MArch Year 1 Portfolio (MSA)

Urban Spatial & Experimentation

U.S.E

Manchester School of Architecture

Atiqah Nabilah Aidi Rosli

13158903 | Year 5 MArch

INDEX 4.2

Site Analysis Albert Warehouse Introduction Concept Approach & Development Collages | Perspective

4.3 New Form Development Amended Floor Plans | Sections Programmatic Approaches Technical Components

NWA = Newly Added Works

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

GREATER MANCHESTER

Rochdale Bolton

Bury Oldham

Wigan Salford

CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Ardwick Manchester

FOCUS AREA

Trafford Stockport

Beetham Hilton Tower Porchfield Square Civil Justice Centre 3

Castlefield house

Rozel Square

Albert Bridgehouse Trinity Bridge House

Granada Studios 4

The Bayley Leftbank Apartments 1 City Wharf 2

Bonded Warehouse

Density 100 pax

Railway connections

2

3

1

Water Body

4

Zoning Commercial Housing Residential

CONTEXTUAL SURROUNDING

ZONING

Fashion Prestigious Designer’s Stores

AY W Y TRINIT

LE

Independent Stores

MI

LL ER

ST

Castlefield

SA

SALE

High Street

GR

EA T

Spinningfields

NORTHERN ER` RKET DEANS- MAREET QUART ST GATE

SPINNINGFIELDS

AN -

Central Gateway

PICCADILLY CHINATOWN

CASTLEFIELD PETERS FIELD

IA N

CUN MAN

AY W

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants

Manchester Conference Hall Cultural & Oriental

CITY’S ZONING COMPONENT

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.2

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

THE ALBERT WAREHOUSE Quay St, Manchester

First purpose-built quay on the river Irwell. The mooring was 136 yards longbuilt at the end of Quay Street.

1735-6

Fire broke out on the 3rd of September 1913

1913

V&A warehouse continued to decay. Granada Studios took over for storing

Le Meridie changed to Mariott due to the takeover by Whitbread

1970

2004

1980

2013

Albion Market was filmed

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Cottonopolis V&A warehouse was built as a cotton warehouse

1840

The opening of Manchester Ship Canal causing decline

1920

Navigation discontinued at this time due to the extension to the Hunt’s Bank Approach

Albert Shed was built

V&A warehouses, the covered quay were listed as Grade II building

1974

V&A warehouses Mariott chain were were converted into sold by Whitbread Le Meridien by Trafalgar House

1991

2006

Finding Potential of The Unused “vacancy isn’t only a problem. It offers potential for innovation on different levels – from use, design, ownership, collaboration and thought to investment and institutional configurations” Mark Minkjan, Vacancy Studies(2013)

SIDE II - APPROACHING INTERVENTION Water st. / Quay st. , Tapping onto several potential towards the site, sidewalks and pedestrian routes were improved in order to maximize circulation of entering the warehouse.

BEFORE

AFTER Sidewalks,roads and pedestrian routes were maximed and widen by combining their roles.

SIDE II - APPROACHING INTERVENTION Water st. / Quay st. , Manchester Vista

Traffic congested minimal public use Traffic has the potential to be extended

Current Vista

Traffic does not eliminate however, it has been expanded,alongside with public use for shared usage

Proposed

SIDE III - INITIAL APPROACH

Castlefield

Spinningfields Pubs & Bars

Sports Pop-up shops

Public Parks

Shortcut to places

Jamming studio

Sports

Pedestrian bridge

Food market Food market

Shelter

Food market Performing stage

Recreational space

Potential programs `Recreational space

Playgrounds

SIDE III - INITIAL APPROACH (VISUALISATION)

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfectthey are much more interesting.”

MARC JACOBS

VANITY : POSITIONS, UNDERSTANDING AND RESEARCH VACANCY STUDIES

ISSUE

EXPERIMENTS

by Jurgen Bay

These 3 main components are the main aspect that the book highlights towards designing a ‘strategic’ intervention.

'Vacancy Studies' provides the world of architecture with an optimistic perspective on the temporary reuse of vacancy. Bunkers, forts, churches, castles, hospitals, water-towers, post offices, prisons, palaces and airports are vacant.

According to RAAAF (Rietveld Architecture-Art- Affordances) these public and government buildings offer enormous potential, the extent of which was visualised by their 'Vacant NL' installation at the 2010 The Issues raised need to be taken into all seriousness as it could be the cause of the vacant building hence suggeting suitable ideas leading towards experiments. In this case, Jurgen Bay talks about how solutions are a resultance of time based from the experimentations.

NWA

Unlike the The Vitruvian man, it is seen as a ‘trapped body and held by something, in an awkward, stiff body position.

Di Giorgio, however, seemed more relaxed, and able to permeably position every spaces in the same manner.

Cosmetic Surgery & Postmodern Space

by Meredith hyperspace /

men 19th century

(public space)

women

During the 19th Century, only men are depicted into dominating public spaces besides women. Since the arrival of capitalism, spaces are tweaked in such way that it is mutated towards having woment to be comfortable to be in. This is looked as a ‘surgery’ of a space in the post-modern era.

Di Giorgio 1. Society (homeduties)

3. Leisure (socializing)

5. Women in public spaces

Due to capitalism

0. Women at home

4. Dreaming 2. Leisure

NWA

circa of quintessential beauty 1920

1950

1960

1970

BEAUTY

The industry in the UK is in the pink of market and retail sales towards a growing economy

Labour Market Industry

Employing more than 1 million employees and worth, it is forecast to grow

16% by 2016

115,500 ÂŁ17 It is also worth more than

People

A new formula for a more effective eyebrow pencil was developed and used to create the thin, elegant brow of Hollywood's heyday.

Second-wave feminism hit and women began breaking free from the constraints of femininity.

Believing that make-up sexualised and objectified women, many gave up their beauty regimes in favour of the natural look.

With men returning from war and the resulting baby boom, all emphasis was on family life. Women came back from work and resigned to life as housewives. With so much time on their hands, they spent a lot of time pampering themselves to look glamorous.

BILLION

are employed in the hair and beauty industry every year.

This enjoyment that drives a rapidly growing industry. Financial forecasts predicted an 8.5% growth in the beauty industry in 2014 and this rise is expected to continue in 2015, thanks in part to newly emerging markets such as men's grooming and anti-ageing.

SURROUNDING PROGRAMS

VACANT SPOT

COMMERCIALIZED BOND

NWA

Beauty: Towards a Postmodern Design The word ‘beauty’ itself comes in various subjective forms; namely, in every work of art. The lust of beauty in the modern day has manifested itself as a stagnation of a singular perspective towards perfection. However cosmetic surgery in architecture is viewed somewhat similar to how our own bodies ‘live’ and react towards the changes that have been made. In this case, these changes in space are perceived as ‘mutations’ of space.

“while white male bodies may struggle to develop cognitive maps of such postmodern spaces, the bodies of women and Others have never had recourse to objective mapping and are therefore more ‘at home’ from the start in these enviroscapes -- bodies altered using cosmetic surgery aesthetically mirror postmodern architecture and simultaneously help to create subjects that belong inside quintessentially postmodern environments,“ (Meredith Jones, Architecture of the body: cosmetic surgery and postmodern space, 2002: 2) The project in addition, challenged the absurd amount of demands of beauty industry. Due to the market growth of the industry the site context, it also demands not just in the market but also as a social demand. This project will aim to continue the potential of the site to ‘live’ beyond its attraction on only a certain group of users of different kind – since it shall also provide an authentic experience of the abandoned by new mutation of spaces and technology.

The Architecture of Surgery is concerned with a gritty, strong and industrially constructed, together with an exact opposite of nature, which stitched architecture. The past of the building is revealed through maintaining the structure, facades and circulation, mostly. The building’s overall program is similar to the same manner in the past, the Albert Warehouse had many purposes as a building (mainly production-wise goods) and also serve to produce. The architecture is not anymore a singularity of an object but rather a multiplicity of individual components, both acts as a self-altering spaces; be it from dressing the body to maintaining the wellbeing of a body.

The performance of having several events relating towards fashion, dermatology and cosmetic are a part of the existence of such demands in Manchester itself.

The intend of the project concentrates on exhibiting the sterile and polished space, within a historical and abandoned space and how it is interpreted through a contrasting contextual post-modernity of space. This architectural expression thus proposes an alternative method to create awareness on how perfection is strived through a made-believe character that exists only in an enclosed space – but evolves to a different identity (space) when one realizes it.

In a sociological aspect, the past and the current had taught our society towards having a certain angle on beauty and perfection. In the context, to utilize the industry for architecture that can addresses awareness is something that considers architecture in many different levels – spatially, technologically, and most importantly a significant consequence for future generations towards perceiving perfection as something artificial.

BEAUTY INDUSTRY MAPPING IN MANCHESTER

MISCELLANEOUS Agencies/ Schools WELLNESS /BEAUTY Spa / Massage Skin / Cosmetology HAIROLOGY Hairdresser / Salons Barbers BEAUTY Tanning/ Waxing Makeup/Nails

PROPOSED PROGRAMS, POSSIBILITIES & POTENTIAL ON THE SITE

Revolving beautician High- end/ High street Workshops/ Skills enhancements Specialists’ assistance/ services

EXISTING

PROPOSED

Configure spaces that will advertise itself as a psychology of crowding

Acts as a magnet & starting point to encourage sprawling

Cultural Identity

After-work space

PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES

PO

TE N

EDUCATE BY SPECIALISTS

PROG

RAMS

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

PERSONALISATION OF SPACE Events (MCR beauty/ streetstyle

Selfpampering Wellness centre/

TIA

L

PROPOSED PROGRAMS, POSSIBILITIES Due to the location of the warehouse that is connected to Spinningfields, the heart of bussiness industry in Manchester, the site is rather, disconected

SURROUNDING PROGRAMS

The abandoned building shall then be ‘filled’ by the proposed programs

VACANT SPOT

This will aim to create a space that caters not only a group of users but also acts as a cultural identity.

CONCEPT APPROACH AND DEVELOPMENT

Within a space of perfection [ vanity box ]

This diagram explain a basic configuration of a makeup box, that holds a core component in the middle, while the other spaces are similar to one another but also flexible

Possible programs are then imagined towards the spaces

access

Development of reconfiguring the spaces and layout of the existing structure

1

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

Existing:

Wrapping as a pedestrian route

Wrapping as a barrier

Top (Front)

3

4

Physical model: One dimensional section that uses a sliding method to imitate flexibility

Symmetry Space 1 Mirrored Top (Front)

Exterior Public Area

2

Symmetry

Mirrored

Draw people into the site

Manipulation Back

Developing the exterior circulation and zoning of the spaces into the warehouse

Layering the concept of cosmetic and the anatomy of makeup towards spaces (through one dimensional section)

Manipulation

Back

Manipulation

Mirrored

Symmetry

DIAGRAMMATIC PROGRAMS

SUBJECT

vanity box aesthetical clinic wellness / spa flexible event’s commercial strip

SPATIAL NEEDS

PROGRAMS

clinic consultation changing room offices

aesthetical clinic

changing room public bath nails/hair/skin

wellness / spa / beauty

podium common area playing area resting area retail shops market loading area etc

USERS

everyone flexible event’s

commercial strip

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT INITIAL VISUALISATION (PHOTO COLLAGING)

Imagining spaces through collaging: the dark, gritty industrialized spaces on the ground level and the make-believe space above

Layering the initial concept: which is to create an awareness towards users who enters through spaces and jump into realisation.

reality

belief

certainty

PROPOSED LAYOUT

A

B Salon & Spa Workshops (flexible) Runway

Minor Surgical Rooms

Offices Surgical Theatre (Vanity Core)

Cafe

Waiting Lounge Open Market

A B

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

PROPOSED SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE CROSS SECTION A-A

PROPOSED SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE CROSS SECTION B-B

“Perfection is a disease of a nation you can’t fix what you can’t see. It’s the soul that needs surgery” Knowles, B. (2013)

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

USE Vacancy Studies

4.2

4.1

Albert Warehouse, Manchester

4.3

Beauty & The Abandoned

The Vanity Warehouse

Form Development

Initial endless edge pod design

Another similar entities were added

Green spaces added

Orientation changed, according to the site

End form

Access added

MATERIAL & TIME LIMITS

endless form -chamfered edges Pod sunken in to the ground floor area thus creates a space of ignorance

This warehouse minimizes its need of solid space and the materials have different terms.

Concretes are the most durable, and the next is bricks, followed by timber. The warehouse will gradually deteriorate when the vanity warehouse no longer serves its purpose. Other spaces will be ruined and turned into a decayed building

Roof Plan with Context The General overall layout were carefully plan ned so that the surrounding, envelope of the building remains the same

3.

2.

Ground Floor Plan

1.

0. Access 1. Green Area 2. Open versatile space 3. Ground balcony N RATIONALIZATION: I came to a conclusion that in 4.3, the programmatic arrangements are reduced, in order to highlight, and celebrate the chaotic intention of space of perfection.

Therefore, the lower floor which is the Ground floor is left empty, leaving all the elements of the building remains as it is.

0.

5 3.

4 3

First Floor Plan 0. Access 1. Reception / Waiting Area

1

2. Filing Area 3. Sterilization Room 4. Doctor’s Room

N

5. Surgical Area / Operation Theatre

RATIONALIZATION: In the First floor on the other hand is where the spaces and programs needed the most were added. These spaces consisting of two pods, a public & private entity. These two pods were placed absurdly to create contrast and juxtapose with the surroundings

0.

4 2

A

A

Longitudinal Section

B

B

Short section

This exploded axonometric reveals the the essense of “chaos� in the field of beauty commodity.

The two pods connected to each other are placed in order to create an abbatoire of cosmetic surgery within the already- decayed existing body.

Programmatic Approach

Newly built pods New Structures are built within the exisitng grids/ columns (Phase 2)

New Structures are built within the exisitng grids/ columns (Phase 2)

Existing structure (Phase 1)

The hierarchy of construction The customized, usage and module of the Translucent Panels are only installed within the walls of the pod. Floor slab and ceilings remains as Precast concrete.

These panels are then mounted to the concrete wall section by section and translucency and shadow of human activities inside a space are then achieved

2. TC Panels are installed within the 1. i Beam Bracket in orStandardization Panels: Perforated Mounting Plan with Visible screws

der to fully support the floating structure

concrete walls of the Pre-fab structure

Sectional Detail Perspective

3. Exploded components

2

2 Translucent Concrete LED Panel

Curtain wall side clip Translucent Concrete 1

Curtain wall side clip Floor screen angle welded to beam

Galvanized self furring double

Steel batten floor span

Steel stud

Viable concrete wall construction

Fugue, Permananent rubber

Horizontal supporting profile Undercut Anchor 1

Perspective view of the Warehouse from south

Modelmaking Material experimentation

Process experimentation Wax and plaster is used in order to achieve suitable texture and effect for the material itself.

Plaster for finishes and texture, whereas was is for translucency effects

Methods experimentation

AIR DRY CLAY It is used to mould the pod as it is easily shaped to have the chamfered edges.

However this material happens to be heavy and brittle, resulting it to be

heavy and impracticle to support. Furthermore the to achieve a sleek design texture will not be achieved using this material

PLASTER & FABRIC Wax was then used to shape the pod using wire mesh as a form-moulder and also to bond the material together Result: The structuture was somehow sturdy but really hard to work with, hardens quickly therefore resulting to crack

Application of this material is faily easy to work with, however time measures is quite consuming as the end result seem imperfect Cardboard & Spray Using the cutting on reversed sides method, chamfered egdes were close to the chamfered edges effect, but not close enough.

Modelmaking Finalized methods

Wooden blocks were cut, shaped and sanded to create a negative space for the model form itself.

This method is to create the shape wanted using various materials Using the Plastic Vacuum Former, The desired shaped were achieved flawlessly. Due to size constraints, the pod was divided into two.

Next, The materials were sprayed in order to achive the “concrete texture�

Undestanding Approaches Through Sectional View

A sectional perspective highlights the some of elements and programs instilled into the pod. It also creates a realization of space where abandonament is present, due to the chasing of perfection.

Surgical Space First Floor Sterilization Room Existing River

Ground Floor

Interior perspective from the entrance of the pods NEW + OLD materials are intergrated together but still highlights the contrast of decay and artificial elements.

END

References

Thank You

RESEARCH BEAUTY INDUSTRY

ARCHITECTURE & FASHION

BOOKS

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Vacancy Studies, naio10 publishers (2013)

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Architecture of the body: cosmetic surgery and postmodern space, Meredith Jones (2002) The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf (1990)