Architecture Portfolio by Martins Silins

PORTFOLIO

By Martins SIlins

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Residental block

car park

CAR PARK

Brief 1 / Year 3 The building is located in Italy, town called Monza. Sitting on corner between Via Ludovico Pavoni and Via Artigianelli streets. It’s surrounded by the green space. Underneet it

LOCAL CHURCH

hides large local car park. The buildings is not located as other buildings by the road, but slightly with an angel inside the park. The buildings hight is designed by the overall landscape of street, to sit in it.

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1:500 PLASTER SITE MODEL

Model Making Its hard to relay on what was the original furniture that was created for this flat as information is unknown, but reflecting the fact that Architect is also known for his furniture design, its possible he designed the furniture for him self. The furniture that is used for this model, the design is taken from one of his companies catalogues and the furniture pieces are created after that.

Most of original material is timber/

1:50 ground FLOOR MODEL

wood, the style is very modern simple, could describe something as Le Corbusier work. One of the wardrobes is actually called after his name. It tries to create this simple modern atmosphere inside the flats.

When it comes to colours there is use of large amount of black metal light wood and orange in separate places.

car park entry

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The drop in the ground On elevation you can see whole storey height pre-cast concrete elements. They are sitting on concrete pre-cast edge elements.

The windows are made of wooden frames and double glazing, in front

of them you can find folding wooden shuffles. The balconies have at least 3m depth and in front of them you can find metal handrails. The roof starts with another roof edge pre-cast concrete element that follows with another concrete slab.

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Building hight: 36.5m Unknown storeys hight

THE SITE Highest point 43m

Building hight: 10.5m

THE SITE

Building hight: 10.5m

4 storeys hight Building hight: 4m 1-2 storey hight

4 storeys hight

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The whole island can describe as one big rock, everywhere you will go, you will see rocks laying out of the grass. Most of this consists of gneissic granite, that has some elements of younger granite.

The ground Alsoconsists of loose soil layers of moraine with elements of swelling clay. The thickness of moraine rarely exceed 0.5m.

carbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons.

The whole island can describe as one big rock, everywhere you will go, you will see rocks laying out of the grass. Most of this consists of gneissic granite, that has some - elements of younger granite.

The ground Alsoconsists of loose soil layers of moraine with elements of swelling clay. The thickness of moraine rarely exceed 0.5m.

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carbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons.

OS OF THE SITE

Brief 2 / Year 3 Kvarnholmen is a peninsula located in the east side of Stockholm. Soon it will be transformed into a large housing area. So far nearly whole decade the site has been place for swedes most successful producers of grain; cooperative forbundet.

Most of the Mill tre kronor buildings after closure in 1992 are used

for premises for businesses and schools.

Kvarnholmen utveckling AB, KUAB is the owner of the most properties and are interested in next decade to transform most of the buildings for residential use and build few more.

1:500 site model

The whole island can describe as one big rock, everywhere you will go, you will see rocks laying out of t of gneissic granite, that has some elements of younger granite.

The Alsoconsists of loose of moraine withyou elements swelling clay.

Thelaying thickness of The ground whole island can describe as soil onelayers big rock, everywhere will go,ofyou will see rocks out of of gneissic granite, that has some elements of younger granite.

The ground Alsoconsists of loose soil layers of moraine with elements of swelling clay. The thickness of carbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons. carbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons.

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1:500 site plan

SITE PLAN

YEAR 3 / KVARNHOLMEN RESIDENTIAL HOUSING BRIEF

SCALE: 1:1000

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Landscape Dressing The new design project, was focused on specific site, that we had given after our own comments after each of the location. The brief was about working with our land, and preparing it for massing proposal.

To better understand the surrounding, its pluses and minuses. In what kind of condition is the landscape and how does the sun surround the space. The site has dramatic landscape, including very rocky ground and tree region on north part. Its also located in middle of two main

roads. The site is located were use to be industrial fabric buildings for oil, that left behind large slope of concrete between the water and the hill. Can also see more flat area in middle of the hills that is also left after industrial closure.

This particular location is also one of the greenest location of the island and also offers possibility for great access of water transport.

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1:500 sketch model

Massing Breef After preparing the ground the next task was to create massing to it. You would stay with your ground proposal or make something completely new, was up to you.

After symbolic site analyses, decision was done to make courtyard housing over the site. To influence the possible views from over the top of the mountain, and the housings would not block each other for the same reason.

Another part of the brief was, that we were separated in groups by 4.

And each one of us, had a different site, that made us to collaborate to each other, to connect our massing projects in some sort of way.

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Materials and shape The final idea for the massing brief was, concrete building with timber extension in middle and green roof that connects with the landscape.

The base would be created from rough quality concrete, while were the building would start it would be

more smooth. The extension would be created from the timber, to represent the idea of trees surrounding the buildings.

VISUAL OF COURTYARD DESIGN

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Landscape Model The approximate shape and location of the building started to become more clear in mind but not exactly as visible piece. It was necessary to create model to better understand how exactly would building sit inside the landscape. The model 1:200 was created to discover how building will become part of it.

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Courtyard / View from inside The first floor windows are all done the same size and presents the idea of cut out in stone. The windows are with double glazed and centralized and the extension above windows size is the same as door frame size.

Extension also have side opening and it works as Juliet window.

The floor will be made of dark brown timber tiles, but the ceilings will have slightly lighter and smaller width, to reflect the idea of light. The walls will stay as a concrete, or possibly might change later, as design progress.

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Massing layout The massing is carefully proposed considering the surrounding landscape, and the slope level changes.

The buildings are broken down to sets of 3-5 to connect with the best possible locations in land. The front part of the building is the main facade, that connect with the rough landscape. The massing hight is

very small in order to bring best possible views, for both - road users and buildings behind. In plan buildings are layered out in best possible way to connect with the road as well, building locations most of the time are located by the flat ends where the slope starts.

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Exterior The outside facade will have two different faces. The lowest floor, that in early proposal was the concrete base for the building now will become functional floor with two smaller size windows slightly above the ground level. The material will be rough concrete tiles as earlier proposed to suit more with rocky rough landscape.

Also as before the next floor will be ground floor with smooth concrete facade to reflex the main body of

the building and the ground floor. In middle the courtyard will be located with a little concrete wall in front of it, that earlier proposal was the smooth concrete but might change to rough concrete, to loose the feeling of wall.

The inside facade of courtyard will be ash timber tiles and the doors will be full hight glazed pocket doors.

Top extension will have ash timber to slightly browned timber, to more reflect the trees around.

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THE SIDE GROUND DROPS THE SIDE WALKS

Access The side walks are oriented around all the housings, each housing block has access from both sides.

The level drops are quite often, but that gives great views and more common

space on top of them. All of them should applied with handrails for safety reasons.

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Section The buildings are layered out in similar sequence and distance from each other. It creates green space between them as well as possible common space.

As you can see the building slightly sits inside the ground, that gives the opportunity for green roofs to actually be connected with the ground.

The green line indicates where is the original existing ground.

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Surrounding The landscape is turn into green spaces as platforms between the buildings. The idea behind it is to have a place for residents to meet and socialize together. As mostly it stays only as a green space, idea is to have few picnic tables around.

All the side walks will be made of concrete square blocks, and will run around the whole island.

The corners and all ground cuts, will be treated with heavy rough concrete blocks.

What comes about trees, most of the existing ones will stay, to provide shade, blossom and natural feeling.

The street lights will be provided around the main side walk, and by the houses.

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BASEMENT floor

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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BRIEF CONCEPT Exploring and creating detail drawings only with lines of Market Hall in Chipping Camden.

STUDIO8BRIEF 1A Isonometric 1:75

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DESIGN CONCEPT The Project was to create Market-hall at an existing supermarket site. The location was chosen to be in front of Tesco supermarket entrance on top of main access road for pedestrians.

In order to visit the supermarket they would have to go trough the market.

Structurally its built from bricks with timber beams and timber floor finish.

The roof finish is mono-pitch steel.

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Year 2 / Brief 3

New Government ruling has greatly limited the percentage of the grocery market that supermarket chains are allowed to control. This means that existing large grocery businesses must be broken up and their sites redeveloped, creating a new set of supermarkets each with fewer branches.

try to reinvent the historical street aspect of the site, that existed when a place used to be a school / hospital. The whole supermarket design will be inspired from the hall located in the middle of the site.

References: Leadenhall market, French Arcade. The new structure will connect with existing buildings and compliment their historical aspects.

Goal Design has to be with traditional aspect, visually attractive and not affect the existing Victorian buildings. The proposed scheme will

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1:100 model

The walk between Inspired by Leadenhall market.

To bring reach cultural architecture to be part of supermarket. The trusses are original design, created after many experiments. The window

openings are very large in order to gain more sun light inside. The design runs in mix of concrete and timber columns to bring stronger characteristics to the site.

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ORIGINALLY 1:500 PERSPECTIVE SECTION

STUDIO 8, BRIEF 4B Section 1: 250

Combining with historical The design was influences from existing historical / taken down, buildings. To keep the same hight of the landscape and honour the traditions of the site.

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buildings) Proposed new buildings

(Light green) Historical new buildings (Red building) Exciting Tesco building (Orange building) Victorian existing buildings

The town It works similar as Leadenhall market. The houses have separated heating and shops close at night, while the public space stays open.

It represents an idea of a town, that has different types of spaces and atmospheres. For example you start with apple garden park and end up in herb-garden or local farmers mar-

ket. The idea was to lose the large span supermarket design and give it a sophisticated market atmosphere, but functioning still as a supermarket.

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The Spaces Each space had to represent new STUDIO8BRIEF 4A idea, new feeling. But in same time it all had to connect together. Its mix, of open and closed space and existing and new structure. The idea to make the supermarket feel exciting and break the typical routine or stereotype about it.

Proposal of new leyout of the street inside the supermarket

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ermarket leyout

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1:100 STRUCTURAL SITE MODEL

Structural model of site 1:50

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1. Day care 2. Walking access 3. Cycling access 4. Apple garden 5. Bicycle, trolley storage, coffee shop 6. Payment 7. Shops 8. Cherry tree, central space 9. Space between shops 10. Herbs garden 11. Victorian hall with restaurant inside 12. Oudolf flowers 13. Market hall

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1. Day care for kids 2. Tree line seperating bycicle line and people walking line.

3. Apple garden 4. Dowstairs trolleys, bycicle storage, upstairs caffee.

5. Bycicle storage 6. Elevation/steps second floor shops 7. Payment checkout 8. Fresh food market 9. Grocery shops 10. Cherry tree 11. Entrance into supermarket 12. Extra parking 13. Herbs garden 14. Victorian hall with gallery and coffee shop 15. Oudolf flowers 16. Storage 17. Delivery / service parking 18. Main entrance

STUDIO 8, BRIEF 4B

YEAR 2 / SUPERMARKET BRIEF Final plan 1:600

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HAWLEY PLACE SCHOOL

PROPOSED SITE PLAN / scale 1:750

NEW CAR PARK

HAWLEY PLACE NURSERY (proposed)

HAWLEY PLACE NEW 2016 ACADEMIC BLOCK (PROPOSED) New road To improve the access to the nursery

HAWLEY MILLENNIUM EXTENSION (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) Granted permission under ref: 15/01169 on 14 August 2015

Hawley place primary school (existing)

Hawley place secondary school (existing) Extra car park Introduced new car park for staff / disabled access

CONSTRUCTION ACCESS ROUTE

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DESIGN CONCEPT Pre-fabricated new school block building. Offers two floors with different sort of classrooms and sports changing room for kids. The idea is to have a quick simple and very useful concept sitting by the existing buildings.

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THE MILLENIUM EXTENSION HAWLEY PLACE SCHOOL

AREA:

341.547 SQM 3676.384. SQF

THE MILLENIUM EXTENSION HAWLEY PLACE SCHOOL

DESIGN CONCEPT Prefabricated extension to already existing building. Creating public space between them for kids to play, eat or relax.

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TO BE REMOVED

GRADIENT OF LANDSCAPE ASSUMED LINE, REFER TO TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY TO BE REMOVED

EXISTING BUILDING

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DESIGN CONCEPT Prefabricated Nursery buildings with timer cladding. Providing both sides with green ground for plays.

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fACADE STRUCTURAL DETAILS

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DESIGN CONCEPT Courtyard located between study rooms with large opening to existing building. Existing bricks have been retained while introducing in courtyard timber cladding, to make it more atmospheric.

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DESIGN CONCEPT Existing trusses have been redocorated white. The atmosphere of the room is playfull with large open space.

The lockers are specificly designed for the space, to provide with 90 lockers and in same time provide with more seeting area and coat space.

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AVONMORE ENTRANCE

EXISTING CONDITION

DESIGN CONCEPT Providing with classrooms, study rooms and large common space with kitchen unit to 90 girls. Building have been completely renovated with extensions outside space and creating a courtyard. The existing trusses have been completely redecorated.

PROPOSED CONDITION

NEW SECURITY LIGHT ABOVE REPAINT TO EXISTING

ADD NEW SECURITY SHUTTER

REPAINTED TO Dulux 90BG 41/040

NEW DOOR BELL NEW FIRE EXIT DOOR PULL HANDLE 38 STRAIGHT by DLINE / SIMILAR VISION PANEL WITH OPAQUE MANIFESTATION REPAINT TO Dulux 50BG 64/028 KICK PLATE

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DESIGN CONCEPT Cars starter engine. Project was to fully discover the object and its details in detail drawings.

1 YEAR / OBJECT EXPLORATION PENCIL

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DESIGN CONCEPT Design of boxing arena and gym underneath in Margate.

The Arena concept is to be a public space in day time and transform into fighting ring for the competitions.

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