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WaterLab
Experimental Water Treatment Probes
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. 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?
Probing Archeology through Water 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. 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 illdisposed at first glance. However, the eeriness of the place sparks peoples’ curiosity to explore this mysterious site; The valley has grown to become a place to anticipate the Unknown.
Questioning the Unknown Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) asks us to question what knowledge is. Was our society built on norms and routines which make us believe that there are absolute truths? Maybe, as simple as some things may seem, we do not know anything at all. To understand ourselves better we must break the
routine and start experiencing the world through different methods. The WaterLab establishes a series of processes of discovering through direct experience.
The Ocean of Planet Solaris
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Above. 1:200 models of Water Probes Right. 1:200 model of Pit
Symbiotic Water Probes I - IV Activating The river: Treatment Baths “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
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.
The Symbiotic Water Probes are built on the understanding that knowledge is gained through experience and physical being through things.
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Coagulation Tanks Impulsive Steam Room The coagulation process involves the addition of the chemical (e.g. alum) and a rapid mixing method starting a process of Coagulation.
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Flocculation Tanks Anterior Bath Room flocculation involves the addition of compounds that promote the clumping of fines into larger floc for easier seperation.
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Sedimentation Tank Public Circle Sedimentation is a physical water treatment process which uses gravity to remove suspended solids from water.
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Filtration Tanks Public Pavilion Filtration takes the water between different coarses of sand and allows it to be separated from the harmful bacteria.
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Disinfection Tanks Idea Theatre Deactivation or killing of pathogenic microorganisms resulting in termination of growth and reproduction.
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Storage Tanks Laboratory Water is stored for distribution to the neighbouring facilities. Some of the water is reutrned to the river.
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Controller Symbiotic Probe II Exterior steam & sensory deprivation bath where visual and acoustic references are erased.
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Refutator Symbiotic Probe I A space of juxtaposition, attached to an unused structure it plays on the relationship between old and new.
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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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Left. Structure + Envelope Detail Right. 1:50 Structure Study model
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Impulsive Steam Chamber 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 an 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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Coagulation Tanks
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Above. Coagulation / Flocculation Tanks Right. 1:50 model of Impulsive Steam Room
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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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Flocculation Tanks
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Above. Coagulation / Flocculation Tanks Section + Plan Right. 1:50 model of Anterior Bath Room
Here the 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. WaterLab is built on the understanding that collaboration is integral for the generation of new ideas.
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Sedimentation Tank
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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 unlearn routines which have catalysed the need to filter the water in the first place.
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Filtration Tanks
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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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Disinfection Tanks
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Above. Disinfection Tanks / Idea Theatre Right. 1:50 model of Idea Theatre
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Above. WaterLab Framework re-adaptation Right. WaterLab Dismantled
WaterLab 2071
Architecture in a State of Change WaterLab set out to transform Irk Valley into the lungs of the city of Manchester. It establishes a state of change for an intended duration, its function to treat the river and expose this process to the public is planned to roll incrementally and will complete its purpose in 50 years. The prototype
accepts that we have an uncertain future. WaterLab is a series of buildings in a state of Flux that anticipate a changing world. It is inevitable that the programme and uses of the Lab will become obsolete with time. As 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 to be dismantled and recycled with only the archaeological footprint of ‘footings’ remaining. Alternatively, WaterLab evolves and it’s framework is used to develop new proposals for a different society.
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RIBA Manchester
RIBA Manchester is a lightweight presence within the city. This project establishes a sustainable and flexible space; for practitioners, students and the general public to connect and explore the histories and wonders of Architecture within Manchester. The programme is divided into three main areas;
Exhibit, breakout and education. The structure manipulates levels across the site offering the visitors many intriguing perspectives and a multitude of journeys across the building. The education spaces are suspended in the middle of the structure and always made visible whilst ensuring 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, making the landscape the final exhibition piece.
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IBI Group - Part 1
Learning and Development Centre + Healthcare projects At IBI, I joined the design team responsible for the Learning and development centre in Northern Ireland, a large project which includes a variety of different facilities ranging from Flood simulation training to fire rescue training spaces. I worked on a collection of structures simulating
real life fire rescue scenarios. During this project I had to learn BIM software and develop drawings for a planning application. Recently, I have also participated in the healthcare sector, working on new emergency department proposals in Huddersfield and Bradford. At IBI I began to form
a firm technical understanding and have been exposed to collaborative frameworks used to communicate and realise architecture.
2020 | PROFESSIONAL | MIKHAIL RICHES
Mikhail Riches - Architectural Assistant Salford Housing Competition During the autumn I worked with Mikhail Riches in designing a residential space where sustainability and community engagement were the key drivers. The proposal introduces Mews house typologies as well as shared private gardens as safe play spaces. The proposal is moulded
around direct light, forming a pleasant as well as environmentally sustainable neighbourhood in Salford. During the design process I sat in on multiple design discussions, helped the team by analysing the site and produced the final submission document.
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