Eleanor Jones Undergraduate Minifolio 2021

eleanor jones @ellie_arch_ https://elliearchitecture.wixsite.com/mysite www.linkedin.com/in/elliejonesarchitecture

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Hello...

My name is Eleanor Jones. I am a BA Architecture student currently completing my final year at The Manchester School of Architecture at The University of Manchester, on track to achieve a first class honours. I am based in Manchester and I am seeking a Part 1 placement for Summer/Autumn '21 starting times.

I have a particular interest in conservation and heritage schemes and take a sympathetic and thoughtful approach to design.

I am a hard-working individual with a tenacious attentiveness to detail. Having completed my final year of studies from home during the Pandemic I have relied upon my self-motivation and time-keeping skills and have reaped the benefits from my workethic in my final year module results.

I have a good understanding of and practical capability in several CAD programmes including Revit, AutoCad, Sketch-up and Rhino and find I am able to pick up programming skills easily through the work I produce.

Outside of Architecture, I am constantly looking for ways to channel my creativity, most recently I have set up my own handmade prints business which has taught me about the real-world of the design industry and how to strike a balance between practicality and creativity.

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Hello // Porfolio Profile

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66 Baring Street - BA Year 2 '20

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Competition: Hometown - Archisource '20

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Competition: Radical Architecture - ArcDeck '20

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Competition: Playhouse - Playground Architects '20

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Competition: Drawing of the Year - Archisource '20

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Feminist Figures - BA Year 3 '21

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Thank you // Contact Details

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66 Baring Street, Mayfield, Manchester Located in a hidden district of Manchester’s city centre, the residential project aims to create a sustainable cyclical community tucked within an overlooked industrial landscape.

The brief was to create a workspace alongside living space that was directly connected, yet distinctly separated. 66 Baring Street draws upon historic housing typologies and digests and modernises previously unsuccessful elements to create a commercial hub which sits beneath a thriving sub-community; cultured by a cyclical residential scheme. The concept of a cyclical community originates from the age-old tradition of growing up and living one’s adult life in the same place, and being connected and identified by one’s ‘Hometown’. The mix of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom town-houses as well as accessible bungalows, and the designing of adaptable and flexible internal living spaces via swinging walls and recessing furniture creates a ‘suburb’ which is not only ecologically sustainable but also future-proofed for further generations.

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1:200 Ground floor plan AutoCAD// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 South Seasonal Elevation // Spring Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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1:100 Initial Concept Sketches - A Day in the life of a Building AutoCAD // Adobe Illustrator

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1:50 Site Section Sketchup//Adobe Illustrator// Adobe Photoshop

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External Render// The northern public square overlooking Baring Street Sketchup// Adobe Photoshop

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Internal Render// Accessible flat living space Sketchup// Adobe Photoshop External Render// Eastern public street Sketchup// Adobe Photoshop

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1:500 General Arrangment Site Plan AutoCAD// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 Site Massing model Laser Cut MDF// Plywood

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Revit// Adobe Photoshop 11 1:200 South Seasonal Elevation // Summer

Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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Competition: HomeTown Archisource ‘20 During the spring Lockdown of 2020, I tasked myself with entering five architectural competitions in order to improve my skills in CAD modelling as well as continuing to keep my creative mind active. I surpassed my original aspiration of five entries and went on to have my work featured in several publications and win commendations and awards. I also used these entries to self-teach myself Revit and AutoCad programmes and brush up my Adobe Illustrator skills, which proved to benefit my later academic projects.

The first competition I entered was the Hometown Drawing Collective, ran by Archisource, which asked for submissions of a singular illustrative isometric drawing. My drawing explores ‘the new normal’ which we were beginning to adapt to during Lockdown in the architectural envelope of the home. The envelope is distorted and unfolded to represent the multitude of purposes our homes had to serve when we were no longer able to leave them. The overlapping and layering of spaces demonstrates the complexities that everyday life and ‘not-so-everyday’ life bring to and play out upon an architectural space and how they can change completely how the space is experienced.

My entry was featured in mechanise and online publications after the competition ended including a hardback book.

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Competition Illustration Annotated Adobe Illustrator

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Competition Hardback book featuring my entry

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Competition: Radical Architecture - ArcDeck ‘20 I wanted to branch my architectural knowledge and design capabilities beyond the ‘known’ threshold of English or European sites. I had become used to the site and climate of Manchester in my previous academic projects and it was important for me to expand my abilities to respond to differing climates and context globally. The Radical Architecture competition by ArcDeck asked for an architectural design beyond the limits of practicality that explored a social or ecological transformation of a city. My project imagines Hong Kong as an epicentre of an urban-farming initiative, in which vacant roof spaces are used as farming and allotment space to provide food for the local district of the city. The scheme was inspired by the extreme human density in Hong Kong which leaves very little open land in order to farm. The city imports 80% of its essential goods, and only seven square kilometres within the city boundary is defined as farmland.

The scheme is comprised of three key elements which can be prefabricated and constructed very quickly and cheaply on-site. The urban farm is connected to the urban-farm shop by means of crane in which the harvested vegetables and fruits are lowered to the street-level where local people can buy fresh and sustainable produce. Thirdly, kitchen garden ‘parasitic pods’ can be attached to existing tower block residences of the city, giving people access to their own urban gardens to grow and nurture their own ‘crops’.

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My entry placed within the Top 10 Global entries and was featured on the official competition website.

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Render: Rooftop Urban Farm Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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Render: Local city Farm Shops Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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Render: Parastic Kitchen Gardens Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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Competition: Playhouse Playground Architects ‘20 During the summer I decided to work on my Adobe skills, especially Illustrator and I used my entry into the Playhouse competition as practical and creative means to wrap my head around some of the commands and tools I had been wanting to learn. The competition asked for a game design to be played within the home during Lockdown made only of things you would find around the house. My concept was for a story-telling prop box, using random collected items from around the home to invent new and silly stories. I used Illustrator to depict a home scene in which the family has gathered together to play the game. The isometric section of the living space prompted me to explore the perspective tools whilst the illustrated instructions and documents helped improve my digital drawing confidence.

My entry has since featured on the competition social pages as well as in a shop window as part of the # 50 windows of MCR art ‘treasure hunt’ in Dec ‘20 and recently has been published as part of a commemorative competition book.

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Competition Illustration Annotated Adobe Illustrator

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Competition Hardback book featuring my entry

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Competition: Drawing of the Year - Archisource ‘20 Most recently I entered the Archisource Drawing of the Year competition with a 1:20 sectional detail of the 66 Baring Street project. I drew the piece as an additional revisit to the project, to explore the makings of the design in further detail, having improved my confidence and understanding of structural and technical details in the first term of Year 3. The section explores both the structural make up of the town house but also through an internal render, captures the atmosphere within the home and the layering of programme and uses by the different family members over the span of a ‘typical day’. The town houses are constructed from prefabricated CLT panels in a portal frame, using a brickslip cladding system and featuring solar panels, a green roof plane and concrete slab foundations.

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Competition 1:20 Section Detail and 1:5 Thumbnail details Annotated Revit// AutoCAD// Adobe Illustrator// Adobe Photoshop

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Feminist Figures, Ardwick, Manchester Located on Grafton Street, Manchester, the Feminist archive sits between two distinct campuses of the city: the University and Royal Infirmary hospital. On the site of the former home of Emmeline Pankhurst, the archive sympathetically responds to the existing narrative of the area and builds upon the existing community-serving programme of the Pankhurst centre to become a claimable space for the local community. The archive design stems from foundational theories of Feminist Urban planning and is part of a larger scheme to re-route and re-map Upper Brook street - a dangerous corridor road into the city centre west of the archive.

The archive features three internal programmes of crèche, cafe and archive exhibit to create a space that provides refuge, relaxation and learning for the deprived and disregarded area of Ardwick. A central courtyard space ties the new addition to its historic counterpart and provides and garden to local residents who may not have one; bringing together generations of the community.

The archive is built upon a cradle-to-cradle ideology in which carbon usage is minimised at all stages of the building’s lifetime and it is designed to be easily adapted or taken apart and recycled when it outgrows its purpose using a mixture of prefabrication and modular design.

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1:200 Exploded Axonometric from North-East perspective Revit// Sketchup// Adobe Photoshop

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Macro-climate site analysis of the local area AutoCAD// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 Eastern Night-time Facade Elevation Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 Ground Floor plan Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 First Floor plan Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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Exploded Structural Axonometric Revit// Adobe Illustrator// Adobe Photoshop

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Experiential Vignette The Archive AutoCAD// Adobe Photoshop

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Experiential Vignette The Cafe - Crèche link AutoCAD// Adobe Photoshop

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Experiential Vignette The Animated Facade AutoCAD// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 Northern Facade Elevation Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 Western Facade Section Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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1:200 Southern Facade Elevation Revit// Adobe Photoshop

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1:50 Brick-slip Cladding Detail AutoCAD

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thank you.

email: elliearchitecture@gmail.com telephone: 07535525060 instagram: @ellie_arch_ website: https://elliearchitecture.wixsite.com/mysite linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/elliejonesarchitecture

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