JOE RUSSELL
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SAMPLE PORTFOLIO & CV HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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SUMMARY
Award-winning graduate with a strong drive for achieving user-centered architectural solutions through socially, ecologically and economically versed design. Specialised in planning policy, housing and development.
EDUCATION HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Master of Architecture, MArch I •
Awarded the GSD Dean’s Scholarship (<$200,000 merit-based scholarship) and ranked as the top applicant in the 2023 admissions cycle
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Bachelor of Science, BSc •
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A-level & GCSE Examinations
2012 - 2019 Peterborough, UK
Mathematics (A*), Chemistry (A*), Fine Art (A*) and highest academic performance in graduating cohort Mentor (sciences), Young Enterprise (student business), EPQ (sustainable design research paper)
EXPERIENCE ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS Architecture Intern • • •
Guest Lecturer • •
March 2023 London, UK
Lectured in the 2023 LSE London Planning and Policy Seminar Series with Professor Alan Mace Addressed strategic development solutions through design & policy reform for the Metropolitan Green Belt
LEXISNEXIS
UX Design Intern • • •
Oct 2022 - June 2023 London, UK
Contributed to the concept design stages of multiple high-profile developments in East and South-East Asia Provided architectural solutions to facade, layout and core conditions on projects valued at $100 million + Served as a member of the RSHP sustainability committee and supported the office’s environmental initiatives
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
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2019 - 2022 London, UK
Chosen as the Bartlett’s nomination for both the Architects’ Journal Student Prize and the RIBA Bronze Medal 2022 (an accomplishment only possible by the no. 1 ranked graduating student) Winner of the Architects’ Journal Student Prize (best student architecture project in the United Kingdom) Winner of the Bartlett Medal (the school’s highest student honor)
THE KING’S (THE CATHEDRAL) SCHOOL • •
2023 - 2026 Cambridge, MA
June 2022 - Oct 2022 London, UK
Co-led the integration of the first comprehensive design system for data visualization within Lexis+ UK Designed scalable components and a system structure for efficient roll-out and product implementation Developed skills in rapid prototyping, wireframing, agile workflows and presenting to varied stakeholders
July 2021 - Oct 2021 Peterborough, UK
AMAZON FULFILLMENT CENTER Warehouse Operative
Responsible for stock picking, sorting and stacking within the Peterborough fulfillment center Consistently exceeded the depot pick-rate of 180 units per hour Sept 2020 - June 2022 Peterborough, UK
MATHEMATICS TUTOR Private Hire Tutor •
All clients achieved grade 8 or 9 in GCSE Mathematics and grade A or A* in A-level Mathematics June 2018 - July 2018 London, UK
ADJAYE ASSOCIATES Design Intern • •
Supported the concept design of the International Children’s Cancer Research Center (Kyebi, Ghana) Led the construction of a 1:500 scale physical model used for the client’s fundraising event in New York June 2017 Peterborough, UK
JEFFERSON SHEARD ARCHITECTS Work Experience •
Conducted site analysis and contributed to the design of an affordable housing development
AWARDS DRAWING OF THE YEAR 2022
RIBA PRESIDENT’S MEDAL NOMINEE 2022
DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIP 2023
BARTLETT MEDAL 2022
AJ STUDENT PRIZE 2022
HENRY PEARSON GATES AWARD 2019
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Winner of Archisource $15,000 top prize beating ‘thousands of entrants from 95 countries’
Merit-based scholarship in excess of $200,000 for studies at Harvard University GSD
Winner of the best Part I ARB/RIBA accredited design work in the United Kingdom
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Nominee for the best Part I ARB (or equivalent) accredited design work
Awarded for the best design work in the graduating cohort
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Awarded for highest academic achievement in the graduating cohort
SOFTWARE •
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Indesign, XD), Figma, Sketch, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Sharepoint, Miro, Conceptboard, Keynote, Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, Vray, Enscape, Rhino, Microstation
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T IG HT E N IN G TH E G RE E N BE LT: OA K WO O D M E WS, E N F I E LD THIRD YEAR DESIGN THESIS AJ Student Prize Winner 2022 Drawing of the Year Winner 2022 Bartlett Medal Winner 2022 RIBA President’s Medal Nominee 2022 1st Class Honours JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO
This project responds to the UK’s increasingly
as an incidental benefit’ of the policy rather than
severe housing crisis by proposing a housing/
its intended goal.
community
scheme
as
a
precedent
for
socially and ecologically sustainable future
A 21st-Century Metropolitan Green Belt, written
developments within the Metropolitan Green
by Dr Alan Mace of the London School of
Belt (MGB).
Economics, critiques current Green Belt policy and instead proposes urban planning solutions
The Green Belt Act of 1938 constituted the first
for sustainable future development within
formal planning legislation to define the open
the MGB. This project – titled ‘Tightening the
space surrounding Greater London as protected
Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield’ – takes
land. Initially proposed to give access to the
on these ideas and adapts them at the scale of
countryside, the MGB later became a physical
an architectural scheme that relies upon locally
constraint to the growth of London. The current
sourced natural/recycled materials.
policy is set out within the National Planning Policy Framework which states ‘the fundamental
Finding a site was dictated by the parameters
aim of Green Belt Policy is to prevent urban
set out within Dr Mace’s A 21st Century
sprawl by keeping land permanently open.’
Metropolitan Green Belt. I focused on Enfield in the North London area to conduct a ‘mini-
Duncan Sandys, the minister responsible for
expedition’ to find a site that would meet the
MGB expansion in the 1950s, said that Green
requirements set out for the project.
Belt land did not have to be ‘green’ or even
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particularly attractive, as its purpose was to stop
The site eventually chosen was the land
urban development. Therefore, the ‘actual use
opposite Oakwood underground station near
or enjoyment of the Green Belt is clearly seen
the northern end of the Piccadilly Line. The
JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Aerial view of Oakwood station, Bramley Road and the community centre
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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Aerial perspective view of the community centre
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station was designed by renowned modernist
“Development within the MGB should: I. Limit
architect Charles Holden, who designed a
environmental losses
number of much praised stations along the
II. Benefit existing residents
Piccadilly Line. Oakwood is the penultimate
III. Limit private car usage
stop, and being so close to this station means
IV. Be close to public transport links”
that there will be very easy public access for residents and visitors to my new housing/
The site stretches for approximately 200
community scheme.
meters in length and 50 meters in width. The topography of the site slopes down notably on
The
land
ultimately
provided
the
best
opportunity to produce architectural design that
its northern boundary, away from the road that passes in front of the underground station.
most thoughtfully responded to the parameters proposed
by
Dr
Mace
for
sustainable
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development:
Site location prior to development
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1. Two bedroom houses I 2. Storage and delivery shed 3. Two bedroom houses II 4. Three bedroom houses I 5. Stairs to upper level 6. One bedroom house
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7. Three bedroom houses II 8. Cantilevered balcony 9. Lower level workspace 10. Multipurpose space 11. Toilets 12. Storage facility
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.13. Main hall 14. Open plan nursery 15. Nursery toilets 16. Main lobby 17. Kitchen and storage 18. Cafe
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The community center is located at the south
These
public-serving
components
are
end of the site where the land meets Bramley
deliberately oversized in comparison to the
Road. Included within the larger built body
number of housing units within the scheme.
(clad in stacked timber beams and roofed
This is to cater to both new residents and
with reclaimed corrugated steel sheeting) is a
existing local residents.
cafe, workspace, hall, kitchen and lobby. The spaces are designed to be purposefully open
The housing consists of a range of semidetached
with minimal interior walls. This allows for the
and
building to easily adapt to the differing needs of
and three-bedroom homes. The proposal is
a range of occupiers.
medium-density, with each property having its
terraced
one-bedroom,
two-bedroom
own small private garden. All residents have Opposite the main center is the nursery,
access to the large public gardens designed to
equipped with white-washed, reclaimed brick
enhance community engagement.
walls and thatched roofing. The nursery is also
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open plan which allows the space to become
The three-bedroom houses are fitted with
an extension of the main center during out-of-
reclaimed corrugated steel sheet roofing, while
school hours (such as evenings and weekends).
the one and two-bedroom homes have natural thatched roofing.
Cut between the cafe level and corridor past the kitchen towards the exit doors within the community centre
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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Interior of the main hall space within the community centre
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In anticipation of a new fleet of underground trains being introduced to the Piccadilly Line in 2025, Transport for London (TfL) is undertaking major upgrades to the line’s maintenance depots. The upgrade will involve the complete demolition of its current Cockfosters depot. My project therefore responds to this demolition by placing itself within this process of depot deconstruction. In doing so, my scheme gains an array of recycled building materials and prevents several hundred tonnes of embodied carbon from being dumped in landfill sites around London.
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In addition to salvaging the Cockfosters depot materials, My proposal is also to source local naturally occurring materials that can be sustainably harvested (i.e. timber from the plentiful pine/fir woodlands and straw bales grown on adjacent farmland). The combining of harvested material with recycled material presents an opportunity to develop an architectural design that tackles the restrictiveness of the reused component catalog balanced with the expansiveness of new building materials. The drawing that I made of the existing site to the left outlines the location of horticultural land (straw bale), coniferous woodland (pine/ fir trees), the Cockfosters depot and my chosen site in the center. Left hand side illustration: Context drawing illustrating material resource radius for 1 (horticultural land), 2 (coniferious woodland) and 3 (Cockfosters depot), 4 (site of Oakwood Mews), 5 (Oakwood Underground Station) Cockfosters depot plan
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Isometric drawing showing repeating elements (A,B) of Cockfosters depot
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At the first stage of assessing what recycled materials would be available for reuse in my project, I carried out a detailed survey of the existing Cockfosters depot as the plans and sections were not publicly available. I then drew up the most accurate 3D model of the building so that I could calculate precisely which materials would become available and how much embodied carbon could be salvaged/
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saved from landfill. Note: There are 2 sets of ‘A’ and 14 sets of ‘B’. The values on the following page give embodied carbon values for the entire depot. The visuals are not representative.
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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Isometric drawing showing repeating element (B) in colour
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STAGE 0
Embodied carbon salvaged: 0 kgCO2e Material types: n/a B
Embodied carbon salvaged total: 0 tCO2e A
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Embodied carbon salvaged: 27785.9 kgCO2e Material types: Glass, Steel Embodied carbon salvaged total: 27.8 tCO2e
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STAGE 2
Embodied carbon salvaged: 69521.2 kgCO2e B
Material types: Concrete, Brick, Steel, Glass Embodied carbon salvaged total: 97.3 tCO2e
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STAGE 3
Embodied carbon salvaged: 121139.6 kgCO2e Material types: Concrete, Brick, Steel, Glass B
Embodied carbon salvaged total: 218.4 tCO2e
STAGE 4
Embodied carbon salvaged: 142985.2 kgCO2e Material types: Brick, Steel Embodied carbon salvaged total: 361.4 tCO2e
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STAGE 5
Embodied carbon salvaged: 363071.6 kgCO2e B
Material types: Brick, Steel Embodied carbon salvaged total: 724.5 tCO2e
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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO The following pages focus on the design of the cantilevered structure of the community centre - a space which involves reuse of every available material from the depot shed as well as the inclusion of every available locally harvested material. The majority of the reclaimed steel is used in this part of the building.
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Isometric cut view of the eastern part of the building
Part of the building illustrated in the render and the exploded isometric drawing
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1. Reclaimed corrugated steel sheet roofing 2. Steam bent curved timber beam rafters 3. Rewelded steel support for roof beams
4. Steel beam framework 5. Wall insulation / straw bale 6. Exterior timber cladding / facade 7. Roof insulation / straw bale 8. Timber frame to hold insulation 9. Floor insulation
10. Reclaimed H-Beams as pile foundations
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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Short section showing cantilevered part of the building structure
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1. Corrugated steel sheet roof 2. Steel z purlins 3. Steel roof support 4. Primary steel roof support 5. Straw bale insulation 6. Cavity space
7. Timber panelling 8. Ceiling decoration 9. Secondary support beam 10. Insulation cap panel 11. Interior finishing 12. 50mm timber cladding
13. Stacked timber 14. Waterproof sheet 15. Reclaimed bolts 16. Reclaimed H-beam 17. Steel box beam to pile 18. Straw bale insulation
19. Floor cushioning 20. Timber flooring 21. Secondary steel frame 22. Primary steel frame
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STAGE 2 - RAMMED EARTH
Net embodied carbon: -67.9 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 67911.9 kgCO2e Harvested material: 0 kgCO2e
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STAGE 4 - FRAME
Net embodied carbon: -150.0 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 32265.8 kgCO2e Harvested material: 1033.4 kgCO2e
STAGE 7 - INSULATION
Net embodied carbon: -156.6 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 1412.6 kgCO2e Harvested material: 657.9 kgCO2e
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STAGE 9 - ROOF SUPPORT
Net embodied carbon: -205.7 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 0 kgCO2e
STAGE 11 - INSULATION
Net embodied carbon: -202.7 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 0 kgCO2e Harvested material: 808.2 kgCO2e
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Harvested material: 733.9 kgCO2e
STAGE 12 - CLADDING
Net embodied carbon: -209.9 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 7156.0 kgCO2e Harvested material: 0 kgCO2e
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L IV ING S ING L E , L IV ING TO G E TH E R FOURTH YEAR BUILDING PROJECT 4 Week Project Semester I Project I (Core I) September 2023
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This project presents a multigenerational duplex
transformation. It features a full 90-degree
home that considers the balance between
rotation of the original 3-segment plan, with
communal
privacy.
a curved extension that creates an additional
Formally, it began with a given plan composed
‘fourth’ space, responding to the ‘L’ shape in the
of a distinct 3-segment layout (shown on the
given plan. This floor includes a bedroom, library,
next page) which prompted further response
and snug. The bent L-shaped transformation
that deliberates form, function, and accessibility.
adds spatial variance and also completes the
living
and
individual
overarching interrogation of shifting the original The ground floor, dedicated to a couple with
formal composition.
children, comprises a kitchen, dining area, snug, and study and maintains the original
The design heavily considers of accessibility
plan’s segmentation. Moving to the first floor,
and its relation to massing. The assignment of
the design incorporates translations of the
space on each level was carefully planned to
3-segment form, blending communal and
encourage overlap and interaction between
private spaces. This level houses bedrooms, a
occupants, fostering a sense of community while
communal area, and a kitchen specifically for
respecting the need for privacy. The building
the grandparents, displaying a thoughtful mix
represents a reassessment of multigenerational
of shared and individual spaces. The formal
living through its transformation of space and
approach here reveals a triangulation of the
form. It challenges conventional duplex designs
initial three.
and presents an alternative that balances communal
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engagement
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individual
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South-east perspective 1:200 model
East perspective 1:200 model
North perspective 1:200 model
South-west perspective 1:200 model
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Section AA
Section BB
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Given Floor Plan
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