Rozie-Jane Saunders BA Portfolio

BArch Portfolio 2011-2014 Rozie-Jane Saunders

NRozie-Jane Saunders 200794949 Arch252: Scholopolis

Walking down the high street to get to class.

Lunchtime on the upper level.

Rozie-Jane Saunders 200794949 Arch252: Scholopolis



Contents

Scholopolis: a botanical garden for growing denizens

25.....introduction 26.....context & materials 27.....concept & phenomenological massing 28.....the greenhouse effect 31.....life inside 32.....the journey through (plans and sections) 36.....on the roof

Social Scaffolding: a framework for building interactions

introduction.....5 location.....6 sense of place.....8 concept and construction.....10 zoning plans.....12 residential diversity.....14 heart of the scaffolding.....17

residential space arrangement.....18 apartment types and plans.....20 growth over time.....22

Primersial: [noun] primordial Liverpool, existing since the beginning of the river Mersey

introduction.....41 site analysis & concrete concept.....42 contemporary concrete construction.....44 pondering the pumphouse.....46 what’s on at Primersial.....49 come on up!.....50 finishing touches.....52

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Concept drawing for Social Scaffold-ing, showing materials, journey through the site, multiple levels and a sense of constant change.

The brief: design affordable, dense housing in Suzhou, China.

The site: enormous!

The site was a 65m X 300m strip of dirt and rubbish when we first visited. The area used to be low-rise, rural housing but the local government moved the residents into collective housing so they could build higher income, denser structures in place of the original village.

Several months later I returned to the site, to find the local people planting vegetables. The site had been turned into allotments, because new construction had not started yet.

I watched the plants grow for almost 5 months while I worked on my project. The last time I visited, the lettuces and chillis were almost fully grown. A week before I returned to the UK, the impromptu allotments were bulldozed in preparation for construction.

The local people have very little control over their lives. My design attempts to give them more freedom, allowing people to choose their own space and even build their own apart-ments, while creating new and diverse networks of friends.

I also designed a place to encourage the large influx of migrant workers to integrate easily into the local community.

: a framework for building social interactions.

SOCIAL SCAFFOLDING

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suzhou

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Location: Suzhou, China

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1. People tending the allotments on the site.

2. The river north of the site feeds into Suzhou’s canal system. It also divides the poorer area south of the river from the wealthier developments across the bridge.

3. The site is partially overgrown, and the neighbouring block is a gated, resi-dential zone. There are few mixed-use areas in China.

4. Allotments across from the site.

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Collage of Suzhou’s Sense of Place

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What does

‘sense of place’

mean,

when the place changes,

completely,

every 20 years?

In China there are swift cycles of destruction and reconstruction. Entire cities have been virtually rebuilt within a time-span of 20 years.

Suzhou is one of the few places in China that has kept its sense of place. The city has existed for over 2000 years and Wu culture (dating back at least 10,000 years) still resonates strongly. Suzhou has been renowned for its scholarly residents for centuries, and has been described as a sort of heaven on earth because of its many famous gardens.

But recently the city has been develop-ing rapidly, creating skyscrapers and a shiny modern area. A small area of tra-ditional housing in the center has been allowed to remain as a tourist destina-tion, but the outlying rural areas are being demolished with little thought to preserving the sense of place that was Suzhou.

My design proposal tries to create a gentle transition between the rural mentality that still exists within the minds of many residents (some of whose houses have been bulldozed), and the city’s aims to become truly modern and global.

If you ask how someone how old Suzhou’s Great Pagoda is, they will reply “Almost 2000 years old!”. This reply might seem odd at first, because the Pagoda has clearly been rebuilt (for the 8th time) within the last 100 years. However a pagoda has existed in one form or another almost continuously on the same spot since 300AD in Suzhou. Although it may have been rebuilt multiple times after fires, wars and earthquakes, the memory of its form in that specific location is stronger than its physical reality.

Much like the pagoda, my housing design is a contemporary version of an ancient and continuous way of Chinese life, both in the scale of the individual home and of the community as a whole.

Mass Housing with Residential Autonomy: Concept & Construction

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MESH LANDING

PREFAB FLATS

STEEL BEAMS

STEEL COLUMNS

STEEL COLUMNS

STEEL BEAMS

MESH LANDING

PREFAB FLATS

MARKET & ALLOTMENTS

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SINGLE, JUST MOVED TO SUZHOU FOR NEW JOB. PURCHASE PREFAB FLAT PACK, CLAIM YOUR OWN SPACE, AS-SEMBLE FLAT.

MEET FLOORMATES WHILE BUILDING FLAT, GET INVITED TO SHARED DIN-NER WITH THEM IN SEMI-PRIVATE LIVING SPACE.

semi-private atrium shared by adjacent flats. each flat’s kitchen opens onto the space.

MEET FUTURE FRIEND, DECIDE TO RUN A SHOP IN PUBLIC FACILITIES TOWER WITH HER/HIM.

GO TO MARKET TO SAMPLE EXOTIC FOODS FROM ALL AROUND CHINA, MEET FUTURE HUSBAND/WIFE.

HAVE A KID, MOVE INTO NEW, LARGER FLAT OR ADD ON TO EXISTING FLAT.

LIFE IN THE SCAFFOLDING

GLASSY PUBLIC BUILDINGS PENETRATE ENTIRE STRUC-TURE, BUT CONTAIN ROOMS ONLY 49 SQM TO CREATE HUGE DIVERSITY OF FUNCTIONS. RESIDENTS RUN THE FACILITIES WHICH RANGE FROM SHOPS TO STUDY ROOMS TO TEA HOUSES AND COOKING CLASSES.

MESH ALLOWS LIGHT TO REACH LOWER LEVELS.

Mesh landings allow light to reach lower levels.

Glassy, public buildings penetrate the entire stucture, but contain rooms only 49SQM to create a huge diveristy of functions within. Residents run the 49SQM facilites, which range from shops and study rooms to tea houses and cooking classes.

Private apartments cluster around the public facilities. Residents choose where to construct their apartment, but must fit it within the existing structural grid.

MESH LANDING

PREFAB FLATS

STEEL BEAMS

STEEL COLUMNS

STEEL COLUMNS

STEEL BEAMS

MESH LANDING

PREFAB FLATS

MARKET & ALLOTMENTS

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SINGLE, JUST MOVED TO SUZHOU FOR NEW JOB. PURCHASE PREFAB FLAT PACK, CLAIM YOUR OWN SPACE, AS-SEMBLE FLAT.

MEET FLOORMATES WHILE BUILDING FLAT, GET INVITED TO SHARED DIN-NER WITH THEM IN SEMI-PRIVATE LIVING SPACE.

semi-private atrium shared by adjacent flats. each flat’s kitchen opens onto the space.

MEET FUTURE FRIEND, DECIDE TO RUN A SHOP IN PUBLIC FACILITIES TOWER WITH HER/HIM.

GO TO MARKET TO SAMPLE EXOTIC FOODS FROM ALL AROUND CHINA, MEET FUTURE HUSBAND/WIFE.

HAVE A KID, MOVE INTO NEW, LARGER FLAT OR ADD ON TO EXISTING FLAT.

LIFE IN THE SCAFFOLDING

GLASSY PUBLIC BUILDINGS PENETRATE ENTIRE STRUC-TURE, BUT CONTAIN ROOMS ONLY 49 SQM TO CREATE HUGE DIVERSITY OF FUNCTIONS. RESIDENTS RUN THE FACILITIES WHICH RANGE FROM SHOPS TO STUDY ROOMS TO TEA HOUSES AND COOKING CLASSES.

MESH ALLOWS LIGHT TO REACH LOWER LEVELS.

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Zoning Plans

A view through the affordable hous-ing structure. A food market runs underneath, and housing only starts on the second level. The glassy towers provide small rooms for the residents to run whatever facilities they want, such as ping pong areas, cooking classes, study rooms, etc. The general public have access to the food market and the towers.

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The market winds through the ground floor of the site. Only a small part of the site is actually paved, the rest of the land can be reclaimed by locals for growing vegetables or playing basketball: whatever they need.

PARKINGBIKE LANE, market, PUBLIC AREAS AND CIRCULATION , GREEN SPACE

ROOF HEIGHTS, MESH, RESDNETIAL AND PUBLIC AND CIRCULATION

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The structurally insulated panels that the flats are assembled from will be painted white on the outside. These walls are a continuation of Suzhou’s style of traditional residential court-yard housing and will provide a visual link to Suzhou’s historical sense of place. The walls will be stained by rain over time, and dirt from the window boxes will create tracks down the walls. Some residents might choose to paint their walls.

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Heart of the Scaffolding

The residents enter their apartments by first walking through the communal landing. These landings are daylit from the atrium above, and are hives of social activity. Although the landings are semi-private spaces, they allow the residents the chance to open up their private homes and share the act of cooking and eating together.

semi-private social space

kitchens open out

These spaces form the basic soul of the whole project; a sharing of life, a way of blending public and private activi-ties without making people feel uncomfortable. Through these spaces, people can meet their neighbors and form a small community that bonds through the basic human act of eating. In this way, someone who has just moved into the area can meet people in a relaxed environment.

Kitchen wall swings up and tucks into the kitchen, opening up the private home to the semi-private landing.

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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MASSING

PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BUILDINGS

Arrangement of residential spaces: taking inspiration from the past

I studied, through maps and on foot, the older residential part of Suzhou and looked at how each courtyard and the buildings surrounding it were arranged. I then tried to imagine how the entire community of courtyard residences grew over time.

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OPENING/BEGINNING

REPLY/ASSOCIATE

SPURN/CLOSED

OPENING SPURN/CLOSED REPLY/ASSOCIATE

Possible growth patterns and relationships of courtyard structures

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Apartment Types 1:200

STEP 1. CLAIM YOUR SPACE ON THE FRAME. STEP 2. CHOOSE YOUR FLAT PACK OF STRUCTURALLY INSULATED PANELS. STEP 3. ERECT YOUR FLAT PACK WITH YOUR NEW NEIGHBORS!

NUCLEAR FAMILYEXTENDED FAMILY 4 PEOPLE 3 PEOPLE

2 PEOPLE COUPLE1 PERSON

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Potential arrangement of full residential level

The pre-assembled structural core, com-posed of stairs, lifts, mesh landings and steel columns, dictates the formation of apartment clusters to some extent.

However, residents themselves can choose where within the structure to as-semble their apartments, passing some freedom of design onto the clients.

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2013 2020 2040

Framework built to maximum heights, to ensure that the site be reevaluated once it and the local context has grown a certain amount. The structural frame, circulation cores and public amenity towers will all be built before the residents start to erect their flat packs.

ELEVATIONS AND THE GRADUAL CHANGE OF SOCIAL SCAFFOLDING OVER TIME

Growth over time, East Elevation

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Time for the site to be reevalutated and reincarnated as something else...

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Scholopolis on a rainy Monday morning. Pigeon’s eye view.

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After Social Scaffolding, a brief to design a small primary school was a shock to the system scale-wise. I started to design this new project by asking myself some key questions...

How can the school enhance the local neighbourhood and respond to its site without sacrificing privacy for the kids within?

And how can the school provide a sheltered way for its stu-dents to discover the wider world?

Scholopolis is my answer.

Scholopolis is a microcosm of the city of Liverpool, function-ing on three levels- the classroom unit, or ‘house’, the ‘neigh-bourhood’ comprising of two classrooms and their common room, and the whole ‘city’.

The classrooms refer to the terraced housing previously on the site, giving each class of students their home within Scholopolis.

The neighbourhoods allow students to socialise within differ-ent year groups.

And finally, the school itself is its own city, with a high street and multiple traffic routes.

: a botanical garden for growing denizens.

SCHOLOPOLIS

liverpool

classroom

the worldschool

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Context & Materials

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;

He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.

He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!

SCHOLOPOLIS

wavertree botanic gardens

liverpool

classroom

the world

school

Tate Orange

Docks Blue

Scholopolis is a city in itself, yet it also relates to its context. The imme-diate site is an empty green area, not well designed enough to call a park. To the north is the University of Liverpool, to the south lies the typical terraced housing found throughout the city.

Ceramic tile cladding with a Liver-pool color scheme references Grove Street’s use of brick, the orange of Tate Liverpool and the blue of the docks.

Poem by Emily Dickinson.

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Rainwater is harvested from the flat roof and irrigates the botanical gardens.

The street widens to become a public plaza...the playground!

The pitched roofs are clad in south-facing solar panels.

Scholopolis’s massing reflects the shape of Liverpool’s urban fabric. The two cathedrals each create a strong pull when walking around the city; useful landmarks for determining orientation. And so my school’s massing is designed to feel familiar, like the space between the two cathedrals.

The hall and the rainwater harvesting tower in Scholopolis are the two ‘nodes’ that take after the cathedrals and define a familiar, Liverpoolish space between them.

Phenomenological Massing and Environmental Strategy

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Scholopolis is enclosed within a cube of structural glass. The kids will be protected from the elements, with maximum natural lighting, even on overcast days.

The Greenhouse Effect

About 10 minutes walk from the school is the site of the former 19th century Wavertree Botanic Garden. Sadly only a void in the park remains where the greenhouse used to stand, due to a tragic fire. But in a way, the Botanic Gardens are resurrected in the form of a primary school, Scholopolis!

Contemporary systems of stuctural glass will be used instead of historical steel structures.

LOCAL SITE HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURES

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Note the bay windows projecting from each classroom on the street-facing elevation. They provide students with views of the city and liven up the street facade.

Looking In

The structural glass outer skin provides a subdued facade at first glance, but pedestrians can see into select parts of the school.

The students retain their privacy,however, while the facade is enlivened.

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A view of the common areas on the first floor. Wherever you are in the school, you can see many other activi-ties going on, fostering interaction with the outer world and creating wider communities between students.

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Extensive use of glazing lets light in and creates a sense of openness as the ceiling flows into the sky. Stu-dents feel less trapped inside, and more connected with the outside world.

Ceramic brick cladding plays off local materials, but with a brighter color scheme.

Life Inside

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After walking through the main entrance on the north side of the school, students walk down the ‘high street’, past the ‘shops’, or learning facilities, until they reach the stairs.

At the end of the high street, stu-dents can exit to the playground or go upstairs to their classrooms.

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The Journey Through

Vertical Wall Section

10 mm thick ceramic tiles on horizontal rail

200mm insulation

airtight membrane/vapour check

3 x 45mm layers of cross laminated timber wall

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1. Reception2. Hall3. Kitchen with servery4. General office5. Head’s office6. Interview room7. SEN office8. Sick bay9. Reprographics10. ICT room11. Reception class play area12. Reception class13. Food/DT/ Science room14. Library15. Plant room and caretakers’ storage16. Staff room17. Kitchen garden

Students look down from their common rooms to the high street below.

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Each student has a home within the school, and feels a sense of belonging and pride of place.

Common rooms provide an indoor play area for rainy days, storage space and toilets.

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1. Reception2. Hall3. Kitchen with servery4. General offi ce5. Head’s offi ce6. Interview room7. SEN offi ce8. Sick bay9. Repographics10. ICT room11. Reception class play area12. Reception class13. Food/DT/ Science room14. Library15. Plant room and caretakers’ storage16. Staff room17. Kitchen garden18. Infant class19. Infant class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space20. Junior class21. Junior class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space22. Open courtyard23. Private study/music rooms

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18. Infant class19. Infant class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space20. Junior class21. Junior class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space22. Open courtyard23. Private study/music rooms

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The common rooms act as social spaces or an extension of the class-room.

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1. Reception2. Hall3. Kitchen with servery4. General offi ce5. Head’s offi ce6. Interview room7. SEN offi ce8. Sick bay9. Repographics10. ICT room11. Reception class play area12. Reception class13. Food/DT/ Science room14. Library15. Plant room and caretakers’ storage16. Staff room17. Kitchen garden18. Infant class19. Infant class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space20. Junior class21. Junior class common area with cloakroom facilities & storage space22. Open courtyard23. Private study/music rooms

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3 x 45mm layers of cross laminated tim-ber wall

The roof provides an additional grassy play space as well as two small teaching patios.

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Students play on the roof.

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! Warning: contains small parts.

1:200 Final model, made in England.

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‘Primersial, Being’ Abstract drawing that embodies the entire Primersial project. Shortlisted by University of Liverpool for entry in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibi-tion 2014.

This brief was both free and restricted...design an architecture gallery, in honor of Tate Liverpool turning 25, with only one material -- concrete.

I took this brief as an opportunity to explore concrete as a material in depth, structurally, culturally and sculpturally. I also used this gallery to explore ways of making a building visually permeable, so that as you walk around you can see a series of framed views of other activities within Primersial, or out into the wider city.

: [noun] primordial Liverpool, existing since the beginning of the river Mersey

PRIMERSIAL

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Site Analysis: Strand Street, Liverpool, UK

...in my ears and in my eyesthere beneath the blue suburban skies...

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Norman castle built King James’ Charter Tate Britain opensSlave trade abolishedPeak trading profi t

Goree warehouseFirst wet dockFirst slave ship

Beginning of transatlantic tradeChapel StreetWater Street Port of Liverpool Building

Cunard Building

Royal Liver Building

Albion HouseOverhead railway James Street Station rebuiltOverhead railway closureWW2 bombing

Titanic

Maritime Mission European Capital of CultureWorld Heritage statusLaw courts builtTate Liverpool 25 Years of Tate LiverpoolLiverpool One Liverpool Biennial

Lord Street

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BRINGING BACK THE WATER

URBAN REGENERATION

STUCK IN TIME

From the site, at the corner of Strand Street and James Street , you can look directly out to the River Mersey.

The site was under water until the 1700s, when it was built up with reclaimed land during the peak of Liverpool’s trading industry.

The watery history of the site, com-bined with its iconic location led to

the creation of Primersial.



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Norman castle built King James’ Charter Tate Britain opensSlave trade abolishedPeak trading profit



Cunard Building



Titanic


Lord Street

URBAN REGENERATION

STUCK IN TIME

Aesthetic Language: Sculptural, a sedimentary rock with visible layers of time.

Bring back the water! The River Mersey is the heart of Liverpool, and used to come much further inland than it does today.

on/off

TIME MACHINE

Identify fundamental elements near site.1.

Distill their essence.2.

Timeless genius loci given form.3.

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Norman castle built King James’ Charter Tate Britain opensSlave trade abolishedPeak trading profit



Cunard Building



Titanic


Lord Street

Merging Site Analysis with the Brief: A Concrete Concept

This site, located almost on the water-front and inhabited continously for hun-dreds of years, called for something bold.

When you visualise Liverpool, you see the docks, ship masts puncturing the sky, warehouses emerging from the ground. These visual elements are the soul of the city.

However, Liverpool has become stuck, its regeneration into a creative centre halted by the economy, with many areas vacant or derelict. So what if we could go back to the beginning, and take the original ‘elements’ of the city and use them to stimulate its recovery?

And how can concrete, as opposed to any other material, achieve this effect?

1. Wax mold of wall form and texture manufactured using a flex-ible actuated mold technology.

2. Mold and formwork assembled around reclaimed local bricks, and then sprayed with form release agent.

3. Concrete poured in multiple layers. Each successive layer contains a slightly smoother, paler mix of concrete with smaller aggregate.

4. Floors and ceilings cast in situ so the structure appears to be joinless and one whole, not many parts.

5. Wax mold melted and reused. Lower pours of con-crete sandblasted to expose aggregates, and form tie holes filled. Area below window sills chiselled to create dirt traps.

Contemporary Concrete Construction

Precedent: TailorCrete + Gramazio & Kohler’s Environmentally Friendly Wax Molds

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These wax molds are an Innovative, sustainable construction method that can create unique sculptural forms.

However, the molds are cast with a back that easily attaches to traditional form-work, allowing a new technique to seam-lessly integrate with an old industry.

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Concrete formula ratio by weight calcu-lated to achieve smooth colour gradient from charcoal grey at the bottom to almost bone white at the top!

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aggregate from demolished local build-ings : sand : white portland cement : black dry cement dye

Each layer is 100mm tall, with 230 layers altogether.

Smooth colour gradient achieved by dif-ferent mix in each pour layer.

Wax Model of Construction Mold 1:20

Pondering the Pumphouse: Defining the Elements

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Primersial gives the general public a place to collaborate with each other and local architects. The studios allow people to observe the city around them, while they work on regenerat-ing Liverpool’s vacant and derelict areas through design.

These design proposals are then exhibited in the gallery, alongside views out to the existing city, for the community to consider.

A sense of autonomy and creative input into the built environment is shared by all who enter Primersial.

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cafe

kitchen

entrance lobby

shopworkshop

library & archives

lecture theatre

Plan derived from plan of docks.

Smaller spaces in the shape of little ships.

Workshop crashing into the gallery shop is a nod to James Stirling’s orignal design for the Tate Liverpool.

The main gallery is an organic warehouse, rising up from the water. Columns refer to the rhythm of the Tate Liverpool’s arcade.

The tower provides the much needed vertical to the composition, and refers to Liverpool’s pumphouses and ventilation shafts.

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permanent model exhibition

Ground Plan

Grassed steps allow for a higher outdoor view, and are reminiscent of the walls of a dry dock.

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The gaps in the floor slab provide interaction between the gallery and the studio. The process of design is on display, as well as the design itself.

Section of Materiality

The studios are places to meet new people and learn how to have creative input on your local built environment.

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Section of Materiality

1. Wax mold of wall form and texture manufactured using a flexible actuated mold technology.

2. Materials transported to site. 3. Mold and formwork assembled around reclaimed local bricks, and then sprayed with form release agent.

5. Concrete poured in multiple layers. Each successive layer contains a slightly smoother, paler mix of concrete with smaller aggregate.

7. Formwork dismantled and wax mold melted down to be reused for the next project.

8. Lower pours of concrete sandblasted to expose aggregates, and form tie holes filled. Area below window sills chiselled to create dirt traps.6. Floors and ceilings cast in situ so the structure

appears to be joinless and one whole, not many parts.

4. Concrete mixed on site, using local aggregates and water from the Mersey River.Landscaping shaped and pile foundations

inserted. Prefabricated window and door frames installed. River Mersey diverted to fill the site.

What’s on at Primersial

lecture theatre

library workshop

The gaps in the floor slabs create a sense of permeability and interaction through-out the whole composition of Primersial.

Section B:B at 1:100

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Come on up!

Starter bars sticking above the high-est floor indicate the future, and also hint at the skyline of the past with the masts of many ships in the air.

city viewing gallery

studio

studio

permanent model exhibition

studio

studio

Section A:A at 1:100

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Aging Gracefully

Windows like barnacles sticking to a ship. A separate entity and yet attached.

Concrete chiselled beneath window frames to provide dirt traps, for an aesthetic inspired by the nearby Albion House.

Barnacle Window Detail 1:5

Secondary Elevation

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Final Model 1:200

Bringing back the water! The water can be seen all around Primersial and some areas were designed to be shal-low, to play in.

Note the gaps in the floor slabs. These gaps visually reference sedimentary rocks, but also create sight-lines from the exhibition spaces into the studios and workshop and vis versa, creating interaction between all areas in Primersial.

Rozie-Jane Saunders

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gallery: first floor

gallery: second floor

workshop

lecture theatre

Thank you for your time.

Rozie-Jane Saunders

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Documents

Rozie-Jane Saunders BA Portfolio