Tectonics
Chapter II
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The structural strategy of the design aims to achieve three targets. The first being the preservation of the structural skeleton of Wates House. The second will be a continuation from Hawkins/Brown’s intervention in which they expanded the perimeter of the building by 1.5m through cantilevering off of existing structural elements. We also intend to expand the floors perimeter, but through the use of post tensioning technology. y.3000
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Ground Floor Plan 1:50 The Bartlett Library has been rehoused inside The Bartlett. The library’s bookcase entrance can
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32 2nd Floor Plan 1:100 The second floor’s emphasis on informal crit spaces will help normalise the process of sharing and discussing work. The normalisation of such occasions will bolster the students confidence in their work and ideas. y.3000 5 4 3 2 1 The Crit Studio Balcony Informal Crit Studio Space The Old Bartlett Facade 1 2 3 4 5
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The studio floors are incubators of design, composed to heighten collaborative learning, whilst providing agency for students and tutors to recalibrate architectural education in their own image.
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The 2nd floor displays the integration of the post tensioned perimeter expansion, creating space for studio balconies, where students are reminded that there is life beyond the studio walls. The studios themselves are no longer serrated into their individual units. They are encouraged to interact and collaborate with fellow students and tutors, where they are able so share knowledge and experiences. y.3000
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7th Floor Plan 1:100 The reformulation of the tutorial space is developed further on the 7th floor, which is home to the tutorial garden. The open aired nature of the space makes tutorials less confrontational.
Roof Plan
The roof of the building is lined with Thermo-electric ceramic tiles that will harvest energy for the school. With predicted rises in temperature over the next millennia, the white porcelain facade will help reflect heat and keep the building cool.
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Section Overview
A building that will experience the unpredictable effects of climate and time will need to be designed as such. Her majesties 1000 year proposal accommodates for gradual change through ’The Bartlett Column’ variants.
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Post Tensioned’ column is situated in parts of the building where the building’s original columns have either been comprised or removed to create open spaces. It accommodates expansion and gradual evolution of the building by providing further structural reinforcement to areas of the concrete cores that inevitably degrade over 1000 years.
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The ventilation column, inspired by The Sendai Mediatheque, are injected through the concrete floor plates to create hollow volumes that will direct airflow throughout the building, combatting the rise in temperatures over the next millennia.
The Ventilation Column
The ventilation column can be separated into three elements; the energy pile, ventilation shaft, and the ventilation column opening. Excess heat transferred from the energy piles to the building rises up and out the top of the column. The thermoelectric ceramic tiles absorb the waste heat energy to provide electricity for the building.
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Due to the predicted rise in surface temperature by 6.3°C, the effect of using heat exchanger piles will be optimised for providing energy for the building. The piles sink 20m deep into the ground and consist of circulation loops imbedded within the pile. These loops feed the heat emitted from the ground back up into the building.
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The I-Beam 1:5 The I-Beam serves as the mediator between the old concrete floorplates and the new ventilation column. The removal of a section of the floorplate will allow for vertical airflow, ventilating the building.
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The 7th Floor Studio 1:10
The new 7th floor accomodates for modern technologies without interfearing with the historical essence of the previous floors.
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The 6th Floor Balcony 1:10 The rise in temperature will result in the overheating of buildings. However the deployment of a white porcelain ceramic tiled facade should reflect heat rather than absorb it.
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The deployment of a porcelain facade is one that takes advantage of the heat reflectiveness of its naturally white colour.
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Apposed to the roof’s thermoelectric ceramic tile system, the facades of the building adopt the coiling method that is used to make pottery. The imperfect nature of the process results in gaps between coils, acting as pours that allow air to pass through.
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The application of a replaceable post tensioned tendons will enable the perimeter of the building to expand an additional 2m and the removal of floor plates to generate vertical spaces. Load is distributed through the tension of the cable tendons and the compression of the ventilation columns.
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Chapter III The Bartlett Column
The Bartlett Column
The Bartlett column parasitically envelops existing structural elements through the utilisation of porcelain, insitu kiln building, and post tensioning technology.
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The socially engaged student and tutor led collaborative processes involved in the construction of one of these columns will be the catalyst for redefining the school’s cultural and architectural DNA.
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The base of the column sits on a concave red clay brick base that was installed by excavating the original floor plate. The inert bricks will serve as the ideal base for kiln firings.
The Brace 1:5
The brace is situated between the 1st and 2nd Porcelain mold. The mouthpiece holds the bridge from which the nichrome wire exerts tension on the structure. The sacrificial foam glove was disintegrated during the firing, releasing the glaze cache that seals the two pieces to porcelain together.
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Once all there porcelain molds are fired, geo-polymer concrete is poured into the voids between the porcelain mold and The Wates House Column.
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The Concrete 1:5 Between these two elements is the layer of protective ceramic fibre that will allow the concrete to pass through and bind.
The Bartlett Column
The material tests outline the construction of the porcelain mold that envelops existing structural elements within the building. The porcelain mold around The Wates House Column is the focus point of the technical experiments and will serve as a blueprint the rest of the architecture.
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Porcelain clay goes through 4 stages before being able to be fired in a kiln. The porcelain clay at any point within these stages can be transformed into back into its original state. However, once the clay is fired it cannot be transformed back to fresh clay.
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The process in making a porcelain mold starts from taking fresh clay and rolling it out evenly to form a coil. From here you can start to for a cylindrical form. Once the column has reached the desired height the designer can choose to carve into the surface. To create sharper details the carving process is done once the clay has reached bone dry. y.3000
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Therefore a brace is designed that sits on top of the the fired piece of porcelain to allow for wet clay to be applied.
The Armature
The foam glove is attached to a nichrome metal mouthpiece and armature that will clamp the two pieces of porcelain together once fired.
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In-Situ Kiln Building
This process allows for large scale structures and embraces the imperfect nature of 1:1 experimentation. It also means that there isn’t a need for consistency or exact measurement in a columns shape or size, allowing the student or tutor to express themselves more effectively through having more control over the process.
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Construction Sequence
The process of building a complete porcelain mold will take three in-situ firings that are done one porcelain segment at a time. The first firing will be the base porcelain segment. Once fired the process of constructed the secondary porcelain segment begins. Due to shrinkage rates or porcelain being around 12% at 1250°C, it is not possible to add directly onto a fired piece of porcelain as it may tear apart whilst in the kiln. y.3000
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Therefore a brace is designed that sits on top of the the fired piece of porcelain to allow for wet clay to be applied. The brace involves a biodegradable foam glove that holds a cache of glaze that will release and seal the two pieces of porcelain during the firing process. The foam glove is attached to a nichrome metal mouthpiece and armature that will clamp the two pieces of porcelain together once fired. y.3000
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The Crit - Act I
Two breeze blocks and a floor tile were used to help stabilise the gas torch to ensure the gas torch didn’t set anything on fire.
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The Crit - Act IV The ‘Wates House Column’ is placed at the centre of the paving slab shelf.
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The Crit - Act V 20mm Ceramic fibre sheet is wrapped around the ‘Wates House Column’ to provide some protection from the high temperatures in the kiln.
The Crit - Act VI
Porcelain clay is directly applied onto the ceramic fibre to form the first porcelain mold.
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The kilns exterior ceramic fibre/galvanised steel frame shell is installed and clamps lock the base ceramic fibre piece to the kiln walls.
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The kiln’s ceramic fibre top is placed, which includes a ventilation hole at the top.
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The Entrance
The increased accessibility to the building through a second entrance, and a new underground station, will expedite our vision of increasing social engagement.
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The exterior porcelain facade breeds new life to the school through pockets of space that draw people into the Bartlett Library, a vital organ that invigorates students thought, experience and knowledge.
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The library is a welcoming embrace to students, tutors and passers-by.
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The mobile bookshelves can be deployed onto the pavement of Gordon Street, becoming an arm of information that reaches out to share the schools wealth of knowledge.
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Singing Columns Never again will a project live and die on the studio desk.
The Elizabeth Line
The underground line, situated below 25m below the building, is part of array of veins and arteries that make up the heart of the ever growing city of London. For 200 years, London’s Underground lines have transported people in and out, keeping the city alive.
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The Elizabeth Line is the latest artery that will be sown into the London Subterranean landscape, providing the means to connect people between the Bartlett, Britain and beyond.
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The Wates House stairwells are lined with porcelain interventions that lead to balconies that overlook the new lecture theatre, redefining a previously forgotten space.
The Lecture Theatre
The informative echoes from the lecture theatre will bring new life to the stairwell.
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The Queen’s designated bathroom is located on the second floor.
Cancelled Brief
Her private privy is equipped with personalised toilet paper of unit briefs she didn’t like.
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Studio Culture
The studio floors are incubators of design, composed to heighten collaborative learning, whilst providing agency for students and tutors to recalibrate architectural education in their own image.
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The Bartlett Column A group of students working in collaboration to construct a ‘Bartlett Column’
Studio Space
The studios themselves are no longer separated into their individual design units
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They are encouraged to interact and collaborate with fellow students and tutors, where they are able so share knowledge and experiences.
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The Studio Balcony
The 2nd floor displays the integration of the post tensioned perimeter expansion, creating space for studio balconies, where students are reminded that there is life beyond the studio walls.
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Keep Drawing. Keep Drawing.
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The Crit
The crit is a time old tradition of architectural education that has been reformulated in this new era, becoming a student led theatrical display of a process, that is followed with an open conversation with the audience, revealing perspectives and ideas that wouldn’t have been shared otherwise.
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End of an Era
It is in these crits that the students learn that to dramatise a concept is to forge a connection with it.
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Keep Drawing. Big Bad Sad Vas uttering ‘Keep Drawing’ to himself.
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The 7th Floor Studio
This new collaborative material culture ascends the process of learning and sharing of information to the forefront of architectural education.
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Her Majesty
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The students and tutors within will be responsible for carrying on this process of collaborative structural envelopment.
My Beautiful Bestiary
It is our vision that this interchangeable orchestra of students and tutors, will weave themselves together through the poetic symphony of a shared material culture.
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Age of Belonging Ushering in a new era in architectural education. The Age of Belonging.
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