CAMERON ALEX SMITH
portfolio
P | 01 Community + Wellbeing Centre
P | 02 Student Accommodation
P | 03 RSPB Visitor Centre + Arts Base
TABLE OF CONTENTS P | 04 Crawford Art Gallery
P | 05 Live / Work Studio
P | 06 Humaniities series
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about
Cameron Alex Smith
A fresh graduate from the University of Dundee. Being a highly organised and efficient individual whose committed and precise approach to projects has yielded excellent results. A highly ambitious designer with hopes of improving urban issues through keen design. I truly believe in designing structures that are in harmony with humanity and the environment. With my work being there to offer a statement on style while still thinking about the natural environment. I am particularly interested in sustainability within building design, and when projects feature a sensitive and challenging context, those are met with great anticipation and I find to be the most engaging. With materiality, depth and purpose being that which I strive to express in my work. Currently seeking work for the role of an RIBA Part 1 Architectural Assistant. I appreciate you taking the time to peruse my portfolio, feel free to contact me via my information at the back of the booklet if you have any questions, or any potential work oppourtunity, thank you. Best Regards, Cameron Alex Smith
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COMMUNITY + WELLBEING CENTRE
site plan
diagrammatic storyboard
location plan
Year 3 | Constructing + Conceiving Architecture
Perth Road, Dundee and its surrounding area has always featured a vibrant cultural scene. Frequented by the local residents, university students and visitors travelling from afar. As an up and coming dynamic city the opportunity is there to further enrich that experience, with a focus on strong well-being and community. By taking the sites strong material texture and unique existing contextual features, and integrating an intention supporting that rich fabric. This new facility will support community engagement, complemented by offering a range of activities, in flexible soundproofed, breathable spaces, essential for the well-being of those in use. Replacing the old and changing it for the future. With the intention to act as a focal point for the local residents and wider community, the spaces on offer are designed with flexibility and ease of use in mind. With quality and richness in texture, the spaces are intended to be entirely flexible, enticing the public to frequent the building, throughout the day.
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exterior realisation
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interior study | main hall
day + night | realisations
design intention | an sgoil (the school) “where people can dance, eat, drink and enjoy cultural offerings at any time of the day.”
A club, restaurant, gallery, indoor sport facilities, gym + wellness centre, and community gathering point situated in a redeveloped garage. With the intent of being in constant flux, organising, curating, planning new events weekly and collaborating with surrounding organisations in the broader community. long events realise the venue’s dream to be a space, it’s important that dundee remains a home to projects which support the city’s art scenes.
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exterior realisation - night
STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
Montreathmont, Brechin
Corrie Fee, Glen Doll, Cairngorms
Kinnoull Hill, Perth
Year 3 | Urban Theory, Analysis + Design
With this project the aim to play on contrasts and enclosure is paramount. With a surrounding forest garden providing a tranquil breathing space away from the hubbub of speed and time. The garden offers an evident contrast between the frenetic, rhythm of the surrounding area and the timeless quality it represents. Folded in on itself, serene and peaceful, it prepares the visitor. The garden is transformed, simple and ‘wild’ allowing the discovery of informal woods. The cupola of the tree canopy creates a clean and fresh atmosphere of light whilst simultaneously nuancing the perception of the buildings. The project consists in construction new buildings and a path network linking them - as a whole - will form a courtyard paved with stones. This will be the main public realm to the overall masterplan.
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exterior realisation
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fire escape strategy
circulation
public / private
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level 0
Contextual masterplan, with main accommodation. level 1
level 2
level 3
level 4
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cross wynd section
science building section
contextual section
south-east façade
exterior realisations
Gannochy, Edzell
Wood appears copiously on window frames, staircases and between the buildings, Outside, the lime mortar which blends with the stonework merges with the exposed concrete of the buildings. The façade then becomes a collage of textures, niches and coverings which reflect the different ups-and-downs of the building throughout time.
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west elevation
south-east elevation
south elevation
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Top floor gallery, with view over River Tay.
RSPB VISITOR CENTRE + ARTS BASE
exterior realisations
Year 2 | Integrated Design: Typology + Techtonics
Responding to an area of natural beauty and geological significance requires a sensitive yet robust approach, due to the harsh atmospheric conditions of Scottish weather. Creating simple shelters with a sense of solidity, density and permanence. Resist of form formal integration & do not articulate their form to respond to the landscape. Instead are embedded via their spatial and geological relationships. The design takes cues from characteristics of the site and surrounds, such as the marsh and forestry, and stone buildings local to the area. It encourages visitors to look around, to explore, and take the time engaging with the place. This single-storey visitor centre juts out from the hillside, with its entrance wrapped in timber and grass continued up its gently sloped roof, contrasting with the paved stone walkway. Interconnected pavilions built around the circulation show a route through and around the building. As the site slopes downward, the building’s roof angles up to culminate in a doubleheight space with a timber-topped canopy in front. The building’s shape, stonework, and grassy roof are all intended to help it dissolve into the landscape. The project reflects a contemporary approach to integrating a new structure into a sensitive location.
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entrance realisation
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site plan
location plan
contextual plan
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floor plan + room list
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north section
south elevation
contextual sections
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interior realisations
sectional realisation 32 | Cameron Alex Smith
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exterior realisation
CRAWFORD ARTS GALLERY
diagrammatic floor system
Year 2 | Architectural Technology: Envelope + Environment
The project around the concepts of solid + void, from exploring the character of spaces by articulation and the projection of forms. This gallery is an immediate intervention into the existing fabric of the Crawford building at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. Two concrete walls along the length of the proposal act as buttress to which the upper floors can be projected and cantilever. Each level or ‘room’ was developed to be flexible and allow different Art disciplines within the University to display and showcase their work. The facades to either end is of a perforated copper sheeting mesh, acting to diffuse light and creating differing light levels for each floor. The front is taken from the tree line in front of Crawford building. Whereas to the rear it incorporates Jacquard loom punch cards, referencing towards Dundee’s industrial heritage and past.
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sectional realisation
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level 2
level 1
level 0
rendered floor plans
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exterior streetscape renders
level 3 skylight gallery
level 2 gallery
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front elevation detail
rear section + elevation detail
front contextual elevation
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level 1 entrance gallery
LIVE / WORK STUDIO
model elevations
Year 1 | Integrated Design
The journey from a lump of clay to a piece of artisan ceramic has many steps, with different factors and considerations to be made to ensure a high quality piece is created, the same idea can translate to the design of an architectural space. The design scheme requires two main features, a space for the artist to work, with additional living area, in the context of Arbroath’s town centre. Investigation into the crafts processes and any other activity are of great necessity, needing great effert to accommodate those requirements. Occupying the footprint on a corner site edge, between two-storey blocks either side. The design revolves around two main floors, with a ‘tower’ projecting over the double-height entrance. Integration of the design into the location is vital, due to the nature of Arbroath it’s important to use materials from the local area. The facade will be one continuous element with brickwork, detailed in the datum lines procured from he existing stonewall on site. Additionally with insteps into the wall to reference the scape in which the building sits. The relationships of each space have been brought forth with the investigation into the ceramic process, and field of work that is to be considered around it. Designed to fit into the surrounding context of the area, while standing out at the same time. Proving reference to what was once on the site, but replacing what is here, with a new identity of what is now. With a continuation of the urban block setting, but articulating its elegance and own image, helping to developing a connection between the proposal and the street edge.
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WARD
POTTERS WHEEL 1m ACTIVITY SPACE
BISQUE FIRING KILN
1m ACTIVITY SPACE
1m ACTIVITY SPACE
GAS KILN OV
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DW
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WM
DR
elevation
section
floor plans
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plaster cast model
final model day / night compositions
sketch storeyboard
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final model
HUMANITIES SERIES Year 1 + 2 | Humanities
A compliation of Architectural drawings across a variety differing styles and building typologies. A series of hand drawn Architects drawings of Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln. Being; the floor plan, section, elevation and small detail. An interior hand drawn sectional render of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona. Designed by Antonio Gaudi. Verticality is a dominating charachteristic to symbolise elevation towards god. Acheived through the rising pyramidal design drawing, the loftiness of naves, and he pinnacles soaring high. During a recent study trip, students were asked to create a measured elevation drawing of one of the buildings along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The building was designed by the Edinburgh architect, John Armstrong.
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Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln
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Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
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63-67 Royal Mile, Edinburgh
ARTWORK: STILL LIFE
Mix media - Pen, Watercolour, Charcoal + Acrylic
Mix media - Pencil + Watercolours
composed during high school, art + design
The works were rationalised in reverse order with the final composition being completed at the initial offset. With developmental pieces and studies created with various mediums afterwards, acting to further my own understanding of the final composition.
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Acrylic on canvas
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CONTACT 07455970916 czxsmith@dundee.ac.uk https://cameronalexsmith.myportfolio.com