Part II Architectural Assistant Application

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RESEARCH RETREAT

My research started with analysing brutalist buildings, after our visit to Wyndham court in Southampton during the site visit. found that principles such as rough surfaces, expressions of structure, large forms and unusual shapes were the key features of a brutalist building. Based on this, made several concept models exploring the parametric form, and textures mostly through the use of canvas, concrete and spackling paste. then took photographs of said models to see how the light affected them and drew over the results. This produced a small, two-storey parametric building made of timbercrete, a sustainable alternative to concrete made with the addition of sawdust and sand to cement.

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LITERARY

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FOR THE

AND CREATIVE

EXISTING LOW TIDE 2050 HIGH TIDE EXISTING BIKE PATHS 5 6 Site Context

Recent Residential Buildings in Danger of Flooding

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2-STORYEY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS BUILT POST 1990S

FORM DEVELOPMENT

Urban Farming / 200m2 per person / Total 20,000m2 (100 residents)

Residential / 20m2 per person / Total 2,000m2

Library / 200m2 / Services 2,750 people / Ceiling height 3.5 meters / North facing windows

Studios / 30m2

Reception / 50m2

Restaurant / 150m2

Market / 150m2

Exhibition Space / 200m2 / Double Height

Equipment Storage / 100m2

Toilets / 20m2 per building (Not incl. residential)

Office Space / 100m2

Meeting Room / 20m2 per room / 4 Rooms

KEY

Archipelago inspired form. Inconsistent with the form and scale of the adjacent buildings. Greenpath from forest extended along water edge and residential buildings.

Arts centre adjacent to water edge so that the double height exhibition space has a key view.

Residential block adjacent to residential houses due to similar typology and privacy needs. Stepped to increase the sunlight into the rear buildings.

Blocks arranged in a C shape to enclose urban farm between the buildings. However, north light to the library is blocked by the residential block.

Library and arts centre separated to create a visual entrance for pedestrians, more inviting since urban farm isn’t completely blocked off. Library and arts centre next to the most populated pedestrian route.

Residential block one unit wide to ensure each residential unit gets light from two sides. But, 4 storey-residential block is inconsistent with the context of the surrounding houses.

Residential flat units rotated 90 degrees to allow for sheltered balconies and better circulation. Seperated into two forms to create a communal area though the centre of the building.

North building paralell to the residential buildings, south block rotated to be paralell to the angle of the water.

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PROJECT REALISATION

First Floor Plan 1:200 at A1

Addition of louvres on south facing windows analysed with ClimateStudio

No louvres - High daylight availability

Louvres are coloured orange - cedar timber Daylight availability relatively unchanged, shows that the addition of louvres doesn’t affect the introduction of natural light to the flats.

had experimented with raising the building height to around 6 storeys but found that was also inconsistent with the surrounding context. Based on the precedent of 79&Park, I rotated the residential blocks to maximise the amount of sunlight each unit would receive. made the blocks then tiered, to aid visual connection between spaces, and to block the southwest prevailing winds. Lastly, separated the two mirrored sides of the building to create a ground floor social circulation space that can be used as a market for people to sell either the produce they grow in their gardens or the work they create in the Arts Centre.

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GROUND TO BUILDING CONNECTION

had designed the form with the idea of raising it on stilts in mind, and the concept of using arches came through the practical use of them as a feature that is structurally stronger than just columns, but also the precedent inspiration of Netley Abbey, a historical ruin also located on the coast of Southampton. The arch then continues upwards to form the distinctive elevation of the building. Due to the risk of flooding, it is not recommended to grow edible crops on the ground floor, as in a flooding scenario, the fruit and vegetables would need to be thrown away and the ground would be contaminated for possibly several years afterwards, unless a new layer of topsoil is added. Therefore have added plants such as ferns and ivy that thrive in shade to the landscape, with the added benefit of their root systems aiding with any floodwater penetrating into the soil.

Scale Bar 1:500

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West Section 1:100 at A1

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STRUCTURE AND MATERIALITY

STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLY

Photovoltaic Glass panels Glumam lattice roof structure Glulam Frame structure to hold up ceilings and roof gardens

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Timbercrete block walls for thermal mass Ferrock arches and cladding

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

North Elevation 1:200 at A1 North Section 1:200 at A1 10

FLAT DESIGN

1. Multigenerational housing 50%

Main factor is a lack of affordable homes making it far more likely young adults will continue to live at home for longer.

2. Young proffessionals co-living, co-working space 50%

Being part of a community increases safety and security. Increased susutainability due to lower transport.

1:100 at A1

Addedwindowsfor cross ventilation anddaylight. Locatedhighonwallfor privacy.

Niches to increase privacy for entrances to the flats and also to be visually distinctive as a threshold.

CommunalSpaces OneUnit DoubleUnit

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Bedrooms

Iteration

Intensive green roofs

Intensive green roofs are designed to support much larger items like bushes and small trees as well as a wider variety of plants. You may find that they are referred to as roof gardens. They require a layer of growing medium / soil to support this much thicker vegetation layer (Green Roof Construction – How to guide (2023). With my project in particular, due to the wind load, larger bushes and trees won’t be on the roof garden since the stress put on the plants will mean they produce less fruit. The plants that will grow there will mostly be meal staples such as root vegetables and leafy plants that grow quite close to the soil. Due to this, chose quite a shallow soil layer of 300mm. If the location was more sheltered would have increased this to closer to 1000mm to grow a greater variety of fruit and vegetables.

Intensive roofs are common in larger commercial projects including parks and gardens where recreational use is expected. Intensive roofs require a much deeper substrate to be built up and they need much more attention and maintenance, much like a normal landscaped garden.

Charred cedar handrail 100mm x 50mm

Zinc flashing 100mm rigid insulation

Growing medium 300mm

Geotextile filter

Drainage layer

10mm waterproofing layer underneath 10mm root barrier

20mm sheathing board

200mm x 200mm glulam

beams and columns

Breather membrane

50mm x 50mm counterbattens

50mm x 50mm battens

20mm x 50mm charred cedar timber cladding

Vapour barrier

TIMBERCRETE

1:10 Green Roof Detail

The roof garden is an integral aspect of the design. The teired nature of it gives the community different visual connections and levels of privacy.

The difference between the red cedar and charred red cedar cladding strips was used to highlight the difference between the external and internal space. The dark timber was used externally to further emphasize the arches, that have a burnt orange hue, wheras if a lighter colour was used, they would not be as much of a highlighted feature. Also the building would be different shades of beige, which was not the aesthetic wanted to acheive. The charred hue however would not be preferable for the interior as it would make the space seem smaller than it is, and the red cedar brings out the sunlight that has been designed to enter all the key spaces of the building.

GREEN ROOF

GLULAM

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