JAMES READ - Short Portfolio

JAMES READ

Short Portfolio - 08/05/2023

SELECTED WORKS

Los Angeles - AA Visiting School : LA Is No Place

Nevada, USA - Hyperloop Campus Competition

Ghachok, Nepal - Mahendra High School

Wisconsin, USA - Taliesin Site Visit

Lock Tay, Scotland - Pontoons

Architizer One Drawing Challenge 2019

Montserrat - National Trust EcoPlay

Somerset - Drawing Matter Archive Visit

Berlin - AA Visiting School - Urban Phoenix 2023

The Nottingham Contemporary - Competition

Loughborough University - First Year Pavilion

Flitwick - Water Lane Development

Liverpool - Circuit Community Library

Hertfordshire - Tewin Church

Enfield - The Productive Landscape Institute

Tottenham - 1000 Artists Live Here

Mayfair - Brompton & Harefield Wimpole Street

Imperial College, Charing X - Reynolds Building

Homerton University Hospital - Elective Centre

Bournemouth, RBCH Pathology Laboratory

KEY:

Page Number

Ongoing

Studios:

University (Design Studio)

Ansell + Bailey Ltd. (Practice)

Dennis Sharp Architects (Practice)

As a final year Bachelor of Architecture Student at Loughborough University, I’m enthused about creating Architecture by learning from architectural history, and confronting the Climate Emergency through pragmatic adaptive re-use and integration of circular economies into existing building typologies. My experience stretches from speculative research to delivering Technical Drawing and Detail Design Packages on commercial projects. Please note, the projects undertaken with professional design studios went towards my first university qualification.

DANCING ROUND THE TREES

A cohort-wide design charette was held to design a temporary pavilion for the university campus. I led the manufacturing team in developing the modular element into a constructible and self-supporting form.

STUDIO: Design Studio A, Loughborough University

TEAM: Group Project, Leader of Manufacturing Team

DATE: February 2020

AREA: ~45 sqm

SKILLS: Construction Planning and Management, Structural Modelling, 1:1 Assembly, Stress and Strain simulations.

Constructional Partee - Isometric

TottenhamIncubator

An individual speculative project of Markfield Road in Tottenham, examing the typology of the dining table in the context of it’s relationship to food, diversity and the city.

STUDIO: Laboratory Conferta, Loughborough University

TEAM: Individual Project

DATE: October 2022 - January 2023

AREA: ~4000 SQM

SKILLS: Hand sketching, Physical modelling, Technical Detailing, Cartographical Research, Structural Design.

LOS ANGELES IS NO PLACE

Across the pond, a 2 week intensive design studio investigating Musical Theatre’s Decline in Downtown Los Angeles, exhibiting findings in Photographic, Video and AR formats

STUDIO: AA Visiting School, DTLA

TEAM: Individual Project with team input.

DATE: July - August 2022

AREA: NA

SKILLS: Photography, Rhino 3D, Communication, Curation

Investigating and extrapolating The Musical Theatre Facade through detail analysis

Proposed Exhibition Space Axonometric (For Final Construction see page 8)