Ben Carpenter- Application Portfolio (MArch Bartlett)

ARCHITECTURAL

CONTENTS

academic

+ additional projects

+ Modular housing Aylesham

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

selected projects:

+ Modular housing Aylesham

+ Deployable whistle-blower pod

+ Budapest protest centre

additional projects:

MODULAR HOUSING AYLESHAM

Project type: Academic (Residential)

Project Duration: 2018

Project Location: Aylesham, Kent

The project brief was to design a housing development in Aylesham that would house a set number of people and enhance to wider existing community. I chose to adopt the precedent of Walter Segals self-build neighbourhood in London. The idea was that this method of construction would help to integrate the new wave of commuter type residents with the existing residents (mainly miners from the old colliery) during the building process. An idea that began on a visit to the site when talking to local residents that made it clear that there was a strange social divide and a secularism to both communities. This style of building would also allow for flexibility of space allowing the homes to adapt to the needs of the families as well as their aesthetic choices. Exploration of this idea can been seen in both exploded axonometrics.

As well as providing housing the project also aimed to create a series of social spaces for all ages to help re-invigorate the small town. These included various parks for different age ranges, allotments, a visitor centre and a pub that doubles as a community tool shed and features a german beer garden.

The development also strives for self-sustainability by adopting several eco-friendly technologies such as:

-anaerobic digesters (cooking gas)

-kinetic pathways (electricity)

-solar panelled roofing

-ground source heat pumps

As well as sheep field to provide eco-friendly wool insulation and a hemp field and processing centre to create hempcrete on site. Hopefully the idea of building towards a cleaner and greener future will be another catalyst in the intermingling of residents, as they push together to build the community of the future.

DEPLOYABLE WHISTLE-BLOWER POD

Project type: Academic (Deployable)

Project Date: 2018

Project Location: London, Deployable

The Whistle-blower pod is a deployable tent structure that provides protection from multiple forms of surveillance. It has been designed for activists like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange who require protection from both visual and digital identification and need to evade CCTV and digital surveillance programmes. These surveillance methods infringe on the human right to privacy and freedom of expression and this deployable pod allows the user to find relief from this oppression by creating a digital vacuum by using a fabric integrated with Faraday mesh. This blocks all incoming wireless signals, protecting any information the activist may be storing. The pod can be deployed almost anywhere in such a way that it lifts the activist up above the view of the public and can be quickly packed away and repositioned. The pod caters to all of the activists daily needs providing a place to sleep, wash, cook and work. It can be both assembled and dissembled without any assistance and allows the activist the ability to change location regularly and quickly.

During this project I explored various ways of accessing electricity without the need for carrying large solar panels or a wind turbine. You can see below an info-graphic detailing how to steal electricity from the grid. This project explores the idea of pragmatic minimalism and questions exactly what it is that we need to survive.

BUDAPEST PROTEST CENTRE

Project type: Academic (Public)

Project Date: 2019

Project Location: Budapest, Hungary

This project explored the links between debate and protest, designing a building that encouraged conversation, and careful strategic integration between political groups in Hungary with the aim of recentralisation through conversation. During demonstrations in 2019, Hungarian resident were expressing their concern with the fall of democracy within their country. Politi cal tension between the left and right wings was at an all time high and police were beginning to clamp down on protests.

This project aims to provide a safe space to protest, the building is laid out in such a way as to provide a variety of both shared and separate spaces for people of either political orientation. This has been done in the hope to ensure that all people have their own space to occupy and organize but also provides space for people to come together and discuss. The most separated spaces that will likely be occupied by the most radical of either party are linked by aerial walkways that extend between buildings. The flow between spaces has been designed to direct people across these walkways between their own spaces allowing for interaction s between political groups and opposed activists while enforcing physical separation.

The entire centre is designed around the idea of promoting discourse and protecting the right to protest. The building is littere d with debate halls and conversation spaces and surrounded by concrete soap box platforms. Throughout the project the opposing viewpoints and level of radicalization of individuals is shown by the red-blue spectrum in the drawings.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

selected projects:

+ Capel manor courtyard

+ Ancona

+ 1-4 GT tower street

+ Manor Drive

+ Liberty Farm

+ The Vinorium

+ Boys Hall restaurant

additional projects:

Westview Cottage (Dungeness) - Hollaway Studio

Dewhurst Barn (Wadhurst, Kent) - Hollaway Studio

Bukoora School Project (Kabale, Uganda) - Independent Project

CAPEL MANOR COURTYARD

Project type: Professional (Residential)

Project Duration: 2021-2022

Company: Hollaway Studio

Project Location: Horsmonden, Kent

Involveme nt: Major design involvement, planning drawings, complete model creation, complete visualisation creation

This project is a Paragraph 80 dwelling adjacent to the modernist Capel Manor House by Michael Manser. We have identified the two adjacent pavilions as the key defining elements for the site which sets a clear direction for the design. Our design in centred around sustainability and materiality. It aims to provide and display an in-depth exploration of the qualities and capabilities of crosslaminated timber, a new sustainable material. The proposal also features a variety of sustainable technologies including solar panels and GSHP.

This project is a new house on an amazing site in Hythe overlooking the channel, the design was inspired by art-deco style beach posters from the area as well as the adjacent cliffs. The thin white bricks paired with the curving form of the building seeks to emulate the aesthetic of the striking chalk cliffs along the coast. The building is set out so as to capitalize on the amazing long views both down the coast and out to sea. The playful shapes and proportions throughout the design show a contemporary take on the art-deco aesthetic.

Project type: Professional (Residential)

Project Duration: 2019-2020

Company: Hollaway Studio

Project Location: Hythe, Kent

Involveme nt: Major design involvement, complete model creation, visualisation creation

DOUBLE SKIN FACADE DIAGRAM

1-4 GT TOWER ST

Project type: Professional (Commercial)

Project Duration: 2022

Company: Hollaway Studio

Project Location: London

Involveme nt: Major design involvement, model creation, complete visualisation creation

1-4 GT Tower street is a proposal for a 30 storey office tower with commercial unit at ground floor and public mid level terrace. The project aims to utilise several new sustainable systems within the building including an energy efficient double skin facade with integrated external PV cells.

SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS DIAGRAMS

MODEL PHOTOS

MANOR DRIVE

Project type: Professional (Residential)

Project Date: 2022

Company: Hollaway Studio

Project Location: Hartley, Kent

Involveme nt: Major design involvement, planning drawing assistance, complete model creation, complete visualisation creation

Paragraph 80 of the National Planning Policy Framework sets out the criteria to be met when designing new isolated rural dwellings. It states that the design should be sensitive to the defining characteristics of the area and of outstanding architectural quality. Within Hartley woods, there are accounts as far back as 1613 recalling tenants such as Richard Stephens, a charcoal maker, coppicing and burning trees from the wood to make charcoal. This site history has provided the base inspiration for this design, especially the materiality. The building is designed so as to maximise the views of the ancient woodland at the bottom of the site whilst creating a minimal visual impact for the neighbouring properties. The ground wraps up and over the dwelling from the rear masking the initial approach to the building as you’re led through the woodland by the sculptural landscape scars inspired by Richard Serra. You enter through the central split in the landscaped roof revealing the beautiful curving forms of the charcoal facade.

LIBERTY FARM

Project type: Professional (Residential)

Project Date: 2020-2023

Company: Hollaway Studio

Project Location: Kent Downs

Involveme nt: Major design involvement, planning drawing assistance, complete model creation, complete visualisation creation

Liberty Farm is another Paragraph 80 project that sits within the Kent Downs AONB. It features an entirely off the grid energy centre and aims to be the first entirely hydrogen powered house in the UK. The house will fold into and out of the landscape, terracing down the hillside concealing inside and outside spaces including external dining areas, a pool and generous living spaces. The walls will be constructed from rammed chalk excavated from the site, with concrete use kept to a minimum. Timber louvres and deep recesses shield the windows from excessive solar gains whilst mitigating any night-time light spill from the windows into the sensitive landscape. The building will be almost invisible from the Kent downs way that runs along the top of the site and from below the undulating form mimics the chalk scarrations that occur naturally in the area.

THE VINORIUM

Project type: Professional (Commercial)

Project Date: 2019-2022

Company: Hollaway Studio

Project Location: Ashford, Kent

Involveme nt: Tender drawing assistance, revit model adjustment, site section drawing, visualisation amendments

The proposed new headquarters for kent based wine merchants which will provide a better bespoke space for Vinorium’s operations and its small but growing workforce. Inspired by the principles of a hyperbolic paraboloid roof, an existing agricultural barn will be replaced with an energy-efficient folding concrete building, providing for the outfit’s office, cellar and a tasting room needs.