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STAGE 3 | ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Studio 02 Ordinary Resilience

CONTENTS

Studio Tutors:

Reflective Report

Jack Mutton Harriet Sutcliffe

Studio Members: Bella Colley Che-Yi Lin Ella Johnson

Design Module

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Studio Introduction Primer - Field Trip Staging

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Realisation Synthesis - Thinking Through Making Week

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Heather O’Mara Herbert Winata Jasmine Bishop Jonathan Barker Jurgen Springer Kieran Forrest Maria Aksenova Migle Zabielaite Ng Chi Ming Pak Hin Tsang Paola Isabella Jahoda Rory Durnin Shuk Yi Fung Tunu Brown

Cultural Bibliography Bibliography | References Appendix

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- Charrette - ARC3001 Case Study

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Semester 1

Semester 2

Reflective Report As the time coming to a close as an undergraduate architecture student, this portfolio gathered what I have learned over the past years. It was a very special and challenge academic year for all of us to archive and complete the final step of the course. We experienced an unprecedent working method without accessing all the school hard facilities. Because of the global pandemic, the difficulty pushed me to seek and learn creative ways to work on our projects. The competition of this portfolio has given me a distinct perspective of my architectural study to date.

When discussing an artistic work as an initial concept and inspiration of the architectural design, it is usually necessary to distinguish between its ‘content’ and ‘form’. The ‘content’ is something that I would like to tell, such as a story, or a message that I want to convey to the viewer through the work itself. The “form” is the way I express the content of my design, purely a visual point of view, or a visual arrangement composed of different design elements and design principles.

The ‘questions’ in architectural design are related to both content and form. Sometimes the purpose of an architectural work is created only for aesthetic aspect, not to care about the practice of “content” and without trying to answer ‘questions.’ This type of architectural or artistic work is often viewed as decorative art. In the design process, I tried to translate the relationship between content and form, and finally gave the work the meaning by visual communication.

The building is made of dust. The earth and the environment have become an important condition for us to design, appreciate and understand a building. Ruination can also be a positive, and dust is not necessarily unclean. ‘Regression turns forward’, erosion and sedimentation have become an important part of architectural aesthetics.

Although the process of ‘ageing’ has its tragic fact, it is also a little more harmony and kind.

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Primer exhibition. Captured the movement of people touring and speaking around the space. The experience of the visitors was as well as walking on the street of the Newcastle.

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STUDIO INTRODUCTION Ordinary Resilience is the theme of this year’s studio 2. We are looking to engage the narrative of architecture as the wider intelligibility. By researching the artistic possibility and exploring the rooted architectural quality, we experiment these as basic to develop the connection with the materiality. ‘we are looking to create architecture that is rooted in place and explores the experiential potential of materials, carefully pieced together in a celebration of craft and construction. We are looking to create architecture that is contemporary yet not isolated in time.’

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Architecture Design

Primer - City Scales City Scale – Observation and making are the initial methods of this stage. We examined the city at a rage of different scale to develop the process of understanding the character of the city. We observed the city in the eye of day-to-day experience by sketching and photographing what have interested us. The finding of material then refer back to the artist reference to create our own interpretation of the city.

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PRIMER explorations

Inspired exploration

City sketches - Newcastle city centre

Richard Wentworth Artist Reference

Richard Wentworth has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 1970s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as photography. By transforming and manipulating industrial and/or found objects into works of art, Wentworth subverts their original function and extends our understanding of them by breaking the conventional system of classification.

The sculptural arrangements play with the notion of ready-made and juxtaposition of objects that bear no relation to each other. Whereas in photography, as in the ongoing series Making Do and Getting By, Wentworth documents the everyday, paying attention to objects, occasional and involuntary geometries as well as uncanny situations that often go unnoticed.

Taking the inspiration from the research of the artist reference, I found there are lots of ordinary objects are given an additional function that echo to the ideas of Richard Wentworth. I saw some classical ornaments sit on a contemporary red brick wall. The contrast between contemporary structure and the classic decoration is conflict. Just like someone gave them a new stage to embrace the characteristics of the city.

The barricades are no longer just the barricade. The height of the barricade is perfect for putting down a cigarette. The gap between seems designed as a vessel to carry bin.

Richard Wentworth. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/richard-wentworth-gavinturk-pioneering-male-artists-changing/

As we are seeking in our studio theme of the ordinary resilience, Richard Wentworth, the British artist emerged to my mind.

The notion of his artworks, as well as his photography, overthrew the original definition of the every-day object and reappropriate a new experience of it.

He observed how people involved in the subversion of the object in life. For me, this idea became a core thinking of my design project.

The starting point of reading the city carried out by some sketches and photos of the observation of the day-to-day objects, such as the road barrier and the bin. Finding the elastics of the place and trying to reappropriate the function of the urban by reading the existing and historical layers of the site.

'Making Do and Getting By'. https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-wentworth

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City Scales Interpreting the site by observing Newcastle in city scale. Old and new structure integrated as one and formed a contrasting feeling which classical building spaces occupy the contemporary functions.

Something functions as which it is not supposed to be. The physical status of the city remains the same but the inner content keeps building upon each other in time. I brought several historic maps along with the current map together and overlapped them by mapping the significant symbols as the reference to read and understand the quality of the city of Newcastle. This helps me to see how history has created these spatial conditions and the resilience of human needs change in times. The mapping process resulted in a print of the traces of the city in a 2-dimensional print.

The woodblock of the print appeared as interesting as the print itself.

Sketches of exploring the form of this work.

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Medium City Scales

A cast plaster sculpture which connected and supported by timber sticks. Looking into the word ‘reappropriate’ in the city spaces, such as restaurants, bars, convenience stores and hotels, the original architectural function could be post offices, banks, city council or church. These spaces bear the time of history, and reappeared as spaces which function as what they were not supposed to be.

Therefore, I created four separate walls, each wall represents one generation, style of city to construct a single space. This sculpture expresses many different characteristics which have enrich the quality Newcastle.

I translate the concept of the print to a 3-dimensional spatial plaster and wood sculpture in relation to the understanding of the historical layers. Each wall demonstrates a specific era or style of the city. They stand and stack together and formed the language of the typology.

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Process works

Plaster Casting with Clamps

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City Scales Plaster detail sculpture. Narrowing down to the observation of details of the city, I was interested in the architectural palimpsests which can be found throughout the city. They tell the story of specific place and time and making history on top of each other. This is my final perception of reading the city.

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PRIMER EXHIBITION We made our own interpretation of Newcastle individually and brought them together in the Primer Exhibition to experiment what kind of quality can be created by our studio. We have many stories within one space to speak one history of Newcastle.

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Architecture Design

Field Trip Germany

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Cologne

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Berlin

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Case Study

SubtitleErnst Busch dramatic arts academy, Berlin.

Full document please see appendix.

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Architecture Design

Staging - City Language Working with the inspiration and reference from the previous phase, Primer, the findings inform the initial consideration of the chosen site, in my case, which is the St James. The investigation of the site had guided the development of the unique characteristic of the urban context. The proposal will base on the relationship with the surroundings and the research of the site and the activities of everyday life.

Within the historical context of the site, the urban proposal will be developed not only practical, and also the intangible communication of the adjacency. The proposal will challenge the boundaries of the site and suggest a dynamic solution.

This phase contains group work of a physical site model, site analysis and individual initial proposal of the site.

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St James

City Language

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Qualities & Languages 1. Exterior wall texture of the metro station.

Concrete.

2.Wiew from upper road of the site. Can see the descent stairs turn down to the entrence of the station.

3.Same stairs as 2. View from lower part.

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Metro to NCL International Airport

St James

Project Summary & Site Overview The brief of this project is commissioned

by Newcastle University to design a new campus to accommodate Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and landscape department in Newcastle city centre. The new campus is an experimental cultural hub which can extend the capacity and facilities of the old Architecture Building in the main campus and also create a cultural collaboration of the local society. The potential of the insitu metro station is one of the key facts to develop the site proposal as a new educational, cultural and industrial position in the city of Newcastle. The buildings will be designed as an integrated cultural hub that accommodates the architecture school, planning school and also share the publicity to the local community.

One of the challenges of the site is the existing below ground structures of the metro station and passage. Structurally the building proposal has to avoid the overlapping with it and spaced with enough distance. The structural system set up by a complex of concrete core structure and CLT substructure. The use of materials is kept to a minimum and remain the best stability. Simplicity of structure and materials is an important principle of the design.

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Our Site

Metro St James

Metro/Train Newcastle Central Station

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Urban Layout

Urban Stategies

Current and Historic Map A Road

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Site Breakdown

The core value of this project is the ordinary resilience. We explored the city of Newcastle by looking into artists and artworks as references for urban observations. The understanding of the study then further became the inspirations to read the architectural language of the site and been translated to our architectural design. The project site is St James, the heart of the urban city. This highly urbanised area is linked by the UNESCO World Heritage, Hadrain’s Wall. The historical and cultural qualities of the site were hidden by the shadows of the newly developed high-rise buildings and the conspicuous St James stadium. Surrounded by hotels and offices, the site also occupies a metro station, St James. This acting as an important factor to determine the proposal of the new campus for Newcastle University’s School of Architecture Planning and Landscape.

MapMain Vehicle Routes Scale 1:2500

Historic Map 1888-1913

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Site Model

1:250 Plywood base Timber Building Site We made this 1:250 physical site model as a small group of 5. The base of the model is a four-leg table. The street layout was curved out by CNC machine with CAD file. All wood blocks (which represent buildings) were had shaped, glued and sanded to fit on the slopping topography of our site.

The physical site model is a very useful thing to think in 3D.

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Urban Proposal

Massing Concept Models The communication with the urban occurrence is vital in my chosen site. The metro station plays a significant role in the public and the school should also give the elasticity to the area and a certain degree of participation in the event of the new school. It is a mutual relationship to both society and school. The project proposal aims to give the opportunity of the exposure of student's work and reappropriate the public interaction of the site.

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Realisation - City Fragment The brief of this project is commissioned

by Newcastle University to design a new campus to accommodate Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and landscape department in Newcastle city centre. The new campus is an experimental cultural hub which can extend the capacity and facilities of the old Architecture Building in the main campus and also create a cultural collaboration of the local society. The potential of the insitu metro station is one of the key facts to develop the site proposal as a new educational, cultural and industrial position in the city of Newcastle. The building will be designed as an integrated cultural hub that accommodates the architecture school and also share the publicity to the local community.

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The programme of the project contains two components: building A (Architecture building) and building B (Planning building).

The building volumes step up in height from the north east to south west in a lower gesture to communicate with the wider context.

Programme Initial Draft

In building A, this is a seven- st or e y building. There are gallery (120sqm), lecture theatre (300sqm), lobby (100sqm), a workshop (350sqm+150sqm), social space (350sqm), a cafeteria (100sqm) studios (230+350+230+500+200sqm), crit rooms (230+230sqm), a library (100sqm), offices (240sqm) and roof gardens(350+470sqm).

Within building B, the building footprint is relatively small which accommodates lecture theatres, cafeteria, lobby, seminar rooms, studios, galleries, offices, storages and flexible spaces. (workshop share with building A) The level of each volumes decreased accordingly to blend into the context in a mutual way.

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Final Programme Building B Removed.

St James Metro

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Sketch Design Plan Draft design proposal

Ground Floor Plan

1st Floor Plan

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2nd Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan

4th Floor Plan

5th Floor Plan

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Physical Model City Fragment

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Physical Model

MDF, Foamboard, Grey card, metal wire, Balsa.

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Architecture Design

Synthesis - City Threshold At this stage, we aimed to refine and synthesise the previous developments, and going back to our primer work as a reference to the inspiration and materiality.

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THINKING THROUGH MAKING This was the experiment to test out the concept and materiality continued by the previous process. The one-week exhibition event became a chance to synthesize and generate design materials. I experimented the combination of concrete and metal.

The basic structure of this architectural sculpture was cast by concrete and cladded with plasma-cut steel plates. The steel plates were washed and marinated in white vinegar before installing on the concrete.

After assembling the two materials, I kept rusting the steel surfaces on the concrete structure and let the patina run down the concrete surfaces. The traces of the stains left an aged appearance on the sculpture.

Weathering and Ageing A faithful record of imprints of time Time is elusive. It does exist but it is invisible and colourless. We measure time through the changes and repetitions of the environment and the senses in every second. We want to be temporary in the flow of time, but time has not stopped in its footsteps. Facing the experience, thinking and designing of the environment, can time become the focus of our understanding and be conveyed through architecture or monuments? During the flow of time, architecture and landscapes have also changed their appearance. The nicks and layers left by the environment and climate in the building's cortex remind viewers of the historical stage of the building and the human life closely connected to the building. The marks left by these etching processes may be intentional or even beloved by people. The effects of various erosions are also related to the romantic aesthetics of antique houses and buildings.

The fragmentary bricks of the wall, mosscovered rocks, and weathered woods make people appreciate the process of time. Even the dumped and abandoned place has its charm. The existence of ruins is the fruit of time and a reinterpretation of history. The meaning and entity of these places keep changing over time.

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The brief of this project is commissioned

by Newcastle University to design a new campus to accommodate Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and landscape department in Newcastle city centre. The new campus is an experimental cultural hub which can extend the capacity and facilities of the old Architecture Building in the main campus and also create a cultural collaboration of the local society. The potential of the insitu metro station is one of the key facts to develop the site proposal as a new educational, cultural and industrial position in the city of Newcastle. The buildings will be designed as an integrated cultural hub that accommodates the architecture school, planning school and also share the publicity to the local community.

One of the challenges of the site is the existing below ground structures of the metro station and passage. Structurally the building proposal has to avoid the overlapping with it and spaced with enough distance. The structural system set up by a complex of concrete core structure and CLT substructure. The use of materials is kept to a minimum and remain the best stability. Simplicity of structure and materials is an important principle of the design.

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Material and Planting Materiality

Materials and planting Green walls, tree and shrub planting is used to soften the built form, create visual interest and seasonal variation. Species are selected to enhance the site biodiversity with the planter systems designed to assist with sustainable drainage. Trees and shrubs are planted at key corner locations to help break up gusts of wind and enhance the microclimate.

The roof gardens provide flexible social spaces.

Primary structure: reinforced concrete.

-better insulation for lecture rooms, durable.

Secondary structure: CLT floor plates.

-environmental friendly and expand the spacial quality.

Glue laminated timber structure: at ground floor social area -open up walls to let more natural light inside the building.

Light well: centred at the heart of the building -enhance light and air movement.

Exterior bronze panels: darkened bronze -prevent glare from outside and reduce reflection in the city.

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SCALE 1:20 SECTION A

Thinking back to TTMW Materiality and construction

Authenticity of Materiality Materiality

We touch and experience texture at any time in their lives. We recognise texture with touch and vision, and remember it. In the future, as long as we see it, the texture will recall the memory of us. The texture of weathered metal can make people intuitively feel the nature of the material. As the raw material confirms its impression: authentic leads to beauty.

The use of materials is optimized by the hybrid form of construction of the new composite ribbed floors in timber and concrete. The 2.70 ≈ 8.10 m elements consist of an 8 cm compression topping layer in reinforced concrete (which also serves the needs of sound insulation and fire protection) and 24 ≈ 28 cm laminated timber downstand beams.

The modules are connected by steel pins at the heads of the columns, and the joints were ultimately filled with concrete. The floor elements function as bracing slabs that form non-combustible layers separating the individual storeys.

Having inappropriate materials are often difficult to achieve the desired effect of the design. The imitation of stone with a plastic veneer will only produce a short-term visual effect when it is just completed. Over time, the real stone will produce a richer texture and show the intervention with people. The plastic veneer will only become cheaper and cheesy.

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Placement

Bio-architecture Formosana( BaF ), Yilan, Taiwan.

I have done placement during the past two summer at a Taiwanese architect firm, Bioarchitecture Formasana, Yilan, Taiwan. The architect was very kind to gave me chance to work with them in the firm as an assistant.

The placement was very practical, including checking the construction site and evolving in some architectural competitions. I improved my model making skill a lot during the placement.

It was also a chance to understand how a real architect firm work and getting reward.

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Biblioagraphy + Reference

1. Richard Wentworth. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/richard-wentworthgavin-turk-pioneering-male-artists-changing/ 2. 'Making Do and Getting By'. https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-wentworth

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Appendix

Sharrette + Case Study

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Architecture Design

Charrette

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Photo credits to Zhi Xuan Yew

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