MArch Application (UoW) - Portfolio - Militsa Clerides (20048817)

PORTFOLIO

Militsa Clerides

BA (Hons) Architecture 2019/22

Enthusiast in designing creative, ‘moving’ architecture which responds to the desires and needs of the community and environment. An eager-to-learn and passionate persona who is able to communicate and work as part of a team, capable of being organised and embracing a challenge. An inventive and self-motivated individual.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2019-2022 | BA Architecture, Upper Second Class Honours

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London London, United Kingdom

2019 | High School, Honourable Mention with a GPA of 96.66/100

The Grammar School

Limassol, Cyprus

A-Levels | Art, Mathematics, Geography, English Literature, Greek IGCSEs Art, Mathematics, Geography, English Language, History, French, Accounting

2018 | BTEC Foundation Diploma, Distinction Freshart College of Art Limassol, Cyprus

CONTACT

5 Mill Street, SE1 2DE, London, United Kingdom

+ 44 (0) 7515350121

militsa2000@gmail.com

SKILLS

Hardworking...........................

Teamwork...............................

Creative..................................

Presentation and communication skills.................................

Programming..........................

Time management and organisation skills ...................

LANGUAGES

Greek Language (Native).........

English Language....................

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Office 365.......................

InDesign..........................

Photoshop......................

Illustrator..........................

Rhinoceros.....................

AutoCAD........................

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2022-present | London, United Kingdom

ReardonSmith Architects | Architectural Assistant

Development of design proposals at stage 1 and 2 through the production of AutoCAD drawings, visual presentations and sketches

Take part in team meetings to communicate design changes with the client and consultants

2021 | Limassol, Cyprus

MELCO Resorts & Entertainment | Intern

Attended construction visits and participated in meetings regarding the ongoing project ‘City of Dreams Mediterranean’ Assisted in the finessing and creation of new architectural drawings, photoshop edits and design of particular details of the architrectural project

2018 | Limassol, Cyprus

Leventis & Leventis, Architects | Intern

Set up of mood boards and presentation boards

Attended construction visits and participated in meetings with current and potential clients

2018 | Limassol, Cyprus

Costas Tsirides & Co. LLC, Solicitors | Intern

Attended trials and discussions with regards to client cases and points of law

Studied and prepared legal documents for various cases

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

2022 London Festival of Architecture

2021-2022 | RIBA Mentoring Scheme

2004-2020 | Dance

Engagement with dance classes where dance examinations were undertaken and skills were hereby awarded Took part in dance shows as part of a team

2011-2017 | Charity Organisations |‘Young Volunteers’, ‘Funraising Charity Organisation’, High School’s ‘Green Club’ Embraced the acts of service that are associated with helping and giving to people with a less fortunate background as well as took part in activities that benefit our surrounding environment

2015-2017 | Music and Drama Club

Participated in High School’s yearly musical shows as a dancer, actor and stage manager, respectively

2018 MEDIMUN, Mediterranean Model of United Nations

Debated and provided proposals to resolve pressing societal and humanitarian issues as the Delegate of Nigeria at the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Assembly

The Fabric City

Weaving Communities Together

The Old Truman Brewery undergoes a ‘fabric metamorphosis’ in becoming the “FabricCity”, where the communities of wider Tower Hamlets are weaved together through the world of fabric and textiles. Acts of selling/ buying, repurposing, designing, creating, performing, and learning enable the community to express their own identity and culture all through the art of ‘fabric making’ where people can express, feel, create, identify, become, and perform. The whole project therefore acts as a performative catwalk where people are able to circulate through the space and feel a sense of belonging and being.

Second Level Floorplan

Visual Decomposition

The Old Truman Brewery through this project is broken down, analysed and transformed into a a structure of cultural significance for the surrounding LGBTQ+ and Bagladeshi communities. Main aim of the proposal is to enable the community to express their own identity and culture all through the art of ‘fabric making’ and thus the whole proposal has been designed in ways in promoting social and psychological well-being. The first two pages reveal the proposal broken down into a series of floorplans, sections and an axonometric drawing. This is to show the interplay that occurs between orthogonal and circular geometries as to metaphorically represent the varied identities and personalities that are to use the space. This interplay creates a unique flow amongst the architectural elements and thus also promotes a flow of movemet when one is to circulate around the space. Flow becomes a main aspect of the design as the staircases and all-around circulation in the structure ‘forces’ people to perform an individual catwalk, in aims to proudly showcase their identities, culture, and personality. As a result, the project was created with first thinking of the surrounding societies and their establishment to the site of Bricklane, London, and second the way in which circulation in a space can make one feel and express of their culture.

Research and Analysis

The process of designing this space began with research around the wider Tower Hamlets, with a closer focus to Whitechapel and Bricklane. Following conversations with people from the Whitechapel and Bricklane market as well as repeated research on the historic and current uses of the site it was realised that the site no longer represents the cultural, historic identity that it once did for both the Bangladeshi and LGBTQ+ communities. Thus, immediate aim was to create and design a space for cultural and individual belonging in the heart of Bricklane, with resultant site the Old Truman Brewery.

The Old Truman Brewery already being a textile/ fabric establishment with current considerations to be repurposed as a multi-storey mall and office building proved to be the perfect location to formulate a ‘fabric/ textile home’ for the surrounding communities.

These two pages reveal the reserach, analysis and experimentation that took place in designing The Fabric City.

A - Structural axonometric of the existing Old Truman Brewery (Block F) with the addition of the six performative catwalks.This shows the initial throughts of the way the brewery was to be transformed.

B - Illustration of the Design Manifesto. It reveals the main scopes and aims the proposal is to bring such as the feelings and modes one is to undergo when visiting the Fabric City as well as the activities that are to take place in the proposal. Additionally the illustration reveals the importance of circulation where all activities and people are to interconnect and engage with each other.

C - Physical Design Manifesto. The images reveal of a template inspired by the design manifesto (image B) where when stitched together creates a simple tshirt - a garment wearable by all and undefinable. Aim of this is to metaphorically represent the actions one is to take in The Fabric City, where the garment (the tshitrt) is to become personalised and adaptable to each person.

D - Initial Site Experimentation through model and fabric making. In order to engage with the community I created a ‘room divider’ as mirrors and with fabrics and textiles bought from the community on site I created a personalised mixed garment. This was to be worn by bypassers on site and standing in-front of the mirror understand and asnwer the connection they have with themselves and their clothes/fabrics.

E - Initial Concept Sketch

Technical Analysis

A - Technical drawing of existing brick wall with shock detail for extended flooring.

B - Technical drawing of glulam wall to existing floor connection for circular walls.

C - 3D Digital model of ramp for disabled access and as an additional performative catwalk.

A Feel Into the City

Collage of the performative space with fabric draping over the voids in the design.

Collage of the space around one of te performative catwalks where designers and people showcase their designs and creations.

Collage of the design units, where the community and fashion designers are able to create, design and explore the fabric world.

Collage of the library/ exhibition space revealing the origami shaped roof.

The Performative Catwalk

In the Heart of Bricklane

Wasteless Pleasures

The project aims to renovate Cranbrook Estate, a social housing estate in Bethnal Green, London, in a sensual paradox, where waste intertwines with the sensual pleasures of the human kind. A waste management scheme becomes the core of the project, enabling residents not only to receive from but also reimburse nature through recycling methods. The project targets to please the human aesthetically, physically, psychologically, mentally as well as sensually as the design transforms into an architecture where contradicting scents, calming visuals, and the flow of movement trick the brain. Living becomes an ongoing experience as the architecture adapts and pleases interchangeable situations. Intent for the project is to promote waste as an interdependant variable to the feeling of pleasure and human satisfaction. This will in turn form an architecture that would project a sustainable way of living.

This page presents the current architectural design of the Puteaux House in Cranbrook Estate and the way the design proposal desires to rennovate it. Through the drawings it is understood that the proposal aims to transform the estate through curvature in order to enhance mobility and the sensation of freedom a resident might desire.

A - Site Location, The Puteaux House, Cranbrook Estate

B - Axonometric drawing of Puteaux House

C - Axonometric drawing of design proposal

D - Current floorplan typologies of the Puteaux House

E - Puteaux House NWSE Elevation

F - Floorplan drawings of design proposal

G - North and South elevation of design proposal

This page explores a more detailed and visual presentation of the design proposal. One of the floorplans, particularly floor 7 which is the communal space for the residents has been enlarged to portray the way in which the space may be inhabited. Through the drawings and visual representations the main purpose of the proposal is shown. The five coloured pipes are seen to be situated at the core of each floor, where residents have the ability to be mindful with their waste as each coloured pipe is to take in a different source of waste. This way the proposal establishes sustainability through means of knowledge and recycling methods.

A - West-East Section (1/200 @ A2), where focus bubbles reveal illustrations of the space being inhibited.

B - Floorplan (1/100 @ A2) of the communal space found on floor 7 of the design proposal.

Illustrations / comic below - Presents the residents and their spatial needs that had to be considered prior to designing the architectural proposal. The illustrations/ comic represent the five main characters that were taken into consideration. These characters enabled the future design proposal to promote well-being in the means of social housing. Particularly, they promoted the social, physical, psychological well-being as well as health and hygiene - which empasises the purpose of the building, sustainability through waste.

Experimentation

The project aims to renovate Cranbrook Estate, a social housing estate in Bethnal Green, London, in a sensual paradox, where waste intertwines with the sensual pleasures of the human kind. A waste management scheme becomes the core of the project, enabling residents not only to receive from but also reimburse nature through recycling methods.

Page shows the technicality of the design in regards to the glulam walls, and wall/ floor connections.

A - Technical drawing of floor to glulam wall connections

B - Schock technical detail of balcony extension

C - Technical drawing of window to wall connections

Technical Analysis

This page explores the technical aspect of the design proposal. The magnified drawing (of a 1:50 scale on an A2 page) presents the basement and ground floor of the ‘Wasteless Pleasures’ Residence. This section drawing shows the concrete circular walls, foundations and floor-to-ceiling connections. While also, shows the way in which the ‘winter gardens’ are implemented on the ground floor, revealing the vegetation planntations. This section aims to show the way in which waste is to be transported from the basement waste containers through the ramp to ground level - where waste is to be picked up and taken for recycling.

Visualisations

Page shows the aestheticism assosiated with the design proposal which is juxtoposed by the waste management scheme. Collaged renders therefore present aspects of daily life and viewpoints around the proposal representing the allaround well-being that is promoted to the community of the repurposed resdience. Main aspects include freedom of expression and flow of movement and social interactions promoting joy and calmness.

The A A Graphic Designer’s Home

Corresponding to the requirements a graphic designer might have, this project aims to create a space where both public and graphic designers can interact and learn about the discipline. As a result the proposal is divided in a left and right wing building where one enables access to the public and the other is primarily dedicated to the graphic designers. The proposal also adjusts to height site restrictions as a ramp is designed to hug the design promoting interaction between the public and the design. The proposal incorporates also a social space through a central green space enhancing the nature elements of the site.

The proposal includes a studio and workspace for graphic designers and a public exhibition where people can showcase their work and graphic designers can use the space as a learning space. The project’s main feature is the long angled ramp which enables the public to walk from the upper part of the site down to the canal whilst passing through key points of the building. The ramp in essence hugs the design whilst promoting community engagement.

This page reveals the overall architectural design signifying its key features such as the aforementioned ramp. Due to the landscape playing with a change in soil/ ground levels and spot heights, the design aims to not impose itself and thus through the use of materiality blend itself. While also The A promotes bypassers to use the ramp in order to reach the walkway by the Regent’s canal.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT

First Floor

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Second Floor Rooftop Floorplan

Technical Analysis

This page reveals the technical aspect of the design. Drawings reveal the overall operation of the design separated between left wing (public sector) and right wing (private sector). Whilst also major focus during the technical resalisation was the operation, functionality, materiality and construction of the ramp which higlights the circulations amongst the different users. Drawings aim to represent this technical realisation as well as reveal a greater understanding of The A.

A - North-South hand-drawn perspective sections

B - North-South section drawing of design proposal’s right wing

C - North-South section drawing of design proposal’s left wing

D - Sections showcasing the ramp’s path around the architecture

E - Hand-drawn exploded axonometric drawing of ramp design

F - Perspective hand drawing revealing the beginning of the ramp

G - Hand-drawn exploded axonometric of the design proposal

Militsa Clerides

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