Jones, James

JAMES OWEN JONES Liverpool School of Art and Design B A ( H o n s ) A r c h i t e c t u r e | 2 0 2 0

JAMES

OWEN

JONES Lagowain@gmail.com

ABOUT ME I am a hard-working, creative individual, focused at doing my very best to succeed in any given task. My main fundamentals for life are a strong work ethic, being able to perform well in any situation under pressure, whilst also being adaptable and flexible to situational changes.

I am a competitive and eager learner, with my previous achievements including placing 2nd in Wales and 5th in the UK for Graphic Design. Another achievement is in Jiu-Jitsu, where I have competed at national level and was awarded two silver medals in the Mens 71-74kg category. These events have taught me that a person can be great on their own, but even better with a team behind them.

CONTENTS BA YEAR 3 SEMESTER 2: COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN PROJECT | ASSEMBLE CITY

4-20

BA YEAR 3 SEMESTER 1: WEATHER OF NOT | THE SCAR

21-30

BA YEAR 2 SEMESTER 1: URBAN DESIGN | CHASE THE LIGHT 31-38

BA YEAR 1 SEMESTER 2: A PLACE FOR CRAFTING | THE CHASM 39-46

CURRICULUM VITAE 47-48

ASSEMBLE CITY C D P

P R O J E C T

TYPE: FUTURE MIXED USE/RESIDENTIAL SITE: MOORFIELDS, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND

3 | ASSEMBLE CITY INTRODUCTION

THE CONVERGENCE OF PAST AND PRESENT DEMONSTRATED THROUGH LAYERING

ASSEMBLE CITY INTRODUCTION | 4

01. ASSEMBLE CITY “Study the past if you would define the future”- Confucius

This project introduces a city within a city capable of sustaining life, influenced by the past to create a community-centered future.

The history of the site reveals the multiple roles and ambitions that many different scales and types of building here have provided to the city, from tight knit inter-weaving alleyways to the contemporary design of the Tempest building. This project draws out it’s history to create a dense and complex matrix of multiple activities, colliding together in response to the needs of the contemporary world.

This scheme consists of rebuilding what history has forgotten through interpretative design. The lost functions inspiring the program, maintain what history has given by retaining the facades of existing buildings, developing the public realm and lifting the building above ground opening up new urban areas. Re-purposing existing buildings already present reconnect the site to its local context and history, with re-imagining the layers of fabric found within the site over the years.

5 | MANIFESTO

The site had many historical references still present on the site that should be preserved at all costs. The Lion Tavern is a prime example that proudly sits on the site, surviving 180 years of contextual change. The historical overlays of the site on the right, highlighting the demolished buildings and lost opportunities the area has faced over the years, transforming from a closeknit community, vital to the surrounding area, to a derelict car parking site.

Below sits the grids created from the context, with the forgotten programs recreating the grid to fulfill their function.

Initial Grid from Context

Completed Grid from Faรงades

Penthouse

Adaptable performance space

Cinema

Sports

Office Spaces

Storage

Residential

Senior

Pool

Leisure Shopping

PROCESS | 6

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1890 Figure Ground Map

1950 Figure Ground Map

1980 Figure Ground Map

7 | PROGRAM CONCEPT

The grid of functions becomes stacked and intertwined with modern technology. The bottom orange square is the height of the surrounding context, with the top orange square demonstrating the joining of past and present, merging older contextual facades with newer modern technology.

CONCEPT ELEVATION | 8

THE SITE ELEVATIONS DEMONSTRATE THE CHANGES IN CONCEPT FROM HIGH RISE TO INFILL LAND-SCRAPER

9 | ASSEMBLE CITY COMPONENTS

The steel frame is the primary structure that holds all of the building’s components together.

The circulation inside the building is inspired by the original alleyways that used to exist on the site.

The initiative of the circulation was to emulate the hectic urban experience while keeping hierarchy of program and visitor navigation intuitive and clear.

The pipes inside the building run in threes through the middle of the circulation paths, making sure that they are never disturbed, with pod connections on each path side.

The main pipes then connect into the pod’s life support system through sets of smaller pipes. The main pipes include a soil pipe, a water pipe and electrical cable.

ASSEMBLE CITY COMPONENTS | 10

The pods are broken down into 3 main types. Module 1 is colour coded dark grey, with Module 2 being light orange, Module 3 light grey and Independent Modules, mainly used for leisure purposes, being beige. This is further explained in the environmental section of this project. As they are all modular, each pod can fit onto a HGV Truck.

In this diagram, we can see the full building stitched together, demonstrating how it can be produced from lost functions, reusing the urban fabric whilst effortlessly merging with contemporary modern technology.

Material Palette - Orange Galvanized metal, steel mesh, copper pipes and CLT.

11 | STREET SCENE

Street scape visual

The view from Bixteth Street showing the plaza space that the building cantilevers over. The facade of the building, a steel mesh allows plants to grow up the facade, creates a natural green wall, bringing life back to the previously derelict site.

STREET SCENE | 12 The building floats above, not to disturb the existing context but instead protect it. The internal view shows the residential/leisure area of the building, with green space vertically rising through the steel frame.

The pipes visible in the structural system, with the pods seamlessly integrated into the frame, are altogether connected by the walkway.

Internal street visual

13 | AERIAL VIEW

ELEVATIONS | 14

ELEVATIONS By merging these programs we acquire a unique multi-layered architectural identity, each function in unity, providing the area with what it had once lost.

15 | PLANS

Ground Floor Plan

Top Floor Plan

The ground floor plaza space is shown above, with connections to Moorfields Station and the City of Liverpool. There are 3 concierge offices with bike sheds, security lobbies and access to the floors above. Highlighted in the second plan, the top floor has many different features, including 3 pathways that are split into Residential/office, Leisure and Residential/office. This relates back to the urban fabric of 1890-1950 with the alleyways that would of previously existed. On the right is a section cutting through the building, demonstrating how the building’s plaza space interacts with Moorfields station and the layering of functions work inside of a single steel frame.

BUILDING SECTION | 16

17 | TECHNOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL & STRUCTURAL The building is conceived as a mixed-use amalgamation of small and medium sized pods.

The structural concept for the building has been developed for ease of construction and cost.

The steel frame system is implemented to contain the modular pods. Each of the pods have a life support system built in, which connect to the main system of pipes.

Vent-Axia ventilation systems are built in to allow for natural ventilation. As the pods aren’t that long in length, the sunlight illuminates the

pods throughout most of the day.

On the right is a visual illustrating the gantry crane lifting up a module 1 pod off a HGV truck into the structure. Beneath is the clip designed to allow for an easy installation of the pods once they’re placed inside the structure.

STRUCTURAL CONCEPT | 18

19 | TECHNOLOGY

Photo Voltaic solar panel, powering the building

Solar Water Heater Water pipe, connecting hot water from solar water heater

Internal life support system - Boiler, Electrical systems, mains, etc.

A smaller pipe system connecting to the main pipes, creating the pod’s life support system.

Mesh steel walkways connected to the secondary galvanized steel frame structure. The mesh allows light to pass down into the deeper levels of the plan.

Galvanized steel secondary support structure with pipe holders.

TECHNOLOGY | 20

Vent-Axia 300mm air to air heat exchanger, a low energy solution to heat the pods.

Aluminium cable tray connected to secondary support frame, holding aluminium sleeved electrical cable.

Galvanized steel primary structure.

CLT pod ventilation flap.

The Pods are made out of cross laminated timber, for fast modular installation, good thermal performance and energy efficiency. It is also a relatively cheap material with effective fire resistance and acoustic performance.

The steel fixing plate slots into the CLT pod above and is used in the process of fixing the pod to the galvanized steel frame.

Bespoke Clamps

Soil pipe

Aluminium sleeved electrical cable.

Copper water pipe

THE SCAR

THIRD YEAR FIRST SEMESTER TYPE: RESIDENTIAL/REHABILITATION FACILITY SITE: HEBDEN BRIDGE, WEST YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND

23 | INTRODUCTION

THE SCARRING OF THE LANDSCAPE REBIRTHS INTO A REHABILITATION CENTER

INTRODUCTION | 24

02. THE SCAR “The wound is the place where the light enters you” - Rumi

“The Scar”’s main concept came from the initial scaring left on the landscape at Hebden Bridge.

The building promotes the idea of rehabilitation, aimed at giving hope and inspiration, demonstrating how something beautiful can be created from a scar. By making cuts in the landscape of the man-made waste, shelter can be provided to allow nature to regrow and reclaim these previously uninhabitable areas. Eventually nature will overtake the building, and re-introduce the original micro-climate that was once a part of the hill before it became a waste site.

25 | CONCEPT

THE SCAR Located on a hill close to Hebden Bridge, scarring has damaged it’s fragile ecology due to the land being used as a quarry infill site.

As a place in great need for revival, the context and concept coalesce and form “The Scar”, a building built inside the scarred landscape, where people can realise their potential and rehabilitate themselves. The hill itself allows unconfined aerial view of the valleys for visitors, yet minimizing impact on the site.

MODEL PROGRESSION | 26

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

CONCEPT MODELS

27 | MATERIALS

ENVIRONMENTAL & STRUCTURAL

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The context of the site influenced the material palette, using rammed earth and the waste stone of the quarry site as an aggregate.

STRUCTURAL STRATEGY | 28

Structural Diagram

29 | PLANS

The subterranean ground floor of the building consists of therapy rooms, rehabilitation studios, one to one consultation rooms and a canteen. The horizontal axis all give stunning, direct views over the Hebden Bridge through the circulation corridors and atrium.

PLANS | 30

The first floor focuses on residential patient care, giving each patient a dorm to stay in, with an aerial view of Hebden Bridge. It also contains two Doctor suites for in-house Doctors and access to the gardens/ farming area.

CHASE THE LIGHT U R B A N

D E S I G N

TYPE: MIXED USE PLAZA SPACE SITE: FABRIC DISTRICT, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND

33 | INTRODUCTION

REVIVING A FORGOTTEN AREA OF LIVERPOOL’S FABRIC DISTRICT.

INTRODUCTION | 34

02. CHASE THE LIGHT Liverpool’s fabric district is in dire need of revival, with this project focusing on providing a new urban landscape for students, residents and workers to contemplate, socialise and grow in.

35 | PROCESS

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT The plaza space was created from different contextual findings. Firstly, the primary routes of circulation were mapped, followed by the sun path.

Most illuminated spaces were mapped and a grid was finally created from residents and shop windows, to allow people to have their own personal view of a garden space.

The developed drawings feature circulation and viewing references, underneath are threshold changes featured inside of the plaza.

PROCESS | 36

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AS THE PLAN IS BASED OFF THE CONTEXTS WINDOWS FORMING A GRID, EVERYONE GETS THEIR OWN LITTLE VIEWPOINT

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37 | TECHNOLOGY

URBAN PLAZA Beneath shows the visualisation of the spaces mentioned on the previous page. The first image featured is the individual garden spaces created for residents. The second is views out of shop windows, with concrete level changes doubling up as urban seating solutions, whilst also able to be used as planters for vegetables or flowers. Below, a man is using a level change to pluck apples from an apple tree planted at the bottom level. Across is an urban forest created for community barbeque’s and/or cinema screenings.

On the right is what the plan looks like visualised, showing the different materials the site uses and where individual planting zones are. The change of thresholds and levels are visible here also. Water is used as a gate mechanism, to notify people when they are entering a new threshold. All of the water collected is circulated around the site and distributed to the plants.

PROCESS | 38

THE CHASM F I R S T

Y E A R

TYPE: WATCHMAKERS/RESIDENTIAL SITE: PRINCES PARADE, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND

P R O J E C T

41 | CONCEPT INTRODUCTION

THE VIEW FROM WITHIN THE CHASM RE-LINKING MAN WITH TIME AND THE UNIVERSE

CONCEPT INTRODUCTION | 42

03. THE CHASM

The main concept for “The Chasm” was to reconnect man to time and space. A place for crafting was set around a watchmakers factory, built with the intention of synchronizing views and moments of space, altogether within one building.

43 | PROCESS

These sketches demonstrate the process of designing. The chasm walls are tilted to allow for sunlight to enter at different times of the year. When the wall and sun become aligned, a unique effect is created of a lightcovered wall. The concept is centred around the contextual vistas and the buildings leading lines, with each segment of the building being aligned (in one way or another) to a landmark or a location of stars.

PROCESS | 44

North view of the docks

West View of the Ferry

SSE view of the Liver Building

45 | VISUALS

Textured concrete has been used to implement leading lines to specific vistas, as to ensure the view is framed (Example of the two visuals).

Bridges outside connecting to the building allow for easy circulation to the different levels offered. This concept is based around framing a certain moment in time, like a polariod picture.

VISUALS AND PLANS | 46

PLANS

The Watchmakers Factory completes the concept as the initial sketches look like the faces and pieces of a watch being assembled in an abstract way. After the user has visited and explored the process of how a watch is created, the journey ends at the sky deck where the human stands and reconnects to the stars above them, experiencing a transcendent Godlike moment of reconnection to the earth and the universe.

47 | CURRICULUM VITAE

Phone

+44 (0) 7568 074 858

Email

lagowain@gmail.com

Address

Broad Oak, 94 Dean Road, Wrexham, LL13 9EL

Work Experience

Achievements

Formby Surveys (Summer 2019-Present) I worked as part of the CAD team, using a variety of programs, including Auto-cad and Google Sketchup. I worked on many commercial and residential projects, for a wide range of clients, from Odeon to multiple architectural firms.

2nd in Wales for Graphic Design (World Skills) 2016

This included working with point clouds to produce floor plans, elevations, topographical surveys and 3D models. I was also involved with site meetings and attended client meetings.

Overall, I learned a great amount through my time at Formby Surveys, from creating reports based off surveys, to manipulating a point cloud and produce detailed plans and elevations.

Social Co (Summer 2017) During the summer of 2017, I worked for Social Co. creating online content.

I followed racing driver Seb Morris during his GT3 race days and produced the majority of his videos for sponsors and social media,, this included highlight reels and end of year videos. I have also produced adverts for Sure Care, Estate Agents, Vape Shops and Car Dealerships, helping to sell their products.

I think this experience gave me a greater understanding of selling an idea or concept, as well as working together with the client, taking on projects and creating the content that they wanted. Translating their conceptual ideas into a high-quality end product.

Top 5 in United Kingdom Graphic Design (World Skills) 2016 Featured in LJMU Architecture Catalogue 2019 Liverpool Architecture Society Council Member 2019 LJMU Jiu-Jitsu Treasurer 2019-2020 Full driving Licence/Own my Vehicle 2017-Present

Education Liverpool John Moores •Ba Architecture (Expected First) College •As Graphic Design (A) •Level 3 Art and Design (Pass) •Level 3 / 4 Foundation Art (Distinction)

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Leisure Time

Software

Architecture is definitely my passion.

When not working on a project or studying, I love travel and photography, especially if I get an opportunity to visit an area of outstanding architecture. I recently went to Barcelona and studied Gaudi’s architecture.

Adobe Photoshop

Social media, graphic design and filming are still really important to me, especially after spending time in the World Skills competition, I liked the competitive atmosphere of it, and loved the pressure to produce a finished product on time.

Google Sketchup

Jiu Jitsu is a hobby that I have taken up since starting at university and I am a keen member of the LJMU Jiu-Jitsu club.

I recently competed in Nationals and won two silver medals in the mens 71-74kg category. I am also the clubs treasurer and currently working my way through the belts. This hobby has taught me discipline and consistency can get you to where you want to be.

Adobe InDesign Adobe Premier Pro Adobe Illustrator

Auto-cad Architecture Revit Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Lumion

References Gladys Martinez (First Year Tutor) Email: gmaseym@yahoo.co.uk Phone: +44 (0) 7910 445 228 John Ormesher (Formby Surveys) Email: John@formbysurveys.com Phone: +44 (0) 7837 413 250