Design portfolio
Jack livingstone
Education
Jack Livingstone
University of Manchester Urban Design and International Planning (Msc) (2016-2018). Predicted
grade: Distinction.
Urban Design Studio
International Urban Design
An introduction to urban design analysis and skills through assessing townscape.
Understanding urban design’s theory, history and concepts through critically understanding examples of best practice.
Urban Design Project
Urban Design Masterplanning
Analysing a corner site and providing an appropriate design intervention.
Performing a baseline analysis of a site up to 20ha before carrying through a masterplan.
Urban Regeneration
International Planning Systems
Understanding the history and relevant policies which have influenced regeneration.
A comparative analysis of different planning systems and frameworks globally
I enjoy testing my creativity through new challenges and working within different constraints.
International Design Fieldtrip
Green Infrastructure
I am eager to contribute to the design and planning of beautiful places while continuing to grow my skill set.
Critically exploring the policies and projects which make Vienna’s urban form so highly regarded.
Seeking an entry level position in urban design and urban planning roles.
Design Dissertation
Profile My passion for urbanism and design have led me to be a driven individual with a strong desire to succeed. My thorough approach has helped consistently produce high quality work and obtain excellent results. I excel at collaboration with others and have experience of working with people from many different cultures.
An exploration of the history of green infrastructure, along with its different types and outcomes
Building on Poppleton’s Greenbelt: Changing Green Infrastructural Strategies and Incorporating Cohousing.
University of Leicester BA Human Geography (2010-2013) 2:1
Contact 0752683661
Skills Urban Analysis Contextual Analysis Character Studies Small Scale Interventions
Photography 3d Modelling Masterplanning Sketching
jrblivingstone1@gmail.com
Software skills 50 Beech House, The Beeches, West Didsbury, Manchester. M20 2AH
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ jack-livingstone-59098a17b/
Professional affiliations Royal Town Planning Institute
Contents
1. Swinton Urban design analyses and character area study.
2. Holt Town Corner site development informed by urban design analyses.
3. Handforth Masterplan informed by urban design analyses.
4. Poppleton Design dissertation.
Swinton Character Areas
Newtown
Pendlebury St. Peters
Victoria
Moorside
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200m
1:5000 at A4
Newtown • • • •
Primarily residential, some mixed use. Victorian core with some accretions from each decade. Fine grain. Generally a grid, with some curvilinearity.
Pendlebury • • • • •
Industrial. Almost entirely postwar A superblock street structure leading to poor permeability. Coarse grain. Very little open space or green infrastructure.
Victoria • • • • •
Largely Victorian with some later additions. Very fine grain, the highest density out of each area. Mixed use main street with residential hinterland. Often in gridiron shapes. Little GI within residential areas, but provision of large public green areas.
Moorside • • • • •
Almost entirely residential. Largely built after 1930. An organic, adaptive grid Lowest density out of each area. Large amounts of both open space and green infrastructure.
Defining Characteristics of St. Peters 1. Primarily retail (1.a) and civic buildings (1.b). 2. A coarse grain, rupturing Swinton’s urban fabric caused by: an overabundance of car parking (2.a) and an overabundance of unused amenity green space (2.b). 3. A feeling of centrality through possessing almost all of Swinton’s visually dominant buildings.
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4. Poor permeability throughout especially focussed in Swinton’s town centre.
1.a 2.b
5. A diverse mix of building types from big box style shops, to minimal classicism and brutalism.
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2.a
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Site Intervention • • • •
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50m
1:2500 at A4
Increase permeability through removing strategic buildings. Increasing visibility and attractiveness to pedestrians on key routes. Re-stablish direct connections with the houses to the south east. Reduce reliance on poorly fronted stair cases with low accessibility, by replacing with slopes. Tighten the urban fabric by removing two sections of surface car parking, but retaining the underground parking.
Building to remove
Improved frontage
Building to add
Remove parking area
New pedestrian route
Key routes
Character study
Swinton
Discrete character analyses were produced for Swinton by accumulating and then critically extrapolating the integral partd of this data; covering a series of analyses including historical-vernacular, building use and legibility. The focus narrows in to the most significant part of Swinton, St. Peters and from there a design intervention was considered for a poor quality bit of urban form.
Salford
Manchester
Holt town Contextual appraisal
Opportunities and constraints
200m
N 0 Site
Node
Derelict Holt Town area
Key route
Prominent buildings along the Ashton canal
N 0
1:5000 at A4
Opportunities
Nearby residential areas with poor legibility
Abundance of exposed concrete
Constraints
Site
Key route
Heritage buildings adding positive character
Poor fronta quality
Key view
Building on site current employing people
Buildings supporting creative industries
New connection across the canal.
Cross section
75m
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Holt Town Profile
New Islington
Site Holt Town
This project in Holt Town involved choosing a 1.7 ha adjacent to the Ashton canal as a corner site to develop. The outcomes were informed by baseline design analyses and through considering relevant policy literature, such as Holt Town Regeneration Framework and Manchester Core Strategy. Since 2006 Cibitas have been working on this site and they currently have a masterplan. However I have planned this site to be the vanguard to an alternative development. One which retains more of the areas heritage and which activates a neglected area of the Ashton Canal.
Piccadilly Train Station
Key road routes
Tramline
Etihad Campus
age
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Wellington mills development
100m
1:5000 at A4
Heavily polluted land Bad neighbours
100m
N 0
Design principles
Outcomes
1. Continue the axis of large buildings down the Ashton Canal by linking together the East Manchester redevelopment areas. 2. Create a visual interplay of new and old, allowing Wellington Mill to retain visual dominance, without having timid newer buildings. 3. Activate both the canal side and the potential connection with Brunswick Mill. 4. Provision the extant creative activities in Wellington and Brunswick Mill with bars and cafés in a mixed use area. 5. Create strong frontages for a safer area. 6. Increase residential densities above what is expected in the Manchester Core Strategy.
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1:5000 at 58 x 102 cm
110 total car parking spaces distributed within the buildings courtyards and in the building in the north east of the site. Meaning only the central area requires direct vehicular servicing, allowing the rest of the site to be traffic free Changing geometries and levels of enclosure make for a more interesting townscape, with shifting, terminating vistas. The bridge across the canal both activates the opposite footpath, as well as giving the illusion that the Brunswick mills heading the central space. Large numbers of balconies create strong frontages. 120 residential units created equalling 71 dwellings per hectare 6 bars/ cafés created 11132 m² of office/ workshop space preserved and created
Handforth
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Handforth profile
Railway
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Manchester
100m
1:2000 at 27 x 45 cm
Stockport
Key roads
Situated on the extreme north west of the future Handforth Garden Village site this 16ha site was designed to act as its first phase.
Manchester Handforth Site Airport
Handforth Garden Village
Handforth garden village site axonometric
main street
Design principles:
Outcomes
1. Create a primarily residential area, where possible incorporating mixed use areas. 2. Due to its location next to key roads and as the first phase of the Handforth Garden Village site add later buildings to: increase legibility, create a sense of arrival and to provide the rest of the site with community facilities. 3. As a garden village uphold strong ecological values by, where possible preserving existing trees, ponds and helping priority species on site such as the great crested newt. 4. Whilst accepting the area has to have large amounts of car use the site cars cannot be allowed to dominate the site. 5. Capitalise on the traffic flow on the north western corner by constructing larger office buildings and creating a connection to Handforth Dean.
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The site is largely residential. Creating 429 new dwellings, with 180 in apartments, 70 in semi detached houses, 118 in terraced houses and 61 in detached houses. 20439m² of office space has been created Larger buildings have been placed at the entrances and peripheries of the site, to help create a sense of arrival and increase visibility from the road The pattern of the road network has been inspired by the antecedents of the garden city movement, such as Bath and Edinburgh’s New Town. The central roads 15m width helps establish legibility and a road hierarchy. Existing GI features have been retained and tree cover increased.
poppleton Lower poppleton
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Lower Poppleton profile
Harrogate
Site
York Poppleton
My dissertation project was a scheme to build on greenbelt land in a way which brought social and environmental benefits to the site. The area I chose was Poppleton, an exurb just outside of York. This was an experimental design which utilised a form of developer led cohousing, partly for its social and environmental and partly for its open urban form. This open urban form allows green infrastructural strategies to be changed from a reactive defensive (in this case greenbelt designation) one to a more positive opportunistic approach. This was done concurrently with adopting an adaptable approach which allows the scheme to be ‘safe to fail’, through utilising built in modularity, redundancy and adaptive design. The added assurance through the ‘safe to fail’ approach allows this experimental design to be attempted with significantly reduced risks of failure.
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Leeds
Key Road
Railway
Lower poppleton’s landscape
100m
1:1000 at 99 x 45 cm
Design principles:
Outcomes
1. Create an adaptable scheme with semi independent residential areas which utilise modularity and built in redundancy. 2. Use strong social contact design principles such as aiming for 20-40 dwellings per module. 3. Make the site cohousing friendly with communal infrastructure. 4. Capitalise on the open form conducive to successful cohousing and run connective green infrastructure through it. 5. Build for pedestrians without alienating car users. 6. Ensure all streets are well fronted. 7. Maintain a village aesthetic.
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689 dwellings across 21 modules with housing types including flats, maisonettes and houses Each module contains a common house and car parking at its peripheries, creating more pleasant centres. Previous landscape elements such as the brook have been retained The centre of the site contains a large building with many wings, it is designed to be able to be used flexibly based on the needs of the citizens of the site and the village. Facing this building are 3 mixed residential/ retail units, placed to create a small centre. Vastly improved green infrastructure, boggier areas with better drainage. For examples many roads having small amounts of traffic on them, allowing for permeable paving to be used. Additionally tree and hedge cover significantly increased.