Portfolio 2016-19
Bartllett RIBA (Part 1)
BSc. Jake Williams I am a recent honours graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture. In my three years of study, I have developed an holistic approach to design that incorporates history, theory, research and technical understanding. I have developed a particular interest in experimental housing projects. The projects deal in particular with relations between individual/ collective, private/ common space, ideas of adaptable and universal space, the use of standardised materials, participation and self-design.
Skills Rhinoceros 6 Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator) V-ray Rendering Software Sketchup ArcGis Laser Cutting 3D Printing Model Making Hand Drawing Metal Working
Achievments WINNER of Model and Drawing Prize
Awarded annually to Bartlett First Year student
SELECTED to produce Bartlett Summer Show Showpiece One of three students selected out of the year’s cohort to design and produce a showpiece representing first year work. The piece combined models and drawings synthesising ideas from my building project, assembled using metal work and 1:1 fabrication skills.
Contact jakechwilliams@gmail.com +44 7779264331
Contents Built Work: i. Extension to Market Stall October 2019 Site: Vinegar Yard, London Third Year: i. Anti-Monument 2018-19 Site: Whitehall London ii. Self-Assembly Collective Housing Prototype Site: Tarwewijk, Rotterdam Second Year: i. Art House 2017-18 Site: Soho, London ii. Union Park Community Shelter 2017-18 Site: Union Park, Chicago First Year: i. Installation 2016-17 Site: Bartlett School of Architecture, London ii. Factory 2016-17 Site: Hackney Wick, London
Built Work, i.
Extension to Market Stall The extension and reorganisation of a market stall. The design needed to retain as much of existing structure, fittings and surfaces as possible; also required was ease of assembly and the use of cheap materials.
Isometric projection of proposal.
Subtracted
Existing Re
us
ed
Corrugated steel
Post and beam structure
Plywood walls and partition
Surfaces
Equipment
This page: Exploded isometric projection for extension.
Extension
Opposite page: Plan and section of proposal.
Third Year, i.
Anti-Monument Set to the backdrop of the neoclassical facades of Whitehall, monuments to Britain’s constitutional history, sits a ghost. A platform is inhabited by interventions plugged in to the base structure provided: a plinth and scaffold colonade. The space is constantly rearranged, with new relationships set up between different activities existing in proximity to one another in an hyper-urban environment. The result is an enfilade of different activities and contradictions, a parade of everyday rituals, a space to be used and abused.
Clockwise from top-left: Axonometric projection of structure in use; “Scenographic space” an archipelago of monuments; “Collage City” mapping of city’s multiple georaphies and histories; Model.
Third Year, ii.
Self-Assembly Collective Housing Prototype The project addresses the financial inaccessibility and disposability of housing in Rotterdam. Rooted in initial research into the historic and contemporary positions of migrant workers in Dutch society, the design offers an affordable temporary housing option within a wider public institution, that intends to foster a true sense of cosmopolitanism. The projects treats architecture as an evolving technical object, exploring adaptability from the scale of the territory down to that of the detail. The prefabricated and self-build assembly system allows for the quick installation and updating of dwellings, providing the building with the means to adapt to changes in social patterning, lifestyles and technology. The unfixed components used both to accomodate dwellings as well as other public ammenities, through their re-assembly put the building in a constant state of negotiation and reorganisation based on its use. Inhabitants start off with an ‘unfinished house’: prefabricated 1,2, or 3 storey glulam frames are installed within a fixed structure, and can be stacked and removed as part of an infill housing system. Inhabitants can make adaptations, adding floors when desired, using simple mechanical fixings. Upon moving out, frames are removed and disassembled off site, leaving a void that can be used as common space until filled by a new dwelling.
Temporal and geographical mapping of migration in the Netherlands
Clockwise from top left: View from Tarwewijk neighbourhood; roof plan in context; view of multi-functional public interior; view of studios.
MOBILITY Sites positioned in close proximity to well integrated transport infrastructure. PERSONAL MOBILITY
REGIONAL STORE
DISASSEMBLY
REUSE
Randstad
Rhurgebiet
ASSEMBLY
DECENTRALISE Storage and distribution of parts is decentralised to regions.
Clockwise from top: Axonometric projection of full scheme; View from Maashaven; Diagram for replicable system for housing through different territories.
Clockwise from top-left: View of inhabited infill housing framework; Exploded axonometric for ‘kit-of-parts’ housing module; Collage for installed housing module with shore power connetion; Collage for installation of housing module.
Long Perspective Section
Second Year, i.
Studio/Gallery/Auction The project deals with ideas of the democratisation of art. ‘Promenade’ is used as an architectural device in a building that linearises and hosts the full spectrum of art’s production. The building belongs to the people. Within its walls, exchange takes place and ideas are conceived, enacted, stored, displayed and dispersed. Visits to the building reveal the artwork at a point in this process. The building consists of a series of unique spaces –foyer, studios, archives, exhibition space. The building is crowned with an auction house, which acts as a reminder of the reality of the market.
Sketch. Promenade of spaces.
Clockwise from topleft: Concept Model for wall detail; Sketch of interior view; Building model constructed as 5 interlocking storeys; Sketch of interior view; Model for public archive room.
Second Year, ii.
Union Park Community Shelter An interim housing prototype for Chicago’s displaced populations with domestic spaces raised above the ground plane, freeing the space below for public use
Clockwise from top-left: View of residents’ reading room; View of residents’ canteen; View of courtyard and public broadwalk leading to Union Park; Technical detail for broadwalk; Technical for twin wall structural tower.
Clockwise from top: Short section; Concept sketch; View of public foyer space; Building Model; Plaster cast for structural/ access towers; Courtyard sketch.
Clockwise from top-left: Concept Model; View of unit and residents’ courtyard garden; Axonometric projections for single and multiple occupancy unitsModel for unit framework and structural cores; Model for unit module.
First Year, i.
Installation The installation explores sound as a spatial proposition and challenges the physical boundaries present within our networked society. The ‘buildingmounted’ instrument uses the physical material of the building as a conductor, establishing sound as a means of communication.
First Year, ii.
Factory
The project explores the material qualities of production in a society in which the points of production and consumption have become increasingly distanced. The building is a series of walls rhythmically positioned along a small site. Within the building, the wall –a fundamental element of architecture– becomes programmed space, containing and displaying the material production, and the space between walls acts as porous, non-programmed space.
Top: Layered plan, first floor. Bottom: Final model detail. Next page, Clockwise from top-left: Model, abstraction, two walls positioned on site; Isometric projection of productive wall; Model detail; Model of inhabitable wall.