TOM DOBINSON C.V. & PORTFOLIO - 2015
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CONTENTS
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SELECTED WORKS:
WHARF DWELLERS - 1:1 Construction - A House for Bill - Public Wharf
WALKING TWIG
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NZSoM
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RE-CUBA ST
HOME-O-GENOUS
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Tom Dobinson - MArch (Prof), BAS tdobinson@icloud.com 021 206 8389
EDUCATION 2015 2013 2008
Master of Architecture (Prof.) with Distinction, VUW. Bachelor of Architectural Studies, VUW. Graduated from Hagley Community College, Christchurch.
WORK EXPERIENCE 2015 October VUW - Studio Christchurch exhibition supervisor. 2015 May - July Judith Streat / Pearson and Associates - Museum Display Preparator. 2014 March - Nov VUW - Tutor at Victoria University: - Structural Systems (2nd year) - Colour, Pattern, Light (3rd year) - Design Processes (1st year) 2013 July
Cantebury Museum - Design and illustrations for publication.
AWARDS 2014 2013 2011
Winner of the NZIA and Graphisoft Student Architecture Award, Auckland. Honourable Mention. SANNZ 24 hour Competition. Deans list for academic excellence.
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TECHNICAL SKILLS Adobe Suite Sketchup 3Ds Max Revit
(Proficient) (Proficient) (Proficient) (Moderate)
Sketching, Drawing and Diagramming (Analogue and Digital). Physical Modelling and Photography.
WORK REFERENCES Mark Southcombe Mark.Southcombe@vuw.ac.nz 027 313 1203 Daniel K. Brown Daniel.Brown@vuw.ac.nz 021 235 9592
WHARF DWELLERS
Represented VUW in the RIBA, Presidents Medals. London, 2015. Shown at the AASA Conference and Studio Christchurch retrospective Exhibition. Christchurch, 2015.
This section contains excerpts from my MArch Thesis.
WHARF MODEL. Materials: Kauri/Card/Wire.
WINNER - NZIA and Graphisoft Student Architecture Award. Auckland, 2014.
Lyttelton is a port town connected to the world via the sea. In recent years, progressive expansion of privatised docks has severed the physical connection between the town and its harbour. This research evolved to propose a reconciliation in the founding relationship of a port town and its foreshore. It investigates this proposition by developing a method to represent aspects of place in architectural form. The research developed through the design of three experiments: an installation, a house, and a public wharf. The projects increased in scale and complexity to inform one another; the sensorial experience of an art installation being carried through to a city scale. Woven into the research is an exploration of local resident and distinguished New Zealand painter, Bill Hammond. His paintings address place identity in a non-traditional sense, providing a method for characterising Lyttelton’s obscure, ephemeral characteristics. This investigation distils the strangeness from Hammond’s paintings, populating Lyttelton with a series of bird-like structures linked by a new wharf high above the working docks. The wistful paintings of a local maverick inspired an architectural landscape that acts to reconnect the occupants of the town with their harbour - an architecture that could only have developed at these specific coordinates.
LYTTELTON CONTEXT.
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1:1 CONSTRUCTION
A 1:1 scale installation was designed and constructed to investigate how ephemeral characteristics might be formalised. This installation established a formal vocabulary, which was carried through to inform the subsequent architectural experiments. INSTALLATION DURING CONSTRUCTION. Materials: Card/Timber.
INSTALLATION.
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Detail. INSTALLATION DURING CONSTRUCTION. Materials: Tissue/Dope/Card/Timber.
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Section. THE OUTHOUSE. Mixed media: Model/Photography/Digital Collage.
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Section. BILL’S HOUSE. Mixed media: Model/Photography/Digital Collage.
‘A House for Bill’ is an examination into how a Lyttelton occupant might dwell in their local landscape. Underlying this examination was the imperative to create an architecture that would to belong amidst Bill Hammond’s painted world. The sense of strangeness depicted throughout his works was distilled and represented in the atmospheric landscape. The architecture was designed to relate to this environment by taking on anthropomorphic qualities and allowing the forms to be read as a system of relationships rather than isolated objects. This emphasised the importance of the landscape and consequently Lyttelton in the development of the architecture.
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WHARF SITE The port exists as a one hundred metre wide band of publicly inaccessible land that completely separates the township from its foreshore. The final intervention sought to provide a new architectural infrastructure that allowed residents to reconnect to the water. The initial gesture is a strip connecting Lyttelton’s town centre to the harbour and contains a core sample of Lyttelton’s varied contexts and programmes.
MODELING THE STRIP. (TOP) Photomontage/Model. Plaster/Card/Wire. THE STRIP slices from the town through the port zone to the Harbour.
PRIVATISED PORT
HARBOUR
TOWN CENTER AND PORT ZONE
LOCATION OF THE SITE. Lyttelton figure / ground.
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TOWN
PRIVATISED PORT
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THE PUBLIC WHARF Rather than obliterating the town to impose a new building, towers are inserted amongst Lyttelton’s existing fabric; in the town, the working port area, and amongst the existing wharves. These are connected by a mysterious floating landscape over all three zones. This wharf-like structure stretches out from the township, spans the privatised port zone, and reconciles the town with its foreshore. VIEWS OF THE PROPOSED WHARF. From above (top), and in section.
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(1) L.P.C. BUILDING AND HARBOUR MASTERS RESIDENCE. Model-rama
The wharf surface is occupied by a medley of structures that house essential amenities and activities for both the community and port.
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(2) THE WHARF SURFACE.
(3) THE BEACON ON LONDON STREET. Model-rama. Materials: Kauri/Card/Wire.
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(2) WHARF DWELLERS. Sketch model exploring how the wharf might be occupied.
(1) Detail. WHARF SECTION. Mixed media.
(3) TIP OF THE WHARF. Wharf model.
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WALKING TWIG This project was designed as a temporary pavilion to represent NZ at the Venice Bienalle. The foremost design pressure was that it must be prefabricated in NZ and the components fitted into a 20 foot shipping container. The design drew influence from the native stick insect - formerly known as the walking twig giving form to a long room, perched upon six legs, crafted from native timbers.
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LOCATION - JETTY, PIAZZA SAN MARCO, VENI
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The design for the New Zealand School of Music developed from studies of the sites history - a place where the built environment has experienced continual change. Images created by modeling buildings which had previously occupied the site gave an aesthetic of spatial relationships which was developed in alongside the specific programmatic pressures assigned in the brief.
SITE STUDY.
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RE-CUBA ST. This project brief required the retrofit and development of an existing heritage building in Wellington. A heritage report assessed the architectural and cultural significance of the building to establish which aspects were valuable and worth retaining and how new buildings might reinvigorate the existing.
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PATINATED COPPER SHEET, PERFORATED, PANEL SIZE 1600 x 2500 x 4 mm SECURED VIA STEEL T-SECTION TO SUPPORTING STRUCTURE
EXISTING BUILDING (1927) REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME WITH BRICK MASONARY INFILL PANELS.
THERMOSASH, FLOOR TO CEILING, ALUMINIUM FRAMED GLAZING WITH MANUALLY OPENABLE AWNING WINDOWS. FASTENED TO STEEL R.H.S.
200 U.C. STEEL BRACING WITH STRUCTURAL FUSE, AS SPECIFIED BY ENGINEER, FASTENED TO 500 mm DEEP CONCETE BEAMS TYING NEW STRUCTURE TO EXISTING
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D.S.E. PRESTRESSED, RE-ENFORCED CONCRETE BEAM SPANNING BETWEEN 500mm DEEP, REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS WITH 200 C.H.S. SUPPORTS AT MID-SPAN
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MAKE CONCRETE FRAME GOOD WHERE EXISTING BRICK MASONARY INFILL PANELS ARE REMOVED FROM. H3.1 FRAMING TIMBER TO SUPPORT VMZ FLAT LOCK ZINC CLADDING. THERMOSASH ALUMINIUM JOINERY FOR ALL GLAZING.
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LAMINATED RUBBER BASE ISOLATOR WITH LEAD CORE ON 970 mm ROUND REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS. REINFORCING CONTINUOUS INTO GRADE BEAM.
TEMPERED GLASS AND POWDER-COATED STEEL AWNING HUNG FROM ABOVE VIA STAINLESS STEEL, TENSION CABLE
ETERPAN, FIBRE CEMENT SOFFIT, SUPPORTED BY H3.1 PINUS RADIATA 100x50 TIMBER FRAME GUN-NAILED TO CONCRETE SUBSTRATE. INSULATED WITH 100mm OF RIGID INSULATION PERFORATED STAINLESS STEEL EXPANSION JOINT TO ALLOW FOR HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENT. SUPPORTED FROM ABOVE VIA 175 U.C. DINABOLTED INTO CONCRETE SUBSTRATE. DRAIN AND STORMWATER OUTLET BELOW.
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200 mm ‘TRAYDE CONCRE AND PO 4500mm ETERPAN COLD-RO CONCRE INSULAT
200 mm STEEL ‘T PRECAS TIMBER T&G SUS EQUUS ‘ ROOF SY
m DEEP REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB ON STEEL EC’ SUPPORTED AT EITHER END BY PRECAST ETE BEAMS. ONCE DRY, CONCRETE IS TO BE GROUND OLISHED, WITH EXPANSION JOINTS SAWN AT m CENTRES FROM FINISHED WALL EDGE. N, FIBRE CEMENT SOFFIT BELOW, SUPPORTED BY OLLED, STEEL JOIST FRAME, GUN-NAILED TO ETE SUBSTRATE. INSULATED WITH 100mm OF RIGID TION
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m DEEP REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB ON TRAYDEC’ SUPPORTED AT EITHER END BY T CONCRETE BEAMS. FRAME BELOW TO SUPPORT TIMBER SPENDED CEILING. ‘DUOTHERM’ , RIGID INSULATION, WARM YSTEM ABOVE WITH INTERNAL GUTTERS
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150 mm THICK, REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL ALONG REAR FACEDE TO BE BOXED WITH ROUGH SAWN 100 x 25 TIMBER STRIPS RUNNING HORIZONTALLY WITH STAGGERED JOINTS. LEFT WITH OFF-FORM BOARD MARKED FINISH H3.1 FRAMING TIMBER TO SUPPORT VMZ FLAT LOCK ZINC CLADDING ON BOTH SIDES OF BALUSTRADE ‘EQUUS’ ROOF DECK SYSTEM. RIGID INSULATION CUT TO FALL WITH PLYWOOD TOP AND TORCH ON MEMBRANE. TILE DECKING ON PROPS WITH MEMBRANE PROTECTION PADS.
200 mm DEEP REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB ON STEEL ‘TRAYDEC’ SUPPORTED AT EITHER END BY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS. THERMOSASH, FLOOR TO CEILING, ALUMINIUM FRAMED GLAZING FASTENED TO STEEL P.F.C.
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200 mm DEEP REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB ON STEEL ‘TRAYDEC’ SUPPORTED AT EITHER END BY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS. ONCE DRY, CONCRETE IS TO BE GROUND AND POLISHED. STEEL P.F.C. SECURED TO REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM TOP HUNG, TEMPERED GLASS SLIDING DOOR. SUPPERTED BY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM
LAMINATED RUBBER BASE ISOLATOR ON 800 mm ROUND REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS. REINFORCING FROM COLUMNS CONTINUOUS INTO GRADE BEAM. 250 mm DEEP, REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB ON COMPACTED HARDFILL. RE-ENFORCING TO BE TIED TO GRADE BEAM, AS PER ENGINEERS SPECIFICATIONS. ONCE DRY, CONCRETE IS TO BE GROUND AND POLISHED TO BE IMPERVIOUS. EXPANSION CUTS TO BE SAWN AT GRID LINES 10 AND 12. FINISHED WITH CEMIX CONCRETE SEALER 200 mm THICK, REINFORCED CONCRETE RETAINING WALL WITH FINISHED PLANE AT 5 DEGREE SLOPE AWAY FROM RAMP. TO BE BOXED WITH ROUGH SAWN 100 x 25 TIMBER STRIPS RUNNING HORIZONTALLY WITH STAGGERED JOINTS. LEFT WITH OFF-FORM BOARD MARKED FINISH. FINISHED WITH CEMIX CONCRETE SEALER
PERFORATED STAINLESS STEEL EXPANSION JOINT TO ALLOW FOR HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENT. SUPPORTED FROM ABOVE VIA 175 U.C. CANTILEVED FROM FROM 325 P.F.C. DRAIN AND STORMWATER OUTLET BELOW. REINFORCED GRADE BEAM RUNNING BETWEEN PILES. 250mm OF COMPACTED HARDFILL AND SAND BLINDING BELOW AS SPECIFIED BY ENGINEER CONCRETE PILE AND PILE CAP WITH STEEL RE-ENFORCING AND GROUT FILLED VOID, TO BED ROCK AS SPECIFIED BY ENGINEER
Tom Dobinson Tutor : Mark Southcombe
Scale at A1 - 1:50 Sheet 2 S2. Longitudinal Part Section
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HOME-O-GENOUS Developed in response to a brief for post earthquake relief, the HOME-O-GENOUS system is a component based, construction method. CNC fabricated from 18mm ply-wood, with hinged joints, enables the components to be constructed off-site, delivered in flat sheets, and substructures quickly erected to create a small dwelling.
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tdobinson@icloud.com 021 206 8389