ROB WELLS portfolio of works
0.01 URBANISM STUDIO POST GRAD - COPENHAGEN
The Urbanism Studio was a module I studied whilst at The University of Copenhagen. Led by Mads Farso and Clement Blanchet of OMA/AMO. The Urbanism Studio looked to combine individual student skills into a collective ideal on urbanism that challenges contemprorary thinking in Architecture, Landscape and Design. Dividing Urbanism into five topics - Identity, Living, Network, Work and Lesiure. The course was divided into a group study and an individual student response. My group was assigned the topic ‘living’. We were given two sites of ‘living’ to compare, one a contemporary development in the suburbs of Copenhagen called Lange Eng the other a historic and iconic development in central Copenhagen called Kartoffelrækkerne.
Models that define the physical and mental boundaries of private. semiprivate and public at each site.
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Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies. Is placeless design careless design? Should design speak to its surroundings? Maximising the sites potential is key. Extract the layers of shared living, its history. Remember and contextualise. Explore different identities and typologies.
Key group statements that informed the design brief
0.01 URBANISM STUDIO POST GRAD - COPENHAGEN
I chose the city centre development as the location of my design intervention. It explores the typology of traditional back to back housing and interprets it in a modern way... By fracturing, twisting and manipulating its urban fabric, pedestrian networks emerge allowing for increased permeability and providing a balance between private and public spaces.
0.01 URBANISM STUDIO POST GRAD - COPENHAGEN
My final intervention implements a new complementary back to back typology which allows for desire routes through Kartoffelrækkerne. Creating a hierarchy of spaces defined as private, semi private and public. Making Kartoffelrækkerne a more inviting and embracing neighbourhood. To accompany the final presentation I produced a short video which expains the rationale and places the design into Kartoffelrækkerne. To see the complete portfolio of works please visit: http://issuu.com/robwells/docs/thebooklet http://issuu.com/robwells/docs/bookletpartdeuxfinal To watch the final examination video please visit: http://vimeo.com/19167380
0.02 MASTERPLANNING BA (HONS) WYKE BECK - LEEDS
An existing green corridor in a deprived area of Leeds. Enhancing the existing river valley in order to drive regeneration in the area by implementing various designed solutions along it’s length including a educational environmental centre, community shared allotments, recreational facilities, enhancement of existing landscape, a new rapid transport link/central station and a new cultural centre and gardens providing centrality and identity for the wider area.
0.02 MASTERPLANNING BA (HONS) WYKE BECK - LEEDS
Addressing the key economic driver for the wider masterplan. Using the concept of a modern mill and oversized hard materials palette to provide a focal point to the masterplan. It incorporates a variety of services into its design from public amenities, private event spaces and public open spaces for the area.
0.03 YEAR OUT WORK MEIR PCC - STOKE UPON TRENT
Working on a variety of small/medium scale healthcare projects from design inception through to specification and completion. My role involved working on hard detailing, planting and general upkeep of projects from a landscape perspective. Meir is an example of the typical work I was undertaking during my year out. Key landscape components include a large wall with a cantilevered canopy that complements the architecture of the centre itself. It’s main purpose is to frame the main avenue providing legibility and leading pedestrians to the entrance courtyard.
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Meir Primary Care Centre Cube headed tree in tree grille (Q31 505 Q50 260)
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Silver Grey Granite Paving Slabs (Q25/200)
Dark Green Granite Paving Slabs (Fine Picked) (Q25/203)
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Charcoal Granite Paving Slabs (Q25/201)
Conservation Concrete Flag Paving (Q25/215)
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Implementing a strong landscape design that directy informs and works with the proposed and existing architecture. The key existing architecture is the on site church. The landscape enhances the church with a new street that wraps around the building and provides the underlying concept of the large facade and atrium space of the proposed building.
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My individual design places a garden on the shared roof terrace and uses the private balconies to grow produce. Storage tanks are located on each of the balconies and are sized to store all runoff during a 5 year rain event. Each container fills up halfway before being released onto the attached growing matter and then drips to the balcony below thereby delaying reentry to the sewers.
0.04 URBAN ECOSYSTEMS POST GRAD COPENHAGEN
Completion of a stormwater management module looking at the impact of global warming on the water systems of cities. Learning to size SUDS elements and visiting various exemplary casestudies that promote the use of SUDS in and around Copenhagen. Completion of a groupwork research/design project on stormwater management and urban agriculture. Concluding with a combined SUDS and urban agriculture design for 3 distinct Copenhagen building typologies that aim to promote positive social and well-being effects on their inhabitants.
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0.05 MAJOR DESIGN PROJECT POST GRAD LEEDS
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There are three key components to the proposed masterplan. They are the 6 destination points of Hunslet Mills, Knostrup Cut/Weir, Thwaite Mills, the M1 River crossing and Rothwell Country Park, and the enhanced blue and green structure that ties the concept together.
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The rejuvenated 6 destination points along the natural blue and green link will provide the necessary stimulus to produce a truly sustainable eco-settlement.
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The 6 key components and the blue/green corridor will interact spatially with new living and working areas. A sponge park along the south bank will make room for the river. The park will act in two capacities, one to manage storm-water by soaking up rainfall from surrounding urban environments and delaying the waters release into the sewers and river. The other is to provide a green transport link all the way along the river, from the City Centre out to Rothwell Country Park.
0.06 WEBSITE VIDEO LINKS POST GRAD COPENHAGEN/LEEDS For further details of videos and portfolio of completed work on my Post Graduate course please click on the links:
http://vimeo.com/19167380 Copenhagen - Pedestrian Osmosis Edit 2
http://vimeo.com/18854208 Copenhagen - Pedestrian Osmosis Edit 1
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http://vimeo.com/23377803 Leeds - Urban to Rural Transitions Edit 1
http://vimeo.com/25211273 Leeds - Urban to Rural Transitions Edit 2
0.06 WEBSITE PORTFOLIO LINKS POST GRAD COPENHAGEN/LEEDS
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http://urbanism.dk/ <hi^gaZ`^g & Nk[Zgblf Lmn]bh Ahf^iZ`^
http://urbanism.dk/index.php/1396423 <hi^gaZ`^g & @khniphkd iZ`^