I am at the very beginning of my architecture career; Having just completed the first year of my BA at the University of Plymouth. This portfolio illustrates a range of creative practices from my initial work. Representational images are taken from first year mini projects interspersed with examples of art and design pre architecture. The architecture work for this stage is deliberately hand created in advance of the course allowing the use computers to aid design . I will be updating this portfolio as my experience grows, an up to date version will be posted on my website www.SimonShillito.co.uk along with a profile, CV and contact pages.
Spiky colourful thing-mini shelter. 2 Portraiture and anatomical studies. 3 LDF Kiosk. 4-5 Vertical team project. 6 Kinetic sculpture. 7 A digital business. 8 ‘Touching the ground lightly?’- Eco hall. 9-10 Cityscape, Tree etching, illustration, 11-12 painting & Rock study. Paris, city capsule. 13 ‘The Orchard’-cider farm. 14-16
How do you get through a crowded city centre with minimum fuss?
Be the envy of all those people you would call your friends if only you could socialise, wear a spiky colourful thing; Effecting crowd dynamics much like mosses at the read sea, it also prevents shops prising your hard earned cash from your hands and protects your identity converting you into a big spiky colourful ghost, thing. This proposal was developed as the first solo project on the architecture degree. The brief; design a small transportable shelter to protect from an unspecified influence, it must be deconstructable in order to fit in the studio.
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An Artistic practice; 1. Water colour + coloured pencil on paper
2. Gouache, wax, charcoal +chalk on brown paper
3. Indian ink on cartridge paper
4. Acrylic + ball point pen on paper
5. Pelvis studies, pencil on paper
6. Torso muscle studies, pencil on paper
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LDF Kiosk The second solo project was to design a ‘art kiosk’ in a run down part of town. I chose Plymouth City Council’s ‘Millbay and Stonehouse area action plan’ as a catalyst for emergence. The final proposal takes the form of a forum for the city’s development.
LDF Kiosk development drawing
VERTICLE TEAM PROJECT The brief for this one week group mini project was to develop a concept for a migratory population in a strip of the city. The context is a huge immigrant population post global warming, our strip was all water, and the gateway to the rest of the mega city. Community Leisure
Industry
Commerce
Transport
Precedents;
Monolith by Jean Nouvel, http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/03/biggest-diamond-heist-in-history.html
Sky lanterns http://www.flickr.com/photos/ dans180/3294461726/
Degree piece; Wooden clock
ND Show piece; Wooden bike and young me
Fine art Degree show piece prototype; spider
A small sample of the works produced by EMH Group, My Virtual development company (Co-owned)
Background image; Google maps
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The Eco Hall project was a simulated live project for ‘The Centre for Contemporary Arts in the Natural World’ and the Forestry Commission at Haldon Forest Park near Exeter. The brief asks for a shelter for symposium audience, group activities and the general public. Later this proposal was chosen for an exhibition at the park.
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wind
Temporary textile walls
Old London Town; Pencil on paper, digitally mastered
Tree; Dry point etching on paper
Sci-Fi engine. Digital cartoon screen play development, ‘Awakening’, Commission for EMH Group.
Colour woman, acrylic on paper.
Rock study; Pencil on paper digitally edited.
In spring half term were a couple of days spent romanticising in Paris; drawing and photographing the city. Back in the UK a small model was built.
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http://kashlaty.ru/news/2009-07-18-39
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1:500 site plan; Pencil on paper, digitally edited.
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Roof 1:200
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1st floor 1:200
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Ground floor 1:200
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1:20 model detail
Sited in a heavily industrialised area of Plymouth the final project’s site has very little access. In the beginning stage of childhood memories of farms and orchards were grasped and utilised. All access enters on the second floor leading to walks across the orchard canopy and through the dark fermentation hall with it’s looming shapes; the experience emulates a maze of sights, sounds and different spaces. The design is a fantasy land, nostalgic and progressive, always suggesting a new corner to explore and a new route to take. The entire proposal focuses on the sheltered orchard area a safe place for play and relaxing, it is park, cider garden and events location. The main structure is timber clad in zinc, the flood defences and orchard walls are clad gabions which are seeded with grass decking.
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( Reproduction not to scale)
( Reproduction not to scale)