Sample Portfolio[Industrial[Resolution]

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From the outset, our studio nvestigated the Public house (Pub), a typical form of British Public space, cultural infrastructure, which serve communities as a place of gathering. Pubs, which are nearly 50 thousand in the UK varied in terms of architectural features, ale, cuisine, setting, and history, have been significantly contributing to a multitude of health and social problems due to excessive drinking however they have also been the best parts of the communities for serving the same purpose as cultural infrastructure for socializing and connecting.

Our studio sought to re imagine this critical piece of Public infrastructure as a place for gathering for a broader community of creatures, species, minerals, chemicals and microbes which create a network of support for our buildings and lives and not only as traditionally for the continually changing communities of people who support and live around the public place.

Some institutions and societies can exist without so form of building however the existence of building is in dependence of geological and biological systems from which they are created from.

Hence, every single piece of architecture is technically a site of gathering as a building is erected from an enormous set of components, which each carries its own history, origin and hence its own identity.

Consequently, we manifested manifested these histories and origins in order to acknowledge the role the wider community plays in sustaining our existence and contemplating ways the public house might employ, respect, protect, represent and preserve our relationship with public trust(air, waters, and lands)

INDUSTRIAL RE[SOLUTION]

The Public house

Thesis project:

During my third-year thesis project, which I got first, I explored a new approach to my design process of collecting and manipulating information using abstract drawings inspired by Bernard Tschumi and Daniel Libeskind to produce subjective interpretations and design ideas.

In response to studio brief, which was seeking to imagine a critical piece of public infrastructure as a gathering place for a broader community of species, minerals, creatures and others to create a network of support for human lives and their buildings. I aimed in restoring and preserving land and ecosystems on my project site, Moxley, in black country, one of the leading heavy industry places in England during Victorian time known for extreme and faster extraction of the mineral wealth, coal, which largely made possible by technological inventions such as steam engine, steam train and canal system as their serious consequence are still experienced today such as mining subsidence as well as carbon emissions that led to climate change.

Therefore, in my design process I used drawing to deconstruct the technological inventions which made possible the exploitation of resources and reconstruct them in pursuit of creating innovative tools and low energy low carbon building infrastructure which will reverse the negative impacts of the industrial revolution by preserving resources, healing the land, the environment and the species that live in.

Furthermore, from the outset, I critically employed holistic sustainable design strategies to my building infrastructure such as passive solar strategy, circular economy principles, renewable energy systems and bio based carbon sequestering materials in reviving an innovative form of industrial revolution which is green production, ‘urban vertical farming’, and a community center for various activities such as educational spaces, workshops and exercising deliberately for healing the land, enhancing biodiversity and engaging the community and most importantly energy efficient design that covers the rest of its energy from renewable sources.

Design Exploration 1 Part 01

Pub

Investigation

Exploration of Pub culture and spatial realities

Our studio investigated the Public house (Pub), a typical form of British Public space, cultural infrastructure, which serves communities as a place of gathering.

As a starting point for my investigation on pubs, I recalled an experience I had prior to this project when me and my mate visited a pub at Seven Sisters Road in London. Unfortunately, we merely lasted for less than 10 minutes as we suddenly got attacked by a man that we found in the pub. I really thought its crucial to record this event as part of the investigation for Public house being traditional British quintessential public space. From memory, I tried to transcribe the event into diagrams.

My approach to the narrative is relatively more abstract and unlike Bernard tschumi separating his drawings into sections plans and elevations, I kind of merged and depict everything in one place while hinting by adding familiar objects and views to make it a bit more legible, somehow understood.

Crucially, I tried to employ Daniel Libenskid style of drawing of retrieving history using lines and geometry .However, unlike him my drawings depicts a complete narrative from the beginning middle to an end.

event sequence,01

Protagonists’ movements, territories, spatial layout before the attack.

A plan depicts the connected barriers which made possible by porosity.

for Public House

In response to the barriers and thresholds which I encountered, I have tried to create a model as a solution to public shared spaces that sought to have virtual or physical territories created by a group of people in a manner of occupying space for themselves only. The model has voids which represent porosity, and the barriers are connected that allow the flow using the porosity from one place to another. Intrinsically, this model is still an abstract, in terms of architectural formation.

Design Exploration 2 Part 02

Abstract mapping depicts the deconstruction of technological machines

Physical model

Site Investigation

Moxley, black country

Technological advancements

My investigation in this project will be based in mapping the technological evolution prior, during and after industrial revolution. The same way the invention of these machines which largely contributed to the exploition of coal in the black country could also be used in rebuilding black country environmentally, economically and socially. If these machines were invented for exploitation of resources, they also could be machines invented for preservation of resources and the environment as a whole. My work will be based on drawings of assemblage of objects and non-objects which were used on those three periods.

Ambiguous edges

Mapping 03

Anchors,Borders & Boundaries

Investigation of the impact of technological inventions

This is the current setting of the site infrastructure which I mapped depicting railway lines, main road and canals which are still active today and perhaps improved from the industrial revolution era. The site seemed to be enclosed by these network infrastructures which created boundaries between residents, the site and its surrounding to the rest of the area. Therefore, my mapping brings the attention to the impact of the industrial revolution not only on the exploitation of the resources but how it affected the layout of the place.

I have attempted to look closely to the surroundings, regarding to the impact of the enclosure(boundary) and I have realised most of the residents within the enclosed area have also fences which are not porous while the residents outside the boundaries have porous fences. Additionally, I have mapped anchors in the area, which mostly are public spaces such as schools, hospitals, churches, supermarkets, pubs and so forth to start imaginiAng how residents living in an enclosed space move around the area. They are seemed to be a good number of borders on the north part however, perhaps only one border at the South that allows vehicular accessibility. Hence, there is a limited accessibility from the south. To access some of the anchors from the south you have to use only one border which may cause a lot of traffic during rush hour.

long wall along the canal that encloses the industrial site

Mapping 02

Industrial revolution

Investigation of the evolution of technological inventions

During the industrial revolution, a lot of technological inventions took place which were aimed for mass production. The invention of Steam engine for transporting coal from mines, steam train and construction of canals which were used to network Mines industries in Moxley area and other parts of the country, and therefore, stimulated the exploitation of mineral wealth of Black country unproportionally.

This drawing which I created depicts the deconstruction of these facilities which made possible the exploitation of resources and reconstruction of them in pursuit of creating new tools and infrastructure which will reverse the negative impacts of the industrial revolution by preserving resources and heal the land, the environment and the species that live in.

This is 1:100 sculpture model of 13m high by 24.32m long. I have created it using 3D printing for the fragments and laser cutting for the acrylic, and MDF as holding substances. Then I sprayed the fragments in gold colour and attach them on the Acrylic wall using super glue. The acrylic, transparent glass is also etched with the drawings of the parts of the same sculpture to culminate in.

Physical model

The Tower Sculpture

The scultpure depicts the memory of the industrial activities and coal mining that took place in Moxley. Gold colour reflects the name ‘Black Gold’ which was given to the coal due to its significant demand.

Ideas development

deconstruct and reconstruct

As I was trying to materialise the notation of ‘The remnants of the black goltd’ I had to dismantle the objects and nonobjects rearrange its fragments together unconsciously in order to freeze the history of all periods in time. Again, the process is largely influence By Cornelia Parker regarding the idea of fragments’ suspension. This piece of sculpture depicts a history of the coal mining but also a reminiscent piece to the miners that lived around the area.

Part 03 Design Iteration

Filling up drawings’ voids

I continued by filling up the drawings’ voids to make sense of a roof plan and experimenting more with solid and void.

Massing & diagram explorations

In exploration of further design avenues, I created 3D digitalA massing models for further exploration of shapes, sizes for a production of pragmatic design.

3D Digital Massing

1. The existing building footprint is being used to develop a building design. Hence, no single tree will be cut or more further land will be used.

2. Layout of different building forms due to their functionality oriented due to their requirements, accessibility, and sunlight.

5. Added more spaces/volumes to massing due to their space requirements and their functionality.

6. Creating spacious circulation that connects all the buildings and spaces for effective accessibility and wandering around

8. The scheme is holistically designed to stimulate Wbiodiversity, enviromentand encourages other animals to be living underneath the building.

9. Green roofs, solar panels, photovoltaics, rooflights installed for sustainability purposes of producing own energy and reducing energy consumption hence only small amount of embodied carbon can be emitted.

3.Change the long orientation of the adminstration space to face the street while long glazing facing south for sunlight.

6. Expanding green house vertically for vertical farming to maximise solar gain to crops

10. Habitat corridors designed to bring other small species such as hedgehogs closer to the scheme and become an ecological zone.

Concept diagrams

Passive

site Strategy

4.Displace and rearange other forms for max. solar gain and creating courtyard for passive cross ventilation and sunlight accessibility to all building spaces.

7. Lifting up the whole scheme at least 3m high to allow expansion of the nature reserve underneath while blending in with the site context as the site is a nature reserve surrounded by trees.

11. The outer glass skin which absorbs the sunlight to keep the buildings passively warm in order to reducing energy consumption.

Detailed building design

Timber materials & structure

This is the whole scheme in context that displays a pragmatic high quality design with clear material & logic. Furthermore, the building model depicts enviromental and sustainability design strategies employed such as green roofs, green footprint, rooflights, long glazing windows, PV & thermal panels to make the building energy efficient while inciting biodiversity.

Site plan

Site Location

Unit 9, Bull Lane, Wednesbury, Mosley, WS10 8ST

This is a project proposal’s site plan which shows building design in context. The building is in the Woods nature reserve which acts as a anchor that invite the community to nature. On the right, the scheme plan shows building spaces strongly connected by circulation translating its robustness in terms of structure, and a community anchor

Spatial organisation

Form, function & circulation

TRAINING/SMALL EVENTS

-Small gathering, 40sq. m

-Activities/training, 45sq. m

The building is designed to bring the community together which translated on the ‘circulation’ as not only it connects all of the building spaces but also it acts as a communal space for people to interact.

Structural and aesthetic considerations are subjected to enviroment rather than functionality. Hence, some of these spaces have open floor plans and some have partions that can be altered.

ADMINISTRATION

-Office, 40sq. m

-Kitchennette, 30sq. m

-Meeting, 15sq. m

-Private office, 15sq. m

-Reception, 10sq. m

-Waiting area, 10sqm

-Multi functional space, 320 sq. m -Kitchen, 30sq. m -Storage, 10sq. m

SECONDARY HALL

UTILITIES

-Storage, 20sq. m

-Services, 30sq. m

-WC’s, 10sq. m

-Social activities, 130sq. m -Zumba -Yoga

SERVICES

-Mechanical, 40sq. m

-Recycling, 30sq. m

-Post/delivery, 20sq. m -Electrical, 10sq. m

GREENHOUSE

-Storefront, 65sq.m -,Making/Planting, 30sq.m -Processing, 200sq.m -Waste, 100sq.m -Reception, 10sq.m

Perspective section

Primary hall

This is a perspective section of the primary hall which is in the middle of the whole design scheme. The primary hall is strategically designed to provide ernomous natural light into the building while harnessing solar energy for power and water and space heating, making the most use of site orientation that is facing North West(NW) .

The whole design scheme is lifted three(3) meters high to extend the Moorcroft Wood nature reserve into the site while inciting biodiversity and mimicking the trees forms. CLT and glulam are primary materials technically chosen to fit with the site context which is full of trees, for carbon sequestration, for its durability and most importantly suitable to design for disassembly .

Whole Scheme

External view

This is an exterior view which depicts the circulation that creates spaces for people to interact and wander around the courtyard while enjoying beautifl views of the woodlands.

Primary hall

Internal view

This is an interior view which shows an art exhibiton taking place on the Primary building. The free plan multi-purposes space is designed with ernomous amount of natural light from its ceiling to make the space more vibrant and reduce the need for artificial light.

Green House Urban farming

This is a perspective section which shows the greenhouse in context. The greenhouse mainly grows produce(vegetables and fruits), train the community members about and sell their produce to the local communities. It is essentially green in the inside and most importantly on the outside to support other lives underneath the building design such as plants and small animals like Hedgehogs and squirrels which are freely moving to create a bubble of life and improve biodiversity.

Internal view of the third floor that depicts the planting activties in the green house.

Perspective section

The Building consists of three(3) floors. 1st floor, for selling, delivering and storing. Second floor, for training and packaging and plating and third floor for planting. The office, canteen and toilets are on the second floor.

It has however a cherry picker for moving around produce and other equipments and has a lift for bulk delivery and for inclusive circulation for any group of people who can not use stairs.

Green House Layout & Circulation

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

DESIGNED FOR DISASSEMBLY

Inserting prefab building form into the strctuctre

Attaching the second roof into the structure

Inserting front part from into the strctuctre

Locking the prefab form within the stucture using columns

Administration building Section drawing

This is the detailed section of the front of the building (Administration). to depict materiality, structure and environmental strategies such as Long glazing, Photovoltaics and louvers facing South.

repurposed.

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC DESIGNED FOR DISASSEMBLY

particular drawing I tried to depict the exclusively timber structure, which is installed independently on the outside to facilitate agency of assemblage, has been together by interlocking joints of beams on of one another.

Furthermore, bolts and nuts have been crucially used to connect between columns beams and the steel knife plate connector and the foundation.

method of installation allows materials to remain intact a the end of life which can be repurposed.

1. Roof

2. 75x200mm beam 1

3. 75x400mm beam 2

4. 75x40mm beam 2

5. Bolts & nuts

6. 125x125mm column

7. 52mm triple glazing

8. 22mm black siberian cladding

9. air gap

10. 34mm battens

11. Wind protection

12. 170mm insulation and vertical studs

13. 2x13mm plasterboard

14. 45mm insulation and studs

15. 100mm CLT

16. Vapour retarder

17. 170mm insulation and horizontal studs

18. 3mm foam underlay

19. 140mm CLT slab

20. 95x2mm insulation

21. 28mm battens

22. 22mm black siberian cladding

23. 14mm wood flooring

24. 22mm fiberboard

25. acoustic matting

26. 22mm fibreboards

27. 125X125mm columns

28. Bolts and nuts connection

29. Steel knife plate

30. Concrete foundation

Scale 1:120 in A4

GLULAM COLUMNS & BEAMS CONNECTION

Bolts and Brackets

LEG CONNECTION

Concrete foundation, Steel knife plate

PHYSICAL SECTION MODEL

3m x 3m

Scale 1:20

PASSIVHAUS PLUS

Winter solstice at 14 degrees.

TRIPLE GLAZED WINDOWS

Triple glazing window. 52mm thickness

U value 0.8 W/M Sq, K Allows heat energy to pass through but not losing the internal heat through glazing.

Photovoltaics and Solar thermal collectors angled at 45 degrees to absorb the lowest angled winter’s solar energy

AIR TIGHTNESS

The building has wind tight layer to eliminate unintended gaps and cracks to minimiWWse draughts/air leakage through the building structure.

Optimal winter solar gains

Long glazing facing S.E for maximum solar gain

Winter solstice at 14 degrees.

Warm fresh air

SUPER INSULATION

The wall thickness 567mm with insulation which the U-value sq. K]. Hence, the heat transfer walls and keeps in during winter out during summer

INSULATION thickness is 215mm only which makes of 0.10[W/m Hence, it reduces transfer through keeps warmth winter and heat summer

THERMAL BRIDGE FREE DESIGN

The building envelope is free from timber structure, which is on the outside( poor conductor of heat) and is elevated about 3m high above the ground to avoid heat

Rooflights facing North West at almost 50 degrees for soft skylight into the building

HEAT RECOVERY VENT.

Circulates fresh air at or near room temperature into the building during winter to provide thermal comfort and prevent from stuffiness and heat lost.

Intake Air

Long glazing windows facing North West (N.W) at almost 50 degrees for soft skylight and view to the courtyard.

Extract air

MVHR

Exhaust Air

Conclusion:

My thesis project enabled me to acquire a breadth of skills and knowldge from researching & analysing, drawing, to model making and most importantly improving my verbal communication skills. Throughout the year, I had an opportunity to test a variety of skills and the results have been immensely great.

Design resolution brief has been pivotal, as my work well responded to the brief and was a success as I scored first for my final design portfolios. My design concepts have always adhered to sustainability and biodiversity tenets and are human based. Hence, having an opportunity to design a sustainable piece of public infrastructure was an avenue that led me to new heights of critical and design thinking.

Moving forward, I am looking for a practice that will allow me to utilise my skills and knowledge while learning new skills and gaining industrial experince which will incite my growth in the world of architecture.

The British cultural infrastructure (place of gathering).

INDUSTRIAL

Industrial Re-solution is the name of my project which aims on restoring and preserving common resources such as land, water sources, ecosystems which during the Victorian time, ‘Industrial Revolution’, particularly in my site, Moxley, in Black country was one of the leading heavy industries in England for the extreme and faster extraction of the mineral wealth due to technological advances which caused a great level of air pollution as well as mining subsidence. Its impact is still experienced today around the Black Country as many suffered with cancer due to air pollution and many buildings sunk into forgotten mine workings .