Nicola Kenny Architectural Portfolio
Contact name: Nicola Kenny d.o.b: 22.09.1997 email: nicola.kennydoyle4@gmail.com no. + 353 85 786 4966
Skills Digital Vectorworks AutoCad Sketch Up(Learning) Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Package
Practical Model Making Surveying Hand Drawing/Draughtsmanship Watercolour Painting Exhibition Construction and Scenic Decoration Writing
Education University College Dublin 2016 - 2019 BSc Architectural Science GPA: 2.1 (3.53) (Final Studio Grade: A)
Digital Drawing Module Exploring Farnsworth House with Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
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The Farnsworth House
Fox River Farnsworth House; Mies Van Der Rohe Vicinity Map Adobe Illustrator Nicola Kenny
Digital Drawing
Farnsworth House; Mies Van Der Rohe Position in Natural Surroundings Adobe Illustrator Nicola Kenny
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Site Potential Delivery Points Claimed Land; Potential for public space Buildings 6-8m High Buildings 9-12m High Buildings 12-14m High Potential Overlooking Boundary Wall Luas Line Traffic Pedestrian Routes to site Bike Racks Green Spaces and Trees Parking
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TU Dublin Culinary School
Precedent: Grafton Medical School
Semester Two, Third Year
Precast Concrete Collumns
Upper Volume
Central Floor Slab
Concrete Cores
Cast in Situ
Auditorium Cross Structure
Lower Volume
Structural Collonade clad in Limestone
TECHNOLOGY_01 GRAFTON ARCHITECTS MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING CULTURE; STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC SCALE 1:500 NICOLA KENNY
TECHNOLOGY_01 GRAFTON ARCHITECTS MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING CULTURE: STRUCTURAL MODEL NICOLA KENNY
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Grafton Architects Medical School UL
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Entrance Space
Louis Kahn - The Houses of Inspiration Educational Buildings are places defined by the fundamental inspiration to learn and by the comitant need to shelter learning with a supportive community.
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He was able to create a complete environment for learning. It is a realm of spaces which may be connected by ways of walking, ‌ you consider it as high spaces together with low spaces and various spaces where people can sort of find the places where they can do what they want to do.
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Free Standing Lecture rooms and blocks of faculty buildings stood on opposite sides of a great central courtyard with places to stop and talk.
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For Kahn the perfect school was a courtyard of institutional opportunities ‌ combined with monastic cells for individual contemplation. Students were free in such a setting to establish their own relationship with each other and with the available resources.
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Lacaton Vassal School Nantes
RCKa Youth Centre London
District Courts
1.double height entrance space 2.white restaurant 3.training kitchen 4.delivery, storage and waste room beside service lift 5.demo kitchen storage 6.public demo kitchen 7.toilets 8.spill out space 9.delivery point 10.public space
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white restaurant dining hall seminar space staff room and board room office space lecture hall double height entrance space toilets and storage facilities
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View along Greek Street
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SECTION AND PART ELEVATION
BUILDING THRESHOLDS AND SITE EDGES
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1 5mm stainless steel flashing 2 145 concrete upstand 3 damp proof membrane 4 drainage 5 floor lining and skirting board 6 50mm perimeter insulation 7 90mm screed with floor heating 8 vapour control layer 9 140mm insulation 10 20mm warmboard 11 steel amgle
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65 mm paving 100 mm soil 150mm gravel 200 mm compacted soil hardcore
Foundation Detail
DETAIL STUDY
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SCALE 1:5
EAVES, WINDOW, FOUNDATION
1 35 x 145 mm timber batten 2 35 x135 mm timber batten 3 steel angle 4 80 mm aluminium rail 5 5mm pressed aluminium drip 6 5mm pressed aluminium reveal and soffit 7 fixed aluminium window 8 slidimg aluminium door 9 pressed aluminium cill 10 80mm aluminium rail fixed onto timber batten 11 sheating board 12 40mm polycarbonate panel
Window Detail
1 150mm insulation 2 5 mm roof membrane 3 timber fillet 4 5mm roof membrane 5 100mm wide insulation 6 5mm pressed aluminium capping 7 10mm WBP plywood 8 60x50mm timber batten 9 5mm pressed aluminium capping 10 5mm pressed aluminium bracket 11 100 x 170mm timber bracket 12 170mm rigid insulation 13 foil faced insulation 14 160x60mm timber batten 15 steel angle 16 40mm polycarbonate panel 17 80mm aluminium bracket fixed onto sheating board and timber batten
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Scenography; Canteen Space - Culinary School
Porto Housing Project Semester Two, Second Year
Bakery Semester One, Third Year
Bakery Model
Hollowcore Floor Slab Insulation Block Work Retaining Wall
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Structural Model
03 01 Preparation and Prouving Counter 02 Oven 03 Storage and set down
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Ruadhan; A Chapel for Bread Scale 1:50 Nicola Kenny
Fish Market Semester One, Third Year
Natural Space - Crosshaven Co. Cork Semester One, Second Year
Technology Module Drawing Samples Semester Two, Second Year
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ACCESS &EGRESS TYPICAL STAIR CORE SCALE 1:50, 1:5
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Gender: An Architectural Agenda Semester Two, Second Year
Furniture Design
The Dolmen Table Semester One, First Year
Fighting Words - The Gate Theatre - Theatre Making Project for People in Direct Provision Summer 2018
https://www.gatetheatre.ie/fightingwords-at-the-gate/ https://www.gatetheatre.ie/blog-iifighting-words-at-the-gate/
Watercolour; Crosshaven, Co.Cork
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