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Finishing his part 2, Conrad explores themes which begin to question the human experience testing the lines between body and mind, the past and the present and life and death. Fascinated by such themes, Conrad produces schemes which speculate on radical futures that respond to the anthropocentric and raise questions as to how the body relates to the built.
+2017 - 2020 |NORWICH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS +BA [HONS] ARCHITECTURE
+2022- 2024 |UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER +MArch ARCHITECTURE
_Professional Experience.
+2018 [NOV] NICHOLAS WARNS ARCHITECTS + CONSERVATION AND HISTORIC RESTORATION | WORK EXPERIENCE
ROLES:
conraddanielareta@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/conraddanielareta/ (+44) 07943 683277
Shadowing and assisting on site inspections and meetings on projects across all stages. Drafting elevational details using ArchiCAD.
+2020 - 2022 HAMSON BARRON SMITH
+ PART 1 ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT | FULL-TIME
ROLES:
Drawing production (through all stages) using AutoCAD, Revit and Photoshop. Project-coordination, management and hand-over of projects, working closely with clients, external consultants and both small and large design teams (shadowed by an architect). Client-facing roles, presenting and responding to client queries. Late stage snagging visits and hand-over alongside the lead architect. Assisted on project bids and the optimization of public consultation boards with the client. Development and production of early stage reports within the public and private sectors.
PROJECT TYPES:
Passivhaus Design, Masterplanning [30-200+ dwellings], Waste Facility, Special Educational Needs School, Dementia Care.
+2022 - 2024 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER + STUDIO GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT | PART-TIME
ROLES:
Teaching Assistant for the BSc Architectural Environmental and Ba Architecture Courses, aiding in the teaching of first year students. Development of presentation, architectural representantation and software skills (including PhotoShop, InDesign, Rhino and hand drawing). Attending and teaching students how to perform site visits to both accessible and inaccessible sites Sitting in on Crit Panels. Troubleshooting CAD modelling issues.
+2018 STOREHOUSE MAGAZINE: ISSUE 17 - “GENERATION” |PUBLICATION
+2019 FIELDEN + MAWSON SCHOLARSHIP FINALIST |AWARD
+2020 NUA VICE CHANCELLOR’S COMMENDATION - ARCHITECTURE |AWARD AJ STUDENT PRIZE UNDERGRADUATE NOMINEE |NOMINATION
RIBA EAST STUDENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DESIGN |AWARD NORWICH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS GRADUATE SHOWCASE |EXHIBITION AJ 23.07.20: STUDENT SPECIAL |PUBLICATION RIBA EAST: “RIBA EAST AWARDS OUTSTANDING STUDENTS 2020” |ARTICLE CAMBRIDGE ARCHITECTURE 80: “CLASS ACTS” |PUBLICATION
+2022 HOME POSTGRADUATE PART FEE SCHOLARSHIP |AWARD DIGITAL DESIGN EXHIBITION 2023 |EXHIBITION
DIGITAL DESIGN: BEST CRAFTED DESIGN |AWARD
+2023 OPEN 2023 [UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER DEGREE SHOW] |EXHIBITION+PUBLICATION
RIBA WEST LONDON NOMINEE |NOMINATION
+2024 OPEN 2024 [UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER DEGREE SHOW] |EXHIBITION+PUBLICATION
SHOAIB RAWAT MEMORIAL PRIZE NOMINEE |NOMINATION
_Skillsets.
+DESIGN PhotoShop, InDesign, Lightroom, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros3D, Bongo, SketchUp, AfterEffects.
+MEDIA Photography, Painting (Real + Digital), Sketching, Model-Making.
+PROFESSIONAL Project Management and Coordination, Report Collation and Production, Client Communication, Adaptability, Presentation.
*References available upon request.
And the Pleasures of a Cyborg’s Garden.
_Project Type: Academic [Part 2]
Typology: Infrastructure/ Leisure
Year: 2023-2024
Ukiyo.Land is a project that sets itself within a narrative post-human world that questions reality through the body of the cyborg, as posed within the “Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway and “The Machine in the Garden” by Leo Marx. Using the cyborg as a design tool that responds to the current realities of our climate, sustainable
Awards + Showcases.
_Awards|
Shoaib Rawat Memorial Prize Nominee.
_Showcases| Open 2024 Degree Show.
practices, and the concept of regeneration, the project proposes a dichotomic infrastructural leisure district that acts as a regenerative prosthesis within the local landscape. Ukiyo.Land is designed to use responsive machine elements that use ecology and human physiology to clean the localised air, water and river waste.
It poses the question: “How would cyborgs recreate the Garden of Eden?”
01. Kokyu.Land: Responsive Regenerative Playground Isometric.
02. Isometric Site Plan.
Ukiyo.Land Programme:
01. Yūgen.Land: Public Toilet/ Changing Rooms.
02. Kokyu.Land: Responsive, Regenerative Playgrounds.
03. Onsen.Land: Bath-house Gardens.
04. Kumo.Land: Skypark and Tea-houses.
05. Mottainai.Land: Waste Receptor Gardens.
01. Site PerspectiveIdentifying the Landscape Prosthetics.
02. Kokyu.Land: Responsive Regenerative Playground Construction Seqeuence.
03. In Construction Render.
04. Responsive Breathe-Air System.
05.Tea-House Exploded Isometric.
06. Render- The tea house: looking through the Thermobimetal Skin.
01. Shogekigo.
02. Render: Approach to Shogekigo.Land.
03. Shogekigo.Land: First Floor Plan.
__________________Timeless.
Echoes of Suspended Time: A Hotel + Auction House.
_Project Type: Academic [Part 1]
Typology: Hotel/ Auction/ Mixed-Use Year: 2020
Situated along Hull’s Eastern Riverfront, this scheme proposes a hotel and auction house which pays homage to the dichotomies of the city’s industrial past and artistic present as well as the site’s own historical and current realities to form a folly in the urban landscape.
Awards + Showcases. _Awards| Vice Chancellor’s Commentdation
The scheme is designed around the curation of viewpoints and connections, utilizing framing and light manipulation to produce timeless views that highlight Hull’s unique duality whilst also creating self-contained atria that suspend time completely, allowing the user to get lost within the time of the architecture.
RIBA East Award for Outstanding Design AJ Student Prize Undergraduate Nominee _Exhibitions| Norwich University of the Arts Graduate Showcase _Publications| AJ 23.07.20: Student Special
RIBA East: “RIBA East Awards Outstanding Students 2020” Cambridge Architecture 80: “CLASS ACTS”
Passivhaus + EnerPHit Redevelopment.
_Project Type: In Practice [Part 1]
Typology: Residential/ Masterplan/ Passivhaus/ EnerPHit Year: 2020
A 62 dwelling (70% affordable) residential redevelopment performing at carbon-zero (in use) utlizing both Passivhaus and EnerPhit design principles to minimize it’s carbon-footprint.
As part of this project, my roles included:
+ The production of street-elevations,
+ Sketch renders,
+ Production of the plans and masterplan,
+ Revit modelling,
+ Development of the design report.
The following drawings were created using a combination of Revit model outputs and Photoshop post-production. These formed part of a stage 1 report and design package.
01. Street Elevation, EnerPhit Flat Block.
02. Renovated Ground Floor Plan .
03. Street Elevation, New Build Redevelopment.
04. Brise Soleil Section Detail.
05.
_Project Type: Academic [Part 2]
Typology: Sculpture/ Installation
Year: 2022
Developed as part of a Digital Craft Module. This vessel takes inspiration from Burial Pods. It was designed and fabricated using Rhinoceros3D, Bongo and CNC to develop tectonic designs and create the finished product utilizing solely Japanese Joinery Principles to construct the Bloom Vessel. The design also considers other aspects of design
Awards + Showcases.
_Awards| Best Crafted Design.
_Showcases| Digital Design Exhibition 2023.
such as finishing types in relation to the burial pod inspiration and the need to maintain purity to avoid chemical pollution of the ground. This resulted in the use of linseed oil as a finish. This Vessel then fed into the design of the Cathedral for Death. In terms of Fabrication, the Vessel is also designed to accentuate the tectonics of the Japanese Joints through the use of the material grain, form and visibility of the joints through different views into the vessel.
The Alternative Afterlife of a Palermitani Necropolis.
_Project Type: Academic [Part 2]
Typology: Cathedral/ Monastry/ Funeral/ Cemetery/ Crypt Year: 2023-2024
Set in Palermo, Sicily, this project explores Phase 02 of the design of a Palermitani Necropolis, through the study of living, the dead and the posthuman bodies. Responding to the issues raised by
Awards + Showcases.
_Awards| RIBA West London Nominee.
_Showcases| OPEN 2023 Degree Show.
the catachombs and rising death population of the city, The Cathedral for Death aims to question the meaning of death, bridging life and death.
It proposes an alternate afterlife for humanity through tree burial and the recomposition of the body. The scheme plays with levels and light, accentuated by translucent marble to
communicate an interplay between spaces for the living and the dead. Alongside this it considers the super-imposed faiths within Palermo, creating an architecture that in itself is a the ghost of the past that seeks to resolve the problems of the present to change the future.
