ANDREW HARRISON
qualified: candidate architect
age: 31 years
email: wonderisons@gmail.com
cellphone: 07367527677
I hope to understand how best to design and combine elements as part of spaces & communities, through every experience with people, materials and systems I have. This to and fro allows me to express myself better through craft, by intricately weaving ideas and the needs of people into practical decisions.
PROFILE
address: 8 Duddle Drive, Longstanton, Cambridge CB24 3UP
uk passport: 525078577
UNDERSTAND DESIGN CRAFT nino: SX322024A
Matriculation Parktown Boys’High: Study & Practicals in 2004 - 2008 (5 years) • 11th of 12 Courses : Industrial Design: Technical Drawing, Carpentry and Steelwork (98% Grade). Bachelor of Witwatersrand: Full Time Study & Practicals in 2009 - 2011 (3 years) Architecture • Courses: Design, Construction, Mathematics, History, Ecology, Furniture & Business Studies. Returned to Witwatersrand: Part Time Study in 2013 - 2014 (12 months) • Degree: Degree completed through revision of Civil Engineering Theory (Applied Maths). Honours in Architecture
PARKTOWN BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND ZULU
AFRIKAANS
Witwatersrand: Full Time Study & Practicals in 2017 (6 months) • Courses: Research, Philosophy & Design (delayed degree completion due financial restraints).
ENGLISH
TRAINING Note
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: The following are particular projects where I gained a comprehensive experience.
Craftsman
CRAFT
2 YEARS
Barker’s Builders: (Cambridge) Subcontracting from 2020 - 2021 (11 months) • 3 House Extensions: Subcontracted as a site operator helping with carpentry and masonry. Diverge Craft: (Peterborough & Cambridge) Self Employment in 2020 (2 months) • Business Refurbishment: Various | Timber & Gyproc walls, door hanging, painting & shed fix. • Home Improvements: Various | Coving, laminate flooring, bathroom tiling and timber cladding. • Painting: Various | Interior & exterior painting of three residential and commercial buildings. Cambridge Joinery: (Cambridge) Temporary Employment in 2020 (2 months) • Bench Joinery: Over | Manufacture, assembling 4 timber panel and 6 panel glazed doors. E.E. Smith Contracts: (Leicester & London) Agency Worker from 2019 - 2020 (9 months) • Bench Joinery: Battersea Power Station | Sanding, door frames and heated cabinet doors. Wing Hall Camping & Cafe: (Rutland) Temporary Employee in 2019 (2 months) • Porch Repair: Wing Hall Estate Mansion| Structure & pediment sanding, repair and repainting. • Kitchen & Farm Work: Cafe/Pub| Work in the kitchen, waiting, estate upkeep and farmwork. ARCHITECTURE 7 YEARS
Architectural Diverge Architecture: (Johannesburg) Freelanced in 2013, 2014, 2018 - 2019 (8 months) Freelancer • Lodge Proposal: Magaliesburg | As-Built, sketch design, rendered animations and layouts. • Mobile Home Self Build: Private Project | Research, Sketch/Revit detail design and pitches. • Lengoram Compact House: Kenya | 2 phased house, system research, layouts and renders. • Nomad Travel Bag: Private Project |Market research, detail drawings and fabric prototypes. • Abass Renderings: Fordsburg |Sketchup V-ray renders of various residential house layouts. Candidate Architect
Creative Axis Architects: (Johannesburg) Employee in 2018 (10 months) • E.R.W.A.T HQ: Rand Water, Gauteng | Revit based design, layouts and shopfitting drawings. • Wembley Flat: Wembley, London| Research, Revit/Twinmotion animation and layout design. Nico van der Meulen Architects: (Johannesburg) Contractor from 2017 - 2018 (6 months) • Confidential Projects: Africa | House Designs, Revit modelling, detailing and working drawings. Cyberdraft A & PM: (Johannesburg) Contractor from 2014 - 2017 (36 months) • Anglo American High-Rise: Marshalltown | Multi-Floor office design, drawings and inspection. • Anglo American Laboratory: Marshalltown | AutoCad esign, draw and project management.
Contractor from 2013 - 2015 (16 months) Architectural Vicente Architects: (Johannesburg) • Mining Office & Factory: Botswana| Sketchup modelling, layout, renders and detail drawings. Student Osmond Lange Architects: (Johannesburg) Contractor from 2011 - 2012 (8 months) • Lodge/Camp Site: Botswana | Sketchup modelling, design, layout, views and detail drawings.
EXPERIENCE
Full Scope of Architectural Works ISO Standards and Methodology Industrial Design: Timber, Steel, Masonry Free Hand Sketch Drawings Publishing, Media & Infographics Minutes for Meetings Residential, Commercial Projects Hospitality, Client and Contractor Liasson Site Inspection Business Administration & Directing On Site Building Experience
SAISC Structural Steel Award at Witwatersrand University
Industrial Design Valedictory Awards at Parktown Boys’ High (2 x)
Microsoft Operating System Autodesk Suite Programs Sketchup & V-Ray Rendering Revit AutoCad Photoshop, Illustrator & Indesign Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint Building Woodwork Steelwork
PROFICIENCY B iking
INTERESTS
hiking
woodwork
Literature
DRAW I N G