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Reimagining and Reconfiguring Bach: Cello Suite 2020
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Construction and Deconstruction of Baroque Sound
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Exchange Idea: where different minds come together
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Work Experience (Michael Jones Architects & JTP Architects)
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Drawings & Paintings
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Reimagining and Reconfiguring Bach: Cello Suite 2020
University of Westminster BA Architecture 2019 Year 3 - Semester 2
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Cello Suites Theater is designed as a tribute to Bach’s masterpiece. Hence the nature of this building exists as a memory within the city. This concept has been inspired by The Architecture of the City (1966) by Aldo Rossi, where memories are explored through the idea of urban artefacts.
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Located at 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the site is surrounded by many theatres and music venues, the best place to experiment with a new kind of music auditorium. The map shows a series of ancient and contemporary theaters that spread energy and life around the area.
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The following report focused on the weather features of the area and London. The building has been designed to adapt to London weather conditions and environment. The aim is to create a performance even for people who pass-by, who will enjoy the music from rain, wind and natural elements.
Portland Stone
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This new music auditorium is designed to reproduce the most sophisticated and authentic version of Bach’s Cello Suite. Bach used to perform in churches or private palaces, and most of the time these places created echoes that made the performance more theatrical and alive. Because all the materials were not meant to reverberate sound, some elements, like the smooth wood sound reflector and absorption panels from the Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome and the Curved glass facades from Casa da Musica in Porto, have been moved from their conventional places and reallocated in specific points where they can reflect music for the user, so to produce a unique experience. Following specific duration times of the notations, the segments obtained from the analysis of the pieces were scaled from seconds to meters and then assembled two by two, creating shape for sound panels. These panels have been places in a curved glass box, following a spiral shape where an artificial intelligence arm will move and play the most accurate version of the piece on the user. 7
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The Great Masterplan
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Ground Floor Plan
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Long Section The building links Lincoln’s Inn Fields with the rest of Holborn area but more specifically with some of the LSE’s branches (London School of Economics). The theatre will present two main music spaces were annually the staff will be able to change the sound panels and host different Cello Suites or Classical music pieces. The ground floor has a public music book-shop and cafe on the east side; in the middle, there is the post-performance space where the user is invited to reflect on this experience. All around the soundbox, there are small offices for the staff who will study the perfection of the sound and keep update the artificial intelligence arm. The underground spaces have different classes for workshops and music lectures and as well as an openair theater. 11
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Detail 1. Sound Proof Roof.
Top Coat
Concrete Deck
Vapour Control Layer
Thermal Insulation
Sound Insulation Sound Wood Panel Rods
Aluminum Fixing
Curved Glass Panels
Detail 2. Glass wall, Floor and Glazed Roof.
Termic Insulation
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Pavement + Screed Metal Profile
Honeyconb Slab
Aluminium Fixing
Steel profile
Concrete Double Glazed
Detail 3. The Copper Skin.
Insulation Layer Acoustic Mineral Wool
Natual and unfinished External Copper Panels
L Shaped Plate
Steel Frame
hollow Steel Frame
Not Insulated part ( Sound can go through)
Finished Internal Copper Panels
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A look inside and outside the Bach’s Cello Suite Theatre. 16
Construction & Deconstruction of Baroque Sound
University of Westminster BA Architecture 2018 Year 3 Semester 1
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Part museum/gallery, part repository, part theatre, the architectural narrative starts with issues of displacement and display. The design proposal takes on different theatrical effects to evoke the experiential and spatial qualities of a ‘cabinet of curiosity’. This building has been designed as an extension of the existing Sir John Soane Museum occupying the rear plot,
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and include an additional new entrance. In addition to the qualities apparent in the existing Soane Museum, others concepts have been furthered through the investigation of the various definitions of the words ‘theatre’ and ‘theatricality’. Hence the experience of architecture is seen as ongoing theoretical and physical responses.
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Piranesi Exploreation Collage
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Illusion Exploreation Collage
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YoyoMa inspired by Bach Cello Suite N.2
Music and Sound have been explored from various points of view to give the visitor a more profound and illusionistic experience that transports the visitor back in time. The union of YoyoMa baroque sounds and architectural elements such as light and empty mirrors have made the space more dramatic and fascinating.
The Sound of Carceri inspired by Bach Cello Suite N.2
The film ‘The Sound of Carceri’ is a unique attempt to combine architecture with music in the exploration of the vast and lonely world of Piranesi’s prisons. In many ways, Bach’s Cello Suite N. 2 in D minor, capture the same idea of vast emptiness and loneliness that Piranesi points to in his work. The film alternates between Yo-Yo Ma’s virtual performance of the Second suite inside the carceri, and look at the process of making the performance a reality. To generate such a dramatic and emotional space I decided to start from the deconstruction of the music itself. Starting from Bach’s original music drawings, I 1analyzed three main elements: sensations (a), movement (b) & and time (c).
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Bach’s authentic notes sketches
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Ties
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Slur
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Harbin Opera House
The Cloud
Prometheus
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Detail of timber cladding and the sound insulation in different part of the wall.
The final drawing presents a series of convex and concave spaces which move on the paper. These elements have really interesting acustic qualities. The sound is easy to control and spread in specif locations and at the same time creates imaginary beautiful shaps and curves.
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Prometheus
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The Cloud
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Harbin Opera House
Detail of timber cladding and the sound insulation in different part of the wall.
Harbin Opera House
Detail of timber cladding and the sound insulation in different part of the wall.
The Grand Piano Chamber
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The Anechoic Chamber
The String Chamber
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Final Fantasy Composition Series of musical spaces designed to reproduce the best sound for each instrument. Study of materials and proportion to accomodate piano, brass and string instruments.
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The Hide Orchestra Corridor
Long section through the new entrance of the museum. This crosses all the musical chambers and allows the sound to penetrate in some specific points of the path, accompanied by some historical artifacts. The set of these visual and auditory sensations carries the viewer into another dimension whose purpose is to remember the imaginary world of Piranesi and the Baroque Era.
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Exchange Idea Where Different Minds Come Together University of Westminster BA Architecture 2018 Year 2 Semester 2
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This project originated from the idea of compiling different students together from different faculties. This new center offers students workshop spaces and classes where they can meet and share ideas and opinions of various projects. This gives the students the chance to meet new people and interact with a wider audience from the cityscape of London. Through a public exhibition space and public square, everyone gets the opportunity to see works from different minds together. The spaces are organized on the site with great rigor and rigidity through a grid that extends across the square inspired by the organization that Tschumi used for the Parc la Villette. The grid is composed of lines perpendicular to each other of 6 meters by 6 meters, in which some meeting points of these lines have been occupied by concrete towers that constitute some of the fundamental elements of the project as green space, three different cafè, offices, and links between floors. These towers are connected through a curtains glass walls that surround the building and a glass roof supported by a 3D truss structure supported by steel pillars and connected to the towers.
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Architectural Assistant RIBA Part I Michael Jones Architects
(September 2019 - February 2020)
JTP Architects
(Februuary 2020 - Current)
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11 St Ann’s Villas, Holland Park London
St Ann’s Villas are an unusual series of Grade II Listed semi-detached Tudor Gothic Revival style buildings constructed in the mid 19th century and situated in Holland Park. We worked on the refurbishment and a rear extension of this villa. I worked on the final 3D model and a series of renders and views of the proposal. (Rhino 3D - Photoshop)
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Greenfields, Richmond London
The client asked for a contemporary design for their new-build house in Richmond. The house has a spectacular glass, stone and timber features. The elevations have large metal windows on all the facades, taking natural light deep into the plan. I worked on the production of the various planning drawing and the final 3D model. (Vectorworks - Sketch-Up - Photoshop)
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96 Carlton Hill, St John’s Wood London
96 Carlton Hill is a Grade II Listed building constructed in the mid 19th century and situated in St John’s Wood. We worked on the refurbishment, focusing on the new layout for the kitchen and a rear extension of the house. (Vectorworks - Photoshop)
ROOFLIGHT
MICHAEL JONES ARCHITECTS LIVING ROOM
96 Carlton Hill
tel 020 8948 1863 fax 020 8948 4069 info@mjarchitects.co.uk www.mjarchitects.co.uk
129 kew road richmond surrey tw9 2pn
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tel 020 8948 1863 fax 020 8948 4069 info@mjarchitects.co.uk www.mjarchitects.co.uk
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129 kew road richmond surrey tw9 2pn
MICHAEL JONES ARCHITECTS revisions
129 kew road richmond surrey tw9 2pn
job title
drawing title
96 Carlton Hill
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tel 020 8948 1863 fax 020 8948 4069 info@mjarchitects.co.uk www.mjarchitects.co.uk
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Kitchen Option 3
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96 Carlton Hill
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tel 020 8948 1863 fax 020 8948 4069 info@mjarchitects.co.uk www.mjarchitects.co.uk
Chartered Practice
Kitchen Option 5
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drawing number :
Ms Bujnowska
1431.03.01.Des.1
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TOWNSCAPING PRINCIPLES TOWNSCAPING PRINCIPLES A STRATEGIC LOCATION A STRATEGIC LOCATION
1. Special focal building is ‘discovered’ 2. Taller buildings frame the as you turn the corner into the site. gateway square into the site. 1. Special focal building is ‘discovered’ 2. Taller buildings frame the as you turn the corner into the site. gateway square into the site.
Bookends of Forest Road - adequately adressing the arrival from Walthamstow Wetlands and Epping Forest on each end. Bookends of Forest Road - adequately adressing the arrival from Walthamstow Wetlands and Epping Forest on each end.
3. Taller buildings address gateway location to Epping Forest 3. Taller buildings address gateway location to Epping Forest
A strategic location for Walthamstow - crossing point of Forest Road and Wood Street and a gateway to Epping Forest. A strategic location for Walthamstow - crossing point of Forest Road and Wood Street and a gateway to Epping Forest.
SITE ANALYSIS CONSTRAINTS & OPPORTUNITIES PAGE 92
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THE PATCHWORKS - WALTHAMSTOW - GREENING FOREST ROAD
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4. Buildings are lower around public green space, maximising sunlight 4. Buildingsand areair lower around public green space, maximising sunlight and air
5. Respecting neighbours to the North 5. Respecting neighbours to the North
THE PATCHWORKS - WALTHAMSTOW - GREENING FOREST ROAD
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Neighbouring Development
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EMERGING PROPOSAL GREENING OF FOREST ROAD
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GREENING FOREST ROAD Additional streetscape improvements are suggested to boost biodiversity, safety and amenity on Forest Road
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Forest Road Street Trees - planting street trees along the trafffic islands on Forest Road will help to reduce traffic speeds as well as signaling the arrival to the site
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The oversized pavement and lay by on Forest road are replanned to allow: • A further row of street trees and green buffer • Bike lane re-routed away from traffic in front of the site
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Additional street tree planting on broad pavement to the south of Forest Road
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EMERGING PROPOSAL SITEEMERGING PLAN PROPOSAL
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Gateway Square - landscaped square on arrival from Forest Road connecting the site with Willow House with focal building set in landscape
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Makers Patch - Bustling street with makers and artist workshops
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THE PATCHWORKS - WALTHAMSTOW - GREENING FOREST ROAD
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Makers Patch - Bustling street with makers and artist workshops
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The Cascade - terraced park area providing welcoming route into the site from Forest Road
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Secret Garden - quiet secluded garden for tranquility and relaxation
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Views of landscape for everyone - building staggered to allow daylight and views through south facing podium gardens
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Site Model Scale 1:1250 (Foam & Card)
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Drawings & Paintings Selection of Sketches, Drawings and Oil on Canvas Paintings 2016-2019
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Soho Facades, London
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church,
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French Protestant Church,
London
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Exchange House Study of Tension and Compression forces
Brown: Node, the sum of the external forces and the reaction forces must be 0; Green: Consequential loads from the structure; Purple: Tensile stress (Tension); Orange:Compressive stress (Compression) Blue:Support preassure;
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My Hand - My Tool Oil on Canvas (40cm X 40cm) 2017
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Radiating Sun - Decò & Architecture Oil on Canvas (1mx1,5m) 2016
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End of Fascism - Light Through Rome Oil on Canvas (1mx1m) 2017
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