Architecture Portfolio by Nikolas Theodore Stagkos

Nikolaos Theodoros Stagkos Architecture Portfolio

NOTE In the following pages, you will find a selection of working concepts and architectural drawings of both building and urban scale, in the context of university studio projects. My work concentrates on themes of a social, economic and political character, with projects in London, France and Poland. Small and large scale designs spanning from urban university networks, social housing, neglected industries to fragmented cities are addressing contemporary issues through educational, social and economic components. Nikolas - Theodore Stagkos a

CONTENTS

project 01: M.Arch Year 02 Written Thesis 06 Urban Strategy & Masterplan 08 Design Thesis 14 project 02: M.Arch Year 01 Urban Strategy & Masterplan 22 Detailed Design Proposal 26 project 03: BA(Hons) Year 03 Term 01 32 Year 03 Term 02 36 project 04: BA(Hons) Year 02 Term 02 44

M.Arch Architecture Final Year Written Thesis Master of Archtiecture

Re-thinking the Tenement Block via ‘Ownership’ and ‘Porosity’

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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Thesis submitted as part of the Plymouth University M.Arch Year 2 module ARCH753 ‘Emerging Research in Architecture’ supervised by Dr Nikolina Bobic. It has been published at the Academic Excellence in Research Journal of Plymouth University.

Abstract

The essay sets to investigate ways of achieving a socially and economically sustainable community by re-thinking the tenement block typology, in Słupsk, Poland. The town will be treated as a signifier of any degraded Polish post-communist rural town. The majority of the towns’ architecture is consisted of semi-inhabited tenement blocks, a typology that derived at the dawn of the 20th century and its historical and architectural evolution is evident particularly in the ex-countries of the Eastern Bloc. The re-thinking of this typology will be addressed through Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘porosity’, whereby the concept, will be treated as a variable to discuss ‘ownership’ retrospectively in relation to economy, society and architecture in pre WWII times (1900s-1940s), the years under communist regime (1940s-1980s), and modern times (1980s-present). The tenement block will be the means to understand the sociospatial structure of ‘ownership’, by critically examining the historical development, use and appropriation of the typology. Questions dealing with utilitarianism and socioeconomics will be brought to the foreground to address the underlying and less visible disciplinary domains of architecture and urbanism. Moreover, alongside the historical unpacking of this typology, the paper’s agenda will be underpinned by closely examining the economic and political context in the Eastern Bloc during the 20th century (Berend), the ‘Right to the City’ (Harvey) and the politicisation and disciplinary domains of architecture (Polo).

‘BERLIN’ BLOCK TYPOLOGY

‘ONE HERE / ONE THERE’

1909

Original 1900s block vs. Post WWII Damanged Status (Słupsk) “The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” Harvey, David. 2008. ‘The Right To The City’. New Left Review 53: 23-40. Web. 27 Oct. 2015. “Time is integral to an understanding of urban affect. […] Reconfiguring the urban in terms of time and movement. Time and movement should not be understood as simple generalities. They are given a specific configuration within the urban context that has to do with the use of porosity as a temporal concept rather than a purely spatial one.” Benjamin, Andrew. 2005. ‘Porosity At The Edge:’. Architectural Theory Review 10.1: 33-43. Web. 27 Oct. 2015. “Within this context it is vital to produce an updated politics of architecture in which the discipline is not merely reduced to a representation of ideal political concepts, but conceived as an effective tool to produce change. Rather than returning to ideology and a contemporary politicization of architecture needs to relocate politics within specific disciplinary domains – not as a representation of an ideal concept of the political but as a political effect specific to the discipline.” Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. 2008. ‘Politics Of The Envelope’. C-Lab 17: Content Management: 76-105. Print.

BUILDING PARTS OPEN DOORS LINKED TO DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES LACK OF CARE/ FAMILIARITY COMMUNITY WITH PRIDE COMMUNITY NEIGHBOURS

INFORMAL ‘UTILITARIAN’ OCCUPATION OF ENTRY SPACES NEEDS: - PARK - OPEN SPACE - STORAGE - CAR PARK

Notes on the Possibilities and the Porosity of the Courtyard (Słupsk)

Main Bibliography

Benjamin, Andrew. 2005. ‘Porosity At The Edge:’. Architectural Theory Review 10.1: 33-43. Web. 27 Oct. 2015. Benjamin, Walter, and Rolf Tiedemann. 1999. The Arcades Project (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press) Berend, Iván T. 1986. “The historical evolution of Eastern Europe as a region”, International Organization, 40: 329-346 Blencowe, C. 2008. “Destroying Duration: The Critical Situation of Bergsonism in Benjamin’s Analysis of Modern Experience”, Theory, Culture & Society, 25: 139-158 <http://dx.doi. org/10.1177/0263276408091988> Hanssen, Beatrice. 2006. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades project (London: Continuum), pp. 245-250 Harvey, David. 2010. ‘The Future Of The Commons’. Radical History Review 2011.109: 101107. Web. Harvey, David. 2008. ‘The Right To The City’. New Left Review 53: 23-40. Web. 27 Oct. 2015. Hatherley, Owen. 2015. ‘Housing In The Eastern Bloc’. Architectural-review.com. N.p. Web. 5 Nov. 2015. Rolleston, James L. 1989. ‘The Politics Of Quotation: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project’. PMLA 104.1: 13-27. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. 2008. ‘Politics Of The Envelope’. C-Lab 17: Content Management: 76-105. Print.

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WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE: - ENCLOSED - COURTYARD (SEMI - PRIVATE)

DESTABILISING TERRITORIES

CITY HALL ALREADY WORKING ON A PLAN (ASSOCIATION WITH NGOs)

PROTO-CITY TUTOR(S): SIMON BRADBURY, ANDY HUMPHREYS, ALONA MARTINEZ-PEREZ, ALESSANDRO AURIGI

Master of Archtiecture

GROUP (WITH): M. WERDON, T. WHETTINGSTEEL, A. WIGHITMAN

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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The following the project was initiated by invitation of the local councils of Słupsk and Ustka, as well as the architeture department of the University of Gdnask, in order to generate and present by June 2016, alternative strategic regeneration frameworks for both cities. The urban strategy project of term one, showed an alternative development potential Slupsk and Ustka. The project addressed a particular set of issues addressing both cities, Ustka in a greater scale than Slupsk, and provided an alternative strategy for a ‘dual-city’ innitiative, for the prosperity of both communities. The project proposed the creation of local interventions in the city of Słupsk that solve social and environmental problems. The sites in Słupsk are fed by a large redevelopment in Ustka using natural resources and waste products from the sea to lead research into environmental building technologies and alternative fuels. The site in Ustka included a public realm that can lead to a more sustainable form of tourism. Research carried out in Ustka is implemented in the live test-bed of Słupsk. The creation of more jobs through development of these technologies and their implementation on communities will help address the debt and declining population facing the city. The two cities are combined to form the Proto-City, the mechanics of which are about seeking for economic and social sustainability, through future implementations of innovative, research based protocols, new means of productions, both of ideas and materials that have an immediate positive impact on daily lives and are as affordable as possible, activating the local communities to participate first hand in the inception and production stages. In other words, that strategy sets up the basis for the development of a participatory model, with schemes carrying immediate socioeconomic benefits, run and organized by an empowered community.

dual-city concept

PHASE 01

DECLINING POPULATION

educators FUEL POVERTY

scientists students

local residents

TEST-BED

URBAN SPRAWL

LACK OF GRADUATE JOBS

RUN DOWN BUILDINGS

research

scientists

PHASE 03

tor y proc ess

outputs

mass production

PHASE 04

data &

application

fee back

local residents material collection Ustka

rch resea

collection

DISCONNECTED CITIES

LACK OF GRADUATE JOBS

ion at

RESOURCES

processing

OVER-RELIANCE ON TOURISM

material waste natural resources

research & development

industrial process to s

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storage ed uc

prototype lu psk

shipping

waste outputs & other applications

ADVANCED INCEPTION & STRATEGIC DESIGN

so urc e le arning

scientists

PHASE 02

lab ora

students

resource deliver

ustka as a cata lyst

sample

micro scale issues

SÅ&#x201A;upsk

POOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

DECEMBER 2015 | TERM 01

outputs

USTKA MASTERPLAN

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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seaweed harvest

Material Storage / Processing (02) Material delivery from the Baltic sea Material export to SĹ&#x201A;upsk Material cleaning and processing (For Prototype Workshops)

Research & Development / Education (03) Scientific research and development labs Higher education infrastructure

2 3

Aquarium (04) Existing Fishing & Industry (05) Existing functioning businesses Visitor based exhibitions Fish Market Prototype Workshops (06) Processed material delivery Workshops for current prototyping projects Prototype export

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Master of Archtiecture

Visitor Centre (01) Marine Science Museum Conference Centre / Cinema Research & Development Exhibitions

4 1:500 sectional model 01

5 6 7

Public Exhibition (07) Display of previously produced prototypes

export to SĹ&#x201A;upsk

Alternative Material Fabrication (02) Raw material storage Research & Development Laboratories Factory (mass production)

4 3 1

Main Hub (03) Scientific research and development Open source learning Public workshops

C 1:500 sectional model 03

Public Exhibition (04)

1:500 sectional model 03

export to poland

ADVANCED INCEPTION & STRATEGIC DESIGN

Energy Production Facility (01) Raw materials storage Research & Development Laboratories Energy plant

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SLUPSK MASTERPLAN

perfected research USTKA | research | STAGE 1 PROGRAMME STAGES

PHASE 2

perfected research

prototype

SLUPSK HUB | production |

increased harvest

PHASE 2

ASE

raw materials increased harvest

raw materials

E1 2 STAGE

prototype PH residents’ A Sfeedback SLUPSK HUB | production | STAGE 2

residents’ feedback

raw materials

PHASE 3

city-wide & out

STAGE 2 PHASE 3 mass material &

SLUPSK HUB | production |

energy production residents’ feedback

mass material & E2 energy production

PHASE 4PHASE 4 PHASE 4

Master of Archtiecture

prototype

PHA

city-wide & out

PHASfactory E 3 & energy plant city-wide & out

main hub

factory & energy plant

mass material E 2& Slupsk microhubs | application: Stages 3 energy production Prototypes from the Ustka Research Centre main hub| will be used to construct MicroHubs which will SLUPSK MICROHUBS | application factory & energy plant be distributed in residential blocks through E2 out Słupsk. These MicroHubs will encourage block development SLUPSK MICROHUBS | application | HASE 3 community engagement and social activity, P main hub repaired homes be used as classrooms and workshops for social, economic sustainability blockenergy development the vocational courses based in the Słupsk autonomy 3 E S A H P Production Hub. They can also be occupied for SLUPSK MICROHUBS | application | repaired homes business start-ups, as exhibition spaces and other social, economic sustainability energy autonomy community based activities. The long term aim of biofuel production on blocks block development 3 E building material application S the MicroHubs is to catalyse community lead PHA information hubs repaired homes regeneration of the urban block.

PHA

STAGE 3

biofuel production on blocks building material application

microhubs

biofuel production on blocks building material application microhubs

microhubs

PHASE 4PHASE 4 PHASE 4

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

perfected research

Slupsk hub | production: Stage 2 Production of the materials and technologies developed in the UstkaResearch Centre will be undertaken in a factory process in the centre of Słupsk.This Production Hub will also teach residents of the city vocational skills through education programmes. As with the Ustka Research Centre, the whole process is intended to be on display to the general population to encourage community involvement.

PHASE 2

STAGE 1

PHA

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Ustka | research: Stage 1 Taking full advantage of the marine environment in Ustka, a research and product development centre will initiate the Proto-City movement. Raw materials in the form of natural ocean resources or pollutants will act as a main physical input, with construction based materials or clean energy technologies as an eventual output.

USTKA | research |

PHASE 3PHASE 3 PHASE 3

PROGRAMME STAGES

increased harvest

social, economic sustainability energy autonomy

P H A S E 1 information hubs PHASE 1 PHASE 1

information hubs

individual payment

research develops

maintains an open access research in collaboration ERA* participatory council retainswith landtheownership institutions

corporation is founded as through goverment or students participation a development model to manage and finance individual programmes payment the two research and production

government & EU grants

H Aprogramme - infrastructure & environment research centre SE 1 - smart growth programme

EU funds 2014-2020 New Financial Framework

*ERA: european research area

a non-profit - knowledge, education, growth programme corporation is founded as - regional operational programme a development model to manage and finance - EU: COST programme the two research and production programmes council retains land ownership government & EU grants government grants -EUnational strategic reference framework funds 2014-2020 New Financial Framework ministry of science & higher education research grants -- infrastructure & environment programme polishgrowth academy of sciences -- smart programme a non-profit institute of fundamental technological research -- knowledge, education, growth programme corporation is founded as - regional operational programme model to manage and finance a development - EU: COST programme the two research and production programmes

PHA

government grants

SE 1

STAGE 2

- national strategic reference framework SLUPSK HUBEU | funds production | Financial 2014-2020 New Framework

ministry of science & higher education research grants -- infrastructure & environment programme polishgrowth academy of sciences -- smart programme -- knowledge, institute of fundamental technological research education, growth programme - regional operational programme - EU: COST programme

increased production export materials & energy to private investors government grants national strategic reference framework SLUPSK HUB | production | - ministry of science & higher education research grants - polish academy of sciences local residents - institute of fundamental technological research local residents get permenant job volunteer participation required payment

STAGE 2E 3 PHAS

increased production

slupsk hub | SLUPSK HUB | production

export materials & energy to private investors

STAGE 2 HASE 3 P

local residents get permenant job council retains land ownership

local residents engineers & factory stuff volunteer participation participation

required payment

slupsk hub

factory setup

PHAS EE32 PHAS

factory setup

PHAS

factory setup

PHAS

slupsk hub

STAGE 3council retains land ownership

large scale implimantation & development factory is developed using the

NPOs & NGOs generate profit

PGE capital group (largest energy sector in poland) as private investor local residents involvement

NPOs & NGOs generate profit

P H ASE

STAGEPH3ASE 3

business startups

council funded from city’s local residents involvement infrstructure budget

SE 4 PHA

NPOs & NGOs are involved in the proto-city scheme

SE 4 PHA

large scale implimantation & development

slupsk microhubs buying shares off the SLUPSK MICROHUBS | application |

PGE capital group (largest energy sector in poland) as private investor

STAGEPH3ASE 3

local NPOs & NGOs are ustka funds as an extension of the buying shares off the ustka|processes; SLUPSK MICROHUBS application |& those eu corporation and government funds are vital to coordinate the microhubs setting up the program and the NPOs & NGOs are involved within slupsk’s deprivedinfrastructure requiredscheme to support it in the proto-city blocks

corporation and coordinate the microhubs within slupsk’s deprived blocks

PGE capital group (largest energy sector in poland) as private investor local residents get permenant job council retains land ownership required payment

factory is developed using the ustka funds as an extension of the SLUPSK MICROHUBS application | & stuff engineersthose & factory ustka|processes; eu participation government funds are vital to setting up the program and the infrastructure required to support it

local NPOs & NGOs are

export materials & energy to private investors

SE PHA 4

factory is developed using the ustka funds an extension of the local as residents ustka processes; those eu & stuff volunteer participation engineers & factory government funds are vital to participation setting up the program and the infrastructure required to support it

SE PHA 4

increased production

initially organised as information hubsNPOs & NGOs generate profit large scale implimantation & development

P HA SEP1HA SE 3

P H ASE

slupsk microhubs

council funded from city’s local residents involvement infrstructure budget

initially organised as information hubs

PHAS

slupsk microhubs

PHASE 1

seen as typologies prototyped

business startups

SE 4 PHA

local NPOs & NGOs are buying shares off the corporation and seen as typologies prototyped coordinate the microhubs in the ustka centre by students NPOs & NGOs are involved within slupsk’s deprived in the proto-city scheme blocks

business startups

ADVANCED INCEPTION & STRATEGIC DESIGN

institutions

sell research patents to private investrors

SE PHA 4

Slupsk microhubs | application: Stages 3 The MicroHubs are viewed as an extension or replacement of the councils existing infrastructure and regeneration budget. Money which is currently being expended on regenerating individual apartments and courtyards would be spread more fairly through the city. The expectation is that residents would be coerced into contributing to repairs in exchange for practical skills and knowledge.

HASE AS1 E 2 a non-profitPH scientists participation required payment

research centre

PHASE 4

Slupsk hub | production: Stage 2 The Słupsk Production Hub is viewed as an extension of the Ustka programme and also relies on EU funding for construction. Once again financial independence is expected through the export of material goods and clean energy.

government & EU grants research develops P

PHASE 4

Ustka | research: Stage 1 The Proto-City movement will be managed by a Non-Profit Organisation with the welfare of the city as its primary agenda. The funding for the Ustka Research Centre will come primarily from EU grant funding, with an eventual aim of the centre becoming financially independent. It is envisaged that income will be made from research grants, patent sales and consultancy fees, as well as income from visitors to the centre.

maintains an open access research in collaboration

ERA* participatory council retainswith landtheownership

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through goverment or individual payment

students participation

PHASE 4

sell research patents to private investrors *ERA: european research area

USTKA | research | STAGE 1 PHASE 2 scientists participation required payment

research centre

ECONOMIC STAGES

research in collaboration with the ERA* participatory institutions

M.Arch Architecture Final Year Design Thesis Master of Archtiecture

Public Bathhouse: toward a participatory model for urban healthcare

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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Supervising tutors: Simon Bradbury, Andy Humphreys, Alona Martinez-Perez, Alessandro Aurigi Won the design award by Plymouth University for M.Arch Year 2 & a design award nomination by HLM Architects for M.Arch Year 2. This design project aspires to further develop the debate on the resolution of the afore-mentioned key issues that Ustka is dealing with. My design research shifts from alternative forms of material production and innovation, toward innovation for social benefits. That is to say, it exploits local issues, such as peak tourism, and poor community engagement, and most of all will pick up on the fact that Ustka is a designated Spa Town. I intend to oppose that status, which I believe it is to blame for the over-reliance on tourism and the false identity the town has received. Tourism should be neither seasonal nor the facilities used should be exclussively for hotel clients. Ustka has per majority an elderly population during winter months, with no plans by the local council to improve their way of life, or any medical and relaxation facilities. The nearest major hospital is in Slupsk, with poor transport links. Wider theoretical influences will include the concept of the ‘participatory management model’, the agenda of ‘urban health systems’ and ‘primary healthcare investments’, as well as the architectural theory of the ‘mat building typology’, and precedents on ancient methods of cleansing and spirituality, such as the ‘Japanese sento ritual’ and the ancient ‘Ottoman bathhouse’.

why healthcare?

poor community engagement

disconnected cities

As the design proposal is about an alternative primary healthcare facility - a public bathhouse - the discussion is focussing on how to bring the healthcare agenda into space. The main incentives are two key issues: Ustka’s designation as a Spa Town and the dominant elderly population. That particular population group is the reason for seeking social benefits that can be extracted from the designation of the Spa Town.

Research and analysis were conducted into the World Health Organization and European Union initiatives on urban health systems run through participatory management models. This discussion intends to reflect upon the aim of the urban health systems as to invest in improving the primary care, ensuring local communities a high quality life. Based upon that, a new healthcare model is devised, run through participatory management. The new model sets to provide 3 types of healthcare services, one based on relaxation, one based on treatment and finally one based on leisure. The building is accompanied by a masterplan that includes means and implementations that promote the idea of the urban health systems, that of healthy living and new means of investing into the public health policies of the future, falling under the agenda of trying to keep people out of hospitals.

woodland loss 15,000 winter population majority of which are above median age

overeliance on tourism

de-gentrifying the spa concept

ADVANCED DETAILED DESIGN

7. 4.

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summary of tourist attractions & further development

east-west passage

Master of Archtiecture

boats in/out

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lighthouse WWII bunker

marina

old dock crane 3

town hall

fish market

church cinema

train station

Industrial site Key building Visual restrictions

Industrial zone Residential zone Tourism development area Pedestrian promenade Main road Possible pedestrian link Woodland

site attractions

old dock crane

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dock

train station

fish market

Industrial zone Residential zone Key buildings Rail tracks Woodland Pedestrian promenade

JUNE 2016 | TERM 02

marina

ADVANCED DETAILED DESIGN

zoning

Master of Archtiecture

mat concept in relation to planning grid

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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JUNE 2016 | TERM 02

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ADVANCED DETAILED DESIGN

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Master of Archtiecture

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UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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1. sport activities hub 2. community hub 3. information 4. conference room 5. office 6. indoor bath 7. ventilation control room 8. wc 9. showers 10. changing room 11. sauna 12. steam room 13. outdoor bath 14. reception 15. access to treatment volume 16. information 17. registration 18. circulation core 19. utility room 20. chp control room 21. digester loading bay 22. chp & digester facility 23. public square 24. public realm for community activities 25. public swimming lane

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ADVANCED DETAILED DESIGN

participatory management

JUNE 2016 | TERM 02

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healthcare as a public good

Tottenham Hale: Symbiosis TestBed Master of Archtiecture

TUTOR(S): SIMON BRADBURY, KRZYSZTOF NAWRATEK, ALONA MARTINEZ PEREZ

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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Group (with): K. Donovan, T. Whettinsteel The following project was initiated by invitation of the local council of Haringey and local community groups, such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Our Tottenham Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, in order to generate and present by June 2015, alternative strategic regeneration frameworks for the local area. The following urban strategy & masterplan were the basis for the development of a detailed design proposal that followed Janurary 2015-June 2015. The scheme seeks on producing an alternate model for regeneration in Tottenham Hale. The project acts as prototype which can be modified to be used throughout Tottenham. The scheme is looking at changing the current negative perception of industry, which seems to be a common theme in deprived areas of London. Currently Industrial areas surrounding Fountayne road and Ashley Road are underdeveloped and under used. In saying that, however, there are a number of important industries and business in the area which are key assets to the community. The project aspires to work with these industries and enhance both the business and also the area as a whole. Currently the council are under pressure to produce 10000 new homes and 5000 new jobs. Community groups are feeling threatened with the fear of gentrification which could happen if these targets are met. Some redevelopment schemes around Tottenham have already forced residents and business to move out. The project proposes new ways in thinking that will benefit both the residents, community groups and the council. This project examines and questions the current status of the industrial estates north and south of the retail park and re-thinks the negative perception of industry. The primary agenda will be focusing on proposing a new model of urban re-industrialisation through a Tottenham-wide network of industrial symbiosis. Fountayne Road becomes a test-bed of industrial synergies, examining ways that will generate a sustainable industrial symbiosis model. It seeks for economic, social and energy benefits between industry and non-industry, co-existing within the same locale.

symbiosis network

a. b.

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INCEPTION & STRATEGIC DESIGN

urban farming symbiosis network user N-S public route

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

page 24 Master of Archtiecture

INCEPTION & STRATEGIC DESIGN

Utility courtyard of the industrial block

Penetrable facade as way-in to public route

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Hybrid edge

Open market as node

phase 01 phase 02 phase 03

Knowledge Hub: prototype & testing centre

site identification

Master of Archtiecture

TUTOR(S): SIMON BRADBURY, KRZYSZTOF NAWRATEK, ALONA MARTINEZ PEREZ

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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A Symbiotic Growth and Research Network (S.G.R.N) is formulated to run a collective scheme. The building proposal is the Knowledge Hub - Prototype and Testing Centre - of the industrial symbiosis network. It contains a chp prototype and small scale glass recycling processes, educational spaces, open source and private laboratories, as well as an open market for urban farming products. In summary, is about community and science coming together under a knowledge hub. Educational and research programs are met within the same volume, in the centre of the building, with an industrial spectacle taking place within the same space and economic activities on ground level, turning the hub into a learning, industrial and economic node within the masterplan.

DETAILED DESIGN

site strategy

JUNE 2015 | TERM 02

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public space vehicle access

Master of Archtiecture UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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auditorium: educational spectacle

tectonics of the ground floor path way

DETAILED DESIGN JUNE 2015 | TERM 02

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arrival into the Hub through urban farms

glass bottle drop-off station

design manual industrial processes

classrooms

BRIDGE

Master of Archtiecture

[industrial occupation]

5. 4. 3. 2. 1. main route [assembling the structure]

ACCESS

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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to: open source labs

VIEWS

open source labs industrial ďŹ&#x201A;oor

main volume

auditorium ACCESS

ACCESS || VIEWS

speaker public square

EDUCATIONAL SPECTACLE

DETAILED DESIGN

public square

to: glass recyling from: live-work units

to: digester facility

main route

JUNE 2015 | TERM 02

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Translation from drawing to dwelling

BA(Hons) Architecture

SUPERVISING TUTOR(S): LUIS DIAZ, SEAN ALBUQUERQUE

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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Studio 12: Spatial Projections Term 01 and Term 02 of the final year of my BA(Hons) Architecture at the University of Brighton, are part of a vertical studio project that run from September 2013 to June 2014. The themes and ideas discussed in the first term project led to the project outcome of second term. My work in the last year of BA(Hons) was about spatial manipulations, articulation of the architectural tectonics and the journey from the analysis of a modernist Alvar Aalto house, to manipulating the spatial qualities and creating rules for housing in a dense urban block, to re-discovering the ‘mat’ building typology within an about to be demolished social housing estate, Robin Hood Gardens (Alison & Peter Smithson) in Poplar, London. With an added element of socio-politically driven site investigation in the start of term 02 - as part of the site analysis requirements for the design project - I was led to the creation of a social housing scheme, through which I re-invented the ‘mat’ building typology, by carrying the architectural elements discovered in Aalto’s house analysis. The following term 01 project began with a study of Avlar Aalto’s Maison Louis Carré in Bazoches-surGuyonne, France. Through a series of drawings, I unravelled its organic form, the clever distinction between the formal and informal spaces of the hosue and a well-thought-out spatial orchestration, organised according to use and public and private conditions. Through manipulation and tweaking of the architectural tectonics discovered in Maison Carré, I jumped up a scale to create an imaginary housing scheme within a dense urban block, evolving around a live-work distinction within the unit. In a dense urban block, all livespaces are facing toward the interior of the block to enhance the development of a micro-community within the streets and communal areas of the block, whereas the work-spaces are gathered toward the exterior of the block. That way a direct connection is made of the housing block to the city, as a place of work and other economic activities.

maison carré

DECEMBER 2013 | TERM 01

DETAILED DESIGN STUDIO

30o-30o isometric - process diagrams

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BA(Hons) Architecture

60o-30o axonometric

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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45o axonometric: internal circulation of the block

DECEMBER 2013 | TERM 01

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DETAILED DESIGN STUDIO

Translation from drawing to dwelling

orchestrating a social fabric [8]

[1][2]

[3]

[4]

[9]

[6]

[5] [10] [7]

BA(Hons) Architecture

SUPERVISING TUTOR(S): LUIS DIAZ, SEAN ALBUQUERQUE

Studio 12: Spatial Projections TERM 02 | MAT BUILDING TYPOLOGY: HOUSING SCHEME Examining through section relational activities among the ‘mat’ building and between the Robin Hood Garden blocks: As circulation is an important aspect of the ‘mat’ system, the ‘streets in the sky’ concept by the Smithsons are found under constant repetition within the ‘mat’ building. That, as well as the purpose of each courtyard being another factor, defines suitable distances between the units and the blocks. In addition the semi-rationalised grid upon which the structure of the housing scheme is based, suggests where there is spatial flexibility to repeat a ‘street in the sky’ or just add a narrower pathway.

SECTION AA’

[1] [2]

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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[Kevin Lynch]: The term is refering to types of ‘pointreference’. Under this framework, particular buildings are becoming nodes for navigation with the area. A garden or a park is considered a space for publci and communal activities. The green area of Robin Hood Gardens is neglected from the green network around the market. A’

Territory within territory Within the site constraints of the public an private domains, among the housing blocks a series of sitespecific territories is created. Among the estates: enclosed pedestrian paths create a neighboring condition and green areas which correspend to those paths. Among the private housing: privacy is a key aspect of the block, creating gated communities and block-exclusive parks.

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PRIVATE DEVELOPMENTS

council domain private developments public domain private domain main traffic routes rail tracks highways

PUBLIC DOMAIN PRIVATE DOMAIN

MAIN TRAFFIC ROUTES RAIL TRACKS HIGHWAYS

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COUNCIL HOUSING

Routes and domains The local transport infrastructre becomes the grid upon which the building territories are situated. The highway works as a physical boundary between the public and private domain. The trasportation infrastructure functions in a very strategic way. It forms and applies the first constrains on the terrain of the area and assists the division into territories.

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Figure ground plan The individual-building territory of the council housing and private sector is generating a pattern. The shape generated by the council estates suggests a courtyard pattern whereas the in the private sector, the layout is enhancing the privacy of each block.

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mat building within site context

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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The proposed ‘mat’ building as a housing scheme within the site of Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, London, is directly linked to the surroundings as a piece of the urban sprawl. The scheme includes a live-work component. It’s plan directs from the DLR station to the primary school, through a commercial strip. It fits in an area that historically has been a place of trade and market, the Docklands. This city block, is a crossroad between a primary traffic artery (East India Road), the Tower Hamlets Town Hall and the Blackwall Tunnel; located in a part of the city where housing estates define the skyline, as Canary Wharf on the S-W is being blocked by massive infrastructure that serves as a barrier between social housing and the development of financial activities. Yet, that particular development has started to expand beyond the barrier of the highway, through private housing developments, thus constituting the ‘mat’ building as an attempt to maintain the Robin Hood Gardens Estate (which is currently threatened under demolition) and create a socially sustainable environment through the live-work component.

In the plan is evident how a programmed grid is being formulated, to define more clearly a ‘mat’ system that expands and contracts, a system that contextualises within the surrounding urban environment.

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The questions the plan raises are about how does a ‘mat’ system work? The area in the south of the plan is intended for a welcome space to the rigid commercial strip that runs through the spine of the ‘mat’; and the area in the north, is intended for a public plaza, an extension of the school’s yard.

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In the plan, the corridor functions as a spine to the ‘mat’ building. Movement becomes a key component to activate the public, private formal, informal, live-work spaces of the ‘mat’. A journey that uses courtyards as ground circulation nodes, but never as a vestibule.

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structural concept

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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The plan of ‘mat’ system, hosting a live-work environment: The live-work components become the main elements of this system, upon which functions are set accordingly. The work element is a hard edge of commercial spaces that defines the direction N-S of the plan, as well as the primary public element of it. It lies on a series of load-bearing walls which, structurewise become the backbone of the system. Right and left of this solid piece of structure the live element is allowed to expand and contract on a semi-rationalised column grid. This set-up is suitable for an economically viable structure. The proposed housing scheme, as a ‘mat’ building, doesn’t only suggest spatial flexibility, but it balances the spatial aspect to the economic flexibility of the design. As the expensive - load bearing structure - supports the work element (public spaces for commercial use) the indication of the grid in the live element allows for a flexible timber structure, where choices in claddings can set the tone and character for courtyards, routes, shafts, etc.

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revised mat plan

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technical details

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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A. Wall, window and ground floor - brick cladding 215mmx102.5mmx65mm - cavity 50mm - damp proof membrane 10mm - thermal insulation 200mm - timber panel 35mm Window: 2k aluminium clad flush casement / double glazed window - hard-fired floor tiles 30mm - screed (with underfloor heating insulation) 60mm - separating layer (fleece) 13mm - impact sound insulation 27mm - reinforced concrete 250mm - lean concrete 50mm B. Party wall and staircase base - timber panel 35mm - themal and accoustic insulation 60mm - cavity 50mm - thermal and accoustic insulation 60mm - timber panel 35mm - timber panel 30mm - screed 60mm - separating layer (fleece) 15mm - impact sound insulation 27mm - reinforced concrete 250mm - lean concrete 50mm

E. Wall and lightweight floor construction - timber shingles 300mmx10mm - horizontal timber battens 40mmx20mm - vertical timber battens 40mmx40mm - thermal insulation around transverse ribs 200mm - airtight membrane 10mm - solid timber panel 35mm

- solid timber floorboarc (tongue and groove) - counter battens with insulation in-between 40mmx30mm - rubber strips as separating layer beneath battens for impact sound insulation 10mm - solid timber panel 90mm

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D. Balcony door and accessible flat roof without ventilation - accessible wearing course (terrace tiles) 30mm - protective and rainage layer 15mm - airtight membrane 10mm - thermal and impact sound insulation 45mm - timber panel 90mm

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C. Party wall betwen two units - timber panel 35mm - themal and accoustic insulation 60mm - wateproof layer 10mm - cavity 50mm - waterproof layer 10mm - thermal and accoustic insulation 60mm - timber panel 35mm

Urban University Network SUPERVISING TUTOR(S): ALEX WARNOCKSMITH, JAN NAUTA

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Studio 10: Intergrate & Innovate

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

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The project is about an urban university network created within the area limits of Whitechapel, London. It is a network of educational hubs with core building that deals with urban form of knowledge delivery and exchage. The stimuli for this project derived from a site visit across the border of Whitechapel and the City of London. What is evident there, is the gap in the level of education between the City and Whitechapel - as the first is a high profile business district, whereas the latter is amongst the most deprived areas of London. Yet the great number of institutions in Whitechapel aspired to investigate places where knowledge was being exchanged and delivered. The concept of the urban university communicates with urban forms of knowledge delivery. This is translated and actualised within a series of formal and informal spaces of knowledge exchange. It includes a network of educational hubs, ‘the partners’ and a core building with a series of educational volumes, ‘the exchange types’. The partners as part of their curriculum include classes, lectures and seminars in the core building of the network. The building has a series of components. It is consisted of 8 exchange volumes: the ‘screens’ that provide with maps of the network of the various hubs of the area - they include a series of entry and introductory spaces such as information desk and news rooms - a library where there is retrieval of archived knowledge, the meeting rooms - enclosed spaces for focus on information - the seminar rooms - enclosed spaces, 20-25 people, programmed for collective learning - an auditorium which ends the sequence with programmed lectures, the café that serves as an informal space - where discussions occur in between the breaks of the auditorium lectures - the surfaces - a resting space in the centre of the ground floor, located on the bottom of a noise void created within the central circulation ramp, right and left of which the 4 floors of learning spaces are unravelling, and finally the corridors and the walkways which intertwine the rooms.

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BALCONY

RELAX STUDY BOOK RETRIEVAL

THIS SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT SUGGEST A SEQUENCIAL USE OF THE LIBRARY

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TUTOR ENTERING THE CLASSROOM FOR A PRIVATE TUTORIAL

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BOOK RETURN STAND

PROFESSOR ENTERING THE AUDITORIUM FOR A SCHEDULED LECTURE COMPUTERS WITH LIBRARY’S CATALOGUE, OVERLOOKING THE SEATING AREA OF THE AUDITORIUM

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