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Oluwaseeto Tanimola
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OLUWASEETO TANIMOLA +447881678620 | oluwaseetot@gmail.com | www.oluwaseeto.com
PROFILE
EDUCATION
A Masters of Architecture (RIBA Part 2) student, a self taught graphic artist and versatile creative with major interests in sustainable architecture, passive design and social housing. Looking to work in a practice that affords the opportunity to collaborate with professionals in other related disciplines and create new exciting projects. MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, UK 2017 - 2019 Research Topic: Can Flexible Architecture Solve housing Problems in Lagos, Nigeria? BSC. ARCHITECTURE COVENANT UNIVERSITY, NIGERIA 2013 - 2017 First Class Honours Psychology, Entrepreneural Development Studies, Building Components and Methods, Building Structures, Urban Planning
EXPERIENCE
ARCHI-PLUS CONSULT LAGOS, NIGERIA | June - September 2018 Architectural Intern • Produced construction documents for 3 buildings in Lagos State using AutoCAD, Revit, Lumion and Photoshop as part of a 4 man team, ensured that the drawings were ready for approval 1 month earlier than scheduled. • Conducted internal training sessions for 4 undergraduate students on Revit, Lumion and Photoshop software • Managed the company website and increased website traffic by 20% by implementing new technology involving live customer response SYRACUSE DIGITAL LAGOS, NIGERIA | May - August 2016 Graphic Design Intern • Designed and created social media advert campaigns for 4 companies including Gionee Nigeria and Purit antiseptics in a very limited amount of time, thus increasing online visibility and customer engagement on social media of the products by 40%. • Designed and developed an advertisement video for HireFreehands.com using 2D illustration and with After Effects software BRANDLEY CONSULTING LAGOS, NIGERIA | May - August 2016 Architectural Intern • Carried out research, design and produced building drawings for various commercial buildings within and outside Lagos including commercial bank, Wema Bank • Presented to clients during bi weekly client meetings using PowerPoint about the progress of ongoing projects; attended site meetings with the lead consultant after client recommendations.
SKILLS
Revit Architecture, AutoCAD, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, SketchUp, Lumion, Prezi, Figma
CONTENTS
Places and Non-Places Final Design Project 2019 Live Work Play Complex Year Four Design Project 2018 Shadex Boutique Professional Practice 2018 Panseke Professional Practice 2016
PLACES AND NON-PLACES An Exploration of spaces behind, beneath and above
In the present day, a multitude of activities has made it common for people to get so busy that they become disengaged and the activities become perfunctory. Subsequently, the multitude of places that are contexts for these activities are not conducive to positive human interaction. This is the origin of supermodernity. Supermodernity has led to a culture of solitude and consumption and eventually, to the formation of places and non-places. The Lincoln Cathedral served as a vehicle to investigate the qualities of non-places, how they exist or do not exist, the quality of transience and the anonymity it bestows on the users through the writings of Marc AugĂŠ and Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre. The ideas were taken to Bromley-By-Bow, London where a site that produces the real-life quantifications of the ideas and concepts supporting non-places was selected. For my building design brief, the plan is for every single part of the building is fully flexible and useful ‘decentralised’, all spaces feeding into eachother. In order to facilitate continuous interaction and possibly foster social cohesion within the host community; Bromley-by-Bow. I designed an arts based youth hub that serves the cummunity and its environs
Building Drawings and Schematics The design of the building was majorly influced by precedent studies and readings mentioned on the previous page. The works architects SANAA came to mind as the building design evolved. The building consisted of pods where major activities took place. This was however not the major focus of the building as the purpose of the whole project is to see how architecture could catalyse interaction. To this end, the corridors were made bigger than normal with nooks and niches facing the river for the building users to sit and interact and collaborate with each other. To link the building with the surrounding areas, a bridges were introduced accross the River Lea. The major facade element was the steel louvres, these helped to give the building a homogenous character while maintaining an almost seamless relationship between the external environment and the building itself.
VEGETATION/ LANDSCAPING Trees are planted additional shadin building occupan
ADJUSTABLE LOUVRES Asides from being the major distinguishing architectural feature in the building, the louvres provide shading and reduce solar heat gain. They can be adjusted depending on the sun height at different times of the year
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DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS ROOF PANEL This helps to provide solar heating
WIDE EAVES These are designed to provide solar shading all year round
ENERGY PRODUCTION The river will be used to heat the building through the use of a water source heat pump
LIVE-WORK-PLAY COMPLEX Year 4 Design Project
This project was in response to the question “what is life?” throughout the year, I sought to understand what life meant to different people with a focus on my home Lagos. I was able to come to the conclusion that to most people life could be thought to be based on work and play. but in recent times, it was mostly based on work because of the rat race we all semed to be running in the quest to actualize our dreams. This project sought to examine how a balance could be achieved. through the design of an mixed use estate in the heart of the business district of Lagos. The design was an attempt to integrate colour into the “concrete jungle”. In response to the question posed, a mixed use sustainable building was designed. The building sought to integrate work and play while ensuring that a connection with the street and surrounding environment. This integration was achieved by creating an area for street vendors and other small businesses to rent and carry out business. On every floor, interaction was catalysed by large stair halls with sitting areas and games as well as beautiful views of surrounding areas (the building orientation ensured this). Other functions include gym, short stay apartments, co working spaces and restaurants.
Commercial Areas, consisting of restaurants and shops
Recreational Areas and services e.g. Gym, Laundry
Offices
Apartments e.g. studios,one room apartments and house shares
Circulation areas; big enough to allow for interaction Outdoor areas including green roofs and balconies
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Kitchen 24 m²
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Store 11 m²
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Restaurant 2 97 m²
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Building Drawings and Schematics The building was designed to follow a rigid grid to allow for easy replication. This is because the vision for the scheme is replication across various business hubs in the Lagos Metropolis. The building is primarily mixed use as earlier stated. The stair halls double as lounges where the patrons can sit and have a chat with other people. These in addition to the balconies allow patrons to enjoy the view.
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Living Room 34 m²
Bedroom 19 m²
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Bedroom
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Living Area 37 m²
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Living Room
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Bath 3 m²
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Living Room 29 m²
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Yoga Studio 65 m²
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ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES To take advantage of the climatic characteristics of the area the building is located in, the following strategies were employed
Green Roof serves as productive landscape for planting vegetables and herbs as well as an interaction area for building users. Reduces heat island effect and reduces heat gain of the building
Window Hoods to reduce the effect of direct sunlight. this helps keep interior cool and in turn reduce energy used in cooling the building
Canopies and Pergola to provide shades for the outdoor areas so people can enjoy the views while protected from the tropical sun
Green Wall cooling and building as w acoustic bar
l to provide extra insulation for the well as act as an rrier
Screen wall to allow ventilation while providing privacy. the screen wall was design was inspired by the ankara fabric native to Nigeria and West Africa at large
Solar Panels positioned to make optimal use of sunlight for energy production Steel Louvres to act as shading devices for the windows to reduce solar heat gain and reduce energy required to cool the building
SHADEX BOUTIQUE Renovation work carried out in Lagos, Nigeria
This was a renovation work where a residential building consisting of 4 different units was converted to a boutique and a clothes making factory. It has now been completed and is currently in use. Role: lead designer
Demolished wall Final Structure
PANSEKE
Bank branch development for a commercial bank in Ogun State, W Nigeria
This was a bank branch design for one of the commercial banks in Nigeria. This branch is located in Panseke, Ogun state. South-West Nigeria. Construction has been completed and the branch is currently in use Role: Designer
SITE PHOTOS
PANSEKE
SADEX BOUTIQUE
MODELMAKING
ORGONE ACCUMULATOR Orgone accumulator was a project done by the whole masters class for a real client, a philosopher to test whether the concept of orgone actually existed. My main contribution was in the construction process, although I also contributed ideas during the conceptual stage.
FINAL DESIGN PROJECT- Structural Model While designing this project, one of the most comfusing things to me was the connection in steel framed structures. In trying to understand it fully, this model was developed. Asides from showing the structural elements evident in the project, this model shows the tectonics of the youth art center. The three environments created -Internal, External and Inbetween (PseudoInternal). These zones are marked with different conditilons with the internal being the most controlled and the external left totally untouched. The Internal area is that separated by the structural members, the intermediate is the area around the structural members but within the louvres, while the external area is the ‘grey area’