Architectural Portfolio Part 1

George Darlington

RIBA Part I Placement

https://gdarlingtongdarlin.wixsite.com/my-site

Work Experience

Mador Architects, London, Nov 2022 - present: Part 1 placement, environmental architectural practice, Learning the role of an architect in the field, meetings with design teams, clients, investors, suppliers, work on numerous on going project, Landscape plans, interior elevations, schedules, CAD models, Hand made Models, immersive drawings, International Site Visit to Limoges, France.

de Metz Forbes Knights (dmfk) Architects, London, Jan 2022:

One-week work placement, design team meetings on ongoing projects, Site Visit of the Nestle Factory development in Hayes, 3D modelling, rendering and printing of the Voysey House revamp in Chiswick.

RIBA Mentoring, Jan-May 2022: Tutoring and building visits with George Scott, Sole practitioner, Architect on sabbatical.

Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing Workshop with Imperial College London, Nov 2021- Feb 2022: Collaborating with medical students to improve the design of dementia patient wards by emphasising wellbeing.

Site diary, One Nine Elms regeneration, KTP architects, Sep 2020-Jan 2021:

Observing and recording the Nine Elms regeneration residential project. Online monitoring construction through weekly updates from developers R&F Group.

Haworth Tompkins Architects, London, Sep 2018: Two-week placement, client meetings on ongoing projects, digital skill exercises, Dovecote Studio brief rework and model making.

Other Experience

Dry Stone Wall course, Domaine d’Orve, Toulon, France Apr 2018: 2 week stone wall building.

Olywood, Paris, France Jun-jul 2017: Carpenter assistant.

19/12/1999

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Education

BA [hons] Architecture, University of Westminster, 2019-2022

Dissertation: ‘The progress of automation in Architecture and its effect on Design’

Year 3 Studio: Radical Re-use/Camden Backlands

DS3.6, Camilla Wilkinson + Kester Rattenbury Semester 2: Social housing radical re-use/restoration

Semester 1: Dramascape Provocation

Year 2 Studio: Fermented Architectures

DS2.4, Eric Guibert+Anthony Powis

Semester 2: Honey fermentation: Socialist permacultural mead production

Semester 1: A Humble Factory: Educational antibiotic (penicillin) facility

Environmental design study: Organic facades

Langley School, Norwich 2013-2018

A levels: Maths (A) French (A) Art (C)

GCSE’s A*- C

Alphonse Daudet, Toulon, France

2007-2013

Skills

Languages:

Bilingual (English & French)

Digital Skills:

• VectorWorks

• Rhinoceros

• AutoCAD

• Sketch up

• Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator

• Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel

Analogue skills: Hand drawing, hand drafting, model-making, hand tools, woodworking machines, laser-cutting machine, 3D printers.

Referees

Camilla Wilkinson

ARB | Senior Lecturer | University of Westminster. C.Wilkinson@westminster.ac.uk

Charles Mador

ARB | RIBA | Director of Mador Architects

Charles@mador.co.uk

1. Social Housing Radical Reuse

2. Educational Penicilin Factory

3. Communal Meadery

Social Housing Radical Reuse

A protest against London’s ongoing phenomenon of destroying and fully redeveloping social housing estates. I propose a sustainable and resident-centric approach consisting of renovating and revamping the existing build, extending its lifespan and improving the wellbeing of its residents.

Ground Floor plan 1-100 @ A1, removal of podium level for greenspace access, introduction of communal workshops, building foyer and laundrette.

Addition of extra bedroom

Addition of bedroom from next door

Single large bedroom

Alternative floorplan

Double aspect flat flexibility

2nd-8th floor plan 1-100 @A2, double aspect flats with addition of social deck access and private winter garden.

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Site Model

Scale: 1-200

Dimensions: 594x594mm

Site: foam board

Existing building: laser cut MDF

Proposed extension: balsa wood

Axonemetric model detailling the removal of the original building’s facade and the addition of the winter garden with balcony extension.

West Facade Winter Garden

Summer Solstice

The heat from the sun is blocked on the east by sliding shutters and on the west by sun blocking curtains. The building’s ventilation is created by a draft in each flat when the east and west windows are manually opened.

Morning East Facade

Afternoon West Facade

Morning East Facade

Winter solstice

The shutters and curtains are open for optimum sun penetration therefore enabeling passive heating. The new extensions add a extra envelope to the building further increasing its energy efficiency and reducing resident’s energy bills. Only the living quaters and stairways are heated.

Afternoon West Facade

Midday South Facade

Educational Penicilin Factory

The project explores fermentation in architecture. The facility produces the life saving antibiotic penicillin, however its main function is to educate visitors on the medicine’s surprising production process. Its organic south facing facade made from decidious plants creates passive seasonal environmental control. The site is located in East London on a old industrial site bordering the Lea river.

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Educational Penicilin factory

Site Analysis

The site is located in a old industrial zone on the banks of the river Lea, next to the Thames Water Pump Station. Now turned residential the site is close to West Ham train station.

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Model Facade

Material: Foam Board, acrylic steel wire & rods, real plant leaves

Purpose: to demonstrate the seasonal benefits of a organic decidious facade.

floor plans embody a multi-leveled central lab space for the production and wrapped around is a hall/promanade for the visitors to observe.

The

Immersive drawing of the organic facade during spring after 5 years of growth.

Desired Plant Characteristics:

- Climbers & Vines

- Large leaves or flowers

- Sun keen

- Decidious

- Minimal care

- Colourful/ aesthetic

- Tall & quick growing

- Favour loamy & clayey soil

Plants featured: Crimson Vine, Arabian Jasmine, Golden Hop, Grape Vine, Chinese Virginia Creeper, Wisteria.

Drawing Dimensions: 594x594mm

Communal Meadery

As a continuation of fermented architecture this project is on honey fermentation. The site is located in the North London greenbelt (Lee Valley) neighbouring Epping Forest, many plant nurseries and agricultural land. The purpose of the site is not to take away from, but to add to the ecosystem, by self sustainably producing all types of the fermented beverage known as Mead. This is achieved through the symbiotic relationships of agroforestry, permaculture and natural beekeeping. The building incorperates the  baubatonik environmental design technic of growing living trees into structural elements.

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A yearly timeline comparing the site’s local highly pollen producing flora to a bee colonies activity.

Structural Model Section

Scale: 1-50

Site Topography: foam board

Baubotanic : plant stems

Structure: balsa wood

Dimensions: 594x840

Site Plan 1-500 @A2

Landscape design reference: Piet Oudolf, Gilles Clement

Central building surrounded by its production sectors: agroforestry, permacultural orchard, garden in motion & apiary.

Summer Solstice

During the summer the buildings organic central and south facing baubatonik cover shields it from direct sunlight and heat while still allowing ventillation. This passive control of the environment reduces the building’s operational energy in cooling while the baubotanik elements absorb carbon as they grow.

Winter Solstice

During the winter fewer spaces would be used and heated. Furthermore the operational carbon in heating is reduced due to the deciduous facade dissapearing and allowing the low winter sun to penetrate and heat the southern and northern parts of the building.

Baubotanik Column to Roof & Guttering Detail

Column to Deck & Footing Detail

3D CAD Model Roof Detail

3D CAD Model Deck Detail