Architecture Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

LUKE HILL

BA Architecture

Architecture of Hope

The Maggies Centre

Located across Britain and abroad, Maggie’s Centres are conceived to provide a welcoming ‘home away from home’ – a place of refuge where people affected by cancer can find emotional and practical support. Inspired by the blueprint for a new type of care set out by Maggie Keswick Jencks, they place great value upon the power of architecture to lift the spirits and help in the process of therapy. The design of my Portsmouth centre aims to establish a domestic atmosphere in a garden setting so, appropriately, is hidden in the idyllic St.James’ Park, a short walk from The St. James’ Hospital.

The building occupies a sunny site and is arranged over a single storey, keeping its profile low and reflecting the residential scale of the surrounding streets. The heart of the building is the kitchen and its central table, with everything feeding from this. Four seprate pods provide living spaces for counceling that push out into the park and provide a connection to the surrounding nature. Constructed from timber to provide a warmth to the spaces within and create a comfortable atmosphere for everyone who needs help.

South Elevation

East Elevation

02 Ecology Centre

A Creative Community Space for the People of Whinchester

An ecology centre uses nature and the environment as a tool to improve quality of life. Therefore, this ecology centre needed to provide a connection between the user and nature. The building sat over the river to allow the inhabitants views down the river and across the surrounding historic city. This ecology centre provides a space for the creative arts, inspired by the Winchesters recent history of culture and media. The city is currently home to a series events and venues that celebrate the arts, including the Hat Fair, the Blue Apple Theatre, the monthly farmers market and Boomtown. Despite being host to these events there is a lack of space for people to learn and create. Theerefore this ecology centre will become an accessible space to people of all ages and abilities within the city.

Portsmouth Sports Centre

A Technical Resolution

With huge demand for sport facilities from the city’s community, this concept aimed to add a new smaller scale but complementary sport centre that take some pressure of existing sports centres across Portsmouth. Facilitating more capacity to accommodate activities for the different communities in the city.

The breif required careful exploration of the city macro climate, the site characteristics and connections within the city, the site micro-climate, physical and social characteristics. Applying rigorous design extermination and development of the building design based on these findings to find sustainable passive and active environmental solutions. Ultimatley this resulted in detailed development of the building structural solutions, choices, and detailing concepts.

Cedar brise soleil

1.5mm plastic membrane seal

Powder-coated aluminium ashing on substructure 100mm thermal insulation

Reinforced concrete cast in rough sawn board formwork

18mm plwood panel

Steel truss beam

Horizontal batons

Vapour barrier

Horizontal batons

1.5mm plastic membrane seal

Cedar brise soleil Specialist sports hall ooring Vapour barrier

Vapour barrier

100mm thermal insulation

HSS beam

Reinforced concrete cast in rough sawn board formwork

Timber header

18mm plwood panel

Blockwork

Steel glazing bracket

Glazing

Reconnecting Gosport

A Water Sports Centre to reconnect the generations back to the coastline

My building aims to reconnect the generations throughout Gosport through the use of water sports. The design will incorporate a range of dierent sports to enable people no matter their age to interact with the water that surrounds their town. The structure will be located along the historic coastline which will allow people to learn about the past of the area and which will enable a more prosperous future for the town.

My building is located at the Fort Gilkicker site which means it has lots of opportunities however these come with some constraints. The site is surrounded by undeveloped land which will allow the design to bring more people to the area. However, this could be an issue for accessibility so lots of parking and walking routes will need to be made available surrounding the building. Tackling the coastal heritage regeneration is important. This is why by regenerating the area my design will encourage more people to Gosport and enable the forts to be repurposed into social and community spaces.