MArch Part II Y1 Portfolio

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Parthiv Parikh Master of Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part II) Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University Of Greenwich, London United Kingdom, 2020/21

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Non-Specific Urbanism London 2049 The City of London where modern corporate skyscrapers tower above the vestiges of the medieval alleyways below. To research the potentials for a radical reprogramming of the heart of nearfuture London, focusing on adaptive reuse to re-frame the character of the city.

The concept talks about this glitch in the matrix where people used to behave like machines and work has taken such a central role in one’s life. Therefore the introduction of these glitch spots which break time and physical dimension that creates non-connected spaces physically and digitally. Looking at the current world pandemic it gives a chance to recalibrate the irregularity in our lives and set a course for a better wellbeing. The ‘new normal’, would not be the same in terms of approach and engagement with the environment at work, and this recalibration will behave as a representation of a new beginning. It is a kind of wound that’s infected, and healing will take time leaving a scar. Generation of spaces that represent this idea of healing and rejuvenation encouraging people to start engaging these spaces more and moving forward with it.

With a vast and vivid building stock of London lies this idea of layered architecture where every new urban development acts as a symbiote to the previous city fabric. Introduction of parasites, conceptual algorithms focusing on a constantly growing body in a multidimensional space. These parasites envelope to the host generating systems that accommodate flexibility and secondary functions for the program showing multiplicity.

The project focuses adaptive reuse of the 17 story corporate office block consisting of therapeutic spaces, sky gardens and breakout areas which disrupt the Cartesian structure of the old building and introduce radically generated inorganic spaces that bring out the vivid and vibrant atmosphere of the workplace. With an intention to re-scape the structure and reuse some of the existing structural and material apparatus, the proposal aims to be environmentfriendly generating a minimum carbon footprint.

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CONT EN TS

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I - DESIGN PROCESS

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II - DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

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III - SITE LOCATION

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IV - SYMBIOTES

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V - DETAILS

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VI - REALISATION

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JUXTAPOSITION OF THE OLD AND THE NEW. London is growing with a vast network of urban spaces and developments and the need is never-ending. Looking at a chronological pattern of rebuilding a city’s fabric, existing or heritage builds undergo demolition and a new intervention is placed. This of course is a convenient method but it is not a conventional one. For the near future of London, a city that thrives with its indulgence of rich heritage and modern suburbia would lose its identity if this continues.

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As a preliminary approach, a city shall grow on top of the previous layer of the city fabric. New interjections will thrive on the existing foregrounds and reestablish the juxtaposition of coherence. As every building, with time, gets old and sick there’s a scope of redevelopment and it’s exactly the architecture that will relate or represent the future. There is a chronological pattern for urban developments to the city and therefore the proposal sets a course to disrupt this idea and introduce something episodic.

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TRIPTYCHS Brief 01

is made up of two parts, a photographic triptych and a short video as follows.

Part 01

is to adopt the London Wall to inspire a photographic triptych that portrays interests relating to the city’s past, present, and future whilst concurrently demonstrating compositional and conceptual prowess.

Part 02

asks to develop these interests established from the photographic triptych inform a piece of fixed camera position moving imagery. The video is 60 seconds long.

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FUTURE REPRESENTATION Concept; ‘Repairing the City’ London 2049

Introduction of parasites, conceptual algorithms focusing on a constantly growing body in a multidimensional space. Addressing a temporal dimension that generates a discussion between past, present, and future.

Study of urban life and city through the idea of rhizomatic practices of everyday life.

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The image above is part of Brief 01 which is a fixed camera position moving imagery representing the idea of moving symbiotes around the city. The video contains sound.

The image above is progressive development of context and site plan which was a part of the Future Rep module.

Please use the ARTivive app to watch the clip or select the link below.

Please use the ARTivive app to watch the clip or select the link below.

https://vimeo.com/553992455

https://vimeo.com/554005095

BRIEF 03 AMBIGUITIES This brief involves developing an energetic yet meticulous approach to the production of form and its representation. It asks to develop a cyclical design process that shifts between 2D and 3D with specific consideration to Transparency and depth, Order and disorder, Visual hierarchy, Degree of ambiguity, multiplicity of both vector and raster elements, Clarity, distortion and [atmospheric] refraction, etc.

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Project BRIEF & DESCRIPTION The current Museum of London is jointly controlled and funded by the City of London Corporation and the Greater London Authority.

The Museum is set to overhaul Smithfield Market into its new base. Much of the Grade II-listed 1860s market complex has lain vacant and in disrepair for 30 years, while the poultry market, which is still in use, has been earmarked for relocation to Dagenham.

With the pandemic spread around the world, our health became a critical agenda and not many could cope with this new found reality. As we look towards the future of work environments in light of the virus, what do our workplaces need to best provide for our health and well being and how can we rapidly increase the quality of work conditions.

Planning consent for the Museum of London’s scheme would be welcomed by backers of the Museum of London, who are hoping to submit a planning application for a redevelopment of the museum’s current Barbican site next year.

The site would be used for a new £288 million home for the London Symphony Orchestra, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Working closely with an existing brief and moving with the agenda that the new interventions are for the project, Center for Music, the proposal is set course to generate a scheme that provides similar level of brief with less capital expense.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s new Barbican concert hall proposal has been allocated nearly £2 million for work to continue. Now client and backer the City of London has announced the release of £1.95 million to take the £288 million proposals to the next stage, including developing the funding model and undertaking technical studies to inform the wider site master-plan.

Image reference, DS+R website.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s new Barbican concert hall and Center for Music Proposal visuals.

The concert hall will be constructed on the London Wall site that will be vacated when the Museum of London moves to its new home at Smithfield Market. The wider scheme will also include a ’replacement’ for the City of London’s 17-story office block Bastion House on London Wall.

With the whole building being demolished, the new brief involves a part of commercial floors to be catered. Keeping in mind the requirements, the proposal shall retain the existing structure and re-purpose it to facilitate with the specifications such as, Start-up Zones, Health and Well Being Center, Therapeutic Area, Retreat Zone, Library, Fitness and gym, Cafe and Restaurant, Winter Garden, Break out space.

Scope OF WORK As a part of the brief the planning proposal is set to speculate these projections as a part of a master plan in comparison to the newly submitted planning proposal, but looking at the unit agenda and time constraints for the scope of work the detailing and design will be focused on the commercial block on the museum of London, The Bastian House.

The Bastian House block is a 17 story commercial block on top of the current Museum of London. The brief is about adaptive reuse of a host building and devising strategies that establish a new form of living and organization. Here it is the commercial block where the focus is and these symbiotic interjections will generate a new dynamic space between the ordinary, monolithic Cartesian spaces.

The approach is to develop spaces promoting the idea and introducing spaces of health and well-being for a work place environment producing a quality of living and work. These interjections establish a rigorous expression of change containing therapeutic areas, winter gardens, breakout spaces that play with the scale of the building and improvise on the existing pallet.

By pondering on the strategic values of a new built, it will improve the current building performance and will lead to lesser consumption of energy.

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Existing building, The Bastian House.

Demolition of the existing facade and beams where the interventions are subjected.

The red in the above image represents the demolished part of the existing structure.

Introduction of primary and secondary structure for the placement of the symbiotes.

Revamping the floors and inserting the tubular structure inside the demolished zones.

Structural Analogy.

Abstract representation of the symbiotes as lungs carrying optimizing ventilation throughout the building.

Introducing a new layer of external facade respecting climatic conditions.

Zoning

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Office spaces for the center

Sitting and Counseling Rooms Library

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Floor 12

Floor 09-00

Accommodation Spaces Staff Quarters

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Meditation area Meeting Room

Retreat

Workshop and Lesson areas

Fitness and Physio Center

Cafe and Restaurant

Start-up Zone

Floor 17 Floor 16 Floor 15 Floor 14 Floor 13 Floor 12 Floor 11 Floor 10 Floor 09 Floor 08 Floor 07 Floor 06 Floor 05 Floor 04 Floor 03 Floor 02 Floor 01

The Project is divided into 2 areas with different functions, but are connected conceptually.

The top floors consist of the Health and Well being center and the rest is occupied by startup floors. The brief and program reflect that of Maggie’s Center and attempts to create a similar level of requirements and spaces. With the health and well-being center pushed on the topmost floors, away from the hustle and bustle from the streets, it behaves as a retreat for the occupants. Having sandwich floors such as the fitness center, restaurant, and library being shared by the adjacent developments having a symbiotic relationship below generates a buffer of amenities used by different use class.

Working with a basic pallet of start-up zone, accommodation, kitchen spaces, Library, Sitting rooms such as relaxation and meditation, counseling area, and meeting room, the challenge is to amalgamate them to ensure a smooth flow of movement and circulation. An addition of a retreat area, a quiet place to have some rest or just a lie-down and do your own thing, will help take the steam off work.

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Demolition

The diagrams on the top represent the bays that are to be cut and demolished. The red are permanent cutouts for the new interventions where as the yellow shows temporary demolitions, which later on will gain new structure forming the curved layout.

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Permanent demolitions.

Temporary cut outs, later constructed back to form the curve.

Primary & Secondary STRUCTURE

Curved Hollow Steel Section Beam Rectangular Hollow Steel Section I Section Beam Circular Hollow Steel Section Spider Joints Metal Plates and Bolts Curved Hollow Steel Section Beam bolted to I sections and anchored with a turn buckle to the perpendicular column.

I section bolted with a L metal plate to the concrete beam.

Right angle Bracket used underneath I section and Circular beam for compression load purpose.

Rectangular Steel Hollow Section section welded to Circular beam.

Tubular mesh being held together through spider joints anchored from the circular beam.

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Construction

The construction strategy used here involves parts being prefabricated, assembled on-site, held together with supporting frames, and triangulated sections welded to create a mesh form.

After the construction of primary and secondary structures, the prefabricated horizontal circular hollow sections are brought on-site and assembled in parts supported with the claw joints to hold them in place. This process starts from placing the beams from the two opposite ends and then finishing off in the center.

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The next step is the cross bracings, the triangulated pipes being welded in phases again starting for two opposite ends and finishing up in the center part. The reason behind this is, two separate assembly teams can work on it, increasing the efficiency of construction, and secondly starting from the bottom part gives extra stability for every next phase of the framework done on top of it.

Materials

Polycarbonate Sheets.

Double Glazed Glass.

Alucobond Aluminum sheet.

Steel I Beams.

Aluminum Tubular Structure.

Pre Cast Aerated Concrete pits.

Floor Boards, Insulation, Curved Steel Timber doors.

Beams.

Corten Steel Sheets.

Polycarbonate THERMOCLICK Sheets for translucent effect on the facade.

Passive shading, partial insulation and aesthetics.

Double Glass Panels for transparency in the facade.

Reflectivity, Light penetration and visual.

Alucobond, aluminum composite panel increasing thermal gains and opaque in visual.

Impact-resistant, break-proof, weatherproof and, non-combustible.

Prefabricated steel I beams attached to existing concrete columns with metal plates and bolts.

Dry construction and economical.

The structural material used for the intervention is tubular aluminum pipes prefabricated and shaped accordingly and welded on site.

Lightness and elasticity.

These pits are used in one of the symbiotes that is potentially a winter garden consisting of shrubs, plants and creepers.

Sufficient size for smaller plants.

Curved beams around the frame structure of the symbiote giving support to the beams and spider joint to hold the symbiote.

Used for aesthetic purpose of cladding in the inside facade of the interjections.

Curved beams around the frame structure of the symbiote giving support to the beams and spider joint to hold the symbiote.

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Heating Section showing the functioning of heating system throughout the building using hot water pipes.

Plan showing the location of radiators and two ducts for vertical supply of pipes from the main station.

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Section showing the functioning of cooling system throughout the building using cooling coils in the ventilation ducts.

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The proposed heating solution for the project is a conventional system of using a combination of condensing boilers and radiators. The strategy works perfectly with office environments as the requirement is minimal compared to cooling the spaces. With the micro-climate formed inside the building consisting of embodied and operational thermal mass, an active mode of heating should be made energy-efficient.

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Cooling

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The comprehensive strategy is to provide a comforting cooling system based on chilled water coils rather than the direct refrigerant, limiting the quality of refrigerant gas within the development and the amount of external heat rejection. The system will use the naturally ventilated ducts as a medium to inject cooling coils within them.

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Ventilation

The ducts firstly open in the interventions and circulate air around the floors intersecting them. This idea links to the location of these interjections as well as designing them in such a way that every floor is at least connected to either one of the symbiotes.

Hence a similar strategy is repeated at three different levels ventilating all the floors throughout the building. With a cool breeze of air entering the built mass, the hot air rises and is released from the ventilators located on the roof connected with a similar form of duct.

Light

The external facade of the building penetrates light in different proportions and intensities.

Within the triangulated mesh stands three levels of transparency giving diffused light in the building.

As a conceptual approach, the idea was to have these symbiotes glow at night time representing living bodies and therefore will have artificial lights in these interventions.

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borough of city of london

adlersgate

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Site photographs by RIBA Historic Image Archives and primary subject.

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Wider CONTEXT

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Site Analysis Listed BUILDINGS Demographic STUDY Vehicular & Pedestrian MOVEMENT Conservation AREAS Protected VISTAS Sun-path Transport Links Protected Trees & Green AREAS

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Site PLAN

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01. Bastian House 02. Garden Court 03. Museum of London 04. Rotunda 05. London House 06. Ironmonger’s Hall 07. Barbican 08. Barber Surgeon’s Hall 09. St Giles Cripplegate 10. Monkwell House 11. Zenkraft 12. Michael Page 13. Shelley House 14. 1 London Wall

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East Side Elevation

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South Side Elevation

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West Side Elevation

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North Side Elevation

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Construction Details The project involved reusing the existing concrete structure onto which the new interventions are adapted. These interventions are mainly dry constructions involving metal sections and pipes attached to the concrete structure.

The following pages consists of floor sections, facade details and assembly, and new structural interjection joints.

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001 12mm thick Acoustic sealant 5mm thick Adhesive 1200 x 600 mm floorboards.

300 x 125 mm c/s I section in elevation.

125 x 50 mm c/s wooden joists.

450 x 450 mm c/s reinforced concrete beam

125mm thick reinforced concrete slab

Cavity for electrical wires and hot water pipes for heating.

The drawing details the junction where the existing concrete structure is intersected with the steel construction of the new interventions.

Insulation in both types of construction is added for increased thermal gains.

L metal plate bolted to the I section and concrete beam.

12 mm thick gypsum ceiling board

180 mm thick insulation of mineral wool packing.

150 x 50 rectangular hollow section.

Acoustic sealant on the floors with wooden floorboards as flooring detail.

Reinforced concrete column, 450mm diameter

Gypsum board as a false ceiling that creates enough cavity for electrical wiring and heating pipes with a clear space of 3.5 m floor to ceiling height.

Flooring Detail

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5mm thick Adhesive

12mm thick acoustic sealant.

1200 x 600 mm floorboards.

Cavity for electrical wires and hot water pipes for heating.

300 x 125 mm c/s I section in elevation.

125 x 50 mm c/s wooden joists.

The drawing details the end junction where the extended I beam meets the curved hollow section.

A coping device is bolted on the outer edge of the curved beam to cover the ceiling.

Wooden buffer on both sides to conceal the edges and give a finished look.

180 mm thick insulation of mineral wool packing.

5mm thick C section.

12 mm thick gypsum ceiling board 350 x 250 mm c/s curved rectangular hollow section.

Wooden coping to cover the end junction.

150 x 50 rectangular hollow section.

Reinforced concrete column, 450mm diameter

Edge Detail Scale 1:20

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12mm thick acoustic sealant.

5mm thick Adhesive

1200 x 600 mm floorboards.

12mm thick glass.

300 x 125 mm c/s I section in elevation.

Spider Glass Fitting.

125 x 50 mm c/s wooden joists.

The drawing details the junction where the curved beam is holding the tubular structure by devising a claw joint.

The mechanism runs at different intervals throughout the beam holding certain parts of the structure, dividing the load equally.

Inside of the structure consists of spider glass fittings bolted into the circular pipe beams to hold the fixed glass panels.

180 mm thick insulation of mineral wool packing.

12 mm thick gypsum ceiling board 250mm diameter Circular Hollow Section.

150 x 50 rectangular hollow section.

Claw joint for holding the tubular structure..

Reinforced concrete column, 450mm diameter

350 x 250 mm c/s curved rectangular hollow section.

Tubular structure Detail

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L metal plate bolted to the I section and concrete beam.

125 x 50 mm c/s wooden joists.

150 x 50 rectangular hollow section.

25mm thick ring stiffener plate bolted to concrete column.

300 x 125 mm c/s I Beam.

The drawing details the junction where the I beam intersects with the vertical concrete column of the existing build.

A ring stiffener plate is bolted around the column at the place of intersection which consists of a base plate and a non-shrink grout onto which the I beam is bolted with the help of an L metal plate on either side.

25mm base plate on 25 mm non-shrink grout.

Reinforcement.

Reinforced concrete column, 450mm diameter

Metal beam & Concrete column junction

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Irrigation Pipe.

20mm grove.

Pre-cast concrete pit.

100 mm thick plaster boards bolted to I section.

400 mm Planting soil.

1200 x 600 mm floorboards.

300 x 125 mm c/s I section.

10 mm thick waterproof membrane.

125 x 50 mm c/s wooden joists.

400 mm Gravel.

180 mm thick insulation of mineral wool packing.

The drawing details the planter detail on the edge of the extended floor in the winter garden.

The planter is a pre-cast concrete pit used for small plants and creepers.

Its location is on top of an I beam for support which is extended by bolting wooden joists to a face-mounted joist hanger and concealed with a c section as coping detail.

The I beam is sandwiched by plasterboards for the joist hanger to be bolted.

C section with drilled anchor to wooden joist as Coping detail.

12 mm thick gypsum ceiling board 150 x 50 rectangular hollow section.

350 x 75 mm c/s wooden joist.

Face mount joist hanger.

Reinforced concrete column, 450mm diameter

Planter and end junction Detail

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006 12mm THK glass.

40 mm air gap for double glazing.

6mm THK rubber gasket.

Aluminum frame bolted to hollow section.

Non - stain weather sealant.

C section with drilled anchor as Coping detail.

The drawing details the monolithic facade detail.

150 x 150 c/s square hollow section.

An H section is bolted on the RHS which acts as a frame holder covered with a weather sealant.

The square hollow section with aluminum frame is fixed on either side of the H section.

The frame consists of 12mm thick double glass panels concealed with a rubber gasket.

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Facade Detail Scale 1:20

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12mm thick cable.

5mm thick Adhesive 1200 x 600 mm floorboards.

Stainless steel bracket with bolts and plates.

300 x 125 mm c/s I section in elevation.

125 x 50 mm c/s wooden joists.

The drawing details the junction where the curved beam is being held in tension as additional support being bolted for the concrete column.

With help of metal plates and bolts, the beam is tied with a turn-bucked and cable for appropriate tensile strengths.

A cutout is made on the floorboards and an open-able shutter is installed as a finishing detail.

180 mm thick insulation of mineral wool packing.

12 mm thick gypsum ceiling board Cavity for electrical wires and hot water pipes for heating.

150 x 50 rectangular hollow section.

Reinforced concrete column, 450mm diameter

Cable Detail

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External Facade View

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Aerial View

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Internal View

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Internal View

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Internal View

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Internal View

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THANK YOU

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