Harriet Lawless Work Sample 2014
Contents 2. Graduate Studio - Perfo-Pliant-Ply 9. Professional Practice - Mock Development Application - Plans and Sections 13. Painting and Drawing
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Harriet Lawless
M: 0488449905 E: harrietlawless@gmail.com
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EDUCATION 2012 – 2014 Bachelor of Design in Architecture – The University of Sydney • Subjects included Architectural Detailing, an optional, additional Extension Studio, Professional Practice and two advanced mathematics electives. 06/2014 – Present Diploma of Project Management – TAFE NSW • Studied independently online • Expected to be completed in March 2015 2003 – 2008 HSC – Frensham School, Mittagong • UAI of 93.95 • HSC Subjects: Visual Arts, Mathematics Extension 2, Physics, Modern History and Advanced English. • Prefect for the Visual Arts department in year 12.
WORK EXPERIENCE 07/2014 – 09/2014 The Blueprint Concepts – Assistant Project Management Intern • Design consultancy and project management firm specializing in signage. • Assisted with all stages of a signage project- sales, design consultancy, graphic design, project cost planning, managing supply and install, site visits. • I designed the artwork and project managed the install of a full-sized window sign at ANZ Grow centre on Pitt St, Sydney. • Office administration duties- emailing clients and suppliers, answering incoming calls, organizing couriers, filing, printing, data entry. • Managed my time across multiple projects simultaneously, while maintaining a high quality of work by communicating with clients and colleagues.
I generally worked unsupervised, and was frequently trusted by the owner to operate as the sole staff member in the café. I learned to be efficient whilst juggling multiple tasks and remaining positive and patient with customers.
03/2011 – 09/2011 Statbuddy – Graphic Designer • Designed logos for the online company Statbuddy.com.au. • Liaised closely with the management so as to convey a deep understanding of their business and product in my design. 02/2011 – 11/2011 Poachers Pantry – Promotions • My role involved forging positive relations with stockists while promoting and marketing the products through in-store taste testing. SKILLS AND INTERESTS •
Construction induction white card
Technical skills: • MS Office Suite, including Microsoft Project • Windows and Mac • Proficient in Adobe CS6 suite • ArchiCAD • Sketchup • Rhinoceros 3D Art and Drawing: Painting and pastel drawing, with a particular interest in portraiture. Was previously accepted as a painting/drawing student at the National Art School. Sports: Tireless long-time supporter of the Sydney Swans AFL team. Learning how to sail. Hobbies: Learning how to cook and bake. Hosting dinner parties.
03/2014 - 10/2014 Paul Berkemeier Studio - Work experience • Accompanying a project architect to site meetings, witnessing and assisting in the design problem solving and management of a heritage listed residential renovation. • Improved my communication skills while liaising with various tradespeople, architects and the client. 01/2012 – 01/2014 Mano Espresso – Café all-rounder • Responsible for all aspects of running a busy inner west café, taking on the rolls of manager, cashier, waitress, cook, dishwasher and cleaner.
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Perfo-Pliant-Ply Graduate studio Year completed: 2014 Duration: 11 weeks Professor: Sandra Site location: Domain car park, Sydney NSW, Australia
PLAN
ELEVATION
Designing a folding façade, based on initial explorations into “folding and flattening” actions creating space. How can the concept of “folding” and “flattening” be applied to real building materials?
EXPLORATIONS Folds making space.
ELEVATION
SECTION A-A Rendered initial explorations of folds making space.
SECTION B-B
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Solid and yet folding 3D printed model Changes in thickness, transparency and space.
Exploration and experimentation Designing a joint that will allow a material to “fold” and “flatten”, without the use of pre-bought hinges.
Aim: By dividing the sheet into an array of parallel columns, each column can bend along its own length, to let the sheet form a bend by twisting around the axis of the links. Cutting strips of material works very well in form finding and allows the model to sit flat. The initial paper hinge models were successful, but obviously flimsy.
Flat piece of material
Material: Balsa wood
Material: initial cardboard model
Aim: To discover the effect a timber grain has on the joint model.
Bending cardboard before cutting
Conclusion: The bending achieved was very successful, with little effort required to bend it and little stress of the object. The model has undesired movement and flexibility in other directions, which adding extra joints between the columns will fix. It has been observed that the horizontal joints do not bend and that, instead, the bending comes from a twisting in the vertical column elements. This is important to note to understand how a timber may snap.
Conclusion: Bending against the grain is difficult and the desired rounded bend is not achieved. It is, however, more durable to snapping. Bending with the grain is easier and creates the desired, rounded bend. More susceptible to snapping.
Uncut balsa, bending with the grain
Cut balsa, bending with the grain
Bending cardboard after cutting
Uncut balsa, bending against the grain
Cut balsa, bending against the grain
Timber pin jointed model allowed for a more robust exploration of the limitations of the form under lateral force.
Material is cut into, joints added between pieces. Sits flat with no gaps.
When force applied the joints give way to create a “folded” overlapping three dimensional form.
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: Design a connection size that limits the stress on the material, limits the danger of breakage, that does not fatigue, and with an ermanent deformation.
Exploration aim: To discover the effect the changing the depth of the vertical slices will have on the flexibility of the joint. Bending with the grain 6mm laser cut ply.
Exploration and material experimentation.
Exploration aim: To discover the effect the changing the depth of the vertical connections will have on the flexibility of the joint. Bending with the grain 6mm laser cut ply.
5mm
Designing and understanding a joint that utilises the properties of plywood to create different degrees of flexibility.
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10mm 10mm 20mm 5mm
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40mm 5mm
Each different dimensions of perforation have different advantages and disadvantages- for example- lets more light in but not very flexible or very flexible but less transparent. This has been embraced in the design in response to a given site.
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Conclusion: Changing the depth of the vertical connection does not have much impact on the ability to bend the plywood. This is because the bending is not happening in the horizontal elements, but is a twisting moment in the vertical elements. Therefore changing the depth of the horizontal elements has no effect on ability to bend the joint.
The material-informed investigation into the effect that perforations will have on the physical malleability of the plywood screen enlightens the design. If we want the screen to not move in a certain area, we just perforate the screen in a way that we know will not allow it to move.
Exploration aim: To discover the effect that changing the width of the vertical slices will have on the flexibility of the joint. What effect does changing the number of links have on the joint? Bending with the grain 6mm laser
Exploration aim: To discover the effect that changing the width of the vertical slices will have on the flexibility of the joint. What effect does changing the number of links have on the joint? Bending with the grain 6mm laser
12mm
The perforations are designed to allow movement in the screen- allowing for adjustments in solar access and shading, ventilation and internal circulation and views.
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40mm
Exploration aim: To discover the effect the changing the width of the vertical columns will have on the flexibility of the joint. Bending with the grain 6mm laser cut ply.
20mm
20mm
Conclusion: The test with the longer vertical slices allowed the top edges to splay outwards during bending, adding stress and contributing to breakage. The test with the shortest slice was the most successful in bending. All tests were relatively easy to bend, with little effort needed. As can be observed from the photos, as the depth of the vertical slices was doubled each time, the bending ability of the plywood decreased proportionally.
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40 links
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10mm 40 links 40 links
20 links 12mm
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Conclusion: In all of the cases where the width was less than the thickness of the material, the bend was very successful. The smaller the width, the more flexible the joint was. In fact, the 2mm test was incredibly flexible and resilient,with little to no stress on the joint. The 12mm test, double the thickness of the material, was very unsuccessful. Compared to the 10mm wide slices from the next page, the 5mm slices were more successful in bending.
Conclusion: The more links there are, the deeper the curvature of the bend. The 10mm wide slices were less successful in bending than the 5mm wide slices.
Applying to screen to a site The assigned site is the Domain Car Park in Sydney, to be converted into a new contemporary gallery space for the Art Gallery of NSW. The screen façade is altered to respond to the conditions of the site and the needs of a gallery.
The screen is run along the southern wall of the existing car park. The majority of the existing building has been retained and adaptively re-used, as the retention of a building’s embodied energy contributes to the livability and sustainability of communities. The soccer fields on the roof of the car park have been maintained, as they are an important and highly valued meeting place for the community. Soft, dispersed southern light filters through the perforations. The thickness of the screen is varied where further control of sound and solar access is required. The floor of the gallery is cut away to allow for views down to the bottom floors, and for the screen to move. This gives the internal building a transparency, where the viewer can glimpse the entire museum, giving the sense that all of the art within the gallery is interconnected through a multicultural artistic language. The intricate light pattern falling across the gallery conveys a sense of the passing of time to a visitor as it moves across the floor over the course of the day.
Environmental Soft southern solar access, ideal for illumination of gallery. Eastern sun captured in undulating surface of facade. Breeze from south west captured through undulating perforations.
Noise Majority of noise from highway and train tracks to east- screen thickened at this end to block out. 2mm
Pedestrian access Important as visitors will stroll through gardens for access from the city.
Views Intentionally no horizontal views from gallery, so as to not give clear context or distract from artworks. Vertical transparency between slats with views to the sky. “Could be anywhere”
Massing- the site is long, thin, low.
Perforated pattern generation Solar access and aesthetics, transparency. Pattern derived from material experimentation.
Force to make screen move
Sun penetration and shading due to undulation of screen
Manipulation Perforations designed to allow the screen to move in a certain, controlled way with horizontal force applied. This is in response to desired ventilation and solar gains and shading, provided by the undulation in the screen.
Structural The screen is given a thickness, which varies along its length to control sun and noise penetration through perforations.
Tiered floors allow for visual transparency throughout the building while allowing solar penetration
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Detailed Section @ 1:20 Showing rail system and connection of screen to existing wall.
1) Existing concrete structure, thickness and structural details to be confirmed on site. To be exposed internally and polished. 2) Timber beams 60x200, to visually hide rail. Varnished finish. Bolted to existing concrete structure. 3) Aluminium rail, screwed to timber beam surrounds. Screwed to timber support baton, allowing it to move the screen. 4) Set of 4 aluminium wheels and trolley 5) Plywood slats 150x60, varnish finish. Nailed to timber support baton. 6) Timber support baton, screwed to rail. 7) Timber beam framing, bolted to existing concrete and nailed to timber beams using a fixing plate. Varnish finish.
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2 1 Laser-cut plywood and timber model, constructed on a rail system to allow the screen to be pushed and demonstrate the undulation and flexibility of the plywood, at 1:10 A screen-like faรงade of perforated plywood slats creates a decorative, aesthetically attractive pattern and gives the solid building a sense of transparency.
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Detailed Section @ 1:20 Showing rail system and connection of screen to existing roof.
Laser cut screen board model showing the faรงade in the site, and the Art Gallery of NSW.
The contemporary art world is simultaneously multicultural and culture-less- it is an amalgamation of worldwide notions of art, influencing and interweaving, no longer able to be defined by one culture or tradition. The screen, instead of dictating a meaning to the art, can be interpreted from the perspective of the viewer and in relation to the art that it surrounds. The architecture feeds off the creative energy of the artworks shown within, and vice-versa. The screen embodies the multicultural nature of contemporary Australia, through customization and malleability- both in form and in meaning. The ambiguous screen creates a gallery that is open and receptive to the artistic and cultural diversity of Sydney, Australia and the World. In this way the screen can express a distinction between cultures, while at the same time embodying the worldwide language of art by presenting a common ground. This is where diversity intersects, can be celebrated and common goals and interrelations of the artworks are extracted.
Renders of art gallery. Rhinoceros 3D used for 3D model, rendered in Maxwell for Rhino and edited, with people and artworks added, in Adobe Photoshop.
The simple gesture of the transparent and perforated screen has a complex effect on the gallery experience while remaining non-dominant.
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DWG 0200
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Year completed: 2014 Duration: 11 weeks Professor: Suzanna Potts Site location: 42 Macdonald St, Erskineville NSW
DWG 0201
Development Application (sample of work) Professional Practice
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2570
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3810 4680
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adjoining residence 45 Macdonald st
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RL 8.50AHD
RL 8.37AHD
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KITCHEN
MACDONALD STREET
3740x4060mm FFL 8.77 AHD RL 8.60 AHD D01
ROOF RL 16.48
C
RL 8.10 AHD
TV ROOM
UP
DINING
W04
4700x3450mm FFL 8.37 AHD
SOUTHERN BACKYARD
New 1080x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
W05
4180x5410mm FFL 8.77
New 1080x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
new staircase
7710
NEW STAIIRS RISE: 180MM RUN: 270MM. VARNISHED TIMBER
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LOUNGE
4120x4290mm FFL 8.77
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WC
UP
D02
C
D03
DWG 0202
D05
RL 8.60AHD
WORKSHOP
GARAGE
5450x3160mm FFL 8.77 AHD polished concrete
1710x3160mm FFL 8.77 AHD polished concrete
W03
COURTYARD 5000x4630mm FFL 8.77AHD
UP D04
RL 8.60AHD
GAMES ROOM 4340x3890mm FFL 8.37 AHD
W06 RL 8.50AHD
GUTTER RL 16.36
UP
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New full glass double door 1740x2100, varnished timber frame
New cavity brick walls, rendered and painted
1050
D
10970
RL 8.60AHD
590
1760
New 1080x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
RL 8.37AHD
New 1080x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
DWG 0200
41 Macdonald street
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B
DWG 0201
adjoining residence
New full glass double door 1740x2100, varnished timber frame New full glass double door 1740x2100, varnished timber frame New full glass double door 1740x2100, varnished timber frame
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Key
Issue A
Date
15/10/2014
Issue Note DA ISSUE
Drawn by HL
retained new addition
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4760
existing footprint
Scale 1:100 @ A3
2310
Project
Alterations and additions Address
43 Macdonald Street, Erskineville
Drawing
Plan Ground Floor Project
Status
001
A
DWG No. Revision
0100
A
B
DWG 0200
DWG 0201
A
18240
2570
1500
3810 4680
8200
3730
adjoining residence 45 Macdonald st
1760
New 1080x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
W07
590
FFL 12.06 AHD
MAIN BEDROOM D07
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ROOF RL 16.48
3660x3870mm FFL 12.06 AHD
DWG 0203
KID BEDROOM 1
W08
SOUTHERN BACKYARD
4380x3030mm FFL 12.06 AHD
ENSUITE 2550x1630mm FFL 12.06 AHD ceramic tile
New 1020x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
FFL 12.06 AHD New 1020x1430mm double hung frosted window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
W09 W13
W14
C
W12
10970
DWG 0203
D
7710
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C
DWG 0202
DWG 0202
New full glass double door 2150x1720mm, varnished timber frame
D06
STUDY/ LIBRARY 3890x4340mm FFL 12.06 AHD
KID BEDROOM 2
W15
4380x2800mm FFL 12.06 AHD
COURTYARD
LAUNDRY
2840x2160mm FFL 12.06 AHD ceramic tile
W11
New 1020x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
W10
1050
W16
GUTTER RL 16.36
New 1000x1550mm fixed glazed window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
New 1080x1430mm double hung window. Dressed varnished timber frame.
DWG 0200
41 Macdonald street
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B
DWG 0201
adjoining residence
New 1020x2030mm fixed glazed window. Dressed varnished timber frame. 1010
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309284724
BDES3025 Architectural Professional Practice
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Key
Issue A
Date
15/10/2014
Issue Note DA ISSUE
Drawn by HL
retained new addition
4760
existing footprint
Scale 1:100 @ A3
2310
Project
Alterations and additions Address
43 Macdonald Street, Erskineville
Drawing
Plan First Floor Project
Status
001
A
DWG No. Revision
0101
A 10
BOUNDARY
BOUNDARY
NEW SOUTHERN STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED, ROOF LINE TO ALIGN WITH EXISTING STRUCTURE
Permissible building envelope
PARAPET RL 16.66
EXISTING ROOF TO BE RETAINED
TOP OF GUTTER RL 14.48
W09
FIRST FLOOR DEMOLISHED TO CREATE DOUBLE HEIGHT DINING
exg first floor ffl rl 12.25 BALCONY RL 12.06
GAME ROOM
KITCHEN BATHROOM
D02
New full glass double door 1740x2100mm, varnished timber frame
D03
D05
New full glass double door, varnished timber frame
2430
3340
RENDERED BRICK
exg ground floor ffl rl 8.77
VERANDAH RL 8.60
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Key
Issue A
Date
15/10/2014
Issue Note DA ISSUE
Drawn by HL
section
brick timber glass steel
Scale 1:100 @ A3
Project
Alterations and additions Address
43 Macdonald Street, Erskineville
Drawing
Long Section C-C Project
Status
001
A
DWG No. Revision
0202
A
8080
W12
1140 260
7870
W13
W14
1470
BATHROOM
MAIN BEDROOM D07
3020 190
1390
GUTTER RL 16.36
BOUNDARY
BOUNDARY
NEW SOUTHERN STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED, ROOF LINE TO ALIGN WITH EXISTING STRUCTURE
maximum building height
CORRUGATED STEEL ROOFING PARAPET RL 16.66
EXISTING ROOF TO BE RETAINED
W17
W14
FIRST FLOOR DEMOLISHED TO CREATE DOUBLE HEIGHT DINING
190
exg first floor ffl rl 12.25 BALCONY RL 12.06
COURTYARD
7870
BRIDGE
3020
TOP OF GUTTER RL 14.48
41 Macdonald Street 3340
45 Macdonald Street 2m high back wall EXISTING PARTY WALL RETAINED
DINING
New full glass double door 1740x2100mm, varnished timber frame
D04
D02
exg ground floor ffl rl 8.77
VERANDAH RL 8.60
GROUND LEVEL RL 8.11
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Key
Issue A
Date
15/10/2014
Issue Note DA ISSUE
Drawn by HL
section
brick timber glass
Scale 1:100 @ A3
Project
Alterations and additions Address
43 Macdonald Street, Erskineville
Drawing
Short Section A-A Project
Status
001
A
DWG No. Revision
0200
A
steel 12
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Painting and Drawing I am a passionate artist, with a particular love for portraiture. I love the precision required in portraiture to achieve a likeness, coupled with the creative potential to convey the personality of the subject. The variety and quality of my work demonstrates my attention to detail, patience and work ethic. My use of colour shows an aptitude for colour choices and creativity.
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