Danny Martin Bartlett Portfolio

DANNY MARTIN - portfolio mob. +447772389806 email. mdanny@hotmail.co.uk website. dannyhausmartin.com insta. @dannys_house_of_art

CONTENTS ARCHITECTURE JOURNEY RECLUSE BUILDING IN MOTION NOT FITTING IN

ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT PROJECTS TOWN HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD HOTEL RESTORATION, AUSTRAILIA

BUILD PROJECTS/EVENTS GREY MATTER VERTICAL CABIN KING’S AFFAIR

ARTWORK DANNY’S HOUSE OF ART, WEBSITE BALANCED WORLD CARTOON FULL HOUSE EXHIBITION GENERAL ARTWORK FIGURE DRAWING

JOURNEY PHYSICAL REHABILITATION CENTRE, BEDFORD (2020)

Massing model plaster cast/resin/ mahogany.

Site Strategy Two lengthy ‘towers’ frame a post-industrial site.

The west-east tower sits along the north end of the site, presenting itself to the city of Bedford and the north-south tower penetrates deep into the site, ending in a ramp which offers vistas over rural land to the south.

The towers are embedded within the landscape and are flanked by rows of trees that carve wedge shaped spaces into the landscape, introducing their own desire paths.

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GROUND FLOOR

The west-east tower This is where the patients live and where the main services are located.

Within the west-east tower, the rooms are placed sequentially - offering up a diverse range of spaces that increase in privacy and thermal enclosure as you progress through the building from right to left.

The front elevation The rhythmically modular facade of the north elevation alternates between sheet glass and enclosed wooden modules depending on the function of the interior room within - glass is for corridors and transitory spaces, whereas treatment rooms and bedrooms are more fully enclosed.

The north-south tower The north-south tower is not enclosed and offers an intermediary environment, between being indoors or outside. It extends as a long ramp and provides ample varied walking spaces to practice physcial rehabilitation.

CORRIDOR/ BEDROOM

LIVING SPACE/ BALCONY

DINING/ COMMUNAL SPACE

Life of the building, Life of the patient 1:50 Construction Section

STRUCTURAL COLUMN - 250 x 250mm

DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS - 40mm WINDOW SILL LINTEL PLYWOOD CLADDING - 5 x 15mm INSULATION - 10mm

FLOOR BOARDS FLOOR BEAM - 200 x 200mm SKIRTING BOARD

CEILING BOARD - 50mm WINDOW SILL

OAK FLOOR PLANKS

DOUBLE GLAZING

STRUCTURAL BEAM - 150 x 200mm WIDTHWAYS STRUCTURAL BEAM - 150 x 200mm CLADDING - 50 x 250mm DAMP-PROOF COURSE FOUNDATION BEAM - 250 x 250mm

GRAVEL - 150mm GUTTER FOR DRAINAGE TO SOUTH-SIDE SCREED - 50mm

DIAGONAL EAVES - 50 x 200mm STONE POSTS - 1700mm high

THATCH HOLDER BEAMS - 50 x 250mm INSULATION - 150mm CEILING BOARD - 50mm THATCH - 600mm

SCREED LEVELLER

STRUCTURAL ROOF BEAM - 200 x 200mm

FOUNDATION STONE - 500mm high

INITIAL SCREED LAYER

Footsteps 1:10 Construction details

RECLUSE

BATHERS’ CHANGING FACILITIES, BEDFORD (2019)

Learning from wood ‘Recluse’ is the result of a fast and intuitive design process, converting a scale model made of found wooden objects into a habitable space for bathers in Bedford.

It is situated in the centre of a small natural lake designed for outdoor swimming.

BUILDING IN MOTION

A WORKSHOP FOR LIVEABOARD BOATERS, CAMBRIDGE (2018)

A new typology for Cambridge This project converts an abandoned workshed into a thriving community hub and workshop for liveaboard boaters. Inspired by steampunk motifs where individual mechanical parts - the propeller and the rudder - become symbols, and part of the framework that establishes the building in the deeply historic landscape of Cambridge.

Implementing a workshop within the existing site Axonometric displaying how a workshop could be integrated into the exisiting building. An intermediary step before the final proposal.

NOT FITTING IN ART GALLERY, RAINHAM (2019)

3. SPECULATING A MULTI-LEVEL PLAN

Different to the sum of its parts This unconventional project is a shrine to junction 16 of the A13, drawing from it for design inspiration yet deliberate in redefining the premeditated rhythmn of the junction and its vehicular users.

Potential under the bridge - the photograph of junction 16 uses a snooker ball to eclipse the existing foreground beneath the bridge. This represents the space intended to be converted into a gallery.

The building is cast concrete and partly submerged in the ground. Its roof is the underside of the highway bridge.

Its shape mirrors the forms of existing columns beneath the bridge, however its size is taken from the dimensions of the flanking roundabouts. The floors are generated from the resulting shape caused by superimposing the road layouts of the two roundabouts.

Despite combining many elements of the site to scale, the building ultimately disrupts and dynamicaly alters the interchange more so than it fits in.

SPENCER FUNG ARCHITECTS

Town House Regeneration, Hampstead

PART 1 ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT PLACEMENT (2020 - 2021) Spencer Fung Studio is a small firm based in North London, that works closely with natural methods to create bespoke solutions to client briefs.

This small scale project is currently in the concept design phase and focuses restoration and adding an extension to an existing town house. Emphasis is placed on natural solutions that redefine the dated style of the house in a new light.

FIRST FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

GREEN LINE = NEW PROPOSITION

Hotel Restoration, Austrailia This larger project is focused on restoring an abandoned farm into a hotel. With very little of the original building still existing, the project follows the conteurs of the original walls to generate the room structure, from which new spaces are derived. Original motifs are combined with modern ones, such as a round central staircase. This project is nearing the end of the concept design phase.

GROUND FLOOR

NORTH ELEVATION

FIRST FLOOR

GREY MATTER LIVE BUILD PROJECT, A SPACE TO STUDY; CAMBRIDGE (2017) A cantilevered desk inlaid with concrete moulds that suggest particular roles for each part of the desk.

VERTICAL CABIN LIVE BUILD PROJECT; CSOROMFOLDE, HUNGARY (JUNE 2018) A build project run by architect group ‘hello wood’ that works with innovative and sustainable new methods for building seasonal festival architecture. Vertical cabin is made entirely of reused materials.

23 : 59 : 60

KING’S AFFAIR END OF YEAR MAY BALL, CAMBRIDGE (JUNE 2018) My role as head of arts meant undertaking various interior design tasks involved in setting up the atmosphere for the events timebased theme: 23:59:60. It also included graphics-based tasks such as designing the theme, logo, wristands, site map and website.

DANNY’S HOUSE OF ART PERSONAL ART WEBSITE (DEC 2020) As a keen programmer in my spare time, I designed my first website from scratch in order to give me maximum flexibility with creative design.

The project demonstrates the synergy between technology and design and enabled me to represent my artwork in the intended minimalist format I desired.

BALANCED WORLD SHORTLISTED COMIC FOR THE MANGA JIMAN COMPETITION (FEB 2020)

Ran by the Japanese Embassy, this nationwide competition looks for submissions in the format of Japanese-style comics - manga.

My submission was shortlisted and placed 8th overall.

Balanced World studies opposites in nature and tells the tale of the creation of a world made by two ‘Gods’ who represent each other’s vices.

FULL HOUSE EXHIBITION FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION, KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (FEB 2020) Displayed are some advertisements and atmospheric pictures of the exhibition layout. It was attended by over 200 guests from both within the university and the general public.

Some examples of my art in more detail will follow in the upcoming slides:

ARTWORK A3 PASTELWORK (DEC 2020)

MONOPOLY

THE RETURN

BARBIE

DYSTOPIC LANDSCAPES A4, PEN AND INK (2019)

HALF IN THE LIGHT

TOWER OF HEAVEN

HIDDEN DOORS

LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET A5, PEN ON BRISTOL BOARD (2019) (From top left to bottom right: Letters A - F) A sacreligious fantasy, following a struggling hero through the chaotic world of the subconscious.

FIGURE DRAWING (2019)

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