architectural design portfolio 2013
curriculum vitae Work Experience Contact Jessica Ann Walsh Phone number: 0458 695 862 Email: jessica_walsh@live.com.au Address: 73 Chermside Road, Ipswich 4305 Date of Birth: 22nd April, 1991
Education I graduated in 2008 from Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School. I achieved an OP 4 and received the Modern History and Economics Prizes for top of the class. One year of Bachelor of Arts in 2009 and University of Queensland with a focus in English Literature and Philosophy. In 2012 I completed my third and final year of a Bachelor of Architectural Design at University of Queensland. I have completed design projects with a focus in landscape and site analysis, sustainable design, urban design and affordable housing. Dean’s commendation for GPA above 6. 2011-2012
Freelance architectural and interior design work in Ipswich. Design of SMITH cafe 55 Ellenborough St Ipswich May-July 2013. Design of timber fittings, kitchen layout/fitout as well as interior and lighting design. Currently (Novermber 2013) working on design for another SMITH cafe on Brisbane St, Ipswich. Design of cafe fitout, in situ concrete coffee counter, lighting design, interior design.
Skills Particular skill in understanding site planning and organisation. Particular interest in urban design and architectural responses to existing landscape and built fabric. Very proficient research and writing skills. Technical and design presentation in hand drawing and proficient in AutoCAD. Experienced in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Modelling skills in Google SketchUp. Model making.
Referees Emily Juckes, School of Architecture. University of Queensland Contact: 0417 600 014; e.wall@uq.edu.au Susan Holden, Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Queensland Contact: 07 3365 3958; s.holden@uq.edu.au
goals:
resilient c o m m u n i t i e s
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reclaiming floodplains
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1. to encourage the development of a compact, walkable community through the creation of a fringe ‘hub’ through the addition of 5 live-work shop fronts combined with the existing park space adjacent 2. encourage self sufficiency with community agrarian housing arrangement - high density 3. to provide a space for community gardening
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Suburbia was designed for a specific group of people: the nuclear family - two parents with small children - who are reliant on auto-vehicular transport to gain access to work, education, food, shopping almost everything. This has the effect of isolating other members of a community who don’t have access to that transport: for example, the young who are reliant on parents for transport and access to social contact and the elderly who can no longer drive. Cars cost approximately $12 000 a year to run - saps on wealth - become time poor. If we work 8 hours a day, sleep 8 hours a day - we still have 8 hours left in the day to use as we wish - this disappears in suburbia we lose 2 hours a day in travel and spend 8 working weeks a year in a car. The need for private car transport in suburbia is damaging the environment as is the industrialisation of food production. Very few members of society are involved in food production, its monopolised by a few large corporations, this is a problem for the future of food security. The rise of community and private home edible gardens is indicative of this. Bringing agriculture to the city centre we can move the community focus on shopping to community strengthening through growing, discussing and supporting each other’s food production which is something everything can participate. Suburbia was invented in an era of great confidence that industry could provide everything that was needed; there is no longer this confidence. People will spend less time earning money which has ever decreasing value and more time cultivating their needs.
the isolated fringe of suburbia as we become less dependent on cars we will spend more time in our immediate walking distance, communities will become denser and more compact
linking up the fringe community creek side community with the communities along the train line with addtional bus routes
existing park and small playground
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proposed modification to contours to introduce a spectator hill with community gardening around the edge of existing sports fields
additions and expansions of the bicycle path network
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community garden and community hall will provide a strong point of gathering in the landscape
community farming
spectator hill
sports field
experimental housing project
Modifications to the ground plain on the eastern side of the creek create a multi-use landscape that can be enjoyed and occupied by all. Community gardeners produce food on the small hills while beneath them people enjoy sport and recreation.
house that has been demolished post-floods
saint joseph’s sportsground retained with a hill for spectators created around the edge
connect to and expand existing network of bike paths connecting the graceville avenue bridge to the new bridge and hub of activity.
SITE SECTIONS AND TERRITORY EXAMINATIONS
graceville avenue bridge
saint joseph’s sportsground
affordable housing scheme
time = money = food time = food impending food crisis mean that people will spend maybe 3 days at work instead of 5 and the remaining time growing their own food
2 bedroom apartment type
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3 bedroom
OXLEY CREEK
f l o o d p l a i n s
3 bedroom
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3 bedroom apartment type
1 bedroom apartment type
1 bedroom
studio
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affordable
2 bedroom
3 bedroom
studio apartment type studio
2 bedroom
t h e site is organised by the needs of the users. the studio + 1 bedroom apartments, occupied by young couples, people living alone or students, are given a shared amenities to encourage social interaction such as a communal laundry and shared front garden to use for parties, gatherings and other semi-public outdoor activites.
all ground floor apartments are given access directly from the street there is no more than one storey of external circulation for upper floor apartments before they are in their own house
an ‘street in the sky’ or upper horizontal
circulation path to the upper level 2 + 3 bedroom apartment floats over these semi-private gardens but are screened from view.
2 + 3 bedroom apartments are given private front gardens with a gate onto the street
the creek is the focus of the architecture once off the street - all apartments have a outlook into the shared back garden and creek views. the vista is revealed through the dwellings, as all dwellings have a street + creek edge. a shared swimming pool and barbeque occupies the secluded creek side of the site. this back yard configuration repeats the surrounding pattern of suburbia.
SITE PLAN
the natural slope of the street edge of the site allows parking to swing around the back of the housing and underneath so that inhabitants can park and directly circulate vertically to their homes
STREET TO CREEK SECTION
flood plain:
Parking underneath to remove lving space from floodable area
STREET ELEVATION
The 1st floor access walkway
h o u s i n g s c h e m e reclaiming
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community housing live-work shop fronts kindergarten
gardening and home food production are the main focuses of the design, as such the garden is emphasized in every aspect of design with window boxes included in every apartment and dwelling as well as included in the screened brick wall separating the kindergarten from the laneway and the rest of the site
kindergarten
activated alleyway
live above shop front
minimal footprint to make space for edible garden on north end of the site
each shop has a dwelling directly above it, above flood level 11m, with an eastern facing outdoor room
because of the demographics of this particular corner of suburbia, a kindergarten is proposed for the southern end of the site
the existing road reserve is tightened to slow traffic and a row of parking is included on the eastern edge of the site to encourage customers for the shop fronts
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“The folly is designed with the intent of creating a place in the landscape to commune with natural surroundings. I was fascinated with investigations of ground surface and texture and the way that nature can invade and inhabit built structure. this interested manifested itself in a design concerned with level change and structural materiality and the different effects this created in experiencing natural surroundings.�
2011
architectural ideas and site response:
site plan
section through intervention and lake edge
occupation zones within the landscape
sketches of form
3d and 2d abstractions to investigate aspirational arhictectual properties to do with ground connection and materials
section with material collage
1st floor plan
ground floor plan
architectural ideas:
site responses:
SOUTHPORT S U R F L I F E S A V I N G C L U B
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“The undulating nature of the landscape puts the visitor in a position with their surroundings that is constantly changing. The dunes rise up to create shelter from the wind and then drops away to reveal a dramatic view. The vegetation on the dunes is light, windswept and filters the light in a lovely way. These factors begin to inform formal aspirations.�
2012
dune form
creation of the berm through the building
storage space under the building, dug into the berm
description of brief: The building will serve as a central hub for the club’s activities as well as contain all the storage of the club’s equipment. the upper level is occupied with revenue raising for the club in the form of three function rooms which double as training rooms. The club is dug into the dune on the north side which means that the external circulation for the boats and the pedestrian users of the building are seperated on the north and south edges. The pedestrian access to the beach runs across the north of the building across a central courtyard which serves as the main gathering and activity centre for the club. This means nippers and clubbies have exclusive access to the beach without interacting with vehicle activites. The site was limited because of a car park that ran across the front of the three club building. This has been relocated to the western edge of the site. This frees up the site for a more quality experience of beach going and occupation.
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SITE PLA N
Along the north of the site there is a dune forest wilderness and on the site a vista south towards the beach. The building allows access to both while privilidging the circulation to the intimatcy of the northern edge.
SITE SECTION
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A. outdoor showers B. park 1. central courtyard 2. nipper’s room 3. member’s bar 4. member’s lounge 5. gymnasium 6. male changeroom 7. female changeroom 8. nipper’s canteen
The western edge of the building houses many of the buildings services while also acting as the edge to the street. A screen wraps around this wing of the building hiding the activities while providing views, light and air for the inhabitants. This small undercroft is provided for those hiding from the eastern early morning sun or waiting for people by the car park.
STRUCTUAL DIAGRAM
WESTERN EDGE SECTION
berm landscaping in the park to protect it from the busy road, enhance dune forest wilderness 9
The building makes it comfortable to occupy the landscape.
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relocation of the parking to behind the club buildings, more direct access to the beach
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opened up edge to encourage long view down the beach
closer more intimate edge onto courtyard and dune forest
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DUNE FOREST EDGE
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NORTH-SOUTH SECTION
this edge of the roof creates a grander scaled space at the entrance towards the park on the north-east
9. administration 10. kitchen 11. female bathroom 12. male bathroom 13. function/training room 1 14. function/training room 2 15. fuction/training room 3
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second floor plan
structural idea: a portal frame truss system thickens the thresholds on the building which ties into my formal aspirations the roof gathers round and tilts the central courtyard
ground/basement floor plan
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