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PORTFOLIO Ellen Willis Studio 1: Remedial Housing for Architects Year 3 1

NAVIGATING MY PORTFOLIO

These markers represent which chapter work was completed in: i = illustrated reflective report c = charette 01 = primer 02 = staging 03 = realisation 04 = synthesis The order in which I have presented my work doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always follow the chronology of these chapters, but the marker in the corner will indicate at which stage of the project that piece of work was completed regardless of where it appears in the structure of my portfolio.

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Illustrated Reflective Report...................................................................................8 Charette............................................................................................................12 ARC3001 Primer...............................................................................................................20 Staging..............................................................................................................42 Realisation & Synthesis...................................................................................104 Bibliography....................................................................................................166 Cultural Bibliography.......................................................................................170 Appendix i.....................................................................................................172

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global warming, it is vital that architects and architecture goes some way to tackle these. How have the technical aspects of my project informed my design? The technical aspects of my design have been very informative. As outlined in our studio manifesto, sustainable design and Passivhaus standards were key themes from the beginning and have therefore informed my design at every stage and at every scale. The earliest aspects of my housing design were based on sun angles and passive solar gain, as well as timber construction methods. As well as this, my re-organisation of Cruddas Park Community Centre is entirely centred around solar orientation. Sustainable principles are present in multiple areas of my design, including using terraced housing to reduce heat loss, having dual aspect homes to ensure south facing light as well as cross ventilation. Looking in more detail, when designing the windows and elevations of the housing, maximising passive solar gain â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as well as solar shading - was at the fore-front of my mind from the first iterations to the resolution of details.

ILLUSTRATED REFLECTED REPORT

From the beginning of PRIMER, I have framed my investigation as a protest against contemporary, generic housing. Throughout, I have tried to critically evaluate the values that housing developments such as Great Park are built on, and counter them with the values that I believe housing should be built on. Too often, profit is prioritised over generous, thoughtful, and joyful design, and this was definitely reflected in our studio reading of Great Park. These issues are difficult to escape as architecture must operate within this system, but I strongly believe that architecture has great opportunity to make a political statement, and that good design should aim to make a political statement of some kind. In our society we still suffer with great injustices, and with the ever-growing problem of

How has my project been informed by the theoretical framework such as theory into practice? The theory into practice essay was a very interesting exercise that made me evaluate and question my perspective as a designer in relation to my project. The 8

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essay made me realise that looking at design from a human scale was vital for the project to be successful. Although this was already an important strand of my thinking, the Theory into Practice essay meant that I more rigorously evaluated my methods of representation in order to create a humane design.

How does my work impact the context in which it sits - how is it relevant to the wider design and construction profession? I consider my work to be very relevant to the design and construction profession. As a direct reaction to current housing developments such as Great Park, my work is framed within a very real social, political and economic context. Clearly, as a student project that exists as purely hypothetical, the impact it may have is limited, but in furthering my thinking and my values as I am about to go into the professional workplace it is critically relevant to my own work and my future contributions to the profession.

My project is underpinned by a thorough theoretical context based on extensive reading and research, and many exemplar projects such as those we saw in our studio visit to Vienna. Particularly in the STAGING of my project, I wanted my large scale design decisions to be deliberate, thoughtful, and impactful so it was vital that they were backed up by research. I continued to read about social housing and the economic of housing throughout my design work, and benefited greatly from our studio visit to Leeds to see CITU and LILAC.

Looking back on every year of this degree, I have always been shocked at home much I have managed to learn in a relatively short space of time, and this year is no different. I feel that this year, more than any previous, I have been successful at marrying my morals, beliefs, and principles with my design which has been a goal of mine. I have always valued the opportunity to make a political statement with architecture; I remember before I even started my degree saying that I thought it was disgraceful that some people have multiple homes, millions of pounds in disposable income, yet others in the UK have no roof over their heads. I am very proud of the work that I have produced this year and really excited to find a job with a firm that really resonates with my beliefs.

My dissertation ran parallel to the beginning of my design project, and the themes overlapped between the two works. Sustainability, particularly sustainability in the home was something I researched greatly for my dissertation, which helped to influence my design work. As well as this, another area of my research was individual sustainable action and how to encourage neighbourhoods to act in more sustainable ways with design. This fed into my design work, and helped me to ground my human scale approach.

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SUSTAINABILITY THEMES Charette week, and the entire academic year, had a strong stance on sustainability from the beginning. Sustainable design is something I am very interested in, and one of the main areas of interest I wish to explore further in my architectural career. Charette photos by: Yew Zhi Xuan

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THE GRAINGER WEIGH UNIVERSITY

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The brief for this charette was to re-design a local zero waste store in Grainger Market. We had to accommodate the beautiful existing Victorian staircase within the store, and give it a much needed redesign and rebranding.

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The primer section of this project is vitally important as it sets up a crucial framework for the rest of my project. Through looking at Great Park, just north of Newcastle city centre, it became clear to our whole studio that our housing projects needed to reflect a different set of values than generic contemporary housing. It set up a network of theoretical thinking that frames my project as a protest against modern housing developments. Clearly, what is valued in developments such as Great Park is money. Profit takes priority over everything else, often to the detriment of resident experience. There are countless examples of this, including the tragic Grenfell fire three years ago. Profit was chosen time and time again over resident safety, ultimately meaning that 72 people lost their lives. Housing does not have to be like this. We have the money, and we have the resources, if we re-direct them in society there is great potential for residents to all have housing that they love and are proud of.

GREAT PARK Great Park, just north of Newcastle City Centre, is representative of any and all generic, contemporary housing developments. Sprawled over a large area, the individual houses are eerily repetitive, and there is little to no green space or areas for shared community activity. It seems lonely, and segregated, with design decisions being made to maximise profit, over prioritising resident experience.

BALCONIES Focusing on the balconies at Great Park, it is as though the developers stuck various different types of balcony on to the facade at the end in at an attemp to add value and make more profit. Considering the history of balconies, they have been seen as platforns of importance, for speeches or for declerations of romance. Balconies have trickled down from being a symbol of power to being a profit tool on almost every house in the Great Park development. 28

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LEARNING FROM EXAMPLE

While studying Great Park, it was important for our studio to identfiy key precedents that we felt did housing well. In this way, we could build our manifseto out of both positive and negative examples. Our braod themes were: sustainability, inclusivity, equality, dignity and happiness. TOP LEFT - BOTTOM RIGHT: Tower Flower - R50 Co-Housing Tour Bois-le-pretre - Tibbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Triangle - Nightingale 1 - OWCH - Naked House - Llana del Rio - Hunziker - Goldsmith Street - Hannibal Road Gardens

MONTAGE OF MY MODEL, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS OF THE PLAY SPACES OF GREAT PARK AND HOW IT IS USED AND POTENTIALLY MIS-USED

POTENTIAL USES OF UN-USED GREEN SPACE

Play spaces are an important part of Newcastle Great Park. and every town and estate in Britain. However, there are issues with play spaces that is not just limited to Great Park, but play spaces everywhere. While they are designed as safe spaces for young children to play, they can often become misused if are in areas that are not easily visible from houses, or if play equipment becomes broken or falls into disrepair. Sometimes parks can be for children by day, but by night used by gangs or young people for drug dealing, smoking and other crimes, becoming an antisocial area and not what the space was intended for. There are no other provisions of functional public spaces for people of other ages , so they often have no choice but to gravitate towards play parks.

PLAY SPACES Researched route using minor roads and paths

I sketched the gable ends of some different houses and explored the relationship they had with each other. Many were back to back with the next detached house and the space in-between had no social or practical use. Many houses were also built in symmetry with its neighbour. These sketches also try to highlight the many places on some of the buildings where the cladding changes and has been over complicated. Each time I came across a house with a complicated variation of cladding, it was evident there was damp existing somewhere.

New bike storage concept montage

City Centre BIKE LANE MAIN ROAD RESIDENTIAL ROAD

GROUP POSTERS

Existing bike storage use montage

Bdy Ward

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Great Park has approximately 2000 car parking spaces, and a total of 4800 planned by 2034. So according to the councils plans, there should be approximately 400 (20%) places to park/keep a bike. Taking into account private garages, I have

mapped the number of shared access bike storage units that are needed and placed them close to houses without adequate storage space. I’ve done the same calculation for bike routes/lanes and illustrated the extra routes needed.

DRIVE

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Existing bike storage use montage

Ziyad Hasanin

The element I have studied is of a Gable End on a corner house. I chose this particular house because of its orientation to the street and the surrounding houses and also its size – it stuck out to me as one of the more upmarket, more expensive builds. This particular corner I have modelled is N/W facing so I wonder if the intention of the design was to collect as much northern light as possible for the bedrooms of which, the windows draw light into? Based on our visit on the 14th of October, the materiality of most houses on the Great Park seem some-what rogue and the finishes do not look like they are weathering well. The build finish quality was not amazing however it was not as bad as other properties in the area where the brick work was not pointed correctly and cement was scuffed over the face of the brick (see middle image to the left). The brick laying process in many cases has clearly been rushed. This worries me as to how much consideration went into the cladding systems shown on my model as well as how they seal together to keep moisture out. The orange ‘wooden effect’ panels are not timber and I do not think recycling the material is common. This makes me question why the developer would go for a orange spray painted UPVC cladding as it is already fading, further damaging the aesthetic of the building?

Tree grille

Pavement

Concrete Layer

Root Deflector Cover

Gravel

The top image is a photo montage to show the different houses with in the Great Park landscape. It was created with the intention of designing a new sort of typography to portray the different style housing situated in Great Park. By mixing all these differently clad houses together like this it becomes apparent that there is just one style of built form that exists there. This built form seems chaotic

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The image above is a drawing to show how I interpreted the construction of the rendered corners that feature on many of the buildings. From pictures of the rooms internally, it is clear that the external shape of the house I have modelled relates in no way to the internal architecture and space. The walls remain flush and the floor to ceiling windows in the corner sit deep flush to the facia of the render (see my painting below). These features are arguably inconvenient for residents that wish to extent their property in anyway. The corners and balcony features cause the roofs of some properties to appear over complicated in their form, where the loft space is un-usable and impossible to extend in to. If the resident wished to extend off the side of some of these houses it would be a challenge to come up with a simple extension design that engages and works with the external structure shown protruding off the face of the brick in my drawing Scale above. This suggests that many of the buildings have not been designedNovwith longevity and adaptability in 09, 2019 10:13 1:5000 George Spendlove 500 m 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 mind. 0 Projection: British N ational Grid

University of Newcastle

(GROUP WORK) We studied great park by analysing individual elements of the neighbourhood and how these elements had shaped the area.

Mature trees in towns and cities contribute significantly to our health and well-being in many ways; large trees can intercept more air pollution, store more carbon and contribute more leaf area to the tree canopy. However there is a declining number of larger trees in urban areas. Older, larger trees are routinely being replaced by smaller trees, and poor planting and maintenance also mean that some trees seldom live long enough to reach maturity and provide meaningful ecosystem services.

OVERVIEW

TREES

GEORGE SPENDLOVE

EXTERNAL WALL GABLE END

Newcastle City Council published in an official document that it “aims to develop a cycling culture where 20% of all trips under five miles are undertaken by cycle by 2021.” Therefore I modelled this scenario using the map above.

Bike route suggested by Google.

Charlie Barratt

Great Park

BIKE RACK

Rachel Sexton

The RootSpace® system (RSS), developed by GreenBlue Urban, is essentially a pavement support system – designed for maximum soil and rooting volume, to be ‘utility friendly’, with economic freight and industry-leading strength characteristics. It provides optimum conditions for soil biology maximising root growth & tree health, while being very fast, simple, and easy to assemble reducing installation time & costs, and designed for easy integration, and re-excavation for maintenance, of utilities. Comparing a tree planted using a ‘RootSpace system’ (RSS), which provides uncompacted soil for root development and growth, and a typical street tree planted in a small tree pit, surrounded by compacted soil, a standard street tree will cost much less to plant but will usually be replaced every 8-15 years. This means that it will never reach the size at which it can deliver maximum benefit and provide a return on investment.

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Root Deflector

Tree guying system

RootSpace Airflow Lid RootSpace System

Soil

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The two farther trees are the ones planted in GreenBlue Urban soil cell systems. Clearly doing well, with good shoot extensions every year, and no difference yet between them in size, as neither will have reached the limit of the soil cell systems 20 ml Geonet for increased stability

Gravel layer for services

Benefits provided by trees with a RootSpace System (RSS) are generally greater than those from street trees when compared like for like (based on diameter at breast height). This is because the leaf area of trees with adequate rooting volume are proportionally larger than for street trees with the same trunk diameter. In one trial, four identical trees were planted in different systems at Blackfriars road, London, to be monitored for atleast 10 years to establish empirical evidence for the effectiveness for the different systems.

This nearer tree is the one installed in a structural soil, an urban tree soil type. it is clearly suffering from both the lack of water availability in a tree sand type medium (shown by the poor leaf colour) and the lack of nutrient availability shown by the significant reduction in canopy size and density.

REMEDIAL HOUSING PRIMER SHOW

Our studio primer show focused on representing Great Park in all its fragments to portray a sense of the elements that make up a neighbourhood. Alongside this we presented our studio manifesto of our own beliefs going forward. 38

LOCALISATION for ACCESSIBILITY for SUSTAINABILITY for COMMUNITY

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HOUSING STANDARDS SHOULD NOT BE STANDARD

FLEXIBILITY leads to LONGEVITY leads to SUSTAINABILITY

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In staging, we are first introduced to our site. This section includes extensive site analysis covering geographical analysis, demographical analysis, historical analysis, and user experience analysis. As well as this, I continued to read and research about contemporary housing developments after visiting Great Park to strengthen my projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theoretical framework. A vast amount of decisions were made - almost subconsciously - at this point, some of which didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t materialise into physical outputs until as late as the synthesis chapter. It became clear at this stage that although the architecture would be modest, the ideas would be very significant. There is a strong, radical agenda behind my project, much of which was developed within this stage of my design and my research, which continues to underpin all my thinking until the very end.

VIENNA

KARL MARX HOF Karl Marx Hof is one of many monuments to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Red Viennaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; left standing today. A physical memory of the socialist principles that drove Vienna towards its sensitive and generous social housing model today, Karl Marx Hof shows how social housing can work on a massive scale. 48

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SOCIAL HOUSING IN VIENNA

In Vienna, 60% of people live in social housing. Compared to any area of the UK that is astounding. In the UK, there seems to be a certain stigma and reputation around living in social housing that there isn’t in the rest of Europe. Challenging this reputation and designing in a way that allows this reputation to change is very difficult. There is such an abundance of social housing in Vienna that each one can have its own style and architectural langauge, allowing personal taste and preference to be integrated into social housing. Social housing is allowed to be ‘out there’ and unique, because there is so much of it that there will always be another option if one doesn’t meet your personal taste. 50

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