Richard Barrett Part 2 Architectural Assistant
RICHARD BARRETT PART ll ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC + PROFESSIONAL SAMPLES
E.Richbarrett2013@gmail.com
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
[CURRICULUM VITAE]
N:Richard Barrett D.O.B:24/11/1989 A:71 Deerpark, Friars Walk Cork Ireland M: [00353]0851568941 W: http://issuu.com/richbarrett8/ docs/portfolio_richard_barrett/1 L: ie.linkedin.com/pub/richardbarrett/9a/487/a20/ I am a highly driven individual who possesses a great passion for Architecture and is highly technologically literate. I have a keen interest in detail and construction design which is driven by an attention for detail which has been instiilled by, and encouraged throughout my numerous years of working in retail during my studies. I hold in high regard the notion of operating in analogue, whether it be through sketching or physical model making. I am seeking to gain the experience and expertise that would enable me to enhance my current abilities and further my progression within the industry. i
[WORK
EXPERIENCE]
DDMS Architectural Consultant 01.2014 - 02.2015 -Responsible for using the companies bespoke application to create/ update client AutoCAD drawings and manage workflow requests. -Responsible for the 3D modelling of plan / sectional drawings received from clients. -I was also responsible for liaising client requirements to outside Architectural practices. Dunnes Stores Sales Assistant Patrick Street Cork 08.2009 - Present -Responsible for working alongside Regional manager and creating trading reports for company directors. -Responsible for drawing up and implementing store spatial strategies with store manager. -Responsible for dealing with Customer service enquires. -Responsible for maintaining store appearance.
Keating Architects Part 1 Architectural Assistant 4 Holbar House, East Douglas Village, Douglas, Cork. 05.2012 - 05.2013 -I was tasked with the preparation of planning application packets for both city and county councils in the Cork/Kerry region in residential, commercial and office orientated schemes. -Aided company director with the preparation of site surveys, early stage design drawings and models, tender stage design documents as well as construction stage detail documents. -I was also responsible for the submission of Disability Access Certificate documentation and Fire Certification documentation. -Responsibilities also included -Attending site visits with company director and attending area engineer meetings with him also. corresponding with clients regarding their queries via phone and email.
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
[PUBLICATIONS] -Cork Centre for Architectural Education Yearbook 2014: VERNASSAGE -Cork Centre for Architectural Education Masters End of year Publication: TANG[I]ER - THE INTER-MEDIATING CITY
[EDUCATION]
[BSc in Architecture] University College Cork 2008 - 2012
-Completed the four year program, where I graduated with Second Class Honors. -Recieved distinction in Applied Technology Modules in both Third and Fourth year. [M_ARCH] University College Cork 2013 - 2014 -Completed the one year program, where I graduated with a merit overall. -Awarded a distinction in my projects Thesis Documentation and end of year Exhibition Design and Implementation.
[SKILL SET] -Hand Representation. -Computer Representation. -Verbal Representation. -Physical Model Making. -Exhibition installation. -Working knowledge of workshop facilities and equipment use with larger machinery. -Working knowledge of welding equipment and processes. -Recieved saftey certification from the NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY OF IRELAND. -PHOTOSHOP -ILLUSTRATOR -IN DESIGN -AUTOCAD -3DS MAX -REVIT -RHINO -SKETCHUP -MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE -KERKYTHEA
-Jason M.O'Shaughnessy PhD Candidate (ESALA) BArch(Dist')BSc(Hons)Arch RIBA MRIAI MArch Programme Director CCAE Cork School of Architecture A. UCC/CIT W. www.ccae.ie T. +353 (0)21 429 8432 (Direct line) T. +353 (0)21 429 8401 (School Office) -Brian Barrett Managing Director A. DDMS T. +353 87 2555223 E. bbarrett@ddms.ie
[REFERENCES]
-Declan Flanagan Store Manager
A. Dunnes Stores T:+353 [0]21-4278154 (Store Contact) ii
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Site Location: Casbah Square,Tang[i]er,Morocco [Photoshop] The TRANSLATorium seeks to slip between an amalgamation of Michel Serres' emblematic spatial vignettes into a single entity. Coupled with functioning as a device of translation, the program contrives to be centre of translation where its [process] methodologies are disseminated. Serres’ emblems become coupled with ROOMS of translation where Inter-linguistic, Intra-linguistic, Inter-semiotic, symbolic & ethnocentric characteristics of culture are the focal points of exploration. The program operates as six centres of exploration within the dense field and environments of Tang[i]er. The etymology of this program is derived from an architectural exploration of the literary work of Michel Serres. He postulates a collection of six emblematic vignettes which are to be understood as both a topology of the J’eu de L‘oie as well as spatial variety in the urban field. By furthering this structure of exploration, dense fragments of this field were collected and become interpreted through the suggested program.
iii TRANSLAT_orium: Roof Plan [Sketchup + Autocad + Photoshop]
[INTRODUCTION]
TRANSLAT_orium:
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Interior Downward Perspective Plan [SketchUP + 3DS Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
iv
[INTRODUCTION]
v
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
TRANSLAT_orium: Exterior View of Institute from the Casbah Square[SketchUP + 3DS Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
1:200 SITE SECTION
TRANSLAT_orium: Site Section of the Institute [SketchUP + 3DS Max + Photoshop + Illustrator]
This thesis seeks to exploit the possibilities and excavate an architecture from the slips and fields of contradictions, be they spatial, material or programmatic. The program is set out to reappropriate local intelligences'. To regulate the current mediating agents of the city whilst concurrently deploying a new set of dynamic spatial operators manifested in architectural interventions that slip between the city and the body, assuming the role of mediator between the two. In turn, tasking the translators [the students of the TRANSLATorium] with a renewed objective, a search for the 'intermediating' language.
TRANSLAT_orium: Exterior View of Rooms of Translation [SketchUP + 3DS Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
vi
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
The materialistic qualities of the suggested program are derived from a desire to translate the constructional language of my instillation piece of first semester where rope and counterweights were employed to create an object in controlled transition. These materials manifestation in the TRANSLATE_ORIUM are varied in both form and function. Tensile fabric ropes of various pigments are deployed in the facade design to act as shading devices as well as safety rails. A hoist system utilizes a counterweight principal to provide an externally orientated vertical circulatory system. Internal, non load bearing walls are formed from woven screens of rope which hint at segregation yet remain punctuated to allow for passage of light, sound etc. A rope pattern is used in the formwork of the main concrete support column to further emphasis the desired [rope] language. All the above material techniques weave together between the circular tubular steel frameworks whose position and formation is derived from an exploration of the sectional slices of the urban fragments created earlier in my design process.
vii
TRANSLAT_orium: Plan + Sectional Study of the Rooms of Translation [SketchUP + 3DS Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
TRANSLAT_orium: Interior View of the [DEATH] Room of Translation [SketchUP + 3DS Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
viii
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
ix TRANSLAT_orium: Exterior View [SketchUP + 3DS Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Collage of Cast Resin model and Aerial Cartography [Photoshop]
TRANSLAT_orium: Physical model of the scheme [Card + Wire + Plaster]
Early Installation: Seeing and Being Seen [Rope + Chair]
x
[INTRODUCTION]
[TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
TRANSLAT_orium: Interior view from [LABYRINTH] Vignette
xi Examples from sketchbook concerning detailing of rope technology
[SketchUP + 3ds Max + Autocad + Photoshop + Illustrator]
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Exploratory model of strucutural framework for Large Scale Exhibition.
The fragmented nature of the mediators deployed by the TRANSLATorium to converse with the identified Serresian vignettes throughout Tangier inspired my proposed final exhibition. Here, the academic limb of the TRANSLATorium is the focal point of the centers and the extended bodies its points of interest within the urban field. Similarly to the modus operandi of this program, the FRAGMENTED MEDIATION exhibition seeks to establish a central, translatory figure. It is up to the observer to agree to enter into conversation with the piece by assuming this pivotal role where the chair device is the translator and the table is the framework from which the fragments of the project offer insights into the thesis. These fragments' [drawings, models, film, chair] are the aggregates which have been folded and refolded, as the baker manipulates the 'dough', in order to illustrate my pre-occupation.
Fragmented Mediation: Frame pictured in the open position.
xii
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Frame and Drawing Cabinets in the Closed position
xiii Fragmented Mediation: Mapping the Translation [Autocad + Illustrator] Cabinets open to reveal TRANSLAT_orium Representations.
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM]
[FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
Fragmented Mediation: Frame and MEDIATORS CHAIR
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
in the open position.
xiv
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Site Location: Cork City Centre [Photoshop]
Fourth Year [Fragmenting the Block]
This thesis explored the notion of the department store typology and how one could disperse it so that it might become a fragmented entity. This new architectural typology would serve to reinvigorate an urban quarter. Its a criticism of the modern day shopping mall which detracts consumers from the city centre. It could be though to operate in a similar fashion to Jon Jerde's Horton Plaza design in San Diego, where the scheme takes a direct route through the city block establishing a new relationship between downtown and the waterfront. This fragmentation allows for a greater intimacy in the retail experience, similar to that of the Eastern Bazaar, where one is greated with a caliphiscope of colour and a cacophony of sound.
xv
Fragmenting the Block: Early urban analysis physical model [Plywood + Plaster + Wax]
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Fragmenting the Block: Plan + Section + Street Renderings of Proposed Arcade Construction [SketchUP + Autocad + Photoshop + VRAY] xvi
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Fragmenting the Block: Exploded axonometric illustrating the proposed structural construction of each bay in the Arcade. [SketchUP + VRAY + Autocad + Photoshop]
xvii
Fragmenting the Block: Model of "Living Tower" portion of scheme [MDF + Perspex]
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION]
[FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING] [PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Fragmenting the Block: Detail documentation of "Living Tower" Construction at a scale of 1:20 + 1:5 [Autocad + Photoshop]
xviii
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Site Location: Youghal, Co. Cork
Third Year [Re_Reading] This project was concerned with the question of re-inhabitation. The site was an abandoned former textiles factory in a sea side resort. The brief called for the construction of a library, a building that would become a new social centre within the declining sea side town. I opted to re-use the existed structure and through a serious of models explored methods of re-reading, inhabiting and in some cases penetrating it so as to create a environment conducive to the process of reading and study. The layout also had to remain flexible so that it could enforce the feeling of perusal and perambulation in order to entice locals to interact with the library.
xix Re_Reading: Site plan of library at 1:200[Drafted by Hand using Rotring Pen + Pencil]
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Re_Reading: Sectional elevation of library at 1:200[Autocad + SketchUP + Photoshop]
Re_Reading: 1:20 study model of existing structural conditions of abandoned factory[Tubular steel + steel rods welded together]
xx
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
xxi
[RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Re_Reading: Study was concerned with exploring the possibilities of re-inhabiting and penetrating the structure
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK]
[RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
2nd Year natural light manipulation study [Cast Plaster]
2nd Year Technical study: From imagination [Sketch]
The manipulation of light was mapped in a photographic study.
2nd Year Technical Study: To realisation [Balsa Wood] xxii
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Brief outlined by client required a design proposal for a three unit residential development in suburban Cork.
xxiii This presentation was requested so as to illustrate to the client and planner the design process of the Architect.
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
The challenges the project site offered were overcome through a detailed study of its conditions and context.
Through a manipulation of these studies, a proposal was arrived at which the client,and the architect, were satisfied with.
xxiv
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
The ability to highlight the potential of the architects designs through 3D renderings were essential in convincing the client.
xxv
The office operated using Archicad to create 3D models and utilising Artlantis as a rendering program.
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING]
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Photoshop would also be used on numerous projects to enhance 2D elevations, sections and plans for City + Council planning packs.
This scheme was a proposal for a series of revamped ground floor units at the rear of an existing apartment block in Cork City.
xxvi
[INTRODUCTION] [TRANSLAT_ORIUM] [FRAGMENTED_MEDIATION] [FRAGMENTING THE BLOCK] [RE_READING]
xxvii 1:50 plan of 2 bed residential unit in the proposal.
[PROFESSIONAL WORK]
Series of internal + external renderings of the proposal.
ii