Muiris FitzGerald Portfolio

Selected Works

Muiris FitzGerald

Education

Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth

- 4th of January 1998

- Irish - 44 7591 655990

- fitzgeraldmuiris@gmail.com

- 40B Settles Street, London, E1 1JP

Precedent Study - Allmahuvenant

Masters Year 2, Semester 1, Kingston University, Unit II: Sensible

Project Approach

During this precedent study, I studied the relationship that the buildings of the zinc mine museum had with the landscape. The interaction of every building with the ground condition and the journey through the landscape between each building was key to my understanding of this project. Through the process of modelmaking, I was able to explore this relationship at various scales. At 1:1500 how each building sat within the ravine and the relationship between buildings. At 1.25 to see how the museum was built up from the face of the ravine and onto a timber frame structure to support the enclosure above. This lead me to explore how each building sat on the topography and the experience of moving through each stage of the landscape as a separate section of topography. This culminated in a topographical diorama that layered sections of the landscape on top of each other and allowed the user to look through the sections and see the depth of the landscape as a whole.

Site Photo

1:1500

Site Model

1:1500 Site Model

1:25

Museum Model

1:25

Museum Model

Diorama Study of Landscape through Layered Section

Sectional

Diorama

Sectional

Culinary School

Year 3, Semester 2, UCD

Project Brief

For this project we were to design a Culinary School in Dublin’s city center. Our scheme was to include classrooms, training kitchens, public spaces and circulation. The brief emphasised the design of the teaching spaces and the student experience within the building.

Project Approach

From the outset of the project I was intrigued by how the movement through a school creates opportunities for people to meet and mingle. I explored this by connecting the indoor spaces by an external walkway that wrapped around both sides of the projects to encourage interaction between students as well as easily ventilating the cooking spaces. The external circulation areas were designed to be planted and each floorplate had a smaller footprint then the one below so that as time passed the planted vines would grow to overhang the floor below. My intention with this project was to create a school that didn’t feel claustrophobic in the city instead feeling like somewhat of an escape from the built up urban area.

Final Model 1:200 Initial Sketches Final Render

1:20 Section

Final Renders

Itasca Winery

Masters Year 1, Semester 2, Kingston University, Unit VI: Tradition

Project Brief

“We will design a group of buildings of varying classical natures in a landscape, from the utilitarian to the decorous and hospitable, which support traditional agricultural production: a winery in rolling landscape not far from Kingston.”

Project Proposal

The thesis for this project was to translate the composition and proportions of the Corinthian order while stripping back the ornamentation and instead expressing the language with buttressing and arches of heavy brick. This aims to give the feeling of weight and monumentality of older classical structures with contemporary materials and building methods and express the light and space of the building instead of its ornamentation.

Interior Render Wormseye

1:500 @ A3 Ground Floor Plan 5. Bathrom 6. Storage 7. Winery 8. Barrel Storage 1. Wine Shop 2. Bar 3. Offices 4. Prep Room 9. Restaurant 10. Kitchen 11. Bathroom 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 9 10 0 10 1 5 Scale In Metres 0 10 2 5 Scale Bar 1:600 0 10 1 5 Scale Bar 1:100 Scale In Metres 20 0 10 1 5 20 5 0 15 30 5 0 15 30

Perspective Section

Barrel Storage Render

Lake District Craft School

Masters Year 2, Semester 2,

Planometric Project Approach

A craft school in Coniston in the lake district. For this project, a series of buildings was brought together to corral the landscape. When exploring the site in laying out the project it was situated in a dell framed between trees and an escarpment of rocks. This location defined an otherwise open landscape and allowed the buildings to act as perimeter walls to the corral. The internal space of the buildings becomes the interstitial space with the courtyard acting as the internal lining and the walls the corral. The buildings act as both space and wall. The courtyard acts as the main space of the project and all movement between buildings is through the walkways of the internal lining.

Exploded Axo

5. Apartment 1 6. Apartment 2 7. Apartment 3 8. Storage and Work Area 1. Gallery 2. Disabled Bathrooms 3. Kitchen 4. Cafe 9. Plant Room 10. Disabled Bathroom 11. Workshop 12. Finishing Area 13. Kiln Room 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 9 10 12 13 B A A B 1:200 @ A3 Ground Floor Plan

1:200 @ A3

Section A:A Section B:B

1:100 Final Model

1:20

Tectonic Model

1:50 @ A3 Bay Study

Collage

Courtyard

Personal Making

Projects completed in my own time for my own enjoyment

Stool Chessboard Incence Holder Shelving Unit

197 Park Road

House Extension

Project Involvement

As part of this project my involvement was primarily in speccing the interior of the house and completing the design of unfinished areas such as the basement and garden. Te client had very particular requests to be developed such as a kitchen herb tray as shown on the right of the page. This is a lowerable herb tray that can be hidden away ito the top of the kitchen units when not in use and lowered when needed.

Herb Tray Section 1:20

One Pulse Memorial

Professional Competition, Heneghan Peng Architects

Render By LMNB

Project Brief

To commemorate the 49 victims of the Pulse Shooting In Orlando Florida, A series of shortlisted teams were asked to design a memorial, museum and survivors walk to honour the victims.

“The nightclub remains. Inside is silence. Together, we engage with this silence to realize our strength. It is through collectively facing this silence that the energy of PULSE emerges. The memorial is cast around the perimeter of this silence, delicately poised on the threshold that links what is outside to what happened within. The memorial’s form shelters visitors in an intimate embrace, revealing only a single wall of the nightclub.”

- Heneghan Peng Project Description

Project Involvement

As part of this project I was primarily involved in mapping the surrounding area and developing physical models for the client. I was also present and able to pitch ideas at design team meetings and I learned a great deal from working on this project particularly about the competition process and the rapid iterative design process required when working on competition teams.

Site Strategy

National Railway Museum, York

Professional Competition, Heneghan Peng Architects

Render By LMNB

Project Description

“From the West, the existing railway buildings connect to its Engineering past where their locations are aligned to the radii of the railway tracks as they enter each individual building. But from the East, these same buildings seem disconnected without an organisational logic. Now that the railyards are decommissioned, what was front of house, its West face, has moved to its East face, the face of the National Railway Museum. Our proposal, from the East, through a series of carefully placed radii tangent to the existing buildings, joins these independent halls together with the Bullnose building into a singular network connected to its historic past and unique to this precise place and local. Creating a proposal that connects and creates a unique roofline seen from all directions.”

Heneghan Peng Project Description

Project Involvement

As part of this project I was Involved in developing 3D models of the site and creating diagrams with these models for presentation boards. Working on this project I was able to see how unique forms could be created by drawing on urban context and how a single building could be the centrepiece and beginning of a masterplan.