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WILLIAM M AC K E Y

PART II ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT CV AND WORK SAMPLE 1

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William Mackey ARB Part II Architectural Assistant

07950171461 weamac@gmail.com

WORK

E D U C AT I O N

COMPETITIONS

PART TIME MODEL MAKER

MA ARCHITECTURE

24HR IDEAS FORWARD 9TH EDITION

3XN January 2016 - June 2017 www.3xn.com

Political Architecture : Critical Sustainability Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts September 2015 - June 2017 kadk.dk

I constructed a variety of models from working models to final display models.

BA ARCHITECTURE

PART I ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT

2.1 Hons Newcastle University September 2011 - June 2014 ncl.ac.uk/apl/

Levitt Bernstein

Summer 2016 and September 2014 - August 2015 www.levittbernstein.co.uk During my time at LBA I experienced a range of different design stages, with a variety of teams.

I built 3d models for the team restoring a heritage sports and cultural complex. This involved designing small extensions and updates. I also designed some flexible, removable, office space for a charity occupying a grade II listed church, as a part of the pro bono work the company does.

The urban design team I was a part of worked mostly on large residential masterplans. My responsibilities with them included producing a variety of diagrams, visualizations and plans for development planning documents, feasibility studies and design and access statements. I had design input on streetscapes, facades and unit types. Furthermore I made various early site visits and helped to host public consultations.

With the building group I was part of a team working on a 65 unit flat block scheme we’d picked up as construction architects. My responsibilities included editing flat plans to be compliant with the London Housing design guide, as well as making a number of other adjustments for it to meet building regulations.

A LEVELS

Birkdale School Art A* Physics A* Maths A

COMPUTER SKILLS CAD

AutoCAD Revit Sketchup Rhino Grasshopper

ADOBE

Photohop Illustrator Indesign Premier Pro AfterEffects

RENDERING v-ray Cinema4D

A Tower for Refugees

Our entry topped the unfinished spire of Stefansdom Cathedral in Vienna with a welcome center for refugees. The entry came in third place.

RIBA FORGOTTEN SPACES Our entry utilized a linear museum to stitch together areas of the city fragmented by a train line. It was shortlisted and appeared in a public exhibition, as well as the Architects Journal.

120 HOURS 120 hours Competition asked participants to design a new dining hall and library for a rural primary school in China. The proposal included a wall that offered opportunities for play whilst the students queued for lessons and lunch.

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M A S T E R S T H E SIS A N AT I ON BU ILDING LABO RATO RY M A S T E R S 1 ST Y E A R P RO JE CT P O D PARK C O MPE T IT I O N S C H U R C H S P IRE AND A P RIMARY S C HO O L 3X N D I S P L AY M O D E LS LE V I T T BE RN ST E IN R E N OVATIO N AND U RB ANIS M UN D E R G RA D UAT E T H E SIS DANC E TOWER

MASTERS THESIS N AT I O N B U I L D I N G L A B O R ATO RY

MUSEUM AND LIBRARY EMPHASISING GEORGIA’S PLURALISTIC HISTORY BUILT UPON THE OLD CITY WALLS OF ITS CAPITAL TBILISI

In marking this forgotten border it shows how the city has grown beyond a once constrained identity. It makes clear the history of invasion and occupation that built the city and country.

LOCATION: TBILISI, GEORGIA

Each extrusion has a different identity signifying function: from a museum containing historic artefacts from across Georgia, to a simple planter containing nationally significant flowers (such as roses from the rose revolution). The ancient protective qualities associated with the old wall are utilized to enshrine these objects. The center of Georgian identity like the center of an archipelago is not defined by one island but is averaged between many monuments.

TUTOR: OLYMPIA NOUSKA The National Museum and Library of Georgia, occupies a series of extrusions growing from Tbilisi’s ruined city wall. This series extends the historic border marked by the existing wall, by re creating the shape and mass of demolished parts of the wall.

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The road plays an important role for these monuments too. It is a barrier from the rest of the city that separates the sacred from the profane enshrining the extrusions further. Moreover the many cars that pass by the monuments make them common points of reference for residents.

Like many city walls there is a route to walk along it open to the public. Visitors can get new views of the monument, stand atop the plinth, like a religious or political figure and access the library or museum.

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01. Existing city wall

03. Museum

05. Plinth 02. Monument to Shota Kavlashvili

04. Library

SITE AXONOMETRIC

01. Existing city wall section was not demolished and has been incorporated into various buildings

02. Monument to Shota Kavashvili was built to honour the architects contribution to the renovation of the old town.

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03. Museum includes artefacts from across Georgia

04. Library holds books from across Georgia

To Freedom Square Pushkin Street

Traffic diagram

06. Planter

Old Tbilisi

Russian Extension

Tbilisi Today

Rustaveli Avenue Pushkin Street 05. Plinth A place to display to traffic items from the museum or even oneself posing as a leader

06. Planter contains plants special to Georgia such as the rose from the rose revolution

EXPLODED WIDER SITE AXONOMETRIC 7

Freedom Square

02. Walkway

01. Artefacts

Book Wall

Balcony Entrance

Reading

03. Street Vendor

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SITE SECTION

01. Artefacts are enshrined in the wall

02. Walkway ‘carved’ from the extrusions and bridges between them. Allows for views, below and of surrounding monuments.

Also provides another access to extrusions.

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03. Street vendors among the ruins

04. Book wall Growing from the excavated ruins

Pushkin St

g Nook

03. Street Vendor

3. Street Vendor

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MASTERS 4TH YEAR

MediaPOD based on manga kissa booths for watching tv games etc

P O D PA R K

NomPOD based on the individual eating booths of ramen reastaurants

PARK OF RETREATS BUILT FROM SEA DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE WastePOD a bathroom

LOCATION: ISHINOMAKI, JAPAN TUTOR: RUNA JOHANNESSEN

KasaPOD The most secluded bench based on an asian kasa hat

The pods share tectonic qualities with the sea wall. They mediate what is a giant alien infrastructure and create more individual and personal defences. They are an agent through which the huge post tsunami infrastructural investment, can be directed toward rebuilding communities.

EggPOD egg shaped seats

There are many types of pods in the garden: some just for sitting in, with varying degrees of seclusion (Such as the kasaPOD and BenchPOD), others like the mediaPOD provide an individual place to read or watch film, much like the mangakissas found in Tokyo.

BenchPOD the simplest and least secluded bench

TreePOD As developed earlier

All of these pods are arranged like follies in an English landscape garden. By terminating views through corridors of trees, they encourage a journey through the garden.

The garden is healing in two ways. One by providing a calm place amongst nature one can seek seclusion, but also by gently exposing visitors to the memory of the tsunami so they are able to process it.

BathPOD Built in the side of the sea wall one gets warm bath and can cool off in the sea if brav enough

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1:1 PROTOTYPE OF THE TREEPOD

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PLAN AND SECTION OF THE TREEPOD 13

COMPETITIONS N O RT H S P I R E LOCATION: VIENNA, AUSTRIA PLACE: 3RD COLLABORATOR: AUSTEJA JUZDENTYTE

IDEAS FORWARD 24H Competition 9th edition asked participants to propose social housing towers for Syrian refugees.

Uncommon, provocative and philosophical project, which is able to cause a violent reaction of society. The authors propose to finish the North spire of the Stephansdom Cathedral in Vienna, with placing the refugees centre in it. Instead of being isolated from refugees, the authors want to settle them in the heart of their city. In this decision theysee the solution of the problem of refugees integration and completion the visage of the city. There are the contrast of historic and modern architecture, the combination of two cultures and the juxtaposition of two religions in one structure. All this isa vivid challenge to society and is reminiscent of a social experiment with unpredictable consequences. This project is very contradictory, but such projects as this must be shown, so they are able to draw attention to the acute problem of refugees.� — Maria Malitskaya

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Geometric climbing wall to get just a step above the ground

Peak hole in the wall to see what’s cooking today

Wash basins to clean your hands before food

Around the corner wall turns and food is served in a traditional manner from seated ladies, through the elevated wall

Small colonnade leads to the canteen hall and while the wall continuous and hosts small seat for a retreat

Journey of the wall turns to the window to gaze outside and leads to the library, where it hosts books and more adaptable units with a crawl tunnel to create more exciting entry for kids

Wall supports quiet reading, encloses the space or allows some more play in open plan library

A N OT H E R B R I C K I N T H E WA L L ?

LOCATION: PUAN CITY, CHINA PLACE: COLLABORATOR: DEIMANTE

120 hours Competition asked participants to design a new dining hall and library for a rural primary school in china.

BAZYTE This wall acts as a piece of heavy furniture, that pushes the batches of children around the building in a joyful way. With small windows to peep into other worlds, to pockets to hide in, tunnels to crawl through and shelves to climb- the wall forms the backbone of the building institutionally. This is translated into its structure as the wall functions as the key support of the roof.

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3XN

LEVITT BERNSTEIN

L A TO U R

D E VO N S H I R E PA R K

RESIDENTIAL TOWER

RENOVATION OF SEASIDE THEATRE AND SPORTS COMPLEX

As a part time model maker at 3xn, I worked on many models such as this one used by clients for display purposes.

Credit for the final render goes to Davide Bello.

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O N LY C O N N E C T O F F I C E S

TEMPORARY FLEXIBLE OFFICE SPACE FOR THE CHARITY ONLY CONNECT..

The flexible office spaces sit on top of the galleries. Given the buildings listed status the insertion does not interfere with the building fabric. Moving walls with sliding partitions can be pulled out in an accordion like way to create office space when needed. The walls can be pushed back should the area be needed for audience space during a performance. The moving walls are wide enough to contain the storage needed for office items.

Only Connect are a charity that put on performances and workshops with ex offenders in an attempt to build their self-confidence. These activities all occur within a grade II listed Victorian church that the charity own.

New office space in the church will allow the admin team to work in the same building as the members- hopefully fostering a more direct social connection between them and less of a top down approach. As the charity put it: “We believe in a handshake not a handout�.

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LEVITT BERNSTEIN EASTFIELDS

MASTERPLAN FOR THE REGENERATION OF A SOUTH LONDON ESTATE 18

BRENTWOOD

FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR BRENTWOOD TOWN CENTER 19

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS S T R I C T LY D A N C E INFERNO AN ECLECTIC COLLECTION OF DANCE STUDIOS AIMED AT DECONSTRUCTING DANCE CULTURE IN BLACKPOOL. Studio: Stage: Tutors:

Pleasure Beach Blackpool Matt Ozga-Lawn, James Craig

The studio focused on architectures of pleasure that aimed to reinvigorate the decaying seaside town of Blackpool.

Strictly dance inferno began by an interrogation of the existing Blackpool tower - A relic of a past golden age of a holiday town. As the surrounding buildings decline, the ballroom at the towers base still attracts large crowds. Its popularity is due to it being the setting of reality TV dance competitions such as strictly come dancing. This project seeks to capitalize on this trend by creating a second tower with facilities for dance within Blackpool.

This second tower is a deconstruction of the form of Blackpool tower as well as the activities occurring within it. It aims to exaggerate the experience of dance culture in Blackpool so as to further popularize it.

Providing a more novelty setting for these TV shows. This involves a spatial reconfiguration of the mixed typologies of tower and ballroom. Creating several levels of dance within the tower instead of a single one at its base.

Taking dance in its essence to be a cathartic expression of emotions. The tower allows participants to act out their sinful desires.

Each studio link’s to a particular sin identified in Dante’s Inferno and programatically organized by this text. This exposition of human emotion is the essential element in creating reality television.

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Blackpool Tower

Tower inversion and ballroom deconstruction

Tower legs follow the steps of a waltz

Consolidation of leg structure

Arrangement of studios

Combination to form new tower

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