Matthew Patrick Rooney Newcastle University
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Matthew Patrick Rooney Studio: Getting Away from it All Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape A portfolio submitted as fufilment of Architecture BA (Hons)
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charrette; interior screenprinting
dissertation study; pink: learning from the triangle
theory into practice; landscapes of pleasure
thesis project; the cloud gardens of newbiggin
primer: coastal collage study
primer: product design exercise
primer: typologies of the coast
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he intention of this studio has been to promote the exploration of the Northumberland coast within a cross-diciplinary design framework whilst forming a speculative proposal for a destination of pleasure. The brief has given the space to follow individual narratives representative of a personal expression of taste and intrigues
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A getting away from it all; primer stage coastal typologies
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ypologies of rescue; understanding coastal architecture. Part 1 of Primer consisted of a crossdisiplinary analysis of the architecture of the coast with a particular focus on typologies of rescue. These are strucutres of observation and protection of which their respective designs are dominated by functionality. They rely on a call and response process of explosive
action to attend to distress situations at sea. From the highly stylized and visually significant lifeguard towers of the American coast to the pure functionality of the offshore lifeboat stations of the UK, these buildings are varied and unique to their geographic location and designated use.
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Life on the Edge RNLI LifeBoat Stations An architectural call and response; design adapted for speed and emergency release.
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Drawing Movement; Paths and Actions
Lightbox Analysis; Truss Structures
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The Design of the Extreme Freefall Lifeboats Oil rigs and other offshore structures pose greater challeneges to make emergency escapes, design has adapted to the extreme nature of these environements.
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Structural Analysis; Movement and Sequence
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A Culture of Rescue Miami Lifeguard Towers As a symbol of safety the lifeguard tower stands as visual pin-point on the beach front landscape; simultaneously it acts as an icon, an attraction in its own right
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Action Analysis; the Call to the Sea
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Lifeguard Towers: Analysis through Representation, drawing and physical modelling With regard to the Processes that take place within lifeguard towers I was particularly interested by the series of motions that are performed. A lifeguard sits watch in the tower, this is the dormant observational stage then comes the situation, a Responsive motion is enacted. The lifeguard jumps from his post and attends to the call. I attempted to portray this activity through sectional drawing that drew real
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Ocean Colour and Visual Language; the Symbols and Characters of the Coast
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Typology Booklet & Exhibition Primer Rescue Studies A semester worth of experiments collated into a single publication & exhibit
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GAFIA Information Film; Understanding Branding & Identity
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gniting an intrigue in the historic mediums of tourism along the British coastline, the product design exercise has been formative to develop a narrative for my later studies and graduation project.
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Coastal Product Design A Study of Bathing & Modesty The victorian bathing machine was the inspiration for this piece, an exercise in branding and functional industrial design
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bathing Cone; contemporary design for victorian sensibilitiesâ&#x20AC;? Tackling the issue of modesty whilst enjoying the sea.The cone provides total privacy for men and women to get dressed and enter the water without fear of prying eyes.
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1910 Brighton Beach Scene; the Bathing Cone being used to its full potential
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rimer stage has provided an oppurtunity to experiment, test and explore ideas to feed into my thesis project. The Northumberland coast was the focus of our studio with each individual being given a stretch to study. Blyth to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea was my testing ground of which I explored its socioeconomic and cultural past to formulate an understandingr. The output of this study was represented within a 1.2m
x 1.2m collage piece that aimed to capture the histories and grain of this portion of the coast. A layering of techniques including plaster work, image transfer, painting and weaving constituted my personal understanding of this region and the people.
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From Fishing Village to Resort Town; 1933 & the promenade construction {the year that changed Newbiggin-by-the-Sea}
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Oral Histories Drawn Analysis; Understanding the Communities and Cultures of the Coast
31 Identities of the Coast Regional Isolation & Community Formation My interest with these areas was to understand what is it that constitutes their cultural histories whether that be their geographic isolatation has fed into the formation of the distinct regional identities that are found here or the distinct activities and traditions that are maintained.
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Coastal Collage Newbiggin-by-the-Sea to Blyth; a visual representation of people and place exploring the lives and stories that run through this regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. 1.2m x 1.2m MDF became the medium to represent my findings.
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D landscapes of pleasure; the cloud gardens of newbiggin thesis design project
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ooted in an appreciation of Victorian seaside pleasure architecture; the Rain Gardens of Newbiggin aim to reinterpret the lost precedent of the Winter Garden. Once the staple of a seaside town, the winter garden typology provided the realm of cultural connection to the British seaside resort. The Rain Gardens follow this precedent, setting spaces of performance within a
realm of exotic surrealism that induce a departure from the often hostile climate of the northumberland coast. The Gardens provide the spaces to entertain, to intrigue and delight whilst sheltering its occupants from the drabbest of British weather. Whilst rain pours outside the building collects precipitation, feeding the plant-life that exisists within the biomes.
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Understanding the Winter Garden; Victorian class and performativity. The Winter Garden set forth several criterea: to shelter plants that would not exist in the external native climate, to entertain and to amuse through music and performance whilst providing spaces of strolling for the appreciation of views in inclement weather. Newbiggin-by-the-Sea shall be the host for this intervention tying into historic tourism and the heritage of its coastal promenade. The Rain Gardens aim to feed off the prom revitalisng and energising it through architectural intervention and cultural connection to the town through event, display and exhibition.
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The Newbiggin Promenade; a realm of exhibition, display and performance Understanding the historical context of coastal pleasure has been formative to my design proposal. The palaces of pleasure that emerged from the mass commercialisation of the seaside holiday throughout the 19th century are telling as to the high esteem that was held for coastal leisure during these times and moreover the economic rewards available to their constructors. These buildings are cultural artefacts distinct products of the tastes and social conditions of their respective ĂŠpoques shedding light on the cultures of tourism and pleasure that existed within them. The manner of lavish, aspirational grandeur and bold experimentation employed by these architectural precedents have been key to constructing the coast as a site of pleasure, marking the land that meets the sea as an alien environment away from the constraints of regular society. Evident from examples such as John Nashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Royal Pavillion in Brighton (1797) is the experimentation into an exotic breed of orientalism employing an eclectic mix of Indo-Islamic and Asiatic styles so as to break the neo-classical trends of the era.
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The Cloud Gardens
Adressing the Prom; the formation of destination in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
The flaneur of Newbiggin, a consumer of new realms of promenading
Taking from the historical context explored I have attempted to consider the applications of a landscape of pleasure upon the current context of Newbiggin-bythe-Sea. I have been able to view the social role played by the promenade and pleasure garden in the past as a tool of aspirational social interaction and voyeuristic delight, the question I have attempted to confront within my proposal is to what means can these behaviours be supported and encouraged through architectural intervention upon Newbiggin’s coastal promenade. Purported through the scheme is a consideration for performance, event and display that weaves with the exoticism of the indoor garden. It is evident pleasure architecture of the past has struggled to adapt to the upheaval experienced by the decline in national interest in the coast. Consequently as a recognition of the failings of the ‘palaces of pleasure’ of the past the scheme goes beyond mere fulfilment of a tourist attraction and acts as a shared public amenity to bring about additional social functionality. Ensuring a sustainability of use local residents benefit from the personal allotments and orangeries outside of the public garden as well as the site acting as an educative tool to engage persons with the topic of horticulture and botanic care. In this manner it is the intention of the Cloud Garden’s infrastructure to push for a new typology of coastal attraction to weave pleasure with social function and community revival.
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Public Attraction
50 person cinema/ auditorium
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‘the Equitorial Lounge’: Bar, Exhibition Space & WCs
Flora: rainforest, seasonal forest, Origin: South-East Asia, Equitorial Africa & South America
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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It may be raining outside but one opens the glass doors and finds oneself in an earthly paradise that makes fun of the wintry showersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Developing the Winter Garden; a Victorian Precedent for the 21st Century British Resort
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To Stilt & Raise; an initial response to site relief
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Initial Design Principles:
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Internal Plant Biome
Eroding uneven site topography gives a necessity for elevation
Internal spaces for Growing; a promtion of foreign ecosystems
Artificial Climate A need to follow the principles of greenhouse design to meet the requirements of hot humid plant life.
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Massing on Site; bridging the threshold between land and sea. A network of piers is desired to push a number of routes through the biomes.
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The Basic Necessities; Supporting Plant Life on the Rocks
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The Evolution of Form; stilt, glaze and service
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The Cement Silo; an industrial solution to stilt and raise
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Systems of Provisions; a network of self-suffciency support infrastructures for the gardens
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View Point Garden; the Orchid Biome Desalination Biome
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Winter Garden ii {100 capacity auditorium} {equitorial climate} Winter Garden i {100 capacity auditorium} {tropical climate} flora: south-east asian australiasia mix
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A Tectonic Strategy Emerges; â&#x20AC;&#x153;the well serviced biomeâ&#x20AC;?
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The Clouds; a Realm of Performance
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An Infrastrucuture of Typologies; Landscape Network the newbiggin planter
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The Integration of Technology Arc3001 In retrospect the design process I have undertaken during this project has been dominated by a strong tectonic attitude adopted to negociate the challenges posed by my brief and site conditions. From the outset I confronted the difficulties of constructing above rock and sea whilst forming environments suitable for the cultivation of exotic plant life and the support of internal spaces of pleasure and performance. To the rocky and uneven site, I responded with a strategy to stilt and raise all mass above the ground in an effort to combat the rapidly eroding topography. This in turn became a core design intention that further permitted me to form a suitably deep soil base raised above the Newbiggin rocks. The formation of this soil base became the next key challenge to this project. Researching the species of plants I wanted to exist within the biome spaces I understood that I would need a minimum depth of 4 metres of fertile soil that is not to be found anywhere within the footprint of the site. As such I looked to industrial precedents to find a solution to containing such large weights several metres above the ground. The answer was to be found within cement silo construction forms. With soil attaining a similar weight per m3 of volume as cement, these structures represented the possibility of containing high loads and vertical height achieved through simple steel structures. The requirements of the plant life contained within the main spaces of my project has dominated the built outcome of
this project. The simple principles of greenhouse biome design fed directly into the considerations taken to form and materiality. Sunlight being above all important for the growth of plants it was necessary to form a totally transparent envelope. To achieve this I adopted the use of ETFE pillows to permit maximum solar gains to the buildings whilst insulating the climates within to maintain the desired hot humid conditions. Moreover the layout of the biomes is moulded around the sun path of the site thereby reducing obstructions to the south facing facade and pitching all sevices habitable spaces and circulation cores to the north face of the building. Further more vertical height was necessary to allow maximum growth of the species planting within whilst giving adequate space for the performance cloud to hang within the main biome atria. Drawing much from Will Alsopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blizzard Building the cloud performance spaces were formed from a desire to create space within space or in the case of the biomes, a climate within a climate. I realised that it would be necessary for these spaces to act as isolatory bubbles within the tropical climates below them. They would have to maintain typical indoor temperatures and humidities unlike the rest of the buidling as well as performing well with regard to isolating noise and acoustics for the purpose of performance and congregations. Above all I have considered how structure can be viewed as more than just the members holding up the building but can represent the event and power of architecture. My research into the botanic gardens and glasshouses of old were formative to gain understanding of the ornamenta and aesthetic qualities of strucutre. It is this that I have attempted to convey within my tectonic intent
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1/25 Vertical Isometric 1. 4 Pin Pile Foundation 2. Concrete Pile Cap 3. Pinned Transfer Joint 4. 533 x 210 x 122 Cellular Member 5. Fin Plate Connection 6. Steel Mesh Flooring 7. External Shading Frame 8. 10mm Steel Plate Soil Tray 9. 3000mm Soil 10. 800mm Gravel 11. 800mm Sand 12. Interior: Tapered 254 x 146 x 43 Cellular Support Member with Steel Mesh Flooring 13. Horizontal Louvres 14. Three Layer EFTE Pillow Bubble 15. Marram Grass External Tray 16. Service Piping 17. Composite GRP Cloud Cladding 18. 200mm Acoustic &
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y dissertation entitled “Pink; Learning from the Triangle” explored the notion of sexuality and urban space. Namely it discussed the Pink Triangle gay village in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne within the context of sexual visibility and the means by which an identity is expressed through visual semiotics and street frontage. The notion of community formation
around night life in this portion of the city interested me. I aimed to discover what it was that had allowed for an expression of community identity in this manner. I exhibited this work within an event on Newcastle Nightlife, ‘Newcastle After Dark’ that tackled the formation of Newcastle as a ‘party city’ and the effects this had had on the urban fabric.
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Fig 3.6: Scotswood Rear Strip Day-time (Facing South)
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Gay visibility in urban space; understanding the ways in which sexual identity can be expressed through visual semiotics and architectural form. The Pink Triangle sits upon Newcastle centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peripiphery standing as an anomaly to the wider cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nightlife. Much of this study has been focused on how de-industrialisation has formed a new identity for the city of Newcastle with nightlife filling the zones occupied with industry. Looking for symbols and signifiers of sexulaity within facade. The rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride and urban digression.
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Pink; Learning from the Triangle graphic presentation
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Spatialising the Tinder Hook-Up; the Love Hotel of Berwick 2nd Yr. design project I
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he route follows a path of increasing intimacy and desire. Spaces support the development of a relationship from hook-up to marriage.
The Promoted Outcome; marriage is the moral route is suggested by the buidling
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Memories from the Love Hotel; a sequence of intimacies and supporting spaces that encourage the build up of relationships from strangers to lovers
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Refugee Housing; the Spice Market of Leith 2nd Yr. design project II
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haven for newly arrived Syrian refugees in Scotland; it was to be a bubble of middle eastern culture that celebrated its difference to everything around and thrived on the foreign. Meanwhile a utilitarian response to designing family units was employed provide adequate accomodation.
Family Units; forming habitation spaces for new arrivals whilst creating public realms of commerce
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Leith 2025 Emergency Rehabilitation
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The Market Plaza; residential units sit above the new centre of middle eastern commerce in Leith
Housing the Masses; creating an architectural format to be repeated and mass produced
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