Catherine wheater Integrated Design Report by wheats28

By Catherine Wheater Word Count 3820

Catherine Wheater Leeds Beckett University c3242669 Tutor : Sarah Mills 8th May 2017

Contents

Report 01 _ Design & Technology Personal Position

Design Studio Context

Design Thesis

Technical & Technological

Further Development

Report 02 _ Management & Law Planning issues

Development Appraisal

Procurement & Risk

Architecural Practice

Professional Reflection

End Notes Bibliography

References

Cirriculum Vitae

Website www.cathwheater.co.uk

Voices of Yanesen By Catherine Wheater

The development of this report is in support of ‘Voices of Yanesen’ my Final year Thesis Masters Project at the Leeds School of Architecture.

The Project is based around the development of a proposition which reactes to the current changing social and physical character in the historic district of Yanesen, Tokyo. The scheme acts as an alternative approach to preserving and encouraging aspects of it’s communal history through the study of vernacular architecture, and the integration of washi paper making and memory workshops throughout the ‘neighbourhood’ of snake street to catalogue the areas disapearing locality. The project presents an alternative approach to preservation in placing emphasis on the environments that encourage community story-telling and relationships, and cataloguing of local histories in the site of the Cultural Centre Memory Factory but also through the infilitration of these details existing and new, within the neighbourhood of Snake street where the Memory workshops are located. The following report will outline my personal position in pursuing this chosen topic in my wider development as an architect. Along with addressing the scheme in application to Professional Practice and Management.

Report 01 _ Design & Technology

Personal Position

Since my Undergraduate studies I feel my perception of how architecture can be used has changed dramatically. Through my studies within the Cinematic Commons architecture unit I feel that my existing interest in social issues both locally and internationally, have been able to shape my architectural speculations, and have become the driving force behind my designs. Now I see architecure not only as a design exercise, but as a social tool allowing me to research and explore architectural propositions, and this is a skill I feel has allowed me to really tap in to and understand the local community within my Final Year Thesis Project ‘Voices of Yanesen.’ It was my interest in retaining the identity of communities through architecture that lead to be Thesis design Project involing aspects of community, preservation and lost narratives. As I’ve developed within my architectural career I wish to merge architecture with a local community research role, I want to make a mark in improving or informing the built environment in which people live. Improving or tapping in to an under-developed or neglected issue has shaped both of my Masters Years design projects. In my first year I critiqued the condition of education for children within the city. I recognised the restrictive environment that has developed in education particularly within the city and my architectural proposition looked to free the child from the cirriculum of study both theoretically and physically in their environment. This years thesis project looks to observing the issue of rapid development within the traditional vernacular of the area of Yanesen and using the communities local histories in the vernacular to catalogue and ‘preserve’ this environment whilst it still remains. Within my architectural education I have always tried to travel outside of the U.K. I have undertaken periods of travel to areas that interest and inspire me in my personal areas of social research, and in 2015 I was able to travel again to China and Cambodia for a 3 month period. China has always been a country I was fascinated within due to it’s art, language and culture, but whilst there I was taken aback by the communities that shaped the character of the hutongs of Beijjing. This lead me to question how in the face of their re-development it is this unique quality which activists are trying to harness to preserve not only the architecture but the communities that have lived their. It was this line of study that lead to my dissertation writings about the urban typology of the Hutong’s in beijjing. Furthermore this topic developed in to my Thesis Project addressig preservation of local communities in Tokyo.

1. Meeting with Yanesen community leaders, Yanesen Magazine & Jordaan

2. Interviews with local ‘Book Street Festival’ Founders.

3. Presentation of March 01 work at Tokyo Women’s University

Design Studio Context

At the Leeds School of Architecture I chose the research unit Cinematic Commons lead by Sarah Mills & Jennifer Chen The studio focuses on using scenography in the construct and critique of design investigation. Through the use of film and large scale sets we are able to explore our propositions and test spatial environments through form, light, materiality and props in understanding and developing how our design propositions will be used, and work. These design tools allow for the project to come to life and be critiqued in a more immersive way both as the architect through the process of the projects development over the year, but also from an outsiders perspective as an observer, client or user in understanding the projects intent and emotional response. In application to my personal position I was drawn to the research unit particularly due to it’s focus of a new ‘commons’ through urban architectural investigation. The studio encourages the development of a proposition which impacts the community in the long-term through tapping in to an existing resource, and development of a new urban invironment with forensis in to the historical and social context. In application to my thesis projectsI was particularly driven Through developing a new resource, taking in to account existing conditions within our site my proposition’s driving force looks at unearthing lost narratives or ‘voices’ from Yanesen. Wthin the studio I find the problem solving and brief development a key aspect of design and the use of large scale drawing, sets and film allows for experimentation and investigation in designing the new ‘commons.’ Tools of Design include; Exploration of Narrative through film, critique of space through large scale Axonometric drawings and composite drawing in the layering of information in informing a new proposition. Through understanding of the urban landscape of cities through tools such as the ‘foreign gaze’ and research whilst on site in my final year thesis project based in Tokyo, Japan; it has allowed me to become immersed with the urban and social fabric of the city. Alongside this an encouragement to really engage with the people within my area of Research allowed for more informed response to the environment. Whilst in Tokyo I met the founding members of Yanesen Magazine, and though the Magazine itself went out of print in 2008, the group still plays a major role in the community activism of the area and provided both the inspiration and information that informed my further projects development. The continued development of this research through drawing, film and photography are used as a catalogue of tools to inform a new architectural typology in Yanesen

4. Filming of March 01 Set Model

5. March 01 Foreign Gaze Filmic

6. MArch 01 Education in Play

7. Yanesen Translated Magazine

Memory Factory

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Design Thesis

Voices of Yanesen My Final Year Thesis project looks at using the existing social infrastructure of the local resource of Yanesen Magazine in uncovering the local histories of the area in my Architectural Proposition. I became drawn to Yanesen magazine due to it’s Editors playing an integral part in cataloguing the local history of the area, and through this developing the sense of community of Yanesen. Currently Yanesen in on the cusp of re-development, much like the rest of Tokyo with Land Value within the central wards of the city having increased to the point where the smaller traditional family houses and neighbourhoods that make up Yanesen are of less value to developers than replacing them with modern high-rises that are beginning to shape Tokyo’s skyline. With the area being one of the last few places that has retained it’s traditional vernacular architecture after bombings of World War II and devastating earthquakes. It seems that power of bulldozers may just be the last stand Yanesen faces. My project questions - in the face of destruction - what aspects of the area should be ‘preserved’ or retained. Using the Yanesen magazine I was able to understand what was important to the people who lived there. Rather than preserve the timber architecture in a ‘monumental’ way, I looked to understand what it was about the architecture that made the area unique, and how it encouraged the relationships that made the area, Ya-Ne-Sen. The key programme outlines 4 key stages to the projects overall development which are as follows. The project begins with the uncovering of the lost River of Aizan, ,which currently runs underneath Snake Street. The river is then used as a resource in the washi paper production process at the top of the site. The use of paper is then filtrated through the ‘Memory Workshops’ in a physical move toward catalaoguing the spoken and vernacular memories of the area. Within the Memory workshops the spaces are located through a study on vernacular ‘conversation spaces.’ The neighbourhood palette is used as design catalogue in developing these spaces and locating additional areas for users to explore. These spaces are then referenced within the larger site of the ‘Memory Factory’ where the space exhibits found physical artefacts of the area, and acts as a community resource in terms of space for community meetings, lectures, readings, excavation and archiving to encourage the continued importance in the development relationships inside and outside the community.

9 Documentation of Yanesen

Washi Paper Production Factory Mulberry Grove Mulberry Bark Dry storage Steaming Room Bark Production Line Bark Softening & Bleaching

Memory Workshops Washi Paper Layering workshops Washi Paper Press Yanesen Magazine news Room Story Collection Office Printing Workshop Shoji Detailing Workshop Wall Paper Workshop

Memory Factory

10. Site Strategy

11. Memory Factory layered axonometric

Technical & Technological Questions

The Skills that I have gained throughout my education and particularly within my Masters in Architecture have improved the way in which I tackle an issue and design. The skills gained through the Cinematic Commons Unit have enhanced the ways in which I work, adding the skillset of using Film and Cinematic Construct to test ideas spatially and cinematically Applied within my skillset I feel the aspect of Cinematic Commons that has allowed me to improve as a architect is the use of the Set Model. Through testing and understanding an environment from concept testing, through to applying activities within an architectural environment, it has allowed me to experiment as well as portray my ideas through a large scale medium. Given that the Narrative of our architecture is a key aspect of how we portray our ideas, the use of the storyboard used in my work allows me to use the film in a specific way, either to show a process of discovery, activity or the intention of how my architecture will work. The use of Axonometric drawing allows for a myself and outsiders to understand how the scheme will work and understand the schemes scope spatially. It also acts as a layering device to uncover outcomes as a design tool that may not otherwise be investigated. Specifically this was used within my Thesis project in the layering of vernacular detais to create different spatial outcomes which have informed the further development of my project.

12. Neighbourhood Vernacular

As the project is a response to Yanesen’s re-development and uncovering ‘Lost’ Histories key technological architectural moves relate to un-covering these moments physically within the overal architectural proposition. Intially The project responds to this brief through Uncovering the lost river of Yanesen. The deculverting of the river acts as the starting point for the urban project of the scheme. This process has be investigation through my research within my DSIT B submission in the intial stages.. The development of the water source in the use of paper production is a key aspect that is addressed spatially and through the integration of it’s process and production along the masterplan of the site. Alongside this the study of how vernacular details technically and spatially are adapted such as the shoji screen can be utilised in the overall environmental strategyand layering techniques. Alongside this the neighbourhood palette of materials collected within research informed how spaces would be reiterpreted.

14. . Integration of Paper Production

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Second Floor 16. Artefact retrieval curation 17.Private Meeting Rooms 14.

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12. Lecture & Readings Space 13. Story Collection and Writing 14. Paper Storage 15. Toilet Facilities

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4. Main Entrance 5. Shoe Storage and Removal 6. Film Seating spaces 7. Cloakroom 8. Internal & Archive exhibit Space 9. Ribbon Exhibit & Communal Conversation seating 10. Kitchen 11. Staff room & Entrance

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Changing Facilities

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Large Artefact Storage Drop-off & Collection

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13. . Memory Factory Axonometric

15. Early Concept Set Model exploring Uncovering of the River for Production

15. Exploration of Memory Workshops and Paper production Process through the set model.

Further Development

Cataloguing of Memories in an altenative approach to preservation Though Yanesen does not fall under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Property wherby local authority is oblidged to provide the funding and technical support to its preservation, there are efforts outlined in the Bunkyo Wards urban strategy for the area to categorise Yanesen under this heading. Not just for it’s physical heritage preservation, but it’s intangiable community heritage, and I see community heritage as being the aspect of preservation that is beginning to take precedent in the future development of architectural propositions facing preservation issues within Tokyo. The areas continued future development supports Tokyo Basic Concept Plan of Urban Greening, and introducing lost networks of water in the Bunkyo Ward’s continued development. It’s long-term impact is intended to act as a resource for the community in support of research undertaken by Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties and work with Tokyo University. Through research and social development the projects acts as a safe-guard against monetary leads developments taking place along Shinobazu Street. As a research project, ‘Voices of Yanesen’ acts as a prototype for the preservation of other areas of Tokyo. By this token the project’s long term development can be emulated around other areas of tokyo . Through this token the development of my project can act as a support to current efforts outlined iin protecting Yanesen under the Law for the Protection of Cultural properties, and lead to the eventual inclusions in in this law.

Prototype for Preservation

16. Local History Palette Protoype.

Report 02 _ Management & Law

17. Exhibition documentation by Yanesen Magazine of the preservation and repurposing of the Ribbon Factories truss structure in a local exhibition

Planning Issues

Due to the nature of the proposal and the strategies taking place towards developing the sight, the project has been accessed through researching Bunkyo’s urban strategy outlined in documents found on the Municipal Urban Planning Website. The site location falls within the wards of Bunkyo. Given the projects sensitivy to the histories of the area, both physically and within the community; the project at a muncipal level for planning must be in accordance within the Bunkyo areas urban planning aims, which takes precedent from the Tokyo Basic Concept.As specified in the urban plan and land usage diagrams the areas urban plan is to preserve it’s traditional alleyway spatial typologies of the traditional architecture. Additional guidance can be found in regards to the encouragement of urban ‘greening’ and water re-integration in the ‘Basic Concept Water Policy.’ Information that will inform my proposition is found at local level, through applying within my Wards Municipal District of Bunkyo and through which planning will be submitted. Within each Muncipal Ward the local government aims to address each area in accordance with local issues and land use. Within the Masterplan outline for the ward, drawings are provided to stipulate Land Usage and the Future Ward Development. Through devolving the regulating powers of the city to local planning councils it introduces a more democratic localised process of planning. This applies particularly within the area of Yanesen as the development of the local community emerging through the development of my client Yanesen Magazine in 1984.. Since then ‘community building’ groups of machizukuri; has become more in control of the urban landscape, with the ability for the local community to actually have an increased say to inform the areas’s development . Planning applications will be submitted in the form of Planning drawings to the local authority in adherance with land usage and future area development. Scale drawings will include technical specification, materiality and building form and scope outline with specialised input. Planning permission be submitted and to granted through the development Permission System and all design will adhere to Technical Structural earthquake guidance as outlined in the Building Standards Act.

Centre of Bunkyo

Green Parks

Commericial Area

Public & Education Facilities

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Site Location

18. Bunkyo Land Use Map

Major Roads Trunks Roads Metropolitan Expressway Kanda River

Regional Cultural Offices Base life Urban Nucleas Parks

Major Network Smaller Road New Green Corridors Kanda River

Public Facilities Green Space

Site Location

19. Bunkyo Urban Development Plan

Development Appraisal

The project ‘Voices of Yanesen’s’ Client is outlined as the Yanesen Magazine, which has evolved in to a local civil society group responsible for the campaigning and the preservation of local histories in the form of buildings, artefacts, and stories. The land will be leased by Bunkyo Ward towards the development of the project in support of preservation of heritage. The Yanesen Magazine is seen the the intial and primary client to begin the projects design development. Based on the Law for the Preservation of Cultural Properties Municipal Government must provide technical and financial support in ‘Preservation Areas’ continued development. As of currently only two areas of Tokyo Prefacture fall under this heading officially under law, but Bunkyo has taken measures to include the ‘law for the preservation of cultural properties’ within their urban plan. Currently attempts are being made to implement measures including regulations, and incentives for city planning in Yanesen to benefit from this obligation to fund physical and intangiable cultural heritage within the area. This is currently under review by the Council for Cultural Affairs. As Yanesen is yet to be desribed officially as a preservation zone, additional funding outside of the muncipal government must be considered. Due to the development of the new resource of paper production within the area, investment in the new industry as an ‘intangible cultural heritate’ can be found through organisations such as UNESCO world heritage. Recently Washi Paper Production has be added to the Unesco World Heritage Cultural World Heritage List to engage younger generations in this activity and funding through the development of paper as a resource Due to the Washi Paper Production being infiltrated in to the development of the Memory Workshops investment from private local business owners in leasing these workshops along the sight in increasing investment could contibute to the projects development, given that the project is phased. The Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo’s research body department specialises in protecting intangiable culture heritage, and the production of records and documents. The Projects development will be in collaboration with continued research in to alternative means and continued development of culturally significent parts of Tokyo in developing a record of Yanesen. Grants of up to 10 million yen can be provided to support public access projects in collaboration between communities, research and local government. Additional Research funding could be found through Tokyo University. In 1989 a local group called Yanesen Gakko was formed through a collaboration of University Professors, researchers, and local residents .Their main activities involved the storage of local resources, conserving local houses and protesting and re-designing the impact of large scale development. I was able to meet with a current PHD student working in the cataloguing of all the old artefacts collected through Yanesen magazine which are now in warehouse storage.

Law for the Preservation of Cultural Properties

20 Existing Memory Factory Site

Procurement & Risk

The construction of the project once released to tender- after approval and detailing to Stage 3-4 - will be undertaken by a local japanese contractor with specialised skills who can utilise their local knowledge, whilst undertaking the role of principal contractor in ensuring all regulations are adhered to. The Contractor will aquire all liability for the build of the project and it will be their risk to ensure appropriated licenses and permits are agreed during the building process. Applied within a large scale project that spans the sight through the use of the river, design in to existing buildings, and aspects of excavation and re-use; these can be highlighted at the main risks of the project. Design Control and risk can be reduced in application of works to existing buildings and detailing due to the integration of specialists throughout all design stages. Alongside this trained workers in Japanese construction techniques will be employed throughtout the physical building, alongside, structural, water and environmental engineers in consultation with local authority and relevant statutory authority on Tokyo Waterways in the de-culverting process. A continous risk register will be employed throughout the project. An archeologist will be appointed with a watching brief throughout the excavation phase of the project - within the main sight of the Memory factory excavation points- to ensure that any possible substantial finds can be revieved if discovered. Additional Building Risks include ; - Proximity of works to existing building in dense area and protection of alleyways - Point of Access to be ensured whilst de-culverting takes place - Risk from Falling Objects The scope of costings for the project - not including wider project costs of architect fees, equipment etc - will be detailed by a quantity surveyor with specialist knowledge in the costings of highly skilled works in in traditional architecture, water and environmental development. The cost consultant will be responsible for this aspect of the project, and will liase with myself and the client from an intial cost appraisal to the Final account.

21 Project Phasing

01 River Integration

03 Memory Workshops

02 Paper Factory

04 Memory Factory

22 New Yanesen Magazine Story collection and News Room Set model

Architectural Practice

In the development of this project, collaboration between a British and Japanese architects will be involved to form the architectural team. The adoption of the Traditional Contract between the architect and client ensures that the design is developed in accordance with the clients wishes as opposed to any changes that may be made by the contractor. This allows for more control as the architectal team will be specifying all construction not permitted to change on site due to the cultural significence of the area. The British Architectural team will locate for the duration of the build within Yanesen to ensure close consulation and additional specification and design detailing can be developed and submitted when needed. Within the architectural team , a specialist in Japanese practices in construction will be consulated and brought in, in the development of the project, and in the specification of materials and detailing. The Traditional contract will be in the form of a Standard Building Contract in the form of the JCT Standard building contract due to the complex nature and amount of varied work the scheme proposes. Due to using a traditional contract, within the design team all drawings must be developed to an appropriate stage before issuing to the contractor to reduce risk of additional costings. Once design is developed up to Riba Stage 3-4 ( Development - Technical Design) the project will be released for tender. At this stage consulation would be required with the Japanese architectural counterparts in negotiating a procurement strategy of either negotiated or competitive tender depending on contractors interest and working relationships with the Japanese architectural team. As stated in section 4 a japanese contractor will develop the design due to their knowledge of regulations and working practices within the local community. Involvement of the design team will continue up to Stage 6 of the RIBA Plan of work Handover and Close out. Professional Indemnity Insurance will be acquired to an appropriate sum to ensure that if anything were to go wrong the architects are protected against legal action . Architectural Fees applied to a project of this type and scale fees will typically be between 3-4% of the building cost.

23 Scarborough Commons workshop with Atelier Bow students from Tokyo University

Personal Position

Moving forward in the architecture education, I wish to widen my scope, and to continue my professional experience within a practice that is lead by social research and impact of architecture on communities within the built environment. As a starting point I would like to work within a practice who specialises in the regeneration of the local environment of Leeds, given my roots within the area. Whether this is in a research role or as part of the design team, the opportunity to work on architectural projects that work collaboratively and allow me to see the policy making that Leeds to how cities are planned, would be the initial goal in my professional architectural development. As both my dissertation and thesis projects have addressed the decline of traditional communities within a historic context in Asia, I wish at some point to continue this line of study through spending an extended period of time abroad both in China and Japan. Often I feel the only way to really understand a place is to immerse yourself within a countries context. There is only so much you learn from a far, which became apparent in the contrast between my dissertation and thesis projects. Within Tokyo I was able to speak to local people, activists, politicians and and researchers, and through these conversations I was able to learn so much more than any book could ever tell me. Whilst at University I have particularly enjoyed taking on a mentorship role to the lower years, assisting in advice in design process, techniques and general issues within the studio as the Course Representative. I would take the opportunity to continue this role for sessions or otherwise after graduating from University as I often find talking through peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas the most interesting part of design and often breaks down alot of the barriers architecture can often present. I am currently in the process of organising collborating with a school taking part in the RIBA Architectural Ambassador in collaboration with the Hull City of Culture. Through this I hope to harness a teaching role in the wider application of architecture outside the studio environment.

Bibliography

Journals

Images

Milica Muminovic, Jorge Almazan. (2013). On Innovative Practices Which Contribute to Preservation of the Place Identity: The Example of Yanesen, Tokyo. Tokyo Extended Home. 7 (3), 14.

Fig 01 Wheater, C (2016 ) Meeting with Yanesen community leaders, Yanesen Magazine & Jordaan Fig 02 Wheater, C (2016 ) Interviews with local ‘Book Street Festival’ Founders. Fig 03 Wheater, C (2016 ) Presentation of March 01 work at Tokyo Women’s University Fig 04 Wheater, C (2016) Filming of March 01 Set Model Fig 05 Wheater, C (2016 ) March 0 Foregin Gase Set Model Fig 06Wheater, C (2016 March 01 Education in Play visual Fig 08 Wheater, C (2017 ) Site Location Fig 09 Wheater, C (2017 ) Yanesen Area Documentation Fig 10 Wheater, C (2017 ) Voices of Yanesen Strategy drawing Fig 11 Wheater, C (2017) Memory Factory Concept Image Fig 12 Wheater, C (2017 ) Yanesen Neighbourhood Palette Fig 13 Wheater, C (2017) Memory Museum Design Axonometric Fig 14 Wheater, C (2017) Integration of Paper Production Fig 15. Wheater, C (2016) Initial River Set Model Fig 16. Wheater, C (2107) Memory Workshops Set Model Fig 17 Wheater, C (2016 ) Yanesen Magazine Ribbon Factory Exhibition leaflet provided by Yanesen Magazine Fig 18 Bunkyo Land Use Map. Bunkyo Local Ward Authority (2011) available at http://www.city.bunkyo. lg.jp/var/rev0/0084/5580/000_toshimasu_gai.pdf Fig 19 Bunkyo Urban Development Plan . Bunkyo Local Ward Authority (2011) available at http://www. city.bunkyo.lg.jp/var/rev0/0084/5580/000_toshimasu_gai.pdf Fig 20. Wheater, C (2107) Existing Memory Factory Axonometric Drawing Fig 21 Wheater, C (2107) Project Phasing Fig 22. Wheater, C (2107) Yanesen Magazine Story Collection & News room Set Model Fig 23 Wheater, C (2107) Scarborough Commons workshop with Atelier Bow students from Tokyo University

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Appendices

Tokyo Basic Concept Plan

Bunkyo Ward Basic Concept Plan

Bunkyo Water and Greening Policy

Disseration

Professional Cirriculam Vitae Education Masters of Architecture | 2015 -2017 RIBA Part 2 Leeds School of Architecture

Bachelor of Arts | 2013 RIBA Part 1 Northumbria University 2:1

A levels | 2009

Art Economics English Literature St John Fisher Catholic High Schoo BBB Experience

C A T H E R I N E W H E A T E R Part 2 Architect Profile As a final year Masters of Architecture student, I am an hard-working, and passionate individual who throughout my studies at Leeds Beckett University has worked highly efficiently both within my own work, and within the wider studio of my Cinematic Commons Unit. Over my years of study I have acquired the skills to work both efficiently and productively within small time scales, whilst developing a project that is socially and contextually rich in the engagement of the local environment as evident through my final year proposition. Alongside the development of my verbal presentation skills, I have developed in my design the ability to express a narrative and proposition through my architecture. This ability to storytell through architecture, film and drawing has allowed me to engage with the social issues and context of my proposition throughout my First and Second Masters work, and would be an asset with a new architectural environment.Alongside my architectural development, my ability to express myself distinctively through artwork, filmmaking and photography are a skill I wish to utilize in addition to my professional palette of skills attained throughout my architectural and further education. Having spent two years in practice before returning to University to undetake my Masters of Architecture, I have had a wide range of practical experience, and training in software packages that allow me to be a valuable asset to an architectural office.Alongside this I have experience of both small and large architectural practice and building design, and have the ability to work within a team, or myself effectively and efficiently. Alongside the professional development I continue to wish to travel .As both my final year Dissertation and Thesis propositions discussed I intend on pursuing community identity within architecture, and the preservation of both tangiable and intangiable culture heritage . Additional opportunities to continue this line of study will form part of my developing architectural education.

Studio Map | Oct 2014 - Aug 2015 Architectural Assistant Honour Village Cambodia | Sep 2014 Volunteer Teacher DWA Architects | July 2013 - May 2014 Part 1 Architectural Assistant References & further experience will be provided on request

Achievements Winner of the LBU WYSA Excellence in Drawing prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Bedford Travel Scholarship 2016 Unit and Course Representation

Skills Photoshop 8 Years Illustrator 2 Years Indesign 5 Years Autocad 8 Years Vectorworks 2 years Sketchup vray 5 years Model making 8 years Photography 8 Years Film-making 3 Years Hand-Drawing 10 Years

Contact Address Chapel Allerton Leeds LS7 4ST

Mobile Email Website

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07702 555757 cathwheater@hotmail.co.uk cathwheater.co.uk

References Sarah Mills Sarah Mills. University Studio Tutor. Leeds Metropolitan University 0113 812 1717 Andrew Staunton Studio Map Practice Mentor admin@studiomap.co.uk