CV + PORTFOLIO

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name Yvonne DonaldsonNationality BritishDateofBirth 12/05/1984Tel.No 07845585659E-mail yvonne.donaldson.243@googlemail.comAddress 19/8WarrenderParkCrescent,Edinburgh,EH91EA

EDUCATION

2010 EdinburghUniversity ProfessionalExperienceandDevelopmentRecord-Ongoing EdinburghCollegeofArt(Heriot-WattUniversity)2008 PostgraduateDiploma in Architecture, specialising in Contemporary Intervention, Distinction2007 Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), First Class Andrew Grant Bequest, Prize for distinguished work

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010 Assistant tutor at the workshop ‘Making Architecture’, hosted by Schop Iworkedwithasmallgroupofparticipantsofallabilitiestodevelopadesignto satisfyabriefbycreatingdrawingsandmodels.

2009- Part II architectural assistant, Oliver Chapman Architects Ltd Myworkincludessketchproposals,planningapplications, buildingwarrants,tenderdrawingsandconstructiondrawings. _GardenRoomExtension,TrinityRoad,Edinburgh,60K _ConversionofaB-listedpropertytoflats,Haddington,EastLothian,1.1M _HouseAlterations,AlbertTerrace,Edinburgh,150K _HouseExtension,CramondCrescent,Edinburgh,125K _ChildrensCentre,Competition,Dublin _RestorationofArgyllMausoleumandProposedVisitorFacility,TenderProposal Kilmun,500K _ITOfficeComplex,Competition,GreaterNoida,Delhi _DumfriesHouse,TheRoyalScottishAcademyexhibitionpanel 2009- Assistant curator/administrator, Schop - AGallery for Art and Architecture _Liaisingwithartists _Marketingforexhibitions _Organisationofworkshops _Creatingandupdatingthewebsite _Researchforfundingandcharitablestatus _Sellingartworks,stocktakingandaccounts

2007 Library Assistant, Edinburgh College of Art _Assistingwiththedevelopmentofthelibraryfacilities 2007 Cad Assistant for ‘Shifts’ Exhibition at the Lighthouse Gallery, Glasgow _Creatingimagestoillustrateanurbananalysis

2003-04 Part I architectural assistant, Allan Curran Architects Ltd. _ConversionofouthousesatDampierHouse,Yeovil,Somerset,150K _HouseExtension,TattymoyleRoad,Fermanagh,60K _HousingDevelopment,Bellanaleck,Fermanagh,1.6M

KEY SKILLS AutoCAD,Sketchup,Photoshop,In-Design,Illustrator,Microsoft Word,Powerpoint,Excel,ExperiencedModel-maker

REFERENCES Mark Cousins_OliverChapmanArchitectsLtd_01314774513

CURRICULUM VITAEKEY SKILLS AutoCAD, Sketchup, Photoshop, In-Design, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Experienced Model-maker

OTHER Attended the conference, ‘Refugee Integration: The Interface between Policy, Practice and Research’ to study housing for refugees.

Participated in a workshop run by the West Crosscauseway Association for the community to develop ideas about designing a public space.

REFERENCES Mark Cousins Oliver Chapman Architects Ltd 36 St Mary’s Street Edinburgh EH1 1SX 0131 477 4513 Roci Allan Allan Curran Architects Ltd 55 Tempo Road Enniskillen Fermanagh BT74 6HR 02866 323 500

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIOSELECTED DIPLOMA PROJECT: BOOK CITYBook City is a new node connecting to the existing legibility of the urban context with it’s strong street presence creating a new entity within Edinburgh’s literary quarter. It opens the New Calton Burial Ground to form a green space in the city. The scheme sits tall in the corner of the graveyard.

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

SELECTED PROJECTS:

Aiobhneas Childrens’ CentreOur ambition for the Aiobhneas Women and Childrens Refuge Centre was to provide a safe haven for victims of domestic violence. Our new wing occupies the northern corner of the triangular site and addresses the Kilmore Road. It establishes a new entrance and creates a less institutional presence on the street. The new element is clad in slate and reads as a shelter-ing protective form. Openings to the steet are kept to a mini-mum but the building opens up with extensive areas of glazing to the courtyard space within. Essentially this project adopts the idea of a protective garden wall enclosing an interior with the roof as an independent element that weaves through the site.

Restoration of Mausoleum and Proposed Visitor CentreOver and above the mausoleum’s physical purpose of be-ing the resting place of the Argylls, it has a function to honour the memory of those individuals’ lives. Memory can also play an important role in the architecture of the visitor centre. The building can be a memory of the mausoleum without hav-ing to appear like one itself. This would be done imaginatively through the design of an entrance courtyard that would relate to the physical proportions and ephemeral character of the mausoleum. A small enclosed entrance courtyard deals withthe sensitivity arising from groups of visitors arriving in what is a private and contemplative setting – a cemetery.The building’s courtyard also helps to screen some of the activ-ity that inevitably occurs around an entrance as well as provid-ing a focus for the surrounding rooms to look into. This internal aspect reduces the amount that the building has to lookoutwards, which helps maintain the privacy of the cemetery.

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIOSELECTED PROJECT:An extensive renovation to the house and grounds of a Victorian semidetached villa on the south side of Edinburgh. The building is not listed but is in a conservation area. The client ispassionate about architecture and design and has high expectations of the work he is commissioning.

The work includes:- Two large openings on the ground floor, connecting the lounge, sittingroom and dining room.- Remodeling of fireplaces to accommodate gas appliances.- A new kitchen.- Wall of WC designed to house a cistern on lower level and kitchen storage above.- A new separate water connection to the upper house.- Moving an RWP to allow for a future balcony.- Opening up the first floor to create a larger bathroom.- Remodeling a shower wetroom.- Roof light and roof hatch.

Project Cost: £150,000

Form of appointment: A letter set out using “A Guide to letter contracts for very small projects, reports and surveys” by Roland Phil-lips, RIBA Publishing, 2009Contract: Minor Works Building Contract for use in Scotland (MW/Scot) 2005 (October 2007 revision)

We are providing the following services:- A planning application for solar panels and roof lights- Building warrant application- Production information and documents for tender- Contract administration and services during constructionThe director is also acting as the project manager for the separate trades.

RIBA Stages C - K

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

SELECTED PROJECT:Theproposalconsistsofanextensiontoa1960’shouseatCramondCrescent.Theexistingbuildingisafullydetachedtwostoreydwellingwithasinglestoreygarageandconservatory.Ourproposalaimstoremovetheconservatoryandgarageandconstructatwostoreyextensionprojectingtothesouthernboundaryandintothereargar-den.

Theextensioncomprisesofagarage,kitchen,bathroom,bedroom,ensuite,aWCunderthestairsandreorganisationofutilityandstorage.Theexternalfinishesaregoingtoreflectthatoftheexisting,whitesandcementrenderandredbrick.Wehavealsoaddedzinccladding.Thestructureismostlytimberframewithanouterskinofrenderonblock-work.Thegaragewillhaveaninnerandouterleafofblock-workforadditionalrobustness.

ProjectCost:£125,000

FormofAppointment:ScottishConditionsofAppointmentofanArchitect,SmallProjectVersionASP/2005(February2008revision).Contract:MinorWorksBuildingContractforuseinScotland(MW/Scot)2005(October2007revision)

RIBAStagesC-H