Rafi Bear
Sample Portfolio
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CANAL WHARF MILL
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A CULTURE ARK
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A SCENOGRAPHER’S CHAPEL TO THE TRANSIENT
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A Place to Feel 300m2
A Place to Eat 150m2
A Place to Dance 75m2
Following an abstract design process derived from a very personal experience of site, this project culminated as a mixed use social condensor including a place of worship, eatery, and dance studio. The diverse and vibrant campus location created a dynamic public approach allowing for many unexpected interractions to take place.
The ground floor became a mixed use space, affording a public event space as well as overflow from the intricate dance studio. Behind a partition, an array of bays provide circulators an opportunity to see local artwork in a dramatic space.
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Site Plan
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Exhibition space
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Perspective Cross Section
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Formal Development The constraints of this project were fairly loose, allowing for exploration into a wide scope of issues. Subsequently, this project was aimed at the development and implimentation of an architecture which contributed to cultural integration. The main issue which it was to overcome was the hostility towards one culture from another due to lack of understanding, however the secondary objective and requirements of the brief was to create a cultural monument that was
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a manifestation or representation of a culture. In the development of this project I took a more formal approach, focusing on the interrelationship of spaces with the aim of creating a fluid mixed use building. The result of this would therefore be useable spaces that encouraged their occupants to interract with one another.
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Development Sketches & Model Final Concept Model Northern Perspective View Interior View Facing Arts & Crafts Space Eastern Perspective View Isometric Structure & Skin Diagram Foundation Detail Ground Floor Plan
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Employing Locality
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As this project brief was for the re-activation of a site of global significance, the project began with a brief enquiry into the nature of mills, and how they present a conflicting background of locality and globalisation.
At this point I developed a series of scaled programmatic diagrams based on precedent studies. These diagrams provided the required spaces for the two typologies combined within the project: a museum and 3d printing research centre.
The project then, on the one hand had to aclimatise to an increasingly global industrial world, whilst capturing the intrinsic locality of the existing mill. In order to understand and document this context, I produced an inventory of forms, taking one set from 1850 (the original context of the Mill), and one set from the contemporary landscape, and categorising them by their typology or formation. This inventory highlighted the components that the landscape consited of, and offered a pool from which forms could be extracted and employed throughout the development of the project.
Returning to the formal study I then began to combine the two sets of forms, merging both historic and contemporary contexts by combining a series of compelling morphologies. From these composite images I was able to generate a series of archetypal forms, representative of each category within the inventory. Finally, these forms were montaged together so as to include a depiction of each form within the landscape and used to generate a set of models. I then experimented with this lexicon, inserting different components into an existing sketch model according to the programatic diagrams. Technology The structural approach of this re-fit was to insert a steel frame into the existing masonry, strengthening any areas of weakness and allowing lintels to afford new openings in the blockwork. The research centre took on a predominantly glazed outer shell to express its global nature, and therefore achieved this through a stick curtain walling system with spider mullions.
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Machine Rooms 1500m2
Temporary Exhibition 600m2
Fixed Exhibition 1400m2
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Existing Slate Roof
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Re-configured Forms Inserted Into Existing Building
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Compound Morphology
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Lexicon Models
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Reasearch Centre Glazing & Heating Unit
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Existing Masonry With New Lintel
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Scaled Programmatic Diagram
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The final building is composed of an intricate, linear, public circulation route through the existing mill and exhibition space, finising with an aerial walkway through the 3D printing research centre. The carefully managed private and public spaces are partially combined here in order to exhibit the contemporary industry.
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Permanent Exhibition Reception & Courtyard Cafe Storage & Archive Research Centre Private
Temporary Exhibition Public
Whilst the existing Mill engages with it’s local context and history- exhibiting old industrial machinery in its original setting and responding to the local flood risk through a passive pulley-hoist system, the research centre looks toward a more global paradigm where 3D printing components are produced (using 3D printers) and tested before being archived. The data used to produce each component then becomes the product, enabling a global industry to grow.
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