Richard James Breen
| Part II Architectural Assistant | Selection of Works
Maccreanor Lavington
Part I, II Assistant 2013 - 2016 London Education + Residential + Masterplanning
Holy Trinity + St Silas School Extension and Refurbishment Traditional Contract ÂŁ1.5m Experience
RIBA stages 0 - 5 Concept design, planning submission Detailed design, drawing production Client, consultants, public engagement On-site coordination - RFIs and AIs Gained a wide range of experience and developed a good understanding of the complexities of drawing and site-coordination. Worked on many successful school and mixed-use development bids later developed through to planning and tender submissions around London by the office and I became an active member and asset of many design teams and consultations.
Extension to a Victorian school in Camden - from concept sketches through to tender drawing preparation and on-site construction experience unlocking the school’s existing restrictive organisation by relocating vertical access, office spaces, staff room and new arts room in extension.
Maccreanor Lavington
Part II Assistant HTSS detail
2016 London Residential + Masterplanning
Byron Court - Harrow Leisure Led Development Invitation to Tender Experience
Site plan - developing relationships between front doors, landscape and public realm
Working as part of a 3 office design team, collaborating to develop a masterplan for a leisure centre, 620 unit housing scheme, community facilities and public realm. Housing blocks designed in accrodance with London Housing guidelines and with a range of typologies and tenures. The scheme was developed as a critique to previous scheme in order to distill qualities and constraints of the site and surrounding context.
Plan detail of corner window junction with masonary outer leaf wall and intergrated RHS with flush aluminium panel to exterior
Residential block section with courtyard gardens, podium parking and communal entrance
Panama Canal
Contractors Hill
Biorock Bridge
Gold Hill
Centennial Bridge
Pan-American Highway
Bartlett School of Architecture
MArch Design Thesis UNIT 16
Growing a Bio-rock Bridge in the Panama Canal A Bio-material Study of Mineral Accretion
Canal section - mechanism for moving and holding water
Vessel and system designed and built to move, recycle and experiment with water as an abstracted canal prototype
Kit of parts - methodical process of planning and assembly the prototype
1:1 Canal prototype and electrolysis experiment - designed to benefit from water displacement to recycle 40% of the water used to raise an object across chamber. Water is forced back up into the glass flasks collectors
3 volts
72 hours
Steel Mesh
6 volts
Aluminium Anode
72 hours
12 volts
Water Temperature 25 degrees
72 hours
Salinity 5%
9 volts
72 hours
9 volts
72 hours
Successful mineral accreation
Mineral accreation and electrolysis experiment - testing voltage, mesh types and anode material to determine most effecient and effectve material growth
9 volts
180 hours
Developing texture maps to illustrate material appearance of structures
Mineral accreation allows for the growth of complex and self-supporting structures around cathodic wireframes without the need for costly form-work, sharing a similiar compressive strength as concrete
Double span bridge growths Before optimisation Double Span Form Central supports Imposed load added Single span bridge growth
Chamber growth capacity 320m x 30m x 25m
Test 1 Mass Target 30% Mass 8m Minimum Thickness Symmetry
Test 2 Mass Target 5% Mass 8m Minimum Thickness No Symmetry
Test 3 Mass Target 15% Mass 8m Minimum Thickness No Symmetry
Panama canal chamber growth parameters
Test 4 Mass Target 30% Mass 8m Minimum Thickness No Symmetry
Test 5 Mass Target 45% Mass 8m Minimum Thickness No Symmetry
Material optimisation - bird bone for flight and material efficiencies
Topological material optimisation - developing optimal structural spans through testing mass targets and material thickness’s
Major Principle Stress
Displacement
Tension and Compression
Factor of Safety
Solidworks_Inspire - refining parameter inputs through structural analysis of optimised forms
Developing the most structurally optimal and materially efficient single span bridge - iterative process displayed through a series of 26 SLS 3D prints - process refined through altering mass targets, original mass form, support points and their locations, rigidity and tolerance.
Structural precedent - diagram of engineering principle behind the Fourth Bridge illustrating the support of a lighter centre beam from two cantilevered beams in compression and tension
Animated and occupied Biorock Bridge - grown in the Panama Canal chambers to span and reconnect a disjointed people and communities in Panama - total span of 320m with a 28m wide road and pedestrian deck, a maximum depth of 30m based on growth parameter of Canal chamber with a clearance of 65m from water level. Bridge is transported along the Canal as a single object and then fixed to pre-installed concrete abutments with deep pillar foundations in the hillsides. Poured concrete infill is then used as a keystone to level and anchor the bridge into position
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Reinforced Biorock safety barrier + zone for street lighting
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Retrofit - lighting and bannister
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Reinforced Biorock safety barrier
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Pedestrian walkway
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Retrofit - asphalt walk/road surface
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Drainage in retrofit surface depth Substrate + waterproof line Concrete screed with water collector pipes 6
Biorock bridge deck
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Reinforcement bars
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Biorock span support structure
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Detailed section of Biorock Bridge - showing retrofitted road deck, drainage system, lighting and water heating system
Biorock Bridge transported and installed on site to span the Culebra Cut between Contractor’s Hill and Gold Hill
Long section through Biorock growth factory and production facility. Tension cables are weaved utilising cranes and container platforms to form the cathodic framework for the mineral accretion process
Factory components are suspended over the canal chamber and used to observe, maintain and grow the Biorock bridge
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1 Central Research Shed + Associated Components
2 Walkways, Cathodes and Container Drops Zones
3 Marine Research Bay
4 Material Growth and Testing Bay 1
Factory components are suspended over the canal chamber and used to observe, maintain and grow the Biorock bridge
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Factory components are suspended over the canal chamber and used to observe, maintain and grow the Biorock bridge
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Main water supply
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Filtration curtain
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Extend-able rails
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Structural support bed
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Salt substrate
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Water
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Suspended framework
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Water supply
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Drip arms
Filtration curtain detail - controlling salinity of water supplied to chamber
Bartlett School of Architecture
MArch DR Report UNIT 16
Modular and Adaptable Homes Stockholm
Detailed Strategic, Structural, Environmental and Planning Report
Typical unit access floor plan with diverse range of unit sizes in a consistent structural grid
Detailed model of dense, modular vertical living system
Parapet and green roof
Modular structural and service pod with stacked services and stairs
Intermediate floor and wall build-up
Detailed section of stacked vertcal system with modular living units plugged into service and access pods with associated details
Modular assembly sequence aiding simple and quick construction
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Plan
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CLT floor build up 10mm floor finish 45mm screed Seperating layer 40mm impact insulation 100mm service insulated void Notched 150mm CLT floor panel 130mm mineral wool Vapor barrier Ventilated zone 38mm 18mm Norwary spruce
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Horizontal I beam 203mm x 133mm CLT wall build up 18mm weatherboard 200mm mineral wool 140 CLT L5 panel
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Steel hinge welded to L plate with rotation
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Lock plate and steel bracket to secure hinge
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Steel L-plate with packed insulation
Hinge mechanism designed to allow for units to be added and removed to vertical structural system
Section Details of hinge mechanism and connection
2 storey duplex unit plan - 1b2p with terrace
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5p 3b 92m²
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4p 2b 77m²
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3p 2b 62m²
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access to external play - private and shared public play spaces - connections with other families privacy Kindergartens large living space adaptable bedroom layouts to respond to privacy demands over time plenty of storage space access to garden/allotments ability to reduce home size when children leave
MIORE TYPICAL FAMILY SWEDDISH FAMILY SIZE access to external play - private and shared public play spaces - connections with other families privacy Kindergartens large living space adaptable bedroom layouts to respond to privacy demands over time plenty of storage space ability to reduce home size when children leave potential to add seperate dwelling to plot in support of next generation or care of eldery parents access to garden/allotments
access to external play - private and shared public play spaces - connections with other families privacy Kindergartens plenty of storage space ability to reduce home size when children leave potential to add seperate dwelling to plot in support of next generation or care of eldery parents access to garden/allotments
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Large family units 3p 2b 62m²
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Homes plug into stackable and an articulated structural system providing circulation and vertical-service distribution
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Cafe and shop units at base of development to activate the ground floor and engage the site with the wider context
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Part I Assistant 2012 - 2013 Newcastle Workspace + Private Residential Experience
RIBA stages 0 - 3 Concept design, planning submissions D+A Reports, drawing production Visualisations, diagramming Technical drawings for bespoke joinery Site visits and client meetings Worked ranged from a ÂŁ6million graphic and communication hub in Middlesbrough providing micro-offices, to student accommodation in Durham, ÂŁ10 million sustainable workspaces in Blyth and private residential extensions.
Boho 5 micro-offices - developed from concept to planning submission with contained offices designed around an unheated core to maximise affordable floor spaces. I was responsible for producing the visualisations, diagrams, elevation and site plan drawings for the D+A statement, a successful planning submission and for public consultation, of which I attended.
Fold-out micro-offices
Design Collaboration
International Competition Trimo Urban Crash 2013
Modular Bicycle Shop and Cafe Ljubljana, Slovenia
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AKRIPOL Sponsor Award
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Invitation to workshop in Ljubljana Working in collaboration with two friends from Newcastle University during our year out. Designing a cycle pit stop in Slovenia using only three containers and Trimo products. Through successful co-ordination our proposal was commended, and rewarded with a trip to Slovenia to take part in an international workshop exploring modular architecture.
Fold-out seating
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Internet cafe
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Cycle repair shop
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Cafe
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Cycle charge station
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Seating/viewing terrace
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Folding/closable Trimo panels
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Adaptable furniture
The proposal envisaged an innovative use of folding panels to provide stepped access up a steep bank to the ‘pit-stop’ facilities, which also provided an easy-to-secure building envelope at night. The cantilevered box was designed to be a beacon along a heavily used cycle route.
Newcastle University Architecture
Third Year Design Afterimage
Projected Morphology: A Cyclotel Created From Perspectives Commendation
RIBA Presidents Medal Bronze Award
New spatial interventions on the site of the demolished Gateshead car park were developed and tested through the projection and layering of abstracted photographic fragments taken by Sally Ann Norman. Site strategies, drawings and models were distilled utilising an OHP projector.
Building plans
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Accommodation
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Velodrome Level
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Communal Facilities
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Retail and Workshops
Landscape plans
Cross Section
The wall projections and trace drawings provided the base on which to mould and develop a landscape and architectural form on the car park site. Through interpretation of the drawings, and the identified central weight of the projections, a dramatic landscape and impact began to emerge, particularly evident when modelled in 3 dimensions.
At the depths of the Cyclotel, the concrete mass of the spine wall stands permanent anchoring the centralised stair and bicycle conveyor. Hanging walkways thread through the steel framed workshops, acting as veins - connecting the architectures. Towards the base, materiality mirrors the descending roughness of bicycle production, from the pristine stainless steel retail units to the worn steel of the scrapyards.
The concrete masses of the Cyclotel sit embedded in a landscape fragmented under compression and impact, determined by projected site drawings. This perspective shows the datum that determines the flatness of the Cyclotel, allowing the workshops to take advantage of the existing slope to rise above eye level as accessible spaces.