2024 Joe Russell Sample Portfolio and CV

JOE RUSSELL

JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO

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SAMPLE PORTFOLIO & CV HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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SUMMARY

Award-winning graduate with a strong drive for achieving user-centered architectural solutions through socially, ecologically and economically versed design. Specialised in planning policy, housing and development.

EDUCATION HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Master of Architecture, MArch I •

Awarded the GSD Dean’s Scholarship (<$200,000 merit-based scholarship) and ranked as the top applicant in the 2023 admissions cycle

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Bachelor of Science, BSc •

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A-level & GCSE Examinations

2012 - 2019 Peterborough, UK

Mathematics (A*), Chemistry (A*), Fine Art (A*) and highest academic performance in graduating cohort Mentor (sciences), Young Enterprise (student business), EPQ (sustainable design research paper)

EXPERIENCE ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS Architecture Intern • • •

Guest Lecturer • •

March 2023 London, UK

Lectured in the 2023 LSE London Planning and Policy Seminar Series with Professor Alan Mace Addressed strategic development solutions through design & policy reform for the Metropolitan Green Belt

LEXISNEXIS

UX Design Intern • • •

Oct 2022 - June 2023 London, UK

Contributed to the concept design stages of multiple high-profile developments in East and South-East Asia Provided architectural solutions to facade, layout and core conditions on projects valued at $100 million + Served as a member of the RSHP sustainability committee and supported the office’s environmental initiatives

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

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2019 - 2022 London, UK

Chosen as the Bartlett’s nomination for both the Architects’ Journal Student Prize and the RIBA Bronze Medal 2022 (an accomplishment only possible by the no. 1 ranked graduating student) Winner of the Architects’ Journal Student Prize (best student architecture project in the United Kingdom) Winner of the Bartlett Medal (the school’s highest student honor)

THE KING’S (THE CATHEDRAL) SCHOOL • •

2023 - 2026 Cambridge, MA

June 2022 - Oct 2022 London, UK

Co-led the integration of the first comprehensive design system for data visualization within Lexis+ UK Designed scalable components and a system structure for efficient roll-out and product implementation Developed skills in rapid prototyping, wireframing, agile workflows and presenting to varied stakeholders

July 2021 - Oct 2021 Peterborough, UK

AMAZON FULFILLMENT CENTER Warehouse Operative

Responsible for stock picking, sorting and stacking within the Peterborough fulfillment center Consistently exceeded the depot pick-rate of 180 units per hour Sept 2020 - June 2022 Peterborough, UK

MATHEMATICS TUTOR Private Hire Tutor •

All clients achieved grade 8 or 9 in GCSE Mathematics and grade A or A* in A-level Mathematics June 2018 - July 2018 London, UK

ADJAYE ASSOCIATES Design Intern • •

Supported the concept design of the International Children’s Cancer Research Center (Kyebi, Ghana) Led the construction of a 1:500 scale physical model used for the client’s fundraising event in New York June 2017 Peterborough, UK

JEFFERSON SHEARD ARCHITECTS Work Experience •

Conducted site analysis and contributed to the design of an affordable housing development

AWARDS DRAWING OF THE YEAR 2022

RIBA PRESIDENT’S MEDAL NOMINEE 2022

DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIP 2023

BARTLETT MEDAL 2022

AJ STUDENT PRIZE 2022

HENRY PEARSON GATES AWARD 2019

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Winner of Archisource $15,000 top prize beating ‘thousands of entrants from 95 countries’

Merit-based scholarship in excess of $200,000 for studies at Harvard University GSD

Winner of the best Part I ARB/RIBA accredited design work in the United Kingdom

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Nominee for the best Part I ARB (or equivalent) accredited design work

Awarded for the best design work in the graduating cohort

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Awarded for highest academic achievement in the graduating cohort

SOFTWARE •

Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Indesign, XD), Figma, Sketch, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Sharepoint, Miro, Conceptboard, Keynote, Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, Vray, Enscape, Rhino, Microstation

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T IG HT E N IN G TH E G RE E N BE LT: OA K WO O D M E WS, E N F I E LD THIRD YEAR DESIGN THESIS AJ Student Prize Winner 2022 Drawing of the Year Winner 2022 Bartlett Medal Winner 2022 RIBA President’s Medal Nominee 2022 1st Class Honours JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO

This project responds to the UK’s increasingly

as an incidental benefit’ of the policy rather than

severe housing crisis by proposing a housing/

its intended goal.

community

scheme

as

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precedent

for

socially and ecologically sustainable future

A 21st-Century Metropolitan Green Belt, written

developments within the Metropolitan Green

by Dr Alan Mace of the London School of

Belt (MGB).

Economics, critiques current Green Belt policy and instead proposes urban planning solutions

The Green Belt Act of 1938 constituted the first

for sustainable future development within

formal planning legislation to define the open

the MGB. This project – titled ‘Tightening the

space surrounding Greater London as protected

Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield’ – takes

land. Initially proposed to give access to the

on these ideas and adapts them at the scale of

countryside, the MGB later became a physical

an architectural scheme that relies upon locally

constraint to the growth of London. The current

sourced natural/recycled materials.

policy is set out within the National Planning Policy Framework which states ‘the fundamental

Finding a site was dictated by the parameters

aim of Green Belt Policy is to prevent urban

set out within Dr Mace’s A 21st Century

sprawl by keeping land permanently open.’

Metropolitan Green Belt. I focused on Enfield in the North London area to conduct a ‘mini-

Duncan Sandys, the minister responsible for

expedition’ to find a site that would meet the

MGB expansion in the 1950s, said that Green

requirements set out for the project.

Belt land did not have to be ‘green’ or even

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particularly attractive, as its purpose was to stop

The site eventually chosen was the land

urban development. Therefore, the ‘actual use

opposite Oakwood underground station near

or enjoyment of the Green Belt is clearly seen

the northern end of the Piccadilly Line. The

JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Aerial view of Oakwood station, Bramley Road and the community centre

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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Aerial perspective view of the community centre

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station was designed by renowned modernist

“Development within the MGB should: I. Limit

architect Charles Holden, who designed a

environmental losses

number of much praised stations along the

II. Benefit existing residents

Piccadilly Line. Oakwood is the penultimate

III. Limit private car usage

stop, and being so close to this station means

IV. Be close to public transport links”

that there will be very easy public access for residents and visitors to my new housing/

The site stretches for approximately 200

community scheme.

meters in length and 50 meters in width. The topography of the site slopes down notably on

The

land

ultimately

provided

the

best

opportunity to produce architectural design that

its northern boundary, away from the road that passes in front of the underground station.

most thoughtfully responded to the parameters proposed

by

Dr

Mace

for

sustainable

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development:

Site location prior to development

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1. Two bedroom houses I 2. Storage and delivery shed 3. Two bedroom houses II 4. Three bedroom houses I 5. Stairs to upper level 6. One bedroom house

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7. Three bedroom houses II 8. Cantilevered balcony 9. Lower level workspace 10. Multipurpose space 11. Toilets 12. Storage facility

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.13. Main hall 14. Open plan nursery 15. Nursery toilets 16. Main lobby 17. Kitchen and storage 18. Cafe

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The community center is located at the south

These

public-serving

components

are

end of the site where the land meets Bramley

deliberately oversized in comparison to the

Road. Included within the larger built body

number of housing units within the scheme.

(clad in stacked timber beams and roofed

This is to cater to both new residents and

with reclaimed corrugated steel sheeting) is a

existing local residents.

cafe, workspace, hall, kitchen and lobby. The spaces are designed to be purposefully open

The housing consists of a range of semidetached

with minimal interior walls. This allows for the

and

building to easily adapt to the differing needs of

and three-bedroom homes. The proposal is

a range of occupiers.

medium-density, with each property having its

terraced

one-bedroom,

two-bedroom

own small private garden. All residents have Opposite the main center is the nursery,

access to the large public gardens designed to

equipped with white-washed, reclaimed brick

enhance community engagement.

walls and thatched roofing. The nursery is also

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open plan which allows the space to become

The three-bedroom houses are fitted with

an extension of the main center during out-of-

reclaimed corrugated steel sheet roofing, while

school hours (such as evenings and weekends).

the one and two-bedroom homes have natural thatched roofing.

Cut between the cafe level and corridor past the kitchen towards the exit doors within the community centre

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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Interior of the main hall space within the community centre

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In anticipation of a new fleet of underground trains being introduced to the Piccadilly Line in 2025, Transport for London (TfL) is undertaking major upgrades to the line’s maintenance depots. The upgrade will involve the complete demolition of its current Cockfosters depot.

My project therefore responds to this demolition by placing itself within this process of depot deconstruction. In doing so, my scheme gains an array of recycled building materials and prevents several hundred tonnes of embodied carbon from being dumped in landfill sites around London.

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In addition to salvaging the Cockfosters depot materials, My proposal is also to source local naturally occurring materials that can be sustainably harvested (i.e. timber from the plentiful pine/fir woodlands and straw bales grown on adjacent farmland).

The combining of harvested material with recycled material presents an opportunity to develop an architectural design that tackles the restrictiveness of the reused component catalog balanced with the expansiveness of new building materials.

The drawing that I made of the existing site to the left outlines the location of horticultural land (straw bale), coniferous woodland (pine/ fir trees), the Cockfosters depot and my chosen site in the center.

Left hand side illustration: Context drawing illustrating material resource radius for 1 (horticultural land), 2 (coniferious woodland) and 3 (Cockfosters depot), 4 (site of Oakwood Mews), 5 (Oakwood Underground Station) Cockfosters depot plan

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Isometric drawing showing repeating elements (A,B) of Cockfosters depot

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A

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At the first stage of assessing what recycled materials would be available for reuse in my project, I carried out a detailed survey of the existing Cockfosters depot as the plans and sections were not publicly available. I then drew up the most accurate 3D model of the building so that I could calculate precisely which materials would become available and how much embodied carbon could be salvaged/

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saved from landfill.

Note: There are 2 sets of ‘A’ and 14 sets of ‘B’.

The values on the following page give embodied carbon values for the entire depot. The visuals are not representative.

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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Isometric drawing showing repeating element (B) in colour

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STAGE 0

Embodied carbon salvaged: 0 kgCO2e Material types: n/a B

Embodied carbon salvaged total: 0 tCO2e A

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STAGE 1

Embodied carbon salvaged: 27785.9 kgCO2e Material types: Glass, Steel Embodied carbon salvaged total: 27.8 tCO2e

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STAGE 2

Embodied carbon salvaged: 69521.2 kgCO2e B

Material types: Concrete, Brick, Steel, Glass Embodied carbon salvaged total: 97.3 tCO2e

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STAGE 3

Embodied carbon salvaged: 121139.6 kgCO2e Material types: Concrete, Brick, Steel, Glass B

Embodied carbon salvaged total: 218.4 tCO2e

STAGE 4

Embodied carbon salvaged: 142985.2 kgCO2e Material types: Brick, Steel Embodied carbon salvaged total: 361.4 tCO2e

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STAGE 5

Embodied carbon salvaged: 363071.6 kgCO2e B

Material types: Brick, Steel Embodied carbon salvaged total: 724.5 tCO2e

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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO The following pages focus on the design of the cantilevered structure of the community centre - a space which involves reuse of every available material from the depot shed as well as the inclusion of every available locally harvested material. The majority of the reclaimed steel is used in this part of the building.

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Isometric cut view of the eastern part of the building

Part of the building illustrated in the render and the exploded isometric drawing

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1. Reclaimed corrugated steel sheet roofing 2. Steam bent curved timber beam rafters 3. Rewelded steel support for roof beams

4. Steel beam framework 5. Wall insulation / straw bale 6. Exterior timber cladding / facade 7. Roof insulation / straw bale 8. Timber frame to hold insulation 9. Floor insulation

10. Reclaimed H-Beams as pile foundations

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JOE RUSSELL SAMPLE PORTFOLIO Short section showing cantilevered part of the building structure

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1. Corrugated steel sheet roof 2. Steel z purlins 3. Steel roof support 4. Primary steel roof support 5. Straw bale insulation 6. Cavity space

7. Timber panelling 8. Ceiling decoration 9. Secondary support beam 10. Insulation cap panel 11. Interior finishing 12. 50mm timber cladding

13. Stacked timber 14. Waterproof sheet 15. Reclaimed bolts 16. Reclaimed H-beam 17. Steel box beam to pile 18. Straw bale insulation

19. Floor cushioning 20. Timber flooring 21. Secondary steel frame 22. Primary steel frame

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STAGE 2 - RAMMED EARTH

Net embodied carbon: -67.9 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 67911.9 kgCO2e Harvested material: 0 kgCO2e

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STAGE 4 - FRAME

Net embodied carbon: -150.0 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 32265.8 kgCO2e Harvested material: 1033.4 kgCO2e

STAGE 7 - INSULATION

Net embodied carbon: -156.6 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 1412.6 kgCO2e Harvested material: 657.9 kgCO2e

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STAGE 9 - ROOF SUPPORT

Net embodied carbon: -205.7 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 0 kgCO2e

STAGE 11 - INSULATION

Net embodied carbon: -202.7 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 0 kgCO2e Harvested material: 808.2 kgCO2e

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Harvested material: 733.9 kgCO2e

STAGE 12 - CLADDING

Net embodied carbon: -209.9 tCO2e Saved from landfill: 7156.0 kgCO2e Harvested material: 0 kgCO2e

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L IV ING S ING L E , L IV ING TO G E TH E R FOURTH YEAR BUILDING PROJECT 4 Week Project Semester I Project I (Core I) September 2023

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This project presents a multigenerational duplex

transformation. It features a full 90-degree

home that considers the balance between

rotation of the original 3-segment plan, with

communal

privacy.

a curved extension that creates an additional

Formally, it began with a given plan composed

‘fourth’ space, responding to the ‘L’ shape in the

of a distinct 3-segment layout (shown on the

given plan. This floor includes a bedroom, library,

next page) which prompted further response

and snug. The bent L-shaped transformation

that deliberates form, function, and accessibility.

adds spatial variance and also completes the

living

and

individual

overarching interrogation of shifting the original The ground floor, dedicated to a couple with

formal composition.

children, comprises a kitchen, dining area, snug, and study and maintains the original

The design heavily considers of accessibility

plan’s segmentation. Moving to the first floor,

and its relation to massing. The assignment of

the design incorporates translations of the

space on each level was carefully planned to

3-segment form, blending communal and

encourage overlap and interaction between

private spaces. This level houses bedrooms, a

occupants, fostering a sense of community while

communal area, and a kitchen specifically for

respecting the need for privacy. The building

the grandparents, displaying a thoughtful mix

represents a reassessment of multigenerational

of shared and individual spaces. The formal

living through its transformation of space and

approach here reveals a triangulation of the

form. It challenges conventional duplex designs

initial three.

and presents an alternative that balances communal

The second floor, entirely occupied by the grandparents, is the final and complete formal

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South-east perspective 1:200 model

East perspective 1:200 model

North perspective 1:200 model

South-west perspective 1:200 model

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Section AA

Section BB

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Given Floor Plan

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