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S T U A R T F O R B E S A S S O C I AT E S UXBRIDGE ROAD
“Six-storey residential apartment block, consisting of 36 1B2P, 2B3P and 2B4P flats and offering 500 m2 of retail space at ground floor. Situated on a challenging ‘L-shaped’ brownfield site, the proposal falls within a planned district centre regeneration zone set out by Ealing Council. As a Part 1 architect I helped to develop the project as we manoeuvred through the planning process; providing site analysis and design development diagrams, extensive 3D modelling and coordinating both the pre-application report and final Design and Access Statement document. More recently, as a Part 2 architect, I helped to progress the technical aspects of the building as we worked through each of the planning conditions to produce a full set of construction drawings and a cladding
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package for tender. During this period I worked closely with my Director to develop 3D construction details for the proposal and also designed a number of M4(2) complient apartment layouts.”
S T U A R T F O R B E S A S S O C I AT E S D A LT O N S T R E E T
“Four-storey residential apartment block, consisting of 17 1B2P, 2B4P 3B4P and 3B5P flats, situated on a challenging brownfield site and surrounded on all sides by low-level residential properties. One of the first projects I worked on at Stuart Forbes Associates, it was my responsibility to produce a comprehensive set design development diagrams in support of our pre-application document - illustrating how we had responded to planning advice and made adjustments to the proposal accordingly. After demonstrating my digital capabilities I quickly established myself as the chief 3D modeller on the project and used Sketchup to test out a number of different design variations and explore materiality options on behalf of my Director. Other responsibilities included helping
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to produce a series of site analysis diagrams, coordinating multiple aspects of the Design and Access Statement and using Photoshop to embellish the final floor plans, sections and elevations.�
S T U A R T F O R B E S A S S O C I AT E S HOTEL METROPOLE
“A lucrative, politically charged project that resulted from a successful bid, in collaboration with hotel operator IHA, for an interim 12 year management contract to manage and refurbish two city owned properties in Geneva. As a Part 1 architect I contributed to Stuart Forbes Associates initial presentation to the city; helping to build a fully realised 3D model of the entire hotel, which was subsequently used to convey the extent and vision behind our proposed refurbishment works. As a Part 2 architect I have been working to refine and progress our design towards a formal SIA-32 planning submission, with some of my responsibilities including; overhauling the overall room count/mix on behalf of IHA, flying out to Geneva to take key survey measurements, designing a new
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membership gym and spa for the hotel, elevating all areas of refurbishment works at 1:20 and taking over coordination responsibilities for the final drawing set in the lead up to our submission.�
S T U A R T F O R B E S A S S O C I AT E S PA R C D E S E A U X - V I V E S
“As part of our bid for the Hotel Metropole refurbishment project, Stuart Forbes Associates were also required to come up with a refurbishment strategy for her sister property Parc Des Eaux-Vives. Seeking to impress the board with our initiative my Director saw an opportunity to incorporate the disused barn house, sitting adjacent to the hotel, into our proposal and tasked me with producing a suitable design concept while the rest of the team worked on the main holding. I embraced my first professional, independent design assignment with fervour, using an initial iterative sketching process to arrange the various functions into a sensible configuration before using Rhino 3D to create a series of high-quality final visuals for the presentation document. Attempting to support the
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functions of the main hotel, whilst also creating a new revenue stream for IHA, the final proposal included; a 70 seat auditorium, 6 meeting rooms and a secret garden resturant/bar with kitchen.�
S T U A R T F O R B E S A S S O C I AT E S ACE TRAINS
“In 2019 Stuart Forbes Associates were approached by a private client who was in the process of purchasing old rolling stock from Talgo, with the intent of retrofitting them to establish two new train sets to run on the European rail network. To showcase our digital capabilities to the client and demonstrate our ability to ‘hit the ground running’, I was tasked with producing a brief presentation in which I translated the old hand-drawn sketches we were given into fully realised 3D models of the different carriage typologies. Needless to say the pitch was a success and over the course of 2019 and 2020 we produced a series of design documents for the client, in which we explored different ways of approaching the refurbishment process and gradually developed a standardised approach
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to the various fit-out elements. Ultimately we rationalised our design work down into three different levels of fit-out standards and presented our strategy to the SBB board in February of 2020.”
S T U A R T F O R B E S A S S O C I AT E S LONDON BRIDGE CITY PIER
“This feasibility study was undertaken by Stuart Forbes Associates as part of a competition commissioned by Thames Clippers, exploring the potential for a new ticketing facility to be constructed at London Bridge City Pier. A challenging brief with many constraints including tight budgetary requirements, as well as the obvious volumetric restrictions dictated by the existing pontoon, this project offered me an exciting opportunity to break away from more traditional residential design and help to generate new work for the office. Whilst I was not initially resourced to the project, due to the Covid-19 outbreak my involvement grew until I was one of only three members of staff left in the office and it fell on me to produce the final CGI images for the presentation. Despite time
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being at an absolute premium and using a computer that wasn’t built to render I was able to successfully model the proposal and produce a series of high-quality images in just a matter of days.”
H TA D E S I G N L L P T H E P O R TA L
“The first project that I worked on in a professional setting was HTA’s proposal for a 35-storey, mixed-use residential tower block in North Acton, consisting of 319 1B2P, 2B4P, 3B6P flats with double-height commercial and amenity space at ground level. Working alongside one of the Associates I helped to progress the design through numerous changes and contributed to all aspects of the projects development from early concept to full planning application. Some of my many assignments included; conducting pedestrian surveys on-site, producing a Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment and setting up flythroughs on Lumion. Residential developer L&Q were so impressed with our work on ‘The Portal’ that they also commissioned us to produce a set of exemplar 1B2P, 2B3P, 2B4P, 3B5P and 3B6P flat layouts for them, which they could use as reference on any future Central London development work. We
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made sure to design all of the apartments to meet both the Lifetime Homes Criteria and the Mayor’s London Homes SPG document, and as a result I gained a tremendous amount of experience in designing to London standards.”
YEAR 05 FINAL PROJECT J O D A H AT S A M E D I G G I
“For my thesis project I designed a new parliament building for the municipality of Kiruna in Northern Sweden. Due to extensive iron ore mining in the local area the town is being relocated 3km east and my challenge was to design a new landmark building for the city; one that simultaneously serves the administrative needs of the indigenous Sami population whilst also engaging with the new masterplan. Dealing with the harsh climatic conditions of Swedish Lapland became a focus of my brief and I designed each structural element of the final proposal to act as a thermal buffer, collectively improving the overall thermal performance of the facility. The program itself is spread across three interconnected volumes, all sitting beneath a long-span ETFE canopy and each housing either administrative, educational or leisure functions.
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A centralised reindeer corral at the heart of the complex offers a safe space for local Sami farmers to organise their herds during the annual migration and also creates a performance for any passing tourists.�
YEAR 05 DESIGN PROJECT L I F E P O D A R C T I C S H E LT E R
“Tasked with designing a shelter for use in arctic conditions I decided to investigate the local vernacular of Northern Sweden and took inspiration from the traditional lavvu shelter used by the indigenous Sami population. The curved exterior of the ‘Life Pod’ helps to disperse wind-loads evenly, mitigating the effects of snowdrift, whilst the elongated form of the central chamber encourages a constant velocity of air currents, reducing the potential for pockets of differing internal temperatures. The outermost layer of the shelter is made up of individually CNC-milled CLT panels which are fixed to an internal glulam frame and help to stabilise the double curved form. Flexible plywood sheets, made off site on moulds, are then fixed to the internal face of this framework to create a smooth, continuous internal surface. All
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of the windows are formed of double-sided polycarbonate sheeting, cheaper than glass but just as thermally efficient and able to emit a beautifully diffused, warm glow onto the surrounding landscape.”
YEAR 04 FINAL PROJECT P O LY P H E M U S M U S E U M
“Once at the centre of the European manufacturing industry, years of financial turmoil has led to a collapse in commerce and trade across Milazzo in Southern Italy. I decided to position my fourth year, final project in direct response to this turn of events, attempting to stimulate the local economy by proposing a new 3D printing facility and museum for an abandoned waterfront site currently occupied by a derelict flour mill. Shipping pumice stone from an abandoned mine on the nearby island of Lipari, my intention was to store the material inside the original grain silos before using it in the production of replacement components for historic monuments, damaged by earthquakes. Not wishing to restrict my design to the confines of a single city block, I imagined how the scheme could evolve over time and developed a wider
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masterplan to encompass the waterfront promenade consisting of; a new ferry terminal with accessible roof, fully landscaped boardwalk and a new town square with enclosures for restaurants and a market.�
YEAR 04 DESIGN PROJECT D I G I TA L M E S H M A N I P U L AT I O N
“In this design exercise we used cutting edge photogrammetry software to generate detailed, digital mesh composites of real world artifacts and environments and arranged them into an explorable landscape, suitable for virtual reality. When experiencing virtual reality humanistic qualities like texture, atmosphere and scale take on a renewed importance, factors often neglected in favour of clean geometry by the traditional design process, so I decided to concentrate my efforts on antiquated objects like churches and ruins to ensure that my experience was as interesting and visceral as possible. Arranging the assets around a segment of Piranesi’s ‘Campo Di Marzio’ I immediately saw the potential for playing with scale, taking my smallest scan of some mundane rubble and scaling it up until it
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produced the illusion of vast mountain ranges. The final composition was eventually packaged together as a fully functioning VR experience and combined with the rest of my unit’s 3D environments.”