Digital Portfolio Part I Architectural Assistant Application (Year Out Placement) Purcell Miss Onusa Charuwana BA Architecture Graduate (Part I) University of Cambridge
Outline: 1. The Public Knitting House (Year 1) 2. Dalston Art Centre (Year 2) 3. Guggenheim Helsinki Competition (Summer work placement) 4. Mount Pleasant Street Housing (Year3)
Year 1 Final Project (2012 - 2013)
THE PUBLIC KNITTING HOUSE A closed-down local pub in Chesterton, Cambridge is converted into a local knitting centre with a full production line of yarn. The project aims to create a new heart for the local community of Chesterton, which currently lacks a ‘high street’ and a community centre. The knitting centre would also be a home to several nomadic knitting clubs in Cambridge.
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Brief Vegetables dye garden On the site, local residents could grow vegetables which will be used for making dye. Leftover produce can be taken home or used in the cafe kitchen.
Dyeing Yarn The vegetable dye is used to dye yarn produced from sheep, which are kept on site and are allowed to grazed on the Stourhead Common opposite the site.
Spinning Dyed yarn is then air-dried and spun within the building.
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Knitting Dyed yarn is sold as a knitting product for purchase by the local clubs
Shopowner’s residence Knitting Knitted products can be sold in the shop and exhibitied in the cafe area.
Revenue The building is maintained by income from the cafe and the knitting shop.
CafĂŠ / Bar
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The Public Knitting House
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Yarn Supply Shop
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Private Residence Shop + CafĂŠ
Knitting Dyeing Area Indoors yarn drying Spinning + Winding Boiling
Wool processing + fleece storage
Vinegar soaking room
Main Entrance Seedlings + Chopping Vegetable dye allotments
Sheep pen
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Construction Section
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The yarn dyeing area
The Public Knitting House
Part I Architectural Assistant Application Purcell
Miss Onusa Charuwana University of Cambridge
Year 2 Final Project (2013 - 2014)
DALSTON ART CENTRE Situated behind the bustling Ridley Road Market in Dalston, London, the art centre provides a new public square with a spillover area for market stalls. The interior is inspired by the industrial heritage of the site, resulting in an informal environment in which local contemporary art is celebrated.
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Market stalls storage
Market waste storage
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People around the site
The nearby Ridley Road Market is very lively and popular with locals and visitors alike The Site: Behind the Ridley Road Market
Dalston Art Centre
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A space for market stalls is provided by the square, which is enclosed by the market spine containing artists’ studios on the upper floor.
The roof shape of the main building blends in with the terraced roofscape of the area and the towers make the project visible from Ridley Road Market.
Development Stages 1. A New Shortcut
2. Receding
3. Adding light towers
4. Creating an outdoor area
5. Creating an interior street
The Final Scheme
Dalston Art Centre
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Long Section and East Elevation
Dalston Art Centre
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Lumira Rooflight system : Double glazing in alum. frame 2 x 6 mm toughened glass + 20 mm cavity Translucent white sunblind (fabric)
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Roof: Marley Eternit fibre cement slates (Edgemere Interlocking Slate series) 50 x 50 mm battens Roofing felt Damp proof course
Truss web: 90 x 90 x 7 mm equal angle section, bolted to vertical gusset plates
Wool insulation 150 mm Steel roof truss: 90 x 90 x 7 mm angles on gusset plates; fireproof coated and painted red
459 x 152 x 67 mm I-beam, fireproof coated and painted red
Plywood interior lining, non structural, 4 mm (ceiling + walls) 80 x 40 x 3.2 mm hollow rectangular section column Wool insulation 120 mm Two layers of plasterboard 20 mm Mineral wool insulation 90 mm 100 x 75 mm ‘C’ sections cement board Z sections: to extend the cladding to overhang the brick construction Aluminum framing system Ventilation gap Eternit fibre cement plank cladding 7
Double glazed window with timber frame Reveal lined with cedar tongue and groove boarding
The Public Square and the 1:20 Construction Section
Dalston Art Centre
Concrete floor float layer
Part I Architectural Assistant Insulation Application Miss Onusa Charuwana 40 mm Purcell University of Cambridge Underfloor heating screed 150 mm Damp proof membrane Concrete floor slab 300 mm
Gallery Space
Dalston Art Centre
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The Main Gallery Hall
Dalston Art Centre
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Miss Onusa Charuwana University of Cambridge
Summer Work Placement (August 2014)
GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Work samples from summer internship in Black Pencil Studio (Bangkok, Thailand) as part of a team working on the competition entry. I engaged with studio discussions and weekly pin-ups and worked on renderings for the final submission.
Final submission rendering of the main atrium space, which connects all floors through the continually rising platforms
Guggenheim Helsinki International Competition
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Year 3 Project
MOUNT PLEASANT MARKET STREET A housing scheme centred on a street market leading to a public square. Facing the new Royal Post Office Archive Museum, the square provides glimpses into the residential courtyard with community gardens beyond.
Urban strategy
Mount Pleasant Housing
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The Museum Square
Mount Pleasant Housing
Glimpses of the Garden Part I Architectural Assistant Application Purcell
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The Market Street
Mount Pleasant Housing
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Miss Onusa Charuwana University of Cambridge