C o n t e n t s01 - Final project. 02 - Elevations / Floor plans (Vectorworks & Photoshop)03 - Conceptual design process.04 - Development models.05 - Site analysis and structural detailing.

06 - Second year project.07 - Project brief.08 - Hand drawn elevations.09 - Axonometric floor plans and sketch models.

DRIVE-THRU HIGH STREETMy final 3rd year project was to design an intervention for Stoke on Trent as it faces the challenge of renaissance amidst a turbulent economic climate, encapsulating the themes of incubation and social enterprise.

A study of Stoke on Trent framed by the meta theme ‘mobility’ focused the attention of this project on the main trunk route that runs through the 6 towns which comprise the city of Stoke on Trent. The A500 represents more of a life drain than a life vein for the city, removing the need or desire for users to interact with the towns bypassed by this high-speed thoroughfare.

My proposal, a ‘Drive-Thru High Street’, aimed to draw people into Stoke on Trent by arresting the attention of commuters on the A500. The design was influenced by 1950’s Americana Doo Wop architecture, which itself was influenced by America’s new car culture. By the 1950s every family had at least one car. Fast food drive-ins were popping up on roadsides everywhere. Dynamic architecture was used to attract customers ‘zooming’ by on roads and highways—to catch their eye and encourage them to stop.

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1 Foyer / Cafe and Cinema Concession2 Kitchen3 Stock Room4 Toilets5 Facility Storage6 Car Boot Garages7 Biomass Plant Room8 Biomass Delivery Chute9 Refuse 10 Fire Escape11 Service Lifts12 Drive In Cinema Screen13 Drive-Thru Entrance Ramp14 Drive-Thru Exit Ramp15 Main Car Park16 Drive In Car Park17 Reception18 Meeting Rooms19 Drive-Thru Management Office20 Staff Room21 Cinema Projection Room22 Balcony23 Drive-Thru Kiosks24 Biomass Delivery Station25 Drive-Thru Canopy26 Roof

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LA>TENT LAND>SCAPEThe theme of my 3rd year project was centrered on Mobil ity in physical, virtual and social terms. Designing a response to the exisit ing ‘trade infrastructures’ within the inner city of Stoke on Trent as it shifts from a tradit ional urban model to a f luid post industrial landscape.

An exper ient ia l recording of a journey through Stoke on Trent.

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1 Aluminium roof panels2 Steel roof frame 200mm Beams3 Secondary roof members4 200mm Steel Frame5 Cold bridge6 Fixing rivet7 Weather resistant barrier8 Formica Vivix panel 10mm 9 Cellulose Insulation 150mm

10 Under floor heating pipes11 125mm Flat Reinforced Concrete slab12 Gypsum Plaster13 200mm Reinforced Concrete Column

14 200mm Concrete Slab15 1m x 500mm Strip Foundation16 DPC

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T H E J O H N M A D I N A R C H I V E A N D R E P O S I TA R Y F O R A R C H I T E C T S D R AW I N G S 06

07Brief:To design a small archive building to house the John Madin Design Group collection of drawings. The archive also serves as a repository for architects drawings from practices in the West Midlands, and houses the RIBA West Midlands regional office.

Hand drawn elevations and sections

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