WORK EXPERIENCE
2020 - 2022:
Joste Care April 2021– Present Support Carer Providing care for dementia and end of life residents
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England. (MArch) Architecture) Urban Strategy and Integrated Design
Freelance
June 2020 - Present Architectural Designer I am practicing under my private practice Producing resolved design drawings and visuals
ONAJI UKWUN-ATABUCHI MARY PART II ARCHITECT My design agenda is centred around connecting communities and spaces through gaining inspiration from the existing contexts in order to continuously reflect the past and the cultural identity of the people and place now and in the future. I approach these agenda achieved by using locally sourced material to create designs that instigates a dialogue with the existing contexts. My professional ambition is projected towards becoming part of a team that is centred around cultural conservation and connecting spaces to create an embodied experience for the users. Date of Birth: Nationality: Language: Current Location:
09/06/1999 Nigerian English Plymouth, England
2017 - 2020: University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England. (Ba (Hons) Architecture) Brief Development and Design Resolution
The Building Practice Lagos, Nigeria June – July 2019 Internship Architect Shadowing project architect Site meetings and recordings Site inspection in absence of Project architect Client Consultation
2016 - 2017 Westerfield College, Lagos, Nigeria. (International Foundation) Introduction to Design
Babawok Bretonside, Plymouth England Feb - April 2019: Customer Assistant
2011 - 2016
Waiting on customers Orders organisation Chef Assistant
Holy Child College Lagos, Nigeria. (SSCE)
Dartington Estate, Totnes, England March 2019 Wood Work
Site Work Woodwork fabrication Construction of shelter
Horatio Limited Gbagada, Lagos Nigeria. +447367523923, +2348175675876 marys.architecture@yahoo.com https://www.instagram.com/marys_architecture/
Dec - Jan 2017 Internship Architectuaral Assistant Shadowing Project Architect Introduction to Construction of framework on site
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-onaji-769463175/
PROFICIENCY
INTERESTS Photography Travelling Singing DIYs
3D Modelling
EDUCATION
Rendering
Presentaion
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2021-2022
Centrifugal Force: Re-inventing the Shaduf
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2021-2022 [In]Between Polarities: Damietta Transport Center
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2021 - 2022 Shifting Territories: The Connective Tissue
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CONTENTS
2020 Freelance Project: The Delta House
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2019 - 2020 National Marine Park: Barbican Community
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2019 - 2020 Civic Matters : Victoria Urban Farm
2020 - 2022 Emmerging Research Writing
Gallery
Best Practice
My designs are centred around connecting communities and spaces through gaining inspiration from the existing contexts in order to continuously reflect the past and the cultural identity of the people and place. Inclusivity and participatory designs are primary in my design approach which tackles the socio-cultural and ecological issues. My conceptual approach responds to how users undergo an embodied experience of their spaces which is vital in forming a connection between these spaces. My professional ambition is projected towards establishing a practice that is centred around cultural conservation and connecting spaces to create an embodied experience for the users. MO Designs would be a practice that is specialised in using locally sourced material to create designs that compliment, as well as form a contrasting dialogue with the existing contexts. The end goal would be to successfully gain planning permits through our services of creating design, visuals and property development opportunities. In order to achieve this goal, in the process of gaining more experience under a mentor who shares a common agenda, I am taking small scale projects to practice the lessons I learn from my mentor on how to run an efficient project and take it up to planning.
The Reinvention of the shaduf system: An Urban strategy for the connection and and inabitation of gaps in the informal settlement to the River Nile in Damietta
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This master plan is a proposal that continues the dialogue generated in project 1, searching for a centripetal cause of action that progresses towards a balance between culture, nature, and the development of cities. Further to that, the site, Al-Sananiyah in Damietta City, has posed a challenge through identified issues: the multiple disconnections that create a fragmented site. Secondly, the largely privatised agricultural land has posed restrictions to the development of the site, and finally, the lack of interaction with the Nile River.
Centrifugal Force: Re-inventing a Shaduf System DAMIETTA, EGYPT
The agenda consisted of reclaiming streets to address the problematic urban areas that have been taken for granted by reappropriating the streets and unused spaces to a stronger focus that the public could benefit from. Secondly, the proposition includes diversifying the educational system in Damietta City by providing alternative practice-based learning in opposition to formal education. This proposal intends to empower the locals by enabling communities to thrive. Lastly, the agenda also comprises an urban context that reflects the past by applying a concept of historical practice to the urban strategy as a symbol of Egyptians civilisation. The outcome of this urban-scale proposition is the centripetal force that has been generated on the edge of the Nile River through the ease of connecting lines and site activation. Programs along these lines are community-led activities that give a stepping stone journey that leads people to the destination, the Nile River. Moreover, within the multiple public points are the interweaving of all communities. Finally, a restoring balance is induced by integrating the culture, nature, and Damietta Cit
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This project aims to tackle the issues through exploring different qualities of the point where the contrasting elements come together in other to create a relationship between them. This relationship hence creates a level of connection that blurs out the existing edge conditions. This point where they come together will be termed THE INBETWEEN. This exploration would create a discussion around how the nature of the “inbetween” can contribute to celebrating both elements without taking away from their individual qualities. These contrasting elements involved would create three relationship types made up of the existing and a new intervention. The key tools used in this project are models, diagram and collages. This concept would be tested in two ways; the qualities of the inbetween spilling into the contrasting elements and the qualities of the contrasting elements making up the Inbetween space.
[IN ]BETWEEN POLARITIES: Damietta Transport Center
Highlighting the Transitions between the Existing and the New
Arches and Collonade defining the presence and access of the building
Resolution
Agenda
Difference in scale of spaces to create multiple experinces
Transition
Connection Circulation through narrow paths between the solid volumes
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2 6 1 Train terminal waiting room 2 Ferry terminal waiting room 3 Open garden 4 Cafe 75 Retail Shops 6 Ferry terminal office 7 Fery dock 8Train Platform 9 Bus and bicycle stop 10 Office for Train terminal 11 Train Storage room 12 Train toilets
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COLLONADE
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MASS
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Connecting a fragmented city starts from analysing and responding to the physical and abstract qualities of the site that brings two contradicting stories to a appoint. The lines of movement on the site acts as an initial step in informing the project’s agenda. These lines create an intersection that connects people from the Royal William Yard, North Stonehouse, and the city centre. This point helps to situate the program in order to reinforce the accessibility to the waterfront. In line with the building feeding of and into the public realm, the physical lines of the water boundary and the invisible line of the artsy activities from Union street subconsciously create a parallel point of collision on the site that helps in bringing the war and arts topics to a point of dissolution
Shifting Territories: The Museum of Plymouth Blitz MILLBAY PLYMOUTH A museum and are centre is centred on celebrating the history of the community and its context. This is a program that educates people on their culture and improves their involvement in the arts. This proves to have a positive impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the people. It feeds off from the existing practices that live in the community and aims to enhance the peoples’ involvement. The program also looks to bring together the evident talents across the community to one place to give them a voice and platform to exhibits their works.
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Internal shading system with free standing structure
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This was my first freelance project just after my part 1 education to provide a resolved design and visuals for his Project Management team in Nigeria. It was a 4-bed detached duplex located in the rural community of delta state. The main intention was to integrate local materials in modern day designs to create a connection between their cultural background and modern technologies. This project acted as a statement towards my personal practice future agenda. This project exposed me to client consultation, what should be asked and what to bring to these meetings. In as much it was an unconventional method implemented, it revealed a better way to carry out the process. It also highlighted the mistakes that were made in aspects of RIBA work stages to plan the work as I was new to these stages.
Residential: The Delta House DELTA STATE, NIGERIA
05 National Marine Park: BARBICAN, PLYMOUTH
Barbican Community Center
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11 MULTIPURPOSE STUDIO 12 FITNESS STUDIO 13 WORKSHOP STUDIO 14 SITTING AREA 15 FIRE ESCAPE 16 ROOF TERRACE
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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EXTERIOR WALL 200 x 200 Glulam Fibreglass Insulation Plywood sheating Breather Membrane High performance partial fill Unventilated Airspace cavity Exposed Bricks
Ash wood Battens Gypsum plastering
The buidling made use of glulam frame with 450 x 145 beams and 200 x 200mm columns with 8 meter span. The frame will be exposed for the aesthetic value and the tr traditional quality timber adds to a building.
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25x25 Batten Slate Roof Tile Air Cavity 150 Rockfloor Insulation x2
Fascia Soffit Flitch Pate 0.8mm Polythylene Roof Gutter
Roof Truss
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Rough Timber Work Air Tight Membrane sealed to the frame
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Setting Block
Snap Cap Birch Ceiling Finish
4 Mullion Glass wall Profile 200x200mm Glulam Column
1 - INTERCHANGE GATEWAY 2 - BARBICAN COMMUNITY CENTER 3- LAND AND COAST CENTER 4 - BARBICAN MARINE CENTER 5 - ROWING CENTER AND BERTHS 6 - HYDROPONIC FARM
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Focusing on locally productive which is one of the Fab city manifesto, this project aims to provide a revenue generating and community led activity to encourage and enhance community living and inter-generational relationship. It will also help generate funds to keep up with the Victoria Park’s maintenance and other community activities. Along side the community benefits, this project will help and encourage sustainable living from eating healthy foods to mitigating climate change in its little way. This projects plans to not only extend a green living to the stonehouse community but other communities in Plymouth. This will be achieved by providing gardening workshop space and an allotment farm to learn and practice green living. An indoor farm using aquaponics method of farming which is not so common will be used for the commercial farming and encourage tourism. All these approaches will help to solve the present problems on the site such as low maintenance and underused.
Civic Matters: Victoria Urban Farm VICTORIA PARK, STONEHOUSE
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MAIN IDEA GROW AND EAT YOUR VEGETABLES
GROW AND SELL
GROUND FLOOR -GERMINATION ROOM -LABORATORIES -CONTROL ROOM -STAFF AREA -LOBBY -PROCESSING ROOM -WASTE ROOM -WORKSHOP -CHANGING ROOM -SEED AND PLANT SHOP -TOILETS
SITE AND CONTEXTUAL APPROACH LEARN TO GROW
FLOOR 1 -FISH BED -LETTUCE -BROCOLLI FARM FLOOR 2 -TOMATO FARM -FISH BED
FRAGMENTED AND HIGH CARBON CONTENT IN THE AIR
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MERGING THE TWO COMUNITIES IN A GREENER STATE
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A GREEN, SUSTAINABLE AND AND INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Fieldwork Experience
Best Practice CRITERIA COVERED
RIBA WORK STAGES
PROJECT 0
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KNOWLEDGE GAP 05
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PREPARE FOR PART 3 07
FULL PLANNING APPLICATION
HUSTLERS IN THE CITY CENTER
DELTA HOUSE
PLYMOUTH BLITZ MUSEUM
My undergraduate experience developed my ability to create architectural designs by adapting contextual research of sites covering socio-cultural, ecological and political factors in a brief development process through urban scale projects that efficiently responded to site context matters in accordance to the ARB General Criteria ; GC1, GC2, GC5 and GC7. (Architects Registration Board, 2010)
During my part 2 education, I hope to refine my approach to design and brief developments by further infusing theoretical discusses in my design process, influenced by the past and present qualities which would be reflected in my level of professionalism in approaching design jobs which are reflected in the ARB Criteria: GC3, GC4 and GC6. (Architects Registration Board, 2010) At the end of my part 2, the intention is to be gain a better understanding of the technical report in order to produce a better-quality prescription information building manual for construction and further develop my familiarisation with the building regulations and a background knowledge of the legal responsibilities and professionalism expected from an architect in reference to the ARB general criterial; GC8, GC9, GC10 and GC11. (Architects Registration Board, 2010)
In order to tackle the knowledge gap in preparation for part 3, I hope to improve the level of my professionalism through continuous practice work in aspects of its ethics, my responsibilities in the office and relationship with the client consultation and recording all progresses throughout a project. Also, through shadowing a licenced architect as a mentor in practice, I hope to get familiar with the ranges of services and I could render as a licenced architect, the legal systems and legislations that guide these services and an overall understanding in the management and control of running an office which would be useful in the future as I hope to run my practice after gaining my qualification. (ARB Criteria at Part 3; PC1, PC2 and PC3) (Architects Registration Board., 2010)