OLIVER PENNY PORTFOLIO
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CONTENTS Clear Skies
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Centre for the Visually Impaired Dee Jones: My World
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Short Film and Doorhandle Interventions Realms
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Digital Oxford University College Cabinetto
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A Room within a Room Dream Machine
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Interactive sculpture Hawkins Brown
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Crystal Palace National Sports Centre Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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Staffordshire University Student Village
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2023 Clear Skies - Centre for the Visually Impaired
13 W E E K S
Final Year Undergraduate Project
Rates of visual impairment are set to double by 2050. Given this fact, a more mindful attitude to accessible design must be taken. This project aims to understand how a space could be designed when considering a different way of experiencing the world. The centre tackles three key areas that affect the VI community; ‘acceptance’, coming to terms with loss; ‘education’, learning domestic and employable skills and ‘research’, taking initiative towards the prevention of sight loss. The scheme is driven by conversations with visually impaired individuals to understand their mechanisms for navigation and relationship with space. Four key interfaces have been considered throughout the scheme: the ground plane, handrail plinth, doorway datum and acoustics. Each interface grounds the user within their environment across different scales to enrich their sense of place within the building. Primarily the project controls light, creating a new north-lit enclosure over the internal blocks to mediate external and internal conditions. The CLT and Glulam structure creates an extension of the dense trees to the north of site, the canopy mimicking the sensory experience of walking through a woodland focusing on light, sound and texture.
“ Walking through a wood you can touch. I mean, I love touching tree trunks and the moss on trees and the different light. So often I can still get a sense of the sun coming through the dappled shade in a wood and you can feel the temperature change, the damp, the heat and the sounds in a wood. You know, there’s so much going on in a sensory way.” Dee Jones , Visually Impaired Individual
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The site is located adjacent to the former Littlemore County Asylum. The scheme aims reclaim these sites for the disabled community where previously they had been mistreated. The wider ambition is for these centres occupy other county asylum sites to create a positive network for the impaired.
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Fundamentally a regular timber structure supports the new skybox over the internal environment. The primary beams run diagonally orientating the skylights north as well as providing an orientation aid for users.
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Reception Laboratory Spill-out Workspace Library Rehearsal Rooms Offices Auditorium Courtyard Canteen Kitchen
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Opticians Cookery Classroom Mock Bedrooms Workshop Plant Room Bike Store Fire Stair Store Room Staff Room Water Rill
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Where internal blocks are pulled away from the external envelope, it creates opportunities to occupy in-between spaces within the temperate environment.
The flexible meeting spaces are fitted with recessed 1500mm x 800mm tables. Each table has an associated cork panel so presentation material can be pinned directly to the wall. Tables are folded away to keep the circulation route as clear as possible. A tactile impression of the table’s footprint is defined within the floor tiles.
Internal Block Wall Thickness (mm)
U-Value - 0.14 W/m 2K
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Perforated acoustic plywood panels
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Counter battens & service zone
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Breather membrane
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Plywood board
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Timber studwork & wood fibre insulation
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Fireboard
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Counter battens & service zone
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Plywood board
Ground Floor
U-Value - 0.12 W/m 2K
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Stone Tiles
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Decoupling membrane
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Concrete screed with underfloor heating
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Slip membrane
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Breather membrane
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Rigid wood fibre acoustic insulation
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Damp proof course
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Concrete slab
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Sand blinding
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Hardcore
Through energy modelling analysis, the temperate space requires no additional heating or cooling to maintain an acceptable thermal condition. The space is naturally ventilated through louvres and openable skylights. The concrete base mediates thermal temperatures utilising it’s thermal mass from solar gains.
Zinc Roof Thickness (mm)
U-Value - 0.24 W/m 2K
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Standing Seam Zinc
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Raised hinged galvanised steel walkway
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Structured separating wire mesh
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Single ply waterproof membrane
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Plywood board
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Rigid wood fibre acoustic insulation
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Battens and counter battens
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Vapour control layer
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Breather membrane
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Plywood
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Rigid wood fibre insulation
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Firrings
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CLT panel
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Glulam beam @ 8000mm centres
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East Elevation
The landscape zone has an opportunity to further engage the other senses. Each side has a primary acoustic background, either the running water of the rill on the west side or the performance space to the east.
The height and shaded conditions of the plants responds to the opening opposite the stage that connects through to the tree. The auditorium space is adaptable to suit the desired size of the audience. For open performances, the external wall panels can be raised to allow the seating zone to spill out into the landscape.
Within the double height space there are collaborative study spaces that feel light and airy. Great for sharing ideas around a table. Scan the QR code to hear the soundscape.
Library First Floor Thickness (mm)
Library External Wall with Bookshelves Material
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Timber Floor Finish
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Perforated acoustic plywood panels
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Plywood Board
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Counter battens & service zone
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Battens and counter battens
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Breather membrane
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Rigid wood fibre acoustic insulation
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Plywood board
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Breather membrane
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Timber studwork & wood fibre insulation
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CLT Panel
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Fireboard
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Glulam beams @ 8000mm centres
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Book/Storage shelf
2023 Dee Jones - My World Personal Project
Dee Jones is a visually impaired individual who I interviewed as part of my final undergraduate project. Following my undergraduate project, I wanted to further investigate the varying experience of people in how they understand and interpret space and place. What are the key experiential qualities that define spaces? This project involved the creation of a film and a series of drawing studies by Dee responding to our discussions about her memories, surroundings and engagement with form and space. Through our conversations it became clear that tactility was of vital importance for Dee, particularly for understanding where she is within a sequence of spaces. When Dee showed me around her home, a new build in Great Malvern, the generic standardised door handles became a focus for our discussions on the importance of thresholds. Using an iphone as a 3D scanner, I studied Dee’s hands. I was influenced by Dee’s love of sailing as a key form of expression for her. I designed a series of sleeves to integrate onto various doorhandles around her house. Each sleeve is inspired by a sailing knot to create distinctive, and characterful interactions between her and each space.
A drawn representation of a plaster model. She always begins with understanding the boundary of the form before working into the detail.
Dee recalls her journey to the Malvern hills from her house. She navigates by the suns orientation, the sound and feel of reference points to create a sequence.
Sailing gives Dee a sense of freedom and expanse of sky and sea. Control of the tiller, the shimmer and sound of the waves, a feeling of independence.
Dee loves the connection to her garden from her living room. In the summer she can see the colours of her flowers and opens the window to hear the bees.
Using the 3D scans to understand the proportions of the hand to generate dimensions and form of the door handles. Key focus on texture, materiality, weight and feel.
2022 Realms - Oxford University College
8 WEEKS
Final Undergraduate Group Project Te d H a p p o l d P r i z e f o r I n t e g ra t e d B u i l d i n g D e s i g n - T h i r d P l a c e With a 250-year design life, the future of educational methods will change. The project develops the potential of virtual learning with Virtual and Augmented Realities (VR & AR) to create both a physical and digital college. This bridges the gap in the learner experience between in-person and virtual learning, creating equality and flexibility for an almost limitless cohort. Students spend a percentage of their degree in the college through rolling accommodation, enabling us to build less for more students. The key feature within the library space is the ‘data core’. Acting as a stability core as well as hosting the servers and 5D optical storage for the university. With the community being digital, it was important that this arbitrary idea of data had a physical presence and identity within the scheme. Social interaction and a connection to landscape underpins the design. We have returned as much of the site as possible back to green, public space which is particularly scarce within the Oxford City Centre. The ground floors providing public amenities and creating active streetscapes around the site, drawing people into the landscape. Our copper clad, steel framed buildings grow out of the public, concrete plinth to penetrate the tree canopy. I focused primarily on the design of the library tower and the development of the digital ambitions of the schemes narrative.
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L i b ra r y l o n g s e c ti o n , cu tti n g th ro u g h th e au d i to ri u m , p u b l i c a n d c o l l e g e l i b ra r y l e ve ls .
Th e g ro u n d f l o o r o f th e s i te is n e a r l y e nti re l y p u b l i c l y a c c e s s i b l e , wi th th e ma j o ri t y o f th e a re a re ma i n i n g g re e n la n ds c a p e . Atte nu ati o n swa l e s o c cu p y th e c e ntre o f th e s i te , c o m b i n e d wi th m i xe d d ro u g ht re s ist a nt p la nti n g to a c c o u nt fo r f u tu re c l i mate c o n d i ti o ns . Th e s i te b re a k s d own th e b a rri e r o f th e tra d i ti o na l O x fo rd c o l l e g e q u a d ra n g l e , o ffe ri n g th e la n ds c a p e b a c k to th e c i t y as a c ri ti c a l p i e c e o f p u b l i c sp a c e a n d i n f rastru c tu re .
C o n c e p t i ma g e re p re s e nti n g th e p o te ntia l e x p a ns e o f th e d i g i t a l e x p e ri e n c e o f th e u n i ve r s i t y. Ec h o e s o f th e p hy s i c a l c o nte x t c o u l d ma n i fe st wi th i n th e d i g i t a l re p re s e nt ati o n o f sp a c e to ma i nt a i n th e asp i rati o n o f ‘d re a m i n g sp i re s ’ wi th i n O x fo rd e d u c ati o n.
Up o n re f l e c ti o n th e f i na l s c h e m e ve e re d away f ro m th e p ro j e c t ’s ke y a m b i ti o ns , fo cus i n g o n a c h i e v i n g a d i g i t a l c o l l e g e fo r O x fo rd rath e r tha n p hy s i c a l. Th e s c h e m e c o u l d have b e e n p ush e d f u r th e r to p ro d u c e a s i n g l e s e r ve r towe r / d i g i t a l a rc h i ve wi th i n a n o p e n , p u b l i c p a r k s c a p e . E x p l o ri n g a m o re u to p ia n v i e w o f h ow a sh i ft to d i g i t a l i n f rastru c tu re c a n re fo rm u r b a n la n ds c a p e s to o ffe r p u b l i c sp a c e b a c k to c i ti e s .
2020 Cabinetto - E xhibition Enclosure for a Painting
6 WEEKS
Dream Machine
5 WEEKS
1 st Year Undergraduate Project
1 st Year Undergraduate Group Project
A ro o m wi th i n a ro o m , wi th th e c a p a c i t y o f d isp lay i n g a n d e x p e ri e n c i n g ‘A C o u p l e wi th a Pa rro t ’ b y Ho o c h , wi th i n a 4 m x 5 m x 4 m vo l u m e . Th e i l l ustrate d p a rro t has tra ns fo rm e d i nto a tro p hy a n d g i ft . F o cus i n g o n th e s e c o n c e p t s , I p ro p o s e d that th e p a i nti n g i t s e l f is mu c h l i ke th e p a rro t i n i t s c o m m o d i f i c ati o n. Th e i nst a l lati o n c re ate s a p e r s o na l y e t s e p a rate d e x p e ri e n c e b e t we e n th e v i e we r a n d p a i nti n g , a l l owi n g y o u to n o t q u i te re a c h th e p a i nti n g susp e n d e d i n a n i n f i n i te , i d y l l i c sp a c e .
A group forming of myself, and three civil engineering students created a structure with the capacity of supporting a dreamer upon a 4.2m x 3m area, inspired by the ‘Sword of Damocles’ fable. Focusing on the oppressive nature of negative dreams, creating a structure that commands the experience of the dreamer.
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Understanding of the precariousness is only clearly apparent when resting underneath the structure. The visible 3 bolts and lengths of rope suspending the spike above you, allows you to fully understand the construction adding paranoia. The relationship of tension between the legs and taut rope again adds discomfort to the user.
2024 Hawkins Brown
5 M O N T H S - PR E SE N T
Architectural Assistant Part 1
At Hawkins\Brown I’ve focused mostly on a single project, the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. I’m working both internally and externally across the site, assisting in delivery of the stage 2 report, now focusing on stage 3. My key areas of input have been the dividing screen running through the main building, changing rooms and the walkway ramp. This project has involved extensive collaboration with the landscape and structures team to navigate the sensitive listed context of the project.
Pro j e c t - Cr y st a l Pa la c e Nati o na l Sp o r t s C e ntre Phas e 1 S i ze - 2 .4 ha Bu d g e t - £ 11 0 m i l l i o n
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The Crystal Palace (NSC) is situated in the historic Victorian park in two former fountain basins designed by Joseph Paxton. The main building and walkway are grade II* listed structures designed by LCC Architect’s Department constructed with a reinforced concrete frame, exposed externally with large areas of infilled glazing.
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The project is a masterplan and concept design for the redevelopment of Crystal Palace National Sports Centre (NSC), to secure its future as an inclusive sport, health & well-being hub. Consisting of both internal and external works to the existing fabric to transform the park into an accessible piece of public landscape.
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2022 Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS)
6 MONTHS
Architectural Assistant Part 1
Du ri n g my ti m e at F C B S , I wo r ke d la rg e l y wi th i n th e Hi g h e r Ed u c ati o n s e c to r wi th p ro j e c t s at th e Un i ve r s i t y o f S t affo rdsh i re a n d Sus s e x . Th e stu d e nt v i l la g e p ro j e c t fo r th e Un i ve r s i t y o f S t affo rdsh i re was th e p ri ma r y p ro j e c t I wo r ke d o n th ro u g h o u t my 6 m o nths , d e l i ve ri n g a S t a g e 3 re p o r t fo r th e a c c o m m o dati o n as we l l as a S t a g e 2 re p o r t fo r th e H U B b u i l d i n g. Mo st o f my wo r k l o a d i nvo l ve d G A d rawi n g , v isu a l is ati o ns , d i g i t a l a n d p hy s i c a l m o d e l l i n g.
Pro j e c t - St affo rdsh i re Un i ve r s i t y Stu d e nt Vi l la g e S i ze - 4 . 5 ha Bu d g e t - £ 1 0 0 m i l l i o n
A n e w, n e t ze ro c a r b o n stu d e nt v i l la g e fo r S t affo rdsh i re Un i ve r s i t y fo cus i n g o n i n c l us i v i t y, b i o d i ve r s i t y a n d we l l- b e i n g. Up to 1,1 0 0 ro o ms wi l l b e p ro v i d e d th ro u g h n e w town h o us e s , a p a r tm e nt v i l las a n d th e re f u r b ish m e nt o f e x isti n g a c c o m m o dati o n , a l l s e t a ro u n d a s e ri e s o f f u l l y a c c e s s i b l e p la nte d c o u r t s . C e ntra l l y th e re is a n e w stu d e nt ( H U B ) c e ntre that ma na g e s th e l e ve l c ha n g e s b e t we e n th e a c c o m m o dati o n a n d wa l kway. A n e w p e d e stria n fo o tb ri d g e th e n l i n k s th e n e w stu d e nt v i l la g e wi th th e e x isti n g S t affo rdsh i re c a m p us b u i l d i n gs o n th e o th e r s i d e o f th e ri ve r.
I su p p o r te d s e ve ra l maste r p la n n i n g p ro j e c t s fo r sh o r te r p e ri o ds at va ri o us s c a l e s . A s a n e x te ns i o n o f th e stu d e nt v i l la g e wo r k , I wo r ke d o n maste r p la n n i n g fe as i b i l i t y stu d i e s fo r th e wi d e r S t affo rdsh i re Un i ve r s i t y Ca m p us as we l l as a re d e ve l o p m e nt maste r p la n fo r B a rr y, Wa l e s .
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