student traffic movements, puts the new facility at the epicentre of student life. • The choice of material palette does not stray too far from what is existing on the rest of the campus.
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Art-Installation space
Multipurpose space
A
Sitting pockets within the landscape
A
Mini-sports area with viewers’ terraces
Indoor-outdoor seating area B
Exhibition space
Out-door terraces with quick food kiosks
0 2
Existing dining Hall
Suggest flexible spaces by : • Using open floor plans as much as is possible. • Creating spaces that can be used for different activities for example an outdoor terrace that can act as an outdoor auditorium, eating space and movie theater. • Locating activities that can share particular spaces next to each other. For example, bar/cafe and the game room, lobby, media center and exhibition space. Utilise existing natural resources by: • Orienting the building to catch the northwesterly breeze. • Use of vegetation to create micro-climates within the site. The hanging vegetation recreates the “under tree” experience that students appreciate. • Use of the building’s orientation to create shade for the outdoor spaces. • Use the slope to direct water runoff.
Foundationstone with redesigned surrounds
Existing dining Hall
ST
What happens when everything; social, educational, emotional and physical enters a “zero point” after which everything can be reformatted, enters into new and different experiences, and is launched in new directions. In other words a point where everything starts, and comes together ; a center, a null/point zero. The student hub is therefore, a space designed to cater to and or improve student’s general welfare especially socially, physically and even emotionally. All of which contribute directly or indirectly to the intellectual development of the students outside the context of their formal instruction. The major goal of the hub is to evoke a social cohesion by providing spaces that attract and engage students in a comfortable environment.
Pergola over promenade
Spaces to Let
Games room
Bar/Cafe
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Sketch of Proposed Outdoor sitting within the landscape {Sketch outlines Lines by M. Richard} colouring and details by Author Creeping plants and bamboo posts for aesthetically appealing solar shading
Arrival Quadrangle and relation to the proposed Student Centre
Relationship between existing between existing Dining hall and the proposed student hub. Spaces To Let
Media Centre
Cafe/Bar
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THE LODESTONE HOSPITALITY CENTRE Uganda Martyrs University Students’ Center Bsc. Env. Design (Arch ) Year III PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Lodestone Hospitality Centre is the first stage of the proposed University Hotel at Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi. The centre is a venue or function space that will be used for both informal and formal events, as well as the receiving and entertainment of university guests.
Bookstore
The centre consists of a lobby, lounge, bar, banqueting hall that can also double as a multipurpose hall, restaurant, bookstore to mention but a few.
Open Plan Offices Void Meeting Room
The major goal of the Centre is to achieve a connection between the centre and its potential users, its environment, and the spaces inherent in the centre itself.
Cafe/Bar
Addition, subtraction, drectionality and Connectivity
First Floor Plan
Service yard Drainage channels Staff changing rooms
Restaurant
Outdoor seating area
Lounge/lobby/reception
Muti-purpose Hall Bio-Swale
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Lounge/Lobby
Courtyard space after dark
Trees provide shade to the outdoor users as well as shielding the building from solar gain.
Water feature in the courtyard crates a calming outdoor environment
Photo-voltaic cells mounted on the roof to generate sustainable energy
Recycled timber from scaffolding used to make solar shading devices
Porous paving used for walkways to allow for percolation of storm water
Restaurant
Longitudinal Section
Sustainabilty Application
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STUDIO APARTMENTS DESIGN Plantek Consultants PROJECT DESCRIPTION The client wanted an economically viable proposal for his site in Entebbe, Uganda. DW DW 2 19 x 158 = 3,000
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19
17 16 15
3 4 5 6
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9
Design Elements • Studio apartments to attract short-term stay expatriates especially those from the UN mission. • Irregular site; building form works with the site allowing for parking space at the back accessed through the building • Orientation of building allows for views to lake Victoria for those on the upper floors and landscaped garden space for the ground floor users • Provide sufficient parking lots for users • Integrate green areas with the building to make it come alive and also be more homely. • Allow for well demarcated pedestrian access alongside vehicular access. • Grounds keeper’s space located behind the apartments so as not to obstruct the views • Electronically controlled gate with a remote for each user.
First Floor, same as Second Floor
Pockets for potted plants
600 DW 19 x 158 = 3,000
1 2
18
DW
19
Pergola covered area finished with paving brick
17 16 15
3 4 5 6
14
7
13
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12 11
Open Gravel area
10
9
Roof Garden
Ground Floor and Site Plan Roof Terrace Plan
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DOUBLE-STORIED APARTMENT DESIGN Plantek Consultants PROJECT DESCRIPTION The client had a rough sketch of he required. This was tweaked and modified so as to improve its functionality and also generate a unique exterior aesthetic. Design Elements • Family apartments for the targeted users. • Cental staircase with a proposal for fire escape at the back. • Bay windows to create panoramic views and also allow more daylight into the spaces as well as to create a unique aesthetic • Full height glazing for the stair tower • Integrate tank stand with building structure • Create pockets at apartment entrances adjacent top the circulation areas First Floor Plan
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Ground Floor and Site Plan
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Residential House Modification
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The client had acquired a piece of land with an existing structure on it and wanted to make expand the house. The site however was narrow and could not support the three bedrooms that the client required. An iteration providing three bedrooms with vertical exploration was provided.
W.C
Walk-in Closet
Design Elements • Increase the lounge area and provide a well defined and shaded entrance area. • Well defined circulation area on ground floor • Open plan kitchen, dining and living room area • En suite bedroom with walking closet was added at the top and another room on the ground floor making a total of three including the existing one. • Large windows to maximise daylight penetration.
First Floor Plan
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13 x 150 = 1,950
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Existing Structure to be remodled
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Toilet/Bathroom
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8 x 150 = 1,200
2 1
Bedroom 1
Bedroom 2
Kitchen w/t Counter Dining Area Living Room
Pantry
Porche
Paved Parking Area
Site and Floor Plan
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8 x 150 = 1,200
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Padded Bench w/t Shoe Storage underneath
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Plantek Consultants
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Void
Building Elements
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Residential House on a Narrow Plot PROJECT DESCRIPTION The design intention was to create a home with a guest wing on a narrow but long site. GUEST HOUSE
Design Elements • Integrate the built form with nature through the creation of indooroutdoor spaces • Create central circulation with louvred walls to allow for air circulation and light for the long narrow corridor space • Provide shading for guest house to create privacy. • Provide a fire place in the outdoor lounge so as to enable the space be used at night as well.
Naturally shaded courtyard space with fireplace
ENSUITE BEDROOM
BEDROOM 2
OUTDOOR LOUNGE WITH FIREPLACE BEDROOM 1
wc
STORAGE
DINING AREA
LOUNGE
STUDY
FOYER
FRONT YARD
PARKING YARD ACCESSED BY SLIDING GATE
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The Garden House Let’s Design Uganda, Competition PROJECT DESCRIPTION The client was forced to sell his plot of land in the city to give way for urban developments. However he managed to retain a small strip of land where he required a small studio apartment with character. Design Elements • The concept of flower gardens common to most residential homes is adopted and replicated vertically wrapping around the building. • The gardens create privacy and also maintain the character of horizontals on the façades characteristic of high-rise city structures. • Roof profile is simple and allows for easy rainwater collection to be used in the drip irrigation system to water the plants.
Porous paving parking area
Living/Dining Area
Entrance Foyer
Kitchenette
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3 20 x 0.150 = 3.000
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Site and Ground Floor Plan
Balcony Ensuite Bedroom
Work Space Walk-in Closet
Void
First Floor Plan
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Rural Residential House PROJECT DESCRIPTION The design intention was to create a home in a rural setting with simple and locally available materials Design Elements • Integrate the built form with nature through the creation of indoor-outdoor spaces • Well ventilated outdoor kitchen to allow use of firewood and charcoal stoves supplemented by the indoor kitchen . • Open plan kitchen, dining and lounge area • Light and simple roof layout. • Well defined shaded entrance patio.
A
E-02
A
C
B
W4
W4
W4
W2
W2
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D3
WCs Bedroom 1
D3
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D3
Storage Area
D2
W1 D2
Ensuite Bedroom
W4
E-03
W4
W1
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E-01
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17,655
D2 D2
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Circulation
B
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D1 Open-Air Kitchen
Kitchenette
Entrance Porche Dining area
D2
W2
W3
W1
W2 600
4
B
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Ground Floor Plan
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Living Room
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ROOF NOTES
Zinc Coated G28 C.I.S laid at 25ยบ on 75x50mm timber purlins at 900mm c/c on 1000 gauge polythene dpm on 100x50mm timber rafters on 150x50mm timber tie beam braced and tied by 75x50mm struts on 100x75mm timber wall plate
1,500
150mm thick R.C ring beam
15mm thick metal lathe ceiling in cem:sand 1:3 mix finished in 3 layers of concrete
Dining Area
Water Closet
975
900
50
Corridoor
ELEVATION 1
B
B
B
B
SECTION A-A
scale 1:100
SUB STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION NOTES 100mm high skirting on specified floor finish on 50mm cem: sand (1:3) levelling screed on 150mm(1:3:6) concrete slab on 1000 gauge polythene sheet dpc/dpm on 50mm blinding on 150mm hard core bed on fully compacted ground on 230mm foundation wall on 230 x 690mm strip footing & pad to S.E's details
scale 1:50
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A
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ROOF NOTES
Zinc Coated G28 C.I.S laid at 25ยบ on 75x50mm timber purlins at 900mm c/c on 1000 gauge polythene dpm on 100x50mm timber rafters on 150x50mm timber tie beam braced and tied by 75x50mm struts on 100x75mm timber wall plate
1
Living Room
Entrance Porch
15mm thick metal lathe ceiling in cem:sand 1:3 mix finished in 3 layers of concrete
Dining Area
2
Indoor Kitchen
2
Outdoor Kitchen
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A
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A
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SECTION B-B scale 1:50
SUB STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION NOTES 100mm high skirting on specified floor finish on 50mm cem: sand (1:3) levelling screed on 150mm(1:3:6) concrete slab on 1000 gauge polythene sheet dpc/dpm on 50mm blinding on 150mm hard core bed on fully compacted ground on 230mm foundation wall on 230 x 690mm strip footing & pad to S.E's details
ROOF PLAN scale 1:100
Zinc Coated Gauge 28 C.I.S.
ELEVATION 2 scale 1:100
ELEVATION 3 scale 1:100
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CITADELLSFOGEN: A Place to Live Sustainably
(Climate Smart Architecture Group Work With; Anna Cecilie Holand, Moa Larsson,
SITE ANALYSIS
WIND STUDY
SHADOW STUDY AT MIDDAY
SOLAR HARVESTING POTENTIAL
Anna Ärnström
Msc. Arch. Urban Design Year I
January
West
April
Production: 7560 m2 * 150 kWh/år*m2 (Källa: Energimyndigheten) = 1 134 000 kWh/year
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student housing
elderly housing
visitors
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education
terrace housing
refugee center
apartment
Visitors/inhabitants
Solar access as a designtool
SouthWest
October
Housing and office Public services Education Commerce
DENSITY
Floor area ratio: 1,4
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wind power loading electrical cars in car pool
Housing
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offices
KEY FEATURES • Carbon free transport: Roof mounted wind turbines will during night-time provide electricity to an electric car pool. • Solar power as a renewable energy source • Cultural preservation: Extension of the fishmarket-style stalls into the neighbourhood • Pedestrian and cyclist friendly city: connections with high recreational value. The water holds possibilities for transportation with kayak and boats. • Possibility for food supplements: Urban farming in allotment gardens. • Low-energy buildings: Well insulated walls with efficient ventilation will create a low energy demand. • Environmental friendly and modern laundry room: Using biodegradable detergent together with biological treatment will heavily reduce the environmental impact. • Climate-adapted open day water system: Channels and ponds will take care of rainfall and reduce the load on the municipal water system. Green roofs will help cleaning the water and prevent flooding in cases of extreme rain events.
East
recreational
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project location in Malmö creates a unique challenge in the realm of climate response as a driving element in Urban design and architecture. Our task was to design an area that catered to both social sustainability and a climate-smart approach to design.
PV as a designtool
Diversity in facade
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A DYNAMIC ZHANGJIAKOU: Urban Dynamics Msc. Arch. Urban Design Year II PROJECT DESCRIPTION China is a large country and this comes not only with constraints but a multitude of positives as well. This size comes with a diversity in climate, cultures and settlement styles and patterns; ancient, modern and the post, modern etc. The project celebrates this diversity mainly through movement and transition between places and spaces. This is reinforced by the fact that China is a very transit-oriented country with people commuting every day to work and other activities. One of the downsides, however, is the effect of automobiles on the environment hence the project’s focus around sustainable means of transport. Considering the history of Zhangjiakou city, inspiration is taken from the defunct railway line terminating at the city centre. The track is over 100 years old and tracing it from the southern train station shows a transition not only through a dynamic array of building typologies and land uses but also a movement through the history of Zhangjiakou’s development. The project works with existing building patterns and rhythms but also introduces new typologies and multifunction structures. There is also a vegetation cover shortage with the site having only 8.39% thus the need to create an urban green structure. In relation, the proposal uses green roofs for water infiltration as well as harnessing wind and solar energy.
Tracing the rail line
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Nodes
Activity Flows
Water Flows
Detailed plan of transport hub area and shared activities therein
Adaptive reuse of old rail line as pedestrian and cyclist street
Subway station as an extension of the landscape.
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ADAPT; A New Resilient Living In A Kampala PostIndustrial Area: Research Project
Wet flood mitigation strategy through naturalisation of Canal
Small-scale floriculture
Dry flood mitigation strategy zone
Central Park and central infiltration and retention Zone
Msc. Arch. Urban Design Year II PROJECT DESCRIPTION This thesis project focuses on tackling the challenges of Urban sprawl and climate change in Kampala City, the capital of Uganda through the development of a resilient sustainable urban community that reenvisions urban dwelling for the future. Sprawl is curtailed by densifying within the city, particularly areas that are inefficiently used. I chose an industrial area (0.65sqkm) as the site for my design project in lieu of the fact that the City Authority plans to move industries out of the city to an industrial park outside the city. This presents an opportunity to redevelop these industrial areas as new multifunctional mixed-use developments. Secondly, the site location in a low lying area provides a unique palette to design for climate change particularly increased rainfall. The project is developed in phases and the thesis details phase one of the development. This focusses on; landscaping, the storm water system, transit systems and acupuncture of new communities in the highest flood risk areas as well as those areas with dilapidated buildings. This development is driven by five resilience principles; increase biodiversity, build urban ecological friendly networks and connections, design for multi- functionality, use of modular systems design and adaptive design.
Site Bio Swale
Urban Forestry as infiltration zone and Forest park
Linear playscape and ornamental landscaping
Community centre and wet retention Pond
Edible urban forest
Allotment gardens integrating fish farming and agriculture
Light rail Station 2
Light rail Station 1 Light rail Station 3
PHASE 1 DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
PHASING PLAN
Complete Breaking up blocks for wind and water movement ease as well as improved walkability
Phase 3
Existing site conditions 1989
1995
2003
2010
Phase 2
Neighbourhood blocks development
2016
Kampala’s urban sprawl over time
Phase 1
Buildings to keep
Add new connections to strengthen the north-south connection
Urban greening strategy
U H H U U
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A new sustainable mass-transit system
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Light rail Line with conveniently placed stops (700m
Prevailing-wind oriented streets
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apart)
ECOLOGY
LAND USE
Site storm water consolidation and redirection strategy Phase 1 Design Concept Diagram : Urban Acupuncture
Streets Development Complete Re-development Infill Development
Development zones
CONNECTIONS
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LIGHT RAIL LOOP
Flood vulnerability assessment
Zone A Zone B Zone C Built-Up Zones 65343sqm 119022sqm 61947sqm Total Area Building Footprint 15797sqm 17413sqm 10357sqm Landscape/ infiltration 83% 85% 76% surfaces Zone D Urban Fruit Forest 12125sqm Zone E Allotment Gardens 25250sqm
B A
Built up areas
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Phase I of the project, involves the use of urban acupuncture at three points on the site where the most dilapidated building structures lie and are the highest flood risk zones. These three points are created by a transit oriented development strategy and are to be the proposed light rail stations. These are the areas from which the development and activity is intended to start and then gradually radiate through out the site and toward the Nakivubo Canal on the edge of the industrial area. The Nakivubo canal, it should be noted, is originally a seasonal river. The design also focuses on adapting to flood risk which is predicted due to future climatic changes in the site area particularly as a result of its location within a flood plain. The areas chosen for development in this phase as mentioned earlier, are also those with the highest flood risk. A storm and rainwater drainage and retention system is developed through out the site and ties the projects together in a series of parks, courtyards and bio-swales. The site-specific storm water system works together with the existing Nakivubo canal that is this the main drainage canal for Kampala’s storm water by taking the pressure away from it and also acting as a spillover drainage zone during the times that the canal overflows. The design proposal further integrates flood alleviation strategies on the canal itself and the built environments as well as all fabrics of the urban development from transit systems to urban agriculture. In addition to that the project development touches the earth lightly by minimising the building footprint and creating over 75% of the new development area as outdoor public space and infiltration zones, accommodation space for approximately 3500 people, 122513sqm of office and commercial space as well as 15443sqm for public buildings. Conclusively, the project brings urban design all the way down to the micro-level in the design of the neighbourhoods that provide a variety of functions and cater to different social groups creating a dynamic and diverse mixed community.
Flood resilience integration in building typologies
Wet retention pond functioning as a public natural swimming pool and public space
Neighbourhood Scale climate adaptive interventions serving varied functions in the dry season
Wet flood-mitigation strategy for canal
Bio-swale Street and 2nd floor connection of social housing communal space to the public domain Dry flood-mitigation strategy for canal
One-way lane green streets with bus route
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DESIGN TRANSFORMATIONS: Transforming space through design (Volunteer Project) PLANAS PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project is a collaborative design project connecting various stakeholders and spanning a period of 6 months. It was part of the design transformations section of the Opportunity Space Festival organized by The Van Allen Institute and Malmö City. The main aim being to showcase how design and architecture can create social and economic integration for new and existing Malmö residents. The group PLANAS with mentorship from WHITE, Malmö, came up with an outdoor meeting space that is an extension of the pavilion designed specifically for the festival. It is also an extension of the park in which it is situated i.e. Enskifteshagen Park. The process involved a collaborative design with input from; users of the park, residents of the surrounding areas, city officials, developers, architects, engineers to mention but a few. The result, an interactive multifunctional furniture module built using up-cycled materials i.e. shipping palettes,plywood off-cuts and re-used synthetic grass. DESIGN, BUILD The modules were built by the PLANAS members themselves and finished off with paint from Akzo Nobel. A bike cafe ““Fika Without Borders”” opened daily during the festival in the designed outdoor rooms where people could interact and share their experiences about life, the festival and public space in general.
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A VISION FOR NYHAMNEN Stadsbyggnadskontoret, Malmö Stad PROJECT DESCRIPTION Nyhamnen is a proposed new urban area in Malmö City that starts just north of the central station and extends to Frihamnen in the north and the western harbour to the east. “Nyhamnen will be a close, dense, green and functional district, which helps to meet Malmö’s goal of being a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable city” (Sammanfattning av översiktsplan för Nyhamnen). I was tasked by the city of Malmö planning office to develop vision images that portray and visualize the future Nyhamn. The images are based on the overview plan for Nyhamnen developed by Malmö Stadsbyggnadskontoret and shows views from some parts of the new proposed city extension in the future. The images also imagine the atmosphere of the place and possible activities that could activate this proposed new area. The assignment also involved the creation of pictograms that were developed in collaboration with the city planning office’s project management. They are intended to convey visual meaning to ideas originally in text.
Varied building typologies, heights and farcdes
Connection to nature
Active ground floors
Porousity of the city blocks
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