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Part 1 Architect
Ian Oyoo
curated projects 2023.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUNSET WALK
STUDENT ACCOMODATION
FINAL YEAR MUSEUM(LOOKING INTO THE OVERLOOKED)
CV
The first time I was required to do a high resolution project in university was during my first semester of my second year.
Located in Rome, the project required a proposal for the dilapidated Trastavere area.
I personally proposed the ‘Sunset Walk’ which had its main idea connecting the river and adjacent neighbourhood via a wooden path which would have the sunset in view from the south.
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sunset walk
Here a map explores the concept in better detail as it highlights the wooden sunset walk. Split into two parts, the walk would connect the whole region with the darker path representing the river park and the lighter wood representing the adjacent neighbourhood. All the other design solutions surround this idea of the walk as the addition of facilities such as a basketball court and open aired theatre come from the adjacent neighbourhood culture achieved through careful site analysis.
Rome, Italy
While redesigning the region I repurposed one of the run down warehouses to this green space where the design would alow that constant sunshine would be used to conserve the plants that would be displaced in the construction of the river park.
SOFTWARE: Sketchup and Enscape
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Following up on the urban planning of the Trastavere region in Rome, the project we had for the 2nd semester was to pick any region onsite and develop a comprehensively detailed building with construction principles and visualisations.
I chose to pick a fairly constricted region north of the site and next to a historical wall landmark and develop it there.
This was to test my design capability on small spaces and how I could design vertically to come up with a reasoable solution.
The building decided was a student accomodation building due to the adjacent neighbouring area having a lot of schools(university and colleges).
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With much more experience in development of projects I started off this project with basics as I used hand drawing to figure out how my spaces would interlink.
This is where the idea of an atrium space within the builing came to fruition. As a social aspect, it would help the residents of the proposal have a healthy social life by bringing them together on the first floor. This is due to the ground being a public space following a lot of the design language of surrounding buildings.
This is the buidling render highlighting the footprint of the building onsite included with two detailed section views of said project.
The render also highlights a feature of the building which was that the ground floor was connected to the historical wall. Using construction techniques, the proposal reinforces the wall then incoporates it within its design.
A construction visualisation incuding 3D and 2D explaining the strategies used in the buildings.
SOFTWARE: Revit, Illustrator, Lumion and Photoshop
-03Looking into the Overlooked
My passion and graduation project that combined all the skills I had been learning for the three years in university. It also complies my identity as an artist. It was an African Arts Museum in the heart of the United Kingdom.
As an international student, the state of my indifference to a new culture had been a major development as part of my character, this project is literally about overcoming indifference to other cultures in an existential level as a society from my point of view. It takes the history of two historically opposite parts of the world and merges them through an architectural identity.
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Located in Digbeth Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The concept was explored through varous sketches but these specific ones summarize what the concept was.
It shows the housing of the musuem idea by the Urban forestry idea while also showing various potential levels within the musuem building.
The sketches explore the sustainability and connectivity of the multilevel and dome designs.
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Museum spaces in the interior
This slide explores the environmental strategies that the benefit from the concept, plans of the different floors and a simplication of the concept itself.
Illustrated at the top of the image alongside is the concept having a simple concept expression of an African museum housed within urban forestry.
The dome would act as metaphorical boundary offering protection to this museum.
The Urban forestry environmntal approach would create a green footprint in an other wise concrete jungle (Birmingham). This would bring with it all the benefits that tree prosess thus the illustration.
Here the construction strategies of the dome and the museum are summarized from the proposal.
The dome is constrcuted using a grid lattice system using timber allowing plants to grow on the said system.
The walls use rammed earth as it is the closest modern relative to the famous mud wall construction traditionally used in Africa.
SOFTWARE: Revit, Illustrator, Lumion and Photoshop, Procreate, Sketchup, Twinmotion
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