Kieran Withey Portfolio 2024

Design Portfolio

Kieran Withey

Profile:

Kieran Withey, Curriculum vitae

Having graduated from the University of Bath with a Masters in Architecture (MArch, Part II RIBA), I am seeking to secure a position in a design or project team. My education and work experience has provided me with core skills in architectural design, urban design and construction, as evidenced by my portfolio of work. Furthermore, my experience has taught me to appreciate the importance of working collaboratively within a team when designing. The opportunities I have had in my professional and educational life have developed me into a motivated, open-minded and passionate young designer.

My ambition is to become an architect who develops sustainable practices alongside design decisions, focusing on design that is durable in terms of both materiality and social change.

Contact: Email: kieran.withey1@gmail.com

Telephone: +49 173 6084399

Education: Masters of Architecture MArch (Honours)

University of Bath 2021-2023

Bachelors of Architecture BSc (First Class)

University of the West of England, Bristol 2016-2019

Extended Diploma Construction, Design and the Built Environment. Bath City College 2014-2016

Achieved A*A*A* (Triple Distinction) and awarded Student of the Year

GCSE - Art, History, Music, Maths, English, Science and IT, Sexeys School Bruton 2009-2014

Work: Junior Architect AiP, Sigrid Hintersteininger Architects, Stuttgart, DE.

2024

I have been involved in several projects at the early design stage. Notably, I worked on the renovation of Villa Evergreen in Murr, Ludwigsburg, where I developed the architectural strategy and concept for both the new floor plan and facade. I produced all drawings and presentations for the client, including 3D illustrations, floor plans, elevations, and sections. In another project, I researched the space requirements for doctors’ offices and developed strategic floorplans to meet these needs. Additionally, I created a presentation on Flood Prevention Architecture, focusing on how architects can mitigate flood damage through thoughtful landscaping and building design.

Key responsibilities included:

• Developing early design strategies.

• Illustrations for projects and 3D and 2D architectural drawings.

• Presentation production.

• Researching.

Key Achievements:

• Completing successful initial design scheme for Villa Evergreen.

• Flood Prevention Architecture presentation and research.

Work: Part I & Part II

Architectural Assistant at Context Planning Ltd., Bath, UK 2019- 2024

Architectural assistant working as part of a team on a variety of projects at different stages. Assisting at all stages of the project from initial sketch designs, through design drawings and illustrations to construction details. Much of the work has been in the domestic sector. This has included adaptations of historic properties such as Grade II* Pylle Manor, bespoke houses and medium scale developments such as 11 houses in Victoria Road, Frome.

Key responsibilities included:

• Meeting and communicating with primary client.

• Liaising with construction professionals regarding construction details and mechanical and electrical plans.

• Working closely with senior planning consultant.

• Producing planning documents including Design and Access statements and heritage statements.

• Producing working construction drawings.

• Lead on several small scale domestic projects.

• Multi-managing several projects at once.

Key Achievements:

• Completion of several projects from initial client meetings through to handover.

• Taking the lead on several design projects.

• Working on Pylle Manor a grade II* protected manor.

Lakeside Garden Centre, Crockerton 2014-2021

Garden Centre assistant. Various roles including customer service and horticultural knowledge.

Language: Intensive German Language school, Speakeasy Berlin.

Completed level A2 and currently continuing at B1 level (Intermediate).

Skills:

My visual communication skills, both in terms of architectural visuals and graphic design, is one of my strongest skills. This has been highlighted by several visiting architectural critics and tutors during my architectural education. I have also developed excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and client satisfaction throughout my Masters degree and professional career. I also flourish in a collaborative team environment, either taking the lead or working as part of a team.

• AutoCAD,

• Vectorworks 2D,

• Sketchup (with endscape add on),

• Rhino,

• Full Adobe Suite, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator,

• Physical Model making.

Interest: Analogue photography, both 35mm and 120 (medium format), is my other main passion. I think film photography, like architecture, has given me a different insight into how I view the environment around me. It has taught me that if you look closely, there is always a beautiful moment and story to be framed, even in the ordinary. It allows you to engage with the image in the same way that good architecture should engage with its surroundings and people.

References: Sigrid Hintersteininger, Sigrid Hintersteininger Architects Email: mail@sigridhintersteininger.net

Mark Reynolds BSc MSc MRTPI, Context Planning. Email: mark@contextplanning.co.uk

Professor Alexander Wright, University of Bath, Design Tutor. Email: absaw@bath.ac.uk

CONTENTS:

*Please view portfolio as spreads.

Curriculum vitae 2

Seed Gallery, Masters Yr 2

Final Individual

Project

Villa Evergreen, Sigrid

Hintersteininger Architects

All Roads Lead to Turin 2050, The Greenest City in Italy

Victoria Road, Frome Phase I, Context Planning.

New Wharf: New Dawn Traders Masters Yr 1 Final Project

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42 Pylle

Planning. 46 Utopia, Undergrad Final project.

Manor, Context

Po Valley Seed Gallery

Master’s Individual Project

The project premise is that the future climate models forecast both a temperature change as well as a precipitation change between 2023 and 2050. The future predictions illustrate a need to improve our existing agricultural model moving away from the monoculture and look to implement a more biodiverse regenerative model. Additionally, these future climate concerns coupled with the tendency to follow a monoculture of biodiversity could result in the loss of local varieties of fruit, nut and vegetable as well the traditional artisan techniques that accompany them.

The Seed Gallery will look to develop the work of The Slow Food Movement’s Ark of Taste, developing the virtual seed bank into a physical one. In addition, the Seed Gallery will take an active role in the future preservation of these traditional varieties and techniques through seed research and agricultural development. To further promote the preservation of these varieties and artisan techniques, The Eataly Seed Gallery café will showcase their taste to the public.

Seed Gallery Yard 1:500 Timber Model

Seed Gallery Yard, 1. Seed Research

2. Seed Preservation

3. Eataly & Market Gallery

4. Greenhouse

5. Test beds

6. Orchard

Public Entrance

Private Entrance

Corso Germano Sommeiler

Via Nizza

Corso Raffaelto

Via Girogio Bidone

New Parc Nuova

Eataly and Market Gallery:

The Market Gallery and Eataly building is located at the Western point of the site, serving as the gateway between Parc Nuova and the Seed Gallery. Its purpose is to showcase the gallery’s work and engage the public in conservation efforts. The building consists of two main spaces: Eataly, which highlights traditional products and artisan techniques through food, and the Market Gallery, a space for sharing knowledge and products. The architectural design emphasizes the transition from darkness to light, guiding and intriguing visitors as they enter the courtyard. These features, along with a break in the orchard, aim to create a clear and atmospheric entry into the world of seeds.

Seed Gallery threshold Entrance Visual Connection

Visual connection through the building and within the building to the landscape around.

Eataly and Market Gallery Entrance

The Eataly building is designed to draw people’s attention to the landscape and agriculture around them. Two architectural measures were taken to achieve this. First, the building functions as a dark threshold between the city of Turin and the world of seed. The second is the creation of a low eaves that emphasises the horizontal and frames the landscape.

Light Diagram, Framing the landscape by emphasising the horizontal

Eataly and Market Gallery Isometric illustrating the transition from the orchard to the controlled courtyard beds.

Eataly Exterior Orchard Seating

90mm lightly reinforced concrete screed with underfloor pipes.

200mm Rigid Insulation

Block and Beam floor

2.

356 x 127 x 33 Mild Steel Universal Beam RSJ

Timber blocking

Preformed 150mm insulated panel mechanically fixed to timber blocking and rafters.

3.

250mm x 75mm c24 timber rafter @ 600mm centres.

Wood fibre acoustic panels

Vapour control

150mm insulated plywood panel

Breathable membrane

50mm timber battens

Corrugated metal roofing sheets

*all rafters to be mechanically fixed with cleats to steel eaves beam.

Seed Preservation Building:

The Seed Preservation Building is designed to fulfil the brief of creating a physical archive for the Ark of Taste. It serves the purpose of cataloguing and preserving seeds, following a strict process for proper storage. The building plan reflects this process, with a significant portion of the floor area dedicated to two laboratories for seed cleaning and sorting. The Seed Gallery employs three methods of seed preservation: long-term storage at -20ºC, short-term storage at 5ºC, and a living seed bank showcased in the inner courtyard. While the public is welcome to enter the building, they can only observe from a distance due to the rigorous process, which allows for the framing of views that connect the process, seeds, and storage.

DRYING

SEEDS CLEANED by hand or using an aspirator

X-RAY ANALYSIS to identify and discard damaged and empty seeds

DRYING ROOM 18°

Seed preservation process

Seed preservation process on Ground plan

Seeds and dried plants enter drying room one: 15ºC with 15% Humidity.

Seeds are taken to first lab to be cleaned and x-rayed.

Seeds are taken to drying room two: 18ºC with 15% humidity.

Seeds are taken to second lab to be further cleaned x rayed and sorted ready for storage.

Seeds are taken to short term 5ºC storage

Seeds are taken to long term -20ºC storage

The concept of walking over and looking down in the Seed Preservation Building serves two purposes: a better visual connection with small seeds on the table and an elevated view that connects all processes within the building. A significant visual link is established between the walkway, the 5ºC seed storage area, and the external living seed bank. The displayed seeds inside correspond to those in the living seed bank, creating a coherent connection. Moreover, the visual connection to the lab process offers a complete picture of the Seed Preservation Building.

Seed preservation isometric illustrates the three types of preservation adopted in the Seed Gallery and visual connections between both process and preservation.

1. Living seed bank.

2. 5ºC Short term store.

3. -20ºC Long term store.

Seed Research Building:

The Seed Research Building complements the Seed Preservation Building and focuses on the preservation and cultivation of traditional varieties. It consists of three areas: the germination laboratory studies the effects of different climate conditions on germination. The growing chambers facilitate cross-breeding for future climate adaptation and additional extreme weather testing. Finally, the inner courtyard testing agricultural models to improve biodiversity.

Germination Laboratories.

Growing chambers are controlled environments where botanist can carry out a variety of growing experiments. Each chamber can control how light, wet, dry or humid the environment is. The scope of these chambers is that they can be used for the replication of future environments.

Growing chamber isometric illustrates the technical build up of each unit, as well as how visitors look into the space and out over the test beds.

Common Language:

To create a unified project, it was important to create a common language between all the buildings. The common language is derived from two aspects: the perimeter wall and the greenhouse. The perimeter wall, a significant existing feature on the site, forms the language of both the materiality of new buildings through the use of brickwork, and the attitude to the site’s heritage.

The greenhouse informs the language of two aspects of the design of all the buildings: structure, light and red roofs.

Within each building, as in a greenhouse, the natural light has been controlled for a specific reason in order to create a specific climate.

As in most greenhouses where the frame is exposed, the same concept was developed to form a common language between all the indoor spaces.

The red roofs are a further development of a concept in which red film is used in greenhouses to increase the rate of growth of plants.

Eataly and Market Gallery

Seed Preservation Building Greenhouse

Seed Research Gallery

The broken brick work on the proposed wall stems from the concept of reusing the piles of bricks left on the site after the demolition of the previous railway sheds. Rather than discarding or crushing these bricks, they will be used as a feature, adding a second layer of texture to a plain wall and celebrating the patina of the site’s history.

Existing Wall

Proposed Wall

All Roads Lead to Turin 2050, The Greenest City in Italy

Turin Masterplan

Master’s yr2 Group Project

Turin is currently the most polluted city in Europe, discounted from its surrounding nature and is failing to champion anything. The masterplan therefore looks to rectify these three identified problems as well as sow the seeds for Turin to become the greenest city in Italy by 2050.

To sow the seeds for the future of Turin the masterplan looks to implement its future ideas into a small test bed area before being rolled out across the city.

The first phase of the Turin 2050 goal looks to redevelop the redundant Porta Nuova and surrounding area into the Monferrato Hills. By subdividing this area into the following sections: cultivate, germinate, and innovate, there is a greater opportunity to test solutions to the three problems identified earlier.

The overall ambition of the masterplan is by 2030 Turin, that has seen an increase in it’s population due to it being a place for young professionals wanting to live, has become a destination for people to visit and is on track to becoming the greenest city in Italy by 2050.

Overall Ambitions

Turin 2030 Building the New Heart of the City

TURIN 2030

TURIN 2030, Putting Retrofit First

Micro Hub, a Taste of Your Region Turin 2030

Identity Crisis Polluted Valley Disjointed City

The three main identified problems with the city and the areas interventions will be developed to solve.

Turin 2050:

Turin 2050

The 2050 Plan looks at the overall strategic steps that would need to be taken to make Turin the greenest city in Italy, as well as solutions to the three problems we identified. The first phase would be the small local area, which would act as a test bed before other areas of the city are developed to follow the same interventions.

Proposal Concepts:

Train Station Redevelopment:

By re-routing the train lines a new development zone is created that can act as the heart of the city. The historical old train station building will be preserved and used as a mixed use facility. The train tracks will then become the base for the new Parco Lineare (linear park) and innovate zone.

False Sprawl:

Turin, like many other developing European cities, grew around a historic core. However, due to Fiat’s dominance and control in the 20th century, Turin’s urban development differed from other cities. Fiat created a false sprawl by developing a large industrial zone on the city’s perimeter, which is now abandoned. This led to unfocused growth and a struggling low-density sprawl around the historic core, resulting in a lack of functional purpose and identity for the neighbourhoods. While housing stock is not an issue in Turin, the struggling low-density zone is functionally unsustainable and lacks a clear identity.

New City Threads:

To address the issue of Turin feeling like a disjointed city we aimed to reconnect the city to nature, specifically the Monferrato hills and River Po. We noticed that currently the city only has routes focused in a singular direction, therefore we are proposing to add more perpendicular routes and create green avenues throughout the city and back into nature.

The Local:

Cultivate:

Cultivate aims to reconnect the city to nature, specifically the Monferrato hills and River Po. This is implemented by introducing a new bridge and removing the two main roads along the river. The riverside park has been adapted to allow for a wide variety of activities and range of age groups.

Germinate:

Germinate aims to embrace the Italian culture of Turin whilst enhancing the existing conditions. The repeated courtyard typology allows for individuals to implement retrofit strategies, whilst the removal of cars allows for new green avenues and public realms to be created. Both of which push Turin’s towards being Italy’s greenest city.

Innovate:

Innovate provides a strong characteristic that aims to inspire and educate the local community. This then allows the residents and students to test and share their ideas with a focus on creating resilient agricultural test beds, whilst working in partnership with the engineering university and start ups.

To test our ideas a section of the city that we identified as having potential to be redeveloped was selected. This Local would act as a test bed for ideas that could then be rolled out across the city in phases.

A key part of the redevelopment involves transforming Parco Del Valentino. Currently, the riverside park is underutilised, lacks purpose, and is uninviting. The main issue is the presence of a busy road alongside the northern edge of the River Po, effectively isolating the park from the city due to the need to cross eight lanes of traffic.

To address this, the main road will be removed, and an additional footbridge will be constructed to cross the River Po. This aims to improve the connection between the city and the 70km of underutilized hiking and cycling trails. By enhancing the connection with nature and promoting outdoor activities, the goal is to make Turin a more attractive place for young families to live.

Cultivate:

Water Sport Centre

Natural Swimming Area

Natural Playground

Rifugio- Mountain Hut

The redevelopment of the park will provide a variety of spaces for play, sports and social activities. These sports include a new pump track, skate park, outdoor gym and upgraded kids play park. As well as upgrade to the park there will be a redevelopment of existing water sports, these include new rowing facilities and swimming area.

In the Germinate Area, the focus is on infrastructure improvements and retrofit strategies due to the high number of existing buildings in the masterplan scheme. Currently, the streets are dominated by cars, resulting in air and noise pollution that creates an unpleasant and unsafe environment for pedestrians. The redesign of public transport and street design is crucial to address these issues. By prioritizing public transport, improving the tram network, and replacing on-street parking with bike lanes, a safer and more environmentally friendly alternative can be promoted. These interventions, along with the application of healthy street calculations, have shown a significant positive impact, with the overall score improving from 53 to 92.

Adopt a 20 minute walkable city within this area.

Germinate:

Proposed Street Plan

Developing the idea of the Tram Pavilions becoming a social and community centre for local people, focusing on growing. The tram stops would become centres of information for both local people and visitors, as well as places of refuge.

Retrofitting existing housing stock is a vital component of Turin’s green strategy. The typical apartment typology within the city centre is ideally suited to retrofit on a large scale, and small interventions can be made that can drastically improve the environmental efficiency of each building.

Additionally, the strategies were developed for the reuse of underground car parks.

Tram Stop

Tram Pavilion

Innovate:

The masterplan focuses on redeveloping the old railway station and surrounding tracked area, aiming to establish a new start-up and industry zone. Businesses and start-ups associated with local universities and agricultural advancements will be encouraged, with agricultural test beds facilitating experiments within the city. The new west Turin train station will serve as a gateway, showcasing innovation as visitors travel toward the old city. A green corridor, the central spine, will feature nodal points or micro-hub centres that provide areas for pausing and experiencing different aspects of the city. These micro hubs were initially designed to address the challenge of removing delivery trucks for local cafés, restaurants, and the community.

Districts

Nodes Routes

Micro-hub Concept Drawing

Central path design.

The extendible canopy utilizes the existing train tracks as rails, increasing the flexibility of the space by infilling the covered area. This structure can be used as a pavilion for diverse activities such as outdoor cinemas, markets, and planting workshops.

Villa Evergreen, Murr, Ludwigsburg:

RIBA Part II, AiP Sigrid Hintersteininger Architects

Villa Evergreen in Murr, Ludwigsburg, ist ein Umbauprojekt für ein Mehrfamilienhaus. Die Kundenwünsche umfassten die Entfernung des bestehenden, baufälligen Dachgeschosses und dessen Ersatz durch ein neues Stockwerk mit sechs Wohnungen. Ein zentrales

Merkmal der Villa Evergreen ist der weitläufige Garten, der das Haus umgibt und eine bedeutende Rolle im Gestaltungskonzept spielt. Daher war es entscheidend, eine harmonische Verbindung zwischen dem Garten und dem Haus zu schaffen.

Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, wurde die Holzverkleidung des neuen Dachgeschosses über die bestehenden Balkone hinweg fortgeführt. Dies ermöglicht das Wachstum von Kletterpflanzen und Weinreben entlang des Gebäudes und schafft eine grüne, lebendige Fassade.

vorgeschlagene Isometerie

1. Bestand.

2. Dach und Giebelwände entfernen.

3. Ergänzen und Dachgeschoss Holzbau.

4. Neues transparentes Fassadenkleid.

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2 Zi. Wohnung 49.9m2 1 P

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17.1m² 5.8m² 11.3m² 4.4m² 0.3m² 2.9m² (7.9 m²) 1.9m²

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20.6m² 6.6m² 11.3m² 4.4m² 0.8m² 4.3m² (7.9 m²) 1.9m²

1.5 Zi. Wohnung 30.1m² 1 P

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10.6m² 2.3m² 9.0m² 2.8m² 0.3m² 3.2m² (7.9 m²) 1.9m²

2 Zi. Wohnung 49.8m² 1 P

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Zur Kostensenkung des neuen Dachgeschosses wurde jede Wohnung so geplant, dass sie entweder als komplette Einheit oder als Module außerhalb der Baustelle gebaut werden kann. Dadurch sind alle Bäder gleich und die Maße zwischen Fenstern und Wänden identisch, mit Ausnahme von Wohnung 5.

Ansicht Nord West mit neuem Fassadenkleid.

Ansicht Süd West mit neuem Fassadenkleid

Ansicht Süd West Bestand.

Victoria Road Development:

RIBA Part I Placement

The project brief was to create seven three-bedroom houses for young families on a site previously used as a lorry repair depot. Due to its status as an employment site, the local council required a form of employment to be provided, which was achieved by incorporating office space at the site’s entrance.

The architectural design drew inspiration from the surrounding red brick Edwardian terrace houses and the site’s industrial past. The design blends the traditional form and scale of Edwardian houses with industrial elements, incorporating a north light design for the roof. This feature allowed for additional accommodation in the roof space and a central light well.

To honour the Edwardian terraces, simple brick detailing was added to the facade. This brickwork was contrasted with a metal roof, reflecting the site’s industrial heritage.

25mm Parka Flooring

65mm Screed with underfloor heating

piping laid within

Vapour Barrier

125mm Insulation

DPM

Beam and Block Floor

102.5mm Brick

46mm Queens Closer

70mm Cavvity

10mm Plywood

140mm Rigid Insulation

140mm Timber frame

25mm Plasterboard and Skim

VMZINC Plus Standing seam

Fixing Clip

18mm Plywood

40mm Battern creating a vented airspace

140mm Insulation protected by VMZ

Membrane

VMZINC Plus Standing seam

Fixing Clip

18mm Plywood

40mm Battern creating a vented airspace

200mm Insulation protected by VMZ

Membrane

200mm Joist

25mm plasterboard and Skim

Alot of time was spent on site with contractors working out brick detailing.

Pylle Manor (Grade II*):

WWRIBA Part I Placement

Working on Pylle Manor involved both detective work and architectural expertise. The goal was to understand how the building had evolved since its initial construction in the late seventeenth century, including modifications by previous owners.

The current owners aim to restore the Georgian house to its former glory by removing modern additions that clash with its character and adapting it to meet the needs of a 21st-century family. Given only old photos and historical survey maps, we spent a day dating various aspects of the building and found some questionable 20th-century adaptations and repairs.

The proposal for the project is to remove elements that detract from the original building as well as make sympathetic repairs, all with the intention to protect the Grade II* manor house for future generations whilst meeting the demands of the 21st century.

The oldest part of Pylle Manor is a two-storey Georgian house attributed to Sir Edward Berkeley. Beneath it lies a cellar, whose purpose is unclear due to the absence of a range, suggesting it was likely not a kitchen unless evidence has been removed.

In the 19th century, east and west wings were added to the manor. The entrance to the east wing, found behind a false wall in a cupboard, remains intact. The east wing's hipped roof is still present but hidden by a modern extension.

Mystery of the ages. Portra 160

Photographs show minimal changes to Pylle Manor's front facade from the early 19th to early 20th century. However, significant rear alterations included adding a chimney and greenhouse, blocking a window and disrupting symmetry. The greenhouse, adapted to fit the property, has an offset ridge and back gutter..

The proposal aims to restore Pylle Manor's original form and symmetry by removing elements like the 20th-century lean-to, redundant chimney, and greenhouse. This restoration will enhance the Georgian character and fenestration, preserving its historic significance.

In the late 20th century, a Tudor-style extension was added to Pylle Manor's east wing. It's unclear if it was designed to appear Tudor or is an authentic structure adapted to the site. A likely chimney fire during this period caused charring of the original roof trusses, leading to roof refurbishment with a dormer and cornicing. A small lean-to was also added to the rear.

Entrance

New Wharf:

New Dawn Traders

Masters Yr 1 Final Project

The project is located in Bristol on the edge of the historic floating harbour. The project aims to provide a new centre for a small organisation called New Dawn Traders, who want to reintroduce the concept of sailing quality raw produce from around the world back to Bristol. The brief looks at the process of storing large quantities of bulk produce as well as the process of converting bulk raw produce into smaller sizes for sale.

The nature of this first year was about the exploration of the design process and the rapid testing of different ideas through the use of weekly exercises and design games.

Initial modelling of scheme.

Further development using models.

Development of project through sketches, exploring detail along side the massing of the project.

Final iteration at submission.

Exploring the timber facade through scaled models.

Walkway and accommodation

Exploring the language of the timber walkway and how this can be applied across the site.

New Wharf

Neutopia: Post Brexit Society

Undergraduate Final Project

“Arrival To Neutopia” explores a society born from the aftermath of Brexit. Amidst the uncertainty caused by the UK’s decision to leave the EU, the project envisions a dystopian scenario where a ‘No deal’ Brexit has occurred. Drawing inspiration from Sir Thomas More’s book “Utopia,” written in 1551, the project explores how More’s vision of a perfect society could influence architecture in a postapocalyptic, post-Brexit UK. The core spaces required for this new society reflect its emphasis on purity, communal living, self-sufficiency, craft, and academia. The goal is to design architecture that aligns with the values of this society.

The Arrival to Neutopia

All items brought to Neutopiae by either the nomadic scavengers or from within the district are catalogued, recorded and stored so the society can see what they have too little or too much of. Resources and items that are useful to the society e.g. books, batteries and tools must be requested out. General items can be traded within the society.

The Arrival of goods into wharf

Developing from the narrative of revival of old knowledge, the classical orders have been followed to determine the proportions of the columns and thus the room heights. The dimension of the single brick determines the dimension of the brick column. The height of the column and the room height is then determined by the classical order.

Tectonic Purity

The pods orientated north west are done so to ensure that first light enters the building to wake the occupants.

Creation of a new daily routine as described by More.

Cluster of living pods.

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