PORTFOLIO SAMPLE WORK AND CV JULIAN DJOPO JUNE 2021
JULIAN DJOPO | CV Part 1 Graduate
CONTACT
With a creative background in the Fine Arts and Media, my interests in the arts stemmed from my classical studies in A-Level, of John Ruskin and John Singer Sargent. My architectural interests matured as I explored the field of sustainability, environmentally friendly architecture, community and heritage. My art-curious background fuelled a creative personality, keen to learn new skills and explore further, the greater effects and challenges architecture has in our society.
EDUCATION September 2018 - July 2021 Newcastle University Architecture Part 1 BA Honours Architecture - Upper Second Class (2 : 1)
St. Cuthbert’s Catholic High School
September 2010 - June 2018
REFERENCES
A Levels - Fine Art, Graphic Communication, Photography and Geography (2 x A* and 2 x A) GCSEs - Fine Art and German, including Maths, English and Sciences.
ACHIEVEMENTS August 2017 Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award Completed as a sergeant through the Amy Cadet Force.
Gold Arts Award Completed independently during A-Level studies.
July 2018
National Citizen Service Teamwork and community voluntary project work.
July 2015
2017 Pope John Paul II Award Community voluntary work through the local Parish Church of St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Army Cadet Force
May 2016 - June 2017
Completed as Cadet Sergeant - teaching, leadership, work under pressure, organisation.
INTERESTS
I usually enjoy sketching portraits of people and visiting art galleries. Occasionally I enjoy reading both fictional-dystopia, as well as science and nature books.
SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCAD SketchUp Enscape Revit Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Premier Pro Microsoft Office
DESIGN WORK
STAGE 3 PORTFOLIO
August 2019 - July 2021 Events Poster Designer Publicity and Media Officer - creative thinking, graphic design, time management, organisation, presentation.
ISSUU LINK
June 2017 - Present Freelance Art and Design I run an arts and design business, producing digital pieces and hand-drawn commissioned portraits.
EXPERIENCES Newcastle University Architecture Society August 2019 - July 2021 Secretary - Managing meetings, time management, organisation. Publicity and Media Officer - creative thinking, graphic design, time management, organisation, presentation. November 2019 - April 2020 RIBA Student Mentee XSITE Architecture (Mentor Zoe Hayes) - knowledge of architecture practice, RIBA Plan of Work, site visits, life as an architect. February 2017 Ryder Architecture Work Experience Professional work environment and architecture practice - projects insight, revit learning, design process. May - September 2018 Advantex Network Solutions Design and Marketing Assistant - professional environment, graphic design, learning marketing, tight schedules. April 2019 - Present Hollister Co. Design and Marketing Assistant - professional environment, graphic design, learning marketing, tight schedules. June 2015 - June 2017 Amy Cadet Force Completed as Cadet Sergeant - teaching, leadership, work under pressure, organisation Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award - volunteering, teamwork, leadership, decision making.
COMPETITIONS October 2020 Future Public Spaces Working in a team of four to tackle a complex brief with an output of a public space for the future. December 2020 48 Hour Floor Plan Battle Competition lasting only 48 Hours from announcement, worked on within a team of four.
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My project aims to bring focus back to the community of Saltaire through a Community Centre and Library, influenced by the concept of the Temple for the People and the Greek agora. The architecture of the building represents the social history of the people of Saltaire, mill workers, child labourers, and locals who have committed to establishing Saltaire as a World Heritage Site. The Community Centre and Library hopes to accommodate both locals and visitors through a complex programme of spaces, akin to that of the Salle Polyvalente French (multi-purpose) Centres. The Library programme, being the largest houses a quiet studies, collaborative learning spaces, computer rooms reading areas and Biographical Archives of Saltaire’s people and history. Other programmes include a Children’s Area (crèche), Cafe and Bar, Community Adaptive Hall, Council Offices and Chamber.
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SALTAIRE COMMUNITY CENTRE AND LIBRARY
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Focused on the ‘FOLK’ and ‘PLACE’ aspects of Geddes’ right-livelihood diagram, my proposal would represent these two of Le Plays triad, enabling the community to follow Geddes’ Network of Society in Saltaire as originally imposed, with the ‘WORK’ aspect already existing as the various arts events and visitor services.
The purpose of a monument is to impress on the visual sense of the subject, although they apparently fail to do, notwithstanding animating moments. In this respect, technological extensions of sight.
By exploring the ideas of the Greek acropolis I hope introduce a building for the community that acts as a symbolic temple that is part of the Assemblage of metaphorical acropolis in Saltaire.
(Wells, p. 139, 2007)
PROPOSAL
Contemporary Interpretation
Urban Fabric
Physical Structure
SALTAIRE
ACROPOLIS
Renewable energy, low-impact development, design with nature.
Civic participation, community empowerment, land use.
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CIVICS
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Place-work
Place-folk
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Work-folk
Folk-place
Folk-work
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ASSEMBLAGE
Place for Community
symbolic meaning
TEMPLE THEATRE
VICTORIA HALL
SHIPLEY COLLEGE
ACADEMIC
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GEOTECHNICS
Through reading of Biopolis: Geddes and the City of Life by Volker Welter, Patrick Geddes’ themes of the Greek polis and agora emerged, where I wanted to link the ideas to Saltaire’s urban fabric. Patrick Geddes approached his schematic ideas of Towns and Cities through the overlaying of concepts with that of the Greek Acropolis and the Valley Section. These ideas also developed around my concepts that lead toward Temple for the People. Therefore my reinterpretation of the Temple for the People begin to form around the fabric of Saltaire, where Salts Mill and Chimney are the landmarks to the site, where the community can gather.
Bringing together the ideas from studio thematics this concept visualises the overarching ideas of framing key views of the site’s monuments, Salts Mill and Chimney, as well as the idea of community spaces for gathering. This conveys my theoretical ideas of assemblage where Frederick Le Play’s triad of Work-Place-Folk comes together to respond to my ideas of a place that focuses on the locals and their social interactions from work. In relation to Karen Wells’ quote below, my research around the visuality thematic opened ideas around the perception of monuments and being perceived. This influences how the design would respond to the closely related heritage structures that reflect both the history of the people and the urban fabric of Saltaire.
Site Location
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SITE ANALYSIS
Salts Mill Chimney
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Detached Housing
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Terraced Housing
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New Mill
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Salts Mill
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New Mill Chimney
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A key characteristic of the site is its wealth of greenery and trees on the landscape. Naturally growing fauna and the overgrowth of allotment gardens within the site create a concealing foliage that breaks the monolithic massing of the Salts Mill to the north of the site.
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ITERATION DEVELOPMENT With my proposal being a Community Centre and Library in the heart of Saltaire, I wanted the library to be the central space that creates a threshold between the public and semi-private spaces in the programme. In my further iterations, I aim to integrate the building into the site while creating an architectural language that represents the people and that respects the immediate typology of the setting.
The building remains permeable by keeping sections of the Salts Mill viewable from the streets, characterising the typology of the parallel terrace housing.
Here I wanted to understand how the main double lift would connect to all the levels through a long section, visualising all the levels and general spaces.
PRECEDENT STUDIES
Studio Hollenstein
ALA Architects
PROGRAMME
Upper Ground Plan
First Level Plan
Elevation looking North
Section looking North
Entering the Library, welcomed by the reception and courtyard garden in background.
Looking toward the transition between courtyard garden and children’s library area.
Central balcony on the first level providing key views to the local terraces of Maddocks street.
Most-central courtyard garden dedicated to the children’s area of the library building.
TECHNICAL DETAIL SECTION AND ELEVATION Through the final detail section and elevation render output for the ARC3013 Report, I further refined how the design would be integrated with the structure. This process also allowed a refinement of certain materials, for example Siberian larch for external cladding which can come in many forms depending on the usage requirement.
SATAIRE COMMUNITY CENTRE AND LIBRARY (THE SCCL) 170233514 Curating the City Vertical Section 1:20 The 1:20 section detail appears to be a perspective due to angling of building axis but remains as an orthographic in proportions. A
ROOFING CONSTRUCTION 23/ 120mm cover boarding 23/ 69mm underboarding 36/ 48mm battens (rear ventilation) 25mm trapezoidal section metal sheeting 48mm battens (rear ventilation) 25mm counterbattens sealing layer 50mm battens with 50mm mineral wool insulation in-between 300/ 48mm laminated veneer lumber with Thermafleece NatraHemp insulation in-between Vapour barrier 50mm battens with 50mm cellulose insulation Acoustic mat 36/ 36mm Larch battens.
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TIMBER WALL CONSTRUCTION 25/ 150mm Siberian Larch cladding, factory coated with SiOO:x light grey with skimmed finish 2 x 36/ 72 battens/ counter-battens 0.4mm PP (Polypropylene) Fleece glued to TEEE(Thermoplastic Elastomer-Ether-Ester)-membrane windproof barrier 9mm vapour diffusing asphalt panel 48/ 198 timber studs with Thermafleece NatraHemp insulation Vapour barrier 48/ 48mm battens with cellulose insulation in-between Acoustic mat 23mm Solid oak slatted panels, 3mm slots.
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INTERMEDIATE FLOOR 30mm spruce floorboard, oiled Vapour Barrier 80/ 120 + 100/ 100 spruce beams laid crosswise 220mm cellulose insulation Bitumen sealing membrane 300mm reinforced concrete Suspended Ceiling - prefabricated panels, c.o. 40/15 mm open lam. softwood slats on softwood furrings.
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ARCH BALCONY Precast concrete slab Rolled steel Joist (RSJ) beams, 1500mm centres 20mm gypsum based ceiling board, suspended from steel proprietary support system.
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WINDOW CONSTRUCTION 12mm laminated safety glass 16mm cavity 12 laminated safety glass Internal reveal, 20mm spruce oiled External reveal, 25mm three-ply larch
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WALL CONSTRUCTION 102.5/ 215mm facing brickwork, English bond, alternating-rows 20mm ventilation cavity 180mm mineral wool thermal insulation 250mm reinforced concrete 10mm interior lime plaster 50mm glass foam granulate insulating block.
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GROUND FLOOR 30mm spruce floorboard, oiled Vapour Barrier 80/ 120 + 100/ 100 spruce beams laid crosswise 220mm cellulose insulation Bitumen sealing membrane 300mm reinforced concrete slab Reinforced concrete raft foundation 75mm sand binding Hardcore compacted layer of 225mm maximum depth.
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The purpose of this building project is to bring together the craft of Kaga Yuzen, a Japanese textile design process into Bishop Auckland’s already present local artists, textile designers and art students. My Textiles Centre will be introduced as part of the Auckland Project to increase awareness of undiscovered textile artists in the local and national area. Material and structural aspects of the building take inspiration from the immediate vernacular context of Bishop Auckland, characterised by traditional pitched roofed housing. Japanese timber frame houses were also inspiration to create an atmosphere of workshop and exhibition space, similar to Kaga Yuzen Centres in Japan.
TEXTILES CENTRE BISHOP AUCKLAND KAGA YUZEN CENTRE
5 base colours (Indigo, Crimson, Ochre, Dark Green, Royal Purple). Sketch summary of 12 stage Kaga Yuzen process.
Yoshichika Tagaki + Associates
Fielden Fowles Architects
SITE ANALYSIS AND PROGRAMME
NUAS SMALL TALK LECTURE SERIES Small Talk Lecture Series by the Small Talk team with (NUAS) Newcastle University Architecture Society over the 2020 -2021 academic years. I was involved in the Small Talk team as the events poster designer and Secretary of NUAS, therefore attended all the Small Talk lecture series each academic year. We were lucky to have architects such as Karakusevic Carson and Ingrid Petit, excited to talk via online video stream to provide insights into their firms, current projects and future prospects. My involvement and attendance to the Small Talk lecture series widened my scope and knowledge of the architecture industry whilst providing some fresh design approaches from other architecture firms.
COMPETITIONS N O N A R C H I T E C U R E . E U Competitions worked on within a team of four. The first was a challenge to complete a floor plan within 48 hours of the release of a socially and politically complex brief. We were lucky to be placed finalists under the floor plan name:
PICNIC PARLIAMENT: THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY We also took part in the Future Public Spaces competition images below, which lasted for four months. The outputs were two drawings, one key image and a second diagram of the overall idea. This was submitted with the name:
DEMOCRATISING SUBURBIA
Floorplan battle submission.
Future Public Spaces submissions.
JULIAN DJOPO THANK YOU