Paul Cuthbert Portfolio 2012

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Project Documentation A history of learning and record of Portfolio

Introduction:

Like The Book of Kells, these boxes contain my development since my inception as a graduate of architecture. Each box consists of a series of 3 books which contain a total of 36 leaves.

The folios are commonly, bound in groups of 12 pages. Some folios are single sheets, as was frequently the case with important books and their decorated pages from history.

Project:

The books have an educational purpose; each represents a project undertaken or one assisted with since graduation, and cover varying degrees of language, typology and scale, intending that the reader return on occasion to learn and recall, eventually reciting from memory, the pictures from each book.

The designs of the books take this purpose in mind; that is, the book was produced with appearance taking precedence over practicality. In general, nothing was done to disrupt the look of the page: aesthetics being given a priority over utility.

Programme:

The books have lines drawn for the text, sometimes on both sides. Prick marks and guide lines may be seen on some pages. Although the books have an uneven thickness; some being close to leather while others may be as thin as to be almost translucent and printed on trace.

The text is then is accompanied by many full-page miniature pictures, while smaller painted decorations appear throughout the text in unprecedented quantities.

The decorated engraving of each of the stained, whitewood boxes combines intricate detail with bold and energetic Celtic composition. Their characteristics representing a kinetic energy of their contours which are freely engraved by hand; spiral lines which in turn generate their curvilinear motifs.

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A Montessori Pre-School Playground WellingtonNew Zealand 2001

Project:

House for a Clann engages a mythology linked to reality, like a parallel exploration during life in the day transformed and interpreted by dreams at night. As a reality, it will become an “orphanage” for the young boy within any boy or man, a place to be visited during the course of a day, allowing the re-awakening of childhood dreams; as a mythology, it will be an architectural construct wherein these boys can discover the youth they may have missed, the dreams they could have dreamed, where they can come to an understanding of the father figure who may no longer be present to guide their lives.

The project will use architecture to explore the mythological aspirations of an “orphaned” figure engaged in an archetypal adventure in search of his father’s roots, the childhood memories. The site will be the Montessori Pre-School of Otari, Wellington, the ‘boys’ enclosure, which lie alongside Otari Reserve. Like a lost landscape waiting to be rediscovered, they engage elements of the mythological as well as the real. As an enclosure, they become places of nurturing, places of learning, now rediscovered.

Programme:

The House for a Clann will be composed of gateways, towers, and courtyards, representing passages of discovery, growth and understanding. We all traverse these passages at different times in different ways. One childhood lesson is of finding place. Another is facing up to fear. The next lessons are balance, strength, aloneness, togetherness and ultimately inner peace.

Each of the ‘towers’ contains a single dream; These are not towers to be slept within, but towers within which lost dreams might be found, each providing an architectural key to a passage into adulthood sought by the orphan in each of us, regardless of our age. The dreams visited within these “towers” become manifest as architectural elements within the courtyards beyond, culminating in the ultimate lesson of adulthood, the discovery of an infinite horizon beyond the boundaries of the presumptive self

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Autonomous Competition Entry The Art Fund Pavilion Tent London International Design Competition London2009

Project:

The Art Fund Pavilion Design Competition 2009 was an open, international competition co-ordinated by Tent London and The Lightbox art gallery in Woking, London.

The brief was to design a semi-permanent Summer Pavilion, to sit alongside the Lightbox’s RIBA award-winning building by Marks Barfield Architects.

The Pavilion had to be no more than 35 sqm, be constructed from ‘Facit’ prefabricated timber components and accommodate an exhibition space, formal seminar space and an informal gathering/party space.

The response was to design a structure that, while carrying out the function of the display of art, was in itself an architectural exhibit, playfully generated through fundamental historical principles of architecture.

The aim was to provide ‘The Lightbox’ with a semi-permanent summer pavilion which would sit alongside their RIBA award-winning building by Marks Barfield Architects.

Programme:

Pavilion footprint: 35 square metres. Maximum height: 4 metres. Illustrate your design as being used in the following 3 scenarios:

� Exhibition space with 8 x A1 size wall-mounted pieces, 6 x plinth-based pieces (500 L x 500 W x 900 H mm) and 4 x floor-standing pieces (1sqm each) allowing space for circulation.

� Formal presentation space for up to 30 persons seated. � Informal gathering and party space.

The design had to be assembled in 72 hrs and disassembled in 24 hrs. The pavilion was to be transported and stored therefore the design had to include practical considerations for disassembly and reassembly i.e. stackable components, modularity, longevity.

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Grimshaw Architects Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) Boldrewood Campus Southampton University 2011

Project:

The Southampton Maritime Centre aims to create a world-leading hub for innovation, business and education. It will unite the University of Southampton and Lloyd’s Register in a unique collaboration focusing on marine engineering and engineering sciences. The redeveloped campus on the university's 4.3 hectare Boldrewood site is Grimshaw’s largest European university project to date.

The campus is located at a key junction leading into the city. The new buildings in Phase 1 will be the most prominent, seen when entering or driving past the revitalised Boldrewood Campus. These buildings will set a new quality benchmark for the redevelopment, designed to respect the campus’ suburban parkland setting.

The construction of a Technology Centre for the Lloyd's Register Group will follow together with an Engineering Building for the University, a shared Maritime Institute between the two and soft landscaping screening new car and cycle parking. Each of the buildings has been designed to create simple orthogonal blocks with strong clean lines as a foil to the adjacent trees and rolling lawns. They have been developed with efficient layouts grouped to promote healthy interaction between conference, training, library and collaborative spaces

Programme:

The design replaces the existing science block in the centre of the site. Working closely with Land Use Consultants, mature landscape features have been preserved whilst accommodating existing topographic levels. The retention of existing vegetation and appropriate new planting will enhance biodiversity on the site with new parking zones constructed using permeable paving. This hard and soft landscaping will include a sustainable urban drainage system within a high quality pedestrian environment.

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Lifschutz Davidson SandilandsExemplar Properties Fitzroy Place London2012

Project:

In December 2010 Kaupthing Bank, Aviva and Exemplar Properties entered into a development agreement to develop the former Middlesex Hospital site in Fitzrovia, London; a joint venture to create a new mixed-use community in the heart of Fitzrovia, London.

The three-acre site will be transformed into an integrated sustainable mixed-use community, centred on a new landscaped public realm embracing the existing listed hospital chapel.

The sites master plan includes a mix of open market residential apartments, affordable homes, retail, Grade A commercial space, and amenity for local occupiers including a health centre and an education facility.

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AEDAS (collaborative venture AECOM) Highway 407 Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension Canada2010

Project:

The Highway 407 Station provides a strategic interchange between private car park-and-ride, subway, express guided bus transit way and local bus services adjacent to Highway 407, reducing passenger circulation distances. Sheppard West will be an important intermodal station providing an interchange with the GO Transit regional rail service. This station— located within Parc Downsview Park, slated to be the first national urban park in the Greater Toronto Area— will be a gateway to the park, designed as part of the undulating landscape.

Key concepts of the scheme include minimising passenger circulation distances by anchoring the transit nodes around a central retail concourse, providing column free spaces for simplified way- finding providing direct sunlight deep into the station and subway platform reducing the need for artificial light.

The station responds to the surrounding site by merging the boundaries between internal and external spaces - introducing landscaping deep into the building. This improves the environmental performance of the station, minimising the need for mechanical ventilation and reducing operational costs.

Through the introduction of native species within the car park and building, the impact of development will be lessened, encouraging biodiversity and increasing the sustainability of the development towards achieving the Toronto Green Standard - LEED equivalent.

Programme:

Highway 407 Station is a key base in Toronto’s “Transit City 2050” Master plan to reducing inner city congestion by providing a strategic interchange between private car park and ride, subway, express guided bus transit way and local bus services adjacent Highway 407.

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Buchan Group InternationalWestfield, Whitecity London2008

Project:

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