Extended Portfolio - Lance Macadangdang

01 - 02 CV 03 - 20 MArch Thesis Project: 07 - 10 01. The Wood Workshop 11 - 12 02. The Bakery 13 - 14 03. The Market 15 - 18 04. Civic Hub 19 - 20 Thesis Exhibition 21 - 24 MArch Research Project 25 - 34 MArch Budapest Symposium (individual project) 35 - 46 MArch Budapest Symposium (group project) 47 - 50 Professional Experience: ‘Alexandra Drive’ 51 - 56 Professional Experience: ‘Forgotten Spaces’ 57 - 62 BA3 Withington Baths 63 - 68 BA3 Switch off & Swim 69 - 74 BA2 The Ropewalks Hotel 75 - 80 HELLO WOOD: Cabin Fever 81 - 82 4x4: Studio in the Woods 83 - 96 Model-making

Remote-operated window for natural ventilation

Steel I Section Purlin

Professional Experience

2020 Part 1 Architectural Assistant, Architectural Emporium Ltd, Liverpool

2018 RIBA Student Mentoring Scheme, Pride Road Ltd, Liverpool

Education

2022 MArch Master of Architecture, University of Liverpool First Class Honours September 2020 - July 2022

2019 BA(Hons) Architecture, University of Liverpool First Class Honours September 2017 - July 2019

2016 Art Foundation, University of the Arts London, Carmel College Level 4 Diploma in Art & Design, Distinction Level 3 Award in Drawing, Pass September 2015 - June 2016

2015 A Level, Carmel College, St Helens Fine Art: A* Graphic Communication: A* ICT (AS Level): B Extended Project: C

2013 GCSE, St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Centre for Learning, Whiston 10 GCSEs at A - C grades including Maths and English

Achievements

2022 AHMM Urban Heritage & Design Award for Masters Thesis Project 2019 Architects’ Journal Student Prize undergraduate nominee

2019 LAS Student Awards project shortlist

2018 North West Timber Trading Association Prize nominee

2017 Elmes Testimonial Fund, 2017

2015 BNY Mellon Boat Race Poster Competition shortlist

Extracurricular

HELLO WOOD: Cabin Fever, International Summer School, Hungary, 2018 4x4: Studio in the Woods, Wales, 2017

Skills

Vectorworks Photoshop Microsoft Office

AutoCAD InDesign Hand drawing

SketchUp Illustrator Model making Enscape Lightroom Photography

Challenging the Regeneration of Post-Industrial Towns

Background

Bochnia the 12th mention document

AHMM Urban Heritage & Design Prize winner MArch Group Thesis Project 2022

Bochnia Salt Mine is the greatest treasure of the Bochnia region. Thanks to the salt deposits, the city of Bochnia became one of the most important economic centres of medieval Lesser Poland. The beginnings of the Bochnia mine as a mining plant date back to 1248, where being a royal enterprise, the mine brought enormous profits to the local area. However, in the 20th, the salt value significantly decreased and salt mining became less and less profitable.

Bochnia History & Demographics

The Bochnia town centre has ceased to be attractive to young society. Its outskirts have been transformed into areas with low social status, dominated by old and decapitalised buildings, inhabited by elderly lonely people. Due to this situation, the discussion on the urban revitalisation and strategies to counteract the negative effects of the shrinkage of Bochnia is very timely and necessary.

1st PERIOD OF BOCHNIA CITY’S DEVELOPEMT

2nd PERIOD OF BOCHNIA CITY’S DEVELOPEMT

3rd PERIOD OF BOCHNIA CITY’S DEVELOPEMT

Thirty years after the closure of the mine, in 2021, the city issued a document diagnosing local urban problems and a 10-year Bochnia Revitalisation Plan. However, at the moment, no architectural or urban planning intentions have been submitted. Consequently, this thesis seeks to challenge the local revitalisation plan and question:

A) Can the use of collective community memory & skills, local industrial architecture and folklore artefacts become a guide for the future post-industrial town regenerations?

B) How can we preserve and revive the disappearing architecture of Bochnia, and how can we design long-lasting and sustainable architecture?

C) How should we respond to material degradation to raise awareness of limited resources and commemorate the historical significance of Bochnia while establishing sustainable construction methods?

Utilising the Bochnia’s sites, the project aims to provide the city with a new industrial identity inspired by the golden era of the Salt Mine while celebrating its community heritage and skills. Instead of demolishing abandoned industrial sites, this thesis proposes to repurpose and retrofit the remains of the Salt Mine Town into a functional space with community workshops, shared spaces, and public infrastructures.

Group members: Gabriela Grodny, Adarshini Burrun, Zhengyang Zhao, Lance Macadangdang

Urbanisation Process

WARSAW

Market Visual

Civic Hub Visual 1:500 Bochnia Town Model

Wood Workshop Axo Bakery Axo

01. The Wood Workshop

The proposed Timber Workshop is located within Bochnia’s former craftmanship quarter, which creates a sense of appreciation for the Craftsmen Association and provides a base for their workshops and events engaging the local community and younger generations. The form of the building adopted the typology of the town’s industrial architecture, and a connection to the Artisan Quarter.

02. The Bakery

The Bakery’s site is located next to a forgotten skill of Bochnia, a demolished traditional bakery. The location creates a sense of familiarity with the post-working age communities and provides a base for The Circle of the Rural Housewives. The Bakery acts as a catalyst in cultivating the local cuisine by providing culinary seminar spaces and actively engaging local generations.

03. Market

The Market’s site is located within Bochnia’s Old Main Square, aiming to encourage the exchange of local goods and surrounding regions. The Market for this project encourages this diverse social engagement and the exchange of goods, benefitting the economic sustainability.

Axonometric Visual

04. Civic Hub

The Civic Hub aims to provide a multifunctional space for the local communities, including Bochnia senior club and Mining Association “Sutoris”.

Its internal layout allows visitors to explore the archival tower, participate in seminars and lectures on the history of the salt mines or experience traditional music concerts in the auditorium.

Functional spaces are open to all communities and groups, bringing diversity to the educational uses of the building and creating a communal home for the town.

Thesis Exhibition: 24.06.22

Sensory Atlas

MArch Group Research Project 2021

The Sensory Atlas project was nine week-long group project that researched standards designed for the neuromajority and challenged them to be more inclusive of the neurodivergent - individuals with differing mental or neurological functions compared to what is considered normal. Usually, this term is in reference to the autism spectrum.

Physical body performances in different spacial environments were the main research methodology to

The outcome of the project was an interactive exhibition featuring the catalogue of research and experiments. Viewers could interact with the exhibition to learn about their foundational senses and

Group members: Gemma Bartle, Yashna Calleechurn, Scott Tonkinson, Lance Macadangdang

Body performance experiments against the Neufert Standard

Model representation of affordances of architectural forms and moments

Body experiment: drawing a star by only looking through a mirror

Body experiment: answering a riddle while experiencing sensory overload

Exhibition photograph

Exhibition photograph

TENEMENTS

primarly built up with blocks. Many of these accomodate many studio back of the buidling courtyard-facing units contrasts wealther tenants domestic functions struggle to facilitate.

Budapest Symposium

‘Activating Infill Sites’, MArch Project 2020

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Budapest Symposium was a project that observed the Hungarian city of Budapest through desktop research.

This project examined courtyard housing, a typology with lacks domestic spaces and facilities identified compared to a contemporary home.

A mixed-use housing co-operative is proposed as a prototype for a site in District 8, an impoverished area of Budapest to be a prototype for the many infill sites scattered throughout the city. The concept of a hybrid structure of steel and mass timber structure clad in translucent polycarbonate, behaving like a parasite to the urban block but also having a symbiotic relationship by providing new shared facilities to existing tenants of the block.

of typical living spaces of courtyard tenements

[402] TENEMENT DWELLING EXAMPLE OF A TENEMENT UNIT

Illustrations

Axonometric floor plan of the ground floor functions

adjoining building 7 External walkways

adjoining

Unit (Total: 65 sqm) Occupancy: 2-3 people

Unit (Total: 55 sqm) Occupancy: 1-2 persons

U-BLOCK HOUSING

Axonometric illustrations of a family unit

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Section: daylight

Street Elevation

Budapest Symposium

‘Urban Bath House & Residential Complex’, MArch Project 2021

As part of the Budapest Symposium, a peer’s individual project was chosen to become a group project and collaborate to produce detailed construction drawings for the project.

The building is a large complex that comprises public baths on the ground level, and housing on the upper floors.

As a strategy, each group member agreed to detail an area of the section. I was assigned to detail the pool roof; a connection between the steel rafters holding glass brick to the structural arches made from reclaimed brick and clad in ceramic tiling sourced from Zsolnay, a historic ceramics factory still in operation.

Group members: Molly Fitzpatrick, Helena Sarney, Daniel Rankine-Gayle, Lance Macadangdang

Vapour

house detail, 1:20 @ A1

Remote-operated window for natura ventilat on Stee I Section Pur in

Axonomteric of the Urban Bath House, visual render

Main pool, visual render

Professional Experience

Part 1 Architectural Assistant at Architectural Emporium Ltd, 2020

Project: ‘Alexandra Drive’

Alexandra Drive was a project that I had a lot of involvement in and took ownership of. The client for the project wanted to transform an existing Victorian house into three rentable flats in Sefton, Liverpool. The project may not be architecturally impressive, but the experience gained while working on this project from early RIBA stages to building control is invaluable.

The building showed signs of age, such as existing openings to be replaced, new wall finishes, and ceiling and flooring to be renewed. Under the supervision of a Director, detailed drawings for windows, floor tanking, and a bespoke bike shelter were drawn.

Division of floor space into three separate flats, ground floor plan

Paving to communal

New steps to rear patio Retaining wall Gate and fence to secure Existing raised bed Existing site access Light well to be created tanking and new balustrade See details Existing tree to be removed Replacement tree (Tillia species) to be planted

FENSA

Professional Experience

- Strengthening the identity of place through the reinstatement of historical forms, uses and urban spaces.

- Reinterpreting original uses to provide a modern sustainable community.

- Realistic development proposal.

- Connecting town centre to transport nodes.

- New public realm, commercial and social community uses to encourage pedestrian through traffic.

- Extending the town centre.

Project Aspirations

Market Hall

Community Hub

Town Houses

Apartments

BACK TO THE FUTURE / PRESCOT / ARCHITECTURAL EMPORIUM

Axonometric of the masterplan

- Flexible social community space.

- Prescot Picture Palace reinstated as multifunctional hall to serve community.

- Hub will feature hall for events, screenings, presentations, meetings, performances, conferences, weddings, etc.

- Cafe and office facility to front of building, incorporating co-work space.

- Cafe and hall to open onto Market Square.

- New canopy/colonnade to create a new frontage onto square.

Community Hub

BACK TO THE FUTURE

- 3-storey town houses for town centre living with roof gardens.

- Access from rear by vehicles.

- Community green to front with shared ammenity.

- Arranged in crescent to lead people through and screen surroundings.

- Suitable for families, but providing dense urban living in the heart of the town.

- Encourage non transient living to contribute to the town centre.

Axonometric highlighting the Community Hub (orange) & Town Houses (blue)

- Apartment block forms an edge to the main road.

- Commercial use to ground floor providing active frontage.

- Faceted roof references surrounding pitched forms.

- Reduces mass by allowing the building to read as a terrace of properties.

- Modern development providing sustainable and accessible urban living.

- Permeable facade for accessing shops and public realm.

Apartments

BACK TO THE FUTURE

- Replacing and reinterpreting the original market place.

- Working with existing square to provide more usable and significant public space.

- Possibility of occasional road closure to further link between existing and proposed.

- Central landmark at key node refercing local structures.

- Modern interpretation of existing and lost forms to provide a place to gather.

- Structure provides shelter and facilities to accomodate market uses.

Axonometric highlighting the Apartment block (pink) & Market place (green)

Section: Withington Baths with proposed Nursery, refurbished pool, and new gym

NORTH ELEVATION - WHITCHURCH ROAD 1:200

SOUTH ELEVATION - NURSERY 1:200

Proposed Withington Baths elevations

Switch off & Swim

Northwest Timber Trading Association Prize 2018 nominee

‘Swimmer’s Refuge’, BA Third Year Project, 2018

Switch off & Swim is a project with themes of water and leisure. The project’s brief was to design a structure that could shelter the client after their leisurely activities. In this project, the clients are the outdoor swimmers who swim in Lake Buttermere in Cumbria.

A timber A-frame structure that sits near the shoreline of the scenic lake. The primitive shape of the cabin makes the interior more intimate while accommodating activities and social gatherings for the outdoor swimmers. Clad in black, the charred timber cladding allows the cabin to conform with the green landscape of the Lake District environment.

The Ropewalks Hotel

BA Second Year Project, 2018

The Ropewalks Hotel is a colourful hotel accommodation that expresses the vibrant culture of the Ropewalks area of Liverpool. It sits in an empty and narrow infill site in Slater Street.

Measuring 9.5 metres in width, the site’s narrow space challenges the project to create compact hotel rooms that are inclusive for those who extrovert themselves to the Ropewalks and those who prefer a private chamber. The hotel rooms are double-height with a mezzanine level to compensate for the small width of the room. Each room has folding panels which each guest can use to control the amount of daylight that enters the room, or in this case for the street-facing rooms, how much they want to show themselves to the public. An alternative to the revealing street-facing rooms, the hotel rooms within the narrow plan provide more privacy without losing access to daylight as it faces an atrium adorned with a green wall.

Street elevation: night

Room type axonometric (top), room type floor plans (bottom)

Atrium wall elevation

HELLO WOOD: Cabin Fever

HELLO WOOD Internation Summer School, Csóromfölde, Hungary, 2018.

Cabin Fever was HELLO WOOD’s theme for the summer school lasting eight days. Groups of students mentored by Architects around the world worked together to design and build a habitable cabin in the scenic Hungarian countryside.

‘I AM MONUMENT’ is the name of the group I was part of and a homage to the previous participant’s unfinished structure we had inherited to complete. As the result of our teamwork, we constructed insulated walls and cladding to the skeleton structure to become more homely and habitable. Celebrating the completion of the project, we decided to have a good night’s sleep inside the cabin!

Team:

Team leaders: Josep Garriga, Patxi Martin, Natalia Vera Vigaray

Aloutsanidis Vasilis, Lance Macadangdang, Rogier Tamminga, Hena Wang, Darya MoatazedKeivani, Berta Ballestin, Lara Gonzalez, Pyeori Jung, Charlotte Cocking, Zhao Zhou, Fábián Villányi, Ruairidh Murdock, Gabrielle Sanchez

Long exposure photograph, courtesy of Zhao Zhou

Photographs during construction, courtesy of Glódi Balázs

Photographs during construction, courtesy of Glódi Balázs

Completion, photographs courtest of Glódi Balázs

Interior, photograph courtesy of Tamas Bujnovszky

4x4: Studio in the Woods

‘4x4: Studio in the Woods’ by Unit 3 Design Studio, Woodland Skills Centre, Wales, 2017.

In a project organised by Unit3 Design Studio, students were tasked to design a timber structure shelter for a client from The Woodland Skills Centre in North Wales.

As a group, we discussed, sketched and modelled ideas months before finally constructing the shelter on-site over a single weekend. It was my first project where I obtained building experience, from the inception of the design to the construction of the shelter.

The practice of charring timber was tested on the cladding of the shelter, which the original aim to achieve a uniform black surface, but the result was a tiger stripe-like pattern due to green wood being used - freshly cut wood without not dried to remove moisture content.

Team: Christopher Matthew, Iona Ellen, Joe Bovingdon Wood, Lewis Joinson, Siobhan Adern, Dyfed Hughes, Gabriela Grodny, John Gray, Patricia Lung, Lance Macadangdang, Alessandra Berariu, Greg Williamson, James Rule, Alice Averley, George Blythe, Jessie Jackson-Townshend, Mackenzie Thompson, Izzy Goode, Ellie Bainbridge, Raluca Hanuz

Team leader: Martin Schutt

Photograph of studio under construction, courtesty of Joe Bovingdon Wood

Completed construction showing charred wood cladding, photograph courtesy of Joe Bovingdon Wood

Model-making

I consider model-making one of my strengths in design, and it is one of my passions in the architectural profession. Models express the intention of the design and physical visual aid to understand the moments of the architecture.

This section is an assortment of photographs of models I have produced throughout my architectural education and career.

1:500 Bochnia town model, MArch Thesis 2022

1:100 Bakery model, MArch Thesis 2022

1:100 Wood Workshop model, MArch Thesis 2022

1:100 Civic Hub, MArch Thesis 2022

1:100 Market model, MArch Thesis 2022

Workshop section collage, MArch Thesis 2022

1:20 Bolted timber structure, 2022

1:50, Pool roof structure models, MArch project 2021

1:500 Site massing model, MArch project 2020

1:50 Housing model, MArch project 2020

1:200 Withington Baths model, BA3 project, 2019

1:100 cabin model, BA3 project, 2018