Riba Part 1 Architectur al Portfolio Selected Works Niall Coleman Central Saint Martins BA (Honours) Architecture 2015 - 2018
P e rs o na l St a t e m e nt From an early age, I’ve shown a creative passion for designing and building structures in any form. During childhood, I designed and assembled famous architecture I was fond of with any material avaliable. I found challenge of making the structure durable and firm intriguting . Ensuring that my structures only used readily available local material was imperative and this philosophy has stayed with me. I am solution focused and detail oriented. Architectural education has guided me to design proposals that consider cultural and social issues of the users and the local area and enchances their lives. Architecture that is delicate to the local context and collor collorbrates existing businesses..
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54 Dunbar Road, Wood Green, London, N22 5BE n.coleman1@arts.ac.uk 07702586740
Niall Coleman - CV Ed u c a t i o n
2015 – 2018
2013- 2015
2007 - 2013
E x p e ri e nc e
Central Saint Martins | University of the Arts London
St Aloysius College
Finchley Catholic High School
London
London
2018
BAA:SO Y3 Degree Show / Making Week
London
In Making Week during my third year, I was the lead designer and created the 1:1, 1:6, 1:15 protoype for my group with was creating a stand for a Year 3 student to display their work for the Degree Show.
2015
Rapha Cyclocross
London
During the first term of the Year 1, along with fellow Architectural students, I participated in providing a ramp for the Rapha Cyclocross Challenge.
2015
BA Fashion White Show
London
In the first term of the Year 1, I collaborated with Fashion Design in designing an interior ramp for the upcoming
BA (Hons) Architecture: Spaces and Objects RIBA Part - 1 Upper Second Class Honours Degree (2.1)
Awarded A Level in Maths Awarded A Level in Art and Design Awarded A Level in Economics and Business Awarded A Level Graphic Design and Communication
London Awarded AS Level in Art and Design Awarded Jack Petchey Award
Sk i l l s Making by Hand
Conceptual and Technical drawing. Model making, interior design, wood and metal work, decoration, painting, photography
Computer Skills
Experience on both Mac and Windows. Software skills includes Rhino, Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Grasshopper, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Experienced in illustration, plan/section drawing on Autocad and rendering on Rhino.and Photoshop.
Em p l o ym e n t 2013 – Ongoing WM Morrisons Supermarket PLC
London
During my Architectural education, I’ve been key member in the Checkout and Produce department,
Re f e re nce s Oscar Brito
Gregory Ross
Senior Lecturer / Stage 3 Leader
Senior Lecturer / Stage 2 Leader
BA (Honours) Architecture: Spaces and Objects | Central Saint Martins | University of the Arts
BA (Honours) Architecture: Spaces and Objects | Central Saint Martins | University of the Arts
London
London
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Contents
Portmantaeu - White Rock Pavilion
Civic Growth in Bethnal Green
Portmantaeu - White Rock Pavilion
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Pages 11 - 37
Pages 38 - 41
Third Year - First Project
Third Year - Second Project
Modelling Modelling is an increasingly key part of my practice. During my first year of architectural practice, my skills were limited but gradually I have grown in confidence using papercutting, PVA and providing a template for Laser-cutting.
Second Year - First Project
Technical Drawing I am a very keen hand-drawer, both in pen and pencil, from rough sketches to diagrammes to rendered and technical final drawings. I am comfortable with orthographic drawing, particularly axonometric, and really like working in perspective. During my degree I have worked in an illustrative style using both hand-drawing, worked into using Photoshop and Illustrator. I am also experienced on Rhino. I’ve gained an understanding of technical drawings during my undergraduate learning
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Keep the Change
Raplh Cyclocross Challenge
Making Week Pavilion
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Pages 52 - 53
Pages 54 - 55
Second Year - Second Project
Drawing Since being involved in Art and Graphic before Architecture, I have been a keen hand-drawer and sketch-artists thorugh, both in pen and pencil and paint, . I enjoy producing rough sketches and diagrammes to detailed and rendered drawings to express my thought process and vision of the projects. to rendered and technical final drawings. I am comfortable with orthographic drawing, such as isometric and axonometric but perspective is what I specialise in.
First Year - Project
Third Year - Project
Building I have really enjoyed being part of a number of live build projects. The experience of designing and constructing something as a team is one I find very exciting and rewarding, and would like to do more of.
For each project of my degree I’ve carried an illustrative style for the inital stages of development using both hand-drawing, and eventually refining the conceptual drawings through workedPhotoshop and Illustrator.
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Case Study Analysis Third Year - First Project
The main focus of the investigation This particular project, involved studying and analysing a chosen case study and disecting a key aspect of the building for example the circulation or the materiality through different methods. This project will enable me to develop a design tool to carry onto the following project Description of Gaasbeek Chamber Music Hall
An appealing project to their list. In Gaasbeek, the rural hinterland of Brussels, the architects
transformed a former dairy into guest quarters for musicians with a music room. They carefully restored the old building in front and added a new ziggurat-shaped wing that houses a small practice and concert hall at the rear. ‘Robbrecht en Daem architecten’ used the form of the ziggurat previously in the Chambre Music Hall in the Concert Hall in Bruges.
Main Material Used - Red Brick and white brick for the exterior of the building and the music hall. Plaster Walls with timber framing for the interior of the House.
Views of the Gaasbeek Chamber Music Hall - Public Space 6
Ground and Second Floor including the Hall, Foyer and Dairy Farm House and Hill
1:200 Section Collage Rendering of the Chamber Music Hall
1:200 Side Elevation
Key Red: Musicians Blue: The Public
Users : the Public visiting the Music Hall
Musicians performing
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Method 2: Drawing key moments of a circulation route through perspective drawings
Method 1: Axonometric Drawing of Private and Public Spaces for a circulation route
Circulation through Public and Private spaces of the Chamber Music Hall To gain a further understanding of the case study I’m investigating I need to draw technical drawings and divide the floors from public and private space
1:50 Plan Drawing
- Method 3 is the most successful in both showing the details and explaining the route sucessfully
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Method 3: Key moments of the circulation route captured in plan
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Section Drawings 1-4 The musician enters the ground level, through (2) threshold and into the living space.
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Section Drawings 5-8 Fellow musicians can meet and prepare in the living space
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Section Drawing 9 - Kitchen and utilary room
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Developing the short section drawings of a particular further by extracting the volumes of scale and highlighting light levels, materiality and atmosphere through colleges Section drawings 10- 11 - Musician exits the kitchen and continues their way into the Music Hall
Section drawing 12 - Musician begins the concert in front of the public
Project 1 - Building Studies Developing the short section drawings of a particular further by extracting the volumes of scale and highlighting light levels, materiality and atmosphere through colleges
Developing the short section drawings of a particular further by extracting the volumes of scale and highlighting light levels, materiality and atmosphere through colleges
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‘Civic Growth in Bethnal Green’ Third Year - Second Project
What are the Issues to be addressed? Bethnal Green is starting to follow the trend of other areas within East London of showing symptoms associated in gentification. There are positives from this process such as renovating deteriorated urban neighbourhoods and vital investment to an area that needs to but ultimately leads to the detriment of the surrounding neighbourhoods and businesses as it often shifts a neighbourhood’s social-demographical composition, forcing established residents and businesses out. The main focus of the investigation
To start from observing the current condition of automotive repair/ maintainance sector situated underneath the railways arches of Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green and the reasons for National Rail’s decision to replace of these existing industries in favour by contemporary retail businesssed related to gentrification. My
projects aims to highlight some of the social and cultural issues created from the obsolescence of the current occupants inside the railway arches and surrounding neighbourhood. What I intend to provide through my proposal
‘Civic Growth’. Residential population growth, changing demographic and evolving employment opportunities in Bethnal Green have outstipped the proviion of community support space and adult education services. The project includes education spaces where digital skils are taught to mechanics to service the next generationof cars and community spaces for local housing association residents. The buildings robust modular frame allows volumes to be reconfigured over time adapting to future demands in employmentand residents organisations.
Pictures of the Site - Left Hastings Promenade Right Hastings Pier 10
1700s The silk-weaving trade spread eastwards from Spitalfields throughout the 18th century. This attracted many Huguenot and Irish weavers to the district. Large estates of small two story cottages were developed in 1900 The post-war clearance of slums and bomb sites broke up long-established neighbourhoods and – in a creative but doomed response to the problem – the council turned to building clusters of high-rise blocks in the 1929 The York Hall is a health and leisure centre and one of Britain’s best known boxing venues. The venue is situated on Old Ford Road in Bethnal Green, London
The market is just a stones throw away from the internationally renowned York Hall, and within walking distance from the trendy Shoreditch, and sells a wide range of items from clothes to fruit and vegetables. 1943 On 3 March 1943 at 8:27PM the unopened Bethnal Green tube station was the site of a wartime disaster.
Along Three Colts Lane and Cambridge Heath Road are array of MOT Repair and Metal works businesses situated under the Railway arches The V&A Museum of Childhood on Cambridge Heath Road houses the child related objects of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Bethnal Green now has a mixture of
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BROWN - Cambridge Heath Road RED - Three Colts Lane
YELLOW - Malcolm place, Malcolm Road
Social Issue - Functional Obsolescence Bethnal Green is experienceB y investigating and comparing three key spots of Bethnal Green, I conclude that Malcolm Road shows the most signs of obsolesence and deprivation. This has pushed me to pick this particular part for the sample site for my proposal
Identitying the Social and Cultural Issues of Bethnal Green and sample site
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Mapping urban and social elements of obsolesence and deprivation within Bethnal Green to identify a suitable site for the proposal 12
Features park users and larg
1-2000 Map of Bethnal Green highlighting areas under investigation and collage visualisations. Park goers and groups gather for prayer around Malcolm Road
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Collage students interact and flow through /William’s Buildings Hadleigh Street
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Shared space occupied by the Bangladeshi Muslim community and Tyre World. Large group gathers for morning prayer
Mechanics interact with customers at Hadleigh Street
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Over the course of the day, an influx of cars park near this areas to use the service Tyre World offers
Shared space between mechanics, staff of Wessex Community Centre and school-children
Material Analysis / Permanency and flexibility of the site Permanent and Flexible Structure and Materials
Hadleigh Street
Front Elevation Drawing
Permanent Structure
Flexible and Removable Structure
Malcolm Place
Front Elevation Drawing
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Site Analysis Analysing the permanency and flexibility of certain structures and the materials to determine what material should I use for the exterior Conclusion Made - By analysing the permanency and flexibility of certain structures within my sample site, I concluded that programmes would do not require different functions and changes in size should be positioned within the Railway units under the arches. Adaptable programmes should be positioned outside and surrounding the arches e.g the yard (Malcolm Road) or under
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Sketches of Materials the site contains
Hadleigh Street
Urban concept and strategies Applying certain strategies that will enhance the experience of the users, encourage social interactions between programmes and follow the aim of the project
Steel Columns supporting Railway
Steel Bridge
Steel Fence Barrier
Malcolm Place
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King Brick for main structure
Hampton Block Brickwork
Brick perimeter Wall for MOT
The existing site, which is an abandoned yard is blocked off by an exterior brick wall with a metal fence, affects the entry for residents. It also affects the appearance of the site. In order to provide a proposal of the site which is easy to access, the brick wall needs to be removed.
2. The Yard
1. Original Brickwork of the Railway Line
The yard has been severely neglected over the years which has lead to a growing amount of waste being disposed on the site. There is also overgrown vegetation which has to be removed.
2. Sub layer of the Railway Arches 3. Concrete Beams inserted to provide support 4. Steal Beams inserted to provide support
The proposed site only has three entrances mainly due to the brick wall acting as a perimeter. Braintree Street, Malcolm Road and an intimidating entrance through an alley. The entrances are currently blocked off with brickwork. They need to be more accessible and safer for the public.
Planning Issues of the Site
Different stages of the Yard 5. When the Railway Arches units were occupied, the yard was used as a Car park 6. When the Railway Arches became vacant , the yard was blocked off by a brick wall. 7. After years of neglecting, vegetation started to grow and people started to flytip rubbish
Highlighted in red are the railway units that are currently closed and become abandoned. For my proposal I will refurbish the units for usage 1. Removal of the brick perimeter wall arond the proposed site. Waste will be cleared from the yard
2. One section (highlighted in red) will be demolished to improve circulaton between the programmes
History and Different layers of the Site
3. New pre-cast concrete frame forms the permanent structure that allows for modular adaptation for the programmes inside.
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Boundary Estate – Fun Palace
Cranbrook Estate
Ashington House
Kelling House
Kinsham Estate
Usk Estate
St. Hilda’s East Community Centre
Collingwood Hall (Bethnal Green)
Oxford House in Bethnal Green
Oxford House in Bethnal Green
Community Centres associated with a Housing Estate
Investigating the User’s issues Housing residents Identifying the users’ issues The Mapping of urban housing estates and community centres within Bethnal Green intented to find a correlation behind them in relation to my sample site Conclusion made After plotting all of the LCC Housing Estates, community Centres and housing estates that provide extra facilities on to the map, I noticed that there’re a lack of recreation spaces and community space around the area of my site. This further emphasises the need to provide extra facilities to the residents of Braintree, Sceptre, Bancropt House (Estates around the site) which will bring the community closer together.
Proposed Site
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Sample Site
Social Housing around the site
LCC Housing Estates
Centres List of old Bethnal Community Green Estates with associated with a Housing Estate different facilities
Hadleigh Street
Clutch Centre
Vacant site - Malcolm Place
Tyre World
Three Colts Lane
Jet Tyres
MOT Cars
Electronics
Frame-right Cabs
Opinions of the Mechanics in Bethnal Green
1-2000 Map of Bethnal Green
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‘‘Brixton is home for me, but this has all been a big mess. I’m just trying to hang on to the good memories’’
‘‘Three Colts Lane arches have been the backbone of the community for almost a century’’
‘‘The recent hike in rent prices is slowly putting us out of business’’
Investigating the users’ issues - AutoRepair Builsinesses Mapping urban and social elements of obsolesence auto-repair businesses and experiencing in Bethnal Green
Current Regeneration - Cambridge Heath Road
Coxktail Club
Resident Club
Mother Kelly’s Restaurant
Redevelopment has already occured in the railway arches in Cambridge Heath Road as high-end residents have replaced existing businesses
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Second Floor - Recreational - Connect and Intergate
Yoga classes for elderly residents and crossfit members
A supervised Recreational area for the younger generation of residents
First Floor - Educational - Learn and Build
Mechanical Training Workshop for existing and future mechanics of Three Colts Lanes
One stop shop for new and existing residents Arts Classes and events for young residents
Ground Floor - Communual - Exchange and Intergate
Illustrated Brief and Programmatic Strategy
Social clubs and receptions for elderly occupants
Through the analysis of the users of the sample site, I decided to narrow to only two users, the Housing residents and the mechanics from the existing businesses. I decided to find three types of tenants that will live in the estates. By finding about their agendas and programmes they would use, I came up with initial ideas for programmes. 18
Monthly commmitees shared among local housing estates and assoications
General social events and dinners for all of the residents
The development of the frame-work and volumetric
Material Experimentation and rearranging the framework
Test A
1. Column is placed into the foundation joint, which are mounted into the ground.
2. Two columns are merged together via a steel column joint
3. The steel node is slotted inbetween the two columns
4. Other joints are screwed into the node to enable secondary components to be attached
5. Tee Beams are positioned into the node
Test A
Text B
6. Concrete slab floor is placed onto the tee-beam
Permanent Framework To gain a further understanding of the case study I’m investigating I need to draw technical drawings and divide the floors from public and private spaces - Method 1 was effective but too complex in terms of showing all of the public and private spaces but to complex to read. The construction process of my proposal
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- Method is the most successful in both showing the details and explaining the route
Strategy into designing the sequences and moments.
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1:500 Map of the Proposal and surrounding area
Applying the design tools from Project 1 to the proposal Applying the design tools I gained from project 1 to decide how the different key spaces will appear in terms of light and volumes of space
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What’s wrong with the arrangements
Above - Volumetric Model of the Proposal and the 1:200 Site Model
Conference Hall isn’t in the vision of the residents
Development of the Proposal through Model-Making
A need for more support of the permanent structure
No clear passageway through the Ground Floor
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1:100 Model of the Proposal and the site which includes the framework. Materials used - MDF for the Columns and white card for the panels
Public Library
Community Hall
Public Communal Space Incoroporating collages and model of the key spaces in perspective view
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Ground Floor of the Proposal
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- Kiosk installed for the public communal area - Library size reduced - Clearer passageway through the ground floor
Key 1. Ground Floor - Outdoor Public space for the public to gather and interact 2. Ground Floor - Public library 3. First Floor - Conference Hall for meeting between housing residents and social club for mechnics and residents
Final Drawings of the Proposal
4. First Floor - Teaching rooms providing lessons and social care for residents
Final Set of drawings
5. Second Floor - Private Allotments for Housing residents
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Final Elevation from Malcolm Road
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- Passage to the conference positioned near the wall, encourage the public to gather underneath - New entrance from Malcolm Road via the viaduct - New Public Gallery for the Hall
Final Elevation from Malcolm Road
- Voids and Double Heights now highlighted - Route to Private Courtyard now only possible by residents entering through the Hall
1. Ground Floor - Outdoor Public space for the public to gather and interact 2. Ground Floor - Public library
3. First Floor - Conference Hall for meeting between housing residents and social club for mechnics and residents 4. First Floor - Teaching rooms providing lessons and social care for residents 5. Second Floor - Private Allotments for Housing residents
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Cross Section cutting through the whole building
Cross Section cutting through the viaduct. The structure featured pre-cast concrete and plastic walls and traditional corbel connections
Variation in concrete finishes and change in the connections of pre-cast concrete elements. Unnecessary columns and beams removed. Infill materials have changed to CNC Wood and Polycarbonate panels. Programmes inside haven’t changed
Design Literations of the Proposal Explaining the process of my design through the process of comparing the literations
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Re-arrangement of programmes due to change in plans and the conference hall increasing to 15m to 15m
Cross Section cutting through the whole building
1. Stairs shifted now facing the rear of the viaduct. Glazing and Polycarbonate sheets placed over the structure to prevent glazing
Key 1. Ground Floor - Outdoor Public space for the public to gather and interact 2. Ground Floor - Public library 3. First Floor - Conference Hall for meeting between housing residents and social club for mechnics and residents 4. First Floor - Teaching rooms providing lessons and social care for residents 5. Second Floor - Private Allotments for Housing residents 6. Mechnical Training School
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View from Bancroft Estate
Public Communal Space
Captured Moments Final Collage Renderings of the Proposal highlighting atmosphere and materiality
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Community Hall
Public Library
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1. Private Courtyard and open gallery
Isometric drawing using Rhino and Autocad to show how the four key spaces will appear during in three dimensional form
Elevation collage of the proposal in context to the site at night. I wanted to show what areas will illuminate at night 30
2. Conference Hall
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4. Public Communal Space
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Technical Drawings of my Proposal 1:20 Technical drawing of the second floor of the public library focusing on the CNC Pre-fab panel with foam insulation and pre-cast concrete panels/frame-work and nodes
1. Polycarbonate sheet acting as the facade, connected to the joint
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2. Lamented timber floorboards for the conference hall 3. Timber Cladding applied to give a contrast between a robust harsh concrete structure and a light infilll
(INFILL) - Flexible Strcuture such as Adjustable Walls
(INFILL) - Semi Permanent Strcuture through removable pane;s
(SUPPORT) - Permanent Precast componments such as beams, columns and corbels
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Grond Floor - Mechnanical Training Workshop Puclic Library and Communual Spaces
Structure - Pre-cast concrete columns
First Floor - Learning Rooms and Conference Hall
Structure - Pre-Cast Columns and slabs Polycarbonate Sheets
Second Floor - Courtyards
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Grond Floor - Mechnanical Training Workshop Puclic Library and Communual Spaces
First Floor - Learning Rooms and Conference Hall
Second Floor Courtyards
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1-20 Years
1. Construction of the Structure along the Yard. The assembly of the columns, beams and concrete slab floors. Pre-fab panels and facade panels are later installed.
Vision of the Proposal Hightlighting the short term and long term process of my proposal in relation to the project’s theme of obsolescence. It’s important to consider that the industries that occupy the surrounding area might change over the next decade or two, therefore my structure should be able to adapt to the change in requirements of different programmes. 36
2. Front Elevation of the facade once the construction is completed
20+ Years
4. After 20 years, it’s likely the industries related to the programmes the proposal holds will change. The flexibility of the structure can adapt to the change in requirements by rearranging the column and beam sizes. Technical industries might require more office space, therefore ceiling height per rooms will be reduced per room and more levels.
Three dimensional isometric View of the final proposal in context to the Malcolm Place viaduct and the LCC Tower estates. - Tools used Autocad and Rhino
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Portmanteau - White Rock Pavilion Second Year - First Project
Inspired by the physical ephemera and unexpected activites and structures that line the Hastings seafront. I was given the task to create a portmanteau that combines two disparate purposes, one economic and one civic, to create a new typology. Through collage and model-making, each student will create their own intervention along the waterfront. The development of my proposal involved a site visit of the Hastings Pier, identifying sites for our interventions along the waterfront and documenting the journey through photographs. Cameras and sketchbooks are essential.
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Inspired by precedents of underground amphitheatres and indian stairwells, I decided to create an inventation for for local musicians and comedians of Hastings to perform to the public. Parts of the site that were ultilised are the underground car park underneath the pier, the seafront and the subway tunnel.
Pooja Agrawal will lead a collage workshop to create a ‘portmanteau’ which fuses two ideas and programmes into one proposal that students will develop over the following weeks.
The project included development work: models, model photos, site research and analysis and technical
Pictures of the Site - Left Hastings Promenade Right Hastings Pier 38
Art-deco inspired poster of the White Rock Pavilion’s main entrance to the amphitheatre
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CAD drawing of the First Second Year Project which shows the audience preparing for a performance
Development of the Proposal For this project, I ultilised different mediums for express my proposal. Each included the different programmes and activities that are taken place over the course of the day.
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1:50 Sectional Model of the Amphitheatre
1:50 Sectional Collage visualisation of the Amphitheatre and the terrace bar under Hastings Pier
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Keep the Change Second Year - Second Project
Similar the previous project, the main project was based in Hastings. I build on the lessons learnt from project 1. I produced imaginative proposals which have a hybrid function, part civic and part economic. This project explored the Live/ Work typology, combining ideas of domesticity and economy. Live/ work buildings have a rich spatial and social history. This project explored production in Hastings at the moment, and speculate about what typologies and ideas might be relevant to Hastings’ future.
The development of my proposal involved, volumetic programming, sketching, material testing through collage and renderings through rhino and photoshop. This proposal is split into three programmes;
1. An acoustic designed Radio Station offers a facility where Amateur Radio members, and local Radio Companies can work to the best of ability and visitors from London can enjoy the Amateur Radio experience. 2. I want to provide a space where members from John Taplin Center, various societies/asscocations from Hastings and Visitors from London can relax and interact through dining or observing the different collections in the Exhibition Stands.
3. After the long activities of Amateur Radio throughout the day, visitors from London can unwind in a 2 bedroom accommodation with a Kitchen, lounge, dining space and rooftop garden.
Pictures of the Site - Left Hastings Promenade Right Hastings Pier 42
Front view of the Design
Front view of the Design
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Storyboard of the user’s journey through the thre programmes
Development of the Proposal Expressing intial development, spatial moments and construction through sketching and watercolour
Inital sketches and watercolour painting of the three programmes
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Corten Steel roof of clubhouse
Pre-cast concrete roof of radio satation
Corten Steel cladding of clubhouse
Pre-cast concrete Panels of radio station
Precast concrete Lift Shaft
Pre-cast concrete Slab Floors
Timber Floor support
Steel Truss Structure
Axonometric drawing of the structure and materials needed for construction
Cross section drawings of the clubhouse and the radio-station
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Inital sketches of the Plan
Development and Final Drawings of the Proposal Arrangement of space the through plan drawings and collage renderings leading to a final Set of drawings
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Another illeration of thw Plans showing materiality
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Key 1. Lift Shaft 2. Radio Station 3.. Clubhouse 4. Bridge 5. Accomodation 6. Cliff
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Development of the Proposal through model-making
Second Year Final Project Model - 1:50 Section collage model of my project proposal involving the Clubhouse and Lift. The propsal is embedded into a cliff to provide extra support
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Collage Representation of the Key Spaces of my Project to determine how certain materials would appear. Clubhouse (Left) Radio Station (Right)
Captured Moments Final Collage Renderings of the Proposal highlighting atmosphere and materiality
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Final Rendering of my Proposal. Rhino was used to generate the model and Photoshop to apply materiality and context
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Section collage of my project involving the Clubhouse and Lift
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Rapha Cyclocross Challenge First Year External Project
During my first year in Architectural education, I collobrated with fellow students in designing part of the obstacle course for the third and final round of the Rapha Super Cross Series, which featured in Central St Martins. The super cross series involved are races for kids, amateurs, veterans and pros.
The inital development stages of the project involved each group to conjure up an obstacle that will be challenging to the cyclist and a spctle for the crowd. After long discussion, we all agreed on designing a ramp that the cyclists to ride over. The design of the ramp was a difficult task as the safety of the obstable was paramount. This
prevented us from evelating the ramp beyond 3 metres or set it at a steep angle. Our final approved design was a ramp that pivotted at a 180 degrees and include a protective barrier that protected cyclists from falling over the edge.
The first stage of construction involved assembling the framework of timber joints, columns and beams together. Once that was completed we drilled MDF panels to the trianglar joints one by one, which was a different task because it was hard to position the panels in different angles. After the
Pictures of the Site - Left Hastings Promenade Right Hastings Pier 52
Raphacross Cyle Challenge - Designing and construting a ramp for one of out projects
Sketches of the prespective views of the ramp during the development stage
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Making Week Pavilion Third Year External Project
For Making Week, Stage 2 of BAASSO collaborated with Stage 3 students for the duration of one week. The task was to produce structures to support a temporary event, which was in this case the Degree Show. The work on display will include creating models and drawings of varying scale, and possibly film or video.
We were split into six teams of two groups. After meeting up with my group we started to come up with various research and sketches of ideas of structures and the joists. I wasn’t really happy with the speed of productivity. It took too long to produce any signifance drawings of ideas, which slowed down the production for the first day. We should of set a deadline for all of us to produce at least 1 idea of a structure. 0.1
After the early stage of producing ideas, we ended up with two unique and interesting structures which allows the user to pivot frames which hold portfolio work.
What I found really useful in enhancing the development of the two structures further and elimating problems in the design was producing in a 3D form, whether take be a sketch model or a 1:1 scale of the joints. From this, our group was able to test out the mechnisims of the structure. I believe the degelegation of tasks to each members was poor as myself and other members were unaware of what were the plans aheads. On Thursday, the majority of us was just standing around because we had nothing to do. 0.2
What should of been done from the start was a lists of tasks for each days and a set of technical drawings of the structure. In the future, one of the members will take the responsibility of producing a document of the roles of each members and conceptual and technical drawing published in a Facebook group.
Although I thought the degelegation of tasks was dissatifactory, we collobarated well as a group when it came to the construction process of the project. Everyone provided a effective contribution, whether it was one cutting the beam and crossbeams, another producing Joints from plywood, sanding down the edges of each beam so they could slot into the joints or applying nails though the beams and joints to provide support.
0.1 1-6 Model of the Model stand and 0.2 1-15 Blackfoam board model. Each piece required no gluing and was assembled by hand
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Left - Technical Drawings of key components of the structure
Right - Exploded axonometric drawing of the structure
Exploded axonometric drawing of the structure
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