Portfolio Michael Posso
INTO THE DOCKS: A GALLERY The brief was to design a maritime museum on two canning docks by the Liverpool waterfront. The design was restricted to the use of stone construction with focus on atmosphere, materiality and programme
Historically, the canning docks were used to repair outgoing ships. The steps were used by the workers to get close to the hull of the ships. I mimicked this aspect in my gallery to relate the enormity of the docks to the human scale, which could be used as way of displaying model ships
AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION
I identified that the surrounding context had impermanent objects such as ships and ice-cream vans which generated temporary activity, an aspect I adopted to the programme of my gallery with having temporary and permanent exhibitions
Access from Three Graces and transportation links
Enclosed vs exposed
The cafe is the only enclosed part of the gallery
Refurbish
Old Railway Station building refurbished and integrated into design
Impermanent One dock will have a changing water level to allow temporary exhibition ships to be displayed, relating to the exhibition within the gallery
Access from Liverpool One Permanent
One dock will remain dry and accessible to vistors, as well as exhbiting a permanent ship
Access from Albert Docks
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Enclosed Cafe is the only space within the gallery which is enclosed
Impermanent Glazed openings in the floor allow vistors to experience the changing water levels which reveal and submerge exhibition pieces on the dockyard floor
CUTAWAY AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION
Human Scale The floor appears to rest on the dock steps and mirror them in order to relate to the human scale
Access The lower dock level is accessible through a circulation core contained within the gallery
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1. Refurbished Old Railway Station 2. Cafe & W.C 3. Exhibiton Spaces 4. Permanent Exhibiton Ship 5. Temporary Exhibition Ship 6. Access to dock floor
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THE OCCUPIED MACHINE The brief was to design an extension to the Liverpool School of Architecture. The final scheme derives from an analysis of how we occupy buildings where I identified the permanent and impermanent. A project such as a school of architecture would need to adapt, canabalise and colonise in order to keep up to date with the changing industry and developing technologies
AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION
THE OCCUPIED MACHINE
I analysed the current school through how it was occupied. Without the occupants, the school is just a machine
THE STUDIO
THE SITE
My 1:100 scale model of a familar space was my studio room as I felt comfortable with the dimensions. The occupants and the room are seperate entities
The site quantifies to 60 studio spaces
THE OCCUPANTS AND THE MACHINE
The room is defined as the permanent and the occupants are impermanent The space is a machine when the occupants are removed
THE MODULAR
These modular blocks were used as radioactive barriers during experiments in the early 1900’s, but were ineffective and have been abandoned behind the school of the architecture. This image inspired me to investigate the idea of the modular in conjunction with my studio 1:100 scale model
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7 8 6 1. Studio 2. Rotating lecture theatre 3. Workshop 4, Tutorial space 5. Crit space 6. Kitchen and cafe 7. Reception and entrance 8. Robot arm attatchment storage and supply point to crane 9. Exterior workspace for 1:1 scale modeling 10. Library 11. W.C 12. Office Space
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1. Aluminium or PV interchangeable panel 2. Vertical unistrut support bracket 3. Horizontal unistrut support bracket 4.Glazing panel 5. Polystyrene insulation to prevent cold bridging 6. Unistrut concrete anchor 7. Steel stud filled with batt insulation 8. Gypsum 9. Floating floor 10. Corrugated concrete floor 11.Steel I-Beam 12. Steel column
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MIND THE GAP The site was 6mx4m in Liverpool, on the outskirts of the university campus. The brief was to design a metal workshop within the constraints of the site. The focus was on how we responded to the site through materiality, space-planning and programme. My approach was analysing the language of the site (fenestration patterns, architectural styles) and amalgamating my conclusion into a design which completed the street and formed functionally efficient spaces.
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