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KATE GLYNN ARCHITECTURAL PART 1 CONDENSED PORTFOLIO

KATE GLYNN 29/06/1994 Fuill Driving Licence Holder Oldham – Greater Manchester

kate.glynn@ntlworld.com 07879031257 www.kateglynn.co.uk

Studying at the University of Huddersfield, my degree has allowed me to explore and develop my way of designing with an emphasis on critical regionalism. By focusing on developing an understanding of the physical context and well as the cultural context in a variety of sites and locations, thus creating the analytical thinking required to develop a design passed a concept stage. With my skills in representation techniques being pushed through the use of different BIM software, most notably ArchiCAD, I also have some experience with robust details, structure and environmental design along with successful scenarios being centred on the planning process.

Through having a part time job (waitressing) and studying my degree I have pushed my leadership, teamwork and time management skills. My confidence has transferred from being able to speak and explain my design during reviews into my work and social life.

I am looking for a part 1 placement in an architecture practise that is inventive with their designs focusing on developing their designs around a cultural and contextual awareness, and that is above all a challenge, somewhere I can develop my skills in both design and in BIM which I feel will be vital to my architectural evelopment.

I believe that I would be able to provide an outlook on the design process by using my skills in BIM through guidance to be able to combine traditional methods with the methods that are beginning to emerge.

From Top Left: Peers interacting with children from Shawlands Primary School. Conceptual artwork, West Shore Project. Model making process.

Development work for the West Shore Project. My urban study group. Artwork from Hebden Bridge depicting my home town Oldham. Peers interacting with the Vietnamese students. My Ho Chi Minh urban study group Presenting. Me holding a snake, whilst in Vietnam.

WEST SHORE - LLANDUDNO Llandudno is a famous sea side town with a tale of two halves. Geographically sitting near the pinnacle of the western edge of Wales, the town has two shores to its name. The North Shore inhabited by the pier and various B&Bs, a place orientated on tourism – the focus of the town. The West Shore is much quitter in comparison, untouched by the tourist propaganda, a wilder and harsher landscape.

This installation is situated on the shore to create a bridge between the local residents that regularly amble up its shore and the tourist who walk the trail towards Conwy in the hopes of a small piece of adventure.

Through the organisation of spaces this buildings hopes to incorporate ‘the path most travelled’ allowing the natural walkways to coexist, to create an abstention of the land as it disappears into the Irish Sea.

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The Estuary Trail is walked by thousands of people every year, the current starting point along West Shore is the car park at the southern end of the beach, with nothing to mark its location other than a small information board. In other areas of the country trails and walks are celebrated by giving more information: on wildlife the route and dangers associated with that certain area eg. tideal times. I felt that that opportunity to create a space that incorporated the views and the landscape while also providing a rest bite from the sometimes harsh weather of Whales. My intervention would be placed along the trail at different intervals while being inside one of the information areas you would be able to look out along the coast and see the next, indicating the direction of the trail visually this was also enhanced through the materiality - red zinc.

The trail has many different users from cyclers to dog walkers and each approach the trail differently some by car and others are locals that simply walk. So I felt that access to the site via a main road (Lloyd Street West) was important. West shore is split into 2 by the middle breakwater, this is where I am proposing to relocated the beginning of the trail, due to the fact that the southern end of the beach is dog friendly and I am proposing that my building also caters for dogs as well as people.

This is a section runs from my information zone through to the plant room. It clearly shows the height difference between the 2 floors of 1.8m which allows the information building the better vantage to look over the coast in the direction of the next instalment of my design, as well as how my services would work. In the walkway between the two buildings I wanted to express the lightweight steel roof structure, so in order to achieve this with a centralised plant room the services would have to run under the walkway into the other two buildings and into the vertical circulation. This would then have to be fully insulated to prevent thermal bridging as well as being in a water tight tubing in the event of heavy storms.

The interior render to the left shows how this extra height for the vantage point would look from the inside, by giving the views over the coast a framing along with the added ceiling height and through the use of the movement created in the plan – this was done by obscuring the view until the last moment to increase the focus at this point and give the journey a spectacular finishing point.

Detail of the construction of the cafĂŠ building. Built on a concrete pile foundation, due to the nature of the site, using a ring beam system to transfer to weight into the bedrock. These individual buildings are highly insulated, due to the dramatic and sudden weather changes that can occur in the area

COMMON BANK BREWERYHEBDEN BRIDGE Common Bank Brewery, a microbrewery that will provide local pubs and restaurants with beer that is locally produced, which is something that Hebden Bridge strives for.

It will provide jobs for the local people, in both the brewing process and the managing of the brewery itself, taking apprentices so that this fine art doesn’t die out.

Jobs will also be provided in the bar and public front of the business.

With the added attraction of tours and tasting sessions inside the brewery it makes the whole process transparent to the customers. It would become a tourist attraction in the area, also with reps and other business coming into the town to sample the beer it will provide more overnight customers for the local B&B’s, boosting Hebden Bridge’s economy.

This town also prides itself on its creativity and hard work and while a microbrewery might not be in the traditional sense a form of creativity it does provide experimentation and a high worth ethic that this town strives for.

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THE GRAIN MILL: The grain mill is used to crack the malted grain this then allows water to enter the seed during the mash.

THE MASH TUN: The mash tun is where the grain is mixed with hot water, activating the enzymes in the seeds that convert the starch into sugars this process takes 1.5 hours. After the conversion of the starch it is then drained through the grain bed into the kettle dissolving the sugar this filters the wort through the grain bed

THE KETTLE: The wort is boiled in the kettle for 1.5 hours.Boiling sterilizes the wort and drives off some of the unwanted flavours/ Hops are addedinto the kettle throughout the boil this is what adds the bitterness theflavours and aromas to the beer.

FERMENTATION: The wort is cooled and transferred into the fermentation vessel. Yeast is added to the wort and fermentation converts the sugars into alcohol. This process takes around 4 days, when fermentation is complete the beer is transferred into the conditioning tanks.

CONDITIONING: Conditioning allows the beer to mature and the malt, hops and alcohol flavours to balance. The beer is the carbonated then kegged or bottled and ready to drink!

My site located on the left of Hebden Bridge on the valley side and therefore on a steep incline. I chose this site as I felt that the large different levels contributed to the different points of access. These points of access would be used by the different users of the building – the customers and the workers, with the bottom access being used for the workers and delivery trucks giving easy access to Commercial Street and on to New Road. From Osborne Street at the top the customers would have main access into both the shop from the street itself and down towards the bar leading down the steps to a lower level.

The contours of the site provide a great way to define my external space, the natural incline of the site will be used to house the outside ‘pods’, these pods embedded in the hill and linked by a gravel paths that follow the internal lines of my building and allow disabled access to the beer garden itself. The beer garden is situated to the South East allowing customers to enjoy the little sunshine that Yorkshire gets enjoying good beer and amazing views over Hebden Bridge.

The site sits next to Common Bank Woods through the wood there is already a well walked trail, this trail can be found at the information pints dotted around Hebden bridge – this means that foot traffic has the potential to be large allowing thirst hikers the chance for a nice relaxing beer after a gruelling climb.

The ground floor is the delivery floor, this is where all the goods for both the brewery and the bar are imported and the beer made in the brewery is exported to the pubs and bars in the local area. The plant room is located at the back corner of the building, along with all the storage areas being located at the back of the building where the butresses hold back the weight of the earth.

The brewery is housed in the front box of the building allowing the temperature to be regulated, the viewing box on the stairs allows passers by the transparency of seeing into the brewery and the copper plated fermenters seeing the process of the brewing. The front of the building therefore becomes the ‘public’ side to the building allowing the customers to see into the brewery from both the inside and the outside, while the back of the building becomes the ‘private’ aspect.The central corridor is used as a waiting area for the toursso that while waiting the customers feel they are in the very middle of the process being able to see into the labs and watching the staff go about their daily jobs – allowing the customers to see the process from start to finish the labs have a glass wall to allow secondary light into the central corridor. The bottling room is surrounded in sound proofing quieting the noise created by the bottling – it’s situated in the back to allow the surrounding earth to absorb the sounds. The cold storage allows the easy access and storage of the newly bottle beer and kegs.

The second floor is mainly inhabited by the customers with the main area being the bar, the bar is situated in the main entrance – this means that you can grab a beer and be back outside to enjoy the Hebden scenery.

The bar has a glass front showing the inner working of the mechanisms associated with pulling pints and the other carbonated drinks. With my bar being sunk into the brewery it means that there is a clear line of sight down into the brewery you will physically be able to see the start (the brewing) the finish (the beer in the glass) product.

Thw top floor consist of the viewing deck with is access from the bar area below, this viewing deck gives you the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of Hebden bridge without the Yorkshire weather. The other aspect of this floor is the shop which it situated right off Osborne Street giving easy access to those wishing to take the house brewed beer home. The brews currently being s uggested at the brewery all have local name such as Hebden Hops or the Hebden Beck Brew – all available to buy.

HO CHI MINH CITY - FLOODING REFUGE This project located in Ho Chí Minh City (HCMC) – Vietnam. As Vietnam’s largest city HCMC, it is divided into twenty-four districts, of which the project is located in in District 4, the smallest of Ho Chí Minh City’s districts. District 4 is located on a small island directly south of District 1, just across the Ben Nghé River. District 4 is one of the poorer areas of HCMC, the area has an essential culture and economy that represents the lower income group, which takes up to 80% of the city’s economy.

HCMC is beginning to redevelop the area closest to the Ben Nghé River by building many high rise apartment buildings, a stark contrast to the ‘slums’ traditional housing.

My site is situated along the threshold of many different elements: warehouses, a primary school, a kindergarten school, the new high rise buildings to the north and the tradition row houses of Vietnam to the south. Additionally there are many different street vendors both food and tailors in the immediate vicinity of my site.

The concept of my design is to replicate this strong community unit into one site in the Le Quoc Hung Area, by knitting these different elements of the surrounding area together, along the natural boundary in this urban landscape. The theoretical agenda of my design is manipulate the functionality of the spaces for different times of the day and year. Therefore the dEsign becomes as efficient and co-ordinated as the people that will be using it. With these thoughts in mind my design functions on a hierarchy of the frequency of the spaces used. The functionality of these spaces include: a market place, sports hall, flooding refuge, charity organisation office space as well as a children friendly area.

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At ground floor level there is the market place that will amalgamate the local street vendors and tailors that are already present in the immediate area into a communal space.

The market is in two section a market which is covered by the building above and the open area market that imitates an intimate courtyard area for the local people. This market will function all year round and most of the day making it the dominant space in this design.

On the first floor the office spaces to the south of the building will be used by charity organisations ran by local people to monitor flood risks and organise supplies in preparation of these floods. By having the local people running their own spaces it create a community network that relies on itself for support in times of need.

The sports hall space directly links the local schools at the front of the building. It would be used in order for these local school, which have very little outdoor space, the opportunity to have daily classes teaching sports and other game activities. This same space would also be used intermittently in high floods during May – October as a place where the local people can gather supplies,seek refuge and council,making this the least dominate function of the design.

As well as the above space there is also a raise platform landscape to the front of my building that will be used to gain access to the sport hall at first floor level as well as provide a children’s park and shaded areas. The surrounding block paved area around the building will periodically allow vehicle access to the warehouse only when the children are in school.

When out of school this area becomes a safe haven for children to play and have fun without the worry of being ran over.

The design comprises of a steel structural frame that sits upon capped concrete piles, due to the composite of the ground below. Along the length of the building the structural grid sits at 4 meters apart to replicate the tradition structure of the Vietnamese row houses.

The steel frame continues into the roof structure which curves to embody the volume of space beneath, for example the sports hall is a double height space and therefore this is the highest point of the roof it then curves down into the smaller spaces. Due to there being no columns in the sports hall space the roof beams are deeper in order to accommodate the load and run this load down into the boundary columns.

Incorporated into the steel structure is a concrete circulation core used for both bracing the building from lateral loads as well as being used to create a fire refuge. The cross bracing continues with steel cross bracing in both directions. Where the steel cross bracing meets the columns there are attached using a moment joint to create a solid joint to prevent these lateral loads, and where the bracing meets in the middle is a pin joint in order to allow some tolerance of movement during construction.

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