Portfolio Nicholas CHRISTOPHER Oslington
Portfolio Nicholas CHRISTOPHER Oslington
Context
The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
Kingston University Bachelor Project
Winter Bath
Bachelor thesis, Mixed-use development and Sub-Station
- Plans - Context - Panorama - Models - Sustainability - Photomontages - Elevations, Sections
- Thesis and site plan with both proposals - Sub-Station Proposal
Performing Arts Centre
Precedent Studies
- Plans ,context - Elevations - Sections - Model
- Facade study of highstreet (Rudolf Schwarz) - Designed facade - Landscaping proposal - The highstreet window, interior to exterior
- Mixed-use development Proposal - Plans, construction - Physical model photographs - Photomontages, Elevations, sections - Oak massing model, Bronze 1:1 door handel
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The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
Winter Bath
My plan is to give something more to the local community and people who daily interact with the beautiful area and oceanic activities of Svanemøllen. I am proposing a continuation and extension of the beach promenade ending it with a winter bath interacting with both people and marine life. The intention is to create a horizontal grid with the promenade blocking of the urban city and large apartment blocks, maintaining the calm feel of the area. The winter bath can also be used in summer, and will be equipped with two pools within the structure, one heated and one small ice bath equivalent to the temperature of the surrounding sea in winter times. There will be one or two larger pools at sea level which will be used as winter and summer baths. One of the pools will have air bubbles as this prevents the sea to freeze. Other facilities will be incorporated, sauna, steam room, changing rooms, toilets, and storage spaces for equipment, which also will be open for the public. The bath will be used inn summer times as much as in the winter, and will meet both needs. A Sunbathing area and diving zone will be included inn the design. The winter bath will run itself by the use of a ocean harvester. This technology uses the sea current and level, to harvest energy and will heat the pool, sauna and other appliances. Facilities - -
Extension of beach and Promonade Winter bath
Winter Bath - Heated Pool - Winter Pool - Sauna - Steam room - Sun bathing area Diving - Changing rooms - W/C - Equipment/storage
The idea is to create a self sustainable design, taking advantage of the waves and sea level. A buoy follows the wave motions at the surface. When the wave rises, a drum inside the buowy is rotated by a mooring line wound around it, converting vertical motion into a rotation. This is a very efficient way of extracting energy from waves that is independent of the wave sizes and has been used in earlier technologies. What is unique with the Ocean Harvester is the way a counterweight is used to achieve a leveled and controlled load on the generator. As a result, excess energy from larger waves can be accumulated and used to compensate for shortage from smaller waves. In combination with the flexible mooring, this also composes a simple and efficient storm protection system.
Entrance Changing Showers/WC
Heated pool
Sauna
Ice pool
Steam room
Winter/
Summer Pool
Diving area
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Performing arts centre
The intention is to provide a meaningful experience and fresh breath of knowledge of the arts so that young adults may apply their knowledge and experience to the creation of different types of performing arts and are better able to understand and appreciate artistic expression on the basis of that experience and knowledge. Spaces made for different types of learning and activities keeping young adults lively and vigorous, away from the life on the street and in motion. The proposed spaces are open for everyone from the ages 8 - 25 years and young adults who are surrounded by social problems/ difficulties at home, school, etc. and need a better place to spend their time. This is something, which will help the community in many ways, including keeping kids off the street, giving them a focus or a purpose, and an opportunity too express their creativity and learn about art through movement and performance. Nørrebro, Site Nordvestkvarteret, Nordvest. After the urban renewal the district of Northwest Copenhagen has undergone an evolution towards a more socially disadvantage neighbourhood, and has jokingly been called North-worst. Today, the tide is turning; new modern homes are springing up, and living in the northwest is becoming a trend, but this is only a carpet covering the still gritty ghettoes and gangs running the streets in Northwest Copenhagen. The chosen site is right next to Nørrebro Hallen, library and Nørrebro skatepark, who all collaborate, offering a range of different activities and study oppertunities for young adults in the community. This also includes youth counseling. They have facilities for activities, studying, social arangments and help for young adults in need. It is located in the middle of the long stretch of Nørrebro Park. I find the area very interesting, as it is in constant movement, as a kind of centre of Nørrebro, crowded with different people in motion, which creates a special vibe of vigorous life within the area. The Art Performance Centre would be a part of the collaboration allready founded between Nørrebro library and Nørrebro Hall, offering 4 activitiy spaces, theatre, dance, music, and a main performance gallery space, embracing the rhythm of the continuous park.
Kingston University
Bachelor Thesis Mixed-use Development and Sub-Station
My Bachelor project is split into two projects located next to each other. The first project is a ventilation system for the London underground and the second a mixed-use development, with shops, offices, accomadation and a gallery space. The Sub-Station was part of our research of understanding the site and area of Clapham Common, London. The use of the sub-station is to ventilate the underground. My idea was placing a concrete shape, following the landscape of the small park, as if it was dropped in to place from the sky, and the crack left in the ground by the impact would create the shaft extending too the underground tunnels. Within the design public toilets were installed, which are heated all year by the warm air created from the London Underground.
Mixed-use Development
Sub-Station
Master Plan
Sub-Station
Sub-Station
Kingston University
Bachelor Thesis Mixed-use Development and Sub-Station
Mixed-use Development and Sub-Station Shops, Offices and Accomodation ‘The project thesis is a response to the surrounding context, carving a route through the dense site to create a discrete box within the mass of the proposal. A solid building composed of thick brick walls and columns, contrasted with a finely structured oak truss roof with a bronze sheeted finish. The carefully designed roof acts as a crown over the whole. The relationship of the oak and bronze of the roof to the brickwork informs the rest of the building, generating oak frames and solid bronze cills and lintels’
Mixed-use Development
Mixed-use Development
Basement Floor Plan 1 : 200
First Floor Plan 1 : 200
Mixed-use Development
Mixed-use Development
Mixed-use Development
Plan Steel Frame (260mm x 260mm) Insulation surounding Steel column and continuing thre window frame preventing cold bridge Building board (20mm) Brick slips (40mm)
Metal hinge for opening of window
Mixed-use Development
Mixed-use Development
Mixed-use Development
Mixed-use Development
Kingston university
precedent studies
Physical models 1:20
Physical Models 1:20
Clapham Common Landscape Proposal 1:500
Kingston University
Precedent Studies Precedent studies
Portfolio Nicholas CHRISTOPHER Oslington