STEVE REVILL-DARTON URBAN DESIGNER Portfolio 1
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4 - Introduction 5 - Resume
CONTENTS
7 - Design Portfolio 8 - Citta Serbatoio 12 - Landscapes of Production 22 - A New Centrality 26 - Academic Writing & Research 28 - Photography 30 - Snow Park Construction
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What follows is an expression of who I am as an individual and an impression of the work I produce. I am entering into this industry from what I believe is a very unique perspective. The discovery of my passion for the built environment has taken time and been nurtured through the theoretical and research driven sphere of social and urban geography. I have followed this with an intense development of design skills and application over the past year whilst studying MArch Urban Design at the Bartlett. I am now at the point where I have defined my own position and values with which to enter into professional practice.
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EDUCATION MArch Urban Design The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London. 2012 - Present BA Geography - 1st Class Hons King’s College London. 2010-2012
RESUME
BA Geography University of Northampton 2008-2010 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Urban Design Intern Allford Hall Monagahn Morris (AHMM) September 2011 London
QUALITY I aim to achieve quality through intervention, the built environment has the ability to inspire, enhance and make possible meaningful interaction through the creation of places of quality.
PERSONAL VALUES
INCLUSION I believe that the built environment is a sphere of inclusion. This is not to say that there cannot be a defined audience but to ensure that it is open to interpretation, creation and manipulation by all. Only in this way can the possibility of richness be achieved. VALUE With my work I seek to create value, I do not mean this in the economic sense but rather social, communal and cultural value that does not pursue the spectacle of the commodity but enhances the lives of those who live in and experience places. EXPERIENCE Escapement of the mundane does not have to come from grand gestures but can be achieved through subtlety that enhances personal experience and achieve the excitement that people and cities deserve.
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DESIGN PORTFOLIO Developed over the last year on the MArch Urban Design course at the Bartlett this is a showcase of the design work produced as part of the year long research and design project.
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CITTA SERBATOIO MArch URBAN DESIGN WORKSHOP Bartlett, UCL (Jan 2013) Elia Zenghelis
The re-appropriation of two former industrial liquid tanks as the catalyst for the regeneration of the surrounding deindustrialised area. Functioning as accommodation and workspace for archaeological students the intention is to provide a framework from which the occupants themselves become the producers of the built environment which they inhabit. This will become a conceptual precedent on which the wider regeneration will be based. Tank one contains ground floor workshops and first and second floor living accommodation whilst tank two features an auditorium below ground level with an exhibition and cultural event space on the upper floor.
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Concept Sketches
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Model
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LANDSCAPES OF PRODUCTION MArch URBAN DESIGN THESIS PROJECT Bartlett, UCL (2013) Studio Tutors: Davide Sacconi, Luca Galofaro The landscape of the Strait of Messina can be read as a complex stratification of destruction and reconstruction of architectural artifacts, a landscape of abandonment where the political, economical and social shifts are recorded together with the dramatic natural events. The rich materiality that defines existing elements is explored as a means through which the open spaces can be orchestrated as a series of differing and complementary experiences in order to integrate the interventions with the existing spaces and buildings. Recognizing the wall as the architectural element that, stripped to its bare function, characterizes such a landscape, the project elaborates a strategy in which the wall becomes the structure of the intervention. The potential of the post-industrial landscape of Messina is unveiled and fostered through the utilisation of three stratergies; restructuring, re-use, and a new layer of circulation that orchestrates a sequence of experiences and activities.
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Schematic Masterplan
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Former De-Gassing Site Axonometric
CENTRE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES Continuing from the concept developed in the previous workshop the archaeological education centre the project continues the development of the public programmes within the tank structures and introduces new buildings housing the main learning workshops and laboratories. The intention is to begin to re-establish the connection between the residents of Messina and their heritage utilising education as the primary tool for the reappropriation of the post-industrial landscape of the Messina coastline. Through a merger and blurring of the boundaries between education and public cultural programmes the project attempts to induce new meaning and memory of the signifiocant connection between the city and the wider Mediterranean history and culture while simultaneously
defining a renewed sense of identity within the ‘South’ and repairing a connection with the landscape damaged by decades of neglect and state industrial intervention. The educational centre connects to the historic ruins of a seventeenth century citadel to the south providing both an active site for the students of archaeological restoration and decay whilst also producing a cultural amenity for the city of Messina, respecting the authority of the ruins leaving them floating in the landscape which has matured around them.
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Main Educational Building & Student Accomodation
Ground Floor Plan
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Archaeological Park of the Citadel
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Elevations of Alternate Frontages
Housing Programme
RESTRUCTURING THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE The landscape is read as complex and contrasting combination of the natural and the built environments that exist on the San Ranieri Peninsula. This allows a restructuring of the territory through interventions that operate upon three main principles: the wall as spatial structure, re-use of existing structures and connectivity. A pedestrianised spine is inserted through the centre of the site connecting the area to the city whilst tying the elements together along a linear path. This is supplemented by a treatment of the landscape through a logic that rejects the former stratification of the area, maximising permeability.
the permanent foundations of a flexible growth structure. The volume of the walls represent their capacity to restructure the territory whilst their emptiness and the open-ended nature of the striped organisation exposes the potential and embraces the possibility of reappropriation by the user. The stark juxtaposition in materiality between the productive space of the ground floor and the residential units expresses the ability of the structure adapt to demand and providing access to a low-cost live/work arrangement. The structures are arranged to enable a hierarchy of streets with varying frontages whilst the end units provide space for commercial and civic functions that animate the central spine to which the elements The insertion of the wall as the elementary architectural are attached. element restructures the productive landscape and provides
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Manufacturing Frontage
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Residential Frontage
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A NEW CENTRALITY: Urban Acupuncture Steve Revill-Darton & Diego Vergara
MArch URBAN DESIGN WORKSHOP Bartlett, UCL (Dec 2012) Elia Zenghelis
In our contemporary society our cities have been subjected to continued urbanisation, it is a process that has become to overshadow the central city, the city limits and the rural. This workshop was established with the premise that a city should be defined and delineated, it should have clearly defined boundaries inside which building development is contained. It is therefore necessary to rethink the nature in which the cite develop with particular reference to scale and density. This workshop proposes an ideological visualisation of an extreme form of civic centrality in the cities of Reggio Calabria and Messina. Defined by residential, leisure, employment, administrative and educational function contained within a single ‘super-structure’.
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ACADEMIC WRITING
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ABSTRACT
MIXED TENURE DESIGN AND SOCIAL INTERACTION Undergraduate Dissertation 1st Class
Contemporary UK Housing Policy features rhetoric of mixed community design with an orthodoxy of mixed tenure development. More recently this has further evolved to champion a spatial integration of tenures known as ‘pepper-potted’ tenure mix with the assumption that this will engender social integration between tenure and income groups in new developments. This research finds that in Garland Court, where this design orthodoxy has been employed, it has been successful in bringing together a diverse population in close proximity. However, there are still implications in regards to the integration of residents that are due to tenure, design and management.
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REIMAGINING MESSINA’S ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPACES OF INDUSTRY MArch History and Theory
Messina, a city on the Italian island of Sicily, is one that has long suffered from the conditions of dependence, neglect and under-development that have plagued the south of Italy. The state-led development of industry in the city as a result of state investment subsequently declined after being sold to the private market. This resulted in a postindustrial landscape of vacant typologies and empty plots. The inability of the state and the demise of capitalism as a driver of regeneration in the region, compounded by the current global financial crises, means that in order for this landscape to become a functional piece of the city again a new model for development is required. This essay explores alternative models of the production of the built environment in post-industrial landscapes, theorising this as the formation of heterotopias forming in residual areas in the transitional state following the failure of the dominant social order; in this case capitalism. What is presented is an analysis utilising case studies that enables the development of design tools suitable for the reappropriation of Messinas post-industrial landscape. This is accompanied by initial proposals as to how these may be employed and sets the conceptual and theoretical parameters for which these proposals can be fully explored.
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PHOTOGRAPHY I have developed a keen passion for photography shooting mainly 35mm film. I enjoy using this medium as a way to record, inform and research a given subject.
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SNOW PARK CONSTRUCTION Prior to embarking on my academic studies I was head of Snow Park design and construction at SNO!zone Milton Keynes. The role involved the spatial design and construction of snowboarding features and included design and build commissions of bespoke parks and features for clients such as Red Bull and Burton Snowboards.
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