The EAL Project Lansdowne, Bournemouth
Final Year Project 2023
The EAL Project embodies the commitment to environmental consciousness, a living example of sustainable practice. Natural light floods the open spaces, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere that encourages collaboration and dialogue.
Exchange and Learn Project a catalyst for change.
The Exchange and Learn Project is a mass timber project that uses a series of spaces to invite education and reuse into the public, the distinct embodiments of sound from listening to conversation even to silence for reflection has been put to use to deliver an impactful experience through design for its purpose to inform a sustainable future. Future advancements, technologies and innovation are to be displayed in the large gathering room on the top floor whilst conversations and presentations are held in the conference room becoming a place where decisions and information are spread. A gallery for artwork a stage for performances and an auditorium for the highest auditory stimulation, transformed by the forest of timber construction. A hub where communication and sound can thrive.
[Courtyard Photoshop Render]
[Ground Floor Plan]
[Resin Concept Model]
[Concept Development]
The Civic centre has access from both the front and rear of the building in order to create a fluid and consistent flow of foot traffic through the space, connecting either side of the town from the student district to the future urban shopping centre. The EAL project has various spaces that act as a place for learning; forming a zone that promotes future growth. Being the only timber structure in the area the façade provides this unique colour to the town not detaching itself from the existing buildings to form its impactful design, linking height, rhythm and character
[Main Entrance]
[NW Isometric]
[Right Elevation]
[Rear Elevation]
[Left Elevation]
[Front Elevation]
[Conference Hall/ Gallery]
[Exterior Street Render]
[Interior Large Theatre Render]
[A Section]
[Interior Small Theatre Render]
02 Sound Experimentation
Research By Making 2023
Welcomed, disrupted, and surrounded by sound during this term I chose to focus on the acoustic design of three different structures Specifically looking into how the very different geometries react in accordance to soundwaves. Accounting for material, reflection and reverberation.
St Paul’s Cathedral - whispering gallery. The Swiss Sound Pavilion at the Expo 2000 and The Philips Pavilion of 1958. The contrasting geometries of these buildings will help to identify how sound plays a crucial role in both architecture and its users. Typically, architecture has been designed for visual stimulation often forgetting about the role of acoustics. However, these three buildings seek to blur the two into one cohesive movement.
[Charcoal, Watercolour, Collage]
Using a laser to create the geometric rays that show the path sound would travel away from the source, the light emitted became an effective method that led to some interesting discoveries about sound. Above you will see how the sound waves travel, using a cylindrical model and smoke the lasers path can be seen as the beam bounces around the reflective interior of a cylindrical tube demonstrating the role of St Paul’s whispering gallery.
Shown by light from the laser we can see how sound weakens the further it travels through air as a result of vibrating air particles, in correspondence to the Swiss sound pavilion.
[Laser Sound Experiments]
Computer simulation theorising how sound waves travel in the plans of the three studied environments reacting to various geometric forms.
[Hyperbolic Paraboloid Research Models]
[Sound Wave & Water Experiments]
03
Throop Housing
Throop Mill, Bournemouth
Second Year 2nd Project 2022
[Laser Sound Experiments]
Welcome to Throop Mill, an innovative modular residential project that re-imagines contemporary living by combining creative architecture with eco-friendly design. For high-density living, prefabricated apartments are effortlessly integrated into the current urban landscape.
Breaking the conventional mold of housing, envisioning a future of interlocking prefabricated units in a rapidly growing world. The modules are arranged creating a visually striking and geometrically complex structure. Inspired by community living at Halen Estate and the creative edge that was made by Habitat 67, Throop Mill is not just a residential project; it becomes a testament to the limitless possibilities of harmonising urban living, nature and an ever growing population, all while embracing the efficiency and flexibility that prefabricated units bring to the forefront of architectural evolution.
[All Unit Plans & Corresponding Sections]