Vilius Petraitis Architecture Portfolio 2017-2020
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Contents
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WaterLab
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MDMA
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Trail House
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Experiential water treatment plant
Digital music archive
Rethinking an archetype
RIBA Manchester
A new presence within the city
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Moscow Office
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Exhibited Work
Ba technologies
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WaterLab
2020 BA3 Academic Project Atelier FLUX Irk Valley Manchester UK
WaterLab is a series of Public water treatment probes each coupled with a community space. Each probe undertakes a different water purification phase to treat the contaminated water of river Irk over a 50-year time span. The prototype engages people to participate in the six sequential stages of water purification. The probes are an engagement with and healing of Irk Valley to participate in both its past and potential futures. Post industrialisation has led to the Irk’s desertion, places that were built to prioritise wealth creation have turned into obsolete relics. WaterLab questions the impulsiveness of orthodox routines and points to the futures we might build. As the water is cleaned incrementally year on year, visitors experience directly the archaeology of Irk Valley in a state of flux.
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Technology is only part of the answer to our challenges with water. What is essential is our human relationship with it. How can life change as our relationship to water transforms?
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Irk Valley - Eerie & Abscent
Irk valley radiates an atmosphere of ambiguity, long abandoned structures and paths have been reclaimed and buried by nature. The tree covered hills of the valley generate multiple journeys across the site, much of Irk seems ill-disposed at first glance. However, The eeriness of the place sparks curiosity to explore the mysterious site; Irk valley has grown to become a space of anticipation for the unknown. Feedback loops provided by the valley generate a new vision for the futures of Manchester. Previous developments were built for a specific time in mind, the future seems to have never been a concern.
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The old structures could not be adapted to a changing society and cultures, architecture had to be demolished or left absent. The present developments focus on a short time frame and develop structures which only accommodate today’s needs, it is a pretentious idea that design can be eternal. If things are left as they are, Irk valley will just become another cycle of failed anticipation. Irk must become a new prototype of architecture not frozen in time, but one which adapts to a changing society both structurally and programmatically.
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Irk Valley - Plan
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Probing Archeology through River Irk
Testing the Resilience of the River Irk. Imprisoned by embankments during the industrial revolution, the river remains one of the few forces that have survived the industrial age within Irk Valley. Irk once selflessly catalysed life around itself but now flows as one of the dirtiest rivers in Europe, growth came at a cost of abuse to the river. Today the River Irk becomes the mobilizing element to immerse people with the past and future of this part of Manchester.
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The atmosphere of the Irk Valley radiates ambiguity, long abandoned structures and paths that have been reclaimed and buried by nature. The tree covered hills of the valley generate multiple journeys across the site, much of Irk seems ill-disposed at first glance. However, the eeriness of the place sparks peoples’ curiosity to explore this mysterious site; The Irk valley has grown to become a place to anticipate the Unknown
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An Instrument for recognizing Pasts and potential Futures
The Irk prototype for change follows a strict cycle as taught by the river Irk’s ability to remain flexible and constantly open for change: Build, use, re-use…..re/dis-assemble, recycle. Irk’s development plan focuses on a stage-based approach, there is no frozen or eternal image in this type of development; change is the outcome. The valley will first congregate people to communicate, establishing a place-making process.
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Symbiotic Water Probe I - Refutator
Symbiotic Water Probe II - Controller
Symbiotic Water Probe III - Pit
Symbiotic Water Probe IV - Pipeline
The baths are built on the understanding that knowledge is gained through experience and being through things. “Knowledge is not created through an encounter between minds furnished with pre-formed concepts and theories but grows from our practical and observational engagement with the world around us. Knowledge, we contend, comes from thinking with, from and through beings and things, not just about them.� - Tim Ingold KFI Project The Irk Valley is first activated through the deployment of four water treatment probes which are physically located in the river and also function as series of public baths. The visitors can participate in the treatment of the water starting a process of site healing. 12
General River Filtration
Experiential River Filtration
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WaterLab phase 1 - Symbiotic Water Probe sites
WaterLab Phase One introduces 4 temporary interventions on the site acting as urban catalysts, activating a state of change in a place which is predominantly forgotten. The probes are interactive, water is manipulated in all its forms to alter the phenomenological state of the place, offering the visitors a space to reflect whilst floating in water which they themselves cleaned. The probes act in symbiosis, healing the site whilst offering dynamic social spaces; They activate a state of change. Only then can Phase 2 of WaterLab be initiated.
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Symbiotic Water Probe I - Refutator
Symbiotic Water Probe II - Controller
Symbiotic Water Probe III - Pit
Symbiotic Water Probe IV - Pipeline 15
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WaterLab Phase 2 - Coagulation & Flocculation treatment plant site 16
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WaterLab - Phase 2 17
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Duisburg Landscape park Art/Industry
Each of the treatment structures support modules that function as experiential public spaces. The Lab establishes a relationship between industrial and leisure typologies generating interest to interact and understand water further. This typological blur establishes that technology is only part of the answer to our challenges with water, what is missing is our relationship with it. How will life change as out relationship with water transforms?
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Public Industrial
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Storage Tanks Laboratory
Disinfection Tank Idea Theatre
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WaterLab phase 2 - Water treatment plant 20
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Sedimentation Tank Public Circle
Filtration Tank Flocculation Tanks Anterior Bath
Coagulation Tanks Impulsive Steam room
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Coagulation & Flocculation Tanks 22
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Coagulation Tanks - Impulsive Steam Room These tanks are the first stage in water treatment, here the water is mixed with aluminium sulphate to initiate a coagulation reaction. The environment is saturated by the sound of the rapid mixing and water until participants enter the steam room. The Chamber affords a view to a past within which impulsive decision making, blindness to change and temporality are explored through a opaque visible space. A rhythmic sound environment of steam released punctuates the experience whilst the visual space is reduced in cycles of misting to almost a blur.
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Anterior Room within the timber structure 26
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Flocculation Tanks - Anterior Bath Flocculation tanks are meditative space, here the tanks are used to slowly mix water until colloids start to form. This is the second intervention in the journey of six and the only one which offers a bathing experience inspired by the hypothetical future of water and climate crisis. In the Anterior Bathing Chambers visitors are drawn to descend into warm water where the sensory environment is completely muted. Resonating through participation and direct experience.
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Coagulation & Flocculation Tanks 30
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Impulsive Steam Room - structure & envelope
1. Timber Beam section 150x400mm x2 used to support the mullion which supports the envelope 2. Typical Module, timber structure, plywood covered in burlap jute and covered in PMMA envelope. 3. Larch Glulam structure, 400x400mm columns & 400x600mm beams. 4. Galvanized steel bolts and brackets used to join columns and beams together. 5. Timber mullion 200x100mm used to support the polycarbonate sheets. 6. Galvanized steel section attached to main structure, used to support the mullions and larch boards for floor structure. 7. 50mm channeled polycarbonate sheets 8. 50x250mm larch timber boards fixed to the floor frame. 9. 100x200mm beams attached to primary structure, used to support timber floor boards. 10. Galvanized steel pads for primary columns
11. Concrete pad foundation 12. Wall build up inside - outside 10mm Slate tiles 12mm gypsum board Waterproof mambrane 200mm Mineral wool between 200x50mm timber frame 50mm mineal wool between aluminium brackets Waterproof membrane 18mm Plywood sheet Burlap Jute covered in PMMA
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The first step in realising the building is pouring deep concrete pad foundations where each column structure will be placed. Once the foundation is set the columns and beams can be erected and tied together with steel bracing.
The stainless steel water filtration tanks, piping and pumps are installed into the required places, these mechanisms are water proof and are appropriated for the specific structural grids.
Floors and modules are delivered to the site as prefabricated elements which are inserted in the predetermined locations. These elements are prefabricated and quality surveyed before they arrive ensuring a safer and risk free method of construction.
The envelope structure is fitted to the primary
structure, once the envelope is fully constructed the last interior furnishings can be made.
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General Servicing Layout Dirty water is pumped by the previous gravity pump, the same pump also returns some of the cleanly filtered water to use for the baths etc. This diagram shows the steam room as an example, the plant room is placed above the steam room and is used to generate electricity to light the building up, circulate water and ventilate the steam room. The steam room will give off water which will require cleaning, the dirty water goes straight into the filtration system.
Air Outlet Air Inlet Clean Water Dirty Water Plant Room Electric Fittings Water Pump
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Sedimentation Tank 36
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Sedimentation Tank Axonometric
Here water travels through a stage of sedimentation, where physical colloids of dirt and poison are removed from the substance as sludge. Sedimentation is a process of organisation/separation, on this exterior platform the visitors are offered a public circle, for non - disciplinary discourse. Collaboration is integral for the generation of new ideas.
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Filtration Tanks Axonometric
Filtration tanks act as an extension of the outside public space. The process of filtration takes the water between different coarses of sand and allows for its separation and organisation away from the harmful bacteria. The journey requires water to find its way through sand vertically multiple times. here, people can organise their thoughts and ideas and potentially un-learn routines which have catalysed the need to filter the water in the first place. 39
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Disinfection Tanks - Idea Theatre Axonometric 40
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Path towards the Idea Theatre Entering the building as part of the sequenced journey will reveal the large scale of disinfection tanks releasing water to a large gulley which returns it back to the River. The participants acces the Idea Theatre from here which is dominated by the sound and feeling of the running water. The only way to act/ perform on this stage requires an engagement with the presence of running water. The Idea Theatre is a space for identifying problems and discovering new solutions through community and water interaction.
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Storage Tanks Section
The water storage facility houses a small wet lab and an office for the workers of the WaterLab. The ground floor contains ancillary spaces as well as a public cafe within which the visitor may choose to relax before or after the WaterLab journey. The storage tanks facilitate the laboratory for a few different reasons, the workers will have access to both the cleaned water and the river due to the location of the facility.
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WaterLab 2071 - remains of the plant
WaterLab set out to transform Irk Valley into the lungs of the city of Manchester. It establishes a state of change for a certain duration, its function to treat the river and expose this process to the public may only be necessary for up to 50 years. The prototype accepts that the uncertain future can only be anticipated, It is inevitable that the programme and uses of the Lab will become obsolete with time. As
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the society and its needs change, WaterLab evolves together with the communities. Few of us Live our lives without thinking about death, by 2071 the building is desmantled and recycled with only the minimal footpring remaining as the relic for the next society to superceed.
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2018 | BA1 | MDMA
Manchester Digital Music Archive
2017 BA1 Academic Project Northern Quarter Manchester UK
MDMA - A digital Music exhibition space storing historically rich artefacts related to Manchesters music scene. The exhibition space is a vertical element, where the visitor must spiral upwards the building before they are exposed to the unique landscape of Manchester. A large open space is used to allow light to travel across the whole exhibition and express the idea of a grand amount of unknown and hidden knowledge which can be learned within the structure. The building takes advantage of the direct light and is positioned to passively light up the exhibition. Materiality plays an integral role in keeping the building sustainable, as the thermal mass of concrete allows for passive heating and cooling throughout the year.
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2018 | BA1 | MDMA
MDMA exhibition space 1:50, MDF, plywood, greyboard, acrylic.
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2018 | BA2 | TRAIL HOUSE
Trail House
2018 BA2 Academic Project Withington Manchester UK
Historically the semidetached house was not designed for a specific client’s needs, its purpose was to house people quickly and cheaply. This archetype compromises individuality and forces people to live a certain way with no ability to adjust the dwelling to ones needs or preferences. Due to the orthodox definition of the semidetached house, this project focuses on RETHINKING what a semidetached house could be/do to allow the population to adapt the house to their own personalities and living expectations. The project has developed into a structure which has a very minimal number of moving elements yet remains flexible and adaptable to different family types.
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The Trail house was Inspired by the historic state of the site, it was once a small park which was used as a shortcut to get to Wilmslow road. The nature has now taken over the site, the park only remains as a palimpsest which is used to develop the fundamental form of the trail house. The contextuality of place and the need to be flexible are usually two theories that clash, yet Trail house is a site-specific building that is developed to transform with the society as different inhabitants come and go.
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Process models & diagrams 1. The fundamental form of the structure was inspired by the discovery of a historic trail on the site which no longer exists. The two home units contain gardens which are enveloped by the house’s loop like circulation.
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2. The house contains a garden at the core of each unit, this garden must be exposed to direct light and therefore the two storey element may only remain on the northern side.
3. The approach of the trail house was developed to be accessed two ways whilst still retaining privacy and safety. The opening of the garden also means that direct light is not obstructed by the southern wall.
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2019 | BA2 | RIBA MCR
RIBA Manchester
2019 BA2 Academic Project Mayfield Manchester UK
The given brief to design a RIBA headquarters in Manchester places importance on designing a space which creates a new presence within the city. This project establishes an architecture hub within Manchester; for the practitioners, the students and the general public to connect and explore the histories and wonders of Architecture within Manchester. The required programme is divided into three main areas; Exhibit, breakout and education. The three spaces are connected through exterior bridge links offering the public a social dynamic within both in and outdoors. The RIBA structure is a lightweight addition to an already monumental and heavy site of Mayfield, levels are manipulated across the site offering the visitors many intriguing perspectives and a multitude of journeys across the RIBA building. The education spaces are suspended in the middle of the structure and always made visible whilst ensuring
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the students are not distracted. The building offers an exhibit for the public, which is approached through a single sequence circulation, where reaching the end exposes the visitor to the landscape of Manchester’s city centre, turning the city into an exhibition piece. As the scheme started to develop as an honour to Manchester in metaphysical terms, the physical environment had to follow up. The structure is visible, expressed and celebrated. RIBA Manchester is a space of education focused on architecture, the building is itself an instrument which teaches the visitors of various tectonics as ornamentation. The construction of components goes further than the primary and secondary structure, the components are used consistently to create structures which follow the concept of expressed joints and details.
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Ideation model
1. The RIBA Manchester is developed as a microcosm of a city. The educational and exhibition spaces of Manchester are orientated toward the landmarks like the Art gallery and the first University building.
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2. The climate and constant rain are the identity of Manchester, they are celebrated and amplified. the study of Manchester’s rivers, an icon of constant flow, a path of least resistance and the reason for Manchester’s successful industrial revolution. Like a river, the scheme creates an environment which
guides people through complex programmes in a cognizable pattern exposing the visitor to Manchester’s architectural and natural representations.
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3. The RIBA Manchester scheme turns Manchester into an exhibition piece, fundamentally it is a space within which Manchester is studied. The education is the centre of this project, therefore the suspension and centralisation of the specific programme is highlighted.
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RIBA Manchester sketch axonometric
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BRIDGE STRUCTURE & DETAIL DEVELOPMENT
Suspended Bridgelink 1:50 Process model
The bridges which will be connecting each programme spaces together must appear light, the skethes portray the study of joints and structural cables which act as main structure.
The bridges which connect each programme spaces together are designed to function lightweight. Acting in tension, the steel rods support the elevated corridors, ensuring that the public space is undisturbed and well lit.
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Riba Building Detail 1. Roof build up outside - inside Zinc long span roof sheeting Waterproof membrane Spray foam Insulation Vapour barrier Corrugated Steel Decking Mineral wool insulation between steel beam support. Gypsum board ceiling
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2. Custom galvanized steel angle joints 3. 2 Etched glass panels 4. 400mm Steel column filled with concrete and reinforced. Not all columns are filled with concrete, only the ones which are acting as super structure. 5. triple glazed glass interior finish. Mullions supported with custom
angles which are appropriated to the primary structure. 6. Steel beam attached to primary columns. 7. Floor to ground detail. RC slab Waterproof membrane 200mm Rigid insulation Waterproof membrane Concrete foundation.
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RIBA Manchester 1:50 model, MDF, plywood, acrylic, styrene, aluminium, greyboard.
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Moscow Office
2017 BA3 Technologies Moscow Russia
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The Office project is based in Moscow and acts as a working place for 70 people over three floors, a cafe on the ground floor and a roof garden. This design focuses on remaining sustainable and comfortable for the users. The office design is mainly driven by the climatic and contextual drivers of the site: orientation, sun, wind, context, humidity, temperature and precipitation. All these climatic drivers are responsible for the structural and envelope systems. Timber is a sustainable and lightweight material which traps carbon and is relatively easy to source, it also plays a role to remind the Russian society of the historical past of vernacular log timber structures. The choice behind the envelope system came from the complex situation of the site, the building is wrapped with a curtain wall to enable passive lighting solutions. It would be extremely inefficient to wrap the building with just glazing alone, between some of the mullions insulation and a
zinc sheet would be required to minimize heat loss The energy trade-off is conflicting due to Moscow being such a varying climate. Completely closing off theW structure and creating an airtight space leads to heavy relience on active strategies for heating and cooling. Allowing a structure to be open throughout the year creates a horrible situation during the colder months. The solution was to propose a hybrid, as the building only gets direct sun on one elevation a double wall is placed there to allow passive ventilation even throughout the coldest months. The energy usage is minimized in terms of cooling and heating due to the double wall. This addition creates an unfair environment in the structure for the west side of the offices, therefore active cooling and heating is increased on the western side.
The Development of the ground and wall detail the main priority was to figure out how to seal all of the thermal bridging. The curtain wall can be placed on top of a bracket and elevated from the exterior ground to avoid damage overtime, the same brackets can be insulated with compressed insulation to seal off the thermal bridge. GROUND FLOOR TO ROOF
Due to the recessed double wall above the ground floor it became clear that the small area of the ceiling will have to be insulated and essentially turned into a roof. The development shows different iterations of zoning and materiality, until some conclusions were made.GROUND FLOOR ROOF DETAIL TO GROUND The challengeFLOOR was to encase the interior part to not look rushed and continue the flush look of the column
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The Development of the ground and wall detail the main priority was to figure out how to seal all of the thermal bridging. The curtain wall can be placed on top of a bracket and elevated from the exterior ground to avoid damage overtime, the same brackets can be insulated with compressed insulation to seal off the thermal bridge. GROUND FLOOR TO ROOF Due to the recessed double wall above the ground floor it became clear that the small area of the ceiling will have to be insulated and essentially turned into a roof. The development shows different iterations of zoning and materiality, until some conclusions were made. The challenge was to encase the interior part to not look rushed and continue the flush look of the column ROOF TO WALL The roof is a terrace roof, a walk-able surface must be provided, in this case it would be a pavement supported by structural insulation. The roof is extremely well insulated to avoid ice dams during the winter. It also uses specific drainage systems to ensure there is no water buildup. DOUBLE WALL The exterior glass structure development was mainly focused on environmental performance, the direction and size of the glass panes is derived from the morning and mid day sun. The steel-walkway detail is essential to make sure the space can be accessed for maintenance and also had a permeable surface for ventilation.
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1. UV protected 12mm toughened glass held in steel brackets. 2. Steel bracket supporting the toughened glass 3. Steel bracket fixed to aluminium support structure 4. Aluminium support structure 70x10mm 5. Drainage gutter recessed-into the gravel
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6. 40 mm-gravel 7. Powder coated aluminium parapet lining on roof felt 20mm mullion capping 8. Waterproof layer 9. 100 mm Rigid insulation block 10. Steel bracket attached to aluminium support structure supporting the steel channels
11. 400x500mm glulam balloon joined to 400x250mm columns. 12. 200mm Mineral wool insulation between timber purling. 13. 200x18mm timber purling 14. 6mm plywood sheeting 15. 150mm mineral wool
16. Black aluminium sheet 2mm 17. Waterproof membrane 18. 95mm mineral wool insulation 19. Vapour barrier 20. 6mm Gypsum
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21. Steel brackets supporting the gypsum from the roof structure Timber & aluminium mullion. 8mm float glass + 18mm cavity + 8mm float glass + 18mm cavity + 2x 4mm laminated safety glass (U = 0.5W/m2) 23. 6mm gypsum 24. Carpet
25. 25mm Acoustic barrier 26 200mm CLT slab acting as a beam connecting structural bays 27. 130x50mm timber mullion interior detail 28. 30 mm stiff insulation between steel brackets. 29. Flashing 30. Steel bracket
supporting the mullion. 31. Steel T section 80/80/9mm bolted to the CLT slab, gaps filled with silicone. 32. 50mm galvanized steel walkway grating. 33. Galvanized steel channel.
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EXHIBITED WORK
Gothic Revival Workshop
2017 BA1 Events Group Project Manchester Town Hall workshop Mancester Town Hall UK
In 2017 I undertook a workshop within the Manchester Town hall. Purcell, the architects who are currently responsible for the extensive refurbishment of the Town Hall have invited our group to undertake research on the Gothic Revival architecture of the Town Hall. I was responsible for researching and recreating models of the windows and tracery of the style. I then had to compile my models and research into an exhibition within the town hall. The tall windows throughout The Town hall are a decorative as well as practical feature, not filled with rich stained glass that would have reduced the light, but only partially patterned in subtle shades of blue, pink, violet, red and green — often with a floral motif. Apprenticed as an architect to Richard Lane, Alfred Waterhouse spent much of his youth travelling throughout Europe and studied in France, Italy and Germany. Waterhouse was exposed to numerous different gothic structures which proceeded to inspire his ideas and designs on his return to England.
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PORTFOLIO | VILIUS3| PETRAITIS 2017 | BA1 Design Studio MDMA
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EXHIBITED WORK
Northlight group
2019 BA2 Events Group Project Hollin Bank Brierfield UK
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The north light project looked at an old and unused gas tower in Brierfield and questioned what the tower can become to continue generating purpose. The events team has been split into three groups me taking part in the group responsible for a large-scale conceptual development. Multiple days of site analysis through research and scale model building followed by multiple trips to site took place in the first week. The most intriguing part of the project was to cooperate with the people of Brierfield including an art firm in-situ and students from an art college. The design was a product of co-operation between multiple parties. Once the concepts were toughened, a week was spent designing and building proposals for the proposed space. The created scheme intended to build a space which would act as a new icon to Brierfield, a new core public and commercial space including exhibitions and markets. The work was presented through models and drawings which were exhibited in the Benzie building. The most important memory which stayed with me was the co-operative design, an architecture that is driven and inspired by the user.
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