MCA Design Realisation : Building Form, Systems, Planning and Context
Initial site research and analysis into the unique grain of Park Royal and it's relationship to the Wesley Estate
Digital Publication
Wider Urban Context and Minerva Road as Connection and Social Generator
Mappings on the socio-geographical context of Park Royal and a survey into it's potential as a social generator and soft edge between living and light industry.
Digital Publication
Proposing the Act of Co-Building and The Academy as Social Entrepreneurialism
Scoping the level of local engagement during construction and designing urban strategic networks for a resident-industry led commons
Digital Publication
Building (Verb) As Pedagogy : Developing Scales of Structure
Environmental Strategies : Designing for School Environments
Small, Medium, Large : Learning Through Building
With the language of Building (verb) as Pedagogy designed into the construction process, varying levels of details, connections and structural elements are built to be co-assembled, where the act of building and the building itself becomes a teacher. Addressing the range of hands-on, construction skillsets that proliferate within communities, the scheme involves the local residents, students of the academy and makers to contribute to various elements of the building - where the joint, the moving furniture and the timber structure of the scheme engages with its end users.
Digital Publication
Large : The Balloon Frame Construction Methodology
From Small to Large : CNC Fabricated Non-Mechanical Wood Joint Family
Medium : A Hierarchy of Primary Structure(s) and It's Relationship to Internal Fittings and Spatial Organisation
Design studies into how a range of primary structure stud spacings can create varying spatial typologies within the building, along with roof structure investigations.
Digital Publication
Climate Control and Participant Engagement : The Building as Pedagogy
How do we design buildings so that they also become a lived-pedagogical tool? The facade of the building has been designed to create various internal conditions within the spaces, where the end user is responsible for the climatic augmentation of the spaces they inhabit.
Digital Publication
South Facade : Addressing Solar Gains and Ventilation
Filtration, Air Purification, Extraction and Internal Wellbeing
Community, Roles and Relations : Forming the Learning Engagement District
Moving through the scale of urban and local plan design, a new development area coined the Learning Engagement District is formed (inspired by Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) to create a new local economies of people-focused development for the common good. Towards a sustainable, community governance model.
Digital Publication
Forming the MCA Client Body
Beyond Revenue : Developing a Sustainable Community Governance Model
Local Planning Context and Regulations : Building on SIL Land
Responding to the OPDC and Local Area Plan, strategies for developing within SIL (Strategic Industrial Land) is proposed, where the proposal delivers to meet the targets and requirements set out in these strategy documents.
Digital Publication
MCA Project Delivery Approach and Tools for Participation and Co-Design
MCA Delivery Procurement Route and Contractual Agreements
MCA Design Realisation
The DR Report is a technical document that considers how buildings are designed, constructed and delivered. Developed with the main building project in 4th year, the finalised report is akin to a Design and Access Statement, detailing the structural, environmental and programmatic strategies in relation to the Minerva Commons Academy.
Situated within the conceptual framework of Building as Pedagogy, the proposed maker's academy and community hall incorporates the design and fabrication of the scheme as part of the construction and educational process, involving members of the local community as part of a collective, assisted build scheme.
The focus of this report is on Entrepreneurialism and Delivery, where a new strategic urban policy model of a 'Learning Engagement District' introduces a community governance model that accompanies a multi-disciplinary 'architectural' practice to deliver the project. With local, bottom up and a community-attuned attitude to forming the client body and members of the CIC (in the academy's day to day operations), this report envisages architecture as a collective social entity beyond the fabric of the building; one where it's comm(o)nal legacy and role as a network between (and within) communities becomes a living principle.
Awards/
Design Realisation Prize
Distinction in Design
Project / MArch (Year 4) Architectural Design , Bartlett Unit 13
DR Tutors + Consultants / Rae Whittow-Williams + Toby Reynolds
Year / 2019