Portfolio 2014

Fabian Danker, M. Arch (Dist)

PORTFOLIO architecture and design

CON TENTS

CONTENTS RIBA PART II CAMPUS:LIVE LIGHT:WIND S3 BIOPHILIA

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RIBA PART I

THE CLC

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL PREF.AB PREFAB.EDU

ONE STOP SHOP

43 47 49 51 53 55

EXTRA

PECHA KUCHA

NORTHERN SOUL CHARRETTE

RIBA STUDENT APPRAISAL

COMMUNITY IMAGES

LOVE ARCHITECTURE

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FABIAN DANKER

M.Arch (Dist) PART II ARCHITECTURE

AWARDS

Achieved Highest Design Portfolio Mark In The Year.

Winner of RIBA Northern Soul Competition.

Special Mention in International Housing Competition.

Academically Achieved in the Top 5% Nationally.

2013 2013 2012 2006

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) International Conference.

For paper thesis titled “Combining BIM and Augmented Reality: An industry overview of utilisation, trends and future directions.”

2014

AAE (The Association of Architectural Educators) International Conference.

Living and Learning 2014 For design thesis “Campus:Live - A live design project”

2014

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE. Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Distinction.

2012 - 2014

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS) ARCHITECTURE Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Second class upper division.

2006 - 2009

CHIANG MAI LIFE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Graduate Architecture Student.

Learning traditional Thai building methods applied to contemporary structures using sustainable materials of bamboo and rammed earth.

March 2012

ED EWERS ARCHITECTS Melbourne, Australia.

Part I Graduate Architectural Assistant.

Covering mainly residential and education. Using CAD (AutoCAD) and BIM (Revit) models of existing houses, demolition plans and proposed. Kitchen, bathroom joinery details. Company promotion and business development. Administrative duties include typing letters, feasibility reports, tender documents and bids. Achieved special mention in International D3 Housing For Tomorrow Competition.

March - October 2011

FOUNDATION RESOURCING Ripon, England.

Head hunting for financial advisors.

February September 2010

Enthusiastic with a strong work ethic, hope to gain a broad range of experience within the built environment to enhance knowledge in preparation for Part III. A: 4 Church Avenue, Harrogate. North Yorkshire HG1 4HE|M: (+44) 07792149570|E: info@fabiandanker.com|W: www.fabiandanker.com

FREELANCE VISUALISATION ARTIST Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.

Three images of a community centre created using 3D Studio Max and Photoshop, to communicate designs.

June 2009

DYNAMITE CONSTRUCTION Harrogate, England. Labourer.

Refurbishment project on a special needs school.

July 2006

STUDIO MAP Harrogate, England. Office Junior.

Using AutoCAD to draw residential surveys.

SKILLS

REFERENCES

CAD AutoCAD Revit 3D Studio Max V-ray Sketchup

ADOBE Photoshop Indesign After Effects Premier Dreamweaver

July - August 2005

MICROSOFT Office Excel Power Point Access

SEBASTIAN MESSER Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Northumbria University.

T: (+44) 0191 243 7741 E: sebastian.messer@northumbria.ac.uk “Given the range of his year out experience and the bullish enthusiasm he applies to everything he undertakes, it would be difficult to predict where his future career will take him after qualifying as an Architect.”

ED EWERS Director of Ed Ewers Architecture T: (+60) 0413 998 756 E: edewers@ewersarchitecture.com.au “Fabian enthusiastically and diligently provided assistance to this practice. He is mature, quick-learning, and has an outstanding work ethic. In addition to his passion for architecture and sustainable building practices, Fabian has a very good grasp of the fundamentals of small business - something that I suggest stands him apart from most of his peers.“

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Voted course representative, liaise with staff and peers to improve the course and its facilities including the new purchases of 5 Makerbots for the workshop. Active member of the Architecture Society at university. Founded Show And Tell Night, where people from numerous different disciplines can share work, ideas, skills and network.

Enjoy going to the gym, bouldering, photography and computers.

RIBA PART II

CONTENTS RIBA PART II CAMPUS:LIVE LIGHT:WIND S3 BIOPHILIA

01 27 31 33

RIBA PART I

THE CLC

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL PREF.AB PREFAB.EDU

ONE STOP SHOP

43 47 49 51 53 55

EXTRA

PECHA KUCHA

NORTHERN SOUL CHARRETTE

RIBA STUDENT APPRAISAL

COMMUNITY IMAGES

LOVE ARCHITECTURE

61 63 65 67 69

CAMPUS:LIVE Part II Year Two Newcastle, England A pop-up experiential pavilion for the VAMOS latin festival A Masters of Architecture design thesis project developing a collaborative practice in architecture, art and sound.

The pavilion is designed for the VAMOS! Festival to create an experiential microclimate, in which lighting and sound installations reflect Latin American culture.

The project began with nothing. Between October 2013 and June 2014 a client was found; the brief and design developed; sites and transportation procured; artists, musicians, engineers and other collaborations explored. Local businesses were approached and agreed sponsorship-in-kind of materials or to manufacture components.

As the first design-build project undertaken at Northumbria University, it applies principles of collaboration, networking, management, law, logistics, feasibility to teaching and learning.

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CAMPUS:LIVE

Flexible Joint Model

Rotational Intersection Model

Rotational Intersection Model with Adjustable Connections

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Rotational Intersection Model with Custom Rotational Bolts and Adjustable Connections and Fixings

Rotational Intersection Model with Custom Rotational Bolts

Rotational Intersection Model with Adjustable Connections and Fixings

THE BRIEF QUICK & EASY TO ASSEMBLE

FLEXIBLE FOR MULTIPLE USES

CREATE UNLIMITED FORMS

EXPANDABLE FOR VARIOUS SIZES

DESIGN CONCEPT

MODULAR COMPONENTS

SUSTAINABLE UK SOURCED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS

EASY STORAGE

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Limitations

• • • •

On-site assembly can be time consuming.

Structural strength is reduced with interlocking joint.

Susceptible to water damage.

OSB sheets break under pressure.

Poor strength to weight ratio.

Independent component assembly creates unstable structures.

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SCALE SECTION TEST The scale sectional model demonstrates problems which occurs with this type of modular component created with OSB. Although the structure when complete is very strong as a dome, in section the form is weak as there are no lateral bracing. This causes the structure to

Form Finding Shell

Wind Load Analysis

Undulating Floor Band Strips

Form Finding Geometry

Wind Load Analysis II

Undulating Floor 3D Geometry

Form Finding Geometry Curvature

Creating A 3D Floor Geometry

Undulating Floor Sliced Geometry

Form Finding Geometry Faceted

Modelling Complex Geometry

Undulating Floor Interlocking Slices

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Construction Sequence Experiementation

Interlocking Assembly of Frame Components

Interlocking Assembly of Floor Components

1.10 Scale Laser Cut Model

MARTIN PURVIS Martin is the senior technician of the Engineering and Architecture workshop.

Before the delivery was booked, a safe route from the offloading lorry to the workshop was arranged and ample space was cleared in the workshop to ensure that the pavilion could be properly assembled.

ANDREW MACKINTOSH

1.

2.

Components are off loaded and arranged on the ground.

Andrew is the operations director of Willmott Dixon. He served as the first point of contact for sending the project media pack to within Willmott Dixon who generously donated materials towards the project.

3.

The central arch is assembled on ground and bolted together.

The central arch is lifted into an elevated position.

CHRIS RUBERY Chris works for James Paul Services which acts as one of Willmott Dixons Sub-contractors.

IAN FLOOD Ian is a Northumbria University Alumni and currently employed as a project surveyor for Willmott Dixon.

All correspondence for materials went through Ian. Willmott Dixon was also interested in further developing business and community links with Northumbria University. Future activities and events will include site visits for Part I students.

4.

5.

Floor components are lifted into position and bolted to the arch.

6.

The connecting arches are assembled on ground with bolts.

The connecting arches are lifted into position and bolted to the central arch.

LIZ TURNER Liz is the university liaison manager for TRADA. A short list of local building merchants who had previously supplied materials to students were created for sending out media packs informing companies of the project.

LAUREN WARK 70x

7.

8.

The end arches are bolted together on ground.

140x

70x

9.

Arches are lifted into place and bolted to the structure.

The self supported pavilion is complete.

Special Thank You To Music Produced by James Armstrong (Slow Clinic)

PETER SMITH

LED Light Installation by

Funded by

Materials Donated by

Latin Musician Simon Taylor Structural Engineering by

Lauren is the marketing intern at Norbord, she liaises between the finance team, marketing and the designer to ensure the company is gaining good public exposure for the donation of materials towards the project.

Peter is the director of Max Fixings, nuts, bolts and washers were donated. This was for exchange of company promotion during the exhibition.

KELVIN POLLARD

Manufactured by

Kelvin is the construction director North East of BAM Construction Ltd. He authorised a generous donation towards enabling the project to get built.

DESIGNER AND TEAM LEADER MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS

LEGAL ADVICE

UNIVERSITY AUTHORITIES

Although CAMPUS:LIVE forms part of Fabian Danker’s design thesis, the project would not be possible without the help of his tutors and colleagues.

Tutor: Sebastian Messer Technicians: Martin PURVIS Phil Donnelly James CHARLTON Steve COLVIN Sam HUTCHINSON Simon NEVILLE Matthew DUNDAS Chris WALTON Leon AMES Bruce WALTON Colleagues: Mike CARR Megan DAVIES Katie HAMMOND Phil Jordan Cheung ZENNY Louise FRANCES Adam BROWN Vincent LAO Chan CHIU Steve ALTON Matthieu COURTADE Chris BROWN Pete NOEL Jamie Nicholson Mark HOOD Andrew LEE Emily FIDDES Jenny BEDFORD Leanne BARLOW Cheryl MURDOCH Otis MURDOCH Adam GRAHAM Gustavo MANSUR

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

VAMOS CLIENT PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT

11 BRIAN COWAN Brian is the assistant director of facilities management at Northumbria University.

As parts of the campus is owned by Newcastle Council, the sitting of the pavilion needed to be on campus premises otherwise local authorities may ask to disassemble the structure without prior consent.

PAUL RAYNER

JAN STAFFORD

SIMON WILLIS

Paul managers the University Services team. On the day of delivery, Paul and Simon were walked through all the logistical steps from lorry entrance, parking, offloading points and route to workshop for components pieces.

Jan acts as faculty manager for Northumbria University. She ensured that all personnel who needed to be involved including insurance, health and safety were all informed

Simon is the Facilities Manager for Northumbria University. As the delivery of the cut profiles from Decorpanel were classed as manual lifting, students were unable to help offload the delivery without manual handling training. Porters had to be booked due to insurance and liability purposes.

JOHN ANDERSON John is head of security for Campus Estates. Before the pavilion was assembled, he ensured that the security staff were aware of the pavilions assembly on site as well as CCTV coverage of the pavilion during and after assembly.

PORTER TEAM Paul Rayner

LESLEY SALKELD Lesley is the safety and sustainability personnel for Northumbria University.

She acted as the first point of contact for the risk assessment officer and university insurance advisor.

FACILITIES MANAGER Simon Willis

SENIOR TECHNICIAN Martin Purvis

SUSAN HARRISON Susan is the risk assessment officers at Northumbria University. A step by step process of all the potential risks and hazards were addressed for the assembly “break-in” and “break-out” of the pavilion.

FACILITIES MANAGER Simon Willis SECURITY John Anderson

ANNE HUDSON JAMES PAUL SERVICES Chris Rubery

RISK ASSESSMENT Susan Harrison

CAMPUS SERVICES Brian Cowan

Anne is the insurance advisor for Northumbria University. She ensured that the insurance policy of student projects protects for public liability during the assembly and use of the pavilion on university property.

FACULTY MANAGER Jan Stafford

PROJECT SURVEYOR Ian Flood

MARC HORNE SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY Lesley Salkeld

WILLMOTT DIXON Andrew Mackintosh

TRADA Liz Turner

INSURANCE ADVISOR Anne Hudson

SHED CONSULTANTS Marc Horn

EVENTS MANAGER Jonathan Beweley JONATHAN BEWELEY ATTAYA Lalya Gaye

SOUND ENGINEER James Armstrong

DESIGNER Fabian Danker

NORBORD Lauren Wark

Marc is a fully qualified structural engineer and director of SHED consultants. His role ensured that the structural thickness’s of the materials were adequate for wind and live loads.

Jonathan is the director of Locus+ a events managing consultancy for artists creating outdoor installation projects. He advised on the liabilities and implications of creating a live project.

JAMES ARMSTRONG MAX FIXINGS Peter Smith

Jonathan is the director of Locus+ a events managing consultancy for artists creating outdoor installation projects.

VAMOS Nikolas Barrera

CHOREOGRAPHER Robby Graham

BAM Kevin Pollard DECORPANEL Ian Ling

LALYA GAYE

CNC TECHNICIAN Doug Smith

NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY LAW Christopher Simonds

SOLICITOR INTERN April Hall

LOGISTICS Anthony Hopps

CIRCUS CENTRAL Helen Avery

BEN HOARE BELL Val Addison PTH TRUCK HIRE Steve Taylor

JOINER AND PERFORMER Daniel Labrinth

Lalya is the director at Attaya artist collective. She is experienced with multimedia digital art installations. Her expertise has influenced the digital interaction aspect of the pavilion with sound.

NIKOLAS BARRERA SOLICITOR INTERN Prabhi Ghura

PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT Nicola Singh

Nik is the director and founder of the VAMOS Festival. He ensures that the pavilion will fit and function within the VAMOS festival. He is in charge of promoting the project, insurance and health and safety of the project on VAMOS sites.

DANIEL LABRINTH Daniel is a trained joiner and circus performer. His unusual mixture of skills makes him a perfect consultant for this project. He was able to advise on the limitations of materials with assembly.

IAN LING

VAL ADDISON

ROBBY GRAHAM

NICOLA SINGH

HELEN AVERY

Ian is the director of Decorpanel, the cost of the project had to be negotiated to fit the budget. He liaised with Doug and Anthony to ensure the pieces were correctly cut and delivered to site.

Northumbria University have professional links with Bell Hoare Bell solicitors offering legal advice for interns. They highlighted legal liabilities of the live project and the risks involved.

Robby informed the criteria of the pavilion as an initial brief. Logistics of the pavilion is important, this includes the materials which are used and the strength of it.

Nicola is currently researching into performance and architecture. She informed the framework and function of the project at the start.

Helen is the director of Circus Central, she acted as consultant to the project for networking with performers early in the project.

Fully Assembled Pavilion

11mm Orientated Strand Board Profile Drawings

18mm Plywood Profile Drawings

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Factory visit to Decor Panel during CNC manufacturing of components. When arriving at the factory, it was discovered that all the pieces were cut 12mm outside tolerances.

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM

18mm Plywood Frame

11mm Orientated Strand Board Floor

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TILE COMPONENT SPECIFICATION 1.

ETFE Pillow.

2.

10mm Aerogel Infill Insulation.

3.

25mm Phase Changing Material Plaster Board.

4.

3D Printed Carbon Fibre Frame.

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2

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN CNC CONSTRUCTION

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4

The pavilion demonstrates the possibilities and limitations of current CNC manufacturing methods with engineered sheet material of OSB and plywood. Due to the strength to weight ratio of the materials, large spans, slender components and high efficient use of materials are limited.

Using modular components to create a structural frame is also limited to the level of loading the nodes can withstand. By developing a 1:1 scale pavilion, the lessons learnt from the technology and materials highlights potential improvements from CNC manufacturing.

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TOP 3D Scan of proposed structural framework used as a temporary street canopy.

BOTTOM Potential variations of forms created with structural system.

Street view render of temporary canopy created from structural system.

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Temporary pavilion structure sited at the Baltic Hyperbolic Paraboloid.

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Temporary pavilion structure sited at the Baltic as a concave hyperbolic paraboloid.

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LIGHT:WIND Part II Year One South Shields, England A device to illustrate wind speed changes Light:Wind was a four week project to illustrate the changes of wind speed and direction recorded through long exposure photography. The device was designed and manufactured at 1:1 scale.

All components were laser cut from MDF and interlock to not require any adhesive. The device could be transported to site, assembled, used, disassembled and transported again quickly and easily.

After sourcing a treadmill motor to be used as a 12v dynamo for lighting the LED strip lights, the frame was created to both house the dynamo and blades.

The initial brief stated that the device must fit within a suitcase, due to the size of the electrical components, the scale of the device gradually increased.

The project demonstrates a full understanding of creating a design which is feasible working at detail scale.

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LIGHT:WIND

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S3: SELF SUSTAINING SOCIETY Part II Year One South Shields, England A group master plan of South Shields S3: Self Sustaining Society incorporates four areas of improvement for South Shields. This included improved transport systems, renewable energy, self sustaining food sources and improved community facilities.

Permaculture Garden and Dome Areas are created to encourage permaculture to generate food for the local community cheaply.

Car Share Schemes and Canal Cars will be shared between the community, this also frees up urban street space for communal gardens. The central canal will be used to for low energy transportation.

Algae Processing and Martine Turbine Algae is grown on processed to create fuel for the communities biomaas boilers. This will reduce the loads required for production from marine turbines.

Community Involvement Through permaculture gardens, sharing schemes and creation of more parks and gardens, communities are encourages to help either other.

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S3: SELF SUSTAINING SOCIETY

BIOPHILIA Part II Year One South Shields, England A master plan of South Shields Biophilia forms a masterplan project for South Shields. The site comprises of parkland, developed to generate food for the town through permaculture, aquaponics and jardin potager.

Located between the eastern edge of the town and the coast, the site comprises of parkland sloping steeply down to the dunes and thence the North Sea. Dividing this site into linear jardin potager of between 1 & 1.5 acres, for groups of 30 to 40 terraced houses.

The proposed “community share allotment� to generate all of the fruit and vegetables sufficient for all of the households each year. These allotments can be maintained by 120 hours of labour per week from the local community.

Four biomes act as fish hatcheries and nurseries and as greenhouses housing aquaponics growing tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and salad crops utilising the nutrients in fish waste. Seasonal changes bring new varieties to harvest in the permaculture garden. Excess fruit and vegetables are sold in the market place.

BIOPHILIA

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PROBLEMS IN SOUTH SHIELDS OBESITY IN ADULTS

NATIONAL OBESITY INCREASE

OBESITY IN KIDS

SPEAKING WITH LOCALS

12000 27.3%

24.2%

11.6%

9.9%

LOCAL FOOD

Difficult to get local produce.

Majority of people go to large supermarket chains sourcing food from overseas.

ECONOMIC

Locals spend their money outside of the city where. Energy prices and cost of living increases.

Lack of jobs.

0 2000 South Shields

2013

South Shields

Number of admissions to hospital from primary diagnosis of obesity.

England

CHILDHOOD OBESITY INCREASE

HEART DISEASE

“Expecting the general population to adopt healthy lifestyles is unrealistic if the SOCIAL and BUILT-UP ENVIRONMENT does not PROMOTE it”

England

40%

253

Joan Atkinson Lead council member for Children, Young People and Families

Obese

People die in South Tyneside from heart disease each year

“We need to tackle issues such as the impact on where people live, the impact of FOOD SYSTEMS and DISTRIBUTION on FOOD CHOICES and DIETARY HABITS.”

ACTIVITIES FOR YOUTH

Overweight

0% 1995

2010

Population of children in England reported to be obese.

Alan West Lead Council for Health and Well-being.

NHS Report 2012

British Heart Foundation

AGRICULTURE

Pesticides on Food

Health risks of pesticides

Even after washing of fruit and vegitables we eat still contain pesticides

Eyes Skin and Lungs

50%

Over

Solutions

62%

Over

50,000

Lack of activities for young people. Currently a skatepark which is rarely used.

Organic crops raised naturally

of people live in cities.

edible species of plants

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Brain and Nervous system

plants provides

90%

Apples were found to have

Disconnection between people and food.

of world food intake

97%

Rice

Wheat

Corn

Current farming methods rely on

OIL

3

Crops support

4 Billion people

FARMED FISH 88 fish per m² 80,000 fish per net 6

HABITAT

ocean + rivers

12

months

DIET

months

30m x 30m

DIET

krill

sardine

zooplankton

herring

ANTIBIOTICS Excess antibiotics make their way through the food chain.

74% - 100%

of wild fish near farmed fish contain antibiotics.

different pesticides

+

+

fishmeal

protein

ANTIBIOTICS slice - sea lice pesticide canthaxanthin, astaxanthin colourant oxytetracycline, dieldrin, toxaphene, romet-30, tetracycline, sulfa drugs

PARTI DIAGRAM

Environmentally friendly and completely sustainable compared to fish farms which feed their fish with fish pellets. The fish have to swim and be more active to catch their fish.

FISH MANURE The fish’s manure gets broken down into nitrates to fertilise the plants.

months

VEGETABLES AND HERBS

=

fish oil pesticides fish pellets

worms

parasites

plankton

ANTIBIOTICS In a closed loop system, any outside infections are minimised.

The fish keep healthy by swimming and catching their food in the water.

The flora absorbs nitrates from the fish manure, cleaning and filtering the fish water.

BOTANICAL GARDEN

HYDROPONIC DOME

PERMACULTURE

FARMED

200%

MORE FAT THAN WILD

NUTRITION

FISH PARASITES

omega-3

omega-6

omega-3 omega-6

AQUAPONIC FISH 80 fish per m² closed loop system 6

HABITAT

Sustainable farming using manure as organic fertilizer

Hormonal disruption

AQUAPONICS

DIET

ANTIBIOTICS + SEA LICE TRANSFER NUTRITION

NUTRITION

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including pesticides, packaging, machinery and transport

AQUACULTURE COMPARISON WILD FISH

Grapes found to have

Cancers and Blood disorders

Kg(s) of feed to protein

HABITAT

Balanced soil by using crop rotation to improve fertility not chemicals

pesticides on the surface

Reproduction and Birth Defects

protein

protein omega-3 omega-6

Fasciola hepatica is a natural parasite of watercress, normally would be treated with chemical pesticides.

A variety of fish can be grown including tuna, salmon, prawns, carp and trout.

RESTAURANT

PIAZZA MARKET

COMMUNITY SHARE ALLOTMENT

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DYNAMIC TREE STRUCTURE

SHARE ALLOTMENT

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

ALLOTMENT 1 Space: 1.5 acres Population: 37 houses Total Labour: 180 hours Labour Per Person: 1.5 hours a week Market: 240kg of vegetables a week ALLOTMENT 2 Space: 1.2 acres Population: 37 houses Total Labour: 155 hours Labour Per Person: 1.5 hours a week Market: 150kg of vegetables a week 4

1

2

ETFE PILLOW

ALLOTMENT 3 Space: 1.3 acres Population: 37 houses Total Labour: 160 hours Labour Per Person: 1.3 hours a week Market: 120kg of vegetables a week

5

3

GLULAM TIMBER ARCHS

ALLOTMENT 4 Space: 0.9 acres Population: 31 houses Total Labour: 120 hours Labour Per Person: 1.3 hours a week Market: 120kg of vegetables a week ALLOTMENT 5 Space: 1.2 acres Population: 21 houses Total Labour: 145 hours Labour Per Person: 2.3 hours a week Market: 300kg of vegetables a week

ALLOTMENT AREAS AUTUMN

WINTER

SPRING

BUNNY EARS STEEL SUPPORT ON CONCRETE BASE

SUMMER TIMBER DECKING 2500mm SUPPORT COLUMNS ON CONCRETE FOOTINGS

Entrance into the permaculture gardens with tree infrastructure to aid with fruit picking.

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Aquaponic dome with vertical vegetation trees and fish nursery tanks.

Permaculture gardens demonstrating high yield of vegetation within a small area.

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Piazza market of community trading fresh local produce

RIBA PART I

CONTENTS RIBA PART II CAMPUS:LIVE LIGHT:WIND S3 BIOPHILIA

01 27 31 33

RIBA PART I

THE CLC

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL PREF.AB PREFAB.EDU

ONE STOP SHOP

43 47 49 51 53 55

EXTRA

PECHA KUCHA

NORTHERN SOUL CHARRETTE

RIBA STUDENT APPRAISAL

COMMUNITY IMAGES

LOVE ARCHITECTURE

61 63 65 67 69

THE CLC Part I Placement Chiang Mai, Thailand Apprenticeship at a Thai construction company specialising in bamboo structures One month work experience within the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. The Chiang Mai Life Construction Company specialises in creating structures from treated bamboo and rammed earth. May of there buildings are carbon negative.

During the month work experience the CLC runs a series of workshops, teaching by making.

• • • • • • •

Traditional Thai bamboo construction methods.

Rammed earth wall and floor construction.

Adobe wall construction.

Bamboo furniture workshop.

The various stages of bamboo treatment.

Complex bamboo structure.

Residential bamboo design.

The following imagese demonstrates some of the projects The CLC were undertaking during placement.

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THE CLC

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VICTORIA UNIVERSITY Part I Placement Melbourne, Australia University reception refurbishment Victory University, Melbourne had been undergoing refurbishment over the past decade. The project included designing office space with bespoke counter and fixtures.

These drawings show the proposed refurbishment plans for the reception.

Drawings were done in AutodCAD and Revit.

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VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

RESIDENTIAL Part I Placement Melbourne, Australia Various residential extensions and refurbishment projects The majority of the projects undertaken during Part I placement at Ed Ewers Architecture Melbourne, Australia were residential.

Haug residence pictured on the left is a card model created for the client to show spacial qualities of the proposed renovation.

Wilson residence pictured on the right was modelling in Revit. The extension included converting the attic to an extra two bedrooms with toilet to accommodate a growing family. The brick shed toward the rear will be connected to the house to extend the kitchen. After initial survey information was taken the existing, demolition and proposed were modelled on the same file.

The image was rendered using Revit, Photoshop was used to to add trees and colour grading.

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RESIDENTIAL

PREF.AB Part I Placement Melbourne, Australia Prefabricated Abode Units Modular units harnesses all the efficiencies of a standard prefabricated model - costsavings, economies of scale and labour, common templates, sizes, units, reduced time on site and quality control, safe workplace within a factory environment, higher quality. Using a kit of modular parts, a number of different combination of cellular pods can be arranged.

With an ever increasing global population, we now live in an age where over 50% of people are living in cities. This creates massive pressure on fundamental resources food, water, energy and space.

Pref.Ab aims to reduce the strain an increasing population will have. By use of grey water collection, space to encourage people to grow their own food, and use of active and passive services , the inhabitants of the building will use significantly less resources than in typical housing.

Based on the form of a bee hive cell, the design utilises maximum volume of space created with minimal amount of materials, with a tessellating shape, the pods can be connected together without wastage of space.

The pods can be manipulated into any number of permutations and combinations to create a space which works best for the residents.

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PREF.AB

PREFAB.EDU Part I Placement Melbourne, Australia Prefabricated Education Units Derived by nature, the form of PREFAB. EDU is based on the honeycomb. Minimal material is used to create the maximum volume a regular tessellating shape which also utilises all the space available.

The components are standardised to fit on the back of a lorry to reduce logistical costs and improve distribution of the units to places where infrastructure and access can be limited due to geographical location or major catastrophes such as earth quake, flooding, etc.

The walls are comprised of 5 equal panels which can be arranged in either super insulated compressed sheet cladding or double glazed windows to allow natural light into the space.

Natural cross, stack and sub-floor ventilation can be used to minimise energy use throughout the life span of the building. North facing pergolas with creepers also reduce solar gain during midday and act as natural shading. Active green technology such as photovoltaic, wind turbines can be implemented.

The floor and roof are super insulated to maintain a constant temperature within the space. Grey water collection can also be implemented into the building to minimise stress on current water supplies.

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PREFAB.EDU

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ONE STOP SHOP Part I Scotswood, England Community centre serving as a One Stop Shop for local residence The Scotswood ‘One Stop Shop’ Scotswood as a small region west of Newcastle Upon Tyne faces many challenges from low employment rates, lack of support for single parent families, lack of facilities for the youth, high crime and no sense of community. Over the years, much of the area has declined and some of the residential houses demolished.

The One Stop Shop acts as a hub for the area training local residents with IT skills and creating an infrastructure to allow micro business’ to start up. The building contains a cafe area, multi-use space which can be used for performances to parties, a crèche, IT suite for computer classes. At night the building lights up creating a urban running site for the local youth. During the summer the garden area opens up creating an outdoor amphitheatre. The ground floor acts as flexible multi-use space which can open up to create large open plan spaces or be closed off to create small isolated spaces for different activities at different times of the day.

ONE STOP SHOP

Multi-use cafe and Lobby

Entrance, Reception and Office

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Geothermal Closed Loop Underfloor Heating

Without Louvre Banding (Increased Glare)

Winter Underfloor Heating Winter Underfloor Heating

With Louvre Banding (Reduced Glare)

Summer Underfloor Cooling

Summer Underfloor Cooling

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CONTENTS RIBA PART II CAMPUS:LIVE LIGHT:WIND S3 BIOPHILIA

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RIBA PART I

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PECHA KUCHA Masters of Architecture Year Two Newcastle, England An idea and knowledge share and exchange event Developing over two years, the pecha kucha was created to allow students from other courses to share work, ideas, influences and knowledge Volunteering students are allows to bring in physical projects, digital pdfs, videos, animation or just verbally present their work within a maximum of 10 minute presentation.

Held once a month, this has slowly built up a group of various students from photography, animation, architecture, interior design, graphic design and fashion.

The idea is for this to continue to grow and become a hub to share ideas and knowledge, as well as a forum for networking.

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NORTHERN SOUL CHARRETTE Masters of Architecture Year One Stockport, England A cross university and year charrette to improve Stockport

A one day cross university and year charrette involved over 120 students from 10 universities to improve Stockport.

Photography, model making, drawing, painting were used to communicate each groups ideas. “We wanted to take an idea of Stockport to an extreme so that then maybe the idea could be distilled down. We started by looking into the past, all the industry that supported the city was aligned next to the river and over time the industry fell into decline, new buildings started to face away from the river. Many of the old industrial buildings on the riverside now vacant. Stockport has what lots of cities would like, shops, heritage and infrastructure so we propose to bring the river back to Stockport.

We are thinking of a possible future where a dam is built further up the river so that the water levels rise in Stockport and the people can interact with the water and energy can be harnessed from it.�

Taniya Ittan [Manchester] Aida Rodriguez Vega [Manchester] Fabian Danker [Northumbria] Juliana Silvi [Huddersfield] Aimie Griffiths [Liverpool]

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“A fantastic level of excitement rooting in a good understanding of Stockport as a place and destination.

It was wonderful to see so many creative young minds working together..presented exceptionally well.”

Geoff Brooks. Ibstock

“Presented with a confidence, style and high level of enthusiasm and sophistication.”

Rob Hopkins. Aedas Regional Director

“Their solutions were thoughtful, imaginative and inspirational (if commercially challenging)”

Nicola Turner. Head of Stockport Economic Development & Regeneration.

“The winning proposal developed this convincingly and radically, re-engaging the history city core with the river, recasting the Merseyway Shopping Centre as Atlantis” Professor Tom Jefferies. Head of School Manchester School of Architecture.

NORTHERN SOUL CHARRETTE

NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY

02 LINKS WITH PROFESSION

RIBA STUDENT APPRAISAL 2013 01 REPRESENTATION held rep meetings. Course feedback can then be conveyed directly to staff from the students.

“Really supporting and caring and tutors.“ “The tutors presence in the studio is inspiring and very encouraging.”

Peter Beacock Manuel Cresciani

Kelly MacKinnon

Bob Giddings

Paul Jones

Martin

Lewis Preston

Ben Elliott Ruth Dalton

Since 2001 Northumbria has consistently

Programme Leaders

Paul Ring

meetings along with architects and designers from further a

Peter Holgate

Ollie Jones

field being involved with interim and final reviews.

San Francisco

Ontario Denver

New York

Texas

exported talented students to architectural practices across the globe. This map illustrates a selection of the RIBA Part I placement destinations of students from 2006 onwards.

Bermuda

“The high standards of teaching enabled me to gain work experience abroad in preparation for Part II.”

Melbourne

Year Leaders Alex F

Megan C

Year 3

Jamie B

Year 5

School Facilities

Sarah M Sean N

Chris B

Nikki H

Leanne S

Northumbria University RIBA Student Course Appraisal 2013 Northumbria University RIBA Student Course Appraisal 2013 00 Introduction

00 Introduction This student prepared document aims to portray the students opinions and observations for both the Part I degree and Part II diploma course. It contains comments from prepared all years both positive and to fully reflect the realand This student document aims to negative portray the students opinions voices of the students. observations for both the Part I degree and Part II diploma course. It contains The comments course’s reputation and demand for places have steadily from all years both positive and negative to fullyincreased reflect the real since 2008ofwhich is reflected in the growing size of the student group. voices the students.

However, we stillreputation have beenand able to maintain our close The course’s demand for places havestudent steadilycommunity increased andsince studio culture.

Staff numbersinhave also grown develop the 2008 which is reflected the growing sizetooffurther the student group. wellHowever, established the course.

We have we teaching still have and beentutoring able to programme maintain ouronclose student community seenand many improvements the course in terms of teaching, facilities, andthethe studio culture. Stafftonumbers have also grown to further develop studio since you last visited.

Each year has dedicated studio spaces wellspaces established teaching and tutoring programme on the course.

We have withseen ample space for model making and drawing.

Weteaching, believe the studio and the many improvements to the course in terms of facilities, encourages a great culture to work andEach learnyear in. It’s of the main studio spaces since you last visited. hasone dedicated studioreasons spaces whywith we ample do wellspace as a course. for model making and drawing. We believe the studio encourages a great culture to work and learn in. It’s one of the main reasons why we do well as a course.

01 Representation 01 Representation Each Year has two or more course representatives. The course representatives frequently liaise with the year tutors to address any problems which the student Each has two or more course representatives.

The course representatives body mayYear experience.

Problems can range from facilitates, tuition, course frequently liaise with the yeardeadline. tutors to address problems which the student structure and possible extension The yearany reps also organise course body experience. canboth range fromthe facilitates, tuition, course nights outmay to allow the yearProblems to socialise within years and between structure and possible extensionstudio deadline.

The environment. year reps also organise course years.

This encourages a friendly working nightsinitial out tocontact allow the socialise both within the and between Through withyear the to course representatives this years document was years. using This encourages a friendly studio workingyears. environment. compiled data collected from their respective Through initial contact with theofcourse representatives this document Using this method large amounts information can be collected quicklywas and compiled using data collected from their respective years. easily.

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Space Per Student “Studio space is excellent, don’t ever change this.”

“The studios encourage collaborative working.”

“Facilities like the workshop and I.T. are very good.”

a strong studio culture to the benefit of all

“The atmosphere is great in the studio, I wouldn’t want to know what to do without it.”

students. Several I.T. suites across the campus

Year 6

Brisbane Sydney Auckland

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Course Reps

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industrial standard software.

Chiang Mai

Kuala Lumpur

a sizeable desk and copious amounts of pin-up

Sebastian Messer

Dubai

studio based

Beijing

Azerbaijan

Within Northumbria’s designated studio space,

Will Campbell Andrea Couture Steve Roberts

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“I found the CV workshops and support before graduating useful in my year out.”

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Edinburgh Belfast Dublin London Berne Berlin Zurich Graz Gibraltar Cyprus

Several local practitioners take part in weekly tutorial Head of Department

“Tutors are quick to respond and helpful.”

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numerous links with professionals from across the country.

Programme Director

their peers to represent the student body in regularly

As each year

Through staff and former students, Northumbria has

“Tutors are very cooperative, approachable and knowledgeable.”

Two student reps from each year are nominated by

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Mounted Jig Saw

Specialist PC’s

Bandsaw

A3 Colour Printers

Laser Cutters

A3 Colour Scanners

3D Printers

A0 & A1 Colour Plotters

3D Router

(x10 per unit)

02 Links with Profession 02 Links with Profession Through visiting lecturers and guest tutors Northumbria has formed strong relationships with practicing professionals locally, nationally and internationally.

This has allowed to gain and architectural experience across theformed Unitedstrong Kingdom Through visitinguslecturers guest tutors Northumbria has and abroad illustrating the highprofessionals standard of locally, Northumbria Graduates. relationships with practicing nationally and internationally.

During education post graduate employment Northumbria strong This has allowedand us to gain architectural experience across the has United Kingdom connections with Faulknerthe Browns, Ryder Architecture, _space, Surface + Light and abroad illustrating high standard of Northumbria Graduates. + Space JDDK, Mitchell Taylor, FeildenCleggBradley Studios, DuringArchitecture, education and post Craft, graduate employment Northumbria has strong Renzo Piano Building Workshop, DRDH, Malcolm Fraser_space, and Gareth Hoskins. connections with Faulkner Browns, Ryder Architecture, Surface + Light + Space Architecture, JDDK, Craft, Mitchell Taylor, FeildenCleggBradley Studios, Student RenzoComments Piano Building Workshop, DRDH, Malcolm Fraser and Gareth Hoskins.

Extra lecture series is very helpful. Tutorials and study trips have helped nurture development.

Student Comments The high standards of teaching enabled me to gain work experience abroad Part II. and I found thetrips CV have workshops Extra lecture seriesinispreparation very helpful.forTutorials study helpedand support graduating in my yearofout. nurturebefore development.

Theuseful high standards teaching enabled me to gain work experience abroad in preparation for Part II. I found the CV workshops and support before graduating useful in my year out.

03 Facilities 03 Facilities 03.1 Studio 03.1 Northumbria’s Studio Within designated studio space, a sizeable desk and copious amounts of pin-up space is made available for each student. This in turn Within Northumbria’s designated studiostudio space, a sizeable andofcopious encourages the development of a strong culture to the desk benefit all amounts of amount pin-up space is made available for each student.

Thisyears. in turn students.

The of space per student increases going up the encourages the development of a strong studio culture to the benefit of all students.

The amount of space per student increases going up the years.

03.2 Workshop Workshop The03.2 workshop has increased in size dramatically over the years. We currently have two laser cutters, 3D router, 3D plaster printer and 3D resin printer. We Thehave workshop has of increased in size dramatically over sanders, the years.drills, We currently also a number workshop power tools including cutters, have two laser cutters, 3D router, plaster and 3D resin printer. vacuum formers, spray booths and 3D hand tools.printer We are encouraged to use We thesealso have a number of workshop power tools including sanders, drills, cutters, vacuum formers, spray booths and hand tools. We are encouraged to use these facilities

KEY Year 1 2.3m² Year 2 2.4m² Year 3 2.6m² Year 5 2.7m²

“Quality staff nurtures achievements and the studio nurtures social interaction.”

“Prints here are so cheap compared to other unis.”

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facilities whenever possible to aid in our design projects and have recently

expanded our workshops to accommodate newly purchased laser cutters, work benches and model to making Located in and a building adjacent to the our whenever possible aid in facilities. our design projects have recently expanded studios, we have a specialist photography booth for cutters, models,work however usage workshops to accommodate newly purchased laser benches andcan be challenging transporting models. model making when facilities.

Located inlarger a building adjacent to the studios, we have a specialist photography booth for models, however usage can be challenging 03.3 and Printing whenI.T. transporting larger models.

Several suites across the campus are available and equipped with the latest 03.3 I.T.I.T.and Printing industrial standard software in addition to our specialised VR suites and render farm which used for high end rendering and animation.

Several I.T. are suites across the campus are available and equipped with the latest We have outstanding printinginfacilities 10 x A0 and A1 plotters with industrial standard software additionincluding to our specialised VR suites and render the price of printing heavily to allow freedom from financial farm which are usedbeing for high end subsidised rendering and animation. restraint. quality A1 printsfacilities cost only £1.50 per colour A3 with We haveHigh outstanding printing including 10 sheet x A0 and A1 plotters pages costof50p a sheet.

Fortunately because oftothis, cost is not afrom major issue the price printing being heavily subsidised allow freedom financial when printing work.A1 However, theonly printing facilities areand located in A3 separate restraint.

Highour quality prints cost £1.50 per sheet colour buildings to 50p the studio which can make printing pages cost a sheet.

Fortunately because of slightly this, costinconvenient. is not a major issue when printing our work. However, the printing facilities are located in separate buildings to the studio which can make printing slightly inconvenient.

Student Comments Studio space is excellent, don’t ever change this . Facilities like the workshop Student Comments and IT are very good. Facilities and staff are excellent. 24/7 access would be Studio space is excellent, don’t ever change . Facilities like the beneficial for Part II’s. Dedicated printers andthis scanners adjacent to workshop studio. Studio and IT are very good.

Facilities andbestaff are excellent.

24/7 access would storage facilities eg shelves would beneficial.

I love the atmosphere in thebe beneficial for Partknow II’s. Dedicated scanners adjacent to studio.

Studio studio, I wouldn’t what to doprinters withoutand it. The studios are amazing to be storage eg shelves would bespace beneficial.

I love the atmosphere in tidying the part of. Afacilities designated model making to reduce mess.

More regular studio,be I wouldn’t know what to do without The studios arefor amazing to be should enforced.

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A designated making space to reduce More mess. plugs More in regular tidying studio space is inviting model and comfortable for working. the studio. should be enforced. space with plenty of room for everyone. The Specialised modellingGood spacestudio needed. studio space is inviting and comfortable for working. More plugs in the studio.

Specialised modelling space needed.

04 Contact Time 04 Contact Time As each year group progresses through the school, their lecture hours reduce significantly. This is replaced with more time spent on studio based design projects and self directed As each year group progresses through the school, their lecture hours reduce significantly. This is replaced with more time spent on studio based design

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“The studios encourage collaborative working.”

The course is based around studio design projects with modules

“The curriculum is challenging but enjoyable.”

in technology, culture and management ran along it.

In Part II, architectural research is incorporated into the course.

excellent, don’t ever

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through the school, their lecture

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“Lectures cover a wide range of subjects.”

Northumbria University’s Architecture course is accredited by the RIBA as a recognised architecture course. Every four years, the school is visited by the RIBA. This document reflects the students views, opinions and feedback on the Architecture course at Northumbria University.

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The brief stated that the document must be no more than two sides of A4 and must contain the five themes of representation, links with profession, facilities, contact time and course structure. The previous Student Appraisal Documents were text heavy, this updated version demonstrates the high graphical standard of the students.

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Part II Year One Newcastle, England A document created to reflect the students opinions of the course to the RIBA

learning.

Contact time during degree level is well structured, with seminars and lectures averaging 8 hours a week. Individual or group tutorials are provided projects and selfabout directed learning. weekly help degree guide students during the design Contact time to during level is well structured, withproject. seminars and lectures During Part 8II hours the number of Individual contact hours with the tutors are is reduced to allow the averaging about a week. or group tutorials provided students to investigate their thesis material more freely. weekly to help guide students during the design project.

During Part II the number of contact hours with the tutors is reduced to allow the Student Comments students to investigate their thesis material more freely.

Great tutors, always available. The tutors presence in the studio is inspiring andComments very encouraging. The lecturers are very approachable and friendly. Tutor Student is good and develops strong relationships.

Greatavailability tutors, always available.

The tutors presence in the studio is inspiring and very encouraging. The lecturers are very approachable and friendly. Tutor availability is good and develops strong relationships.

Much research was conducted in order to collect and represent the various countries students went to work for Part I placements.

Surveys were also conducted to gain qualitative and quantitative feedback of contact time and course structure. Both positive and negative comments were incorporated into the document to gain a true reflection of students opinions.

The images on the right show the RIBA Exhibition.

Over a period of a month, Selected students works to represent all the years were printed, mounted and displayed. A small team of people were managed to ensure that the exhibition would be completed in time of the RIBA visiting board.

05 Course Structure and Delivery We are happy and how Delivery the course is structured with the main emphasis on studio 05 Course Structure based projects. Other modules such as technology, environment and feasibility all happy are rooted these design projects.

Inmain Part II, architectural research is We are how around the course is structured with the emphasis on studio incorporated into thesuch course. basedalso projects.

Other modules as technology, environment and feasibility all are rooted around these design projects. In Part II, architectural research is Student Comments also incorporated into the course.

The overlap of modules helps for all round learning, so rewarding! Great Student Comments emphasis on drawing before computer work. Broad scope of modules and The overlap of modules helps for all round learning, so rewarding! topics covered under curriculum.

Quality staff nurtures better Great achievements and emphasis on drawing before work.The Broad scope of modules and projects the studios nurture socialcomputer interactions. themes behind Northumbria topicsare covered under There curriculum. nurtures better achievements and the enjoyable. is lotsQuality of roomstaff for exploring personal interests within the studios social interactions.

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Deadline spacing could be better Excellent facilities are enjoyable.

There is lots of room exploring personal interests within the and and industry expertise from thefor staff.

More interaction with other courses design projects. spacing could be better managed. Excellent facilities years wouldDeadline be beneficial. and industry expertise from the staff. More interaction with other courses and years would be beneficial.

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COMMUNITY IMAGES Part I Newcastle, England A selection of perspectives for a Newcastle architecture exhibition

The selection of images were used for a proposed addition to Newcastle as part of a competition.

The client initially rendered clay images in Maxwell, top right. This was to gain realistic lighting conditions for the images and create an initial material palette.

Using Photoshop, these images were then edited to incorporate texture, materiality, proposed activities within spaces.

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LOVE ARCHITECTURE Part I Newcastle, England A selection of models created for the Love Architecture exhibition The Love Architecture exhibition is a regional exhibition to promote architectural design.

These are a series of models ranging from card, balsa and acrylic showing some of the regions designs.

Proposals included a nature observatory, transport terminal and industrial port.

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