Ming Chi Leung, Wesley

STAGE 3 ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO

NAME: MING CHI LEUNG WESLEY STUDENT NUMBER: 180650866 STUDIO: CURATING THE CITY STAGE 3 PORTFOLIO NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY ARC3001

Contents Illustrated Reflective Diary

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Project Framing

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Thematic Case Study Report

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Project Testing and Synthesis

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Cultural Bibliography

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References

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Appendix

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01 ILLUSTRATED DIARY

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ARC 3014 1:20 Integrated Construction Technology Technial Section and Part Elevation Ming Chi, Leung 180650866

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Designing in the heritage site is challenging. Considering the local urban landscape and the local identity, the design should fit the nowadays function and modern philosophy as well. The thematic case study has given wide range of inspiration for me when approaching a historical site. The precedent showed how their new design fit in the built context with large time gap. By analysing the façade design, visual connection and the circulation of the building, the design fit well and connected to its ambience. The use of the natural light provides a suitable learning space to the campus. The use of material has inspired me in the further design process. The timber construction not only is a relatively sustainable material, it can also create a cosy environment for inhabitation. The skylight structure design let the natural light interact with the interior of the building.

The technology analysis has helped me to understand how the structures are put together. By learning the construction sequence, the design is built from the foundation to the primary structure, secondary structure and to it façade. This details in technology can enrich my knowledge of building construction and the sense of the feasibility of my design, not just only a design with unlimited imagination, but also functional in the reality. Compared to stage 2 technology, stage 2 focus more on the micro-scale detail, it is much more integrated in stage 3 technology. To achieve the sustainable strategy of the design, to reduce the energy consumption and the carbon emission of the design, the ventilation and the insulation has to be well organised. As safety is the priority of the building usage, fire escape route and stairs are needed to be calculated carefully.

1.Roof -roof membrane -thermal insulation -vapour barrier -120mm Rigid wool thermal insulation -200mm cross-laminated timber Skylight -aluminium cap frame -double glazing -40mm vertical rigid insulation -vapour membrane -50mm roofing rafter 3.External Wall -30mm silver fir cladding -50mm battons -breather membrane -200mm mineral wool thermal insulation -20mm fire-resistance plasterboard 4.Floor -15mm oak parquet -50mm Impact insulation -60mm thermal insulation mineral wool 5. Foundation -precast concrete unit -polystyrene rigid-form perimeter insulation -Drainage

Through the process of designing in a heritage site, I have learned architecture in a very different perspective, it is challenging and interesting at the same time. In the initial period of the design, the thematic study can let me focus on the design in a more social related way. It has given me insight into the surroundings, history and the context of the site. Four themes in the studio, I am focusing mainly in two themes, vision and eco assemblage. The preoccupation of understanding a space is mainly dominant by the sense of sight and largely ignored other senses, such as touch, smell and taste. ‘Whether there is illusion, the optical and visual world plays an integral and integrative, active and passive, part in it.’, according to Lefebvre, 1974. The vision of the site depends on the cultural body and the space formed by the architecture. As local and the tourist would have different visual experience in the city. In the theme of eco assemblage, by study the urban form of our site, Saltaire, I know how the urbanism developed from a rural area. The whole city was built from the textile industry to a developed community.

The urban, Lefebvre described, is a space of ‘centrality’, ‘convergence’, and ‘gathering’. As the city was built in the industrial period, the city planning was greatly influenced by the concept of ‘Garden City’ and the theories by Patrick Geddes. By understanding the urban development and the background information of design program, it gives me a better basis of designing further development in Saltaire.

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02 PROJECT FRAMING

In the framing stage, I am focusing in vision and eco assemblage studio themes. Saltaire’s unbanism was developed from a textile industry to a industrial city with the development of the social housing and its infrastructure.

Although the mass industry has gone, the high-quality textile products and fashion industry are still well-known globally. Nowaday, Saltaire became a tourist city. The creative industry is still alive and kicking in Saltaire, such as the most recently Future Fashion Exhibition in the Mill. Which showed the possibility of future fashion development in Bradford. Therefore, my programme is to integrate the local fashion and textile industry and the tourist industry at the same time in Saltaire. In framing, I have analysed the current sustainability issue that fashion industry had produced, therefore, my design should respond on the environmental protection as it is an educational centre.

On the other hand, analyzing the urban context is important. To fit my design into the site, the local elements can be used abstractly in my building design.

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Image from the Internet 17

Analysis Diagram by Author 18

Analysis Diagram by Author

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04 Project Testing and Synthesis

In the testing Stage, I have experiment with different form of my design, Fashion Design School for Foundation Programme. The site is challenging for my design as it is relatively narral to fit a building in. Respond on the perservation of the site and the sustainability, I decided to perserve most of the trees on site. Therefore, the building is limited in a long and deep land. Eventually, I seperated the design into two part with a main stream in the middle where the student and the public can access from the entrances located there.

In terms of the facade of the building, I am trying to bring the trees become part of the facade. By using timber cladding to bring the view from outside to inside. It can provide privacy from the street looking into the building, but provide openess for the inhabitats.

When approaching the facade of the public section building, I tried to give more openess as a welcoming gesture to the outside.

In the material exploration, the main structure of the building is timber structured.

Although I have tried to combine the textile form into the building design, I think it is more appropriated to keep it simple and to follow the main function at the end. And use the space and light strategy to celebrate the textile artwork instead.

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Sunpath-Summer

Sunpath-Winter

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Site Access

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Initial Design Sketching

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Site 10 is a relatively small site, especially for a fashion design school for Foundation programme. In the design of the building form, I seperated the campus in two main section. One is for more private use for students and staffs, including lecture theatre, offices, workshop, studio, classrooms.

Another one is for more public use, including exhibition, cafe, public workshop.

Form Exploration

To perserve the 13 trees on the site, the width of the building is limited to 13 metres.

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Facade Cladding testing with Trees Shading

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Facade Testing on the Southern Side

Visual Connection with passerby

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Timber Constructional Sequence

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Serial Diagram-Access to the building 50

Serial Diagram-Access to the building 51

Thinking Though Making In the thinking through making, I try to explore the fabric membrane material in facade design. The fabric facade can create light effect for the interior and the exterior, especially at night. Instead of using fabric materials as a roof structure or horizontal covering, it can also be designed vertically in most fabric façade. The fabric façade is stretched with layers as shading to prevent the southern light enter the building directly into the building. And it can allow softer natural light enter by its transparency of the fabric.

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FINAL MODEL - SYNTHESIS

In the synthesis stage, all the ideas were put together. I have rendered all the modelling and graphics to illustrate the atmosphere of the design and showing the inhabitation of the building. Initially in the review, I have not show enough of the relationship of my design and the surrounding context. Therefore, I tried to use more elevation and internal /external perspective to show the urban landscape of Saltaire and how the surrounding interact with the building design.

The graphic showed the natural light stragety of the exhibition space where is one of the key space in the design. Moverover, It showed the visual connection from inside to inside and inside to outside. It helps to show the relationship of the facade design and the internal spatial design.

Fashion Design School Perspective

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1. Lecture Theatre 2. Projector Room 3. Storage Room 4. Toilet 5. Staff Office 6. Reception 7. Lobby

8. Reception 9. Lobby 10. Toilet 11. Kitchen 12. Cafe 54

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First Floor Plan

13. Fashion and Textile Sewing Workshop 14. Fashion and Textile Weaving Workshop 15. Toilet 16. Storage 17. Tech Staff Room 18. Staff Room 19. Exhibition Lobby

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20. Fashion and Textile Exhibition 21. Balcony 22. Acad Staff Room

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23. Fashion and Textile Foundation Studio 24. Workshop Staff Room 25. Public Fashion and Textile WS

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26. Classroom 27. Classroom 28. Library 29. Computer Room 30. Roof Top Open Space 31. Textile Shop 57

Rooftop Plan

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Building Section

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Building Section 60

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Building Elevation 62

Building Perspective

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Building Perspective

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Building Perspective

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Exhibition Space Secction

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Exhibition Space Interior Perspective

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Public Workshop Interior Perspective

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Lecture Theatre Interior Perspective

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Workshop Interior Perspective

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Night View

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In this year, I have participated the design competition event with 3 other Newcastle University students respond on the climate change issue and asked to design a Museum. We have researched on how the current architect approach on the sustainable strategy in their designs, especially museum as an educational building.

In our design, we focused on the fexibility of the museum, therefore, we design a float structured museum in modular form, in which the future transportation is also considered in the design to make it adaptable to the future.

Through the small talk, I can get more inspiration of how the company approach a design. The talk has shown wide range of method in terms of the form exploration of buildings. To fit the design into the context, they have illustrated their development in their reseach. The graphics and design process helped me in my own project.

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BIBLOGRAPHY Shaw, 2015, http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/bradford/article_1.shtml City of Bradford District Council, 2021, bradford.gov.uk/environment/saltaire/saltaire-world-heritage-site-information-and-history/ Kuusisto,2018,https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/6619/kuusisto.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y Hudson, 2006, Skin+Bones Farahat,2014,https://www.bau.edu.lb/BAUUpload/Library/Files/Architecture/Publications/THE%20INTERRELATIONSHIP%20BETWEEN%20FASHION%20AND.pdf Lefebvre, H. (1968) The Right to the City

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