Walthamstow Town Hall Extension: Design Diary (2010)

DESIGN DIARYIone Braddick

Y3 S1

1.0 WALTHAMSTOW RESEARCH

2.0 VEHICLE/ INSTRUMENT

3.0 PRECEDENT STUDIES

4.0 OUTPOST - Michaelmas Term

4.1 - Crit 04.12.09

4.2 - Post crit/ Christmas vacation

STUDY TRIP - BELGIUM - 08.01.10 to 11.01.10

4.3 - Mid Year Review 15.01.10

4.4 - Lent Term

4.5 - Crit 16.02.10

4.6 - 1:50 Model

4.7 - Crit 12.03.10

4.8 - Post crit/ Easter vacation

4.9 - Easter Term

4.10 - Crit 11.05.10

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CONTENTS

1.0 WALTHAMSTOW RESEARCH

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Walthamstow Major Centre

District Centres

Primary Shopping Frontages

Civic and Community facilities

Residential

Neighbourhood Centre

Cemetery

Recreation in green open space

Metropolitan Green Belt

Water

Water Works

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North Chingford

South Chingford

Highams Park

Walthamstow Stadium

North Circular

Wood Street

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Focused in from City-wide, to Borough scale, to site, to individual people.

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Y3 S1 09/10 - Waltham Forest Primer

Public Space

Overview of Green Public Spaces

The borough of Waltham Forest is flanked by Epping Forest on the East and the Lea Valley Resevoirs on the West.

With over 70 parks in the borough, from fully equipped sports parks to contemplative memorial gardens, the borough hosts a wide variety of green public space.

As well as an array of different facilities within the parks, the level of access to these ‘public spaces’ also varies between the parks/ gardens.The amount of control over these spaces can be mapped in degrees of accessibility: - High; such as forests, open playing fields. - Medium; parks with limited opening hours, museums within green spaces.- Low; spaces that require membership or payment, or have extremely limited opening hours.

1.1 GEOGRAPHIES

Public Space Research

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Public Space

Overview of Green Public Spaces

The borough of Waltham Forest is flanked by Epping Forest on the East and the Lea Valley Resevoirs on the West.

With over 70 parks in the borough, from fully equipped sports parks to contemplative memorial gardens, the borough hosts a wide variety of green public space.

As well as an array of different facilities within the parks, the level of access to these ‘public spaces’ also varies between the parks/ gardens.The amount of control over these spaces can be mapped in degrees of accessibility: - High; such as forests, open playing fields. - Medium; parks with limited opening hours, museums within green spaces.- Low; spaces that require membership or payment, or have extremely limited opening hours.

Lloyd’s Park, Walthamstow

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Area: Lloyds Park, William Morris Muse-aum Gardens

Use of park: Comes to meet friends, route through to main street from home.

Age: 19

Comment: Good facilities- lots of football pitches.

Area: Lloyds Park, William Morris Mu-seum Gardens, Duck Pond.

Use of park: Family outings to feed the ducks. Good playground.

Age: (of child) 25 months

Comment: Can feel unsafe later at night, not enough play facilities for very young children (sandpit wanted).

Area: Lloyds Park, Skate Park

Use of park: Only skate park nearby. Good skating equipment. Acts as meet-ing point to meet friends.

Age(s): 11-16

Comment: Want floodlights for skate-park. And a park cafe. Like the graffiti.

Area: Lloyds Park, Hard courts with basketball nets.

Use of Park: Playing basketball and football.

Age(s): 14-16

Comment: Good for playing against other people because courts are opne. Good place to come in the summer because very busy.

Public Space

Lloyds ParkOpinion and Use

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1.3 STORIES

Henner and Locke Photography Workshop(see seperate booklet)

Theatricailty of Suburbia: The local characters of Walthamstow

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Theatricailty of Suburbia:

The local scenes of Walthamstow

2.0VEHICLE/ INSTRUMENT

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Brief:

The Copper Pavillion, Arcade Site

Precedent for crystal form:Daniel Liberskind’s Serpentine Pavillion

Pavillion could display copper not only through materiality but through form.

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[Academic use only]

Copper creates visual link to clock tower of Town Hall, but deconstructs the typical form.

Copper crystal shape leads to folded net for the form of the pavillion.

Pavillion sits in South-west corner of Arcade site, attracting the public from the market and central station.

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View from North east corner of Arcade site

Interior view of pavillion

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Form allows physical interaction with the pavillion

3.0PRECEDENT STUDIES

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3.1 Barking Central I

AHMM ArchitectsCompleted 2007

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North elevation

South elevation

West elevation

East elevation

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3.2 Ideas Store, Whitechapel

Adjaye AssociatesCompleted 2005

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WHITECHAPEL IDEAS STOREGROUND FLOOR PLAN1.200

Ground floor plan

Axonometric showing Ideas store form and context

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3.3 Ideas Store Model

Model made in pairs with another member of the studio.

Painted entirely white, focus was on spatiality and entrance sequence, not on materials.

Structure of the hanging envelope created through I-beam running along the roof of the building.

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Circulation core sits in centre of building providing link between all floors. It is the first thing encountered when entering the building.

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Exposed structural soffits on ceiling. Alternate directionon each floor.

Hanging facade stops 3m from ground. Allowing market stalls to continue uninterrupted.

4.0OUTPOST

Michaelmas Term

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4.1 OUTPOST BRIEF

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4.2 SITE

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LAWNSIncline of 4m over the lawns of the Town Hall

Site panoramic

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MAIN ENTRANCEProcessional route for cars and pedestrians down middle of front lawns

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BUFFERRailings along entire front of lawns

ALLOTMENTSSit hidden behind Town Hall and Magistrates Courts.

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ENTRANCESApart from main central entrance avenue for cars, smaller entrances to the side

PORTAKABINSServe as temporary offices for council workers on site

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Initial site responses

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Initial responses to brief

CAFE at heart of building, encouraging interaction between all users

LOW LYING building, to maintain iconic views of Town Hall

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INITIAL PLANNING centred around the cafe

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BAY SYSTEM as possible method of planning the building

Different roofs for each bay, representing function underneath

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Initial ideas for entrance into building

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Elevation of different roofs of bays

Diagram of roofscape

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ENTRANCE via sloping roof

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Precedent:Oslo Opera House,Snohetta Architects

Example of use of the slope of the site, creating new spaces on top of the building that link the different levels, and are able to be walked on.

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1:500 Initial massing models

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Access routes across the site, how to connect roofscapes to one another

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Visible slices of interior through roof folds

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Central route across roofscape to Town Hall- keep direct route to Town Hall

4.1OUTPOST

Crit4.12.09

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Plan considering green roofing vs hard landscaping on roof

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Plans

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Section

1:500 model of alternate roof folds

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View from South-east corner of site

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Ideas for indoor public cafe space

• Airy• Light• Glazed facade• Levels within building• Mezzanine

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Facade of public space (north facing)• Glazed• Shows different levels• Abrupt end to slope

Interior view of public cafe area

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Crit NotesFor whole studio:

• Demands a landscape response• • Reaction plane of ground that is needed- need to find the scope for the entire

landscape• • 3d imaginative view needed• • Horizontal landscape• • Swap between physical models and projector• • ‘Horror of the formality’- but everyone is adhering to this formality?• • Scale needs to be addressed for Town Hall site, with bolded moves needed• • Need to consider very carefully the relationship with the Town Hall, a civic

response• • Do we need to respect the Town Hall so much?• • Need to use scale plans and precedents (models and studies)• • Challenge the brief more• • Overall all schemes are lacking in imagination• • A third year student project so budget is NOT an issue- need to go wild.• • Whole of public space needs to be addressed- all of the lawns.

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4.2OUTPOST

Post crit/ Christmas vacation

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Folded form moves further across whole landscape?

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Precedent:City of Culture, GarciaPeter Eisenman

Shows cutting into earth, using contours of land for design

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Experimenting with differ-ent roof forms through 1:500 massing models

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Zamet Sports CentreCroatia3LHD Archtiects

Long section

Aerial View

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Investigating extrusions from the roof surface through 1:500 massing models

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STUDY TRIPBELGIUM

08.01.10 to 11.01.10

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Concertgebouw, Concert Building.Bruges,

Neutelings Riedijk Architects

• More impressive exterior than interior

• • Intersting concrete

knuckle where ceiling folds meet

• • Beautiful interior

concrete finish• • Views out across

medieval Bruges not taken advantage of

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Menen Town HallNOA Architects

• Attached to existing Town Hall

• Integrates old masonary structure with new concrete structure

• Large central courtyard/ atrium

• Offices of domestic size• Counter system for one

stop shop• Large foyer with black

and white diamond tilings

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Interseting relationship with ceiling and rooflights, rooflights almost seem as another skin on top of the building

Distinct material change from white plaster finish to dark wood walls and floors.

Strong interior theme

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STUK art galleryNeutelings Riedijk Architecten

• Outdoor cinema• Interactive theatre

space• Large public courtyard• Dance studios• Large cafe• Sits on slope from road

down to courtyard

PLAN / SECTION

Theatre/ cinema coomplex working simultaneously

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Looking down steps of outdoor cinema

Central courtyard

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Large stand alone I-beam, very obvious exposed structure

Colour of structure contrasts with ceiling and floor

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Rabot Youth CentreGentStephane Beel

Shared by 3 youth groups the building provides individual space for the groups which pops out of the ground.

This leads underground to the communal areas such as the large multi0functional hall.

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Rabot Youth Centre (continued)

Also as a precedent for underground/ sunken buildings

4.3OUTPOST

Mid Year Review15.01.10

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Project 1: Pavillion

My pavillion hoped to act as a marker for the Town Hall in the centre of Walthmstow. By using a copper cladding to imitate the iconic green clock tower of the Town Hall, I hoped to abstract the form of the pavillion enough to encourage a new way of considering the Town Hall. The folded form is derived from the octahedral copper crystal, and the unusual shape aims to attract locals and tourists alike, to regain the public interest in the council.

Project 2: Outpost

Through research of green public space and meeting many of the locals of Walthamstow I decided to aim to transform the space occupied by the lawns in front of the Town Hall, to create a new public realm that is inviting and interesting for the public and council workers alike. The lawns have great potential as a space for a catalytic building, changing the environment of the Town Hall site, as it sits directly off the main Forest road. The current lawns distance the Town Hall from the public of Walthamstow making it a formal and unapproachable building. My design aims to integrate into the current landscape. By proposing a large low building I hope to maintain a strong view of the Town Hall from Forest Road. I aim to use the existing angle of the site to its advantage, creating a sloping roofscape that encourages pedestrian access to a new public space/park and a route across from the main road to the Town Hall. By placing light wells and cuts into this sloping plane natural light can enter the deep building and these will articulate the pedestrian roofscape. The building itself will house the much-needed canteen, also acting as a public café, to encourage interaction between public and council. Key areas such as the offices, the main hall and the smaller hall, and the meeting rooms will all stem off this vibrant central cafe/circulation space. The design aims to be an exciting intervention that doesn’t oppose the existing Town Hall, but instead creates a ripple in the front lawns that is necessary to revitalise the site as an accessible and lively place to visit or work.

IONE BRADDICKSTUDIO 1TOWN HALL OUTPOST

Mid-year review presentation sheet for the examiners

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Post Belgium notes

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Considering route across to Town Hall and extrusions of buildings

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Simplified plan to allow in-tersting roof shap above

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Axonometric showing filling of earth and extrusion of buildings out of landscape

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View from South-east corner of site

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4.4OUTPOST

Lent Term

Considering different placing of building across site and impact on surroundings

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Rethink back to orginal key ideas

Abstracted/ figurative sketches for these ideas and ways to consider them dif-ferently

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Meeting rooms provided with views out across the landscape

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Somerset House

• As a public space• Different uses• Variety of activities

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Cafe in summer

Ice rink in Winter

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Sketches/ massing model showing extrusions or pavilions rising out of ground

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Creation of new Town Hall square

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Sketched landscape plan

Sketched landscape + building plan

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Sketch of landscape and North-facing openings

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Skecth section of entrance and cafe

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Sketch view of outdoor cinema in connection to cafe space

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Landscape strategy

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1:1250 Folded landscape model made of trace and card

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Sketch of sculpture garden

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Sketch of gallery interior

Sketch of outdoor cinema

[Academic use only]

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New landscape form

[Academic use only]

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View from top of outdoor cinema steps

View from entrance off Forest Road

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1:500 Model of folded landscape

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OFFICE DESIGN

Consideration of Offices

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Folded roof impacting on the rooms below-View of Main Hall

ROOFLIGHTS

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View of bar with rooflight incorporated into the folds

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Brick HouseCaruso St John

Precedent of folded roof plane and rooflights

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Use of compression as you go deeper into the buidling

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Rooflights highlighting the depth of the roof above

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Detail of saw tooth north light

Light/ painted walls to re-flect the north light into the rest of the room

Rooflight iterations in sketches

• As lightwells• As lanterns• On a human scale• Relating to the folded

landscape• Create interesting cuts

in ceiling below

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Model investigating roof-lights formed out of formal folds

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Model investigating rooflights formed out of formal extrusions

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Model investigating rooflights formed out of formal folds and movement of users due to changing surface/ planting

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4.5OUTPOST

Crit16.02.10

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1:500 Sketched plan

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Use of landscape

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Landscape plan

Night view from Town Hall

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View looking North-east suggesting different strips of planting

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Interior view:Entrance foyer

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Interior view:Bar mezzanine level

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Interior view:Cafe space

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Interior view:Main Hall

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Crit Notes

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4.6OUTPOST

1:50 Model

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Planning the 1:50 model

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Testing roof folds/ slopes on the landscape

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Testing roof folds/ slopes on the interior

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Different types of rooflights in main hall

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Different types of rooflights in cafe

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STRUCTURES SUPERVISION

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Felix Candela

Thick columns seen as an extension/ part of the ceil-ing/ roof

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Looking at different methods of using columns in a large open space

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Considering columns as extension of heavy roof

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Considering columns affect-ing the Hall space

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4.7OUTPOST

Crit12.03.10

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View of cafe From 1:50 model shot

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View of Main HallFrom 1:50 model shot

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Elevation looking North towards the Town Hall

Opposite page: Plans of the central building

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Universitätsspital,BaselHerzog & de Meuron

Precedent for rooflights/ basement lighting with concrete forms

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Crit notes

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4.8OUTPOST

Post crit/ Easter Vacation

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CAR PARKING

Shift the car park from within the site into my building programme

• Pedestrianise the site• How to absorb the car park?• How many spaces to offer?

Car parking/ vehicle access

Pedestrianised area

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Free up space to North of site

• Possible space for building development

• Extension of the allotments• Extended playing fields• New sports pavillion

New free space

New site

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Car parking option 1:Underground linear

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Car parking option 2:3 separate car parking areas

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Car parking option 3:2 flanking car parks

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Car parking option 4:Car parks between buildings

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Sketch section displaying car park option 1 in relation to other rooms, landscape, and existing road height

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Diagram showing buildings plan with linear car park

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Car park leading onto the buildings on lowest level

Office building revealing itself and level change as a North facing courtyard

LANDSCAPE AS SERIES OF LEVELS

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Landscape is created more as terraces of hard landscap-ing with soft landscaping in between

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Plan showing landscaping strategy with levels and spot heights

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Meydan Centre, DubaiForeign Office Archtiects

How to mediate between levels?Steps/ slopes

Sketch view of levels and ‘ha-ha’ wall of the central terrace

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4.9OUTPOST

Easter Term

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STRUCTURES SUPERVISION

With terraced scheme the ceiling no long folds in conjunction with sloping lawns, so a flat concrete roof needs to be supported instead,

Emphasize being underground by exposed structure.Very clear that the heavy earth roof needs support and structure.

Weight and depth of roof is highlighted by the structure

Possible use of portal frame in cafe space, as a exposed structural system.

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Depth of beam required to span large length cuts off 1m of head space from mezza-nine floor

Possible portal frame spanning in perpendicular direction.

But perpendicular beams detract from the clear panorama of the Town Hall from within the cafe space.

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Portal frame types and infor-mation

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Concrete slabs to span the large areas between struc-tural grid.

Concrete slab construction

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ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION

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WALTHAMSTOW TOWN HALL SITEMicroclimate sketch

Microclimate of the site

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Heavy rooftop planting• Drainage system• Soil depth• Waterproofing

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Construction axonometric through green roof

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LANDSCAPE STRATEGY

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Opposite page:Axo showing layering of stretgy- built environment, landscape, pathways, series of pavilions.

Landscape ebcomes divided up by routes/ pathways

Pathway layout decided by users desire lines and access routes.

Both public users and office workers taken into account.

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Pathway Strategy

Model testing pathway routes

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Sketch placing pavilions on pathways

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Making the 1-500 landscape model

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1:500 Landscape Model

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Skecth detail of how pathway can meet landscape, to create informal immediate meeting.

Sketch plan showing path-ways dividing the landscape use and planting

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The High Line,New YorkDiller Scofido & Renfro Architects

Precedent showing how pathways can be integrated into landscape to create less formal, more intermediary feel to routes.

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Overall landscape strategy sketch

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Planting Strategy

Wild planting near the road, moving to more ordered towards the Town Hall to create space that can be mroe easily used for human activity

Experience of the civic archi-tecture of the Town Hall is altered by the planting that it is view over.

More colour, variety, biodi-versity brought to the site.

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Wild flowers and grasses altering scenes and paintings

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View showing wild planting looking towards the Town Hall from outside the office building and pavilion

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PAVILIONS

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Sketch detail of how to connect pavilion into ground

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Pavilions look alien in comparison to the landscape

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Bold materiality of pavilions seen throughout the buidling

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Chrome columns, both exposed structure and decorative. Not too industrial.

H columns or cruciform?

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SCULPTURE GARDEN AND STUDIOS

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Sculture garden- not formal but more interactive

Outdoor walkway along the front of the glazed studios

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The North Wall Theatre.Haworth Tomkins

Precedent for studios which open out into courtyard.

Rentable studios lead straight out onto sculpture garden and memorial

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4.10OUTPOST

Final Crit11.05.10

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Plan taken at ground level of Town Hall

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Plans showing ground cut as well as building cut. All measurements taken from Town Hall ground level

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