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Christopher Bentley Architecture, Landscape and Interior Design
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Proposed External Perspective
Chaotic Microcosms Cut-Away Axonometric Detail
Nomination for RIBA East Midlands Student Award (July 2016) Nomination for University of Nottingham Best Portfolio (June 2016)
The thesis, entitled biomicrophilia, advocates the collection of biological samples for the examination and extraction of microscopic aesthetic qualities present in the exponentially decreasing scales of the microcosm, to generate pleasurable architectural relationships.
Proposed Entrance Perspective
Proposed Long Section
Chaotic Microcosms Massing, Concept and Development Models
Nomination for RIBA East Midlands Student Award (July 2016) Nomination for University of Nottingham Best Portfolio (June 2016)
A research facility, within a rewilded landscape, is proposed that encloses a fire damaged Victorian factory as part of the Eastside Birmingham City University master plan. An example of the design process, expresses the structural veins of a gorse leaf, as an arrangement of external fluted concrete frames, suspending glazed laboratories.
Proposed Internal Perspective
Proposed External Perspective
Chamber of Tea-Crits Conceptual Hand Drawing
The political theatre of Sneinton 2040 is reimagined by providing a series of spaces in which skilled and motivated individuals can come together to seek validation for decision making. The project is a playful exploration of tea consumption and autonomous society, positing that tea could replace alcohol as the dominant drink of choice.
Proposed Ground Floorplan
Proposed Isometric Perspective
Afterimage Concrete Sectional Model
Afterimage is an artistic response to the demolished Trintity carpark. The project dissected the carpark into a series of engraved concrete plinths, inhabitated to create a cyclehotel with a veledrome in the center. Timber structures attach to the concrete plinths by using the formwork from the casting process to create shared spaces.
Concrete Sectional Model
Proposed Long Section
39 Eaton Terrace Proposed Ground Floorplan
A project completed during my part 1 placement that required me to work individually to create a series of pre applications and planning applications for a mansard roof, closet wing and glazed ground floor extension that would be compliant to planning policy.
Proposed Front Elevation