MArch Master of Architecture portfolio by Ben Pratten

MArch Master of Architecture Portfolio & CV

Ben Pratten Selected works 2009 - 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIVE WORK MAKE

ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY

LIVE PROJECT

2015 / 2016

2014 / 2015

2009 - 2016 SELECTED WORKS

REPRESENTATION, MODELLING & SKETCHES

LAYERS IN TIME

CURRICULUM VITAE

2009 / 2016

2012 / 2013

01 MArch Master of Architecture 2015 / 2016 LIVE WORK MAKE A Self-sustaining Makery Filwood Broadway, Knowle West, Bristol

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

The project is based around the premise of providing facilities to encourage a pioneering community of local makers and businesses in Knowle West. The scheme proposes to support the activities of making, learning and trading. The proposal also includes live/work cohousing units which provide housing to the scheme as well as facilities for sustainable businesses with collaborative work opportunities.

2015 / 2016 PROPOSED MASTERPLAN 1:1000

Existing site access retained Public green space retained

Material storage building

Access to back of exisitng shops and Re:work retained

Section of Filwood Broadway pedestrianised

External workshop yard Proposed new trees Professional maker workshop building

Access to existing housing and back of shops retained Cohousing + lettable work / retail spaces

Shared roof garden Existing road stopped off - New car park for housing

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

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8. 13. 10. 4. 11. 10.

12.

5. 1.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 7. 1. Site access

9. Material store

2. Lobby / reception space

10. Pro-maker fabrication workshop

3. Covered trading / market space

11. Intricacy workshop

4. Goods lift

12. Makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen

5. Storage space

13. Meeting space

6. Communal kitchen / living space

14. Plant room

7. Lettable office / retail space

15. Spiral staircase to roof garden

8. Mangerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office

15.

6. 6.

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7. 1. 2.

3. 6. 5.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

8. 1. Goods lift

6. Pro-maker workshop 2

2. Stairs to roof terrace

7. Pro-maker workshop 3

3. Learner workshops

8. Cohousing - living / kitchen space

4. Elevated walkway

9. Balcony

5. Pro-maker workshop 1

10. Cohousing - shared roof garden

10.

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

5. 3. 5.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

1. Roof terrace access

5. Bathroom

2. Roof terrace space

6. Walkway through trusses

3. Bedroom 1

7. Pro-makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building roof

4. Bedroom 2

8. Exisitng cinima roof / parapet

2015 / 2016

1. Former cinema. Both the building

2. Part of existing building is stripped

3. Inserted glazing, entrance doors, rooflights and solar

4. New architecture gives purpose to cinema

and adjacent land is abandoned

back to its steel frame. Rear section is

shading louvres. Architectural intervention constructed

building. Proposal provides workshops and

also removed

beneath existing roof.

outside market space.

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

2015 / 2016

The ground floor level of the curved building includes a large workshop area, which opens into a yard at the front and back. Under the existing cinema roof is the trading space for a market At the first floor the workshops become focussed towards more intricate forms of makery. The cinema intervention provides workshop space for learner makers, while the curved building is for the professionals. There is a relationship formed, whereby learner can view the pro-makers from the large glazed facade, which overlooks the curved building and outside construction yard. Both parts of the proposal are linked by an elevated walkway which reinforces the relationship.

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

2015 / 2016

View of North Elevation

Old cinema shell Pro-maker workshops

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Filwood Broadway

Learner maker workshops

Learner workshops

Market space Cinema intervention

The new architecture within the existing cinema

The elevated learner workshops establish a visual

By adapting the old cinema shell, the scheme aims to open

building provides learner workshops while the curved

connection to the professional maker facilities by

up the vacant land at the back. The intervention looks towards

building provides spaces for professional makers

overlooking the processes through its glazed elevation

the new curved workshop building, while the existing cinema facade towards the FIlwood Broadway street.

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

View of South Elevation

Cladding

Glulam

Shingles

Render

Brick

Sectional diagrams

Intricate work

Western red cedar boards (differing widths)

Glue laminated timber. Larch from SW England

Western red cedar shingles (roof covering)

White pigment mixed lime render (exterior walls)

Staffordshire multi rustic brick - Ibstock (to match cinema)

Fabrication work

Heated space

Unheated space

2015 / 2016

COHOUSING PROPOSAL The schemeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cohousing provides 11 private (two bedroom) residences and shared spaces for people who want to move into an intentional community. Local makers and small families can live withing the new making community. The lettable workspaces on the ground floor and the outside market complete the Live Work Make programme.

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residents to spend time together on a regular

basis. This could include weekly communal meals and meetings to discuss the upkeep of

There are two large kitchen/dining areas which include laundry and recreational spaces. There is also a first floor roof garden above

co-living

s workspace

the shared spaces and outside garden areas.

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Communal areas on the ground floor allow for

Church

Cohousing

Cinema

Living Living

Typology mirrors adjacent pitched roofs

co-living

Lettable workspace

Filwood Broadway street elevation

Ground floor plan

the communal kitchen, separating two blocks of housing on the eastern most terraces.

01 LIVE WORK MAKE DETAILED SECTION A-A

KEY PLAN

2015 / 2016 WALL / FLOOR DETAIL 1:10

EXTERNAL WALL 1. Timber cladding boards 2. 25 x 38mm battens at 600mm centres 3. 25 x 38mm counter battens at 600mm centres 4. 20mm plywood sheathing board and external breather membrane 5. Two layers of 100mm cellulose insulation 6. 15mm internal board 7. 38 x 38mm battens at 600mm centres 8. Internal plasterboard, forming recessed skirting 9. LED strip lighting under recess STRUCTURE 10. 250 x 250mm glue laminated timber columns and steel connections to frame 11. Steel I-beam 210 x 530mm FLOOR BUILD-UP 12. 100mm polished concrete screed with embedded underfloor heating 13. 150mm concrete slab 14. Trapezoidal galvanised steel decking 15. Steel angle attached to inside of column, supporting decking above 16. 100mm Cellulose insulation VENTILATION SYSTEM 17. Three 150 x 30mm slots cut into external timber board cladding 18. 300 x 200mm vent behind slots with steel grilles 19. Continuous plenum box with central plasterboard

baffle

lines

with

acoustic

absorbent foam. 20. 300 x 200mm vents with steel grilles

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

CASH ON THE NAIL Part of the structure, which supports the architectural intervention into the old cinema shell, plays an important role to the activity of the space below. The open market allows local traders and makers to sell their products to visitors. Each busines deal can be settled by payment upon the circular bronze tables known as nails - which are connected to each of the six columns. The images above show two of the four bronze tables - known as ‘nails’ - located outside The Exchange on Corn Street, Bristol. They all predate the construction of The Exchange, with the oldest being late Elizabethan, according to experts. Their purpose was to allow business deals to be closed by payment on top of the nails. The idiom “cash on the nail” - which means payment made immediatly - is an expression of an earlier phrase “on the nail”, the origins of which is contested. One story sugests the phrase relates to the Bristol nails on Corn Street, but the written evidence for this link was made over a century before the phrase was already in common use. Some say it seems more likely that the nails were named to match the phrase, rather than the other way around.

2015 / 2016

Biomass boiler + underfloor heating

01 LIVE WORK MAKE

02 MArch Master of Architecture 2014 / 2015 ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY Trenchard Street, Bristol

02 ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY PROGRAMME AND BRIEF The

first

programme

the

proposed

scheme aims to create a South West School of Dance school which is a feeder for London’s Laban Dance Centre, providing undergraduate, postgraduate courses and one-year programmes. In order to ensure day-round usage, the dance studios will also provide evening dance and fitness classes for a diverse range of dance types, reflecting the cosmopolitan culture of Bristol arts. Theses may include: Street dance, Ballet, Contemporary, Ballroom, Zumba, Flamenco, Tap, Wheelchair dancing. The second programme of the scheme provides rehearsal, recording and performance facilities to local musicians and bands. Music rooms could be hired for times throughout the day on individual bookings or weekly slots can be arranged to regular groups. A theatre and live venue stage provide performance spaces for the buildings user’s and other local artists, linking the rehearsal and performance aspects of the respective performing arts. These facilities offer a potential commercial link to be formed with the Colston Hall opposite, as well as physical link across the road, where street performances can take place during many of Bristol’s annual music or dance festivals.

THEORETICAL CONCEPT The concept behind the design of this scheme is the notions of introvertedness and extrovertedness, and in particular, how these attitudes can be applied the relationship between rehearsal and performance. The idea is based on a new metaphysical question: “Does a person require and audience to be extroverted?”. The characteristics of these attitudes have influenced

the

design

this

scheme,

depending of the nature of the spaces which are being inhabited. For example the rehearsal spaces, such as the dance studios and the music rooms, are introverted in their nature, with little visual or acoustic relationships with the extroverted and outward looking external circulation spaces which encompass them. The more public spaces and performance areas in the scheme are considered to be more extroverted, as people are more likely to interact with others in a varying scale of performances and displays.

2014 / 2015 PARTI DIAGRAMS

02 ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY

SITE LOCATION 1:500

2014 / 2015

02 ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY

2014 / 2015

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2014 / 2015

02 ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY SITE SECTION

The Colston Hall

Sixth floor rehearsal Vertical circulation

Third floor double height

rooms and recording

platforms and stairs

studio theatre/lecture hall

studio

The Red Lodge

SITE SECTION A-A - 1:500

KEY PLAN Ground floor cafe/ bar with stage for live Trenchard Street

performances

First floor theatre

2014 / 2015 1:20 DETAILED SECTION 1. Full height glazing of 10mm toughened glass with cavity with 12mm laminted safety glass with external aluminium 2. Fixed timber solar shading louvres (FSC Western Red Cedar) 3. Precast hollow core concrete slab 4. 100mm rigid insulation 5. Spandrel panel 6. Mechanically controlled high level glazed louvre ventilator 7. Mechanically controlled low level glazed louvre ventilator safety glass with external aluminium 7. Connector 8. Connector fixing to frame 9. Hot dip galvanised steel machanical fixing to frame 10. Floor and ceiling recesses with LED strip lighting and frosted glass diffusers 11. Polished concrete screed with underfloor heating 12. 38x38mm softwood battens painted black at 550mm centres 13. 12mm black mdf 14. 38x30mm solid maple vertical slats 15. 18mm gypsum board 16. Acoustic insulation 17. Timber wall stud 18. LED strip lighting within recessed wall cladding 19. 50x75mm timber battens with wall panel fixing system 20. Timber wall stud 21. Fiberglass 22. Acoustic panels (1500x1400mm, 18mm thick): circular holes machined over the wood laminated surface finsh with a base core board and black acoustic felt attached to back. 23. Dance studio mirror 24. 2500mm high translucent polycarbonate panel screen 25. Engineered timber floor finish 26. Triple layered machined southern yellow pine Duel density shock dampening elastomer blocks

02 ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY

03 MArch Master of Architecture 2014 / 2015 LIVE PROJECT Redcliffe Wharf Outdoor Swimming Pool

03 LIVE PROJECT The brief was an unprecedented opportunity to play a part in Bristol’s future as part of Green Capital 2015 and to create the most iconic landscape that the City has seen for a generation. The design of a floating swimming pool in Bristol’s floating harbour. Three design options were set out for us to explore: Option 1: Encourage swimming within the existing Harbour through the creation of more basic interventions i.e. provision of changing facilities, floating pontoon for diving off, roping an area off etc.) Option 2: Design of a larger scale floating pontoon with/without some form of water filtration system and with/without heating, forming individual pools, diving platforms, seating areas. Option 3: Design of a concrete barge structure, containing a heated swimming pool. Our approach was to devise a scheme which accommodated a variety of means for approaching the land/water threshold. A final option combined the most feasible and cost effective approaches from the previous options and included our ideas for an integral funding scheme. The eventual pool design would be constructed from a series of pontoons, based on a prototype design which could be constructed on site by the local community. The series of pools would also be filtrated by a water treatment system devised at UWE.

Work by group members: Kyle Wylde, David MacDonald, Ben Pratten, Richard Kennedy, Louisa Heyworth, Will Kerry Clients: Nudge Group, Alistair Sawday, Clear Water Revival Project length: October 2014 – December 2014 View all UWE live projects at: http://www.hands-on-bristol.co.uk/

2014 / 2015

OPTION 1

OPTION 2

OPTION 3

03 LIVE PROJECT APPROACHING THE THRESHOLD

2014 / 2015

SITE PLAN 1:500

The splash deck is the first threshold you arrive at, with its shallow

bringing out the inner child in everyone. Steps are introduced at each

Diving is encouraged as a quick and brave way to enter the pool,

to this is the water shower, spraying water into the pool, creating an

water and proximity to the stepping stones it offers an area for those

pool threshold, from the splash pool to open harbour pool offering a

offering a threshold for those who want to competitively swim or for

area for those to splash and play in, whilst creating the sound of rain.

who just want to get their toes wet, dangle their legs into the water or

means of entry for all. Encouraging those brave enough to submerge

those who want to get the ordeal of submerging under the refreshing

for small children to play in. This initial approach to the pool offers a

into the revitalising harbour water a cautious entrance.

water over quickly. The main pool has a depth of 2m which can

The plunge into the sectioned harbour water swimming is a threshold

accommodate diving from the pool side.

for the truly fearless. To enter the water there are two options; steps or

place for young children to splash and play without fully submerging in the cool water.

Step ladders offer a gentle threshold to the main pool, with total

the plunge from the pontoon edge. This area of the pool is designated

control over the speed of entry. The main pool encourages lane

The entrance platform to the play pool offers a threshold for those

for those who want to experience real open water swimming. This

Stepping stones encourage a light and playful interaction with the

swimming for those who want to experience outdoor swimming in

who want to jump and bomb into the pool. Making the experience of

offers a safe place for thriathletes and swimmers to train.

water. Offering a safe place to splash and skip from step to step,

luxury, with an infinity edge to enjoy the view.

entering the water a thrill creating an adrenalin rush. Located next

03 LIVE PROJECT PONTOON PROTOTYPE This simple pontoon construction was designed by ARUP with the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crowd-funding ideas applied. It is a simple plywood frame screwed together with polystyrene blocks packed into either side for buoyancy. This is then topped with a sheet of 20 mm thick plywood before it is coated in fiberglass for water tightness. This is the basic floating block measuring 2440 mm2 x 400 mm deep. Then another sheet of 20 mm thick plywood with a 200-300 mm overhang is screwed to the top. To this we can then attach our crowd-funding planks to generate both money and interest from the community. The pontoon was originally priced by ARUP at < ÂŁ100 per square metre. We plan to make a prototype to test its buoyancy and act as a marketing tool for the proposed pool.

2014 / 2015

1. Harbour water 2. Pumped into water treatment system 3. Water is treated through membrane filtration and biocide disinfectant 4. Clean, unchlorinated water is pumped into ‘splash’ pool 5. Water pumped from ‘splash’ pool into main pool 6. Pool water overflows back into harbour 7. Water from pool gradually cleans the harbour water

03 LIVE PROJECT

2014 / 2015

03 LIVE PROJECT

04 Architectural Representation 2009 / 2016 MODELLING & SKETCHES

04 REPRESENTATION, MODELLING & SKETCHES

PERFORMING ARCHITECTURE March 2015 ‘Performing

architecture’

models

temporary installation which seeks to

of performance and in doing so, becomes an active participant itself.

question how performers and performances can respond to an uncompromising form of

The experimental model is an attempt to

stage design. Rather than the architecture

break the often linear relationship between

being a supportive, spatial environment,

the stage and the audience. Through

which adapts to the performance, this

removing the notion of “backstage” the

new stage would be autonomous and

installation would give the audience a

non-hierarchical. The

and

complete panoramic view, as well as

discontinuous nature of the stage may

allowing the structure to respond to the

force the performer to interact with the

audience’s needs through the ability to

architecture, confining them to its layout

alter the height of the stage from ground

and thereby creating a re-imaging of a

level.

suspended

well-established production. Or perhaps the architecture choreographs a new type

2009 / 2016

04 REPRESENTATION, MODELLING & SKETCHES

05 BEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Engineering 2012 / 2013 LAYERS IN TIME Churchfields Industrial Estate, Salisbury

05 LAYERS IN TIME

SITE PLAN

Archaeological excavations reveal intimations of a bygone landscape and a preceding occupation of the site, where the remains of an old farm building are re-experienced and reused in seeking to create a historic scene. Within these remains sits a new building, consisting of a public museum and information centre connecting with a archaeological laboratory. The new building will support the process of archaeology and DIAGRAMS

become a portal for historic journeys around Salisbury, bringing education and interest into the Industrial estate context.

2012 / 2013

DISCOVERY

EXCAVATION

TRANSPORT

ARCHAEOLOGY CENTRE

RECEPTION, CLEANING & STORAGE

EXHIBITION

PROCESS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

05 LAYERS IN TIME

2012 / 2013

PROFILE

BEN PRATTEN 2016

I have recently completed my MArch Master of Architecture course at UWE and am now seeking a Part 2 graduate position in practice.

I am a highly motivated person who is constantly committed to furthering experience and

CURRICULUM VITAE

education in architecture.

EDUCATION

The University of the West of England, Bristol MArch Master of Architecture (RIBA Part 2) Classification: Merit 2014 - 2016 BEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Engineering (RIBA Part 1 & CIBSE accredited) Classification: 2:1 2009 - 2013 The Ridingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Federation Sixth Form 2006 - 2008 A Levels: Mathematics, Physics & History AS Level: Music Technology The Ridingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Federation Winterbourne International Academy 2001 - 2006 GCSEs & GNVQs

SKILLS

Proficient in: Vectorworks // AutoCAD // Sketchup // V-ray // Adobe InDesign // Adobe Photoshop // Microsoft Office // Hand-drawing & Sketching // Model-making & Woodwork Basic experience in: Revit // Ecotect // Adobe Illustrator

LINKS

One of my passions outside of architecture is music. Before starting my architectural qualifications I was a guitarist in a band, being lucky enough to perform a multitude of gigs around the UK

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during a number of years.

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I also have a keen interest in most sports, whether it is competing or watching, particularly

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INTERESTS

cricket.

EXPERIENCE

Kendall Kingscott Part I Architectural Assistant Sept 2013 – Sept 2014 Summer 2015 Worked as part of the Retail & Leisure team. The expansive nature and tight timescales associated with the retail sector meant that I was involved in a high number of projects, from feasibility to planning stage. I have gained extensive site appraisal skills from integrating information to develop workable design solutions. I have also acquired a detailed understanding of the planning process, having produced full drawing packages for new-build and extension projects. Additional experience and responsibilities: •

Communication with clients, design team and consultants, who operated under a Framework Agreement.

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Site visits and surveys.

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Produced assumed site levels plans for feasibilities.

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Attended progress meetings.

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Demonstrated the ability to produce work quickly due to the short turnarounds. This also involved liaising back and forth with client to deliver any requested revisions on multiple running projects.

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Produced Design and Access Statements.

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Worked with other teams in the office, such as assisting on a tender package for hospital project and amending a model for a client meeting on a school project.

REFERENCES

Professional

Academic

Jasmine Blood

Craig White

Kendall Kingscott Limited

Senior Lecturer | UWE

0117 931 2062

craig@white-design.co.uk

jasmine.blood@kendallkingscott.co.uk Further information can be provided upon request.

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