J.Smithard Architecture

3rd Year, Part 1 Architecture Student. A collection of works made during the academic year.

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Mapping Process

Mapping showing features of interest within the site, thus proposing what to manipulate and what to celebrate. The graphic palette is applied and the relief layering effect inferred to develop the presentation aspect of this submission. Photograph > Photoshop  > Watercolour > Layer

South facing Long and East facing Short Section showing inhabited internal environments and schematic use. 

Constructed Atmosphere The Constructed Atmosphere aims to work as a response to site and also as means of design process. I have produced a simple enclosure axonomentric of the existing site walls,this was then further developed to add context with...

Constructed Atmosphere

The Constructed Atmosphere aims to work as a response to site and also as means of design process. I

have produced a simple enclosure axonomentric of the existing site walls,this was then further developed to add context with contour lines added to show the downward slope within the enclosure. Continued from this shows simple representations of how I wished to potentially use overlapping materials on the existing walls so as to not necessarily destroy what stands but rather expand upon it. Further to this a development in repose to precedence is added to the collage (the Minnack Theatre) to suggest the main use of my scheme. As well as a suggestion of material use with the inclusion of weathered copper in the collage.

As a further development in I added the stage region to toy with how I wished to orientate the footprint and thus see what space remains for potential circulation access. Graphically a relief method was attempted to show how the weathering effects can cause the scheme to integrate into the wider community. 

 

 

Hybrid Plans

Layered Hybrid plans showing depth and a heirachy of importance throughout each floors public and private realms. Layered watercolour, foam board, CAD plans and photoshopped textures. A development of graphic style stemming from the refined graphic palette. 

Interior Perspectives

Inhabited interior perspectives showing spatial conditions reflective of comfort, scale and haptic quality. 

Follows same graphic process as exterior perspectives.

Final Process

Hand drawn exterior perspectives overlayed with watercolour paint. Scanned and brought into photoshop, enhanced through textures, graphic brushes and light intensities.

Developing a graphic palette appropriate for the youth demographic.  

Process

Hand drawn exterior perspectives overlayed with watercolour paints. View from the North and South facades.

Process

Hand drawn exterior perspectives showing view from the North and South facades. 

Storyboard Narratives

Hybrid watercolours & Photoshop rendering attempting to present design agenda. 

1) The youth are marginalised to the edges. Non declared and transitory to the public face. Lonely in background.

2) Regression behind the public facade. The youth are displaced and find refuge in the peripheries. Moments of preciousness are found where discarded objects are a contextual norm.

3) Dramatic views draw inhabitation towards West Hoe. The area has low level public density thus many of the defined youth find further refuge in the area. Inhabiting a space with one of the most spectacular views of the south coast.

4) The youth interact with discarded objects creating a synonymous relationship that can potentially cause the negative stigma that surrounds ‘youth’ thus accentuating the existing structure of how the youth sit within the city.

5) Continuous observation due to the natural topography and overlooking vernacular buildings means the youth make efforts to hide again reinforcing the unfortunate cause and response that makes young people regress behind the public facade.