Finlay Geddes Part 2 Architectural Assistant Selected Works November 2018
Finlay Geddes BSc PGDip Throughout my studies and work in practice, I have been consistently passionate about: an architectural process that listens to people and what they want from their buildings; and an architecture that is derived from history and context, interpreted in contemporary language and form. I believe that an understanding of history, thorough design solutions, and traditional craft, is integral to creating architecture with longevity. My strong ambition is to become further involved in, and contribute to, the Scottish and international architectural community via discourse.
Experience Somner Macdonald Architects, Edinburgh (December 2017 - Present)
Part 2 Architectural Assistant
Taylor Architecture Practice (TAP), Edinburgh (July 2017 - November 2017)
Part 2 Architectural Assistant
Taylor Architecture Practice (TAP), Edinburgh (March 2015 - July 2017)
Part 1 Architectural Assistant
City Architecture Office (CiAO), Edinburgh (September 2014 - January 2015)
Part 1 Architectural Assistant
SSC Summer Camps, Perthshire (July 2015 - Present)
Camp Volunteer
Involvement in and ownership of tasks in all aspects of current residential projects, spanning concept design, planning, building warrant, tender and construction stages.
Responsible for client and contractor communications with live projects, detail design tasks, planning submissions and building warrant submissions.
Initial role at TAP. Involved with design tasks, administrative jobs and client relations.
Work involving client meetings, model-making, administrative roles and direct responsibility for projects.
Volunteering with a summer activity camp for children across Scotland.
Education Strathclyde University, Glasgow (September 2015 - August 2017)
PGDip in Advanced Architectural Design (August 2017)
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada (September - December 2016)
Exchange Semester
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (September 2011 - May 2015)
BSc in Architecture (May 2015)
Skills
Interests
Highly proficient in: Hand-drawing/sketching, Physical model-making, Vectorworks, Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Office/Mac iWork.
Hillwalking, Running, Skiing, Piano
Availability
Contact
Available for interview now.
07415 943 378 fgeddes@live.co.uk www.finlaygeddes.co.uk
References Nigel Somner (SMA), 0131 558 7575 Neil Taylor, (TAP), 0131 555 3824 Moray Royles (CiAO), 0131 337 1578
P’17 Paisley exhibition, Year 1 workshops
Chosen to undertaken a semester in Halifax, NS. Focus of trip was thesis suburban research and Nova Scotia regionalism.
Student representative.
144 St. Stephen Street, Edinburgh, UK.
Leverton Street Extension Somner Macdonald Architects, Edinburgh Description: Extension and renovation of house Status: Technical Design Roles: - Hand sketches and Vectorworks modelling in concept design. - Preparation of planning and building warrant packages. - Warrant level design in Vectorworks.
Sketch plans and axonometric showing renovated existing building with garden extension.
Vectorworks 3D internal render
Detail section
Carfrae Park Extension Somner Macdonald Architects, Edinburgh: Description: Extension and renovation of house Status: Technical Design Roles: - Hand sketches and Vectorworks modelling in concept design. - Preparation of planning and building warrant packages. - Warrant level design in Vectorworks.
Vectorworks 3D model images showing proposed alterations and extension to existing bungalow.
Townhill Waterski Centre Taylor Architecture Practice, Edinburgh: Description: Extension to existing centre Status: Completed August 2016 Roles: - SketchUp, CAD and Revit work through initial designs - Submission of planning and building warrant applications - Detail design and setting out with Revit to completion
CAD and Photoshop plan, showing renovated existing building with extension to the water.
Photograph of completed scheme, cafe area looking out to water-skiing on the loch.
Larkhall Office Extension Taylor Architecture Practice, Edinburgh Description: DFDS, Larkhall: Status: Completed August 2016 Roles: - Involved from inception to completion - Submission of planning and building warrant applications - Tasked with cladding package and window specifications
Completed extension entrance view.
Cladding detail section.
Little Chapelton House Taylor Architecture Practice, Edinburgh Description: New build home Status: On site Roles: - Testing and client design discussions through SketchUp and CAD - Responsibility from initial client consultations to on-site setting-out - Submission of planning and building warrant applications - Detail design and setting out with Revit
Photographs of the house near completion.
Revit and Photoshop plan, showing house partly above an existing mill.
Thesis: Pastiche Propaganda Pockets Strathclyde University/Dalhousie University Tutors: David Page & Page\Park staff For final year thesis, I sought to study an issue that I felt concerned me and that I could provide a real solution. The thesis sought to research Scotland’s suburban housing and address the many problems with this. The project was intended as a ‘propaganda’ - showcasing a new format of suburban housing to incite change and conversation on the topic. The result was a diverse, vibrant are of ‘suburban’ housing with nature and life at it’s core - a real alternative to the current norm.
Masterplan. The site developed was a brown field in Paisley as opposed to green field as is convention.
Site sections
Landscape plan. Amenities were provided by regenerating industrial buildings and adding amenities within the new tenemental blocks.
House type models (1:100)
House type 1, living space render
Detail elevation. The aesthetic and form of the housing plays on the ‘pastiche’ in current suburbs - taking precedent from tradition.
Govan Bath House Strathclyde University Tutors: Lyle Chrystie & Gordon McGregor Govan has experienced a loss of community and feels fragmented since the decline of shipbuilding - contributing to the area’s deprivation. A bath house in Govan was seen as an opportunity to have the power to reignite a community spirit. The approach was taken to locate the bath house addressing both the River Clyde and a rejuvenated market square.
Location plan. Corten steel façades and timber lined interiors offer a simplicity of material and hark back to the area’s industrial past.
Long section
Model photo montage facing new square (1:100). The form and aesthetic offer a contemporary reminder of shipyard buildings, in the civic memory of Govan people.
Govan Youth Hospice Strathclyde University Tutors: Lyle Chrystie & Gordon McGregor As an introduction to Govan, the youth hospice project was a unique project requiring understanding of a variety of sectors. The youth hospice is intended to have a simple form but with hidden depths and alcoves within it’s double skin brick walls. A sense of security and calm, inspired by the Old Govan Church behind the site, is created through these brick walls.
Site model (1:100)
Model photo montage (1:100)
Detail elevation. The facade approach allows sufficient daylight but does leave them exposed to the general public passing by.
Finlay Geddes 144 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh 07415 943 378 fgeddes@live.co.uk www.finlaygeddes.co.uk Thank you for taking the time to look through a selection of my work and I hope to hear from you soon.
Foss house, Perthshire (TAP)(1:100 site model)