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Contents
Selected Undergraduate Projects
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2020 Metamorphoses 1 - 10 2019 Public Venture 11 - 12 2018 Venetian Fields 13 - 14 2016-17
Experiments in Materiality
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Employment + Projects 2017-21
Work in Practice
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2020 - 21
Space for Another Time
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2015-20
Sketches + Selected Artwork
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Background : Fabricated Parabolas | 2020 Final Undergraduate Project | p. 1 -10
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Summary of Experience
Education University of Bath BSc Architecture [with placements], First-Class Honours, program average 75% Basil Spence Prize Runner-Up, Oculus Prize Winner, PaperspACE magazine contributor
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The Royal Latin School Art / Maths / English Literature A-Levels, A*AA Duke of Edinburgh Gold, volunteer tutor: Maths + Design Technology
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Employment Blee Halligan [London] Architectural Assistant RIBA stages 1-5: Private residential projects in the UK and Turks and Caicos Islands Tender packages, detailing, concept design + development, BIM [Vectorworks / Revit]
2020 Sep (ongoing)
Apollodorus Architecture [London] Architectural Assistant RIBA stages 2-5: Private residential projects, interior / furniture concept design Detailed design, scheduling, visualisation [SketchUp / AutoCAD / V-Ray] ​ Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners [London] Architectural Assistant RIBA stages 1-3: Hammersmith Civic Campus, modular social housing ​BIM, planning applications, feasibility, layouts, UK building regs. [Revit / Microstation]
2020 2019
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2018 2017
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Architecture Studio 5 [Harlington] Architectural Assistant RIBA stages 1-3, 6: Small scale residential projects 3D modelling, planning applications, GA drafting [SketchUp / AutoCAD]
2017 Jun - Jun + occasional remote work
Projects Bath Medical Museum Digital model and virtual tour of the historic mineral hospital
2020 Jun (ongoing)
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2020 Metamorphoses Final Undergraduate Project
My brother’s experiences with provisions for autism in education inspired this project. Ashton Court College of Woodland is a 1625 special educational needs college sited on an historic agricultural estate. Following a curriculum drawing on Steiner, Morris and Ruskin, students learn to transform material from the natural world, and in so doing, transform themselves. Students progress in stages of increasing skill and interaction from learning in the workshop to working on the public street, selling wood products and wood-fired cuisine produced by them on the estate. Students grow in confidence and instil a sense of value within themselves. A reinterpretation of a cruck frame echoes the site’s history in traditional agricultural forms while using small timber sections that can be locally sourced and worked in a low tech way. The craft required for construction does not exceed that which can be taught at the college. Right: As well as providing essential life skills, the college trains students to become stewards of the land. Working on the estate [blue] fosters a holistic understanding of materials outside the school boundary [red]. 1
An opening in the existing listed wall defines the route of a new pedestrian street, linking two large facilities to the site, providing customers for lunchtime trade.
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The circular form knits the existing buildings together and to the street, forming a courtyard. 24 radiating lines of structure integrate the 15 degree skew of the street with the existing buildings’ axes. 2
The traditional cruck uses the natural curve of a split oak and requires central tying. The fabricated cruck is closer to a true parabola and thus is stable. Horizontal division becomes a spatial choice. 3
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The existing site is bounded by high red sandstone walls which create a sense of safety and security. The listed segment is maintained and existing openings are used. 6
The sensory garden acts as both an escape and recalibration space, vital for students with autism. 7
Clockwise from top left : Workshop ventilation strategy with MVHR shown red / blue and LEV shown orange Early model showing a trial massing with a rectilinear plan Base condition for crucks showing a ventilated steel box footing 1:500 site model with built context and interim massing Roof framing strategy
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The building uses two heights of cruck frame. The lower cruck creates intimate attic spaces when split, as shown here in the staff office, with the staff room below. 9
Drawers with contrasting handles and labels have a high perceptible affordance; their function and operation [pull to open] are predictable. This characteristic is beneficial for students with autism. 10
2019 Public Venture Undergraduate Group Project Basil Spence Prize Runner-Up
The long-running Basil Spence Project sees architecture and civil engineering students at Bath working together in teams. The 2019 brief asked for an adaptable innovation centre. This building offers a variety of presentation and meeting spaces for innovators to share ideas with the public to attract support and investment. The architecture models and encourages a future of innovation that is transparent and democratic. People can commit capital directly, as crowdfunders or shareholders, to businesses’ long-term goals, avoiding the typical short term approach of intermediate banks or funds. Materials and components are leased rather than bought from manufacturers to foster a long term responsibility for them and their end of life. As the built environment around the site densifies, the flanking cladding panels will be switched from transparent to translucent, and the old panels will be used in the new neighbours’ façades. My work included designing the geometry of the presentation spaces and ramp, and modelling for renders. The concept sketch was drawn by me, as was the GA section. 11
Level, glazed bubbles along the ramp allow wheelchair users and children to watch. 12
2018 Venetian Fields Undergraduate Study Trip Project Oculus Prize Winner
For Venetian life to continue there must be a vision for the future that sits within the existing framework of the city, supports the local population and allows the support of tourism. The components of the gondola workshop and training centre are inserted like free-standing machines into the burned out ruin, leaving it as a fractured faรงade through which visitors may catch glimpses of the craft. The lightweight structure acknowledges the fast-changing landscape of the modern world; it may become redundant and be replaced without constantly overwriting the slower world of the past. The apprentice apartments are for vulnerable local young people, who are normally priced out of Venice. They cluster around a shared second floor loggia from which all may be accessed, some via internal staircases. The result is a complex warren of unique spaces around a common social area, a microcosm of the Venetian campo - the Venetian Field. A double-helix staircase and doublesided lift allow a single core to serve both buildings. 13
Transient modern objects in an enduring ruin 14
2016 - 17 Experiments in Materiality Undergraduate Projects
First year undergraduate study at Bath comprised a series of small projects exploring different materials and construction methods, including timber and steel, as shown on these two pages.
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Combatting thermal bridging
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2020 - 21 Blee Halligan Work in Practice
I am currently working at Blee Halligan, a small practice based in London and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Initially, I worked from their London office in Shoreditch, but I am now working from home. Two of the projects I am working on include a UK country house and a Turks and Caicos holiday house. All images shown were drawn by me. The UK project replaces an 18th C. hall demolished in the 1950s. It was important to balance the monumental presence this typology demands with sensitivity to the parkland. Working on the elevations, I aimed for a balanced harmony in fenestration whilst avoiding rigidity. I created voids through the building via inset balconies and the back of the carport, allowing light and views through the mass while maintaining the overall silhouette. I worked on my main Turks and Caicos project from its conception, developing the 3D in tandem with a colleague working in plan. The house is conceived as a series of jostling planes rising up to the ocean, supported on stone clad fins. This creates a variety of sunny and shaded areas.
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Holiday House | Turks and Caicos
Plasterboard Steel Structure Vapour Barrier Plywood Sheathing Rockwool Insulation Larsen Truss Plywood Sheathing Breather Membrane Timber Cladding
Country House | United Kingdom
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2020 - 21 Blee Halligan Work in Practice
I worked on these drawings as part of a team producing a tender package. The project is a set of three villas on the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Reinforced concrete slab to structural engineers specification Sheet waterproofing to substructure Vertical tanking to substructure External floor tiles on waterproof substrate, laid to fall External timber decking to level 2 with waterproof substrate External landscape pavers on porous substrate Internal natural stone floor finish Internal floor tile (with texturised anti-slip finish in bathrooms) Floor gulley Adjustable floor levelling pedestals
Suspended marine-grade metal framing for ceiling Durock render carrying soffit board, render finish Suspended external timber TnG ceiling on plywood (concealed fixings) Internal sheetrock partition Shadow gap trim to base of walls
Reinforced concrete frame to structural engineers specification CMU blockwork to structural engineers specification 3/4" Stone cladding on 1/4" mudding with mapei waterproof primer layer to blockwork 1" thick texturised, reinforced render to walls (control joints to be incorporated 1/2" thick granite-effect render to window lintels and sills External sliding door assembly (Schuco ASS 39 PD.NI powder coated aluminium frame, RAL colour TBC) External aluminium framed window (installation to allow removal of beads) Sikaflex compound to create weathertight seal at all openings Concealed motorized bug screen Flexible sheet roof covering Metal standing seam roof on deck, with peel +stick adhesive waterproofing interlayer. Fixings, filler pieces and flashings etc. to manufacturers guidance.
Bottom clamped glass balustrade - external (no visible shoe) Bottom clamped glass balustrade - internal (no visible shoe) Rigid PPC Aluminium flap to conceal bug screen Falls in flat roof formed in screed (TBA with selected contractor) Insulation with vapour control layer Overflow chute outlet, marine grade stainless steel External hardwood TnG cladding on cross-battens and vertical waterproofing layer. Hardwood timber fin framing.
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2017 - 20 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Apollodorus Architecture Work Placements
As part of my degree at Bath I have undertaken two placements, totalling 14 months, at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Apollodorus Architecture, where I worked as an Architectural Assistant. I have also worked an additional summer at each firm. At RSHP I worked on planning applications for a number of volumetric modular construction projects [top] and Hammersmith Civic Campus [bottom]. My tasks included completing GA drawings, creating apartment layouts and producing design and access statements. Both drawings are team drawings that I had a role in producing. The top drawing is almost entirely my work. Work at Apollodorus, shown overleaf, involved developing designs of high end residential and interior spaces. Tasks also included scheduling and tender drawings. Limited work is shown due to project confidentiality. Both drawings were done by me.
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Right: Spiral service stair design, with a corridor passing through at lower ground level, designed to meet UK building regulations
Far Right: Modifications to a powder room to make it accessible
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2020 - 21 Space for Another Time Personal Projects Working with Museums and Historic Sites
This is a series of ongoing experiments, ideas and projects exploring the possibilities of virtual and augmented reality for telling stories from the past and allowing users to explore historical environments. The primary project is an interactive virtual tour of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, which will allow visitors to explore the building as it was in the 18th century and hear stories from its past. The Bath Medical Museum hopes to develop a virtual ‘Museum without Walls’ throughout the city, highlighting its rich medical history, with this site being the first. I will use 3D scan data from the present site and historic drawings to construct the virtual model, from which I will make an interactive video. Historic England is also exploring augmented reality to allow visitors to see how their sites and buildings appeared in the past. Right is a 360 rendered fantasy scene I made to demonstrate technique to them.
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90 Degree Timber Meets at 60 Academic work | Joint designed + made by me, but used as part of a group build project
2015 1 Whale 3 Ways Personal art project | Laser cut plywood + acrylic rod
2015 4 Dimensions Captured in 2 Personal photography | Long exposure shot, New York
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Harry Wyatt harryjohnwyatt@gmail.com +44 (0) 7784 323951 harrywyatt.com Background : Acetone Experiment no.2 | 2020 Personal Project | Dissolving platonic solids wrapped in ossified string lattice
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