Finlay Geddes Part 1 Architectural Assistant

Finlay Geddes Part 1 Architectural Assistant

www.finlaygeddes.co.uk

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Community Centre for City Architecture Office, 1:100 Model (2014)

Having been brought up in and around Aberdeen, I have developed a great knowledge and appreciation for the ‘Granite City’ and it’s architecture. However, during this placement year I seek to work further afield and hope to experience a new culture. During the past three years studying at Scott Sutherland School, I have been particularly interested in and inspired by local historic architecture. That which reacts to a traditional context in a suitably contemporary way has influenced my designs. I believe we should respect and conserve history whilst using it to inform contemporary

architecture. I have worked on a wide variety of projects through the course - most recently a restoration and a mixed use development. These projects have developed my skills in many situations and contexts.

Experience

City Architecture Office, Edinburgh Part 1 Architectural Assistant

September 2014 - Present

The SSC (a camp for the youth of Scotland) Volunteer

December 2011 - Present

Marks & Spencer, Aberdeen Bureau de Change Assistant

September 2011 - March 2014

Education

Scott Sutherland School, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

September 2011 - Present

BSc Acheived 2014 MArch Expected 2017

Student Representative (3 years) Architecture Ball Committee

5710 Lecture Society (3 years)

Meldrum Academy, Aberdeenshire August 2005 - June 2011

Skills

Proficient with the following programmes: AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit,

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, SketchUp, Microsoft Office.

Langauages:

English (first language), French (conversational)

Further skills:

Architectural modelling, Sketching and photography,

Piano (ABRSM Grade 7), Full UK driving licence,

Mixed-Use Development, Detail Section and Rendered Elevation, AutoCAD and Photoshop (2014)

Mixed-Use Development, Aberdeen

This most recent brief was for a mixed-use development which should acco-modate a police station, retail units and a small health centre (with dentist

and GP surgeries) with the focus on sheltered housing for vulnerable people. The site is positioned between majestic tenements which curve down Victoria

Road in Torry, Aberdeen. I felt that despite the need to fill this void, which was evident in the drop in hieght of our site, there was also a need to provide breathing space on the currently clostrophobic street. The design therefore sets the pavement back, which allows an area of public space. The ground

floor of the design is a facated curve that invites the users into this area. The building material and form are inspired by the existing context where a fibre

cement slate is used as well as larger panels with a pigment similar to the granite stone around but obviously a new material.

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Westburn House, Aberdeen

The main intention for this project was to prolong the life of Westburn House - an A-listed house designed by one of the architects of Aberdeen, Archibald

Simpson in 1839. This I felt could only be done with a collaboration of particular restoration and necessary modernisation to fulfil the brief of a

gallery, cafe, archive and photography centre. The building had no use in its current state and so needed extended and given a new function. However, while restoring I did not intend to forge what didn’t know to be true as this may have detracted from the existing character. The approach I took was to create an extension to the opposite side of an exisiting Victorian veranda -

with the intention to create balanced elevations. A main theme through the design was to reinstate and emphasise viewpoints that exist in the house, as well as exaggerating them with the Northern extension. The public gallery

areas of the brief were on the ground floor whereas the more private functions were housed downstairs.

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Housing Study for City Architecture Office, 1:500 Model (2014)

Barcelona Pavilion, Photography

Thank you for looking through my work, I hope you find it of interest.

Finlay Geddes Part 1 Architectural Assistant

www.finlaygeddes.co.uk finlay@finlaygeddes.co.uk

+447415943378

Cafe Extension for City Architecture Office, SketchUp and Photoshop (2014)

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Housing Study for City Architecture Office, 1:500 Model (2014)

Community Centre for City Architecture Office, 1:100 Model (2014)

Barcelona Pavilion, Photography

Scott Sutherland School, Photography