Portfolio George Pickering BSc Architecture (Part I) University of Bath
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Curriculum Vitae Culture House, Valletta Kew Garden’s Visitor Centre, London Northern Lights Observatory Competition, Rovaniemi Street Art Museum, Bristol Beach Hut, South Coast Other Work
Curriculum Vitae Hi, my name’s George. I am currently undertaking my third year of study on the BSc Architecture course at the University of Bath. I consider myself a hard-working and motivated person who enjoys the challenge of designing spaces. I am particularly interested in the visualisation of architecture projects and spaces, both hand drawn and computer assisted, and this is something I have worked on in my studies. I believe the opportunities and experiences I will gain from a work placement will allow me to both gain new skills and enhance my existing skills, helping me to develop as an architecture student.
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Education
University of Bath BSc (Hons) Architecture (Part I), 2010 First Year Units: Building Environment, CAD, Design Studio, Detailed Design, History & Theory, Structures First Year Average: 79% Second Year Units: Design Studio, Detailed Design, Digital Illustration, Environmental Design, History & Theory, Structures Second Year Average: 74% Third Year Units: Design Studio, History & Theory, Urban Studies Hymers College, Hull 2000 - 2010 A-Levels Art A*, Physics A*, Product Design A*, Mathematics A, General Studies A* Won the Sarah Dickinson Memorial Trophy for Contribution to the Whole of School Life
Contact Information Home Address 37 St Johns Road Driffield East Yorkshire YO25 6RS
Mobile 07807958443 E-mail gwp23@bath.ac.uk
Employment
Barton Willmore, Bristol Architectural Assistant, March - September 2012 - Work efficiently in teams with a range of different people including Planners and Urban Designers - Experience working in a practice environment and producing drawings for issue - Use AutoCAD, SketchUp and Photoshop in order to produce drawings - Contact clients via email and help update and standardise techniques and processes in the office Driffield Agricultural Society, Driffield Driffield Show Construction Team, June - July 2011 - Work efficiently in a team to set up The Agricultural Show - Work for long hours to ensure The Show was set up in time - Perform a variety of labour intensive activities
Garbutts Bar, Hull Glass Collector, May - September 2010 - Work efficiently to remove empty and finished glasses from the bar floor - Work in a team of 2-3 to keep the clutter around the bar to a minimum - Tidy the bar and help close up at the end of the night Building Design Architects, Beverley Junior Architectural Assistant, June 2008 - Use AutoCAD to work on some of BDA’s housing designs - Visit sites and inspect the quality of the construction work of some of BDA’s schemes
Skills -
Autodesk AutoCAD, Inventor and competent in the use of 3ds Max Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign Google SketchUp and rendering packages such as Kerkythea Microsoft Word and Excel Proficient in the making of architectural models Full UK Driving Licence
Personal Interests
Music I play a range of instruments including guitar and trumpet and have taken part in open mic nights as well as concerts and garden parties. Charity During Easter 2011, I participated in a charity hitch hike from Bath to Morocco to raise money for Link Community Development. It helped me develop my communication skills and confidence in asking people for sponsorship and hitches. Sprint Hurdles Humberside Schools Champion 5 years running. This has helped make more driven and hard working, encouraging me to work hard towards my goals.
References
Dyfed Griffiths RIBA Director of Studies, University of Bath Room 4.2A Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering University of Bath BA2 7AY 01225 383185 D.Griffiths@bath.ac.uk
Gareth Howell RIBA Architect at Barton Willmore 101 Victoria St. Bristol Avon BS1 6PU 01179 299677 Gareth.Howell@bartonwillmore.co.uk
Culture House Valletta, Malta Year 3
The individual third year project was set on the island of Malta in the capital city of Valletta. The project called for a lot of initial observation and research about the culture and the context of the site. The Culture House was to include hostel accommodation for 50 people along with a flexible theatre, cafe, workshop, backstage and teaching rooms and was set outside of the city’s iconic bastion walls, on the site of the Grand Harbour. Many aspects of the city informed my design including the small intimate streets, busy public squares and the local vernacular of the pod accommodation fishing village next to the site. In response to this I created a scheme orientated around a public square on the waterfront with the hostel accommodation in pods buried into the bastion wall. The cafe and flexible theatre framed the square with a loggia giving the theatre a public square frontage with an external first floor bar. This all with the aim of creating an bustling, vibrant place to for people to eat, drink and hang out that would revitalise an otherwise stagnant harbour edge. A clear and effective environmental strategy needed to be developed to deal with the warm climate of Malta which included the use of a thermal labyrinth cooled using a deep sea water heat pump for the theatre in the summer.
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Valletta Fishing Village
Intimate Coastal Street
Steps up Bastion Wall
Intimate Urban Street
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CONCEPT Hostel Accommodation as Pods
CONCEPT Dark Granite Wrap around Pale Limestone, Malta’s Characteristic Material
CONCEPT Public Square Fronting onto the Harbour Edge
Hostel Pods in the Bastion Wall
Scheme Centred around a Public Square
Theatre Loggia addresses the Public Square VALLETTA FIGURE GROUND PLAN >
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Kew Gardens Visitor Centre London, UK Year 3
The Kew Gardens project was designed alongside two other architecture students and two civil engineering students. The centre was a gateway building attempting to attract more people to the gardens. The brief included a cafe, restaurant, shop, exhibition space and lecture hall. Our design also included a series of timber cone structures used as shelter for the main central concourse as well as for rainwater harvesting. It also included an observation deck for views over all of the gardens themselves.
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Northern Lights Observatory Rovaniemi, Finland Competition
This competition project was set on a wooded hill outside the Finnish Town of Rovaniemi. The brief was to design a hotel and observatory from which it was possible to view the Northern Lights. Included in the program was a restaurant, Finnish spa, and planetarium. The idea behind the project was to create private, intimate pods to stay in, elevated to the level of the tree canopy to give a sense of mixing with nature. Externally from university work, this competition was completed with three fellow students. Along with producing the computer model and using Photoshop to edit the drawings, I was also in charge of organising and combining the work of the other three students and organising the entrance and submission of the project.
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Street Art Museum Bristol, UK Year 2
Located on Bristol’s Mud Dock, the Street Art Museum was inspired by the city’s street art heritage as well as the industrial buildings that surround the site. The brief asked for three large exhibition spaces, as well as a cafe, workshop and offices. A project about walls and the artwork displayed on them, many of the walls extend out of the building from the gallery spaces and form the external landscaping. The project was detailed to expose the structure internally, the truss and roof lights recalling the city’s industrial buildings.
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Beach Hut UK South Coast Year 1
This is a scheme for a surfer’s hut on the beach on the south coast of England. The brief was to design a space that sheltered the user whilst also engaging with the beach environment. For me this was an exploration in the use of timber and forms that are available with the material. It also gave me an insight in what it is to design a small, intimate space, fit for purpose and allowed me to hone my model making skills.
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Other Work Art A Level
This spread shows my A-level art work and showcases my interests in model making and photography. The running sheep were modelled in clay and mounted on a beech base. With both these pieces I attempted to represent, and give a sense of, the dynamic and elegant movement of these animals. Both the model making and photography, I believe, are skills that are relevant to, and have helped me when, undertaking my architecture work.
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