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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO By Irvine K. Toroitich
CONTACTS Website: www.irvinetoroitich.com Email: Toroitichirvine@gmail.com Number: (+44)7395 830 754 (+254)115 034 184
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STREET ONE
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Shared public street accessed by pedestrians and cars
Narrow semi-private street, with a double storey street on the north and south facing façades.
Wide pedestrian street, providing a direct link from the beach to units, separating the journey through it depending on the intended destination.
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17 Along the double height street, a visual link can between 2 units, however a tree would intercept reducing the risk of overlooking. Natural light would still be able to penetrate into an opening along the roof, which would also be people above to look through.
Investigating the architectural language of the units, which would give more character to the street, and more meaning to the functional use of the interior.
Programmes Used Along this main street, there will be small passageways such as this, linking two different streets with each other. Due to the narrow width of the path, and the proximity of the neighbouring units, the pathway would be dark, and therefore, a degree of transparency through the connecting pathways would be implemented. This however creates a vulnerability for overlooking inside the units.
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From inside the units, a connection to the street below can be made through the articulation of the windows.. The residents would have the option to completely expose themselves to the street, giving a degree of surveillance over it. The resident can also sit safe, unexposed to street, should they wish to. Aside from a visual connection, light would be able to get through to the street below, from this articulation.
Creating a language distinguishing the live against the work functions of a unit. The living units would look much heavier, as a whole mass, with apertures curved out of the solid form.
be made the view, The work spaces, would be an adaptable space, with a strong connection between two different units, suggestion an explanation option into the neighbouring work space. However, the individual units would still be able to work independently.
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Fleet Road: Along this public access street, the buildings on either side each react differently to the same street, signifying a difference in function. The public orientation on this street is very specific.
Split on the public walk-way, elevating one. This separation gives a particular hierarchy to the people occupying the street.
18 Reference to the caretakers house project, built as a prototype, where the movement of the caretaker is made more efficient through the day as they go about their daily routine.
Instead of a partition wall between the sharing work spaces, the threshold may be more activated, such as a piece of furniture that is shared between the two different spaces. The work spaces would hence feel like an assembled set of spaces, giving space a transparent feel, and a sense of unity with the directly attached neighbours spaces.
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01. Maternity Hospital. Uganda This project aims to tackle the issues of maternal care in Uganda, as there is a shortage of facilities that care to this need. This project looks to not only provide the facilities needed to help bridge this gap, but provide an environment at the hospital that allows the patients to feel like they are being taken care of not only by the doctors, but by the architecture as well. The role of architecture here plays a large role in the healing process, aiding the doctors to make the patients as comfortable as possible, through the use of organic design, and incorporating nature into the building.
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02. Textile Factory. Ndola, Zambia Working independently with a close group of friends, we did a short project for a client in Zambia, who’s brief for the site was a modern textile factory that allowed and encourages greenery around it. The clients intention was to show investors the potential of the site, to be able to raise money to build the factory. This project allows the modern factory to sit lightly on the ground, incorporating natural light throughout the building. The truck loading bay allows for an efficient use of space along the product line, allowing trucks to move in one direction without having to turn back.
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03. The Basket Street. Gorton, Manchester The high street is in danger due to a the direct comparison of the Internet’s relationship to the residents of Gorton, Manchester as consumers. ‘The Basket Street’ aims to eradicate the title of ‘the consumer’ and identify the residents of Gorton as ‘citizens’ with the ability to choose and vote on how their high street is shaped and experienced. Physical shopping has become a chore that most people in our society refuse to engage in when they have the practicality of technology by their side. Therefore, ‘The Basket Street’ aims to adopt the perks of online shopping into the social fabric of the nostalgic high street, creating a simpler shopping experience, and shifting people energy on the high street from the tasking exercise of carrying bags from one place to another, to revitalising the social vibrancy of the streets .
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04. City-Wide Research Project into Milan (Milan, Italy) Manchester School Of Architecture
Milan Research and Framework (Part 1)
Part 1. Milan Research and City-Wide Framework The first section of this three part project, was an analysis of the city of Milan aimed to create a set of objectives. These objectives, helped me create a framework for the entire city, aiming to improve certain aspect of it. The framework is also based of the urban theory, ‘Responsive Environments’ by Ian Bentley. The framework integrated the cities growth,which saw different urban strategies applied to Milan, creating a disconnect between how the outer-city and the inner-city function as a whole. Part 2. The Market Community Master Plan The framework was then tested out on a 40ha master plan around a wholesale market, where a thriving community was designed to take advantage of the number of people that visit the market. This created a variety of spaces with different opportunities for activities to occur, maintaining a cohesive community with enough density for it to function.
Creating permeable links
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Part 3. The Active Public Realm The master plan was further explored in one of these spaces, in the form of an active square, demonstrating the execution of one of the communities on a neighbourhood scale and the potential of a variety of activities with experiential thresholds between them Programmes Used
City Wide Framework For Milan
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The Market Community Master Plan (Part 2) The site currently holds a wholesale market, to which the master plan retains, and develops around it. The proposed development would take advantage of the pedestrian traffic that would come to the site, and provide secondary activities and uses to compliment the market and each other.
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How, through design and an affordable financial model, can we create a community in the heart of the Northern Gateway development in Manchester, that can accommodate and provide for marginalised and working-class older people? Identifying a gap in the provision of housing for working class older people in the city centre of Manchester, particularly in the proposed development for the Northern Gateway, this project explores ways to provide an age friendly and truly affordable housing units from in the city centre of Manchester. Working back from the state pension & housing benefit cap in order to determine an affordable rent for the most vulnerable groups of older people, we saw that a truly affordable rent would be below £282/month. We then developed a financial equation which we reiterated with until the rent for a studio unit (or co-housing equivalent) was £193/Month. To do this, our designs needed to meet a density of 725 bedrooms per hectare, a construction cost of 1200£/m2 and a 2.2% rate of return over a 60 year period.
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07. Age-Friendly Community (South Manchester, UK). Manchester School of Architecture
Research Question
DEVELOPING THE BLOCK
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How can the community of Old Moat in South Manchester be improved economically and socially through proposing a new shared ownership model with Southway whilst exploring a maximized density?
SOUTHWAY HOUSING TRUST Southway Housing Trust were the clients to this project, as they were facing the issue of under-occupied family homes by older retired tenants, and needed more suitable homes in age -friendly communities in the south of Manchester.
Perimeter to maximise density
MAXIMUM DENSITY We took the approach of demolishing the existing site to maximize the density of a co-housing units to help Southway Housing Trust increase their housing stock, and provide a long term solution for future tenants.
SHARED OWNERSHIP MODEL We aimed to propose a new shared ownership model to create the scenario where Southway Housing Trust would still be able to make decisions whilst allowing tenant the flexibility of renting and buying the units.
Creating permeable visual access through the blocks
VOLUMETRIC CONSTRUCTION We explored the options of volumetric construction so as to enable Southway Housing Trust to produce dwellings that could potentially reduce cost and time, and increased efficiency during construction.
View from the Courtyard
Programmes Used
Adjusting blocks to the site, and providing specific views.
Adjusting the block height depending on the types of units
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Volumetric Construction Details and Final Renders
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1. Britmet Slate Roofing 2. Timber battens 3. 20mm OSB 4. 80x40mm Purlins 5. Breathable Roof underlay 6. 160x75mm Metal Rafter supported by 150x65mm Ceiling Joist 7. 100x45mm Metal Track 8. Proprietary underlay support Tray/eaves Guard 9. Half round gutter 10. UPVC Fascia fixed directly to Rafter 11. UPVC Double Vented Soffit board 12. Brickwork starter track fixed to outside of cavity batten 13. 120x50mm Steel Plate 14. 160x75mm Steel Channel 15. Steel plate 14. 100x50mm Steel Plate 15. 50x170mm Metal Plate 16. Window Board 17. 170x50mm Steel Plate 18. Brick starter fixed track 19. 40mm Celotex Insulation 20. 220x430mm Concrete block 21. Concrete footing 22. Concrete pile cap 23. Polycarbonate Roofing 24. Metal Profile Cap 25. 100x100mm Metal Beam 26. 150x100mm Universal Column 27. Metal Railing 28. Timber deck 29. Metal beam 30. Fascia Board 31. 150x100mm I beam drilled into OSB 32. Metal plate
Volumetric Modules Detail A: 1. 20mm Oriented Strand Board; 2. 170mm PIR Insulation Board; 3. 10mm OSB; 4. 50mm Service Cavity; 5. 10mm Ply; 6. 140mm Rockwool Flexi Insulation; 7. Vapour control membrane; 8. 10mm Plywood
Detail B: 1. 20mm Timber floor finisher; 2. 15mm Oriented Strand Board (OSB); 3. 120x50mm Steel Joist with 10mm Ply in between. 4. 140mm Rock-wool Flexi Insulation; 5. 100mm cavity for services and separating modules. 6. 120x50mm Steel Joist with 10mm Ply in between 7. 10mm Plywood
Detail C: 1. 6mm Brick slip; 2. 120mm EPS Insulation Board; 3. 24mm Timber batten creating cavity; 4. 15mm OSB; 5. Breather membrane; 6. 130mm Earthwool Flexible Slab in between studs; 6. Vapour Control Layer; 7. 10mm Medium Density Fibre Board.
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08. Modular Moveable Maker Space: (All Saints Special Collections Museum , UK) Manchester School Of Architecture The Special Collections Gallery based in the All Saints Library Manchester, produced a brief where they called for proposals for a Modular, Movable Maker Space, to engage and inspire students and the general public, to be creative, for 5 minutes or an hour, inspired by the exhibition happening at any specific moment. We aimed to inspire the public to create their own simple artefacts inspired the museum, and help the Museum establish their personal brand to the public. The proposed modular maker space, would containing a roll of paper, and different tools within it enabling an individual or group to draw and express themselves on it. The incentive to draw will be based on the current exhibition in the gallery, where the roll of paper will have prompt, for the public to continue engaging with it, and with the exhibition. This was a special project, where we, as masters students, planned and organised a two week design workshop to accommodate 12 undergraduate students. We lead and made sure each student had a task to do each day for the full duration of the two week period, where the design of the Modular Maker Space actually happened. The output was hence a collaborative team effort from the undergraduate students lead by us. We started and maintained a public blog, documenting the entire process, which is accessible by following this link: https://events.msa.ac.uk/2019/group/e/
Programmes Used
Modular Maker Space Concept
Extracts From The Blog
Laser-cut Model of Product
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09. The Productive Dwelling A live/work Environment (Hastings, UK). University of Brighton This housing scheme questions the idea behind the spatial relationships between live and work. Work here, does not necessarily relate to an economic output, as housework can be considered work as well. It is not the definition of work that drives the project, but an environment that would be able to accommodate any work, enriching the experience of the live and the work Spaces. The project feeds from Frances Hollis book: Beyond Live/Work: The Architecture of Home-based Work. This investigation was then translated into a larger scale, where the ‘work,’ is a community based responsibility in the form of Care-taking. Care-taking in this programme, is a shared role between neighbours to provide surveillance, maintenance of the community, and engage in providing services across the neighbourhood. The project shows the idea that live and work spaces do not have to be completely separate from each other, as the definitive factor of a “livework home” is the presence of both.
Programmes Used
Using transparency in order to highlight certain views to experience in a space and therefore orientating it one way. Transparency can also be used to create a boundary, to which the spaces on either side would be orientated away from it. Manipulating the landscape, vertically challenging the spaces, in order to create the respective orientation that characterises the live and work spaces
Orientating spaces through the manipulation of vertical and horizontal walls, playing with the thickness of the walls
Synthesising the landscape, transparency, roof scape, vertically and horizontal walls, questioning the relationships they would engage with each other, orientating the work spaces to the right of the section and the living to the left
Investigating the architectural language of the units, which would give more character to the street, and more meaning to the functional use of the interior.
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STREET ONE
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Natural light would still be able to penetrate into the space via an opening along the roof, which would also be used by the people above to look through.
STREET TWO
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Along this main street, there will be small passageways such as this, linking two different streets with each other. Due to the STREET STREET TWO TWO narrow width of the path, and the proximity of the neighbouring units, the pathway would be dark, and therefore, a degree Narrow Narrow semi-private semi-private street, street, with a with double a double storey storey street street on theonnorth the and northsouth and south facing facing façades. façades. of transparency through the connecting pathways would be implemented. This however creates a vulnerability for overlooking inside the units.
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Experimenting with the street front, the units would give a clue into the difference in use between the live and work uses, where work (1st floor) seems to be curved out of a heavier mass, than the live units (ground floor) which seem From inside the units, a connection to the street to be out together with different components, and much lighter.
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Reference to the caretakers house project, built as a prototype, where the movement of the caretaker is made more efficient through the day as they go about their daily routine.
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10. Deformed Wall Construction Project (Group Project). University of Brighton The aim of this project was to turn a robotic method into a viable method of construction that can be built by everybody. For our process to even be considered an alternative approach to current techniques we had to take into account a multitude of design principles. Other than the transformative rules of deformation, we had to factor in the scarcity of materials, time constraints, and cost of construction. By experimenting with numerous proposals through sketches, modelling, and designing the form-work, we developed a concept for a modular architectural technique.
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Using form work to create 1st half of wall
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Using the same form work inverted on a cardboard to create 2nd half of wall
Final wall with supports
Using cardboard form-work as a guide to help place each brick in its correct position, ensuring the balance of the wall is maintained, we built the first half of our deformed wall. We then inverted the form-work, ensuring sustainable design by reusing the same material and mounting it on a base to help guide the construction of the 2nd half of the wall.
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11. BuildX Studio Zima Affordable Homes Zima, meaning whole and healthy aims to provides a scalable offer of affordable, dignified and aspirational urban homes that are good for people and planet. In this project, I was helped take this project into Revit, as BuildX started integrating a BIM work-flow into the company. I lead the research into locally sourced innovative materials as Zima homes aims to be a standard in how to build sustainably and at affordable rates, ensuring the residents who will eventually own this property under an rent-to-buy scheme would have their quality of life increased and feel dignified. In order to fully cater for the target group, BuildX held focus group sessions reaching out to the neighbouring communities and get their feedback on current challenges in their that Zima homes can cater for. In this capacity, I lead a small team into the community, to present the design to get feedback to incorporate into the project, ensuring an equal balance of men and women were catered fro in the project.
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soil, responds to the climate and uses resources in a way that generates no waste.
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BuildX Studio Wanda Agriculture Located in the semi-rid areas of Taita-Taveta, this banana processing plantation is designed to make the most of its environment, within the architecture, creating a sustainable circular system. Within this project, I helped in creating the visual renders and diagrams that helped the communicate to the client the vision of the project.
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Agricultural & Production Waste
Rainwater Harvesting Solar Farm
Irrigation
Programmes Used Earth Walls/ Ceilings
Compost Processing Waste Water Ponds
Fertiliser for landscaping
CSEB Production Circular System
Soil From Excavations
We are using Circular Economy principles to think about how we use the resources around and within the site - how do we build in such a way that is as good for the environment as the organic fertilisers Wanda produces.
To read more about Circular Economy, click here Office Building
Accommodation for Staff
Processing Plant
Community Building
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BuildX Studio Sustainable material research. Kwangu Kwako concrete Panels To be truly sustainable, the main material of choice in a building is crucial in reducing the carbon emission of the buildings, and I lead this experiment in partnership with Kwangu Kwako Limited (KKL) to reduce the carbon emission of the internal walls of the Zima Affordable Homes project (page17).
Concrete concrete cubes to test alternative aggregates
Kwangu Kwako Limted (KKL) already offered a very thin 50mm thick pre-cast concrete wall panel, which compared to the common Kenyan quarry stone has a significantly less carbon footprint, and is much cheaper. We then decided to see how far we can push the technology, be reducing the price even further and creating concrete mixes with alternative aggregates to reduce the carbon footprint as well.
Programmes Used 1. Concrete cubes with woodchip (sawdust) aggregates to replace 15% of the fine aggregate material (river sand)
2. Concrete cubes with recycled tyre pellets aggregates to replace 15% of the course aggregate material (crushed stone)
3. Concrete cubes with recycled plastic flakes aggregates to replace 15% of the fine aggregate material (river sand
Testing connection details between KKL panles and different constriction elements
Example of full wall construction with Kwangu Kwako technology before any plastering and/or painting
4. Concrete cubes with recycled fabric aggregates to replace 15% of the fine aggregate material (river sand)
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