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PART 1.

 Kent School of Architecture

Site Analysis
Local Industrial Context
Estuary Towers
Design Development Sketches
Materials and Texture
Precedents of Form
Elevation and Section
Schedule of Accommodation
Ground Floor Plan
Basement & 1st Floor Plan
2nd & 3rd Floor Plan
Sculpture Garden Approach
Amphitheatre
Amphitheatre Section
Gallery Section
Gallery Circulation
Cafe - Cathedral Square
Workshop Envelope Section
Envelope Section
Ventilation
Structural Load Diagram
Student Core Section
Artist's Courtyard
Night Render
Physical Models
URBAN
Postgraduate college for production of the arts at the University of Kent, Rochester. Visitors experience the building first through a series of meadow paths that encourage a vibrant ecosystem nested between the historic Cathedral and Castle. A journey of experiences blends private and public use of the building culminating in an outdoor ramp  - inspired by the Short Brother's sea planes of the early 20th century - which ascends to a advantageous viewpoint of the River Medway. Inspired by the industrial vernacular and rationalist architecture, the building's form communicates its function to a diverse group of users. 
 
 
L'arche Community Centre
Layout Options
King's School Precedent
Immediate Site Appraisal
Single and Twin Room Module
Exploded Axonometric
Circulation 1
Circulation 2
Space Type 1
Space Type 2
Social Core
Contextual Elevations
Structure 1
Night Render
Structure 2
Ventilation and Passive Solar
Water Treatment and U Values
Construction Sequence
Courtyard Render
Physical Model
MODULAR

​​We  began 'Phase 1' with a group master-planning of formerly St Radigunds car park, Canterbury. Including a multi-functional horticultural educational building, student accommodation, private housing and a boarding house.

 

In 'Phase 2', individually I planned a Boarding House for King's School, Canterbury. Taking in the immediate context of the site, I re-housed L'arche community centre within the skin of the boarding House, increasing the density and overall aesthetic of the existing urban fabric.

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The accommodation Modules are clad in locally coppiced Sweet Chestnut timber fins that act as solar shades and privacy barriers. Powered by biomass and hydro-power, with SIP wall construction achieving excellent U-Values, the building had Carbon-Zero theory at the focus.   

Concept Sketch
Internal Render
Diagramatic Plans
South Elevation
West Elevation
North Elevation
East Elevation
West Wing Physical Model
Site Context Physical Model
Lecture Theatre
Lecture Theatre Ventilation
Environment Strategy Concept
Environment Analysis
Central Core Ventilation
Structural Analysis Concept
West Wing Ventilation Details
Louvre Precedent Visit
Islamic Arts Centre, Louvre
ADAPT AND EXTEND

​​A project in which to Adapt and Extend our Templeman Library at The University of Kent, Canterbury.

 

The abstract sketch (Left), metaphorically depicts the library as a resource of knowledge, experience and mystery.

 

Libraries were historically places of independent silent study, for academics. Modern attitudes to learning suggest that group work with modern technology is most effective and favoured among students. 

 

This scheme is divided into three significant sections with forms that reveal their uses externally, tied together in copper mesh:

CUBE | SLIDING CANTILEVER | ORGANIC ROOF

Daylight
Artificial Light
Structural Detail
ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLING

​​This module focused on using the modelling software 3DS Max to communicate night and daytime scenes and a structural detail.

 

The software allows sunlight and artificial lights to be placed in a scene that we have modelled piece by piece, from scratch.

 

The kitchen design comes from the plans for a wellness centre from the module 'Landscape' (below).

 

Final touches and annotations were added using Photoshop.

Concept Sketch
Site Context
Isometric
Plans
Structural Isometric
Final Model
Road Elevation Final Model
Development Model
Temporary Gallery Sketch Model
Mondrian Gallery Sketch Model
Montage
Director's Room
Gallery Threshold
Director's Studio
CARAVANSERAI

A stage 1 project focusing heavily on the use of the drawing board to hand create our designs without the assistance of CAD.

 

The brief required a gallery and cafe to be designed for a thin plot of seafront in Whitstable, Kent.

 

The design was inspired by Corbusier's Ronchamp building, and the paintings of Mondrian.

 

Curving forms were inspired by waves of the sea, whilst adhering to the seaside context using white timber cladding. Recycled sea groynes decorate the facade as louvres and frame landscape views of the horizon.

Wellness Centre Landscape
Wellness Centre Orthographics
Site Appraisal Idea
Landscape Development
Building Development
Initial Building Concept (Not Used)
Building Development
Visualisation Render
Physical Model
Gravitational Load Path Diagram
Lateral Load Path Diagram
Construction Sequence
LANDSCAPE, WELLNESS CENTRE

​​Oare Gunpowder Works, was the landscape proposed for a wellness centre - to help those with stress disorders. The site featured two large ponds, and a number of ruins from the former use of the space to manafacture gunpowder. A hill toward the North of the site made for a dramatic environment.

 

I was inspired by the English Country Garden Style and Japanese Gardens, which I wrote about in a simultaneous essay. The layout of trees and plants was dictated by view paths to existing spaces of beauty and interest. My interventions were then placed accordingly to create public and private spaces for clients.

FORM AND STRUCTURE​​

Part 1.

 

This module ran parallel with 'Landscape', and the site is located to the top left of the Gunpowder works, shown by dotted circle over the Corning house ruin.

 

We were to design a structure that would span an area of 400m squared, with supports external to that within 900m squared. 

 

The roof structure was evaluated for its resistance against gravitational and lateral loads. 

FORM AND STRUCTURE​​

Part 2.

 

We were tasked with investigating in a team, the structure of a building in order to learn more about the principles of engineering.

 

The case study was Heron Quays DLR Station, Will Alsop Architects 2002.

 

Lateral and gravity load path diagrams evaluated compression and tension within the structure. A series of construction diagrams were also completed. 

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