Name :
Conor Scully
Date :
2006 - 2015
Description :
Architecture Portfolio
CONTENTS Academic Rhizomatic Organisation ; Hyperactive Urbanism and the smart city Global transitions to Rhizomorphic space
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Solar Decathlon 12 - 15 Mycelium Tectonics 16 - 19 Footdee Music School
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Aberdeen museum of Art
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Carlow YMCA 26 - 27
Competition / Personal Empower shack 28 - 31 Build Our nation
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Northern Lights 34 - 35
Professional Omega Place 36 - 37
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Conor Scully Bsc Bsc P.dip
09-06-1989
272-276 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JY
0044 (0) 7927232116
cscullydesign@gmail.com
ETH Zürich
2013-2015
2013
P.dip (Part 2,Unit 8 + 4 ) with distinctions Urban Think Tank. Summer School 2013
Robert Gordon University
2010-2012
Architecture MArch (Part 1)
Carlow Institute of Technology
2006-2010
Architectural Technology Bsc (1st Class Honour )
London Festival of Architecture, London
Cass design, London
2015
2015
Getting ready Making
Eva Presenhuber gallery, Zurich
2013
Empower shack
Venice Biennale, Italy
2012
RGU external show, Scotland
2012
Quaker interaction, Scotland
2012
Build our Nation
Space
Big Crit, Scotland
2011
UTT, prototype for south African Slums the empower shack of the western cape
Apr 2014
Empower Shack
R.I.A.S Quarterly Feb 2012 Sept2012
The Big crit Venice Biennale 2012 : Taifa Letu Tujenge
Competitions :
Solar Decathlon, Latin America
Arch Medium Northern Lights
Hunter award Scotland
Build Our Nation Entry
2015
Jury, dec 15
2012 Mention 2012 Second
Exhibitions :
The innovators Vs. the Dragons Cover
Mar 2014
London Metropolitan
Mar 2014
Archdaily
Jun 2015
Education :
Construction Manager
Architectural Debate Cultural exchange
2011
Winner
Work experience : Over the past 3 years I have set up my own small studio working mainly on small residential projects, hostel refurbishment and a small scale new build This work has been done under the RIBA’s non direct mentorship program and has allowed me work autonomously with the part time guidance of a qualified architect. This atypical modus operandi has given me a massive amount of responsibility and has let me experience roles and tasks normally only undertaken by a project architect. My main focus has been on a four storey mixed use project in Central London near King’s Cross station. I started the project from the pre-planning stage and will go on site in October 2015.
Skills : Rhino, Grasshopper, Autocad, Processing, Sketchup, V-Ray, Kerkythea, Adobe suite, Microsoft and mac Platforms, 3D Printing and material research
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Project Title : Rhizomatic Organisation ; Hyperactive Urbanism and the smart city
Details : Date :
January 2014 - July 2014
Description :
Digital Infrastructures and Rhizomorphic Organisation Total size 140,000 sqm
Location :
Old oak Common, west London
Collaborators : Academic ( Chora )
Shifts in machine age technologies have historically been the drivers of our urban composition and aesthetics. This is no longer the case as internet communications paradigms are profoundly shaping the way the city is used. This project shows the cause and effect of contemporary communication paradigms firstly as a global space of transition from colonial hierarchies and secondly as the manifestation of real time events in the communication meta-space as occurrences in the built environment. Throughout this project an interplay of hierarchic and heterarchic ideas are shown as events and occurrences transit between the digital meta-space and the physical world. This smart city proposal is based on the utilisation of real time information to aid the creation of a hyperactive urbanism.
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A smart city should not just be optimised by tools of measurement but further enhanced by the possibility of aggregated decision making based on the requirements of the individual rather than a city as a whole. Urban cognition can now be more greatly understood through the proliferation of web enabled mobile devices and ubiquitous sensor networks with these tools at our disposal a hyper-reactive urbanism can flourish. This portion of the research examines the possibility of a hyperactive urbanism through ubiquitous sensor networks and the utilisation of natural data existing in the digital meta-space. The digital events are omnipresent in today’s cities and ebb, flow, fluctuate and densify at a faster speed than the physical city. My proposal for the smart District of Old Oak Common, London is concerned with the reversal of the historic communication hierarchies where by the digital event space is systematically categorised and realised through the adaptable program of Old Oak Common.
Old Oak common site | fluctuations in density throughout the day . Vectors of movement based on locally sourced data
Environmental control
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Dynamic solar shading based on local occupancy
Energy management
Mobile domestic enviromental control
An adaptive area that reponds to the reali time needs of local inhabitants
A. Digital metaspace
real time event. By scraping local data trends of events can be realised in the adaptive city space or in disused parts of existing buildings
Reduction in travel as parents can work from home. Childrens development is monitored carefully for learning diffuclties
Interactve preschool. Children can be monitered and supervised by a series of alternating work from home parents. The childrens progress is monitered carefully for different levels of development
City users can see the benifits of their environmental efforts represented in their tree growth
B. Hierarchic data organisation
B. Hierarchic data organisation
Reduction of disused services + energy consumption
Tree health system, Trees are measured for chlorophyll blooming patterns and quality of water in roots. This can be used to measure enviromental conditions
Public Transport Optimisation in response to transport patterns and local surplus demands
Local health beifits of walking more
Calorie intake vs Exercise and activity for health monitoring
Street light utilised + deployable canopies around major pedestrian routes
Cleaner streets
C. Rhizomatic Sensor-scape
Smart Streets based on use local events and pedestrian routes
Rubbish Control. occupants of the city can geotag photos of unwanted rubbish in the area and alert waste management
Smaller vendors can supply directly to consumers reducing the necessity of large consumer shopping centrres
Index map
Just in time market place. By quantifying the needs of commuters products can be sold in high density areas creating a dynamic market place for small vendors. A legislative system can be put in place to ensure small vendors get priority
In the lower diagram each cell equates to 100 people. The number of users has been gathered from average person per sqm km denisties in the area. This has been calculated by taking the average building typology and the corresponding density. The areas of very high denisty are predominantly estates of post war tower blocks. The exapnsive industrial area in the West of the site is said to employ 40,000 full time staff. .
D. Hyper-reactive program
Digital Metaspace | digital communications information used to drive the city
This diagram above shows the average morning movements as a series of cells and vectors of movement. Tube stations, schools and shopping areas show the highest density The top diagram shows the late evening. At this stage tube stations are busy as well as recreational facilities
Hyperactive programme | cyclical data cycles to inform programme and function of the master-plan.
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Ubiquitous sensor network | The architecture of digital infrastructure. The rhizomatic distribution of information and space
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Hyper-reactive architecture | a pneumatic market place driven by the digital meta-space
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Project Title : Global transitions to Rhizomorphic space
Details : Date : September 2013 - January 2014 Description :
An exploration of arborescent British colonial rule and the Rhizomatic communication space through the proliferation of internet enabled mobile devices
Location : Global
Collaborators : Academic ( Chora )
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The first of these transits is shown as a global space in the sphere project. Countries with a colonial history show a greater dependence on mobile internet devices as the physical and social infrastructures contemporary western cities enjoy are not available. This invaluable infrastructure tool has helped these countries develop access to health care, education and non-national monetary systems. These dependencies are apparent in the sales of mobile devices in the past 20 years, while western nations show an incremental rise in ownerships there is an explosion in developing countries as they have recently become affordable. Although the sphere project is predominantly concerned with a comparison between the western and developing world’s adoption of new communication, it also shows how this new technology is ubiquitously used around the world. It also maps the transition of our current communications paradigm from 19th century arborescent colonial rule to rhizomatic internet networks. It goes further again to propose a system in which this rhizomatic space can be realised in architectural terms and used as a tool of organisation for urban strategy.
Development of internet enabled devices from 1990-2010
1. British colonial rule show as an arborescent root structure. The diminishing thickness of each bifurcation representative of the amount of time the country was under occupation. 2.The proliferation of mobile devices between the 1990’s and 2000’s the number of bifurcations equivalent to the percentage of mobile phones in each nation and the spread of growth equivalent to the percentage of devices with internet connectivity Growths without links to The British Colonial rule have remained independent from the United Kingdom. 3. The proliferation of mobile devices between the 2000’s and 2010’s the number of bifurcations equivalent to the percentage of mobile phones in each nation and the spread of growth equivalent to the percentage of devices with internet connectivity 4.Creation of the current rhizomatic communication space. This space is representative of usage of internet enabled mobile devices in that area of the world. At this stage the geographic locations are less apparent and a great disparity is visible between the historic
Basic prototype of growth pattern
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3D Printed Sphere
Reykjavik Helsinki
Oslo
Riga Moskva Copenhagen Vilnius Minsk Dublin Amsterdam Warsaw Berlin London/ The Hague (seat of Government) Astana Brussels Prague Luxembourg Paris Vienna Budapest Vaduz Bern Zagreb Bucuresti Bishkek Andorra la Vella T'bilisi Tirane Rome BakuYerevan Madrid Ankara Beijing Lisbon Ashgabat Athens Tunis Algiers Valletta Tehran Nicosia Kabul Islamabad Baghdad Damascus Amman Cairo Kuwait New Delhi Kathmandu Dhaka
Ottawa Washington DC
Nassau Havana
Masqat
Hanoi Mexico Port-au-Prince Kingston Basseterre Belmopan
Vientiane Khartoum
Guatemala San Salvador Managua Caracas Panama
Bangkok Phnom Penh
Djibouti
Paramaribo
Bangui
Kuala Lumpur Kampala Nairobi Kigali Bujumbura
Bogota Quito
Jakarta Luanda Moroni
Lima Lilongwe Lusaka
Antananarivo
Brasilia
Harare Windhoek Gaborone Pretoria
Asuncion
Maseru Santiago Montevideo Buenos Aires
Section through sphere
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RHIZOMORPHIC TE Project Title : Solar Decathlon
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Date :
4000 3000 2000 1000 0
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Details :
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High cauca
August 2014 - December 15
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Description :
Residential block and 1:1 prototype of a house Medium cauca
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Location :
Cali, Colombia
Collaborators : Tutor: Jonas Lundberg Nate Kolbe
Project management : Anastasia Christakopulou Ana-Laura Mohirta Sebastien Gey Henriette Backer Marketing and Communications : Derek Opara lauren Campany Heather Graham
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Decathletes : Ergys Peka Holly York Jack Boyns Kit Smithson Mark McKee Reginald Reynolds Victoria Havercroft ShenPei ha Edoardo Perani
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Engineer: Price Myers D-D
Sponsor: Department of the Energy U.S.A
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The Solar Decathlon is an international competition created by the U.S. Department of Energy in which universities from all over the world work to design, build and operate a grid-connected, an energetically self sufficient house, that uses solar energy as the only energy source and that is equipped with all of the technologies that enable maximum energy efficiency. During the final phase of the competition university teams assemble their houses at a central location and then open each competition prototype house to the general public, while undergoing the ten contests of the competition. Together, the ten contests described in these rules make up the Solar Decathlon and the team with the most points earned at the end of the contest week wins.
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Urban Mycological Symbiosis
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Our teams entry comprised of a mid rise housing block with adaptable floor arrangements and the technical detail of a 1:1 prototype to be built in December 2015. During the project I acted as team leader and project managed the production of drawings packages for 9 months. My role also included a sponsored trip to Colombia and an opportunity to speak at the BRE about the technical advancements made in foam structures and bio-composites The project differs greatly from other academic projects as the class was assessed as a group and was focused around the delivery of a full scale prototype. These criteria meant that team work, logistics and communication were of paramount importance Further to this there was a restrictive $50,000 per unit budget which created a further design restriction
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Diagramatic Infrastructures
Masterplan
Technical details mid rise apartment construction
South Elevation
Perspective elevation of cluster building
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Project Title : Mycelium Tectonics
Details : Date :
September 2014 - Present
Description :
Research into the use of mycelium, the root structure of funghi as a replacement for closed cell foam in the building industry
Location :
London metropolitan university research
Collaborators :
Ecovative, London City University, BRE, Mycoworks Head of research : researcher : research :
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Conor Scully Ana-laura Mohirta Sebastien Gey
Natural composites of biological matter such as mycological fungi offer several advantages, including freedom from oil feed-stocks, low cost production, carbon capture and storage. These benefits make mycology materials carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative. Composite materials remain the material of choice for a wide variety of applications, but the high cost of raw materials and complex processing is opening a new avenue for sustainable composites. The vegetative part of fungi, called mycelium, provides a fast growing, safe and inert material as the matrix for anew generation of natural composites, which can serve as replacements for traditional polymeric materials for applications including insulation, packaging, and sandwich panels. As seen in nature, natural foams can provide acceptable mechanical properties, with the benefits of being lightweight, sustainable and inert. In this investigation mechanical testing was conducted to determine the mechanical behaviour of a mycelium material, including its elastic and strength properties in tension and compression. As in synthetic polymeric foams the mycelium material exhibited a compressive strength almost three times the tensile strength. Its high specific compressive strength made it a sustainable option as the core of sandwich panels. Scanning electron microscope of mycelium
Mycelium Japanese model
Mycelium sample bricks
1.4m Mycelium structure grown using agricultural waste
Proposed Rendered Image
Brick from mycelium structure
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JANUARY
WEEK 4
WEEK 3
WEEK 2 DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
EXPERIMENT RESEARCH 1.3 _ Growth
Organic
OSTREATUS PLEUROTUS
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CIRCULAR ECONOMICS
04_ MYCELIUM
BY STARTING AN URBAN
TEMPERATURE: RELATIVE HUMIDITY: DURATION: CO2: FRESH AIR EXCHANGES: LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:
atio dN l an Loca
RECYCLING AND ADAPTATION.
PROPOSAL ON THIS BASIS, COMMODITIES, RESOURCES AND ENERGY CAN BE APPROPRIATED IN A CYCLICAL TO REDUCE THE
WHILE SUBSTITUTING
TEMPERATURE: RELATIVE HUMIDITY: DURATION: CO2: FRESH AIR EXCHANGES: LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:
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THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
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DOWNGRADE MATERIALS, LEADING TO CONTINUING HIGH DEMAND FOR VIRGIN MATERIALS.
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PROCESSES ARE ENERGY-INTENSIVE AND GENERALLY
GOES BEYOND RECYCLING AS IT IS BASED AROUND A
70-80* F (21-27* C) 95-100% 10-20 DAYS 50,000 PPM OR 5% 0-1/HR N/A
THE POLYTHENE BAGS MAINTAIN THE 90% HUMIDITY REQUIRED FOR THE GROWTH OF MYCELIUM. THE BAGS CAN BE REMOVED FROM THE MOULDS FOR INSPECTION. AFTER THE GEOMETRY HAS
3a | Mould prep
BECOME MORE STERILE THE BAG CAN BE LOOSENED FROM THE SIDES TO ALLOW OXYGEN FILTRATE DEEPER AREAS OF THE
TEST MOULDS WILL CONTAIN ARE FORMATTED TO CONTAIN .008M^3 .027M^3 .064M^3 AND .512M^3 THEY ARE FORMED FROM 12MM MDF
SUBSTRATE.
PRIMORDIA (“ANTLER”) FORMATION:
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SECONDARY MATERIALS FOR PRIMARY MATERIALS CAN OFFER A PART SOLUTION, RECYCLING OFFERS LIMITED APPEAL AS ITS
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AMOUNT OF OVERALL WASTE.
7 a | Incubation
SPAWN RUN:
THE THEORY OF CIRCULAR ECONOMICS ADVOCATES A CONSTANT RENEWAL OF WASTE MATERIAL THROUGH REUSE
RESTORATIVE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM GEARED TOWARDS DESIGNING OUT WASTE. THE DIAGRAM BELOW SHOWS A CIRCULAR ECONOMICS
65-75* F (18-24* C) 95-100% 14-28 DAYS 20,000-40,000 PPM 0-1/HR 4-8 HOURS AT 200-500 LUX
PROCESS BASED ON THE USE OF MYCELIUM AS A DECOMPOSER,
THE SCALE OF THE NAVARRO SITE IS OF SUCH SIZE THAT A NEW RESOURCE PLAN IS REQUIRED FOR A SUSTAINABLE, RESOURCE AUTONOMOUS SOLUTION. THE CLOSED LOOP SYSTEM ALLOWS
Existing industry
BIO-REMEDIATOR, FOOD SOURCE AND A BUILDING MATERIAL.
Water
FLOWS OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES TO BE SHIFTED BETWEEN SCALES AND INDUSTRIES.
MYCELIUM ALLOWS FOR A SYMBIOTIC
6a | Inoculation Industrial
7 b | Incubation
A HERMETIC ENVIRONMENT IS MAINTAINED BY ENCASING THE SUBSTRATE IN A POLYTHENE BAG. THIS IS STERILISED USING ALCOHOL PRIOR TO CONTACT WITH MYCELIUM
THE POLY-BAG IS STORED IN THE VERTICAL POSITION TO APPLY PRESSURE TO THE MATERIAL INSIDE. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE
ISOPROPANOL
OBJECT DEFORMED AT THE LOWER PARTS RESULTING IN SPLITTING
LINK TO BE FORMED BETWEEN THE THRIVING AGRARIAN
AND TEARING OF THE BAG. IT WAS DECIDED TO SUSPEND THE BAG
INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE DEMAND FOR SOCIAL HOUSING AND RESOURCES.
FROM A HEIGHT TO REDUCE THE UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION OF
COFFEE BY PRODUCTS CAN BE USED AS A
MATERIAL.
NUTRIENT SOURCE FOR THE MUSHROOMS WHICH CAN THEN BE
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Waste
(fŭn-jī, fŭnghgī)
1. (Plants) any member of a kingdom of organisms (Fungi) that lack chlorophyll, leaves, true stems, and roots, reproduce by spores, and live as saprophytes or parasites. The group includes moulds, mildews, rusts, yeasts, and mushrooms
PROCESS
Individual
Unit
MYCOLOGIST
TEMPERATURE: RELATIVE HUMIDITY: DURATION: CO2: FRESH AIR EXCHANGES: LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:
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Organic Waste
INGREDIENT
SPAWN RUN:
Mycelium Usable mushroom
Cluster
Urban
THE SECOND COLUMN SAMPLE WAS AGITATED ONE WEEK INTO GROWTH TO DISTRIBUTE THE MYCELIUM GROWTH. AND ALLOW FOR AN EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF OXYGEN TO THE ORGANISM.
OYSTER SPAWN WAS OBTAINED FROM BRITISH SUPPLIER MUSHROOM. BOX. WE CHOOSE THIS SPECIES FOR IT’S TENACIOUS GROWTH
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CAUCA OR THE RIVER CALI.
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FURTHER TO THIS LOCAL WASTE MYCOREMEDIATION CENTRES CAN BE SET UP TO DEAL
WITH ORGANIC AND WATER WASTE SO THAT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PUT BACK INTO THE RIVER
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Myc o_Br
TRANSFERRED TO A CALORIFIC OUTPUT IN THE FORM OF THE NUTRITIOUS FRUITING BODIES.
75* F (24* C) 90-95% 12-16 DAYS 5000-20,000 PPM 1 PER HOUR N/A
FURNITURE STERILISED
AND ABILITY TO GROW AT AMBIENT ROOM
MYCOLOGISTS STRAW MYCELIUM
CLEAN
PLASTIC SHEETING
PRIMORDIA (“ANTLER”) FORMATION:
DUST FREE
CASTING MOULDS
TEMPERATURE: RELATIVE HUMIDITY: DURATION: CO2: FRESH AIR EXCHANGES: LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:
COMPARTMENT
50-60* F (10-15* C) 95-100% 4-5 DAYS 500-1000 PPM 4-8 PER HOUR 500-1000 LUX
TEMPERATURE.
Room arrangement for hygiene
National
Myc-eilum (mī-sēlē-em)
Mush-room (’m |ru:m; -rųm)
1. (Botany) the vegetative body of fungi: a mass of branching filaments (hyphae) that spread throughout the nutrient substratum 2. A similar mass of fibres formed by certain bacteria.
v1. (Botany) the fleshy spore-producing body of any of various basidiomycetous fungi, typically consisting of a cap (pileus) at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium 2. To Grow rapidly
[C19 (literally: nail of fungus): from myco- + Greek hēlos nail] mycelial adj myceloid adj
[C15: from Old French mousseron, from Late Latin mussiriō, of obscure origin]
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FOLLOWING THIS STAGE, ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE WEARING HAIR NETS, PLASTIC GLOVES UP TO THE ELBOW AND ALL SURFACES TO BE WASHED WITH ISOPROPANOL ALCOHOL.
PAPER MOUTH MASKS AT ALL TIMES.
1 | Grain Spawn
2 | Raw Materials
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7 | Incubation
2.1 _ Grow 1-3
f(x1) = x1(2a+2b+c)
5 | Pasteurisation THERE
ARE A NUMBER OF METHODS THAT CAN BE USED TO
PASTEURIZE. IN EACH OF THESE INSTANCES THE SUBSTRATE IS HEATED TO A TEMPERATURE BETWEEN KEPT AT THIS TEMPERATURE FOR
1.5
60-80 DEGREES AND A LARGE SCALE
HOURS.
AUTOCLAVE IS THE MOST PREFERRED METHOD AS IT CAN BE
f(x2) = x2(2a+3b+4d)
EASILY MONITORED AND PROVIDES THE MOST CONSISTENT RESULTS.
IN
THIS
EXPERIMENT
WE
MAINTAINED
ENVIRONMENT THROUGH A DOMESTIC COOKING POT AND RING HEATER.
4 | Substrate Prep
7 | Post Process
3 | Mould Prep
THE
2 | Raw Materials THE RAW MATERIALS OR SUBSTRATE FOR THIS PART OF THE PROCESS
WILL FORM THE BULK, NUTRIENTS AND STRUCTURE FOR THE FINAL PROTOTYPE MATERIAL.
THE ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF THIS MATERIAL COME FROM IT’S ABILITY TO UTILISE AGRICULTURAL WASTE MATERIAL. FOR THIS REASON WE HAVE LIMITED THE AREA IN WHICH WE CAN OBTAIN THESE MATERIALS TO A 100KM RADIUS AROUND THE SITE. IN THIS EXPERIMENT WE USED A 60/40 RATION OF STRAW AND OAK SAWDUST. BETWEEN 10% AND 20% WAS ADDED PER VOLUME
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THE PRODUCTION OF GRAIN SPAWN IS ACHIEVED THROUGH REPEATED DUPLICATION OF A SMALL PIECE OF THE FRUITING BODY IN ANTIBIOTIC AGAR MEDIUM.
RHIZOMORPHIC MYCELIUM GROWTH IS CONTROLLED
UNTIL CELLS OF DESIRED STRENGTH CAN BE COLLECTED AND MIXED WITH ORGANIC MATERIAL WITHIN GLASS GRAIN SPAWN JARS.
SUBSTRATE MATERIAL WILL NEED TO BE PASTEURIZED PRIOR TO BEING PUT IN CONTACT WITH THE SPAWN GRAIN. SUBSTRATE AND WOOD-CHIP TO BE PLACED IN HEAVY DUTY CONTAINER WITH 60-80° WATER. PROCESS TO LAST BETWEEN 1-1.5 HOURS. CONTAINER TO BE HELD UNDER OBSERVATION FOR MAINTAINING STABLE TEMPERATURE.
THE
PROCESSES AS THE NUTRIENT RICH MATERIALS BECOME SUSCEPTIBLE
AS
MATERIALS ARE MIXED AND PREPPED FOR
PASTEURIZATION TIMING BECOMES CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT. PERIOD OF MORE THAN
IF A 72 HOURS HAS PASSED BEFORE MIXING AND
PASTEURIZATION THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF THE FORMATION OF GREEN MOULD.
TISSUE HARVESTING WE RECOMMEND TO GRAFT TISSUE FROM THE ON
HYDRATING
AND MIXING OF THE SUBSTRATE SIGNIFIES THE START OF THE CLEAN TO CONTAMINATION.
6c |Inoculation FLAME-STERILISE THE SCALPEL UNIT GLOWING RED OVER THE ALCOHOL LAMP, LET COOL OFF AND PUT ON A STERILE BLADE. FOR
PROCESS OF MIXING SUBSTRATE IS TIME CONSUMING AND
LABOUR INTENSIVE IF NOT DONE MECHANICALLY.
3c | Mould Prep THE GEOMETRY FOR THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TAKEN DIRECTLY FORM A 3D MODEL. THE SURFACES WERE UN-ROLLED AND TABS ADDED TO ADJOINING EDGES. THE SHAPES WERE THEN HAND CUT OUT OF WHITE POLYSTYRENE PLASTIC. PRE-EXISTING
THIS
. SUBSTRATE PREPARATION IS NORMALLY DONE IN A
SEMI CLEAN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS SEPARATE FROM THE INOCULATION ROOM TO REDUCE AIRBORNE CROSS CONTAMINATION.
PRIOR
SUBSTRATE AND
MYCELIUM
TO INOCULATION A SHEET OF HEMP FABRIC
A MIXTURE OF THE GENERIC
WAS LAYERED ON THE SHEET BEFORE
ROLLING THE ENTIRE OBJECT AND PLACING IT IN A THE PLASTIC TUBE.
ONCE
FITTED THE GAPS WERE RETROSPECTIVELY FILLED WITH THE
GENERIC SUBSTRATE AND
THE INOCULATION PROCESS SOME OF THE MOULDS WERE
REMOVED FROM THE PLASTIC BAGS AND PLACED IN LARGER MORE
THIS EXPERIMENT THE FORM-WORK WAS A SIMPLE TUBULAR
POLYTHENE BAG.
WAS REINFORCED WITH BAMBOO CANES.
7 c| Incubation DURING
3+6b | Agar Culture IN
MYCELIUM MIX.
AERATED BAGS.
THIS
RESULTED IN A MUCH GREATER GROWTH AND
THE FORMATION OF A THICK SKIN AROUND THE EXTERIOR. IT WAS FOUND THAT DUE TO HIGH
CO2 ATE PRE-FRUITING STEMS OF THE
MUSHROOMS WERE DEFORMED CAUSING LENGTHENING OF STEM AND IRREGULAR GROWTH PATTERNS.
THIS PROCESS ALSO FACILITATED THE 2 PIECES THAT WERE ALLOWED TO GROW TOGETHER.
3.1 _ The LAB
MYCELIAL GROWTH IS HAPPENS IN HIGH HUMIDITY, LOW LIGHT AND LOW AIR CHANGE ENVIRONMENTS. FOR THIS REASON ALL MOULDS WILL BE COVERED IN POLYTHENE SHEETS TO WHICH SMALL INCISIONS WILL BE MADE TO ALLOW ADEQUATE OXYGENATION.
LOCATION PRECEDENT 1 | Mycoworks
Grow closet
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HIS INNOVATIVE METHOD "PROVIDES A FUNGAL SUBSTRATE WHICH
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PRECISE GEOMETRIC SPECIFICATIONS," ACCORDING TO HIS PATENT
MATERIALS, THE LIVING USED A NEW METHOD OF BIO-DESIGN, RESULTING IN A STRUCTURE THAT IS 100% ORGANIC MATERIAL. THE STRUCTURE TEMPORARILY DIVERTS THE NATURAL CARBON CYCLE
COULD BE MOLDED, AND EASILY AND CHEAPLY PREPROCESSED TO APPLICATION
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. A SINGLE FUNGAL ORGANISM MIGHT COMPRISE MILES
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EARTH AND RETURNS TO NOTHING BUT EARTH
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PHYSICAL OBJECTS AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. IT ALSO OFFERS A
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HOSTS INDEPENDENT BUILDERS AND DESIGNERS FOR TWO MONTH STAYS.
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ONE WHICH HE CAST IN A WHEELBARROW AS AN AESTHETIC TWIST AS WELL AS
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A DISCONNECTED FRIDGE WHICH HAS BEEN USED TO STORE CLEANED MATERIALS AS WELL AS
BEN SHETERLINE PRICE + MYERS BEN JOINED PRICE & MYERS AFTER GRADUATING FROM UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK IN 2006. HE HAS WORKED ON A WIDE VARIETY OF REFURBISHMENT AND NEW BUILD PROJECTS. PRICE MYERS ARE A LEADING LONDON BASED ENGINEERING FIRM THAT ALSO SPECIALISE IN SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS AND ASSESSMENT. THE COMPANY HAS BEEN VERY FAVOURABLE TO OUR MYCELIUM AND EPS WORK AND HAS SHOWN A KEEN INTEREST IN OUR INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCTION
PHIL ROSS MYCOWORKS
AFTER INVITING EBEN TO VISIT OUR LAB ON A VISIT TO LONDON HE OFFERED TO PARTNER WITH US BY SUPPLYING US
OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION INNOVATORS PROGRAMME.
DR DEBORAH PULLEN IS THE GROUP RESEARCH DIRECTOR AT THE BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT (BRE), LEADING THE DELIVERY OF THE CURRENT ยฃ20M RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS WORK BOTH AND AT BRE AND ITS FIVE UNIVERSITY CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE. THIS ALSO ENCOMPASSES THE BRE TRUST FUTURE CITIES PROGRAMME, WHICH NOW HAS OVER 70 PARTNERS FROM ACADEMIA,
THEM IN NEW FORMATIONS TO MAKE THEM STRONGER AND MORE VERSATILE AND THEN USING THEM AS A MATERIAL WITH
HIS WORK WAS HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL TO THE
PROGRESS OF OUR RESEARCH AND HE HAS BEEN A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTOR
EBEN BAYER ECOVATIVE
WE MET DEBORAH AT THE BRE DRAGONS DEN SEMINAR WHEN WE WERE PRESENTING OUR MYCELIUM WORK AS A PART
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WHICH TO BUILD.
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IN APRIL WE PRESENTED OUR WORK TO A BRE RESEARCH PANEL IN WATFORD.
INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC SECTOR WITH A COLLECTIVE VALUE OF
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SUSANNA HORN JARDEMARK. + ANITA OLLร R DURING OUR SECOND GROWTH EXPERIMENT IN MARCH SUSANNA AND ANITA JOINED FROM CHALMERS UNIVERSITY SWEDEN. THEIR WORK IS PREDOMINANTLY CONCERNED WITH MYCELIUM GROWTH AND VARIETIES IN MEDIA.
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Project Title : Footdee Music School
Details : Date :
January 2011 - June 2011
Description :
Independent Music school and performance space. Total size 800 sqm
Location :
Footdee, Scotland
The brief set for this project sought for a contemporary music school and performance space in the historic fishing village footdee on the coast of North East Scotland. Throughout history parallels have been drawn between music and architecture, it seems however that the command of music is far better understood than that of aesthetics. Architecture is however, infinitely more permanent than a piece of music. Regardless, the political nature of both run concurrently from the renaissance to, and most notably Modernism. I looked to Iannis Xenakis for inspiration as he was a renowned serialist musician and practitioner of modernism. Working under Corbusier for many years his perception of creation is most apparent in Both la Tourette and the Philips pavilion where a numerical sequence is used to derive form. Other factors that influenced my approach was the nearby rocky coast line and defensive nature of the neighbouring residential properties. The spatial organisation of the building looks to create not only an environmental comfort but also a social comfort while also allowing privacy for contemplation and practice. It is completely logical and ensures a clarity of understanding. The outside paradoxically denotes the flow and rhythm of music, while still adhering to a rational grid. the austere melancholia of the exterior also provides a suitable mind-set for individual creation and formulation 20
Footdee Academy, The hands on approach to Music
G + 1st Floor Plan
Long Section
Rear Elevation
Landscaping and Side Elevation
Front Elevation
1.50 Model Images
Interior Courtyard
Interior Courtyard
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Project Title : Aberdeen Museum of Art
Details : Date :
September 2011 - December 2011
Description :
Renovation of modernist swimming pool to art and history centre ( hand drawn project ) Total size 1800sqm
Location :
Aberdeen, Scotland
Originally a hub for sports and recreation in Aberdeen, this building is but a feint afterthought of what it once was. The modernist statement this building once made has been bastardised by a series of â&#x20AC;&#x153;contemporaryâ&#x20AC;? interventions, leaving it predominantly unused and exhausted. Aberdeen University is fifth oldest in Britain and thus has accumulated a huge collection of art and historic artefacts that are scattered across the campus and in storage. the renovation of the old pavilion would provide a hub of historic culture with a large contemporary gallery space. The main aesthetic gestures in the building have been derived by the untouched existing structure. The use of structure has resulted in a homogeneity throughout the project and a restoration of its modernist values 22
Site Plan and Entrance.
Internal Gallery
First and Ground Floor plans
Exploded Structural Axonometric
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1.20 hand drawn section original drawing size 1.6m
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Project Title : Carlow YMCA
Details : Date :
September 2008 - December 2008
Description :
Redevelopment of 17th century house with large rear extension 400sq.m
Location :
Carlow, Ireland
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Over the past number of years Carlow has become a tourist destination for young backpackers. The brief set in this project was to redevelop a 16th century traditional Irish house into a backpackers hostel. Provisions were made to ensure it complies with building regulations and particularly part M. The rear extension to the building copies the foot print of the build exactly and provides a common room, toilet facilities a lift and extra accommodation. The interior of the old building is listed and thus had to be detailed carefully in order not to destroy the character of the interior Ground Floor Plan
Section A-A
West Elevation
North Elevation
South Elevation
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Project Title : Empower Shack
Details : Date :
September 2013 - March 2014
Description :
Reinterpretation of the South African Slum typology Total size 64sqm
Location :
Khayelitsha, south africa Zurich, south africa
Collaborators :
Urban think tank, ETH, Swiss Pearl, Slum lab Andy Bolnick, Phumezo Tsibanto, Siyavuya Nobaza, Urs Lehner, Christine C. Dietrich, Marcel Aubert, Philippe Block, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Scott Lloyd, Thomas Auer, Jhono Bennett, Elias Boulé, Tom Emerson, Harald Gründl,
Felix Hallwachs, Reinhard König, Jonathan Ledgard, Christoph Lüthi, Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Siobhan Rockcastle, Juliana Sutanto, Lazaros Goutas, Mihai Calin, Heinrich Wolff, Maurits van der Staay, Frances Belser, Christine Baumgartner,
During a 10 day workshop with Urban Think Tank ( Gold Lion winners 2012) we were asked to design and build a prototype for a cost effective alternative to the standard slum dwelling. The brief required the shack to be assembled in a single day and be adaptable and flexible, allowing for pre-existing materials to be incorporated into it’s design. Working under the title Empower Shack, the team organised a design-and-build workshop in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town that is one of the largest in South Africa, and developed a design for a low-cost two-storey shack for local resident Phumezo Tsibanto and his family. The project is developed as an adapting response to urban informality, offering not only improved housing but a strategy that allows the citizens of self-built urban communities to dynamically structure their urban environment as an instant response to their needs. The empower shack was a largely collaborative project between U-TT, south african NGO Ikhayalami (‘my home’), swisspearl ag, transsolar, brillembourg ochoa foundation, meyer burger, the BLOCK ETH ITA research group, and videocompany. A prototype was developed featuring a two story metal-clad modular wood frame structure that is economical for the residents and can be self-built. Jumping back in scale, the project also features a master plan that begins to structure informally developed neighbourhoods to include courtyards, public space, and improved circulation through a ‘blocking out’ system. This system of informal re-arrangement has been helped using a masterplanning app that can be used on digital hand-held devices and allows for a democratic process of spatial organisation Each home is allotted a determined amount of space that allows the structure to expand as the inhabitants need it, still fitting within a more organized framework. transsolar has also made it possible to incorporate solar energy on every rooftop, making each house an energy-producing machine that would provide the necessary electric needs for the immediate residents and community. The ongoing project is intended to alleviate the housing crisis in informal settlements during a time when the 28
Typologies
Contextual construction process
Construction Process
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Digital blocking out process
Democratic site relocation using online app
Phumezo Tsibantoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house
Phumezo Tsibantoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first floor
Exhibition in Zurich
Structural axonometric
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Project Title : Build Our nation
Details : Description:
A community centre for the women of the DRC, and exhibition at the Venice Biennale
Date :
September2010 - October 2012
Location:
Bukavu Democratic Republic of Congo. Venice, Italy. Aberdeen, Scotland
Collaborators :
ETSA Barcelona, Politecnico Milano, Venice Biennale, Robert Gordon University
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Build our nation was a project conceived by students and tutors at Robert Gordon University. What was initially a vertical integration project quickly became an international project encompassing many people and institutions. I have been fortunate enough to be involved from the very beginning and have watched it develop of the last 2 years. Humanitarian architecture is an entity completely separate from the world of commercial architecture which often only affirms itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own singular presence through the appearance of its image. A project of this nature goes above and beyond the role of an architect often leaving conventional discourse as an afterthought. This project has allowed me to design outside the realms of conventional architecture where things like war, violence and changing despots rarely play a role in the outcome of a project. Initial design proposals quickly became futile; a paradigm shift
was needed to see the success of this project. The proposal needed to be malleable not only to the needs of the women but also their shifting social status. The solution was to lend our knowledge and experience to the woman and offer them an architectural solution to their social problems. The initial momentum of the project has been repeatedly hindered the ongoing conflict in the Congo as communications have proved near impossible. The current undertakings of the project are predominantly concerned with the legislative, financial and logistic problems faced with working in a war torn country This refreshing approach to architecture has informed many of my future projects, the needs of the citizen and denizen has become a paramount endeavour of all of my projects to date.
One day Esquise
Prototype construction
Project Timeline
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Project Title : Northern Lights hotel
Details : Date : June 2012 Description :
Mixed use Hotel with Observatory Total size 1400 sqm
Location :
Rovaniemi, Finland
Collaborators :
AC-CA Design Competiions
Design Team : Kurt Cleary Eoin Kavanagh Andreea Mocan Samuel Penn Conor Scully
In the ancient origin mythology of Finland the sky and forests were married. Ukko, the celestial god is represented by the sky and thunder and his wife, Rauni by the Mountain Ash, a symbol of the forests that covers seventy percent of the country. This relationship is confirmed most vividly in the spectacle of the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis, which dance in veils around the magnetic column of the North Pole. This special event calls the Finnish people to congregate, to assemble in the woods, to make pilgrimage in celebration of their bond. The image is clear, and for us, this became the starting point. How to make a place where this special congregation could happen and how to best facilitate this shared experience within the density of the Northern forest around the cape of Rovaniemi. The ceremonial was unavoidable in our understanding of the design, and so the formal language of the building experience was dictated by abstract and simplified geometries to give it clarity of intention. The square, the most distinct geometric form is not found in the structures of nature. It has been used time and again to signify human habitation. Towards the end of my Part 1 Bsc I formed a design collaborative called intertions. It was created to create an alternative mode of exploration that celebrated vertical integration of the years. The group gathered the ambitios students and tutrs fo Robert Gordon University and allowed them to share ideas and produce work outside the realsm of conventional academia. This project is just one of several that were udnertaken and was completed over a 5 day period.
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Taking cues form architects like valerio olgiati and Raphael Zuber, we proposed an austere and minimal design in concrete. We determined the best vantage point form to view the lights and arranged our programm around that taking the viewing platform as the paramount amenity. To the North the elevation opens to a large viewing platform from which the guests can view the natural spectacle. we spent a large portion of the design process trying to minimise the plan to itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s barest dimensions in a
Exploded Axonometric
Ground Floor Plan
Typical Bedroom
Entrance Elevation
Location plan
Plunge pool
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Project Title : Omega Place
Details : Date :
August 2012 - Present
Description :
Mixed use office accommodation currently being tendered. Total size 246 sq.m
Location :
Kings Cross. London
Collaborators :
Engineer : Price and Myers M+E Consultant : Consulux Party Wall : CS Partnership Design and Project management : Conor Scully Executive Architect ( 3 months during part 2 ) E. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan CDM Goddard Consultants Geotechnical GF Geotechnical
Throughout my part 1 work experience I have been working independently taking on a series of small to medium size projects. The project shown is not only the largest but also the most complex of my projects to date. From this I have gained invaluable experience taking on many of the tasks of an fully qualified architect. The site is located on Omega place, and lies in the Kings Cross Conservation area CA21 to the rear of Pentonville Road. There is a plethora of architectural styles on Omega Place including the contemporary 1-19 Radius apartments, a disused bus shelter that is currently an art gallery and the rear elevation of a former bank built in the turn of the 20th Century Kings Cross as a whole is regenerating from a series of anti-social problems, Omega place being no exception. The site has become a hub for prostitution and drug use due to its unsupervised entrances, poor lighting and blind areas when looking from the busy Caledonian Road.
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The building arranged over four floors with office space on ground first and second and an apartment on the third floor. Sections of the volume have been removed on the ground and top floor to make provisions for a balcony on the top floor and a bicycle bay, not only does this give an outdoor space that avails of morning sun and gives a sense of privacy to the ground floor occupants Site Plan and Context.
Rendered Street View
Proposed Elevation in context
G, (1st+2nd), 3rd Floor Plan
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