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Garden Shed Summer Project Housescapes Urban Conditions Figure Ground Article 25 Instrumentalising Istanbul Reading + other interests
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Project to transform unused shed into a dwelling space. The form was generated by the previous geometry of the shed. Possessing the front elevation of a simple traviated structure but wrapping around the back posts to create an 3d geometric enclosed space, giving protection from wind. The project had minimal budget and all material, bar 4 structural posts and connections, were recycled from the previous structure.
2011 Summer Project 
I focussed on studying a specific seat on a threshold between interior and exterior space. I was interested by the use of materials, those which one makes contact with and those which one views and how this affects ones experience when occupying the seat. Also, the sequence of materials of which the threshold is defined. I chose the activity of eating a bowl of cereal in particular to study the sensory experience. The sound of a metal spoon hitting a ceramic bowl. The feeling of a cushioning sofa . The taste and smell of the food. The motion of bubbles in the pond and the reflections it has is also part of this experience. When recording something, one is somehow resolving a certain aspect or property so that it can be understood elsewhere. In attempt of recording the feel of touching the materials one comes in contact with, I put together a portable box of materials possessing similar sensory properties to the 1:1 scale materials.
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formfinding precedent I precedent II site analysis process work proposal
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To begin the project we were assigned a formfinding task in which we studied an ecological system and through physical and parametric modelling, understand the fundamentals of it, as a starting point for our housing design. Our group, under the sub-title of material structures, decided to study the tectonic qualities of the mushroom form. We were interested in both its cantilever and structural properties as well as the aesthetic qualities of the structural ribs found underneath. Through analysing this ecological system we hoped to find a way of incorporating some sort of ribbing in our own designs which would integrate an efficient structural system into the main aesthetic and formal qualities of our designs.
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In order to understand the variation in the system, from one mushroom to another, I constructed a simple digital parametric model. I took one element and then repeated this around a central point. I altered three different parameters to see how this would alter the form and see what the extremes of the parametric model were. Great variation in form could be achieved by just manipulating three parameters.
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After this period of experimentation, I concluded that the outputs from this investigation didn’t possess the same organic randomness between the ribs. I constructed another parametric model, but this time altered the style of the rib elements using primary and secondary ribbing, as could be seen in precedent examples. This model was also designed so that it could be easily fabricated. The next page shows stills from an animation panning around the model.
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It wasn’t difficult to manufacture a physical model using this digital model. I just had to notch and laser cut each planar element and glue them together. This process was enlightening. We had managed to take the tectonic qualities we had liked in nature and, through a process of digital parametric manipulation, replicated this in a physical fabricated representation.
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nakagin capsule tower 
Location: Shinbashi, Tokyo, Japan Completed: 1972 Height: 176 ft (53.5m) Floor count: 13 Main contractor: Taisei Corporation Architect: Kisho Kurokawa
Nakagin Capsule Tower is a rare built example of Japanese Metabolism; architecture based on the vision of future cities, inhabited by a mass society, characterised by large scale expandable structures that evoke the process of organic growth. It designed as a hotel for business people but now each pod is privately owned. 140 pre-fabricated capsules are individually connected via four high-tension bolts to two steel towers which sit upon a horizontal podium. The towers were designed to last 100 years. The capsules, however, were designed to last 25 years and supposed to be replaced every 25 years.
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Marina city, designed by Bertrand Goldberg, was a pioneering project and one of the first to propose a mixed use residential development. It was the tallest residential concrete building in the world at the time of completion. The site plan has two main residential towers, with parking taking up the lower levels, a theatre, ice rink, retail and marina. The towers function solely on electricity and the cabling and plumbing are integrated in the structure. The core acts as a ventilation device and due to Location: State Street, Chicago, the stack effect, in summer the rooms can be Illinois, United States naturally ventilated. Completed: 1964 Cost: $36 million Height: 587 ft (179 m) Floor count: 65 Main contractor: James McHugh Construction Co. Architect: Bertrand Goldberg There are three different housing units for Marina city. Studio, 1 bed and 2 bed. He positions the kitchens and bathrooms towards the core of the building and the bedrooms and living room to the outside to maximise the views and daylight. Goldberg designed the complex to function both day and night to maximise retail possibilities and be create a lively centre for the city.
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The central core allows many units to densely occupy the space and reduces wasted circulation space. It gives each dwelling a city view. Structural system is efficient and reduces the building material needed. (similar to what we found in DPM mushroom research) The size and location of the development made it a landmark building and its construction acted as an event, exciting the city. Advertising played a main role in boosting support for the project and getting the public behind it. The public can not appreciate the views from above and the towers and retail space do not integrate well with the city on a pedestrian level. 
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After studying our ecological system and some architectural housing precedents, we were given a choice of two sites to build on. The site our group chose was on Wood Street, between the Millennium Stadium and Cardiff central station. It currently is a flat site and is waiting new redevelopment after the previous building had to be demolished due to problems with winds and windows. Current developers had proposed a high rise for the site with a few hotels but this is on hold due to the current financial situation. Over time, transport has played a major role in the area. It situates the bus station and train station today, but used to have a tram line running alongside it. Visitors of the city will likely pass through this area, meaning that there is a changing and varied pedestrian population.
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There is history on the site with wood processing. There used to be a joinery works, timber yard and saw mill on the bank of the river taff.
Throughout its history, the building site has previously had a church, school, and transport offfice on it.
Old bridge has been removed and replaced with a newer one slightly further south.
Water tower on site since 1940. Was used to refill steam engines.
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The old residential area, Temperance Town, has been demolished to make way for city redevelopment and now situates the bus station and the millenium stadium.
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There is currently a lot of debris and rubbish surrounding the site and the surrounding buildings appear not to be cared for as those buildings closer to the centre of town. Perhaps a clean up project could be initiated to encourage the local community to care more for the area. If you look at the wind diagrams to the bottom of the page you can see that the site is open to great wind forces and this may carry pollutants in the air. Currently there is very little vegetation and wildlife on site but there is great potential to attract and establish new biodiverse habitats as the site is alongside the river. The housing project is a great chance to give the area an injection of colour and new life.
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Personal Brief/Aims Open site to the river to create a bar and socialising area. (rail bridge arches are currently lit and create a nightlife atmosphere) Channel event pedestrian traffic through the site and underneath Wood Street to allow the road to remain open on more event days. Create a sustainable social community/environment in which artists can live, socialise, work and provide a space for the public to engage with their work. Create an engaging public space where the public can spend time relaxing. Bring biodiversity back to the area by designating green spaces. Take into account the demands set out for redeveloping the area according to Cardiff City Centre public realm manual. The development should act as a new node in Cardiff city centre and bring a new identity to the area and attract members of the public who would otherwise not frequent the area. Incorporate a new boat stop to facilitate a shuttle service to and from Cardiff bay. 
sketching and m o d e l l i n g 
My design developed through a mixture of sketching and modelling. My initial idea was to design a high rise tower, to compete with other large scale buildings in the area. It would take the mushroom idea of repeated structural elements/ribs around a central core. These ribs would operate as the main structural system and incorporate services running vertically through them. It would also serve as the buildings formal expression. It would allow the public to experience the structural system at a personal level when entering and travelling through the building. Also, the ability to see right through the building, results in a greater legibility of the structure, due to its simplicity.
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an event place At the junction of Cardiff’s main transport links, this development creates a vibrant and sustainable artistic community and establishes an event place for artists to display their talents to a wide, varied and changing audience.
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Here are some more working models. One the left, the white rubber block represents how a housing unit may nestle inside these ribs. The model to the right shows the idea of designing prefabricated units which, although also sit between the structural ribs, jut out, more like the nakagin tower. It also talks about how retail units may extend out at ground level from the same central focal point, tying the development together. The arrow shows how I intend the pedestrian traffic to flow through the site from the station to the stadium.
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This model was investigating how far up the tower one could go and still have enough space for a usable housing unit. This was about two thirds up and is probably the smallest possible housing unit, designed for one or two people. It meant that the top third of the tower would have to have an alternative programme or be unused space if I decided to go with units inside the structure.
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Here I was thinking about how I could incorporate public seating at ground level with a light well to give ample lighting to the space below ground. Getting light below ground is important as I am intending on the development to be for artists and so this would light their studio or retail/gallery space. One side is higher so that, when orientated correctly, light may be reflected into the space below. Reflected light provides better working conditions than direct sunlight for artists.
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A selection of digital process work.
Process of realising a physical laser cut model from a digital model through the process of rationalisation through cad line drawings.
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I am proposing a new artistic community which takes advantage of the influx of travellers from the rail and bus station and visitors to events at the Millennium stadium. This changing population added to the large living population will make a development such as this feasible and sustainable by its own population.
Studios and a variety of exhibition spaces will be located below ground and accessible by a hierarchy of routes, in a layout which harks back to the street layout in the historic temperance town. This maximises the percentage of space at ground level to establish a large and self supporting green space, for the busy city population to relax and improve Cardiff city’s biodiversity.
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Housing takes the form of prefabricated units which plug into the main concrete tower and come in a variety of sizes to suit different lifestyle arrangements. The tower is capped with a lantern which acts as a public viewing area as well as providing a warm beacon on the Cardiff cityscape, pin pointing this new artistic community.
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The model to the left shows an example of one of the prefabricated housing units. It is fitted minimally, kitchen, bathroom and stairs only, so that users may have room to personalize their living space to their own tastes. The bottom right photo shows the entrance to such a dwelling unit with a window/shelf which users can personalise too making their own unit distinguishable from others. The glazed facade opens up so that in the summer the inside space can expand and take advantage of the outdoor climate.
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When studying the nakagin tower, I did not like the way the tower met the ground through a podium. The verticality of tower is broken and passersby would not notice it was a tower unless they looked up. I have tried to express the verticality of the tower by rooting it below ground level and by maintaining the lines from the top of the tower to the bottom. I have also introduced a greater degree of porosity at ground level by cutting apertures through the structural ribs. In turn this allows clear views through to behind and has created an atrium space which may take several programmes, be it a display space or simply a meeting point.
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formfinding tree funghi http://vanessavobis.com/2009/04/maine-tree-fungus/ mushroom 1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich66/306842089/ mushroom 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwfloyd/1372732806/sizes/l/in/ photostream/
nakagin tower photo1 http://www.archdaily.com/168654/168654/%C2%A9arcspace/ photo2 http://www.worldarchitecturenews. com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln. showprojectbigimages&img=1&pro_id=126 photo3 http://www.geolocation.ws/v/P/28822678/-/en photo4 http://www.architecturememe.com/ad-classics-nakagincapsule-tower-kisho-kurokawa/
marina city photo1 http://www.artic.edu/aic/resources/resource/1914 photo2 http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/bodies_of_work/ goldberg_marina_city.html http://www.archdaily.com/87408/ad-classics-marina-citybertrand-goldberg/marina-city_etower21-52-lg/ http://www.archdaily.com/87408/ad-classics-marina-citybertrand-goldberg/marina-city_floorplan0br/
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http://www.cardiffians.co.uk/citycentre/index.shtml http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/temperancetown. html
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Mapping the Micro Scale What are the materials, colours, textures, smells, and sounds? Your group is asked to select a five by five metre area (representative segment) in the hottest urban area of the town, and map it in micro detail, recording all of the above. Measure the space intimately in plan, section and elevation (ask the owners of any adjacent businesses first!), and record the scales, sounds, smells, colours, and textures through drawings, audio recordings, photographs, sketches, paintings, rubbings, castings, and any other appropriate audio-visual media. Document and record in minute detail the more obscure and banal elements that often go unnoticed but which make up our urban fabric: Chewing gums, manhole covers, bollards, trees, street lamps, street signs, parked cars, open windows, graffiti, pigeons, post boxes, power lines, cigarette butts, telephone masts, suits, conversations, experience, and so on. Tell us what one limited space can tell us about the character of the town.
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Thompson street is an important highway in Barry. Even before Barry existed, what is Thompson street now, was defined by a path marked by trees. Buildings coagulated around it and the surrounding area become what we see today. It was an essential route from town centre to the docks and played house to the community of Barry. The importance of this street has been forgotten and this is seen in the demolish of the old Victorian buildings on the street in 1970. The street needs to be repaired and re purposed.
The plan of the street had developed too. As buildings were demolished and re built so the width of the street altered. Whatever I propose will too alter the street space and It is an opportunity to contribute to Thompson street’s development. I may choose not to build directly onto the street and set buildings back to open up the centre of the street. Add a stopping space for the public instead of it being just a linear route.
Below, are views of the street in past times and today. Also is a photo of the obtrusive leisure centre building and an interesting unused space near the site which has potential to be an impromptu stage area. Also is an impression of what an industrial intervention may look like on the site.
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Haworth Thompkins Almeida Temporary Theatre
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Amtrak Tunnel - New York
Peter Zumthor Atmospheres “Materials react with one another and have their radiance, so that the material composition gives rise to something unique.”
Therme Vals A continuous internal space, like a geometric cave system, meanders through the bath’s structure of large stone blocks. The building has been conceived as a technically ordered, architectonic structure which avoids naturalistic form. Yet within it’s homogenous stone mass it still retains a clear sense of the strongest initial design ideas - idea of hollowing out.
MANIFESTO Since the dissolution of the coal and merchant industries, Barry, specifically Thompson Street, has lost its character and identity. During the industrial boom, Barry expanded rapidly and Thompson Street was at the heart of the action; a thriving and bustling community with a varied and encompassing programme. In the 70’s, its community was driven out and architectural atmosphere lost when the buildings on the street were demolished, taking with it the soul of one of the vital links between the town and docks. Barry council has since decided to reconnect the dock area with the town and this project will aid the restoration of this main artery. The town has also lost most of its performance venues. Theatre is a powerful medium and has the ability to alter people’s perceptions of reality. It is an essential part of society and necessary to improve the wellbeing of the people of Barry. The past identity of Thompson Street is not salvageable and there is no sense in attempting to restore the past character of the street based on memories, recollections or nostalgic thoughts. However, it is also important that the street not lose touch with its heritage.
I propose to construct a performing arts complex based on the indigenous industrial typology of the Welsh coal mine. The strong atmospheric qualities of the mines are powerful and something that I will aim to capture and I believe would suit a theatrical environment. The industrial nature of this precedent should result in
functional and legible spaces as seen in Ash Sakula’s boiler house and Haworth Tompkins Temporary Almeida theatre. The intervention should somehow reinstate the lost performance culture of Barry and catalyse the regeneration of Thompson Street in a sustainable fashion, providing it with a new focus and identity. The intervention must be an inviting welcoming and inclusive place for the people of Barry. Those young people using the space are likely to not have experienced a theatre environment before. The main performance space must be a place that is respected by both performers and audience and be somewhat imposing and disciplinary. Intervention must not be restricted by site boundaries and should integrate with existing environment. The project must have an aspiration for permanence and longevity. The intervention should be seen as an opportunity to improve the urban realm and the town of Barry.
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d’ambiance
Concept that richer and more successful public realm is achieved through a multitude or layering of architectural intervention rather than one building. Situationists coined the term unite d’ambiance as a counter arguement to Corbusiers unite d’habitation. plaque tournante is another term for this idea. It is difficult to translate but is similar to a turntable or node. It is used to describe certain localities of public realm which a stumbled upon whilst drifting through a city. Situationists mapped these plaque tournantes in their unique way. It opposed the cartesian logic of ordinary street maps and instead recorded more experiential and favourable alternative routes.
The proposal consists, instead of one singular building, a collection of structures dotted around a certain locality in Barry. By doing so I aim to design a unite d’ambiance, thus increasing the area of influence the architecture has and create a wider artistic environment. As the situationists put it, bring the art from inside the gallery to the streets. By keeping to the existing street plan for the arrangement of the structure the intervention is knitted into the urban fabric. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
The programme is a theatre and the main performance space is underground below the tower, but I have tried to expand this theme of performance to the landscape too by designing small dwelling spaces which may be inhabited by performers. There is a more formal theatre dug into the public space facing Thompson street which follows the dimensions and sits on the axis of the main theatre. There is also a sunken area along a route exiting the west of the site which may be inhabited by buskers and a third enveloping wall which may host an outdoor music stage. The cafe, bar, box office and WC’s sit within the central building. The public space is split in two by the spine of vernacular buildings in the centre of the scheme. There is a contrast between heavy industrial and man made(taking influence form the coal industry previously supporting Thompson street) with light and natural. The buildings define this by their contrast in elevations. One side acting as a concrete facade casting shadow over the Thompson street side of the scheme and the other seeming to float with glazing to allow the light to inhabit the spaces. The landscaping is also reflected in this way by textures, rough concrete versus wildflower meadow terraces I have outlined a potential route one may take from the town centre to the theatre.It explains how one has to pass through the darker area to get to the light. One gets glimpses of the light landscape behind the facade and is drawn in. They descend a series of steps and traverse the industrial environment. Then the squeeze through an opening in the facade and this opens up to the landscape below. D BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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Article 25 Student Chapter
I have acted as copresident of the student chapter of Article 25 for Cardiff over the course of the year. The 25th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights shows that adequate shelter and housing are fundamental to our human rights. Article 25, a UK organisation, works to enable this right by building solutions to global problems. In order to raise awareness of the society, we decided to rebrand using an A motif integrating 3 different symbols which encapsulated what our interests are: Tree= sustainablility, ecology, growth Fingerprint= humanity, identity, culture Shed=structure, shelter, design
We have organised lectures to explore these ideas. Assemble collective, a young group of designers, visited and talked about how they have brought life to derelict sites using found materials, volunteers and enthusiasm. We also, arranged for a representative from the charity to explain some of their overseas work and some 3rd year students to explain about voluntary construction work they have done abroad Next term we are set to have Nabeel Hambdi come and talk about his ideas in his book small changes and how through many small interventions one may bring about positive change in the city. In June, with the help of society members, we are to design and build a small intervention on part of Bristol’s Plot 3 site. An experiment to see how temporary structures may drive a new creative hub. In order to keep a record of events and inform members, I have updated a tumblr site with information.
Instrumentalising Istanbul 
Cities evolve through a process of RE-TUNING
City = Instrument Inhabitants = Performers Activity = Music When the music sounds out of key, the instrument is retuned by the performers in order for the music to sound better. It is the way in which cities are retuned which gives them their character. Istanbulians retune their city through a process of primitive adaption and manipulation of the urban fabric. These are often cheap and quick alterations using found materials. In many western cities, efforts are being made to explore and encourage this experimental behaviour, routinely exhibited in Istanbul. The unsterility of Istanbul is partly due to their climate, culture and lack of regulation and formulates a busy, exciting and lively city. Over-sterilised modern cites have much to learn from the dynamic and organic evolutionary nature of Istanbul.
Isolation As a group we decided that we would make our own manipulation of the urban fabric in an Istanbulian style. On site we noticed that people would promenade alone and collect at the edge of the pier. They were seeking isolation from what is a very busy and lively city. There was a lower level underneath the main deck, which offered even more isolation. We decided to design a seat for one isolation seeker on the edge of the pier on this lower level. Its initial state offers a bridge to access a cantilevered platform over the edge of the pier. When comfortable the user may pull a rope to morph the platform into an upright position. This gives the user a back on which to rest but also creates a barrier between them and on comers. It also prevents anyone else from using this platform as a method of access, like a drawbridge, thus cutting the connection between the user and the rest of Istanbul.
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Reading and other interests A selection of books, projects and practises which I have found influential and are currently interested in.
Darius Woo Entropic States + Dirty Architecture
Practise Architecture Carmody Groarke Studio East Dining
Lina Bo Bardi’s: Teatro Oficina (Sao Paolo)
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