CONTENTS
ACADEMIC STUDY
3 - 12
The final thesis project embraces a resourceful ethic, taking the stance that all matter in the future will be seen as being of equal value. To what limits will humanity go to, to exhaust as much as possible out of a single resource? How will our environment and consequently our architecture be shaped if we persist in our consumerist motives? TECHNICAL STUDY
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Technical system drawing of another University project.
PERSONAL PROJECT
14 - 15
The drawing ‘Liverpool Capriccio 2200 C.E.’. This personal project draws upon a historic tone of the city, set within a far-future setting. The docks now only survive as a timestamp to society, reminding future generations of the atrocious historic maritime events of the city’s past.
PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
16 - 20
1-year experience at Foster + Partners. Worked on 2 important projects. The first at Concept Design and then at Detailed Design level, plus one other which was a 4-week long competition.
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Site Plan: Liverpool Graving Docks. Building Masterplan at Liverpool Docks TIM WHEELER | 19056273
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Composite Masterplan: The drawing is composed of an arrangement of plan, section and 3-dimensional representation. These components are placed both on site and abstractly. The drawing shifts between 3 different scales. 1) The wider Liverpool bay. Identifying all known shipwreck locations for the building probes to salvage old remnants (line map on left of drawing). 2) Liverpool Docks showing Composite Drawing urban context. 3) Building plan showing immediate context. Scaled-up sectional element and caged axonometric represetnation of building placed abstractly. surrounding
The drawing is composed of an arrangment of plan, section and 3-dimensional representation. These components are placed both on site and abstractly. The drawing shifts between 3 different scales. 1) Wider Liv erpool Bay identifying all known shipwreck locations for the building probes to salvage old remnants (line map on left of drawing). 2) Liverpool Docks showing surrounding urban context. 3) Building plan showing 4 immediateTIMcontext. sectional element and caged axonometric representaion of building placed abstractly. WHEELER Scaled-up | 19056273
Composite Drawing: scaled-up sectional model of building with a connecting spline to indicate callout.
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Visual: Ritual Space - ‘Adoration of the Edifice’. Building probes have salavaged old remnants from Liverpools’ shipwreck loactions. Metals have been smelted down to serve a ritualistic purpose to the ‘ghosts’ of the city. TIM WHEELER | 19056273
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SOLIDIFIED CRUDE OIL
SHRINE TO LIVERPOOL'S SHIPWRECKS, GHOSTS.
EXISTING DOCKS EXISTING DOCK EDGE EDIFICE SANCTUM
WORKERS QUARTERS
EXISTING FLOOD GATES
PROBE HANGER
FOUNTAIN FOR OIL SUBMERSION DISTILLATION TOWER
SHRINE Dock Water
DISTILLATION TOWERS
OIL REPOSITORY WORKERS SPACE
CRUCIBLE
LOCK GATES
OIL CISTERNS
VIEWING SPACE FOR VISITORS
RESOURCE EXCHANGE
OIL CISTERNS
Reservoir connecting to Mersey
FIRST FLOOR PLAN 2
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ROOF PLAN 95
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Roof Plan Roof Plan in Context with Line Drawing Composite TIM WHEELER | 19056273
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SOLIDIFIED CRUDE OIL SOLIDIFIED CRUDE OIL
SHRINE TO LIVERPOOL'S SHIPWRECKS, GHOSTS. SHRINE TO LIVERPOOL'S SHIPWRECKS, GHOSTS.
EXISTING DOCKS EXISTING DOCKS
WORKERS QUARTERS WORKERS QUARTERS
FOUNTAIN FOR OIL SUBMERSION DISTILLATION TOWER
FOUNTAIN FOR OIL SUBMERSION DISTILLATION TOWER
OIL REPOSITORY OIL REPOSITORY CRUCIBLE CRUCIBLE LOCK GATES LOCK GATES
VIEWING SPACE FOR VISITORS OIL CISTERNS
VIEWING SPACE FOR VISITORS OIL CISTERNS
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DETAIL LEGEND
Technical resolution of project.
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Refined design of Workers Space.
Plan Key. 9
Narrative Model: Building operates over a 6-stage process.
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Distillation Towers
Armatoriums Quarters
Existing Docks
Out-at-sea Probes
Crucible
Site Access
Oil Cistern
Crucible Massing: Volume suggestions
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Development Model: Massing of proposal sits within existing graving docks. The architecture mirrors the industrial language it sits around through its distillation tower-like spires. Crude oil cisterns transport the buidlings vitals throughout the structure. TIM WHEELER | 19056273
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TECHNICAL STUDY: Year 2, Project 3: Tectonic details of building proposal. Building sits on the rock face of Nottingham’s castle. Architecture in Detail Panel: Technical Resolution Complete project found on Nottingham’s DABE online exhibition: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/gOjTOPrIkkmJ00hV?ref=Link TIM WHEELER | 19056273
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PERSONAL PROJECT: Liverpool Capriccio 2200 C.E (2400x1627mm): Shortlisted drawing for The Architecture Drawing Prize 2023, Exhibited at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.
Media: 3DS Max, Vray. Produced during my year-out. TIM WHEELER | 19056273
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A collection of conceptual works from university, arranged into a ‘Vanita’ still life. This would serve a part of the foreground in the final drawing. These models would aim to give a glimpse into a different reality at Liverpool docks. For this purpose, the ideas behind the drawings and models are not meant to be understood, but try to offer a platform for speculation and intrigue within the details. 1
Skeletal structures. Reference: Bird skull computational design concept, Michael Pawlyn.
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Translating the contorted visual forms of decomposition into an architecture. The bowels and innards of something are used as a metaphorical device for the dismantling of Liverpool docks and its historic vessels. Reference: Garden of Earthly Delights. Hieronymous Bosch.
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St Jerome Doing Penance in his Study (1618 – 1622) by Luis Tristán
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Turner, Slave Ships.
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The Nelson Monument, in Exchange Flags, Liverpool. The words read, ‘England expects every man to do his duty’.
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Detail from the final drawing ‘Liverpool Capriccio’.
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