Rozie-Jane Saunders BA Portfolio by rozie saunders

Walking down the high street to get to class.

Lunchtime on the upper level.

BArch Portfolio 2011-2014

Rozie-Jane Saunders

Rozie-Jane Saunders 200794949 Arch252: Scholopolis

Contents

Social Scaffolding: a framework for building interactions introduction.....5 location.....6 sense of place.....8 concept and construction.....10 zoning plans.....12 residential diversity.....14 heart of the scaffolding.....17 residential space arrangement.....18 apartment types and plans.....20 growth over time.....22

Scholopolis: a botanical garden for growing denizens 25.....introduction 26.....context & materials 27.....concept & phenomenological massing 28.....the greenhouse effect 31.....life inside 32.....the journey through (plans and sections) 36.....on the roof

Walking down the high street to get to class.

Primersial: [noun] primordial Liverpool, existing since the beginning of the river Mersey

Lunchtime on the upper level.

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introduction.....41 site analysis & concrete concept.....42 contemporary concrete construction.....44 pondering the pumphouse.....46 whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on at Primersial.....49 come on up!.....50 finishing touches.....52

Concept drawing for Social Scaffolding, showing materials, journey through the site, multiple levels and a sense of constant change.

: a framework for building social interactions.

SOCIAL SCAFFOLDING

The brief: design affordable, dense housing in Suzhou, China. The site: enormous! The site was a 65m X 300m strip of dirt and rubbish when we first visited. The area used to be low-rise, rural housing but the local government moved the residents into collective housing so they could build higher income, denser structures in place of the original village. Several months later I returned to the site, to find the local people planting vegetables. The site had been turned into allotments, because new construction had not started yet. I watched the plants grow for almost 5 months while I worked on my project. The last time I visited, the lettuces and chillis were almost fully grown. A week before I returned to the UK, the impromptu allotments were bulldozed in preparation for construction. The local people have very little control over their lives. My design attempts to give them more freedom, allowing people to choose their own space and even build their own apartments, while creating new and diverse networks of friends. I also designed a place to encourage the large influx of migrant workers to integrate easily into the local community.

Location: Suzhou, China

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2. 1. People tending the allotments on the site. 2. The river north of the site feeds into Suzhouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s canal system. It also divides the poorer area south of the river from the wealthier developments across the bridge. 3. The site is partially overgrown, and the neighbouring block is a gated, residential zone. There are few mixed-use areas in China. 4. Allotments across from the site.

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Collage of Suzhouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sense of Place

In China there are swift cycles of destruction and reconstruction. Entire cities have been virtually rebuilt within a time-span of 20 years. Suzhou is one of the few places in China that has kept its sense of place. The city has existed for over 2000 years and Wu culture (dating back at least 10,000 years) still resonates strongly. Suzhou has been renowned for its scholarly residents for centuries, and has been described as a sort of heaven on earth because of its many famous gardens. But recently the city has been developing rapidly, creating skyscrapers and a shiny modern area. A small area of traditional housing in the center has been allowed to remain as a tourist destination, but the outlying rural areas are being demolished with little thought to preserving the sense of place that was Suzhou. My design proposal tries to create a gentle transition between the rural mentality that still exists within the minds of many residents (some of whose houses have been bulldozed), and the city’s aims to become truly modern and global. If you ask how someone how old Suzhou’s Great Pagoda is, they will reply “Almost 2000 years old!”. This reply might seem odd at first, because the Pagoda has clearly been rebuilt (for the 8th time) within the last 100 years. However a pagoda has existed in one form or another almost continuously on the same spot since 300AD in Suzhou. Although it may have been rebuilt multiple times after fires, wars and earthquakes, the memory of its form in that specific location is stronger than its physical reality. Much like the pagoda, my housing design is a contemporary version of an ancient and continuous way of Chinese life, both in the scale of the individual home and of the community as a whole.

What does ‘sense of place’ mean, when the place changes, completely, every 20 years?

Mass Housing with Residential Autonomy: Concept & Construction PR

Glassy, public buildings penetrate the entire stucture, but contain rooms only 49SQM to create a huge diveristy of functions within. Residents run the 49SQM facilites, which range from shops and study rooms to tea houses and cooking classes.

G MESH ALLOWS LIGHT TO REACH LOWER LEVELS.

Private apartments cluster around the public facilities. Residents choose where to construct their apartment, but must fit it within the existing structural grid.

GLASSY PUBLIC BUILDINGS PENETRATE ENTIRE STRUCTURE, BUT CONTAIN ROOMS ONLY 49 SQM TO CREATE HUGE DIVERSITY OF FUNCTIONS. RESIDENTS RUN THE FACILITIES WHICH RANGE FROM SHOPS TO STUDY ROOMS TO TEA HOUSES AND COOKING CLASSES.

LIFE IN THE SCAFFOLDING

MEET FLOORMATES WHILE BUILDING FLAT, GET INVITED TO SHARED DINNER WITH THEM IN SEMI-PRIVATE LIVING SPACE.

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Mesh landings allow light to reach lower levels.

SINGLE, JUST MOVED TO SUZHOU FOR NEW JOB. PURCHASE PREFAB FLAT PACK, CLAIM YOUR OWN SPACE, ASSEMBLE FLAT.

semi-private atrium shared by adjacent flats. each flat’s kitchen opens onto the space.

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MEET FUTURE FRIEND, DECIDE TO RUN A SHOP IN PUBLIC FACILITIES TOWER WITH HER/HIM.

GO TO MARKET TO SAMPLE EXOTIC FOODS FROM ALL AROUND CHINA, MEET FUTURE HUSBAND/WIFE.

LIFE IN THE SCAFFOLDING

SINGLE, JUST MOVED TO SUZHOU FOR NEW JOB. PURCHASE PREFAB FLAT PACK, CLAIM YOUR OWN SPACE, ASSEMBLE FLAT. MEET FLOORMATES WHILE BUILDING FLAT, GET INVITED TO SHARED DINNER WITH THEM IN SEMI-PRIVATE LIVING SPACE.

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Zoning Plans

A view through the affordable housing structure. A food market runs underneath, and housing only starts on the second level. The glassy towers provide small rooms for the residents to run whatever facilities they want, such as ping pong areas, cooking classes, study rooms, etc. The general public have access to the food market and the towers.

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The market winds through the ground floor of the site. Only a small part of the site is actually paved, the rest of the land can be reclaimed by locals for growing vegetables or playing basketball: whatever they need.

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ROOF HEIGHTS, The structurally insulated panels that MESH, RESDNETIAL the flats are assembled from will be painted white on the outside. These AND PUBLIC AND walls are a continuation of Suzhouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style of traditional residential courtCIRCULATION

yard housing and will provide a visual link to Suzhouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical sense of place. The walls will be stained by rain over time, and dirt from the window boxes will create tracks down the walls. Some residents might choose to paint their walls.

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Heart of the Scaffolding

The residents enter their apartments by first walking through the communal landing. These landings are daylit from the atrium above, and are hives of social activity. Although the landings are semi-private spaces, they allow the residents the chance to open up their private homes and share the act of cooking and eating together.

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These spaces form the basic soul of the whole project; a sharing of life, a way of blending public and private activities without making people feel uncomfortable. Through these spaces, people can meet their neighbors and form a small community that bonds through the basic human act of eating. In this way, someone who has just moved into the area can meet people in a relaxed environment.

semi-private social space

Kitchen wall swings up and tucks into the kitchen, opening up the private home to the semi-private landing.

Arrangement of residential spaces: taking inspiration from the past

I studied, through maps and on foot, the older residential part of Suzhou and looked at how each courtyard and the buildings surrounding it were arranged. I then tried to imagine how the entire community of courtyard residences grew over time. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MASSING

PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BUILDINGS

Possible growth patterns and relationships of courtyard structures

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Apartment Types 1:200

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STEP 1. CLAIM YOUR SPACE ON THE FRAME.

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STEP 2. CHOOSE YOUR FLAT PACK OF STRUCTURALLY INSULATED PANELS.

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STEP 3. ERECT YOUR FLAT PACK WITH YOUR NEW NEIGHBORS!

Potential arrangement of full residential level

The pre-assembled structural core, composed of stairs, lifts, mesh landings and steel columns, dictates the formation of apartment clusters to some extent. However, residents themselves can choose where within the structure to assemble their apartments, passing some freedom of design onto the clients.

ELEVATIONS AND THE GRADUAL CHANGE OF SOCIAL SCAFFOLDING OVER TIME

Growth over time, East Elevation

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Framework built to maximum heights, to ensure that the site be reevaluated once it and the local context has grown a certain amount. The structural frame, circulation cores and public amenity towers will all be built before the residents start to erect their flat packs.

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Time for the site to be reevalutated and reincarnated as something else...

Scholopolis on a rainy Monday morning. Pigeonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye view.

: a botanical garden for growing denizens.

SCHOLOPOLIS

After Social Scaffolding, a brief to design a small primary school was a shock to the system scale-wise. I started to design this new project by asking myself some key questions... How can the school enhance the local neighbourhood and respond to its site without sacrificing privacy for the kids within? And how can the school provide a sheltered way for its students to discover the wider world? Scholopolis is my answer. Scholopolis is a microcosm of the city of Liverpool, functioning on three levels- the classroom unit, or ‘house’, the ‘neighbourhood’ comprising of two classrooms and their common room, and the whole ‘city’. The classrooms refer to the terraced housing previously on the site, giving each class of students their home within Scholopolis. The neighbourhoods allow students to socialise within different year groups. And finally, the school itself is its own city, with a high street and multiple traffic routes.

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Scholopolis is a city in itself, yet it also relates to its context. The immediate site is an empty green area, not well designed enough to call a park. To the north is the University of Liverpool, to the south lies the typical terraced housing found throughout the city. Ceramic tile cladding with a Liverpool color scheme references Grove Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of brick, the orange of Tate Liverpool and the blue of the docks.

He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. Docks Blue

He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! Poem by Emily Dickinson.

Phenomenological and Environmental Strategy SITEMassing PLAN 1:500

Scholopolis’s massing reflects the shape of Liverpool’s urban fabric. The two cathedrals each create a strong pull when walking around the city; useful landmarks for determining orientation. And so my school’s massing is designed to feel familiar, like the space between the two cathedrals. The hall and the rainwater harvesting tower in Scholopolis are the two ‘nodes’ that take after the cathedrals and define a familiar, Liverpoolish space between them.

Walking down the high street to get to class.

Lunchtime on the upper level.

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Rainwater is harvested from the flat roof and irrigates the botanical gardens.

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The street widens to become a public plaza...the playground!

The Greenhouse Effect Scholopolis is enclosed within a cube of structural glass. The kids will be protected from the elements, with maximum natural lighting, even on overcast days.

About 10 minutes walk from the school is the site of the former 19th century Wavertree Botanic Garden. Sadly only a void in the park remains where the greenhouse used to stand, due to a tragic fire. But in a way, the Botanic Gardens are resurrected in the form of a primary school, Scholopolis! Contemporary systems of stuctural glass will be used instead of historical steel structures.

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Looking In

The structural glass outer skin provides a subdued facade at first glance, but pedestrians can see into select parts of the school. The students retain their privacy,however, while the facade is enlivened. Note the bay windows projecting from each classroom on the street-facing elevation. They provide students with views of the city and liven up the street facade.

A view of the common areas on the first floor. Wherever you are in the school, you can see many other activities going on, fostering interaction with the outer world and creating wider communities between students.

Lunchtime on the upper level.

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Life Inside

Extensive use of glazing lets light in and creates a sense of openness as the ceiling flows into the sky. Students feel less trapped inside, and more connected with the outside world. Ceramic brick cladding plays off local materials, but with a brighter color scheme.

The Journey Through After walking through the main entrance on the north side of the school, students walk down the ‘high street’, past the ‘shops’, or learning facilities, until they reach the stairs. At the end of the high street, students can exit to the playground or go upstairs to their classrooms.

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1. Recept 2. Hall 3. Kitche 4. Genera 5. Head’s 6. Intervi 7. SEN Offi 8. Sick ba 9. Repog 10. ICT R 11. Recep 12. Recep 13. Food 14. Librar 15. Plant 16. Staff 17. Kitch

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Students look down from their common rooms to the high street below.

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1. Reception 2. Hall 3. Kitchen with servery 4. General office 5. Head’s office 6. Interview room 7. SEN office 8. Sick bay 9. Reprographics 10. ICT room 11. Reception class play area 12. Reception class 13. Food/DT/ Science room 14. Library 15. Plant room and caretakers’ storage 16. Staff room 17. Kitchen garden

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19 18. Infant Class 19. Infant Class Common Area with coat & shoe storage space 20. Junior Class 21. Junior Class Common Area with coat & shoe storage space 22. Open Courtyard 23. Private Study/Music Rooms

22 21 20 Each student has a home within the school, and feels a sense of belonging and pride of place.

Common rooms provide an indoor play area for rainy days, storage space and toilets.

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The common rooms act as social spaces or an extension of the classroom.

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Rozie-Jane Saunders 200794949 Arch252: Scholopolis 18. Infant class 19. Infant class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space 20. Junior class 21. Junior class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space 22. Open courtyard 23. Private study/music rooms

On the Roof The roof provides an additional grassy play space as well as two small teaching patios.

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1:200 Final model, made in England.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Primersial, Beingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Abstract drawing that embodies the entire Primersial project. Shortlisted by University of Liverpool for entry in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014.

: [noun] primordial Liverpool, existing since the beginning of the river Mersey

PRIMERSIAL

This brief was both free and restricted...design an architecture gallery, in honor of Tate Liverpool turning 25, with only one material -- concrete. I took this brief as an opportunity to explore concrete as a material in depth, structurally, culturally and sculpturally. I also used this gallery to explore ways of making a building visually permeable, so that as you walk around you can see a series of framed views of other activities within Primersial, or out into the wider city.

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BRINGING BACK THE WATER

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BRINGING BACK THE WATER Site Analysis: Strand Street, Liverpool, UK Maritime Mission WW2 bombing

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From the site, at the corner of Strand Port of Liverpool Building Street and James Street , you can WW2Royal bombing Liver Building look directly out to the River Mersey.

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Liverpool Building The site was under water until the it was built up with Royal 1700s, Liverwhen Building reclaimed land during the peak of Liverpool’s trading industry.

The watery history of the site, combined with its iconic location led to the creation of Primersial.

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Bring back theBACK water! The Mersey is the heart of Liverpool, BRINGING THERiver WATER and used to come much further inland than it does today. James Street Station rebuilt

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This site, located almost on the waterfront and inhabited continously for hundreds of years, called for something bold.

25 Years of Tate Liverpool

When you visualise Liverpool, you see the docks, ship masts puncturing the sky, warehouses emerging from the ground. These visual elements are the soul of the city. However, Liverpool has become stuck, its regeneration into a creative centre halted by the economy, with many areas vacant or derelict. So what if we could go back to the beginning, and take the original â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elementsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the city and use them to stimulate its recovery?

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Precedent: TailorCrete + Gramazio & Kohlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environmentally Friendly Wax Molds

1. Wax mold of wall form and texture manufactured using a flexible actuated mold technology.

2. Mold and formwork assembled around reclaimed local bricks, and then sprayed with form release agent.

These wax molds are an Innovative, sustainable construction method that can create unique sculptural forms. However, the molds are cast with a back that easily attaches to traditional formwork, allowing a new technique to seamlessly integrate with an old industry.

3. Concrete poured in multiple layers. Each successive layer contains a slightly smoother, paler mix of concrete with smaller aggregate.

4. Floors and ceilings cast in situ so the structure appears to be joinless and one whole, not many parts.

5. Wax mold melted and reused. Lower pours of concrete sandblasted to expose aggregates, and form tie holes filled. Area below window sills chiselled to create dirt traps.

Main Elevation 1:100

Concrete formula ratio by weight calculated to achieve smooth colour gradient from charcoal grey at the bottom to almost bone white at the top! 3 : 2 : 1 : Ln = L(n-1) + 1.83L1 when L1=0.0025 aggregate from demolished local buildings : sand : white portland cement : black dry cement dye Each layer is 100mm tall, with 230 layers altogether. Smooth colour gradient achieved by different mix in each pour layer.

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Pondering the Pumphouse: Defining the Elements

Plan derived from plan of docks.

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Primersial gives the general public a place to collaborate with each other and local architects. The studios allow people to observe the city around them, while they work on regenerating Liverpool’s vacant and derelict areas through design.

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cafe Grassed steps allow for a higher outdoor view, and are reminiscent of the walls of a dry dock.

These design proposals are then exhibited in the gallery, alongside views out to the existing city, for the community to consider. A sense of autonomy and creative input into the built environment is shared by all who enter Primersial.

The tower provides the much needed vertical to the composition, and refers to Liverpool’s pumphouses and ventilation shafts.

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Workshop crashing into the gallery shop is a nod to James Stirling’s orignal design for the Tate Liverpool.

permanent model exhibition

lecture theatre shop Smaller spaces in the shape of little ships.

workshop library & archives

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A:A The main gallery is an organic warehouse, rising up from the water. Columns refer to the rhythm of the Tate Liverpool’s arcade.

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The gaps in the floor slab provide interaction between the gallery and the studio. The process of design is on display, as well as the design itself.

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The studios are places to meet new people and learn how to have creative input on your local built environment.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on at Primersial

1. Wax mold of wall form and texture manufactured using a flexible actuated mold technology.

2. Materials transported to site.

Landscaping shaped and pile foundations inserted.

3. Mold and formwork assembled around reclaimed local bricks, and then sprayed with form release agent.

4. Concrete mixed on site, using local aggregates and water from the Mersey River.

5. Concrete poured in multiple layers. Each successive layer contains a slightly smoother, paler mix of concrete with smaller aggregate.

6. Floors and ceilings cast in situ so the structure appears to be joinless and one whole, not many parts.

7. Formwork dismantled and wax mold melted down to be reused for the next project.

8. Lower pours of concrete sandblasted to expose aggregates, and form tie holes filled. Area below window sills chiselled to create dirt traps.

Prefabricated window and door frames installed.

River Mersey diverted to fill the site.

The gaps in the floor slabs create a sense of permeability and interaction throughout the whole composition of Primersial.

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Come on up! Starter bars sticking above the highest floor indicate the future, and also hint at the skyline of the past with the masts of many ships in the air.

city viewing gallery

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permanent model exhibition

Section A:A at 1:100

Aging Gracefully

Windows like barnacles sticking to a ship. A separate entity and yet attached. Barnacle Window Detail 1:5

Concrete chiselled beneath window frames to provide dirt traps, for an aesthetic inspired by the nearby Albion House.

Secondary Elevation

Final Model 1:200

Bringing back the water! The water can be seen all around Primersial and some areas were designed to be shallow, to play in.

Note the gaps in the floor slabs. These gaps visually reference sedimentary rocks, but also create sight-lines from the exhibition spaces into the studios and workshop and vis versa, creating interaction between all areas in Primersial.

gallery: second floor

gallery: first floor workshop lecture theatre

Thank you for your time.

Rozie-Jane Saunders rjboopster@gmail.com 07543646877