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00 Contents This short portfolio depicts the gradual systematic progression throughout my architectural education. Through a variety of conceptual and realastic briefs the work provides a complex array of different forms of work; from simple hand drawn sketches to 3Dimensional models alongside rendered graphics of proposed schemes.
01 - Esquissse Sketches Barcelona Bristol
02 - Material Research Nylon Steel Polyethylene
03 - Ferry Terminal Context Perscpectives
04 - Living Bridge Details Context Perspective
05 - Organic Cantilever Square Box VIewing Platform Glass Cantilever
06 - Phloem Forum Context Masterplan Cross-Section Perspectives 07 - Public Slaughterhouse Context Cross-Section Elevation Perspectives Details Model
01 Esquisse Sketches In order to bring a sense of personal style, the initial chapter of this portfolio will draw upon esquisse sketches drafted across dramatic landscapes, both in Barcelona and Bristol. There is also an array of graphite lighting studies shaded to create harsh tones layered over aggressively light crevasses of light rays.
Barcelona 1. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (10 mins)
2. Hospital de Sant Pau (5 mins)
3. Casa MilĂ (3 mins)
Bristol 1. Parkstreet Fountains (10 mins)
2. Redcliff Church (5 mins)
3. City Overview (3 mins)
02 Material Research Throughout my architectural education material research played a key role in developing my understanding of aesthetic preference and the variety of strengths that materials offer. These ranged from permeability, elasticity and compressional strength.
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In order to understand the rigidity of copper and nylon plywood was drilled into to create a foundation to stabalise the copper poles, while nylon was stretched and pulled over it.
The cantilever structure is often regarded as one of the most complex engineering obstacle in architectural design. The second material sculpture brings together steel and wood (two common building materials). There structural compositions allows the properties of the material to work in unissence with each other, creating an unnatural cantilevers.
3 The initial two prototypes investigated the use of wood, copper and steel, two traditional materials and the relatively new hightech material of nylon. This created a firm set of initial models to build the final instalment. The primary foundation for the 3rd model was a tiangular wooden hold. This bound the steel poles into a structurally strong formation enabling the poles to be held under tension by a stretchy PVC film, which under heat would adhear and tighten over the metal arches.
03 Ferry Terminal The first architectural project in this portfolio was drawn up with a brief to provide a new transport hub to the heavily congested Bristol region. The new ferry terminal would modernise the harbours current water taxi service to become a viable alternative to the mainstream road network.
Concept The problem with the current service was the increased lack of confidence in the product. To regain customer trust the site was re-designed into a modern alternative hub that could serve a variety of yacht types while drawing a diverse range of customers to revitalise the degrading taxi service. The location on the corner of the pier will act as a natural pincer drawing the attention of the pedestrian population walking along the harbourside. This intended to be an efficient system that would allow commuters to regain faith in the outdated system.
River Taxi
Material Research
The Avon River Taxi has slowly become increasingly unfeasable finacially in recent years. However, with the election of a mayor the city has witnessed an increase in planned infrastructure projects. This project hopes to eliminate the over crowded road network through an alternative mode of transport.
The new transport hub was designed to integrate the diverse range of materials within the surrounding context while revitalising the river taxi service, enhancing both a novel and practical way of moving around the city. The chosen location for the water taxi service hopes to fraw from a larger pool of customers.
04 Living Bridge The Living Bridge was designed as part of a larger masterplan for Bristols Harbourside. The bridge looked to connect two broken communities through a living structure that would bring people together. This central cafe would act as a middleground and bufferzone to the multiway bridge which would draw both cyclists and pedestrians across it.
Esquisse Sketch of Walkways
Detail of Drawbridge & Island Connection
Bristols historical heritage grew over the past two centuries due to the increasingly powerful British Empire using Bristol as a trade centre for both tobacco and slaves from America. 1 Folded Bridge Model Perspective 2 Walkway & Cycleway Model Perspective 3 Island Cafe Model Perspective 4 Wrapped Up Island Model Perspective The Living Bridge will role its walkways inwards similar to the effects of dried leaves folding inwards replicating the19th century Bristol Tobacco Industry. This will be brought together through colourful triangular joints similar to the colourful Bristol context.
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Island Cafe Perspective
Cafe Perspective
05 Organic Cantilever Following on from the Ferry Terminal and the Living Bridge the third years loose brief around the Bristol Harbourside moved into Castle Park. The third structure was to create a new and inovative cantilever that would bridge two sides of the harbour together. After studying Thomas Heatherwicks high-tech interpretation of the footbridge I set about searching for a new way for bridges to sit on the bank in harmony while folding outwards into an unnatural span across the water.
Square Box
The first model was developed through piecing together 6 pieces of square card. All squares were punctured in two corners then pieced together allowing the body of the connected sqaures to fold outwards into a cantilever while drawing back into a square box.
Viewing Platform
The second model allowed a range of pieces to come together, similar to the square box, however, widening at the central meeting point. The larger central block will act as a viewing stage when the bridge is in full swing.
Glass Cantilever
Similar to the first two conceptual designs the third model looks to draw from both concepts, creating a horizontally folding glass cantilevering bridge that will bring two broken communities together.
06 Phloem Forum The final third year design brief set out to create a Cultural Forum alongside Bristols historic harbourside to re-establish Castle Park as a popular destination within Bristol. The Cultural Forums design enhances the natural surroundings of the park while drawing visitors from the densly populated surroundings to study the increasingly problematic natural world.
Phloem Forum The west wing of the park will be completely demolished and built on, returning it to its original state pre-WWII when it was heavily bombed.
Landscape Architecture A re-routed river will flow through the park drawing new interest into the harbourside while creating new interest through a modern layout to the park
Elevation Cross-Section Cross-Section through the Phloem Cultural Forum shows the depth in creating an environment that enhances its surroundings by folding out over the landscaped park.
Perspective 1. The perspective Cross-Section draws on the sketched perspectives to draw an image of what the views will look like. 2. Perspective collage through the folliage of the double height show room. 3. Ground to roof detail slicing through lecture theatre, the gallery and the student accomodation above.
07 Public Slaughterhosue A response to the rise in Bovine T.B. in cattle throughout the South West has led to the government pushing for badger culling, could this be prevented? The Public Abattoir depicts an activist building comprising of a working public abattoir, visible for all to see! The aim is to inform the public of the malpractice and injustice in local meat production, while demonstrating best practice of humane slaughtering and responsible meat-consumption. This in theory will eliminate the demand for cattle (a highly environmentally unsustainable meat). Hence, reduce the spread of Bovine T.B. in cattle. The aim is to create an honest, transparent relationship between modern life and the food we eat, cultivating a more responsible meat eating culture. Giving people better clarity of the slaughter process while gaining greater respect for the welfare of the animals who give their lives to satisfy our hunger.
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BOVINE T.B. IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND The Disease with alot of stigma. However, could easily be eradicated. Bovine TB rates have shown another modest fall across Britain and in the South West, the latest figures from Defra reveal. In the South West, a TB hotspot, 2,142 herds were designated not officially TB free in August, a a TB hotspot, 2,142 herds were designated not officially TB free in August, down from 2,588 at the beginning of the year. There has been a small fall each month since January this year in the South West. There is no clear explanation for this pattern, because bTB is a multi-factorial and chronic disease with a complex epidemiology and reservoirs of infection in cattle and wildlife. As a result of surveillance and testing changes, there has been no stable time series until recently.
Blood Red Poppy Field
However, Though a small reduction in the rate of infection last year, this is irrelivant due to the timescale of the research. Should we be proud of a slow decline? Or should we push for a fight for the eradication altogether quickly? One way of reducing the spread of Bovine T.B. could be through the eradicating the carrier of the disease spreading into the Human food chain. YES, that would be the elimination of cattle production as opposed to eradicating the disease prone badgers which are native to this country.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE Prologue noun 1. a place where animals are butchered. 2. a scene of massacre or carnage. The shambles a place or scene of bloodshed, carnage within a condition of great devastation. Slaughtering animals on a large scale poses significant logistical problems and public health requirements and public aversion in many cultures influences the location of slaughterhouses.
Integration & Seperation
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Abattoirs are renowned as clynically clean places, cleaned every morning to create a steryle environment for the day ahead. This will be achieved through fluid transportation routes for those using the building. While this is all occuring there are parts of the building that want to merge into one, creating spaces with multiple uses. Places like the restaurant will be placed alongside the slaughterhall to blur the boundary between the two processes. This will then allow the public user to have a more controlled approach to viewing the unscene barbarity of the kill zone.
The observing public will act as the clientel for the abattoir. The symbolic interaction between them and the slaugter process will bring together a new form of theatre. Aiming to aggressively confront the onlooker with the reality, while working functionally as an efficient abattoir.
Provide an incite into the processes which happen within these “blackholes” in society. This hopes to give an insight into the absurd practice that happens behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses.
“ I’m fine with dead animals, but the point at which animals cross from living to lunch is one that makes me wobble” Jamie Oliver
North Elevation North View of Restaurant
West Elevation View of Refridgeration Tower
East Elevation East View of Restaurant
South Elevation South View of Dispatch Zone
Cross-Section Through Restaurant
Menu Of Slaughtered Cattle
Perspective View Of Slaughter Zone
Perspective View Of Viewing Chamber
Detail 1. External Balcony Corner
Model Southernly View
Detail 2. External Wall & Office
Birds Eye View Of Refridgeration Towers
View of Cattle Drop Off Zone
Slaughtered Cattle Route
Contaminated Zone
Side View Of Refridgeration Towers
Birds Eye View of Dispatch Zone
Public Access Route
Clean Staff Access Route
Experience Eating & Slaughtering
Architectural Portfolio 2011 - 2015 Edward Russell