P O R T F O L I O KHRI S COWL COW L EY Graduate Portfolio BSc (Hons) Architecture University of Bath
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P O R T F O L I O Graduate Portfolio
BSc (Hons) Architecture University of Bath khriscowley@gmail.com 2012
KHRI S COW COWL L EY
CONTENTS
p2 Cultural Assembly of Catalunya p28 School of the Street Photographer p60 Kings Cross Swimming Baths p88 Extracurricular projects p98 Photography p102 ResumĂŠ
“The architect who was not a sculptor or a painter was nothing more than a frame-maker on a large scale…” With one line Ruskin so adequately summarises my attitude towards architecture: that every discipline, artistic or otherwise, has the potential to benefit from the methods and lessons of others. Working alongside civil engineering students during my undergraduate studies gave me experience of fulfilling a harmonious union between ambitious conceptual moves and their physical solutions. I feel that sharing ideas with students of more creative fields would only enrich my architectural direction. Interdisciplinary collaboration would give me the freedom to approach briefs with solutions not necessarily rooted in the construction industry. My own interests beyond architecture were an essential creative stimulus throughout university. These interests filter into my design work. My love for photography and the exploration of cities inspired the concept and arrangement of my final year project. Here I combined Baudelaire’s idea of the ‘flâneur’ with my own experiences as a photographer to inform the design of a School of Street Photography in the city of Bath. I used the project to celebrate the haphazard arrangement of buildings thrown up behind its seemingly homogenous Georgian facades. These heterotopic spaces are little known to the many tourists that frequent the city. After gaining yet more experience in professional practice, I have since worked as a freelance modeller and a graphic designer, and am currently assisting the design of a community kitchen project for a local social enterprise in Bristol. Silkscreen printing and music production are recent emerging interests, and I had work exhibited at the Bristol Festival of Photography. This portfolio is a collection of both undergraduate projects and extracurricular pursuits. Thank you for taking the time to look over my work.
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THIRD YEAR SEMESTER PROJECT
CULTURAL ASSEMBLY OF CATALUNYA
Location:
122 Las Ramblas dels Estudis, Barcelona.
Program: Offices and conference rooms. Debating chamber and ancillary rooms. Sheltered marketplace. Area:
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This project included a very complicated brief and allowed the opportunity for investigations along any means into the theme of conflict and how that could be incorporated into an Assembly building for the Catalonian capital of Barcelona. I decided to move away from the contemporary model of a political building, and instead create a space that would allow chance encounters between political debate and the general public. The chosen infill site faced the busy promenade of Las Ramblas on one side and opened up to a quiet square behind. The immediate challenge was how to address these two conditions.
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I began investigating Lebbeus Woods and his ideology for architecture within ‘conflict zones’, I envisioned a building for the future of Barcelona, where its physical architecture embodies and stimulates political discussion and integration. By reinstating an old thoroughfare through the site, I made the peaceful square behind accessible to the large footfall from Las Ramblas. This would allow tourists and locals alike to be channelled through, under, and around the assembly building, enabling these ‘chance encounters’ to occur. Along one side of this ‘chasm’ is a more civic building in appearance, which houses offices and educational spaces. I envisioned this to have been commissioned by the administration in Madrid, a presence to remind the Catalonians who was in charge. In sharp contrast to this, a more vernacular structure clings to the bare walls of the adjacent buildings, taking the form of an elevated walkway that would interrupt the flow of pedestrians along Las Ramblas and lead up to the assembly chamber. This walkway provides shelter to a fruit and vegetable market below. The combination of market and political office spaces would mean that cultural issues could remain in full public view and not merely hidden in a less frequented corner of Barcelona.
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Ground plan showing site (marked in red) as a prexisting building that fronts the famous Las Ramblas arterial road in the Gotic district of Barcelona.
[Opposite above] A panorama from the rear of the site, at Placa De Las Madrid. [Opposite below] A panorama of Las Ramblas in front of the site.
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I noticed that on plan, the Gotic area has a very arterial layout of its streets. With no standard block size, streets of various widths branch out from main thoroughfares and branch out again into alleys and then into private backstreets and so on. However these branches are frequently interrupted by the presence of open spaces, created from the intersection of two roads, the demolition of a block of houses or the development of yet another urban park. These spaces are inhabited, even though this goes beyond their initially intended
purposes, mostly being spaces for circulation. Elderly people flock to benches to catch the sunshine as it creeps over the tall buildings, as teenagers loiter; using a neglected return on a corner as a makeshift football pitch. These spaces, however, are often under used and unfulfilled urban squares, especially concerning parks. This is partly due to access to these places are limited to dark and narrow streets, branching off from the main roads with no indication of their destinations.
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Conceptual photomontage. The various structures compete for the attention of tourists and local Catalonians alike amongst the kiosks and entertainers of Las Ramblas.
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Conceptual photomontage. The void created by the destruction of the existing building re-establishes an old avenue, drawing people through it to the comparable tranquility of the square beyond.
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“Aggressive and machinelike structures - their steel exteriors resembling military debris - are implanted in the abandoned ruins of buildings that flank the wall...� Lebbeus Woods - Berlin, The Undivided City
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[Above] Disparity of spaces. Route forming around centres of debate.
Uncertain architecture. External studies and strategies for screening out the typical bourgeois.
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Spaces to meet and gather are created from the spacing of these fragmented voids, which open up to leak light in, or allow enough space to step aside where a more private conversation can be had.
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The architecture of collage. Materiality should emphasize grittiness and signs of wearing, the urban grain is cut open, and you are able to peer inside to its inner substance.
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The walkway begins to contain more than just circulation space. It could be articulated to sail above the debate and streetscape below, as well as offices for representatives and organization headquarters.
The walkway becomes a device to experience debate from a removed standpoint and thus possibly engage with a different experience altogether. The other building houses educational spaces and takes on a more civic tone, to counter the fragility of the overlapping plate structures. An elevated skybridge breaks the strip of sky momentarily in order to connect to the debating chamber.
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Roof Plan 1. Elevated Walkway 2. Strata Building 3. Debating Chamber 4. La Ramblas Entrance Tower 5. Placa de las Madrid Entrance Tower 6. Roof’light’ Garden 7. Exhibition roof terrace
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Axonometric diagrams of each floor, showing a detailed view of the relationship between the two structures.
+0m Local Fruit Market and Education spaces.
+3m Walkway and access to Assembly chamber.
+5m Minister offices and public gallery.
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+8m Restaurant on top floor spills out on to roof terrace.
+13m Roof terraces.
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Section of the assembly chamber showing both debating floor and public gallery. The heterotopic space underneath is utilised by the people for their own purposes. The existing walls of the site lay bare as testament to the history of the site.
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Render showing the ‘chasm’ created on the infill site. The offices and educational spaces are located in the more civic ‘strata’ building while the public walkway and assembly are located opposite.
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Render showing the walkway as it sails above the road to the central pedestrian promenade of Las Ramblas, diverting foot traffic and calling attention to the site.
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The stratified form of the assembly halll imposes on the square behind the site and stands as a display of Madrid’s efforts at addressing the concerns of Catalonians. The civic offices sit behind on the other side of the narrow site. .
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FINAL YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT
SCHOOL OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Location:
Broad Street, Bath.
Program:
Galleries, photographic studios, darkrooms and repro facilities. Landscaped public realm.
Area:
3500 sq. m.
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“The flaneur is not attracted to the city’s official realities but to its dark seamy corners, its neglected populations an official reality behind the facade of bourgeois life that the photographer ‘apprehends’ as a detective apprehends a criminal.”
Susan Sontag, On Photography.
The main aim, or at least intentions of this project, is to propose a refuge, or a beacon, for the under-represented ‘fringe’ creative culture that exists in Bath. Aside from the ‘pleasure gardens’ and parks that are spread across this city, is there anywhere for the local, ‘real’ residents of Bath to be able to express themselves, play music openly, even skateboard? Conformity and conservatism maintain the facade of the city for the paying tourists and the more nostalgic bourgeoise residents, pushing the real young vibrant culture of Bath to the fringes. The close proximity of Bristol, with its celebrated alternative sub-culture, Banksy graffiti and diverse communities, does not make Bath immune from a similar form of ‘urban grittiness’.
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Based amongst the rooftops and backyards that lie behind one of Bath’s pristine Georgian city blocks, this school of street photography inhabits the space like a parasite. Using the shell of an old public school, it forms a new urban oasis for both explorer and voyeur. Accessed through narrow streets and alleyways, it aims not only to serve as a alternative creative destination in the heart of the city, but also to promote the notion of the derive. In this way, people who might stumble upon this series of galleries and studios may then make an effort to stumble upon some of the other hidden treasures that lie off the beaten tourist map of this Georgian spa town.
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Plan of the centre of Bath with the site enclosed within a city block.
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Milsom Yard
Queen Square Pultney Bridge
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The rear of the now abandoned King Edward’s schoolbuilding.
SOUTH King Edward’s School Building and playground
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Thinking along the lines of a ‘secret bathonian gallery’ tucked inside one of Bath’s pristine Georgian city blocks. It would display, be inhaled by, and be the beacon of the real young vibrant culture of the city which is currently perceived to be the hallmark of nearby Bristol. That’s why the young creative talent migrate there. A building you only find once you are lost first yourself, accidently stumbling across it and with it a gallery opening, or a lecture given in semi public audotoria. Give direction to experience, and with that encourage exploration and derive to other parts of the city. Encourage people to see the people and parts of Bath that are not necessarily in the guide book.
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Wayfinding. Positioning mass and paths through the site. The dramatic change in levels between the carpark and playground is a key problem to be addressed.
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More massing. Overlays used to investigate the best way to use the site.
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More investigation into how the change in level is addressed whilst maintaining continuity throughout the building.
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Form finding and concept exercises. Sketches aim toward an industrial aesthetic, to act as a counterpoint to the aging stone which surrounds the site.
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Interim section. Darkrooms and galleries rise above semi-public lecture spaces whilst the shell of the King Edward’s school building has been reappropriated for more clandestine purposes.
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Initial concepts for the relationship between the existing school and the new structures formed on the other side of the schoolyard.
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Initial concepts for the relationship between the existing school and the new structures formed on the other side of the schoolyard.
An ordering of the building so that those means of finding one’s way, of sensing what lies here, are taken from the old indicators...the sense of density of both built fabric and its occupation...the position of the sun...the the land falls outside... the position of the principle ways inside.
imagine a pile of stones carefully arranged you will calm down and you will know it’s about architecture. this is how the steinhaus should work get rid of the surface keep the structure and build in an open space. you can access the laboratory and you will be the flesh on this barebones site. Gßnther Domenig, A Pile of Stones House as Manifesto
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UPPER GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1 - King Edward’s School, now housing classrooms and archives. 2 - School yard 3 - Public cafe and access to darkrooms 4 - Shires Yard access 5 - Ramp and steps provides seating overlooking the city. 6 - Tiered landscape creating an urban grassland 7 - Photographer’s studios. 8 - Existing barn building used as public entrance and information point.
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Long section taken through tiered landscape and Milsom Yard. Elevation of Gallery and Photography School buildings.
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Passageway to Milsom Street
George Street Buildings
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Overview of how the scheme sits within the site.
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Photo galleries rise over studios and lecture spaces.
Tiered landscape that slopes down to Schoolyard and Shire’s Yard.
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Isometric breakdown of the school and gallery buildings. The level change assisted in segregating student spaces from public facilities.
‘Urban Glade’ tiered landscaping Administration and offices
FIRST LEVEL
Royal Bath Photographic Archives Underground film recycling facility Outdoor auditorium/steps
Illegally inhabited schoolbuilding
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Exhibition hall pushes up and over George Street buildings
Photographic viewing galleries
Digital darkrooms
King Edward’s School building SECOND LEVEL
Entrance building
Semi-public assembly halls Refectory
Parasitic lecture hall pod
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Perspective section of the gallery structures and tiered landscape.
Composite roof
Gallery spaces
Sheltered voyeuristic gallery
Semi-public assembly halls. Workshops and talks are held here in view of gallery visitors and students alike Photographic studios Tiered landscape Lightwell giving views into the archives from above
Archive reception and viewing gallery
Royal Bath Photogrpahic archives.
Raft foundation and retaining wall.
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[Above] View of exposed structure in the lightwell from the Refectory. [Below] The grand steps and ramp provides a connection between the public landscaping and the school grounds.
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[Above] Parascitic lecture theatre takes up an entire wing of the old King Edward’s School building. [Below] Most of the school administration is housed in the old building, its floors gutted and a new infrastructure inserted within the building fabric.
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View inside of the gallery spaces that rise above the urban grassland and studios. Visitors are allowed glimpses between the structure, while a system of corrugated plastic metal grating provides diffused light to the galleries.
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[Next page] View of the schoolyard showing the relationship between the existing school building on the right, and the new facilities the look down upon visitors and students alike. The ramped landscape and grassland lie beyond.
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FOURTH YEAR BASIL SPENCE AWARD
KINGS CROSS SWIMMING BATHS
Location:
King’s Cross Development, London.
Program:
Swimming pools and spa treatment rooms. Public lido and changing facilities. On-site CHP plant.
Area:
4200 sq. m.
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Situated beside the tracks of King’s Cross train station, this hyrdocentre at the heart of the city of London offers a glimpse into the subterranean world that exists below ground, built over by centuries of development. The centre contains a series of pools and spa spaces, allowing visitors to find recluse the fast pace of the city around them. Brick vaults and pretensioned arches take their language from the local industrial vernacular, as well as paying homage to the lost River Fleet that flows beneath the site; contained by a system Victorian redbrick tunnels. Visitors are given the experience of entering a subterranean world, with any remnants of the city slowly fading away as they travel further into the building.
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Regular 50m pools are split into 3m wide stroke lanes, allowing colonnades to support rows of pretensioned brick arch-forms, allowing swimmers enjoy natural light at all times of the day. Progressing further into the baths, and further away from the outside world, the baths grow increasingly intimate and tactile. At the final destination, a salted bath sits in a low quiet space, interrupted by oversized columns designed to hold up the public lido that sits above it. Light shafts penetrate the ceiling of this subterranean floating pool, illuminating bathers as they make their way through the mist. At the heart of the baths lies a triple height lantern made of stacked glass. Here all the baths and spas are connected via a series of gantries and hit and miss brick walls. Bathers ascend this heart space from the soft lit heated baths to the open air lido at the back of the site.
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[Above] Model of the King’s Cross Development. Site shown nestled between the two train stations. [Below] Photo of the site near the entrance to King’s Cross Station.
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[Above] Victorian brickwork from Regent’s Canal which lies buried just north of the site. [Below] Quiet canal to the north of the site contrasts heavily with the business of the transport hubs to the south.
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We needed a conceptual approach to the technical issue of creating the feeling of the subterranean, without necessarily being underground. Vals became a helpful precedent in this issue, with its use of heavy masonry structure to convey a feeling of mass and inhabited monumentality. Zumthor envisioned the spas being built from the mountains, and in a similar ilk, our baths will be built from the city, from the brickfields quarries of old London. This affected our range of choice for materials, with the obvious choice of heavy masonry being the brick that existed in most of the buildings in the surrounding area. In order to keep the natural essence of our structures, we decided to be honest with our construction techniques, in the way that is clearly accessible to bathers the mass of the structure around them and how that mass is held up by proportional supports. We decided to use the restrictions of building in structural masonry, as well as in situ concrete, to determine our architecture. The tactility of surface would also help draw connections between the interior of the building and the earth in which it sits.
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Studies into how best to support a roof over the split lane pools.
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Development of the Central Bath as a unifying device in the scheme.
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Studies in different roof configurations that stay true to the nature of heavy masonry; vaulted, prestressed and composite brickwork.
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Interim plans and section.
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Study of pretensioned arched brick roof elements as a way of covering the split lane pools. This would later become the key design aid in the final scheme.
MAIN PUBLIC ENTRANCE:
SOUTH PLAZA:
Enter through the ground tunnel and sunken reception area. Covered public space rises above with the South Plaza with café and separate entrance.
Accessed via grand staircase enforcing monumentality of this piece of public realm, inviting congregation. Connection to main swimming space through stacked-glass windows, and the continuation of the roof linking the areas. Public realm creating within the building line. Reception and changing facilities below the plaza enforce the sense of exploring the subterranean.
SPA AND THERAPY:
LIDO:
Two separate wings branch off from the Central Bath, and are supported above the split lane pools with 4-point vaulted arches. At street level, privacy is kept with hit-and-miss brickwork, which becomes less perforated as you travel deeper into the wings. The breakout areas and therapy rooms become more intimate as well.
The highest point of the building opens to the sky, yet visually disconnected the surrounding area. It is encapsulating yet open, and completes the journey ‘back to the surface’ from the Central Bath below. This part of the facility is opened to the public, and can be accessed from the North Plaza as a separate facility.
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MAIN SWIMMING HALL:
CENTRAL BATH:
Upon leaving the shower room, the linearity of the space is strong. Split into 6 individual swimming lanes, between which bathers can walk to other parts of the building. The swimming lanes become quieter the further they are from the busy central promenade, and are most intimate at the edges of the hall, where swimmers can experience doing lengths underneath the 4-point vaulted arches that hold up the spa rooms above.
The main transitional core of the baths, where all parts of the building can be accessed. Reached by a staircase travelling through a seemingly thick brick wall, the dramatic scale of it heightens the transitional experience of this heart space. At the centre of this bathing room is a hot pool, from which you can look down at the split lane pools, as well as the circulation that rises up to other parts of the building. A staircase wraps between the edge of a stacked-glass box and a perforated brick core.
SALTED FLOTATION BATH:
NORTH PLAZA:
In the half-dark above the Central Bath, a cleansing waterfall provides access to the Salted Bath, as well as becoming a device to clean and keep the much warmer air within the space. Dramatic lighting, from lightwells punched through the Lido floor above, creates a powerful feeling of calm and peacefulness. Floating beneath the low ceiling and heavy set masonry columns mirrors the paradox of water: that it is ‘so powerful yet so yielding’.
This entrance plaza addresses the new public area being constructed across the canal to the north of the site. Almost ziggurat-like in form, this series of plateaus rises away from the main pedestrian traffic of the area.
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SITE PLAN 1 - South Entrance 2 - Roofscape 3 - Temenos Heart space 4 - Public lido 5 - North Plaza 6 - St Pancras Square and new concourse 7 - Regent’s Canal 8 - St Pancras International 9 - King’s Cross station 10 - King’s Cross Central Plot 1-3
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[Above] Long section down the axis of the bath. Here the connection between the different spaces through the core baths becomes apparent.
[Below right] Section through glazed heart space, showing gantries and heated communal bath.
[Below left] Section through the split lanes of the stroke pools.
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1 - Main Entrance Lobby and stairs from Plaza 2 - North Plaza 3 - Changing Suites 4 - Main Pool Chamber 5 - Temenos Heart space, with communal Hot Baths 6 - Salt Bath Chamber 7 - Public Lido 8 - Underground Air Labyrinth 9 - Boiler House
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[Above] Main elevation of the baths as viewed from the concourse. [Below] Short section through the open air public lido, with the salted floating bath beneath.
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Central Bath. Section showing the constrcution of the brick core, gantries and stacked glass facade.
1 - Ground 2 - Plant space 3 - Hot bath pool 4 - Temenos circulation 5 - Void 8 - Ground insulation 9 - Foundation raft 10 - Drainage gravel & outtake 11 - Floor construction of insulation and polished concrete 12 - Retaining tanked wall construction with fare faced brick on interior 13 - Pool supporting in-situ reinforced concrete column 14 - Floor construction, insulated and finished with polished concrete layer 15 - Solid masonry columns supporting wall above 16 - External wall section of composite concrete and masonry 17 - Double glazed units with steel framing 18 - Staked glass unit with steel frame 19 - Primary steel structural UC beam 20 - Secondary steel structural C beam 21 - Floor deck of steel mesh supported by steel structure 22 - Polished concrete self cantilevering stair components 23 - Steel banisters and rails welded to structure 24 - ‘Hit and Miss’ brickwork 25 - Double glazed unit with steel fame
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[Above] Northern Plaza. Here the roof structure and stacked glass provides a connection with the spaces inside. [Below] Central Baths. Gantries that rise up the brick core containing the baths provides access to other levels of the building.
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[Above] South Plaza. Stepped plateaus rise up to the Lido entrance.
[Below] Public Lido. Open air swiming pool with sheltered showers and changing rooms at its edge.
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Salted Flotation Bath. Low walls and thick masonry columns set the intimate and monastic atmosphere of this bath chamber. Both natural and supplementary light is limited to the lightwells punched through the Lido floor above.
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[Next page] Main Stroke Pools. The pretensioned brick vaulted roof mimics the rythm of the split pools. The spa treatment rooms can be seen suspended above the end pools at the edges of the chamber.
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EXTRA CURRICULAR PROJECTS
p90 Eye of Dubai p92 Coexist Community Kitchen p94 Storey’s Way p96 Photography
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EYE OF DUBAI Thyssenrupp Elevator Tall Emblem Structure Competition 2009 Group entry, submitted while on the Erasmus Exchange Program at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
[Above] The submitted entry with 5 A1 panels. Twisted archway frames the new skyline of Dubai from the perspective of Deira, symbolising the emergence of a new city [Below] External visual from Za’abeel Park of the arched structure.
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[Below] Interior visual of the top floor viewing deck. High-tech materials make facade seem almost seamless from the floor, and houses a bar and resturant.
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COEXIST COMMUNITY KITCHEN Coexist, Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
[Below] Early floor plans and a photograph of the existing space set aside for the community kitchen.
Leading a team of volunteers to design a community kitchen and cookery school in the shell of a former office block. The building is now inhabited by a social enterprise called Coexist and is used for artist studios and performance spaces.
[Right] Working elevations with initial designs. Early concept visual.
revision date
19.05.11
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job reference
CCK
Proposed Floor Plans
COEXIST COMMUNITY KITCHEN
HAMILTON HOUSE 80 STOKES CROFT, BRISTOL
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www.enablingspace.co khriscowley@gmail.com
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430 Gloucester Road BRISTOL BS7 8TX tel: +44 (0) 7731708849
enablingspace design
single door fridge
double cupboard
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integrated hob
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SKETCH
high over above storage
This drawing is for consultation purposes only. Not to be used for construction. Please consult professional advice. Do not scale off dimensions. This drawing is copyright.
The project is to be funded by grants and crowdsourcing, with the design itself being socially driven, having maximum input from the local community.
locker room
counter w/ adjustable height
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full 6 range gas hob/oven dry goods store
double door fridge
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dishwasher under counter
freezer
fridge
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SKETCH
430 Gloucester Road BRISTOL BS7 8TX tel: +44 (0) 7731708849
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www.enablingspace.co khriscowley@gmail.com job
HAMILTON HOUSE 80 STOKES CROFT, BRISTOL
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Proposed Interior 1:50 @ A4
CCK
job reference
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19.05.11
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SKETCH
430 Gloucester Road BRISTOL BS7 8TX tel: +44 (0) 7731708849
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COEXIST COMMUNITY KITCHEN
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COEXIST COMMUNITY KITCHEN
address
HAMILTON HOUSE 80 STOKES CROFT, BRISTOL
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Proposed Interior
scale
1:50 @ A4
CCK
job reference
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26.05.11
SK03
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revision
This drawing is for consultation purposes only. Not to be used for construction. Please consult professional advice. Do not scale off dimensions. This drawing is copyright.
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STOREY’S WAY, CAMBRIDGE Hudson Architects, Norwich. Professional placement. This was one of the first projects I was on from conception to completion. The clients owned a Grade II listed house but wanted an extension that was modern and could be a counterpoint to the arts and crafts style of the main building. An thin aluminum roof elegantly floating above fully glass walls became the solution. Even the bridge extending from the house into this garden room is fully glazed. Bespoke detailing was required to ensure the slightness of the components. Storey’s Way won the Home Category in the RIBA East’s Spirit of Ingenuity Awards 2011.
Zinc canal gutter on plywood supported by SW battens over Actis insulation
VM Zinc roofing on 18mm plywood on rigid insulation laid to falls at 3 degrees
Existing brick wall and opening. Where existing conservatory is removed, original brickwork to be made good and exposed.
Grey powder coated steel coping (construction to be confirmed by SE)
Framless double glazed Pilkington glass panels 6mm Toughened glass 20mm Argon-filled insulating cavity 8.8mm Low-E emmitting toughened laminated glass
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Existing portal frame to opening. WD13
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168.3mm dia. circular steel column
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Glass bridge to existing house Brick plinth to match existing house
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HUDSON Architects
PRELIMINARY DETAILS
49-59 Old Street London EC1V 9HX tel 020 7490 3411 fax 020 7490 3412 www.hudsonarchitects.co.uk info@hudsonarchitects.co.uk
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13/07/09 job
STOREY'S WAY
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Short Section
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13/07/09
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Proposed West Elevation
Proposed East Elevation
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HUDSON Architects
PRELIMINARY DETAILS
49-59 Old Street London EC1V 9HX tel 020 7490 3411 fax 020 7490 3412 www.hudsonarchitects.co.uk info@hudsonarchitects.co.uk
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56 STOREY'S WAY CAMBRIDGE
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PHOTOGRAPHY [Below] Self-portrait, 2010 Berlin
[Opp. page] Moon Rising on Jerusalem, 2008 Israel
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RESUMÉ personal details.
work experience.
date of birth. 12.12.87 nationality. british
2011- Coexist Community Kitchen, Bristol. design intern (volunteer).
home address: 1 Salthrop Road Bristol BS7 9DP
2011
email:
khriscowley@gmail.com
2010-2011 NOMA Architects, Bristol. architectural assistant.
mobile: home tel:
07731708849 01603713933
misc: licence.
full clean UK driving
Studio Mimetico, Bath. freelance 3D designer.
2009 Hudson Architects, Norwich. architectural assistant. 2008 BDP, Bristol. architectural assistant.
education.
skillset.
2006-2010. university of bath, bath. bsc (hons) architecture (RIBA part 1) degree classification 2.1 (hons)
2d design. autocad vectorworks microstation powercad adobe creative suite
2008. kungliga tekniska hogskölen, stockholm. ma architecture (erasmus exchange) 2000-2006. thorpe st andrew school, norwich. A levels: AAB (math, art, physics)
3d design. rhino sketchup vray kerkethea Fluent in both Windows and OSX operating systems.
personal achievements. Festival of Photography, Bristol. Collection of personal and travel photography exhibited at the Arts House Café, Stokes Croft, in June 2010. Erasmus Scholarship, Stockholm. Studied at the Royal Technical School of Architecture in Stockholm, Sweden, as part of my Erasmus scholarship, in 2009. Cinema Jenin, Palestine. Travelled to Israel and the West Bank in August 2010, assisting in the renovation and redevelopment of a cinema and community project in Jenin, Palestine.
References available upon request.
R O P O F T O I L Graduate Portfolio BSc (Hons) Architecture University of Bath khriscowley@gmail.com 2012