RIBA Part II Architectural Assistant @Adrian_Dimo
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ADRIAN DIMOV MArch II Student at Manchester School of Architecture
EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Part I Assistant Butterfield Architecture LTD, Manchester Feb 2017-July 2017 -planning applications, RIBA stages, residential
Master of Architecture Manchester School of Architecture atelier: CPU (Complexity, Planning and Urbanism 2017-2019
Part I Assistant Arkigraf, Sofia, Bulgaria Sep 2016-Feb 2017 -masterplanning projects, mixed-use residential
BA (Hons) Architecture Manchester School of Architecture 2013-2016
Summer internship Architecture: M, Manchester Jun 2015-Aug 2015 -planning applications,house extensions PROJECTS Caribbean Winter School Havana,Cuba Feb 2018-March 2018 Teaching Assistant (Digital) At Manchester School of Architecture Sep 2017-May 2019 REFERENCE MArch II student in Manchester School of Architecture, atelier CPU (Complexity, Planning and Urbanism).I am interested exploring data analysis and stimulations to test concepts on city scale.
CONTACT email: adriandimov747@gmail.com tel: 07835239690 twitter: @Adrian_Dimo
SKILLS 3D Modelling Sketch up Rhino Autodesk AutoCad Revit Dynamo Rendering Lumion V Ray Visuals(Adobe) Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Premier Pro After Effects Coding(Gaming) Grasshopper Python Unity
ABOUT ME As a future architect, I am interested in the new disruptive technologies that will change the world. In the past two years my work has involved exploring complexity theory, urban analysis and big data, simulating and testing concepts on city scale to understand the context and inform better design decisions making. My strength lies within implementing new computational tools in contemporary architecture which aids the design we create and influence the design of the future. This new approach not only enhances the design process and the parametric modelling, but also aids the interaction with people.
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LOW CARBON URBANIZATION This portfolio examines Manchester’s largest redevelopment project the Northern Gateway from a future city perspective and studies the complex drivers of change in a major redevelopment project. We will respond to some of the key goals identified by Manchester City Council and UNSDG (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) while applying urban theories to the transformation and engaging with current changes. The study will manifest as a spatial resolution (large masterplan with changeable values) on the Northern Gateway site allowing the examination of any conflicts and the negotiated areas between development partners. ADRIAN DIMOV
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION -Density -CO2 emissions
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GOALS -Manchester City Council goals -UNSDG (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) -Spatial strategy
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METHOD OF DESIGN -Computational approach based on bottom-up complexity theories -agent-based approaches
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EVALUATION -Evaluation of tool -spatial resolution on the Northern Gateway
THESIS This portfolio explores the idea of a low-carbon development in a dense urban environment. The project stresses the need to increase walkability in order to achieve sustainable urbanization. We develop a digital tool for urban planning which evaluates a given proposal by measuring walkability and density. It could be used in the early stages of master planning to indicate appropriate number and location for services and amenities while maintaining high density.
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PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION 8
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SITE INTRODUCTION NORTHERN GATE WAY Today, the area spans across a varied range of environments, transitioning from an urban and industrial grain on the fringes of the city centre, to a more suburban form towards Collyhurst and the north of the area.
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Image: Proposal by Farrells The residential-led neighbourhoods could be developed using a traditional top-down approach. The issue in this case is that the design is for a non-existent future population. 10
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- THE NORTHERN GATEWAY - COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND URBANISM 2018/2019 -
ateway. (CDRC) Despite THE NORTHERN GATEWAY - COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND URBANISM 2018/2019 a being
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This map indicates the current density in and around the Northern Gateway. The data was obtained from the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) and then imported into QGIS. The data was last updated in 2016. Despite having little commercial activity and most of the buildings in the area being residential, the area isn’t that dense.
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rrent density in n Gateway. The Information Source: dicates the current density in and around the Northern Gateway. Consumer s the obtained from the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) RC) andQGIS. then ported into The data was last updated in 2016. Despite commercial activity area being was last updatedand most of the buildings in the LEGEND he area isn’t that dense. tle commercial ngs rce: in the area 0.0 - 12.5 pp/ha that dense.
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12.5 - 35.1 pp/ha 35.1 - 54.4 pp/ha
0.0 - 12.5 pp/ha
54.4 - 79.5 pp/ha
12.5 - 35.1 pp/ha
79.5 - 22600.0 pp/ha
35.1 - 54.4 pp/ha
Boundary- Northern Gateway
54.4 - 79.5 pp/ha 79.5 - 22600.0 pp/ha
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Image: Unutilised Spaces
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Image: Aerial View The blue highlights indicate the unutilised spaces in Northern Gateway
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SPATIAL STRATEGY Create compact high-density clusters with evenly distributed fields of amenities across the Northern Gateway to achieve low-carbon mixed-use neighbourhoods with high walkability. Each dense cluster represents a collection of various services and amenities. 14
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GOALS MCC,SDG 16
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“....it is an interesting tool which could help us to determine in planning which amenity spaces remain and which locations will be successful in long term..” “....it would be really facinating if we can see where is the best place for healthcare services and how agents will react on that for example ..”
APRIL, 2019 During our last meeting we discussed our intention of creating an urban tool which measures walkability and indication of residential demand.
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GOALS AND MAIN AIM DRIVERS Manchester City Council (MCC) has recognized focus areas with key challenges and opportunities for 2027. The main challenges we chose to address are the need for higher density and decreasing Co2 Emissions.
DENSITY
CO2 EMISSIONS
The area is being considered an extension to the city centre and will need to function with similar density - 140dw/ha. Current density in the area is only 17dw/ha.
CO2 emissions from the tarnsport sector acount for 34% of all CO2 emissions.
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Northern Gateway - Existing
DENSITY
17 dwelling per a hectar Total: 3 000 (approx.) Built-up area: 250 000m2 (approx.)
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WALKABILITY Avarage:515m
Farrell’s Proposal for Northern Gateway
DENSITY
70 dwelling per a hectar Total: 12 000 dwellings Built-up area: 800 000m2 (approx.)
CO2 EMISSIONS -
WALKABILITY Avarage:492m
Northern Gateway - Proposal
DENSITY
70 dwelling per a hectar Total: 12 00 dwellings Built-up area: 455 207m2
CO2 EMISSIONS decreased
WALKABILITY Avarage:412m
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SPATIAL STRATEGY Create compact high-density clusters with evenly distributed fields of amenities across the Northern Gateway to achieve low-carbon mixed-use neighbourhoods with high walkability. Each dense cluster represents a collection of various services and amenities. 20
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METHOD OF DESIGN 22
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ACTIVITY SPACE PAT TERN The study of activity patterns is a subset of the general study of behavior. Most common in graph theory, such patterns represents a network between entities, it connects them as these distances can differ based on the influence of that entity.
Point of interest
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Confidence Confidence
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Occupancy: STUDENT Name: SAM JONES
Occupancy: PROFESSIONAL Name: ROBERT MARTIN
Occupancy: YOUNG PROFESSIONAL Name: LYDIAL JACKSON WORK
WORK
COMMERCIAL
TRANSPORT
UNIVERSITY
CIVIC COMMERCIAL
CIVIC
COMMERCIAL HOME
HOME
HOME
COMMUTING: TRANSPORT - 500m UNIVERSITY - 700m COMMERCIAL - 600m
COMMUTING: WORK - 3000m COMMERCIAL- 2000m CIVIC - 800m
COMMUTING: WORK - 3100 m COMMERCIAL - 700m CIVIC - 2100m
DEMAND: SINGLE BEDROOM
DEMAND: DOUBLE BEDROOM
DEMAND: + TRIPPLE BEDROOM
TRAM STOP
JOHN ROBERTSON MIRANDA MOORE
ROBERT MARTIN
SCHOOL SCHOOL
GREEN SPACE
TAMSIN JONES BRAD WALKER
KEITH MANTON
GREEN SPACE
TENDY BOWEN MAT NELSON
JENNIE WIGGINS MICHAEL BROWN
TRAM STOP (future stop) LEWIS CHEN PATRICK MAHABAL
GREEN SPACE
BETH SUMMER LYDIA JACKSON
LAURA SCOTT
SCHOOL
SAM JONES PERRY TEMPLEMAN SOPHIE CLARE FATIN HARITH
BARRY ALLEN
TRAM STOP
CIVIC
(towards city center)
Image: Synthetic Agents 23 real life agents modeled and their preferences and occupancy in our agent-based model. On basis of their demand and activity pattern we have computed these actors in our simulation. 24
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TYPE AGENT - YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
TYPE AGENT - STUDENTS
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SHORTEST PATH
Image: Shortest Path Generator Based on the residential density, the algorithm I have desgined aims to finds the shortest distance from one point to another. 26
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Image: Proposed Generated Massing
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9 000 Dwellings Min Height: 10m Max Height: 62m
9 000 Dwellings Min Height: 16,5m Max Height: 109m
12 000 Dwellings Min Height: 10m Max Height: 62m
12 000 Dwellings Min Height: 16,5m Max Height: 109m
18 500 Dwellings Min Height: 10m Max Height: 62m
20 000 Dwellings
LIMIT
Min Height: 16,5m Max Height: 109m
FUTURE POPULATION GROWTH The simulation shows different outcomes for density if different rules are applied such as for example the height of the massing. This explores future population growth.
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9 000 Dwellings
9 000 Dwellings
Min Height: 6,6m
Min Height: 6,6m
Max Height: 240m
Max Height: 46,2m
12 000 Dwellings
12 000 Dwellings
Min Height: 6,6m
Min Height: 6,6m
Max Height: 240m
Max Height: 46,2m
20 000 Dwellings Min Height: 6,6m
13 500 Dwellings
Max Height: 240m
Min Height: 6,6m Max Height: 46,2m LIMIT
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New Cross
Collyhurst Village
Walkability score
Walkability score
School: 487m
School: 341m
Transport: 773m
Transport: 766m
Public: 631m
Public: 242m
Commercial: 324m
Commercial: 207m
South Collyhurst
Smedley Dip
Walkability score
Walkability score
School: 429m
School: 393m
Transport: 273m
Transport: 570m
Public: 415m
Public: 375m
Commercial: 540m
Commercial: 548m
New Town
Red Bank
Walkability score
Walkability score
School: 561m
School: 1183m
Transport: 608m
Transport: 805m
Public: 280m
Public: 835m
Commercial: 366m
Commercial: 952m
Vauxhall Garden
Northern Gateway
Walkability score
Walkability score
School: 645m
School: 577m
Transport: 196m
Transport: 570m
Public: 87m
Public: 413m
Commercial: 578m
Commercial: 502m
Image: Existing Walking Score The walkabiliy tool measures the avarage distance from residential to amenities in each area of Northern Gateway conclusing with overall score result. 30
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COMMERCIAL
PROPOSED
EXISTING
TRANSPORT
Image: Walkability and Density If we increase the numbers of amenities to increase the walkability of the area, we lose units dwellings and thus in order to keep the unit we have to increase the height of the massing. 31
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Northern Gateway Existing Walkability score School:
577m
Transport:
570m
Public: Commercial:
413m 502m
TOTAL AVARAGE: 515m Density Total Density: 13 105 dwellings Total Area: 1 240 550m2 Built-up area: 755 158m2
EXISTING VERSUS PROPOSED The tool manages to indicate positive walkability and shorter distances from residential to amenities after adding more services. What has been established is that by adding more amenities the density drops due to decreasement in area. 32
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Northern Gateway Proposed Walkability score 577m
School: 420m
Transport: Public: Commercial:
320m 360m
TOTAL AVARAGE: 515m Density Total Density: 12 118 dwellings Total Area: 1 240 550m2 Built-up area: 455 207m2
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Existing School Avarage: 323m
Existing Transport Hub Avarage: 736m
Additional School Avarage: 220m
Additional Transport Hub Avarage: 268m
Image: Collyhurst Village Shortest Path These are the before and after results of walkability in Collyhurst Village. We managed to increase the walkability to much more favorable score. 34
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Transport
Residential
Existing Distance: 575m
Residential
Proposed Distance: 311m Transport
Residential
Existing Distance: 627m
Commercial
Residential
Proposed Distance: 438m Commercial
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Low-Rise
Mid-Rise
High-Rise
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Image: Typology Generator
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COLLYHURST VILLAGE OPTIMUM SOLUTION The outcome of our computational tool resulted in walkable and compact design which is cable of sustaining the high population growth in the future.
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SIDEWALK
LANDSCAPE BIKE LANE
2-3M
1-2M
SECONDARY ROAD STREET SECTION Urban design requires working on the public and road spaces. Roads and pavements can be automated on Grasshopper and certain dimenstions can be set.
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1.5M
TRAVEL LANE 4M
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TRAVEL LANE 4M
BIKE LANE LANDSCAPE 1.5M
1-2M
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SIDEWALK
BUILDING SETBACK
2-3M
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LOW-CARBON URBANISATION HIGH DENSITY 12 000 dwellings for the whole neighbourhood in a compact clustering with high walkability score and permeability. The amenities and services increases in proportion to density.
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Image: Public Spaces- Allocation and Design Public spaces are being generated based on simple CA(Cellular Atomata) rules. The urban design intends to create a stronger connection in the overall network. 44
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Image: Transformation of South Collyhurst Increasing density, stimulate walkability and permembility of pedestrian paths.
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EVALUATION CONCLUSION 46
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URBAN TOOL WALK ABILIT Y The development of our digital tool manifested in a large masterplan with changeable values on the Northern Gateway site allowing the examination of the direct relationship between density and walkability and the opportunity to compare different proposals. Within our project we compared two masterplans with exact same number of units but different walkability. The existing one appeared to be more sprawled and less sustainable while the proposed one proved to be more sustainable in the long term.
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Image: Walkability Tool The urban tool enables to measure if the area is walkable to different amenities. The tool as well measures densities and it is absolutely regulatable for custom use. 48
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Image: System Rank Each typology indicates a score/rank to each amenity spaces and number of units.
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Image: Walkability The main goal of our urban design of this project was to reinforce walkability and decrease the CO2 emission of the transport sector. 50
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Image: Optimum Score By creating a compact cluster with shorter blocks and more pedestrian paths, our tool showed better score than the existing and the proposed masterplan by Manchester Council. 51
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WALKABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD COMPACTNESS
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Proposed Collyhurst Village Northern Gateway