JACK PARKER PORTFOLIO 2019
UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON Studio 66 - Anuschka Kutz
Hello, my name is Jack Parker. I am a recently graduated student from the University of Brighton on the BA Architecture course. Enclosed in this book is a series of work undertaken throughout the 2018/19 academic year as my third year design projects.
My interest lie particularly with conceptual and visionary architecture and how through considering scenarios and advanced timelines, we can better plan and design with future considerations in hand, but also remain entirely grounded in the present.
I try and use every project as a chance to learn more architecturally but also challenge myself to use different mediums and further current skills to fully express the nature of the project.
Jack Parker University of Brighton j_m_parker@hotmail.co.uk 07854211481 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-parker-4b5288166/
Jack Parker BA (Hons) Architecture Graduate - Part I Architect Brighton, East Sussex j_m_parker@hotmail.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-parker-4b5288166/ 07854 211481 I am a recently graduated BA Architecture student from the University of Brighton. I am highly ambitious and hard working designer looking to take my next steps in the architecture profession. Strengths in model making, 3D computer modelling and graphic design with previous experience and skills in hospitalities, sales and venue assembly. Throughout education I have become proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Rhino 3D, Cinema4D, Sketchup, model making and Microsoft Office.
Education - GCSE Bishop Wordsworth School, Salisbury 11GCSE’s
- A-Levels Bishop Wordsworth School, Salisbury A-Levels in Economics, Biology and Chemistry ACC
- University BA Architecture - University of Brighton Currently working at 1:1
Projects undertaken through BA Architecture final year Studio 66 Tutors: Anushcka Kutz and Katy Beinart Natural Reclamation Pod PROJECT SUMMARY: For this project, I looked into the concepts of abandonment and dereliction of buildings. I therefore hypothesised the scenario that Eros House, a prominent Catford building, becomes abandoned and nature has slowly reclaimed the building. We arrive on site in the year 2050, where the building is fully reclaimed, creating an intervention which helps the building to coexist with the new nature, even nurturing it, whilst claiming back Eros House as a functional building for the community. The Catford Nettle Factory PROJECT SUMMARY: Continuing on from the previous project’s consideration of the urban environments existence with nature, I wanted to further explore the role nature plays in the urban environment. In this regard, I want to focus more on the river’s standing in the modern city. Pollution of water and waste pollution highly affect the river and it has become overgrown and untended, resulting in a lack of biological diversity. The project looks at one of the foolhardy plants that remain - the Stinging Nettle. The project is a production centre for nettle fabrics which looks to nurture the existing natural ecosystem of river to help create a more balanced ecosystem. Both projects feature in the self made publications to be featured on Issuu at the address: https://issuu.com/j_m_parker
Achievements and awards: Winner of the RIBA (Sussex Branch) Prize [2019] Nominee for the Guy Piper Award for exceptional investigation of inclusivity for all through spatial design [2019] Nominee for the Chalk Architecture Award for students deemed to have shown an exceptional record of research, process and investigation leading to a design proposal [2019] Additional achievements: - Duke of Edinburgh Bronze - EDCL Computer Competency course - Sports Leadership Level 1 certificate Member of successful sport teams for Basketball, Rugby and Hockey throughout education.
Previous work experience between studies: Cinema Host - Odeon Cinemas - Salisbury, UK 2016-04 - 2016-09
Sales Floor team- Homebase - Salisbury, UK 2015-03 - 2015-10
Selection of additional roles undertaken:
Box Office/Ticket Stand: • Dealt with payment from customers, booking seats and dealing with returns and refunds. • Dealt with customer queries and returns, ensuring they are satisfied by the time they leave the cinema. • Welcomed customers into the cinema, being the face of the company. • Checked tickets thoroughly and dealt with any requests or queries regarding ticketing. • Engaged customers in conversation to make them feel welcome.
Till Assistant/Front desk/Sales floor: • Dealt with payment from customers, dealing with customer returns and handled payments. • Dealt with customer queries and returns, ensuring they are satisfied by the time they leave the store. • Served customers answering any queries they may have, providing knowledge based help on the correct product choice. • Worked ‘Meet and Greet’ - engaging in conversation with every customer that walks to ensure that they feel welcome and can have their questions answered.
Rose and Thistle Inn, Fordingbridge, Hampshire 2013-06 - 2013-11
Waiter and Kitchen Attendant • Used my customer service skills to ensure all diners had an enjoyable experience in the restaurant. • Dealt with a variety of customers and handled any requests or complaints with ease. Marquee Assistant Marlin Marquees, Fordingbridge, Hampshire 2013-09 - 2013-10
• Assembled and dismantled marquees for high profile events. • Worked to a tight schedule as part of a small team.
Key skills gained from work experience and education:
- Time management - working to deadlines - Working as a team or individually on projects to achieve high standards on goals and targets - Customer service and communication skills - Excellent oral, written, presentation and interpersonal skills at all levels. - Flexible and adaptable, and able to work to challenging schedules. - More information and references available on request -
Academic Projects Y3, First Term - Design Project
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The Natural Reclamation Pod PROJECT SUMMARY: For the first terms project, I begun by investigating what I considered to be an unsustainable urban culture. This, for me, meant more than just the attitude to waste, emmisions and environmental conditions but also our attitudes to urban planning, provision of green space and mores. This brought me on to the concepts of abandonment and dereliction of buildings. When buildings becom abandoned, and intersting conjunction to the above occurs. Nature is allowed to reclaim the urban environement, creating its own balance between the urban and natural environments. The conditions of Eros House, an iconic building in the Catford community, have steadily been deeteriorating to the point where it is being protested against as a housing unit due to neglegable conditions. For this project, I therefore hypothesised the scenario that Eros House becomes abandoned and nature has slowly reclaimed the building. We arrive on site in the year 2050, where the building is fully reclaimed, creating an intervention which helps the building to coexist with the new nature, even nurturing it, whilst claiming back Eros House as a functional building for the community.
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The Natural Reclamation Pod Catford, London
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Academic Projects Y3, Second and Third Term - Design Project
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The Catford Nettle Factory PROJECT SUMMARY: Continuing on from the previous project’s consideration of the urban environments existance with nature, I wanted to further explore the role nature plays in the urban environment. In this regard, I want to focus more on the river’s standing in the modern city and more specifically, Catford. The Ravensbourne River, running through Catford, would once have been at the heart of the city but as Catford has now become more urban over time, the river has been disregarded. Pollution of water and waste pollution highly affect the river ecosystem leading it to become overgrown and untended, resulting in a lack of biological diversity. The project looks at one of the foolhardy plants that remain - the Stinging Nettle. Able to be manufactured into clothes, food and other products, the nettle which is native to riverbanks provides the river with an opportunity to becom a functional element to the Catford community once more, whilst also creating a movement to revitalise the river. The project is a production centre, a factory production line, for nettle fabrics which looks to nurture the existing natural ecosysten of river to help create a more balanced ecosystem whilst also addressing the idea of an urban-agricultural union.
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The Catford Nettle Factory Catford, London
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Designing in a polluted environment
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The Catford Nettle Factory Catford, London
SUMMARY: A primary element of the project was understanding how pollution is increasingly affecting our urban environments. Pollution not only affects us, the residents, but it also has a damaging nature on the nature within the city. This led to the creation of a manifesto for change, looking into all the elements of our urban condition which are unsustainable. For this project, I focused on the conditions of the site, Catford’s River Pool Linear Walk, a stretch of river surrounded by industry. An increasingly polluted and overgrown environment I analysed the nature, human interaction and industrial conditions to understand how pollution has affected this area. Biological samples collected from the site no longer correlated with a healthy river ecosystem, showing the damage done.
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Programme for the project
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The Catford Nettle Factory Catford, London
SUMMARY: Analysing the site and understanding more about pollution and the urban-nature relationship allowed me to focus on a more definite program for the project. This centred around a fool-hardy plant of the increasingly polluted urban landscape - the Stinging Nettle. Found growing around cities, in places where nature often struggles to grow, the nettle can be processed in to a variety of usable commodities. The program therefore aims to look into how the Stinging Nettle can become a biological ‘reset button’ of sorts, by not only bringing a functional element to the nature within cities but also to help the residents of the city regulate their natural ecosystem. The project, therefore is the creation of a fabric factory, that grows the nettles by the river, to rejuvenate an environment that had become overgrown and obscelete.
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Final proposal on site
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The Catford Nettle Factory Catford, London
SUMMARY: The drawings shown next are the final proposal for The Catford Nettle factory, assembled on the site. The proposal follows a linear manufacturing process, from growing and harvesting through to weaving, but intends to blend and incorporate the nature that exists within the site into the architecture. The idea of the factory is to contemplate the way in which we represent a production process. Takingthe idea of a large warehouse - unwelcoming and exclusive - and turning on its head, considering the way in which we can make it both a celebration of nature and industry.
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Analysis of the structures of The Catford Nettle Factory
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SUMMARY: Whilst the composition of the spaces on site was primarily in relation to the production process, the structures themselves were intended to respond to the environment in which they sat. For the growing of nettles, the Growing and Harvesting Towers were placed on the river, utilising aquaponics to help rehabilitate the environment. The Retting Enclosures aimed to blend seemlessly into the natural tree and plant growth, becoming ‘enclosed’ with nature. The Threshing Aviaries were placed higher above the site, to encourage bird interaction. Whilst the large, open Substation, become home to the atmospheric looms, allowing for increased loom size and therefore the inhabitation of the process. Each stage is tailored to encorporate the production process with nature and humans.
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The future of the project
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The Catford Nettle Factory Catford, London
SUMMARY: A further consideration to the project is its impact looking towards the future. The projects aims are heavily grounded in the nurturing of the natural environment through a new argiculatural/industrial process. The natural process of rejuvenating the biodiversity of this urban area takes time, to which the project is responsive to. Therefore it is important to consider this project in the regard of its changing and influence over time, as the environment steadily readjusts. The designs compartmental nature allows for elements of the project to spread further into the urban realm, affecting and influencing more of the urban environment of Catford, expressed here.
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A thank you to Anuschka Kutz and Katy Beinart, my primary tutors for the projects shown within. Also, a thank you to the entire staff of BA Architecture at the University of Brighton for their help and support through my undergraduate course, making it an enjoyable and rewarding process.
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