Architectural Portfolio 2024

CONNOR HEWISON

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

SELECTED WORKS 2024

SALMOND REED ARCHITECTS

Freemans Bay Villa Alterations

Architectural Graduate responsible for the design and documentation of a suburban Auckland character home alteration

St. Clement's Anglican Church Restoration

Architectural Graduate responsible for the documentation of restoration works to a Far North community Church

Dunedin Garrison Hall Alterations

Architectural Graduate contributing to the documentation of restoration works to a Far North community Church

Herne Bay Villa Alterations (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the design and documentation for minor alterations to a prestigious Auckland character home

Northland Marae Upgrades (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate responsible for the design and documentation of commercial upgrades to a notable Far North Marae

Mt. Albert Bungalow Alterations (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the design and documentation of a suburban Auckland 1930's bungalow alteration

Remuera Bungalow Alterations (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the design and documentation of a substantial suburban Auckland bungalow addition

St. Michael's Church Restoration (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the documentation of restoration works to a Far North community Church

PROJECT INDEX

POPULOUS FAULKNER BROWNS ARCHITECTS

Woolloongabba Stadium Upgrades

Architectural Graduate contributing to the design, documentation and visualisation of a significant upgrade to a Brisbane Stadium

JACKSON ARCHITECTURE

Essendon FC Training Facility (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the design, documentation and visualisation of a high performance sports training facility

Victoria University City Campus (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the documentation of a landmark Melbourne CBD Campus Building

Camberwell Community Centre (Not Featured)

Architectural Graduate contributing to the documentation of an inner Melbourne suburban community facility

MEDICAL ARCHITECTURE

Hull Integrated Care Centre

Architectural Assistant contributing to the design, documentation and visualisation of a benchmark NHS primary care facility

Northumbria Uni. Masterplan (Not Featured)

Architectural Assistant providing 3D Revit models, graphics and visualisations for a UK university masterplan feasibility study

Pinewood Studios North (Not Featured)

Architectural Assistant providing 3D Revit models, graphics and visualisations for a film studio's northern branch masterplan

3RD SPACE

Modular Garden Room

Assisting with the assembly and on site installation of a prefabricated, bespoke modular garden room and office

ACADEMIC WORKS

Young Lit + Phil

Architectural studio project proposing a library and photographic archive that celebrates the working class culture of North East England

Re-Purpose Miscellaneous Artworks

Interior Architecture studio project proposing a sustainable furniture workshop housed in a listed locomotive manufacturing warehouse

Measured and on-site hand drawings produced during architecture school and portraiture from GCSE and A level study

FREEMANS BAY VILLA ALTERATIONS

PRACTICE | Salmond Reed Architects

STAGE | Preliminary - Detailed Design

LOCATION | Auckland, New Zealand

SKILLSET | Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Enscape, Hand Drawing, Adobe Creative Suite

SUMMARY

An additional floor level was proposed in the alterations to this Freemans Bay character villa, which will house a new master bedroom, en suite and walk-in wardrobe. A challenging rear site demanded a minimal increase to the permitted maximum height and the new floor was housed in an extension of the existing roof void. A generous south facing dormer provides uninterrupted views of the Auckland skyline. A protruding Dutch gable at the rear of he property, acts to rationalise the cluttered existing geometry present and creates a sheltered balcony, overlooking an existing swimming pool.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Measure-up + As Existing drawings

- Assisted with concept development

- Managed Resource Consent application with planners and authorities

- Documented Developed Design + Detailed Design drawing packages

- Coordinated consultant information into drawing packages

- Addressed Resource Consent + Building Consent RFI's

- ArchiCAD 3D Modelling + 2D Drafting

- BIMx simulation

1-2: Existing & Proposed Entry Perspectives

3-4: Existing & Proposed Rear Perspectives

5-7: Selected Drawings from Building Consent Set

ST. CLEMENT'S ANGLICAN CHURCH

PRACTICE | Salmond Reed Architects

STAGE | Concept - Detailed Design

LOCATION | Ahipara, Northland, New Zealand

SKILLSET | Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Hand Drawing

SUMMARY

Saint Clement's Anglican Maori Church was built in 1873 in the Far North community of Ahipara. Having fallen into a state of severe disrepair, SRA were appointed to undertake a detailed condition assessment and conservation plan in 2005. A successful fundraising campaign made restoration works possible in 2020, which entailed complete replacement of roofing iron, timber joinery, cladding and fascias. New features include a sanctuary window, entry porch and belfry tower which was designed as per historic imagery and reinstated to sympathetically match the tower present at the churches original inception.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design and detailing of reinstated belfry tower

- Documentation of restoration construction drawings

- Assisted with coordination of consultants and bespoke joinery

- ArchiCAD 3D Modelling + 2D drafting

1: Exterior Perspective Before Restoration

2: Exterior Perspective Post Restoration

3: Belfry Tower Construction Detail

4: Sanctuary Window Detail

5-7: Selected Drawings from Construction Set

DUNEDIN GARRISON HALL ALTERATIONS

PRACTICE | Salmond Reed Architects

STAGE | Preliminary - Detailed Design

LOCATION | Dunedin, New Zealand

SKILLSET | Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Enscape, BIMx, Adobe Creative Suite

SUMMARY

Dunedin’s Garrison Hall and adjoining Orderly Building dated 1879, was designed by architectural practice Mason and Wales and currently houses television studios and various smaller businesses. The brief established the clients need for additional break-out and collaboraive spaces internally, coupled with restorative works to the exising roof tiles, flashings, spouting and skylights. The interior design proposal utilises an existing dilapidated mezzanine to host a new spacious lounge and meeting space with large skylights inserted into the existing end hip roof, to provide sightlines to the surrounding heritage precinct - particularly the First Church of Otago. An accurate 3D ArchiCAD model was paramount for the correct positioning of the new skylights. Through BIMx simulation and collage of 3D model and site photography, a suitable location was agreed to achieve optimum views to the exterior surroundings.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design and detailing of new skylights

- Documentation of Resource + Building Consent packages

- ArchiCAD 3D Modelling + 2D drafting

- Enscape visualisation + photographic collage in Adobe Suite

- BIMx simulation

1: Existing Exterior View

2-3: Construction of New Skylights

4: Exterior View During Construction

5-7: Selected Drawings from Building Consent Set

WOOLLOONGABBA STADIUM UPGRADES

PRACTICE | Populous

STAGE | Concept + Developed Design

LOCATION | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

SKILLSET | Autodesk Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Enscape, Hand Drawing

SUMMARY

The Brisbane Cricket Ground, known as the Gabba is a major sporting venue, operated by Stadium Queensland. The Queensland Government has awarded $35million dollars to upgrade the public, media and corporate facilities within the venue with the purpose of enhancing the fan and user experience ahead of the T20 World Cup in 2020. The upgrade works will be realised through 4 new gate entries, modernised DDA facilities, social spaces and bar upgrades, additional corporate suites, upgraded media, broadcasting and operations areas. A new wayfinding and concourse activation strategy will be realised to graphically reinvent the signage throughout the venue and improve end user circulation routes and establish a means to maintain revenue income through leasing of flexible spaces and hosting events on none game days.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Documentation of schematic design drawing packages

- Revit 3D Modelling + 2D Drafting

- Conceptual hand sketching

- Visualisation

- Virtual reality development

1-2: Proposed Gate Perspectives

3-4: Gate Views on Match Day

5: Entry Concept Perspective

6-7: Bar Concept Perspectives

HULL ICC

PRACTICE | Medical Architecture

STAGE | Concept + Developed Design

LOCATION | East Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK

SKILLSET | Autodesk Revit + AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Hand Drawing

SUMMARY

The Hull Integrated Care Centre is £9m project Commissioned by NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group with partners Citycare and Community Health Partnerships. The new centre will provide community based assessment with supporting clinic and rehabilitation facilities. This provides an alternative to hospital admission, where patients will be referred directly by their GP for assessment and treatment, before being supported to return back home with an ongoing care plan. In addition, the centre will also provide a small base of operations for the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, with specially trained fire personnel supporting the rehabilitation of people in their own homes

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Diagrammatic concept development

- Produced documents for planning application

- Documentation of Developed Design drawing packages

- Generation of marketing material for use in public consultations

- Visualisation

- Revit 3D Modelling + 2D Drafting

1-2: Approach Perspectives (Rendering by Others)

3: Aerial Sketch

4-6: Sketch Perspectives

7: Ground Floor Plan

8: First Floor Plan

MODULAR GARDEN ROOM

PRACTICE | 3rd Space

STAGE | Construction

LOCATION | Hexham, Northumberland, UK

SUMMARY

After graduating, I was involved in a project with 3rd Space, a design partnership directed by a previous tutor of mine, which designs and builds exceptional quality small scale architecture, be it, modular garden rooms or bespoke outdoor spaces. My involvement in the project was to work as part of the team that assembled a prefabricated, two bay modular garden room for the occupant of the house, who intends to use it as a studio space, separate from their home. The priority of the first day was to ensure that the portal frame members and load bearing wall and ceiling panels were assembled and free standing as these required the most people for heavy lifting and the team was larger on this day. Having been left overnight with just tarpaulin as an environmental barrier, the priority of the second day was to seal the external envelope of the structure by fitting the windows, casement door and installing services, roof channels and the roof finish. Once the general structure was in place, the focus was then on the interior finishes and concealment of any junctions that were visible externally; this was achieved by the addition of timber slats that matched the aged, western red cedar cladding of the exterior corners. The interior finishes, which included the birch plywood ceiling and wall panels and the Douglas Fir portal frame members, were lightly sanded to remove any markings or dirt from the assembly process; then treated with osmo wax oil to bring out a warm colour in the timber

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- General labour hand

- Setout of pedestal foundations

- Insertion of door casement

- Installation of electrical services

- Treatment of internal finishes

YOUNG LIT + PHIL

STAGE | PG Certificate in Interior Architecture

TYPOLOGY | Library + Photographic Archive

LOCATION | Castle Garth, Newcastle Upon Tyne

SKILLSET | Autodesk Revit + AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop + InDesign, Hand Drawing, Model Making, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing

Situated at the foot of Castle Keep, The Young Lit + Phil Photography Archive is reminiscent of the once rife Chares and Stairs that connect Newcastle’s bustling city centre and Quayside. These lesser travelled alleyways expose the dense historic building fabric present in the city and afford those that travel them a glimpse of a past Newcastle. The archive appears heavy and cavernous, celebrating the narrow, linear forms of the remaining Chares by a series of alley like incisions in the facade that mark a path through the building that widens toward articulated viewpoints on the opposite side. Driven by the core values of the original Literary and Philosophical Society, this inception honours the time old celebration of technology, by way of demonstration and academic discourse, specifically in the medium of photography. Its aim, to provide the necessary spaces for aspiring local photographers and professionals to work, collaborate and make engagement in this art form accessible to all. The nature of the facility itself is civic and artistic, providing teaching spaces, processing facilities, studios and a comprehensive archive of photography documenting the working class demographic of the North East. The archive is experienced as a continual gallery with exhibitions lining the vertical circulation route, interrupted only by controlled views toward key historic landmarks on Newcastle’s Quayside.

2|TYNEBRIDGE

3|SWINGBRIDGE

CONCEPT | DISCOVERY

The concept seeks to encapsulate the spirit of discovering and familiarising oneself with the lesser known and travelled stairs and Chares that connect Newcastle’s city centre to the quayside.

This translated physically as a volume with incisions reminiscent of the Chares running through it, providing an abstract form to base a planning strategy on. The abstract form was then easily manipulated to create a geometry that pointed towards the surrounding locations of interest, suggesting internal circulation routes.

The strong vertical and narrow nature of the alley like Chares, is further reflected in the separation of internal spaces to form corridors through the monolithic structure, providing a series of opportunities to travel through the interior towards engineered views of Newcastle’s most famous landmarks.

1-4: ‘Chare’ Concepts

5: View Orientation Diagram

6: Parti Diagram Series

7: Remaining ‘Chare’ Diagram

ROOF | ENVELOPE

Atrium Skylight

FIRST FLOOR | EDUCATION

Photography Studios IT Study

Presentation Space Repair Workshop

GROUND FLOOR | DISPLAY

Gallery Exhibitions Library Quiet Reading

BASEMENT | SOCIAL

Exhibition Plaza Cafe

Archives

1: Axonometric Projection

2: Circulating the Gallery

RE-PURPOSE

STAGE | BA Honours Interior Architecture

TYPOLOGY | Recycled Furniture Workshop

LOCATION | Stephenson works, Newcastle Upon Tyne

SKILLSET | Autodesk AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop + InDesign, Hand Drawing, Model Making, Laser Cutting

The manufacture of furniture from reclaimed timber has become a very fruitful business venture during recent years, with people buying into the ideas of up cycling and recycling because of the implicit sustainable qualities, D.I.Y aesthetic and necessity within the modern day lifestyle. This proposed hub for facilitating reuse, will aim to fill a gap in Newcastle’s market by being the only dedicated provider of bespoke furniture, crafted from only reused timbers; by exploiting the waste product of the many breweries on the banks of the River Tyne: Barrels. The result will offer opportunities to buy, donate and get involved with the creation of furniture of this nature; through public engagement, workshops, presentations and events based on the site. The site sits within the wider context of Stephenson Quarter, a historic industrial district concealed by Central Station, and has a multitude of listed buildings, most of which are attributed to the Railway industry in Newcastle. The intervention will sit specifically within the Stephenson Engineering works, a grade II* listed warehouse building which is of special interest due to its integral role in the birth of the railway industry and manufacture of the first locomotive trains- evidence of Britain’s, and more specifically Newcastle’s, strong railway heritage.

The form the plan is derived from the arrangement of shapes that a barrel would leave in its wake upon collapsing; two barrel heads assume the role of plinths raised above the existing concrete floor slab and act as the main open spaces of the intervention. The staves then become enclosed workshop spaces, stemming off these core open areas Ramps are placed at the points where staves intersect each other, splitting the workshop in two.

The collapsed barrel plan is rationalised and the two aforementioned plinths become host to the two main activities of the manufacturing area: One focused on disassembly and formatting of the reclaimed timber into a usable resource and the other which is dedicated to the assembly of furniture for retail, catering also for educational workshops aimed at the public.

Below: Section A - A

CONCEPT | PLAN 1

CONCEPT | PLAN 2

CONCEPT | PLAN 3

The volumetric model demonstrates a more developed plan form, where disassembly is private and assembly is open to the public. The multitude of enclosed workshops that orbit the plinths provide the tools and machinery required for each stage in the manufacture process. The surplus, smaller workshops adjacent to the assembly area are for public use and contain basic provisions for individual projects.

CONCEPT | WORKSHOP POD

The Pods have glazing for a large proportion of the exterior envelope. The portal frame of the workshop pods has a westerly facing, steep pitch to allow for maximum natural daylight into the pods from the fully glazed western facade of the host building.

The shallower pitch on the roof is intended to increase the glazing surface area exposed to daylight entering from the skylight strips in the host buildings roof.

KEY | DETAIL A

1. 175mm x 100mm Bespoke Aluminium Extrusion

2. 6mm Pilkington Activ Suncool Glazing

3. Gooding Aluminium Wall Board Trim

4. 25mm Plyboard Coated in Osmo Polyx Oil

5. 5mm Silicone Gel Housing

6. 70mm Gooding Aluminium C Section

7. Scheuco Aluminium Window Frame

8. 50mm Earthwool Insulation

9. 30mm Charred Oak Cladding

10. 25mm Plyboard Underlay

11. 4mm Altro Multi-screed Resin Flooring

12. 50mm x 150mm Jewson Regularised Joist

13. Galvanised Steel Bespoke Connecting Plate

14. Gooding Aluminium Corner Stop

15. Galvanised Steel Bespoke Joist Connector

16. 5mm Gooding Aluminium Cap

17. 50mm x 150mm Jewson Regularised Joist

18. Bespoke Aluminium Frame Extension + Pedestal

19. Existing Concrete Floor Slab

KEY | DETAIL B

1. 175mm x 100mm Bespoke Aluminium Extrusion

2. 175mm x 100mm Bespoke Aluminium Extrusion

3. 30mm Charred Oak Cladding

4. 50mm Earthwool Insulation

5. 70mm Gooding Aluminium C Section

6. 25mm Plyboard Coated in Osmo Polyx Oil

7. 4mm Gooding Aluminium Corner Trim

The external shell of the workshop pods is clad in charred British oak boards, the benefit of which is that timber doesn’t require chemical treatment for moisture resistance and durability after its surface is burnt for 2mm thickness.

For the interior finish, acoustically engineered plywood boards coated in Cosmo polyx oil have been used for their bright colour to contribute to making the workshops spaces bright and their simplicity avoids undermining the aesthetic of the portal frame.

Altro multi screed resin has been used throughout the scheme for the flooring as a continuation of the industrial, function driven aesthetic of the intervention. The resin is extremely durable and impact resistant, making it an ideal floor render in a workshop.

Aluminium is used throughout the intervention for the portal frames of the workshop pods, casement windows and frames. Using aluminium instead of steel for the portal frame was due to its lightweight quality and flexibility in manipulating its form.

1: Workshop Technical Perspective 2: Workshop Projected Axonometric

MILLED ALUMINIUM

WAX COATED PLYWOOD

MULTI-SCREED RESIN

CHARRED OAK

ARTWORKS

1: Beehive Hotel Measured Facade Drawing

2: Seaton Delaval Hall Site Sketch

3-4: Photo Realist Human Form

5-6: Expressive Human Form