_reece oliver contact

born_ location_ experience

25/11/1995 glasgow, uk

Part II Architectural Assistant email_ mob_ web_ reecejoliver@gmail.com

Recent graduate from Glasgow School of Art with extensive experience across multiple scales of architecture and design. Seeking further exciting opportunities within architecture and spatial practice.

+ (44) 7492073073

@rco_architecture

Freelance Architecture + Design rco architecture + design UK

Over 30 architecture and design projects across the UK, in landscape, education, residential and commercial sectors.

Part I Architectural Assistant

Worked across RIBA Stages 0-4, mainly responsible for visuals and feasibility studies. Managed social media and marketing, boosting all to 1k+ followers within 12 months.

Part I Architectural Assistant

London 2012 Olympics site regeneration for 400+ homes, commercial and office development. Worked across RIBA Stage 2-4

RIBA Mentoring Scheme education

Overseeing a student housing development, attending multiple site visits with project architect.

DipArch

BA(Hons) Architecture

1st Class Honours

Level 4 Art Foundation Diploma

Merit Award design skills

2018 - pres.

RaynerDavies Architects

Nottingham, UK

Feb. 2020 - Sep. 2022 sprunt architects

London, UK xsite architecture

Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2019

Newcastle, UK Glasgow School of Art

Oct. 2016 - Jun. 2017

2021 - 2023

Newcastle University

2015 - 2018

Nottingham College

2014 - 2015

Glasgow School of Art Yr_5 (2022 - 23)

Synecdoche, Molenbeek explores the surrealism of architecture in cinema and its application in re-identifying the post-industrial ‘non-landmarks’ of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels.

The thesis aims to bring this social injustice to light by providing a centre for film production and screenings to showcase the multi-cultures in Molenbeek. Through this platform, the thesis presents surrealist representations of architecture in film and establishes Synecdoche as a concept to represent Molenbeek’s socio-cultural identity.

_Synecdoche-EcplodedAxo.skp + AutoCAD.dwg + Photoshop.psd

Glasgow School of Art

Yr_4 (2021 - 22)

The Barras Youth Hub provides a much-needed respite and opportunity space for the young people of Calton and the Barras.

As part of Glasgow City Council’s ‘Integrated Children Plan’, the council-funded scheme will offer accessible space for young residents aged between 10-19 years. The hub offers a variety of learning, leisure and performance environments to cover a wide scope of non-curriculum and creative interests the young user group may have, to encourage alternative modes of learning alongside and after their school life.

_ext wall

8mm polycarbonate galv. steel fixings

150mm insulation

120mm CLT

24mm plywood

_floor type

203/102/23mm steel i-beam exposed services + ventilation channels

100mm CLT

24mm floor tile

_foundation

220mm concrete floor slab w/ reinforced steel blockwork

140mm upstand

150mm insulation

_BarrasYouthHub-EXT-Night.skp + materials-v-ray.vrmat + Photoshop.psd

DipArch

Glasgow School of Art

Yr_4 (2021 - 22)

Commended

GSA Sustainability Prize 2022

Domesticity and Labour, though intrinsically linked, cannot exist without Leisure; it is Leisure which enables the sustenance of contemporary modes of living. Joffre Dumazedier states – ‘Leisure is activity – apart from obligations of work, family and society, to which the individual turns at will’. This notion ties in directly with the relationship between Domesticity and Labour – one cannot exist without the other, but both are dependent upon Leisure as an outlet for their sustenance.

Bare Necessities! examines the requirement for Domesticity and Labour to exist within the typical residential unit, where such commodities are stripped back to a minimum to allow for an increase in Leisure activity within and beyond the dwelling.

BA(Hons)

Newcastle University

Yr_3 (2015 - 18) museum of unnatural history

A futurist approach to museum design promotes a greater understanding, knowledge and appreciation of the role of material as part of today’s society.

‘The museum of unnatural history’ sets out as a critique to the modern method of museology, acting as a typological anomaly concerned with exhibiting and the fostering of a new understanding of materiality. As opposed to the traditionally used method of chronological formatting, this museum categorises its artefacts in reference to their material specification; namely metals, ceramics, and glass.

Through the lens of Svetlana Boym’s theory of reflective and restorative nostalgia, ‘Dancefloors of Impossibility’ compares and contrasts the reflective nostalgias of individuals who experienced the UK Rave Scene of 1988-1994, with the nostalgia of those who did not.

Currently found within an agricultural context on the edge of Nottingham lies a former pavilion building, disused for almost 20 years. The building is in a state of disrepair, and has attracted unwanted crime to the area. A local pre-school have proposed to take advantage of this unique landscape setting, where I was asked to produce a full planning application for the project.

This residential rear extension takes the form of a gabled roof and uses this form to dictate the framed glazing looking out towards the rear garden. An existing conservatory stood in the footprint of the proposed extension, where internal reconfigurations were also executed.

The project involved RIBA Stages 0-4, where design and tender information were produced by myself working with the client.

On a 1700sqm site of an existing public house, RDA were commissioned to design a new £1.5million childcare facility with provision for 92 places across age groups 1-4 years. The scheme is based around a courtyard garden with a playful approach to massing, creating vaulted classroom spaces. I was involved with RIBA Stage 4 tender drawings.

On 1000sqm site of a disused building, RDA were commissioned to design a high density housing scheme on a restricted infill site bounded by overlooking issues, and a steep slope. The resultant scheme provides 9no. contemporary housing units. I was involved heavily in co-ordinating the massing and layouts of the scheme, RIBA Stages 0-3.