ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO CHRISTOPHER MYK
CONTENTS PLACEMENT YEAR
4- DESIGN: HILL HOLT WOOD 6- SENSORY HIDE 8- RHUBARB FARM 10- VERNACULAR BUILDING 12- LOFT CONVERSION SUMMERHOUSE 14 15- HANKINS HEMP HOUSE 15- SCOUT SHELTER
ARCHITECTURE YR 3 16- CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE 28- BYKER COMMUNITY HUB
Architecture Year 2
34- THE PRODUCTIVE GARDEN 35- HA HA
Architecture Year 1 36- HABERDASHERY SHOP 37 MATERIALITY
DESIGN:HHW
Design: Hill Holt Wood is a small design practice based in an ancient Woodlands in Lincolnshire. Their ethos is that of highly sustainable projects, specifically using natural and renewable materials such as straw, earth, hemp and locally sourced timber. The team consists of 4 Part I Architectural Graduates who manage all the projects and clients under the branch of Hill Holt Wood, a charity and social enterprise. For my placement year I gained a place to be one of the design team. A requirement of working for Design:HHW is that you fully immerse yourself into sustainable design by living off grid in ‘The Bunkhouse’; a straw/timber building built by previous design team members. Each year the design team adds to and improves upon the Bunkhouse. Heating is provided by lighting the AGA furnace, rainwater is collected and filtered for drinking and washing, and electricity is provided by a small generator. During my time at Design:HHW I had the opportunity to manage a number of my own projects at numerous stages of the RIBA Plan of Works. From initial meet with the clients, right the way through concept design, contract management and to construction of projects. This helped to significantly develop my organisational skills and understanding of Architecture in practice. As there were no Architects working at Design:HHW, each team member sources a Mentor from local Architectural firms, to present any questions or queries.
THE BUNKHOUSE
STRAWBALE WORKSHOP
Along with the Projects, we ran many workshops and experience days to students and other people interested in sustainable design. Ranging from Strawbale Construction, to Hempcrete and timber framing. We organised these workshops, linking with Universities and Schools to gain a wider audience. Other duties included updating our social media, which I helped by recording and developing our range of videos and pictures online. Links to which can be found using the QR Codes below.
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Strawbale Construction: https://www.facebook. com/designhhw/videos/1462287137138425/
Plastic Bottle Greenhouse: https://www.facebook. com/designhhw/videos/1550953434938461/
Living Willow Dome: https://www.facebook. com/designhhw/videos/1526640630703075/
SKYLARKS SENSORY HIDE
RAMSDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL
GREEN SYNERGY
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SENSORY HIDE Project Runtime: November 2016 – Present Current RIBA Stage: 5 - Construction Project role: Lead RIBA Stages Involved In: 0-5
The Sensory Hide is a Bird Hide located in Skylarks Nature Reserve in Nottingham. The nature reserve was one of the first in the UK to be fully wheelchair accessible so the design had to complement those origins. The sensory aspects were included along the length of the path leading up to the secluded hide. Installations such as woodland amplifiers, bug hotels wildflowers and living willow tunnels play with the senses until you reach the hide, where all is still and quiet. The design itself allows for wildlife to use the structure for shelter and nesting, with the gabion foundations offering shelter for bugs and small water birds. The eaves of the roof offer shelter for bats and larger birds. As the hide is south facing (poor for birdwatching), there are multiple viewports, giving people the opportunity to watch birds from different perspectives throughout the day, reducing the chance of glare and shadowing. The structure is timber frame, using locally sourced Scots Pine and Douglas fir cladding boards. The roof will be a green roof, seeded with durable windflowers, which in time will offer habitats for a number of insects and wildlife.
WEST ELEVATON
AXONOMETRIC FLOOR PLAN 1
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Construction Phase Diagrams 1.150mm x 150mm Treated Timber Bearers laid and bound to gabion foundations. 2.Premade 150mm x 50mm Timber Base Plates brought to site and installed.
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3.Premade 100mm x 50mm Stud Wall Plates brought to site and installed. 4.Premade 150mm x 50mm Roof Plates installed, Firrings installed on top. 5.Structure is clad with Douglas Fir Boards according to design.
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6.Green roof is laid once, OSB and Rubber DPM has been installed.
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RHUBARB FARM
OFFICE 1 + RECEPTION
Project Runtime: December 2016 – August 2017 Current RIBA Stage: 2 – Concept Design Project role: Lead RIBA Stages Involved In: 0-2
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Rhubarb Farm is a small Social enterprise based in Langwith on the Nottingham Border. The offer rehabilitation projects through agriculture, teaching people how to look after the land and provide for themselves. There current office accommodation is using portacabins and shipping containers. The aim of the project is to completely revamp the area, offering new office space and an adaptable cafeteria/meeting hall. Due to funding not being readily available the scheme was divided into three builds. The scheme is unified by a central walkway/garden space which all builds look out upon. This design allows the Rhubarb Farm team to build all of the scheme or part of the scheme as and when they are ready.
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Foyer Reception Office A Office B Unisex Toilets Storage
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AXONOMETRIC FLOOR PLAN
The project will be built sustainably using straw bales sourced from a local farmer, and will be built by Design:HHW in conjunction with Rhubarb Farm and their volunteers. Other materials used will be timber from locally managed woodlands and Hemp sourced from Yorkshire.
OFFICE 1 + RECEPTION
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The office space offers accommodation for a 12 staff once complete. The meeting hall will accommodate 24-30 people, and there is also a small store where produce that is grown on site can be sold to local visitors.
7- Shop Front 8- Shop 9- Storage 10- Cafeteria 11- Decked/ Outdoor Seating Area 12- Unisex Toilets 13- Kitchen
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CAFETERIA AND SHOP
OFFICE 2 + COLD STORE
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SKETCH FLOOR PLAN 8
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OFFICE 2 + COLD STORE
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VERNACULAR BUILDING Project Runtime: January 2017– October 2017 Current RIBA Stage: 7 – In Use Project role: Lead RIBA Stages Involved In: 0-7 The Vernacular building is located in New Skylarks Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire. The reserve was created after the backfilling of an open cast mine. Before The mine existed excavations and archaeology revealed an Anglo Saxon settlement used to exist there. As a result, Skylarks Experimental Archaeology have been working on recreating a small settlement, reminiscent of the time period, for educational purposes. Extensive research was carried out to try and decipher the construction techniques used in the past, different joinery techniques and how the foundations would have been laid. Restrictions with budget altered some aspects of the design, however on the whole the building is true to its heritage. The timber used in construction varies depending on its function, and is sourced where available from local woodlands. The framing is Oak that has been cut on the sawmill, with Scots pine rafters and roundwood ridge beam. The shingles are Cedar, and all three doors are made with the same trunk of Douglas Fir.
SKETCH VISUALISATION
Traditional timber framing techniques are employed in the design, cut in the Hill Holt Wood workshop. Once complete they are test fit and then brought to site. With the aid of the Volunteers at Skylarks Experimental Archaeology the building is erected quickly on site. The volunteers will finish the walling with wattle and daub.
COMPLETED BUILD - OCTOBER 2017
Please feel free to watch the timelapse video I created for the Build below:
Strawbale Construction: https://www.facebook. com/designhhw/videos/1462287137138425/
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COMPLETED BUILD - OCTOBER 2017
DOUGLAS FIR DOORS- OCTOBER 2017
WATTLE WALLING
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LOFT CONVERSION Project Runtime: November 2016– April 2017 Current RIBA Stage: 3 - Developed Design Project role: Lead RIBA Stages Involved In: 0-3
Schedule of Accommodation 1. Hallway – The main entrance to the property. 2. Living Room – To remain as existing
The loft conversion and extension is based in Hykeham in Lincolnshire. The existing property is a 2 bedroom bungalow with a reasonably sized garden to the rear. The scheme includes a single storey rear extension, allowing for a larger kitchen space and secluded office. The loft conversion will provide two new bedrooms and an additional bathroom.
3. Bedroom 1 – To remain as existing
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4. Bathroom 1 – To remain as existing 5. Kitchen – Extension into rear garden increase the size of the kitchen. The sink is to be relocated to the south facing wall, glazed sliding doors are to be installed providing access to the garden.
The environmental aspects of the design in this project are mainly included in the loft conversion with timber used for structure and cladding sourced from the local woodlands, wood fibre insulation used throughout and also green a roof
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6. Staircase – Client requested staircase to be orientated this way for views of the rear garden and to provide access to the new loft conversion 7. Office – Formerly bedroom 2 the new space has increase in size and gives a nice secluded area to work.
SKETCH FLOOR PLAN
8. Utility Room – This new space houses the washing machine and dryer as well as other cleaning items.
SKETCH VISUALISATION
9. Landing - The landing gives access to the new loft spaces. 10. Bedroom 2 – A new bedroom located in the dormer space. 11. Bedroom 3 – A new bedroom located in the dormer space. 12. Bathroom – New bathroom with a shower toilet and wash basin.
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WEST ELEVATION
SKETCH FLOOR PLAN
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SUMMERHOUSE
HANKINS HEMP HOUSE
SCOUT SHELTER
Project Runtime: November 2015– June 2017 Current RIBA Stage: 7 – In Use Project role: Technical Design and Build RIBA Stages Involved In: 4 -5
Project Runtime: July 2017 – Ongoing Current RIBA Stage: 5 - Construction Project role: Technical Design and Build RIBA Stages Involved In: 4 - 5
Project Runtime: February 2017– June 2017 Current RIBA Stage: 7 – In Use Project role: Team Member RIBA Stages Involved In: 4 – 6
The summerhouse is a project that is ow completed in Riseholme, just outside of Lincoln. The client originally purchased a set of Dutch doors with stained glass from a scrapyard. Wanting to use them but having nowhere to, they sought out Design:HHW to design a small Summerhouse to write and teach music to students.
The Hemp House is a project that I came across on ‘The POOSH’, a global site aimed at linking together like minded people to help start or participate in their own sustainable self build projects. A group of us volunteered to help the Hankins family build their own home. The building is timber frame with an infill for all walls of Hempcrete, this was a brilliant opportunity to work with people from UKHempcrete.
Flintham 1st Scouts required a new outbuilding/ shelter for them to use on their grounds. After already submitting and gaining planing permission for the build, Design:HHW completed all the technical design for the shelter before using our own timber to create the project. Tire foundations were utilised for the shelter, then prefabricated floor panels and wall panels ensuring a rapid construction.
The project is highly sustainable used car tire foundations rammed with aggregate. Structural and cladded timber were sourced from Hill Holt maintained woodlands; these were milled on-site at Hill Holt Wood. Interior floors utilise Cork tiles and the walls are lined with matchboard and rope.
After a few weekends of volunteer work, we were asked by the family to design details for some of the roof junctions as the entire buildings design had not been fully completed. These were mainly small roof details.
COMPLETED BUILD - JUNE 2017
SEATING + STORAGE
HEMP HOUSE
MAIN STRUCTURE COMPLETE CEDAR SHINGLE ROOF
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HEMP IN SITU COMPLETED BUILD - JUNE 2017
ROUNDWOOD POST
DRY HEMP WALL
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CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE
SOUTHERN ELEVATION THE PROJECT Architecture Year 3 Project Runtime: January 2016 – May 2016 Selected for Exhibition at the Walltown Crags The Caledonian Culture Centre was my final Year three project at Northumbria University. The project is located at the Walltown Crags within the isolated landscape of Northumberland. The site is home to Hadrians Wall, a UNESCO World Heritage site, constructed by the Romans nearly 2000 years ago. Along the length of the wall there are numerous museums dedicated to the history of the Romans and their lives at Hadrians Wall. However, there are none aimed specifically at the people of Caledonia, a civilisation that the Roman Empire never truly conquered.
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The brief requires the design of a museum/ visitor centre to fit within the rich context of the Walltown Crags. The centre will provide a new incentive for people to visit the site, offering facilities for education, food as well as overnight accommodation. The first major challenge is to establish an architectural relationship between the contrasting requirements of a visitor centre and the accommodation. The second is considering strategies for the buildings operation in such an isolated landscape.
Approach The Visitor approaches from the west, following the large orange weathered steel chimney that rises from the landscape. A number routes at the entrance offering differing perspectives for the visitor centre. Visitors can go over, between or inside each of the buildings.
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CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE
THE CENTRE The Visitor Centre The primary location for the main facilities provided on site is situated on the junction of three main routes. This will provide a hub from which visitors can discover about the history of the Caledonian peoples through the exhibition/museum, create works of art in the on-site workshop, or relax in the cafeteria after a long hike. The Accommodation The Accommodation service will offer specifically for two types of visitor. The first being for walkers and hikers who are looking for rest whilst on their travels along the Pennine way and Hadrian’s Wall Path; these accommodations will be located up on the ridge. The second will be located nearer to the Visitor Centre and for those who come to use the workshop facilities. The accommodation pods will be shared facilities for up to 6 people and feature the same design for replication depending on the success of the projects.
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SCHEDULE OF ACCOMMODATION 1- Path to Car Park 2- Roof Access Entrance 3 4.0- Exhibition Introduction 4.1- The Daily Lives of the Caledonians 4.2- Collection of Bronze Age Artefacts 4.3- The rise of the Picts Shop 5 6- Shop Storage 7- Education Centre Entrance 8- Forge Furnace 9- Bronze Age Craft Workshop 10- Materials Store 11- Educational room
12- Reception 13- Management Office 14- Cleaners Cupboard 15- Kitchen 16- Plant Room 17- Bar & Storage 18- Cafeteria Seating 19- Disabled Access Toilets 20- Female Toilets 21- Male Toilets 22- Exterior Seating 23- Roof Access 24- Bronze Sculptures 25- Accommodation Pods 26- Path to Ridge Accommodation 27- Path to Hadrians Wall
Work The Bronze Craft Workshop invites visitors and local artists to use the facilities to raise awareness to the history of the area. Artists will be commissioned to construct pieces that will enhance the routes around the site while visitors can create their own art or jewellery amongst a number of other Caledonian inspired artefacts
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CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE SITE ANALYSIS
Routes - There are a number of walking routes around the site. Some along the top ridge offer vast views of the countryside that follow Hadrians Wall, others along the lower reaches where the geology is visible. Hadrians Wall - The wall extends along the top ridge of the Walltown Crags, in areas represented by the dashed lines on the diagram the wall has been destroyed due to the quarrying of whinstone for road-making in the early 20th century., It is still possible to envisage where the wall once was. There are small forts located all along the wall with the remains of some visible today. Exposed Whin Stone - The geology of the site is visible in numerous place on-site, giving the name the Walltown Crags. The rock formation is part of the Great Whin Sill, a 200 million year old igneous rock that is incredibly hard and durable. Contours - The contour map highlights these changes in levels at increments of 10m. The maximum difference in heigh is around 50metres.
A - Areas of Interest These are suggested locations in which artist and sculptors can be commissioned to produce installations relating to key themes around site. These include geology, history, views and memory. B - Enhancements of Walking Routes The walking routes on site will be enhanced by offering insights into the history of the location. Projections will extend out into the old quarry with visualisations illuminating the memory of where Hadrians wall used to be before it was destroyed. C - The Ridge Accommodation The majority of the accommodation will be provided along the top ridge of the exposed crag face. Toilets and wash facilities will be provided in each of the pods. D - The Visitor Centre The primary location for the visitors on site is situated on the junction of the three routes. This will provide a Hub from which the visitors can explore the site and the history of the Caledonian Peoples.
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E - Car Park Proposal The new visitor centre will require parking to accommodate for the increase in visitors, this location is the most accessible and nearest to the A69.
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Memory The walking routes around the site will be enhanced via an extending platform, protruding out into the quarried area of the Whin sill on which Hadrians Wall used to rest. At the end of each of the platform etched into glass will be a visualisation based upon old records of the wall, outlining a visualisation of where Hadrians Wall Used to be.
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CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE THE SCHEME The scheme is designed so that it coheres with the unique landscape it is situated within, whilst promoting the heritage and craft of the Caledonian peoples. A range of activities will be offered to bring a variety of people from different occupations to the site. From school trips and family visits, to hikers and local artist, the centre will unite them together in one place. The Exhibition There will be a permanent exhibition introducing visitors to the daily lives of the Caledonians, as well as specific artefacts that have been found all over Scotland and near Hadrians Wall. These artefacts have indicated that the people where not savages and Barbarians as they have been depicted as by the Romans, but actually had a high level of culture. These are based on the types of jewellery, glassware, weaponry and games that have been found. The Workshop A Bronze Age workshop will be a key attraction to the centre, educating visitors on how the use of this metallic alloy advanced the civilisation. Local artists will be invited to craft Bronze sculptures to be placed around the site; visitors will be able to use the workshop to craft their own artefacts and learn about Caledonian history.
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The Journeys The site offers a variety of scenic walks, with the Pennine Way and Hadrians Wall Walk passing through the site. The new scheme will enhance these routes with sculptural elements, highlighting the history, geology and nature of the area.
EXHIBITION VISUALISATION
Reflect The cafeteria space offers visitors a place to relax, rest and reflect on the activities they have performed whilst being around the site. Whether it is a 10 mile trek along Hadrians Wall or a long day forging their own sword or jewellery in the Bronze Age craft workshop. The space can be opened up for events and would serve food throughout the day for people visiting and using the overnight accommodation
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CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE
SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT DIAGRAM
THE CONCEPT One of the key features that stand out on the site is the breaks in the landscape where the rich, dark whin stone is exposed. Contrasting heavily to the much softer green hills nearby the stone has a certain draw to it. As a result the design has developed t continue this aspect, being itself constructed out of the same material, by use of gabion walling, as well as taking a very rough and jagged form, much like that of the crags nearby. The building is visualised as an extrusion of the land, with the green roof on top and whinstone walling beneath. The extrusion is weathered and fragmented into the three main components of the current scheme. Spatial analysis diagrams, were created to correctly organise and appropriate areas together. The top of the ridge gives a wide view across the landscape and as a result a perfect place for the accommodation pods to be situated. Each one of the staggered along similar to the old Roman forts on the wall looking across the northern borders.
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Building Analysis Diagrams Building performance diagrams used throughout the design process to aid in the development of the scheme. Orientation, key visual links, routes and context were contributing factors in the buildings final form. The building utilises Whin Stone in the form of gabion walling to replicate and use the local resources, with an earth roof to give the feel that the building is erupting from the ground like the great whin sill itself.
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CALEDONIAN CULTURE CENTRE Materials & Technology To create a scheme that encompasses both the concept of the centre as well as the geology and landscape of the site, whin stone will be used in conjunction with Bronze wire gabions. The wire will hold the whinstone rubble in place whilst forming a green hued patina as it weathers. The walls will only be a skin with a steel frame supporting the roof hidden within the gabions. The gabion mesh will be manufactured in collections of units; each a self contained wire box to reduce the likelihood of rock displacement. The unit size varies depending on the height of the required wall. The maximum width is 875mm with a minimum of 300mm. The size of the gabion stone for the most part will vary between 50 – 150mm. Larger rocks will be used to create filtered windows allowing light to pass through the stone. Similar to Herzog and De Meurons Dominus Winery. The gabion wall will have an angle on it to give a wide base, making the walls more stable. Some other materials that will be used in the scheme will be insulated panels for the majority of the walls, weathering steel to highlight the forge’s chimney, also acting as a beacon in the landscape for the centre. Steel frame will be used throughout the scheme. Earth that has been excavated from the groundworks will be replaced and used on the earth roof. Crushed Whinstone will be laid under a clear resin floor throughout, giving the impression that visitors are inside the whinstone itself.
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BYKER COMMUNITY HUB Architecture Year 3
Project Runtime: September 2015–December 2015 2nd Place in TRADA/NETTA Award for Innovation with Timber Byker’s history begins with the clay and mining pits opening during the 1800’s. From this, a vast number of housing was required for the people moving to the cities to work in these pits. The area became very densely populated and as a result a very close community was formed. Houses were small and people had quite poor living conditions, in some case houses could not get hot running water even into the 1960’s As a result the CPO Wilfred Burns declared that Byker was to be redeveloped. He commissioned Ralph Erskine to design a new area, The Byker Wall. This would see the removal of an entire community and completely redeveloping the area ending with around half the population that were there previously. Once the Byker wall was completed, new people moved in and the sense of community that was once there was lost. As a result crime and poverty are now commonplace in the area. The brief aims to create a place, a social hub, for the people of Byker to re-establish that sense of community. There needs to be a place for Newcastle City Council to host a support Centre and other essential items include a community meeting room, toilets and a general office space.
Building Analysis Diagrams These diagrams are explorations into the overall shape and form of the final design. Aspects such as views from the roads, context, the site itself amongst other things were considered to
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BYKER COMMUNITY HUB Throughout the design process, modelling was key to developing the scheme. Using data collected from site trips and analysis , a scale site model was created, highlighting the different levels in site. A number of massing and material models were created to fit within the context, giving greater understanding of the scheme. Once the final design was completed, a lasercut model was created for displaying the scheme. The use of coloured modelling materials to highlight the pre patinated copper roof.
ROADSIDE PERSPECTIVE
Or understanding how the building would be put together, a series of 1:50 technical models was created. These models led to the development of the technical drawings produced for the design. Modelling materials used were aimed to replicate and give a better understanding of how the building will look once completed On the opposite page, photos used from the model were used to create a series of perspectives of the scheme, giving a sense of scale.
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ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE
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BYKER COMMUNITY HUB These are some of the technical drawings produced for the final scheme. The axonometric drawings on this page indicate the structural composition of the building as well as some of the interior and exterior finishes. As the scheme is partially sunken into the ground, due to the levels of the site. A french drain is utilised to prevent any damp that may potentially occur, held in place by a reinforced concrete retaining wall. The main structure is manufactured from glulam post and beams, giving large expanses internally for adaptable spaces. These posts then provide structural support for prefabricated panels used for walls and roofing. The exterior is clad with Western Red Cedar planks, with a roof made from pre patinated copper sheets, aimed to contrast with the blue zinc roofs of Byker wall.
On the opposite page a technical detail displaying one of five details encompassing the entire building. This detail covers how the roof detail would function, as well as opening clerestory windows as well as the shelter provided in the colonnade.
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JAMIE ALBERT, CHRISTOPHER MYK, OLIVIA NEEDHAM, BETHANY WILLIS
THE PRODUCTIVE GARDEN Architecture Year 2 Project Runtime: February 2014 – April 2014 The Productive Garden project was based at Seaton Delaval. The historic site was the location for most of the Second year projects. The scheme itself was situated in the walled gardens which over time had warped and twisted due to their height and was a brewhouse aimed to provide a business for the site to grow and develop upon. The building itself was inspired by geometry, modelled on a cube that had been fractured after been thrown into the walled garden, sending ripples through the landscape. These ripples are seen as the cause for the warping and twisting of the walled garden. Drawing inspiration from projects by Louis Khan the scheme was developed. The materials used I the scheme aim to weather quickly, allowing the building to feel as though it has existed there for a long time. Weathering steel is used as the cladding in large 3m by 1.5m sheets.
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HA-HA Architecture Year 2 Project September 2013 A Ha-ha is a man-made dug out ditch with one sloped side (6m) and one vertical side Runtime: (2m). Our brief was to design a bridge to span the 6m ditch that can also retract to stop people gaining access out of hours. The Bridge will connect the Seaton Delaval Estate to the Mausoleum, which will be converted into a theatre.
HAHA BRIDGE JAMIE ALBERT, CHRISTOPHER MYK, OLIVIA NEEDHAM, BETHANY WILLIS
The HaHa project was a group project aimed
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to a garden or field, provide an uninterrupted view of the landscape. The original HaHa is located at The HaHa itself spans 6m, but we were tasked to produce a 1:5 scale model. The design we came up with was based on stop motion videos of a drawbridge. Once the drawbridge was raised, no access was able to be granted to the secured location. With our final design the bridge encompassed all the angles of the drawbridge rising. The model was manufactured in our workshop using fishing wire and mdf. The life size bridge would be made using timber planks and steel wire. To test the model the bridge had to be able to draw up as well as support weights, they were tested to destruction.
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HABERDASHERY SHOP
MATERIALITY
Architecture Year 1 Project Runtime: January 2013 – March 2013
Architecture Year 1 Project Runtime: January 2013 – March 2013
Along Pink Lane on the back streets of Newcastle, there are small vacant plots of land, areas prime for redevelopment.
Exploration of materiality was explored along a number of small projects throughout our first year, to help us understand the importance of knowing what you are working with as well as how to analyse certain scenarios.
For this project we were tasked to redevelop this land for the purposes of a Haberdashery. The plot was small, 6m by 2m so designs had to be creative.
FLOOR PLAN
PLANOMETRIC DRAWING
Using solutions to the Haberdashers problem from the Canterbury tales a small island that stored goods was produced that could be folded up and stowed away, this along with small other items provided all the space needed for the shop.
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The pieces to the Right were inspired after reading books on conceptualisation and fragmented forms as well as dreams. The cubes along the bottom were explorations into different materials that can be used for modelling. Each produced a number of different effects but with the same final form. Some could be reused whilst others were more permanent
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FRAGMENTATION
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