PORTFOLIO FOLASHADE OMOTOKE JOSEPH by OmotokeJosepharchitecture

FOLASHADE OMOTOKE JOSEPHH

PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS

2020-2022

Academic Work

Bachelor Project “Transitional Shelter”

Type:Mixed use

Location:Nicosia,Cyprus

Evolving Vertical Metropolis “Homemade 24/7”

Type:Mixed use

Location:Nicosia,Cyprus

February-June 2021

Library as a social hub

Type:Civic

Location:Nicosia,Cyprus

February-June 2020

Professional

Duncan House

Type: Residential

July 2021

Yiorgos Hadjichristou Architects, Nicosia, Cyprus

Exhibitions

Masters of Bauhaus Ehibition

Location: Nicosia Cyprus

November 2021

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REGENERATE OLDTOWN NICOSIA

The project aims to explore how architecture can be used to posi-tively affect the lives of people who are currently displaced either physically as it relates to homelessness and socially in terms of work or just general social integration. Taking on themes of self-sufficiency, cultural integration, and urban nomadism and how they can be employed to support the user groups which include refu-gees/asylum seekers, elderly individuals without a support system and homeless individuals. Located in the walled city of Nicosia center, the site and its proximity to the buffer zone reflects the divide between the user group and the community, the project aims to provide an opportunity to generate a phenomenon of social sup-port for these individuals through a complex including a variety of spaces. In terms of programs the spaces will be categorized un-der themes of food growing/making, manufacturing, housing and workspaces which will support the possibility of self-sufficient loop as well as providing new skills to the users and allowing for the possibility of economic stability. Spaces will not be defined by their boundaries but instead by their duality and interconnections. Using the old city as Nicosia as a base ground for a new prototype by testing various sites throughout the old city as a means of intervention.

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The axonometric hopes to higlight the manner in which the network interventions are framed around the transitional shelter creating a network of both physical and visual proximity.

CONCEPTS

USERS

Refugees/Asylum seekers

In 2020 Cyprus had 7,094 new applicants in 2020 with 19,660 pending, 155 people being offerea refugee satus and 1544 being given subsidary protection

-Refugees in Cyprus are rarely granted internal protection and though are granted stay find it hard to begin their new lives with lack of accesss to work and housing

Elderly individuals

Green Space as Transition Entry courtyards used as buffer between programs

Cyprus has a significant number of elderly people who have no support system either emotionally and /or physically.

Homeless individuals

Though most of the homeless population in Cyprus consist of , refugees, in more recent years due to increasing rent prices in the cities more members of the Greek Cypriot society are falling into homelessness.

Continuation of public flow

Street becomes a shared street controlling vehicular access

PROGRAMS AND USER GROUPS

PROGRAM LIVING GREEN SPACES SKILLS CULTIVATION SOCIAL/CULTURAL INTERACTION Permanent units Cyclical units Relaxation Growing Communal spaces Market Assistance centre Weaving workshop Automobile workshop Furniture making Co-working space

USERS

Immediate area of intervention

SITE

The city of Nicosia remains the last divided capital in the world, the old city centre amplifies this divide as it houses the official border crossing. Even through politocal turmoil the old city centre has remained a hub for commercial activity a sort of meeting point of all the cultures resid-ing in Cyprus creating a unique identiy. Full of cultural history the physical nature of the site it-self is facing issues of decay and demolition.

Commercial Zones Landmarks Road Networks

The project aims to generate a phenomenom of social sup-port with the old city of Nicosia as a sort of testing base for possible iterations of the program in various urban situations and conditions, therefore it considers posiible future and ex-isting connections in terms of network and supporting pro-grams relevant to the projects aims.Considered as a series of phases the initial stage and basis for development is a transitional shelter

DIAGRAMMATIC OVERVIEW

OVERALL

INTERVENTION ON GROUND LEVEL

Phase 1/Initial intervention-Transitional shelter

foster intercultural exchange. ronment.

User run workshops

These spaces make use of unused spaces such as empty plots within the city center which currently lay dormant, making them responsive with the streets.

green

Taking into consideration the Cypriot food culture the program hopes to use facilitate initimate interactions via communal eating

Magnet Points Building which are vacant and not of use are transformed into living hubs.

Urban

TRANSITIONAL SHELTER

CONCEPTS

The transitional shelter re-looking the idea of temporary settlements by providing a variety of habitation sizes and types to fit a variety of needs addition of workshops act as a means of skills activation with the hopes of generating income promoting transition out of the shelter and re-integration into society.

10 GROUND FLOOR PLAN Outdoor market Assistance centre Furniture workshop Entrance SCALE 1:200 FIRST FLOOR PLAN Communal zone Permanent living units Childcare/ Daycare centre Co-working spaces Cyclical unit Storage room Garden Balcony SCALE 1:200 SECOND FLOOR PLAN Outdoor garden Communal zone SCALE 1:200

Ground floor First floor Second floor PROGRAM LIVING GREEN SPACES SKILLS CULTIVATION SOCIAL/CULTURAL INTERACTION Permanent units Cyclical units Relaxation Growing Communal spaces Market Assistance centre Weaving workshop Automobile workshop Furniture making Co-working space PHASE 1 , PROGRAM AND USERS Green

Continuation of public flow Street becomes a shared street controlling vehicular access USERS PROGRAMME DEVLOPMENT

Space as Transition Entry courtyards used as buffer between programs

Permanent living units Cyclical living units

A A SECTION AA SECTION BB

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A 105

GARDEN

B 106

GARDEN

PLANS

KITCHEN WORKSHOP

GARDEN C

COMMUNAL

LEISURE ROOF GARDEN RELAXATION ROOF GARDEN EVENT ROOF GARDEN

108 1:50 GARDEN B 1:50 GARDEN C

SECTION THROUGH WORKSHOP

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C ommunal kitchen Workshop L eisure roof garden Relaxation roof garden

SECTIONS

Event roof garden

Moment looking into flexible workshop space

Moment looking into roof garden Moment looking into roof garden

Moment looking into community kitchen

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Moving to aeroponics garden

Moment looking into roof garden

Moment looking into community kitchen

Moving to aeroponics garden looking into flexible space

MOMENTS

Moment looking into community kitchen workshop space

Moment kitchen MOMENTS

Activity roof garden Community kitchen activating the street Leisure roof garden User-run workshop

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FINAL HANDMADE MODEL FINAL HANDMADE MODEL

INFO

EVOLVING VERTCAL METROPOLIS

‘HOME-MADE 24/7’

Located in the city centre of old town Nicosia , the project proposes highrise living complex which allows the extension of the activity atmospheric conditions from the city to create a new habitation experience. The very specific program which includes elements such growing and making allows for interaction either spatially or programatically, this combined with the users creates an almost symbirelationship between it’s users and its functionality. Exploring themes of self-sufficiency in terms of production, waste an commerce the buildings hopes toquestion the current state of highrise in relation to its particular region

EVOLVING VERTCAL METROPOLIS

‘HOME-MADE 24/7’

Located in the city centre of old town Nicosia , the project proposes a highrise living complex which allows the extension of the activity and atmospheric conditions from the city to create a new habitation experience. The very specific program which includes elements such as growing and making allows for interaction either spatially or programatically, this combined with the users creates an almost symbiotic relationship between it’s users and its functionality. Exploring themes of self-sufficiency in terms of production, waste an commerce the buildings hopes toquestion the current state of highrise living in relation to its particular region

Following the theme of exploring self-sufficiency the program is very particular with varying spatial requirements from space to access to sunlight as well as varying relationships with the users.Arrangement spaces are based either on a sense of hierachy and/or symbioticwhich are intially understood by forming elemntary connections. well as self-sufficiency the projects reduces the scale of elements as food production by bring it closer to the consumer in both proximity and production.The programs are all interconnected with function being based on the products from another space such fruits and vegetables in relation to preserves making which can sold in the retail, in this way the building creates a sort local economy .

INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA

CODE : ARCH 302, BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

SEMESTER:SPRING 2021

Following the theme of exploring self-sufficiency the program is very particular with varying spatial requirements from space to access to sunlight as well as varying relationships with the users.Arrangement of spaces are based either on a sense of hierachy and/or symbioticity which are intially understood by forming elemntary connections. As well as self-sufficiency the projects reduces the scale of elements such as food production by bring it closer to the consumer in both proximity and production.The programs are all interconnected with one function being based on the products from another space such as fruits and vegetables in relation to preserves making which can be sold in the retail, in this way the building creates a sort local economy .

INSTRUCTORS: MARKELLA MENIKOU (menikou.m@unic.ac.cy) & ADONIS KLEANTHOUS(kleanthous.adonis@unic.ac.cy) work included is individual

INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA

COURSE CODE : ARCH 302, BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

SEMESTER:SPRING 2021

INSTRUCTORS: MARKELLA MENIKOU (menikou.m@unic.ac.cy) & ADONIS KLEANTHOUS(kleanthous.adonis@unic.ac.cy)

*All work included is individual

city of Nicosia remains the last divided capital in the world, the old centre amplifies this divide as it houses the official border crossing. through politocal turmoil the old city centre has remained a hub commercial activity a sort of meeting point of all the cultures residCyprus creating a unique identiy plot itself includes old brickwork ruins, walking through the street provides a sense of contrast in relation to abandoned and rejuvanated buildings. In relation to the more commercial streets the sites immedisurrounding lack activity, this in turn helps narrow down the design

The plot itself includes old brickwork ruins, walking through the street provides a sense of contrast in relation to abandoned and rejuvanated buildings. In relation to the more commercial streets the sites immediate surrounding lack activity, this in turn helps narrow down the design goals

KEY

INFO

PROGRAM MASSING STRUCTURAL SYSTEM FLOW

In relation with the concept, the programmatic massing model is constructed using the idea of programmatic towers, therefore programs included in each core are vertically stacked from ground floor up

The structural system system consists of three stell trussed cores supported by a rigid frame as well as perimeter shear wall where additional vertical support is needed. The structural steel cores relate to the vertical arrangement of the programs which each core housing a different primary program. In this way the cores become are sort of hub of activity supported by living which will occur with the rigid frame support.

Flow in the case of the structure not only refers to circulation but to elemnts such movement of air,waste and water as they relate to particular programs. In terms of circulation, the primary staircase and elevator are located together providing access to all floors, they are supported by seconday movement methods relative to activty located throughout such as elevators which move through fruits and vegetable gardens as well as food corridors which promote transportation of goods produced in the building to the retail area

Air from the food making program is moved through an extractor system taken out allow for the re-introduction of fresh air back in and also directed to other spaces

Retail Lets dish Slow cooked Fast cooked Herb garden Small animals Fruits and vegetables Dried fruits Preserves Baking Smoked meats Type Type Home cooked Type Drinking Community Kitchen Housing typologies +

Primary staircase Fruits and vegetables Transporting food to other programs Indicative Public flow Experiential flow through food making Air flow Private residential Indicative private residential flow Retail and food processing Water flow Compost flow Landing between primary and vertical circulation

Algae is stored in tankes producing Nitrate rich water produced directed to planting bed of fruits and vegetables Food waste in dropped off at assigned spots and then sorted, chosen and transferred to the snail tanks where it is composted over time and moves down to the underground compost station which in turn allocated the compost i.e to soil to aid in planting

Secondary system, columns and beams DESIGN ELEMENTS

Programs divided into structural trussed cores

18 Ground floor Plan C:\Users\toksy\OneDrive\Documents\plan studio.dwg, 5/20/2021 12:02:55 PM, AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3 Sixth floor Plan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Sixth floor Plan 11 12 13 14 15 16 1. Home served community meals 2. Fast food restaurant 3. Informal community market 4. Produce store 5. Continous path 6. Toilets 7. Private residents elevator 8. Primary staircase 9. Public elevator 10.Elevator 11. Type A one bedroom with flexible opening 12. Type B two bedroom which acts as host for home cooked service 13. Type B two bedroom 14. Home cooked service 15. Fruit drying space 16. Grape garden Food corridor 16

1. Home served community meals

2. Fast food restaurant 3. Informal community market 4. Produce store 5. Continous path 6. Toilets 7. Private residents elevator 8. Primary staircase 9. Public elevator 10.Elevator 11. Type A one bedroom with flexible opening 12. Type B two bedroom which acts as host for home cooked service 13. Type B two bedroom 14. Home cooked service 15. Fruit drying space 16. Grape garden

19 C:\Users\toksy\OneDrive\Documents\plan studio.dwg, 5/20/2021 12:02:55 PM, AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3 A A B B SECTION BB SECTION AA C:\Users\toksy\OneDrive\Documents\perspectivesApproaching the building Moving through corridor to retail area From retail area to other programs through food corridor Looking through a living unit onto grape garden Walking from home-cooked towards storing tanks

Study Model and Sketch

A-Floor finishing

Moisture barrier

Sill for soil

Concrete slab

B-Suspended ceiling for hanging fruits for sorting and/or drying

C-Hollow core concrete slab

-Floor finishing

D-Interior wall panel

Thermal Insulation

Cavity wall

Brick masonary facade

E-Double skin facade

-Interior wall panel

-Pipes embedded in wall for heating and cooling

-Brick masonary facade

-Supported on a steel L channel

F-Operable facade system for drying fruits

G-Double glazed glass

H-Flexible folding wall panels

I-Vertical steel rods to support grape trellis

J-Algae stored in glass panels

K-Cantilevering beam bolted unto structural core

L-Diagonal member bolted unto plate

M-Horizontal plate to provide cover for double skin facade

Axonometric

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A B C D E F G G H K L M

ELEVATION SECTION PLAN DETAILS

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sitting area 1 4 6 11 14. Home cooked service 15. Fruit drying space 16. Grape garden floor Plan Print).pc3 Sixth floor Plan sitting area 1 11

Home-served

Food corridor

LIBRARY AS A SOCIAL HUB

The library currently as an institution is associated with a purely academic excange of knowlwedge.This project aims to explore the library as a magnet of social and communal interaction including users of the general community such as elderly individuals promoting cultural contrast between the academic context aand social programs

Located on the main campus of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus the library aims to act as a generator of social activity alongside its typical program.Taking into consideration factors such as pedestria pathways as well access to the campus, the plot was chosen as a means to promote directed pedestrian movement through the library plot promoting both visual and physical interaction.

KEY INFO

INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA

COURSE CODE : ARCH 201

SEMESTER:SPRING 2020

INSTRUCTORS: MARKELLA MENIKOU (menikou.m@unic.ac.cy) & MARIA HADJISOTERIOU(hadjisoteriou.m@unic.ac.cy)

All work included is individual

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Entrance Tower

Connecting platforms

Public Reading space

Conference

Elderly training centre

Computer room

Cafe

Circulation/Reception

Multi-use workshop

Virtual learning

Individual Reading

Staff area

Reference room

Toilets

Procedure room

Using the style of Peter Zumthor to reprsnt possible programmatic arrangement with emphasis on the flow between programs

Taking the idea of floating volumes and creating a specific program within each one . Arrangement of volumes aims to create a circulation with eas as well as progrssion in activity . Also taking the the voids to create in-between spaces

INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE PROGRAMATIC ARRANGMENT

INITIAL IDEAS

Using

INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE PROGRAMATIC ARRANGMENT

INITIAL

Using the style of Peter Zumthor to reprsnt possible programmatic arrangement with emphasis on the flow between programs

Taking the idea of floating volumes and creating a specific program within each one Arrangement of volumes aims to create a circulation with eas as well as progrssion in activity Also taking the the voids to create in-between spaces

Storage

Book repair room

Outdoor event space

POSSIBLE PROGRAMATIC ARRANGMENT to

Reading areas

Offices

Books

Recption

Cafe Technology centre

Workshops

INITIAL MOVEMENT

SPATIAL CONCEPTS

one . Arrangement of volumes aims to create a circulation with eas as well as progrssion in activity . Also taking the the voids to create in-between spaces

one . Arrangement of volumes aims to create a circulation with eas as well as progrssion in activity . Also taking the the voids to create in-between spaces .

programs

Reading areas

Offices

Books

Recption

Cafe Technology centre Workshops

SPATIAL

Reading areas

IDEAS SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

INITIAL IDEAS PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

Offices

Books Recption Cafe Technology centre Workshops

Working from the basis of a solid volume and subtracting from this volume to create a mass and voild relationship creating almost a sense of floating within the solids. Arrangement of the volumees aims to create an ease of circulation through programs and activities with the voids becoming in-between spaces where various programs from within the volumes can permeate

Lighting Movement

Addition of greenery

Directing pedestrian flow

Void Mass Public INITIAL IDEAS PUBLIC MOVEMENT SPACE VOID VIEW

of greenery Directing pedestrian flow Entry point to library Volume raised above ground level to allow free pedestrian movement

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MOVEMENT VIEW PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

LIGHTING VIEW MOVEMENT MOVEMENT

Using the style of Peter Zumthor to reprsnt possible programmatic arrangement with emphasis on the flow between programs

Lighting Movement PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

the style of Peter Zumthor to reprsnt possible programmatic arrangement with emphasis on the flow between

Void Mass MOVEMENT Addition of greenery Directing pedestrian flow Entry point to library INITIAL IDEAS PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID VIEW

PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID VIEW

Lighting Movement

IDEAS PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

INITIAL

Void Mass Public Private INITIAL IDEAS PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID

CONCEPT

Volume raised above ground allow free pedestrian movement PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING

PUBLIC PRIVATE MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

POSSIBLE PROGRAMATIC ARRANGMENT

IDEAS PUBLIC PRIVATE LIGHTING MOVEMENT SPACE VOID LIGHTING VIEW

basis of a solid volume and subtracting from

CONCEPTS

Addition

SECTION AA

Entrance Walking through reading areas

SECTION BB

SECTION BB SECTION AA

Entrance PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION A A B B

through reading areas

SECTION BB

Walking

Walking through reading areas

Entrance

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PROFESSIONAL

DUNCAN HOUSE

The Projects was a bespoke residential houses designed by the office while under construction , my role in the process included the re-working CAD drawing plans based on site and client feedback during the construction process to create a continual loop of updated communication.

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Basement Ground floor

28 First floor Second Floor

EXHIBITION

MASTERS OF BAHAUS WORKSHOP

MASTER OF BAUHAUS WORKSHOP &EXHIBITION

Group work

Workshop Brief:

The Bauhaus Masters and Teachers Revisited workshop consists of both theoretical and practicalcomponents. It aims to introduce students to some of the most important figures of the Bauhaus school and to encourage the process of artistic creation, inspired by key concepts used by some of itsteaching staff. The school and its ideas have influenced all fields of artistic creation, design and architecture, to thisday. The main aim was to create a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) beased on a art work from a chosen Bahaus Master

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