Stevenson, Tom

Tom Stevenson 2021 Portfolio BA(hons) Architecture Liverpool John Moores University

Contents About Me I am currently in 3rd Year studying Architecture at Liverpool John Moores University

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BA Year 3 semester 1 Making The City Work

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BA Year 3 semester 1 Weather Or Not

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BA Year 2 semester 2 Experimental design

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BA Year 2 semester 1 Urban design

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BA Year 1 semester 2 A Place Of Craft

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There is a clear problem arising within the workplace structure and it is starting to cause an exponential divide within society. The Future Cities must accommodate this dilemma. Every member of society is as important as any other, so providing for all is a key part of sustainable cities.

The Digital Divide is real and the overarching concept of this project is to ‘break the formalities’ and bridge the exponential divide. The project takes a pragmatic approach to develop the community while generating opportunities for people who may have been deprived due to the increasing digital divide.

BA Year 3 Semester 2: Making The City Work:

This will be done by providing an interactive ‘build a business’ programme and schemes to offer users with the facilities and knowledge to kick-start their own careers.

There will be workshops, classrooms, auditoriums and social learning spaces so people can be taught the basics of how to run a business. There will then be private offices were people can have the space and facilities to set up and run their own business. This will be provided with the addition of mentors guidance, progressively becoming more independent as they work through the building.

Bridging The Divide

The project will aim to provide a exciting public building focusing on community and environmental sustainability.

This will aim to revitalise the area surrounding it with the future redevelopment in the area becoming a big focus.

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Concept and Massing Development

To try and counteract the digital divide which is occurring and “Bridge the Divide”, this will be done by providing a programmatic concept and a design iteration concept. This is a sketched image and a model with the intention to bring separate entities together and Bridge the Divide between them. The massing study looks at how we can divide the space up, representing the digital divide and then how we can go on to link these spaces together.

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1 - Divide

3 - Break Formalities

2 - Extrude

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Visualisations and Elevation

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Visualisations and Perspective Section

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Exploded Interior Axonometric and Visualisation

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Exploded Structural Axonometric and Axonometric

The images on the left is an exploded structural axonometric. This highlights the key components of the structure and how these come together to provide the stability needed.

The diagram on the right is an overall structural axonometric.

This is clearly showing the use of brick walls with arches on the facade with a glulam frame interior. The stability of the walls with the frame is strengthened with the addition of metal tie rod cross bracing in the frame structure. This shows how all the separate elements come together to form the building.

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‘We are facing the biggest environmental challenge our species has ever faced’.

Climate change is an ever prominent issue which we have to tackle. Architecture is one of the leading industries for global warming contributions and consequently should be focusing intrinsically on designs that reduce emissions and limit the impact on its surrounding environment.

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This building is a Climate Change Education Centre.

It contains a laboratory where workers analyse and research how plants perform when included in architectural design systems. This will inform and educate the profession providing a platform to encourage a sustainable future for Architecture. The building will educate people on climate issues via a series of experiential exhibition spaces while also hosting lectures given by the researchers of climate change, informing and guiding future generations on what we can do to prevent this.

Weather or not: Festival Ecological Centre

The building is located in Liverpool’s Festival Gardens and aims to use the locations characteristics and features when being designed to link the building seamlessly to the surroundings while

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Festival Ecological Centre

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Concept Development

The design concept of this building originated from site analysis. I visited the site and was able to identify the existing trees as silver birch.

I then exploded the features of this particular tree and was intrigued by the trees leaf structure. How could this leaf structure be the fundamental base of this buildings design?

I then used this to develop a massing form which eventually developed into the buildings current design.

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Exploded Interior Axonometric and Perspective Section

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Visualisations

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Structural Connections and Axonometric

The images on the left show the structural connections of different places within the building. The first image shows the connection between the column and beams with the CLT resting on top. The second image shows how the retaining concrete wall will support the Glulam beams.

The third image shows the base connection of the Glulam column and the raft foundation.

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“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

BA Year 2 Semester 2:

The library will be a community hub that provides many events or classes to increase employment, education, and help to boost the community. The strategy of designing a community hub learning centre will create a building that provides social learning spaces as well as individual spaces. By including this variety of space, the hub will offer a unique benefit to the community that will appeal to a larger target audience.

Libraries of the future: Enhancing the Future of Everton

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Enhancing the Future of Everton

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Concept Development

Interior

Exterior

This page shows the concept diagrams which were used for the project. The concept was to create a focal point which all the spaces revolved around.

I then created a programme diagram to highlight how these spaces would sit. This then turned into a mass volume and then developed further.

Social Learning Social and community Groundlevel

Courtyard

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Formal learning

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Floor Plans and Building Visual

Second Floor C B

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First Floor

Ground Floor

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Exploded Interior Axonometric and Perspective Section

This page visualises the interior of the building.

The image on the left is an exploded interior axonometric which shows the interior of all the spaces and all the floors.

The image on the right is a perspective section of the building and highlights both interior and exterior spaces of the design and how this fits into the landscape.

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Axonometric and Visualisations

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Structural Frame

The image on the left is a Exploded Structural Axonometric.

This shows the concrete walls and steel frame with the concrete foundations. The image on the right is a structural model which I created of the building with the frame structure the concrete walls and cross bracing.

It also highlighted the way the termodeck concrete slab would sit on top of it. This model also shows how the building sinks into the landscape.

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BA Year 2 Semester 1: Urban Design Project: Urban Garden

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Concept and Masterplan

The concept of this regeneration project was to encourage people to flow through the area as well as re-establishing vegetation into a urban landscape. After locating a derelict building and old pathway, it allowed for a flow through the site which had been turned into a city garden space. This introduction of pathways encouraged the natural aesthetic to improve the areas sustainability and create pleasant spaces for the workers of the Fabric District.

Key Grass

Surrounding buildings London Plane Tree Water Glass Crushed Brick

Bench Slate Paving

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Bushes Rain Water Tank

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West Facing

Sections

North Facing

South Facing

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Visuals

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BA Year 1 Semester 2 A place of Craft: Brewery

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Structural Frame

The drawing on the left is a structural axonometric demonstrating the use of a steel frame with a concrete base. This highlights the joints of the steel frame and how it sits on the concrete. The image on the right is a perspective section of the breweries bar which is a double height space allowing views into the brewing production where the malt is grind up by the use of a wind turbine.

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Exploded Structural Axonometric and Structural Model

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Contact Details Tom Stevenson Mobile: 07712539833 Personal Email: t.f.stevenson56@gmail.com

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