Issy Spence Portfolio - January 2018

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Academic Projects 4-7

Transforming the Wagon Workshop, Ă–rebro Part 1: Artists in Residence

Internships 24 - 25 26-27

Part 2: University Hospital of Ă–rebro

Allard Architecture, Amsterdam KeeP Architecture, Bristol

Publications

A Place for TED , Dorchester

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Paperspace Magazine

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Basil Spence, Oxford Train Station

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The Guardian: A Bathroom for Geberit

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Makespace Library, Dublin

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Aldwych Tube Station Theatre, London

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Forest of Imagination, Bath

Medical Centre, Bath

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End of Year Exhibition, London

8 - 11

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Design & Build

Transforming the Wagon Workshop | Part 1: Artists in Residence

T R A N S F O R M I N G T H E

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W O R K S H O P

Year 4 (Current Year) Semester 1, KTH September - October 2017

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CV site view : 30 hectares, to be developed

Project Part 1 of an Individual Project looking at the Existing Wagon Workshop in the CV area of Ă–rebro.

Program Artists in Residence, with art gallery, workshop and studio space. In collaboration with Open Art Biennale.

Current Situation: The wagon workshop

Intention How do we transform existing buildings? In the first part of this project, I have looked at the gradual transformation of the site with artists and fabrication workshops occupying the currently empty wagon workshop.

Size 19.000m2

Graphic to show the Fabrication and human scale within the wagon workshop Top Right: View of Internal Street Right: Ceramics Workshop

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Transforming the Wagon Workshop | Part 1: Artists in Residence

Section A through Living Units

Section B through Living Units

Live / Work Unit for Artists in Residence

Live / Work Unit for Artists in Residence 5

Transforming the Wagon Workshop | Part 2: University Hospital of Örebro

T R A N S F O R M I N G T H E

W A G O N

W O R K S H O P

Year 4 (Current Year)

Library

Semester 1, KTH November - December 2017

Project Part 2 of an Individual Project looking at the Existing Wagon Workshop in the CV area of Örebro.

Program Learning spaces and teaching facilities for University Hospital of Örebro as well as public functions

Intention Following on from the artists in

Study Space

residence, the intention is to open up this building to the public and citizens of Örebro. A variety of different spaces, in size and conditioning offer lots of opportunities, with an internal street connecting the program.

Size 19.000m2

Detailed Section involving existing structure and new construction Elevation from ‘The Street’

Transforming the Wagon Workshop | Part 2: University Hospital of Ă–rebro

R O O F

M E D I C A L U N I V E R S I T Y P R O G R A M & I N T E R V E N T I O N S

F L O O R

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Top: Floor Plan 1:1000 of the Wagon Workshop with Medical University Program. The building is 150m x 120m

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A Place for TED | Overview

B AA S PI LL A SC PE E NF CO ER : O X F O TR DE DT R AT I NA LS TK A ST I O N D O R C H E S T E R

Year 4 (Current Year) 1 Year 4Semester (Undergraduate) OctoberThesis - December Project 2016

Semester 2 Project January - May 2017 Group Project, collaboration between 2 x Civil EngineersProject and 2 x Architects Individual project, self-written brief

Program Train Station for Oxford, Programwith Youth

An illustration capturing the Intentions & Requirements of the Project: Created after speaking with Organisers for TEDxBristol

1:500 Ground Floor Plan

Approach from Brewery Square: Arrival from the train station and Brewery square.

1:500 Context Model

Hostel, retail andoffers commercial The program event spaces. space to Bridge Design host TED conferences, but moreover spaces for ideas exchange: spaces to inspire ideaIntention generation, incubation Reclaim and activate the wasteland and execution, including workshops, spaces surround and for seminarthat spaces andthe a railway living room create a station for a human scale. the city.

The building incorporates Intention 3 principles: Strata, Strait Stanza A Place for and TED, aims to manifest the philosophies of TED talks and the organisation into Size a built form, to inspire, 2 7.000m innovate and bring us together.

Size 3.500m2

Aerial site sketch of Dorchester showing site location

A Place for TED | Sectional Perspective

Sectional perspective

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A Place for TED | Project

The Auditorium has large shuttered panels which open, connecting to the town, and the rest of the building.

The Internal Street offers access to workshops and the program, and also opportunities for informal talks 10

The Bar, Studio Space and Workshop Spaces: Sections and Elevations

A Place for TED | Detailed Design

Opening Shuttered Facade - Open & Closed Condition

Detailed Section of the Opening Facade

View from Prince Wales Road - Opening Facade 11

Basil Spence Project | Overview

B A S I L O X F O R D

S P E N C E : T R A I N

S T A T I O N

O X F O R D

Year 4 (Current Year) Year 4 (Undergraduate) Project 1 Semester 1 Semester 1 October - December 2016 October - December 2016 (10 week project)

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Group Project, collaboration between

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Project

2 x Civil Engineers and 2 x Architects Group Project, collaboration between

Site Plan

2 x Civil Engineers and 2 x Architects

Program

Train Station for Oxford, with Youth

Program

Hostel, retail and commercial spaces.

Train Station for Oxford, with Youth Bridge Design Hostel, retail and commercial spaces.

Bridge Design

Intention

Reclaim and activate the wasteland

Intention

spaces that surround the railway and Reclaim and activate the wasteland create a station for a human scale. spaces that surround the railway and The building incorporates 3 principles: create a station for a human scale.

Strata, Strait and Stanza The building incorporates 3 principles: Strata, Strait and Stanza

Size

7.000m2

Station Approach

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7.000m2

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Basil Spence Project | Strata - Masonry detail

Masonry Construction

1. Ultra-high performance concrete footbridge 2. Green roof with granular drainage provides 1

rainwater harvesting and cooling 3. Upper floors constructed by casting concrete in-situ, insulation placed on top 4. 2no. 350x750mm columns for lateral stability, transferring bridge load down to

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ground 5. Recessed windows with a black steel reveal 3

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6. 500mm thick load-bearing masonry

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The building is of the earth and

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walls support building & provide thermal mass 7. 450mm wide strip foundation underneath all load-bearing walls

landscape, a unified ground plane of

8. Columns fixed to pile cap, 6no. 400mm diameter piles driven 11m deep into clay

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extruded forms. The layered masonry mass gives the scheme an earth-bound

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permanence.

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Exploded isometric: construction components

1:5 Tectonic Model of brick coursing

1:100 Station Building Model

Detailed Technical section

‘The Street’ - Shops, restaurants and cycle shop

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Basil Spence Project | Strait - Footbridge + Gantry Design

Sectional ISO of Bridge

STRAIT To contrast the grounded language the strait becomes an element of function. It facilitates the need to reach a destination directly. The Strait is a simple spanning statement resting on the Strata, fulfilling its requirement of crossing the divide in one bold gesture.

1:100 Sectional Model

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1:500 Site Model

Detailed Sectional Concrete bridge design

Basil Spence Project | Stanza - Electrification Station Concourse - Ground Floor Plan 1. Main Station Concourse

5. Waiting Space

2. Ticket office 3. Operations back of house

6. Bus Station 7. Taxi rank

4. Bakery

8. Botley Road Exit

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6 5

S TA N Z A The existing railway infrastructure is enhanced to form the Stanza, a motif which stitches the scattered Edgelands together. A diaphanous haze hangs above

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the Strata, touching delicately down on the landscape. This industrial spine subtly

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evolves Oxford’s skyline.

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Electrification gantry design

Station Concourse

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Station Concourse Floor Plan

Gantry design on platforms

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Makespace Library | Overview

M A K E S P A C E L I B R A R Y D U B L I N

Year 3 Project 2 Semester 1 November 2015 - January 2016 (10 week project)

Project Individual Studio Project

Program Children and Young Adult’s Library, Design Centre and Education Centre in Dublin

Intention The Makespace library will serve as a piece of urban acupuncture which will serve the socially deprived district of Dublin. The combination of library

Library Approach

spaces and creative workshops will encourage children and young adults to learn new skills.

Size 1.800m2

City Wide Analysis: Dublin City, Urban Form, Urban Grain, Transport + Green Spaces

Makespace Library | Context

1:200 Model with sketch overlay

Diagrammatic Aerial Sketch

Ground Floor Plan

Site Model 1:200

On Site Sketch: Surrounding Context

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Makespace Library | Window Types

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Above: Window types for function Right: Detailed Section with window types M A K E

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Contextual Elevation

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Makespace Library | Technical Details S T R U C T U R A L S T R AT E G Y - 3 D

S T R U C T U R A L S T R AT E G Y - G r i d core

C LT c o r e - C i r c u l a t i o n a n d F i r e

cross

protection

bracing

Opposite end to core to ‘Tie’ the building together and stop twisting

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finish

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p ly w o o d

structural glass

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plasterboard

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centre

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children adult

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library

continuous

primary

span

primary

Creates a modular system

Span : Depth ratio 1:15 for book loads

Column sizing (200 x 200)

Height is necessar y for a Timber

design

Beam 315 x 185

structure

G l u l a m Po s t a n d B e a m s t r u c t u r e

4.5m span =

Primar y Beams (315 x 185)

Frame building to allow for natural

4.5m

Column: 200 x 200

t o g e t h e r, a n d s t o p t o r t i o n 4m Floor to Floor Height

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structure

Glulam Beam + Column

Cross bracing to tie the two volumes

300mm depth

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Consistent 4.5m division Openings and Inter nal walls fit to this modular

ventilation

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structural

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continuous

beams

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315 x 140

span

structure

beams

315 x 140

Suppor t 9m length beam at 4.5m centres.

Glulam members

Bending moment reduces along the beam and changes sign at points of contraflexure between the suppor ts

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and the load Beam lenght can fit on lor r y

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Circularion and Fire Safety

Raft Foundation with Insulated Floor

Differentiate between the volumes

Loads transferred to foundation

core

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(300x300)

system

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tile

bracing

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core to ‘Tie’ the building together and stop twisting

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Column: 200 x 200 Beam 315 x 185 Span : Depth ratio 1:15 for book loads 4.5m span =

300mm depth

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Glulam column & beam Reinforced Glass

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315 x 140

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Circularion and Fire Safety

Structural Strategy

Ceramic tile clad system + Facade Build up 75

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Aldwych Tube Station Theatre | Overview

A L D W Y C H T U B E

S T A T I O N

T H E A T R E L O N D O N

Year 3 Project 1 Semester 1 October 2016 (4 week project)

Project Group Project, collaboration between 2 x Civil Engineers and 2 x Architects Awarded Arup Associates Prize for

‘Outstanding

design

work

and

Site Plan

Entrance to site

Elevation

Site Model

collaborative effort’

Program Repurposing an abandoned tube station into a Fringe Theatre for a Physical Theatre company, Exhibition Spaces for London Underground Tube Posters

Intention Creating an industrial feel theatre (structure + materiality) to reflect the cultural context of the London Underground and the physicality of the theatre style.

Size 1.500m2

Aldwych Tube Station Theatre | Theatre Design

View into Scaffold Theatre

Aerial Sketch of Proposed Theatre

Sectional Model

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Medical Centre | Overview

M E D I C A L

C E N T R E

B A T H

Year 2 Project 2 Semester 1 November - December 2014 (6 week Project)

Project Individual Project

Program Medical Centre for the University of Bath

Intention Reconnect to nature Play with private vs public spaces

Size 1.000m2

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Site Plan: University of Bath

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Medical Centre | Design Project

Build Environment transitioning into the natural landscape

Long Elevation

Movement round the site + desire lines

Consultation Room

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Allard Architecture | Internship

A L L A R D A R C H I T E C T U R E

Year 3 Semester 2 February - August 2015

Historic Photo from Archives

Summary 6 month internship in Amsterdam, NL.

Presentation for the client: Renovation of a Canal House

Pre - 1938

Small architectural practice, working 1938

on new builds, and renovation of

Pre - 1938

1999 Pre - 1974

1997

1938

Rijkmonuments.

1938 Pre - 1997

Pre - 1938 1997

1974

1938 1974 1999

Tasks

Archives - understanding the past to inform the design

listed canal houses) and new builds including private housing, care home and apartments.

Site visits, including surveying historic buildings and producing drawings.

projects and designs.

Model Making.

Sectional Model 1:50 - presented to the Aesthetic Committee Keizersgracht Canal House, Amsterdam Canal House Renovation Schematic + Detailed Design Producing presentations for the client, building a 1:50 sectional Model

allard architecture bv

Understanding the historic context

Proposed Renovation Section

1997

1999

1938 - 1974 1938

1997 1999

for renovations to Rijkmonuments (old

engineers and builders to discuss

Pre - 1938

Pre - 1974

Designing and producing drawings

Project Managing - meeting with clients,

1997 Pre - 1997

Pre - 1938

Allard Architecture | Internship ventilation grills and burgarly system TBD

2005

0.01 opslag 4m2

4480

0.02 slaapkamer 17m2

mechnical ventilation TBD plumbing TBD stark 3 compact Duravit

new duco doors

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1800

MV badkamer 4m2

dr wm

cupboard built to house CV and pipes confirm dimensioning

PAX wardrobe system with reclaimed doors

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0.05 verkeersruimte 15m2

0.04 badkamer 8m2

new gypsum board walls to close existing opening potential location of pipes - TBD

cv

sinks supported on steel frames to match detailing of doors and stairs TBD glass door and partition detailing to match steel of balustrade Kramer Staaltechniek

new interior doors location of this column to be determined confirm existing situation

new gypsum interior walls

0.07 slaapkamer 19m2

0.08 slaapkamer 10m2

4420

4140

floor finish idra

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MV

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On site with builder - working out existing beam locations

niche mechnical ventilation TBD plumbing / pipe location TBD beton cire finish Detailed design of bathroom TBD tegels TBD

PAX wardrobe system with reclaimed doors 05-03

ceiling to be boxed out to match

niuewe stalen portaal - size and calculations to be carried out by Arthur Grentzius from Duyts refer to drawing sheet 05.03

Meeting with contractor discussing pricing Marnixstraat Apartment, Amsterdam

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6850

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Renovation (Private Residential) Schematic + Detailed Design Meeting with design team members including engineer, contractor and client to discuss project. Producing drawings.

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Keep Architecture | 6 month Internship

K E E P A R C H I T E C T U R E

Work Placement February - August 2015 July - August 2017

Summary 6 month internship in Bristol, UK and returned this summer for 2 months.

Small architectural practice.

Tasks Worked on a variety of scales from designing house extensions, residential projects, Care Home to Urban Masterplanning.

Visualisation

Produced planning documents, such as Design and Access Statements.

Attended design team meetings.

Site Section

4 x Mews Houses, Roehampton, London

Staplegrove Urban Extension, Taunton (Opposite Page)

Feasibility and Schematic Design

Masterplanning

Producing drawings and scheme design for the client.

750 homes with overall site of 1.500 homes, School, Local Centre and Care Home

NOTES © Keep 2015 This drawing has been produced for PM Asset Management for the proposed development at Staplegrove, Taunton and is not intended for use by any other person or for any other purpose.

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Keep Architecture | 6 month Internship

Responsibility is not accepted for errors made by others in scaling from this drawing.

All construction information should be taken from figured dimensions only.

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Residential development parcels Potential employment parcels Employment parcel parking School site Local centre Shared surface urban spaces Indicative active frontages

Existing trees to be retained

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Existing hedgerows to be retained Open space

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Strategic northern tree belts New tree planting

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Attenuation ponds (indicative only) Flood zone Proposed allotments Equipped areas of play / youth activity areas

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Long range views

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Spine road

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Paperspace | Student Magazine

paperspace

3rd Year Through the Eyes of a 3rd Year: Urban Ghosts, London

P A P E R S P A C E :

It’s good to be back. Having been away from our beloved 6E since February on work placement, it’s great to be back together, and with our new friends the Civil Engineers.

M a g a z i n e

By Issy Spence

Year 1 - Year 4 (Undergraduate)

engineers doing calculations, and all work together on the project, as a happy family.

With only the instructions to bring a powerful torch for our site visit to London, we feared for the worst: a sewer. Thankfully, our worst nightmare didn’t come true, and to our delight were told the group

I’m pleased to announce that models are back. And I am so happy. 0 Models were made in 2nd year which seemed a bit of

project would be set in an abandoned tube station, Aldwych on The Strand. The project entitled ‘Urban Ghosts’ required us to re-inhabit the station (Which closed in 1994 and is currently used

a shame, because there have been some incredible ones this year! I have to say a particular favourite was Group 9 who dared to use modrock for a 1:20 elevation which caused some critics

for tours by Transport for London and film set) with Fringe theatre spaces and performance areas as well as an exhibition space for the London Underground’s poster collection. Groups were made

to curse in surprise. I love how suddenly everyone is feeling more experimental and stepping away from the immediate scramble towards SketchUp. With only 4 weeks, this project was rapid,

up of 3 architects and 2 Civil Engineers, and this was the first

but there was a huge volume, variety and different media of work

time working with civil engineers since the beginning of first year, which seemed an absolute age ago. (You can see what 1st years

produced and have to say after seeing the year collectively tired, it was such an interesting project. With ‘Urban Ghosts’ completed,

have been up to this year, with Equilibria on the previous pages) It

it was now onto our individual project, set in Dublin...

Group 9: Nothing New, Oliver Jack, Emma Ward, Kelubia Onaro, Chin Yeit Yang, Fraser Robinson: The Beastly 1:20 Elevation

Group 16: Oooft, that solid concrete

Group 22, The Walled Garden: Helen King, Stefan Ullmann, Sara Medas, Ulyssa Danielle Trevail, Michael Tsoi

Group 25: Vel Mladenovic, Flash Okunribido, Pitch Chayavoraprapa, Will Morgan, Emily Jones, Elsa Hui Zhang’s long

What is Fringe Theatre?

Positive vibes on Crit Day, Group 25

Group 33: The Wilson Theatre: Beth Scorey, Maliina Toivakka, Isaac Tam, Junshi Wace, Dan Tram

Group 16, The Host: Rebecca Mark, Dávid Jánosi, Olivia Britt, Thomas Pritchard, Chan Liao, Victor Delegrego

was exciting to break the stereotypes of architects dreaming and

October 2013 - June 2017

Project Paperspace is the University of Bath’s

Bet you’ve never seen a Tube Station this empty. Disused Aldwych Station: The Site

The Boxhaus: Group 1: Jessica Abbott, Helen Zhang, Azmina Al Saleh, Oliver Richards, Kristin Ivanova, and Yacine Abed

student-led Architectural and Civil Engineering magazine. The Magazine is produced twice a year.

Group 30: The Sublime, Ross Startin, Nefeli Eforakopoulou, Xenia Strohmeyer, Joseph Ling, Nalin Tan, Luke Peel : Poster Exhibition

ISSUE ONE JANUARY 2014 THE

BEGINNINGS

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The Boxhaus, Group 1

NEWS REVIEW TECHNOLOGY HISTORY COFFEE BREAK STIRLING PRIZE 3D PRINTING PARTHENON CARTOONS

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About I have been involved with Paperspace

paperspace

from the first meeting, where we brainstormed ideas and what we wanted the magazine to be. Since then,

Where in the World are the Placement Students?

Are we too Emotionally Invested in our work?

Civil Engineers and Architecture Students at Bath have the great opportunity of working in industry before returning to study. Here are some doodles to show you where we are.

A project, like a new born baby, requires you to attend to its every need, constant feeding, and will often keep you up until 4am, leaving you with a headache for the rest of the next day.

By Issy Spence

By Issy Spence

I have contributed to the magazine with writing, layout, design and running the weekly meetings. I have been

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Soul-less

Spends hours moving plug sockets down walls. Prone to repetition.

We can’t help but form a relationship with our work simply because we pour so much time, energy and money into it. (Foamboard prices have definitely risen) But are we too emotionally attached to a bunch of lineweights and a concept?

Or do we lack any connection at all because we feel architecture has become too commercial? Does the harsh, cold reality that your design may not actually get built, cost too much, or doesn’t make the developers happy, leave you cold and emotionless? To explore this, I introduce to you, The Emotion-O-Meter, to gauge the emotional level you have poured into your work.

produced 8 issues, with around 20 contributors.

At first glance, we have the CAD monkey clan. I remember the early studio days, where Sketchup just hit The Mainstream and the fabulously original box design swooped a majority, leaving the minority (1 studio seat) of Team Curve & Crazy Parabola rather lonely. Zaha would have felt rather out of place, weeping as her studio minions were enslaved by their inability on CAD, to produce anything other than the same orthogonal box building...

Previous issues can be found on the

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The Emotion-O-Meter: Have we invested too much or too little emotion into our work?

the Editor-In-Chief for 2 years. I have

website:

I was born in the wrong era

Is a Corb Wannabe, using Corb’s Is an emotional wreck design principles in all design work, and under pressure / criticism longs daily that we were on the cusp of / the sight of a beautiful Modernism glazing detail

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Cover pages of some issues I have worked on and contributed to

CAD is a brilliant tool and a truly cracking piece of technology. But beware: do not fall due to the chronic illness of what I like to call OCD, Obsessive CAD Disorder. Symptoms include obsessing over details on initial stages of your design project because you feel they need to be ‘correct’ from Day 1, you are unable to hold a pen and you have dreams about the Follow Me tool on Sketchup. (I have suffered all of the above) Unfortunately, there is no immediate cure for said OCD (Obsessive CAD Disorder) but

Some of the articles I have written, illustrated and done the Editorial Design for

a dose of marker pens and a roll of tracing paper should ease symptoms. Don’t be restricted in your design by what you can and can’t do on your computer.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have the Wistful Nostalgics. You look back and reminisce over how you did more hand drawing in your infant school years than you do now. What’s even worse is that the nostalgia you feel, may be for something you never experienced. (There is probably a more technical term for this, but if I looked it up, I would look back with sadness, at the naive time when I didn’t know overly pretentious lexical choices to convey my sentiment...) It’s great to look back, take influence from what’s gone on before you arrived on this planet but don’t be a slave for life to The Grid of Mies or think that everything you design needs to be as monumental as a Kahn Building.

And that lands us nicely in the middle. The middle is a great place.

In the middle, you inject your projects with love and enthusiasm.

But not so much you are wrung of all energy. In the middle, you strike up a balance between working on CAD and stepping away from your trusty computer. In the middle, you look at historic case studies, but balance it with forward thinking.

So in summary, don’t be a monkey, a robot, stuck in the past, or over obsessed with all the detail, it is about The Balance. Be in touch with your emotions but not dictated and distracted by them.

The Guardian | An Industrial Bathroom for Geberit

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G U A R D I A N : G e b e r i t

Freelance March 2016

Project Bathroom Design for Publication Joint project with Oliver Jack: Visualisation and 20 second animation

About Geberit, the Swiss Bathroom company approached the newspaper The Guardian, to ask for young designers to produce a design for their products.

Oliver and I were selected to design a bathroom with an Industrial Theme.

We were interviewed and featured in The Weekend, the Guardian’s weekend magazine and online.

Interior views of the Industrial themed bathroom we were asked to design for Geberit 29

Forest of Imagination | The Hideaway

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Design & Build 1 week Design & Build Project June 2017

Project Design & Build Group Project, collaboration between Students, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, 5x5x5, Buro Happold and Forest of Imagination

Program 1:1 Design and Build a gathering space

Intention We have created a gathering space for workshops to be held and stories to be told, for the Forest of Imagination, a children’s festival which aims to reengage all of us with our imaginations and learning.

We used felled trees on site to create the cladding panels. The structure was designed on site, in response to a large fallen log.

Design & Build | End of Year Show Exhibition

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Design & Build July 2017

Project Design & Build for Degree Exhibition in Truman Brewery, London

About I was the Chairperson for organising the End of Year Show for the University of Bath Degree Show, and was involved in organising logistics, venue hire and constructing and disassembling the Exhibition Design & Layout. I worked with 20 other students.

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