Marta Cacabelos MartÃnez Architect CURRICULUM VITAE / PORTFOLIO 1
MARTA
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WORK EXPERIENCE 03.2016/
MARTA CACABELOS MARTÍNEZ
03.2014 Projects
Tasks involve
ARCHITECT
PORTFOLIO_ http://issuu.com/m.c.m/docs/ marta_cacabelos_works_2013_11_r_ Unit 20, 36b Macleay St. Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 Contact number. 0432121766 marta.cacabelos.mtnez@gmail.com
SCABAL Architects_London, UK. Architectural assistant. Education, Residential and industrial. (Stages 1-6 RIBA) _PRE-DESIGN_Development Appraisal, Brief Development, Fesibility Studies, Site information. _DESIGN_Concept design, structural design,building services, specifications, design programe, planning applications, listed building applications. _TECHNICAL DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION_Produce Full Construction Details, deal with suppliers, deal with consultans, construction site visits.
Reference Dominic Cullinan (Director) dominic.cullinan@scabal.net
PROFILE
06.2013/
I am a highly motivated architect with a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of A Coruna (Spain). I have over four years experience in designing, detailing and drawing architectural projects. I have considerable skill with organisational problem-solving and my experience demonstrates my ability to work collaboratively with teams. My academic studies and previous roles have enhanced my knowledge of construction and structural engineering. One of my goals is to learn more and develop my passion for architecture. With my skills and knowledge, I believe I am able to contribute strongly to your company.
09.2012 Tasks involve
- Research construction tecniques with ETFE. - Apply the research in the development of a project. - Write an explanatory reports. - Inventore and catalogue Galician architecture.
06.2013/
Photo Lab of Arch School of A Coruña_Spain. Photography Lab Coordinator.
04.2012 Tasks involve
03.2012/
EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2013/ Masters in Architecture 2002 + Part2 + Part 1
A Coruña School of Architecture_Spain. 2008/ Student exchange programme 2007 Robert Gordon University-Scott Sutherland
School of Architecture_Aberdeen, Scotland. Currently Revit Architecture 2016
Tasks involve
2013 Rhinoceros Design and Digital Production(45
hours) Control Advanced Design Center S.L. (Rhino FabLab and Rhino Authorized Training Center)_Madrid, Spain. 2012 Digital Photography Course (50 hours)
Espacio Normal, Upper Technical School of Architecture of A Coruña_Spain. 2010 Autodesk 3D Max (100 hours)
Samicro Specialized Studies Center_A Coruña, Spain. 2010 Cype 2010 (100 hours)
Samicro Specialized Studies Center. A Coruña, Spain.
Proxecto Cárcere_A Coruña, Spain. Architects Team Member Architect - Creating architectural drawings and draft. - Developing new proposals.
Reference Cris Vilares Seijo (Architect) c.vilares.s@gmail.com
09.2011/ 09.2010 Projects Tasks involve
2015 Introduction to Post-production for
2014/ English course (Upper intermediate) 2013 Working Men’s Collegue_London, UK.
- Coordinating courses. - Management material. - Developing promotional strategies.
11.2011 collective for the recovery of A Coruña ancient prision.
Infinite Skills (on line)
Architecture Visualization Cass Short Courses, London Metropolitan University_London, UK.
Architecture School of A Coruña_Spain. Researcher.
Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect studio_A Coruña, Spain. Architectural Assistant. Leisure, Education, and competitions _PRE-DESIGN_Development Appraisal, Brief Development, Fesibility Studies, Site information. _DESIGN_Concept design, structural design _TECHNICAL DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION_Produce Full Construction Details, deal with suppliers, deal with consultans, construction site visits.
Reference Montse Neira (Architect) aimo@aimoarquitectura.com
01.2008
Colllective 57º10_Aberdeen, Scotland. Team Member Architect.
Tasks involve
- Organisation of workshops and conference.
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PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCE Languages
Social Skills
- NATIVE _Spanish/Galician (CELGA 4LEVEL) - FLUENT_English. Understanding,writing and speaking. _ BASIC___Portuguese. Collaborative, proactive and open attitude.
Organizatization Skills Self- Discipline and organization. Technical - Autocad, Microstation, SketchUp, MS Office (Word, Skills
Powerpoint...),Adobe Acrobat (advance) - Photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design (intermediate) -Cype Ingenieros, , Rhinoceros, Revit, 3D Max(beginner)
Artistic -Knowledge of digital photography. Skills
-Skills with graphic design, composition and drawing. - Resolute model maker. 3
PROJECT INDEX SONRIA CORUÑA - 2015/16 O Burgo Estuary, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain - Competition. RIMM Architects (Rosalidia Alvarez, Iria Brandariz,Manolete and Marta Cacabelos) The design of this project was developed with another 3 colleagues. Through our weekly meetings, I learned a lot about teamwork without the input from a supervisor. Together we designed a project thinking in a more collaborative and economic way to see the city. We considered to all the elements: the users, the old building, the roads, and the way the city worked, focusing on new strategies to improve existing spaces as well as a new construction. Nowadays architecture is much more than the design of a new building.
CANTODAREA COMMUNITY CENTER - 2013/14 Marin, Pontevedra, Spain - Research and academic project. Marta Cacabelos-Martinez. This has been the most complete project I designed alone and the pinnacle of my architecture studies. I developed every part of it from the design of the landscape or the calculations of the structure to the heating and cooling systems of the building. I learned how to express the idea of the project throughout the building: the structure, the construction, the facilities and the urbanism. The idea was born from a thorough research and understanding of the site. I learned to become a more independent architecture expressing myself through the materials, the shapes or the urbanism.
CONTAINER HOUSING FOR STUDENTS - 2012 Elviña campus, A Coruña, Spain - Academic project. Marta Cacabelos-Martinez. Through this project I explored how to build with materials not directly related to architecture i.e. ship containers. In an era in which sustainability is the order of the day, this kind of construction incorporating recycled elements, could be a way to economize and find new ecological resources. I learned how to design from a large and rigid unit of a container, looking for the best way to arrange my designs to take into account the terrain and the needs of students.
MILLADOIRO HOUSING ESTATE - 2012 Mesoiro, Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Academic project Marta Cacabelos-Martinez. This project was and approach of housing design from the desire to increase the social life of the users. The whole design creates spaces to promote the common living in the house, the housing block and the urban areas. Thanks to this I studied manufactured home systems such as Habitat 1967, Walden 7 and Container city. From this research I developed my own prefabricated system, improving my knowledge about construction and experimenting with new ways of doing architecture in the process.
CHRIST CHURCH PRIMARY SCHOOL - 2016 Hampstead, London, UK - Under construction - Architect. SCABAL Architects. This was my first project in UK. I was involve in all the stages: strategic definition, preparation and brief, concept design, developed design, technical design and construction. During this project, I learned more about how practices work in UK. I was exposed to UK building regulation, planning process and tender process and I was involved in a designing the school as well as assisting in the client meetings and dealing with consultants as well as actively visiting the site…I lived through all the project processes from the design to the construction. On the top of this, there was the challenge to deal with a listed building. 4
NEW YORK ACADEMY - 2015/16 Hiderabad, India - Concept design - Architect. SCABAL Architects. This is an exciting project that came to SCABAL architects through the actor and education curator Vishnu Manchu. When I left SCABAL the project was going into stage 3, Developed Design. Through it I could enjoy all the design process in a complete new building. I was involved in the design developing models and 3D digital models and drawings. The client ask to develop the project with ship containers, because it was an element really cheap and easy accessible to him. It was my opportunity to be back in a ship container construction used in a building. I have also learned how to manage project development for another country in this case India. During my time, SCABAL had to work together with Cheralathan Associates, another offices located in India. They will now have to deal with the construction companies to make the design real.
THE HARVESTERS - 2015 Lawrence Lane, Buckland, Betchworth, Surrey RH3 7BE - Tender - Architect. SCABAL Architects. I was involve in the stages 3 and 4 of RIBA. The architect in charge of the project and I developed all the tender drawings package. We designed the construction details for the green roof and the haft brick and timber facade. We worked really closely with the M&E consultant to develop the structure of the design. We also had to deal with extra planning conditions as the building was listed.
FORDHAM ABBEY DOJIMA SAKE BREWERY - 2016 Newmarket Road, Fordham, Cambridgeshire, UK - Architect. SCABAL Architects. When I left SCABAL we were about to finish the package of drawings for tender. This project was really challenging for the office not just because we were dealing with listed buildings, because our design had to consider and understand the “sake” process, totally unknown for us. We had to research about it and the machinery used to design the most appropriate building for it. The project also require the thought of a masterplan to plan the different stages of the project that will be developed in phases according with the desire of the client.
ARTEIXO SPORT CENTER - 2011 Avenida Arsenio Iglesias, Arteixo, A Coruña, Spain - Architectural assistant. Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect. I joined Garitaonaindía de Vera in the concluding stages of this project. Change drawings for construction, changes occur during construction, deal with the construction company, site visits, etc. were my first encounters with the practice. I learned that dealing with the process that comes after the design is finish is as important as the design itself. I learned that working together with the construction company is essential for making the building real.
MARIN AVENUE - 2011 Marin, Pontevedra, Spain - Completed 2011 - Architectural assistant. Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect. This project was my first step from the design on paper to real work. I learned how these complementary worlds work together through the design team, dealing with suppliers about prices, construction solutions, etc. I experienced the pleasure of seeing drawings turn step by step into something useful and real. Construction site visits where really educational.
CULLEREDO HIGH SCHOOL- 2011 Culleredo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain - Competition - Architectural assistant. Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect. Thanks to this project I learned to deal with official architecture competitions in Spain - paperwork, information research, maps, photographs, computer graphics, site analysis. I discovered how to deal with an official competition for a borough. It also helped to develop my knowledge about schools, improve my teamwork skills under pressure and learned to work against the clock to meet deadlines during the busy season.
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RIMM Architects (Marta Cacabelos-Martinez, Rosalidia Alvarez, Iria Brandariz,Manolete)
SonRIA CoruĂąa O Burgo Estuary, A CoruĂąa, Galicia, Spain - Competition
The competitions brief called for proposals that would address a solution for the coastal strip of O Burgo estuary extending from the beginning of Oza beach until Culleredo municipality, thereby including the crossing point of the estuary (Pasaxe Bridge). The western boundary of the site is Pasaxe Bridge Avenue, a road of intense traffic. The eastern boundary is the estuary, which runs parallel to the train rail. Education and healthcare facilities, now empty urban spaces of previous facilities (shipyards, canneries and treatment plants) and municipalities with a lack of coordination and integration in theirs building typologies coexist in this area of study. The lack of connection and accessibility of the site (thought from user point of view) is understood as the main problem: very poor and disconnected pedestrian access, little promotion of alternative transport to the car (i.e. bike, boat, train), bad conditioning and access of the estuary, lack of public spaces and disconnected ways of inhabitation (including the exiting gypsy shanty town).
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Above: View across O Burgo Estuary. Right: New park proposal plan close to Pasaxe Bridge. Bottom: Views of new housing, walkways and park proposal.
The proposal project involves all the site users: these include, neighbourhood associations, users of health and educational facilities, drivers, lovers of nature, fishermen, sportsmen, voluntary workers (helping in the gypsy shantytown, cleaning the river etc.), politicians, engineers and other technicians. The Project strategy is divided in four phases: - Display: Connect and involve the users through social and mass media. - Recovery: Reactivation of natural and existing built spaces: cleaning the estuary (high level of pollution), water recycling, public boat transport network, beaches recovery, urban gardens, use of existing train rail for urban public transport and cleaning viewpoints, squares and picnic areas. - Connect: A new walkways system is designed to make the site more usable and accessible. The walkways reuse old paths, adapt to the uneven terrain and include a new bike lane, bird watching observatories and a pedestrian walkway under Pasaxe Bridge.
Above: Explanatory diagram of how phases, individuals and process are involve in the project. Right: Housing and walkways proposal plan in front of Materno Hospital.
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- Construction: Our project proposes the creation of new spaces and the restoration of old disused spaces: these include conditioning the sport facilities of Santa Maria del Mar school for public use, restauration of the existing country house and community centre, construction of new housing area (thought for the social inclusion of the shantytown families), implementation of neighbourhood facilities, construction of a new park (designed for a greater interaction and enjoyment with the estuary) and reuse and integration of industrial buildings within the park. After these phases the project is consider not complete as it must be subject to continuous analysis and change. All users must remain involved and generate a more participatory and collaborative architecture for the future.
Previous page: Diagrams, drawings and explanations about park, housing and walkways design. Above: 3D view with all the internventions of the project. Aerial view of intervention area. Bottom: Diagrams and explanations of some of the small interventions proposed for o Burgo estuary.
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Cantodarea Community Center Marin, Pontevedra, Spain - Research and academic project
This project is located in Cantodarea, a Marin Village neighborhood in Galicia (northern Spain). Intricate streets that expand and constrict in many different directions configure the project area. The proportion between the size of the paths and the small houses around them provides a human scale, where you feel comfortable walking around. The heart of the neighborhood is a vehicle-free zone and together with the sound of children playing and doing their homework in the parks and ladies sweeping the streets as if these streets are the extension of their own houses makes this neighborhood very unique. Life is present in every corner. There are however many difficulties in the neighborhood as well, mostly as a result of direct competition with the surrounding areas of Marin with stronger and more stable economies. As a result, many houses are left empty and there is a lack of well looked after public facilities and spaces to enhance the place and provide safe socializing environments. A new community center therefore, not only provides a safe environment for local residents to socialize but also can help tackle some of the sanitation problems within the area and provide an incentive for local businesses to grow and help rebuild the local economy. The idea of the project is originated from all these observations; it is very clear that the local residents believe in the streets as extensions of their living spaces and they are the hearts of their social encounters. The area of intervention also provides certain advantages, as it is the valley where all Cantodarea houses are looking towards and all the paths are lead into. Through this area, the project links the east and west roads creating a carpet of connections that results in the location of the three pieces. So the building is created from the pedestrian flow.
Right: Site Plan and East Elevation. Below: Hand sketch of Cantodarea with new social Center.
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From the top: East (right) and north (left) view of intervention area. Different photoghaphs showing the life in Cantodarea´s streets. Diagrams of Cantodarea neighborhood and new project area showing relation with existing paths.
Above: Working models in different stages of the project. Right: Ground (top) and First (bottom) floor plan. Bottom: Creation process of model through homemade vacuum forming.
The shape of the three new building pieces, which in the first stages of the project appear more rigid, turns into more curviline and organic shapes. The width of the new paths open across the new building expands in the junction with existing roads, creating small squares around the building.The section becomes lower in the east and west to get to the height of the houses around. The language and the materials used are very different to those currently found in the place, which makes the project stand out against the mass of houses, but also manages to fit and integrates by its relation to the scale and existing forms. At street level, linked directly with the pedestrian flow, the public and group activities program such as the cafeteria, exhibition hall and multipurpose room are located. These spaces are understood as large versatile rooms that easily change function as required by the local residents. On the second floor are the activities that require more privacy such as workshops, social offices and reading rooms. Although some partitions can be put in place when required, this floor is also design as a single space. The lack of physical and acoustic barriers generates a mixture of all the activities which in this case improves the design. This is a place for being social, to meet and to share. The loss of privacy is not a problem because this area is designed for activities that do not require a closed and silent place. Stores and services are designed as small light translucent pieces which allows to keep the continuity and versatility of the building.
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The development of the model should have a special mention because the peculiar shape of pieces it required researching a new system. After a thorough research, I found the thermoforming process was the best solutions to my problems. Thermoforming is a process that involves heating a plastic sheet to soften so it can adapt to a mold through the action of vacuum. As I didn’t have a vacuum machine to my disposition I had to think the way to create one. To generate the void, I created a homemade vacuum box with vacuum cleaners. The molds of the pieces were first developed in polystyrene and later wood, because the polystyrene was not sufficiently resistant to heat plastic. As shown in the pictures, the first part of the process was to heat the plastic sheet in the oven. When it began to melt, it had to be placed on the mold located in the thermoforming machine, turning on the vacuum cleaner the vacuum is produced and appeared the form of the model sought.
Above: Longitudinal section of south piece of the building and transversal section of the three pieces of the building.
Photographs of final model of the project made through homemade vacuum forming process.
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Above left: Construction details hand drawings of passageway between building pieces and joint between ground floor glass facade and ETFE facade. Above right: 3D inside and outside views of the project. Bottom: Construction details of ETFE and glass facade and passageway.
The limit between the outside and the inside was designed to be as much permeable and flexible as possible. Crossing roads and spaces are visible to the pedestrian and building users through the glass walls of the ground floor. Pedestrians can easily see through the glasses and observe the lively atmosphere in cafeterias inside the building, discover more about exhibitions on show. The building is like an extension of what is now happening on the street but taking advantage of a covered space. To materialize this really light covered space, glass and ETFE were use. The discovery of the ETFE was something exciting, it is a very young material and has required a lot of research to use it. The ETFE is a type of transparent plastic with an extraordinary outdoor durability. The ETFE brought the transparency and flexibility to the design that a material like glass could not. The joints are reduced, it is easily transportable and industrializable and using in pillow configuration is more insulating than the glass, in addition to being easier to clean and recycle. There was a big conflict to resolve: thermal comfort. Through research I discovered ETFE fog patent developed in 2010 in the Media -TIC building, which consists of covering facades with a nitrogen dressing. Temperature sensors automatically activate a system that sprays nitrogen, producing a cloud in the interior of the ETFE pillow acting as a sunscreen. Besides this, the design includes a HVAC system by heat pumps integrated with the holding ETFE substructure, making everything fit like a perfect machine. The ground floor is designed with glass, giving more strength to the plinth but keeping the transparency and the flexibility through the multiple sliding doors. Finally, the result is a building blunt in his language, but subtle and lightweight in its materialization. It provides the necessary resolution to a degraded area without violating its scale and its settings. Even with a language very different from the place, the piece gets really fit into the site and transmits life and freshness to the environment. 13
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Container housing for students ElviĂąa campus, A CoruĂąa, Spain - Academic project
The brief called for proposals that prioritize economy, utility, easy installation and minimal impact on the environment. The fact that CoruĂąa has a cargo port where shipping containers are used together with the wish of experimenting and learning more about reusing an element designed for industrial purposes in architecture, made me decide to go to the shipping container as a starting unit. From this point the challenge was the size of the projects having to standardize units by default: the 12-meter container (12x2.4X2.6 m) and the 6-meter container (6x2.4X2.6 m). The standard 6 meters container is used as a room unit. For the common spaces, two 6-meter containers will form the dining room and one 12-meter container forms the kitchen. All four rooms have a common space, which together conforms a combined unit. Every four units form a floor group module. Every four group floor modules with their stairs, formed by 4 containers of 6 meters conform a whole block of houses for 60 students. Every eight blocks enjoy a green public square to promote social spaces. So in this way the container is articulated to form the whole complex of student housing.
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The building lies behind Education, Law and Sociology faculties in the field that links the Elviña fort and the campus of A Coruña. The housing complex grows scattered and adapted to the slope, following Elviña housing way of sitting. The slope distribution allows to have a large terrace garden on the roof of the lower house. To ensure that the containers transform into a green roof on the top floor. The metallic doors are changed for windows and a door is introduce on the other side to access to the rooms. The room has the following furniture: -Bathroom-It’s a very compact, a standardize unit. It is fixed. -Closet-This is situated separating the sleeping and living area of the toilet. It is also fixed -Storage shelves- Located over the window and the door, making good use of a usually unused space. They are fixed. -Bed- The bed is designed as an adjustable furniture giving the limited space of the container more flexibility in terms of use. -Table – It is designed as a movable piece, as the bed, which sets free almost all the room allowing different configurations of the space.
Possible uses of the room The bed and the table rise so it allows to have different configurations in the room.
A sofa in the space that the movable bed leaves free could be great to chill with another student friends.
Previous page (from top): Site plan of all housing blocks. Elevation of housing block for 60 students. Plan drawings and sections explaining the conformation of the whole student housing complex from the container unit. Right side: Schematic 3D views of block housing for 60 students. This page: Construction detail section . Right: 3D views of different configurations of the room.
With another study desk underneath the bed, the room would get a larger study area for group work or using the computer ... The free space left by the bed and the table could be used on countless ways to suit the user.
Fixed furniture -Toilet- Elmo bath prefabricated type HA2I. -Cabinets and shelves as simple as possible. Mobile furniture -Bed with a mechanical or manual (cheaper) system to move as the images. -Table work with the same system as the bed.
Above and left: Examples of movable bed and how to use the space left. Image of prefabricated toilet
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Marta Cacabelos-Martinez
Milladoiro housing estate Mesoiro, Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Academic project
The idea of improving the city as a community without ignoring the individual needs of each resident was the starting point of the design. This together with the intention of finding a more economic and fast develop system to materialize it brought the industrialize construction to it. Both ideas together shaped the cylindrical towers of the estate. The proposal is made up of fourteen small towers: five GF+8, three GF+12 and six GF+10. The cylindrical way to distribute the houses around a courtyard (freeing the inside) generate a core of circular corridors more propitious to maximize the physical and visual encounters between the users of the building. On the ground floor of the towers are located the facilities, shops and a large number of green and hard squares. The car is restricted to the exterior perimeter, which gives access to the buildings. The green extends from the wooded area, on the east, to the main road of the village, on the west. The plant species for the gardens on the ground floor are chosen according the different solar orientations in between domestic species. The conventional street is broken to become a meeting area. The spaces between buildings are designed as free green areas, distributed looking for the best sunlight and the continuity of the public spaces.
Vegetation around semihard squares and footpaths
Vegetation of large green areas
Vegetation in parks and hard areas
From top: (Left) Some samples of local plant species used in the green areas. (Right) Site plan. 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 floor plan of one of GF+12 the towers. Bottom: Unfolded elevation of one of the GF+12 towers.
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Each block has its own gym, garden and common social room. The gardens in the towers work for the enjoyment of the user at the same time that maximize the entry of lights in the courtyards. The common areas of the towers are more than twice size the area required by law. Activities like making the laundry, reading or studding are located in public areas for promote contact and socialization. The towers mix apartments with 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms considering the following percentages: 1d10%, 2d-30%, 3d-50% and 4d-10%. These percentages were obtained studying information about Milladoiro population. The house unit layout turns around a small garden that works like meeting area, where to socialize with your family. The kitchen, also seen as s social space for is designed close to the common courtyard, to promote the encounter with another neighbours. The gardens in addition to provide better lighting to the houses also are think to provide every house with a generous space where to plant vegetables, which is common to have in this Milladoiro area. The main structure of the tower consists in prefabricated pillars and beams. The prefabricated pillars are made with reinforced concrete with a maximum height of 8 meters. Prefabricated pillars and beams will be used in the construction which will give the project advantages like: total control of the execution of the piece, eliminate the formwork and concreting difficulties, notable section reductions, speed of execution and reduction of the labor. Above: 3D views of the distribution of the towers in Milladoiro. Below left: Diagram of common spaces (orange) and green areas (green) of a GF+12 tower. Bellow center: Structure type floor plan and floor plan with the different slab panels. Below right: Construction detail section.
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SCABAL Architects
Christchurch Primary School Hampstead, London, UK - Under construction - Architect.
This Grade Two Listed Victorian 1-form entry primary school sits on a small site at the top of Hampstead near the heath. It has been expanded and remodeled over the years and little is left of the original internal organization of the building, which divided the teaching of boys and girls well into the first half of the last century. The teaching spaces are now cramped and fall well below the required standards while at the same time the tight site constraints prohibit any further extension of the building. This would reduce the already small north and south playgrounds which themselves have no direct connection other than passing through classrooms and the hall. On top of this the current organization also puts the main assembly and dining hall at the center of the school meaning it also acts as the only means of circulating through and across the building. The brief therefore was to find extra space within the building curtilage to declutter the existing spaces and to allow an internal reorganization of the teaching spaces while providing a new legible order and movement throughout the school. In order to release space a new first floor classroom is inserted into the south wing, which is accessed by a new staircase. The large south facing stone tracery window is extended to provide light for this. This new room allows for the decanting of the classrooms occupying the north block (currently subdivided by a new screen), which is then returned to its full volume and becomes used as the new main dining and event hall.
Above (from top): Aerial view and South Playground panorama of Christ Church Hampstead school. Original plan and section of boys and girls school. Right: Historical development of the school.
MAIN HALL
CLASSROOM
GROUP ROOM
ADMIN/STAFF
CIRCULATION
Above: Existing Ground Floor Plan Left: Proposed Ground Floor Plan
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Above:Before and After of Stone tracery window, extended to provide light to the new mezzanine class. New south wing class (right) Below: Proposed sections through the South Wing.
Below: Construction details and photos of joining between new mezzanine floor and west facing windows (left) Construction detail and construction photos of joining between new mezzanine floor and south facing tracery window.
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The current main hall is then divided by reintroducing the original timber glazed screen that separated boys and girls and which now forms a new classroom on one side and consolidates all the administration and ancillary spaces required by the school staff on the other. A new north-south route is then threaded through the heart of the building by adjusting the existing nursery and links the south wing and south playground to the northern part of the school via an expanded main reception area. This new passage is extended as a steel and glass covered walkway (paraphrasing the existing gothic tracery) along the north playground linking the new main hall to the rest of the school. A particular complication of the project is that the school has to remain fully functioning during all construction work thereby requiring choreographed phasing.
Above: Photos of finished new mezzanine class and class below.
Above: Views of North Playground with new covered walkway. Right: Construction details of new covered walkway.
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Above: Photos of finished new staircase to give access to the new South Wing Class.
Above: Section of new South Wing staircase. Right: Isometric views of South Wing staircase Bottom: Photos of new South Wing staircase already in use.
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SCABAL Architects
New York Academy Hiderabad, India - Concept design - Architect
The New York Academy is an all through school for around 1000 pupils. The school is in two separate parts, one part supporting an Indian curriculum, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and the other part a US curriculum known as IB (International Baccalaureate). The IB school will be the priority. The CBSE School will follow design development and site analysis. The new building will be a ‘cool and cost-effective’ multi-storey school with excellent facilities. Shipping containers (sea containers) have been identified as an optimum way to design an ambitious ‘stand-out’ school in a tight programme. Air-conditioned rooms, classrooms, laboratories (specialist spaces), offices, WCs etc. are accommodated within modules formed from adjusted 40’ High Cube sea containers. The circulation space between them is to be essentially outdoors, with a fabric covering to give shade and protection from the rain. The building is likely to be four storeys high with the sea containers constituting the majority of the structural and enclosure elements. The design of the new school is still in development but the building will use basic principles pertaining to sea containers’ useful spatial and structural advantages and constraints. The proposed technique is to exploit the container’s inherent strength whilst joining them up and selectively cutting them away to make bigger spaces, services openings, windows etc. The containers tend to have generous structural capacity but there are instances when it will be necessary to add structural Elements to increase spans, opening sizes etc.
Above (from top): Photo of the site in Hyderabad, India. Program Concept Diagram.
Above (from top): Ground, 1st, 2nd floor plans. 3D views of New York Academy site. Right: Section and Site Plan.
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Right (from top); North elevation corresponding to US curriculum. South elevation corresponding to indian curriculum.
Above: Section showing Activity Room and Gym spaces. Below: Interior 3D views of circulation spaces.
Above: Diagram of ventilation and heating and cooling system of the building. Right: Photos of working models of the project.
The Container Strategy Diagram drawings show the design of a Classroom Cluster Module which results from an exercise to find the optimum combination of 40’ containers to create pairs of clear-span classrooms of a good usable shape. The clustering allows useful adjacency of other sizes of space, storage, offices, adult WCs etc. The basic six-container Module has variants giving options for classroom sizes etc. that can adhere to the basic design logic. The drawing also shows a Specialism Space Module to house the larger shared spaces. As these rooms have larger spans it may be necessary to introduce columns. The school will be located in a 3-acre site in a water catchment area in Hyderabad, India. The building may be classed as a ‘temporary structure’ for planning purposes and can cover no more than 30-40% of the site. The temperatures in Hyderabad – range between 23°C and 40°C. Internal classrooms / spaces will need air-conditioning (AC). Circulation areas, etc. will not need AC and will be external covered spaces, with protection from sun and rain. All spaces in the buildings, where possible will be naturally lit (minimising use of electricity). Service distribution, ventilation and cooling strategies to be examined as the design progresses. 23
SCABAL Architects
The Harvesters Lawrence Lane, Buckland, Betchworth, Surrey RH3 7BE - Tender - Architect
The Harvesters is a Grade 2 listed property located on Lawrence Lane almost 400m north of Reigate Road very close to the village of Buckland. The site of approximately 1 acre includes the main house, a quintessential English country garden, a swimming pool and tennis court. Mr and Mrs Bell have appointed SCABAL Architects to design alterations to The Harvesters that will improve on the current arrangement of the house – rationalizing and improving the previous unsuccessful additions to the house. The works to The Harvesters consist primarily of: - Removal of the shed, sitting room, conservatory and utility spaces on the ground floor - Re-modelling of internal ground floor utility spaces adjacent to the entrance/reception hall - A new single storey addition (clad in silver oak vertical boarding on a charcoal brick plinth) that provides dining, kitchen, and snug within a single negotiable space. - The roof of the new extension is pitched in order to relate to the existing pitches of the garage and modulates to keep a distance from the first floor windows. A meadow is planted on the roof. - Garage: removal of existing doors and replacement with silver oak-boarded cart-shed doors. Insulate garage internally.
Right (from top): Photo of East Facade. Proposed East Elevation. Existing plan showing the significant of the parts of the house through color system. Above: Site plan.
Proposed roung floor plan.
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The additions to the house since the 1960s have significantly altered the ground floor plan of the house and have begun to accrete in an ad hoc manner around the main volume of the 16th century house. They constitute a strange assortment of spaces that make the internal circulation through the house very difficult and external circulation around the north-west corner of the site impassable. The main focus of the design is to bring back a rationale to the organisation of the house. The day rooms (sitting room, kitchen and conservatory) of the house that currently occupy the assortment of 20th century additions will be brought into greater unity through the new construction while at the same time subordinating them to the main volume of the historical house. This will also have the effect of bringing into relationship with one another the landscape in front of the house with the garden and fields behind.
Above (from top): Construction section of proposed kitchen and dining room space. Volume studies of proposed project into the existing house. Construction details of proposed project.
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SCABAL Architects
Fordham Abbey Dojima Sake Brewery Newmarket Road, Fordham, Cambridgeshire, UK - Architect
The Fordham Abbey Estate was created in the C18 on the site of Fordham Priory, founded in the reign of Henry III in C13 by Robert de Fordham and lies four miles north of Newmarket in East Cambridgeshire. The Hashimoto family have recently became owners of the estate and are bringing their Dojima Sake Brewery, founded 600 years ago in Osaka, to Fordham Abbey to make Dojima Sake Brewery UK. This Initial Sketch Design Report looks to respond to the initial architectural brief, that is, to provide the accommodation necessary for the Sake brewing process, combined with the best buildings and landscape to welcome visitors to experience this process for the first time in the UK, all in the heart of this historic and magnificent Georgian context. We’ve made proposals that look to introduce this ancient process new to the UK in restored existing buildings and new buildings that complement the site history, enhance the context and are accessible, sustainable and made to last.
Above: Aerial view of Fordham Abbey site. Right: Masterplan of Fordham site, showing first phase and following ones.
Steaming Rice washing and soaking
Koji making
Fermentation starter and fermentation
Bottling
Storage and maturation Pressing and filtration
Sake Brewing Process Storage/ Pre-production
Rice washing & soaking
Steaming
Koji making
Mixing steamed rice (fermentation starter)
Fermentation
Pressing and filtration
Storage and maturation
Bottling
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20 m²
11 m²
15 m²
19 m²
27 m²
20 m²
38 m²
9 m²
Component Layout Rice washer
Table
Rice press
koji Mixing
Rice steamer
Fermentation tanks
tanks
Storage
Bottle washer
tanks
Water processing Sinks & worktops
Component Schedule
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Office/control room
yeast
Staff welfare/ WC
Boiler/ electrical room
Area (with access) m²
Equipment dimensions LxW, mm
Recommended room temperature °C
Viewed
Minimum ceiling height mm
Daylight
Rice washing and soaking
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1410x2620 ø1360
21-23
ü
2500
ü
Steaming
11
ø1650
21-23
ü
3000
Koji making
15
30-32
ü
max 3000
Mixing steamed rice (fermentation starter)
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ø1730; ø1960
21-23
ü
4500
ü
Services (gas, power, water supply) water, power floor drain water, power power water, power
Fermentation
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ø1800 x 3
10-13
ü
4500
ü
power
Pressing and filtration
20
5150x1330
21-23
ü
3000
ü
water, power
Storage and maturation
38
ø1800 x 4
max 15
ü
4500
ü
power
9
2150x750
21-23
ü
2500
ü
water, power
Water processing and worktops
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1740x4450; 1510x750 3000x660
21-23
2500
ü
water, power
Office/control room
15
21-23
2500
ü
power
Staff welfare/ WC
14
21-23
2500
ü
water, power
9
21-23
2500
Bottling
Left (from top): Northwest, South, Southeast and Northeast aerial views of proposed project. Right (middle): Sake brewing process in photographs. Right (bottom): Sake brewing process, areas and adjacencies.
Distilling unit
Soaking tank
Boiler/electrical room Total net + circulation 20% + partitions 5% Total gross
water, power, gas
234 46.8 11.7 292.5
Broadly fits the Gross External Area outlined by the Initial Sketch Design Report
Post-production/ Storage
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The design strategy here is to propose a collection of restored, remodelled and new buildings that may be built in all or in part, at once or in phases, whilst the building layouts, massing, style, materials and quality seek to fit with and improve the estate as a whole. In this way the proposals present a vision of sustainable use to carry the Fordham Abbey Dojima Sake Brewery UK into the future.
Above: Sake Brewery and Visitor Center ground floor plan and elevations. Bottom (left): Section proposed looking to West Elevation. Bottom (right): Southeast, Northeast and Northwest view of Sake Brewery and Visitor Center building.
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Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect
Arteixo Sport Center Avenida de Arsenio Iglesias, Arteixo, A Coruña, Spain - Architectural assistant
The Arteixo Sport Center arises as a rainbow. A rainbow that amazes us, that appears and dazzles us with its presence and that leaves no one indifferent. The light floods in the environment to goes through the façade filling the inside and outside of the intense colours. The building stands on a concrete base that maximize the contrast of the lightweight facades. The coloured panels can be viewed through the U-glass facade that surrounds it, making them visible in a diffuse way during the day. At night artificial lighting make the colours turn on as a lantern, indicating the users when important events are happening, creating in this way a relationship between the building and the urban environment in which it sits.
Right and below: Hector Santos-Díez photographs of Arteixo Sport Center.
Bottom: Unfolded color palette used in Arteixo Sport Center facade.
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Above: 3D section of Sport Center showing structure and skylights. Below: Ground floor plan and elevations.
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Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect
Marin Avenue Marin, Pontevedra, Spain - Completed 2011 - Architectural assistant
In the city of Pontevedra, the connection between the city and the sea is really close, it’s impossible to separate where the city ends and the sea begins. This vague limit with the sea go over the city. The question was if a seafront promenade is a dividing line between the sea and the urban pattern or an invisible line between both. The seafront promenade is a connecting axis between Marin and Pontevedra. The project creates an enjoyable and relaxing space for pedestrian user that now dominate the space where before was left unused. The new avenue change the rhythm and the character of what it was a residual space of the city giving. We use the colour like a premise and essence of architecture. The sea loses its limits and its blue colour extends in all the seafront promenade. We cannot fill it with water but we can paint their waves. The cobblestone to slow the movement of cars, Badi timber and grass are the material to be used to transform the existing and degraded path. The cobblestone is dyed in the blue colour the sky projects into the sea. The railing are design as light steel elements that don’t disturb the boundary between nature and artifice. Every inch of sea is shown through the railing that extents with the promenade as an almost invisible line.
Above: Aerial view of finished project. Right: Plan of Marin Avenue. Bottom (right): Sample sections of the project.
Right (on next page): Fragment of Marin Avenue around the roundabout. Sample palette of materials and colors used on the project.
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Above and below: Photos of project details: view point, kiosk and benches, all design by Garitaonaindia de Vera Architect studio.
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Garitaonaindía de Vera Architect
Culleredo High School Culleredo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain - Competition - Architectural assistant
The act of populating a new territory should take into account the cultural roots of the place and rediscover the value elements, which are well worth protecting. Sometimes we are not aware of how important these natural environments are for our culture and development, and we tend to forget about the deep connection that humans develop with their surroundings. This connection is almost sacred and must be respected. These reflexions were the starting thoughts for understanding the project space. The forest and a large gap, produce for a multisport, court are the limits of the parcel where the new IES Culleredo is proposed. The forest around the site generates a playful boundary. The trees create different environments and spaces through their shapes and shadows. All these resources, already present in the site will be used in the project. The new building seeks its place in the forest. It is situated in between the trees, looking to merge with them. The classrooms are arranged in four transverse blocks in ground floor level facing north. The paths between the blocks create different open spaces and trees slip between them as a game. These spaces link the classroom with the playground doing the same gesture than the trees in between them. The administrative area is designed in another volume different to the classes. In the upper plant are located the workshops oriented to the west. The Cafeteria and the Sport centre are located in the ground floor access that delimit the building of the campus. The library has a special significance for their use that is why it is located within the forest. The act of reading is understood as a venue where the sound of the wind through the branches of trees can help us to find the path to ourselves. “In a forest two roads diverged, and I ... I took the one less travelled. This made all the difference.” Robert Lee Frost
Right and below: 3D views of the proposed project for Culleredo High School.
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Ground Floor Plan and Elevations of the proposed project.
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