Architectural Venue Design

DESIGN PORTFOLIOJoseph Whittle

Joseph. N. Whittle

38 Beech Grove, Ellesmere, Shropshire, SY12 0BZ

07739873603

joe-n-whittle@live.co.uk

13/09/1992

OBJECTIVE: seeking position as a junior architectural designer.

EDUCATION

PERSONAL PROFILE

IT SKILLS

WORK EXPERIENCE

2011 - 2014 University of Derby, BA (Hons) in Architectural Venue Design - 1st Class Honours

2009 - 2011 Shrewsbury College of Art and Technology, BTEC National/diploma in construction (level 3) - DMM

I am a reliable and punctual person priding myself on my time keeping. Who is able to work in different situations and work-ing environments. I get on well with people and I’m able to work well as part of a team. Also working well under pressure and being flexible in work hours.

Interests.I maintain my personal fitness as an active member of a local canoe club, where I also compete in canoe slalom and have been in the Great Britain selection team. Where my twin brother and I competed as junior athletes . At University I was an active member of the Rowing team.

CV OVERVIEW

Knowledgeable: Auto CAD/Google Sketch-up pro

Competent: 3ds Max/Adobe Photoshop/Adobe Illustrator/Adobe InDesign/ Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power-point)

Intermediate: Auto Revit.

Oct 2014 - Present : Graphics Technician @ Shrewsbury Sixth From College.July 2014 - Present : Freelance Architectural Venue Designer. From Mark Smith.May 2013 - Sept 2013 : Labourer @ W D Stants.May 2012 - Sept 2012 : Waiter and Bartender @ le Belle Vie.

CATHEDRAL QUARTER: Third year project which involved Mas-ter-planning, Urban design, Building design and interior design from concept to finalisation.

SECOND YEAR: These are the development from second to third year showing my improvement. The two project that are included are Cathe-dral Green info. centre and Buxton Crescent Hotel refurbishment.

FOUR WEEK PROJECT: This was a quick project which done as a team work excerise with other course basic in constuction.

FREELANCE: These are my most recent piece of work ranging from Interior Design the Ginger Spice Restaurant to Illustration with portraites from Marc Posch Ltd.

Contents

01 URBAN DESIGN, CATHEDRAL QUAER

The urban renewal project set by Derby university and Derby city council is to bring new life to the city cen-tre. While developing the concept, biophilia, which is our natural attraction to nature, had crept across from my dissertation into this project. This then changed my perspective of the project and urban design, this then made for a more rounded and complete project.

CONCEPT MODEL

These Images show the development of different areas of the Master plan that was developed along with the human element of the site. As I have seen from research that I have done is that we need to have natural surrounding us. This design which has been developed for the flow of pedestrians on public foot paths. The origami shapes have the conceptual linked to the area represents a river, with the people representing the water and the seating is drift wood. This is to give a more natural fluid feel to the area.

Nodes/Gateway: These entrances have been design to use the natural routes attracting people into this reclusive area in derby’s urban landscape. The principle behind this is based in biophilic design using our natural attraction with nature to draw pedestrians into the site. As well as providing a place for people to rest from the busy street and green relaxation pods of the ur-ban landscape.

Residential Garden: This private space would used privately by the residents of the building. The residents would have free range to either plant vegetables or flower, where they would either be maintained by the res-ident them self or a gardener who would be in charge of the cathedral quarters fauna and flora.

ILLUSTRATED MASTERPLAN

Pavilion: This pavilion would be used for cultur-al event in derby live performances, dramatized events and other festivals from food, flowers and music festivals that could held around this focal point using the large plaza; with surround-ings to allow for space of stalls and space for pedestrians

02 EXTERIOR DEVELOPMENT, CATHEDRAL QUARTERThis exterior development scheme shows the final outcomes of concept development showing exterior renders, CAD drawings, Detail drawing and structural analysis of the building in hand

CATHEDRAL GREEN EXTERIOR VISUALSThis render show the final exterior renders of the building, located in Cathedral Quarter showing the amphitheatre stairs/seats and the unique external cladding made from Swiss pearl rain-screen cladding

These are the finalised North and South elevation. North facing residential entrances (rear), then the south entrances to bar and the restaurant as well as the amphitheatre. The finalised West and East elevations showing the conceptual V shape struts to that ingrate into the design to display the conceptual design of the building.

ELEVATIONS AND SECTIONS

DETAILED DRAWINGS

This detail drawing show how the rain-screen cladding would be attached to steel portal frame construction, while these design are based upon Swiss pearls design they have been adapted for the shape of the buildings exterior allowing the design to come into being.

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

The structure of this building is steel portal frame design with concrete floor slabs and would be built upon a substructure of pad foundations. While other options where Consid-ered for the structure of the building such as a prefabricated portal frame as half of the use of the building is residential but the alternative solution of the hybrid steel frame made it possible to the use of rain screen cladding on the external of the building

Booth seating

03 INTERIOR DESIGN, CATHEDRAL GREENWhile developing my design I came across a problem, designing the buildings exterior only, I would of neglected the interior. As both space need to work together to make the building whole. The exterior would catch the gaze of passers-by, then the interior and the services it provides would keep them and make return costumers. This has allowed the connection of the design process to buildings the exterior and interior to the urban environment .

As the urban design of the Cathedral Quarter has been based around the flow of water, while the building represent a broken dam in the urban environment, the building split between the public spaces of the Ca-thedral Quarter and residential area. As the concept of a broken dam was developed producing around the stairs and rain screen cladding that inspired the interior that has been developed to represent the natural erosion by water though limestone, which is prominent in Derbyshire.

While all the material listed run throughout the ground floor of the western side of the building using them all in similar ways. As a way of making a connection between the cafe and the conceptual erosion of limestone in the Derbyshire, Peak District through the materials.

Polished concrete

Birch timbre floor vanished with dark Danish oil

Off green and black marble floor

Brass fixtures

Textured Aluminium

LEFT SCULPTURED SEATThis Sculpture is used to diffuse the internal stair case that goes through the whole hight of the building, providing emergency fire exits for the residential. This changes the flow through the ground floor with the sculpture causal

seating.

CENTRE SCULPTURED SEATWhile this sculpture is purely a conceptual idea it provides a practical use for a feature seating in the centre of bar and to the left areas This would be natural a spilling of the bar

and cafe to create a different areas for dinning and drinking.

THE LOBBYThis two story void provides more natural light to the first floor bar and the entrance to the building, This as well as the large feature lights above the giving the entrance more grand feeling to the area.

BOOTH SEATING

This area of ground floor was designed to represent a seam of ore running thoughtout the room characterize by the reflection of the light from window at night.

SECOND YEAR: These are the development from second to third year showing my improvement. The two project that are included are Cathedral Green info. centre and Buxton Crescent Hotel refurbishment.

04 INFORMATION CENTRE, CATHEDRAL GREENThis second year project was to design a architectural jewel for Cathedral Green, Derby. Which would used to bring tourists and visitors to derby. This wouldn’t be a one stop shop for people, it would be for people to repeatedly return to derby. The design of the building was inspired by the flora and fauna, which is local to Derbyshire and Cathedral Green.

RENDER AND CONCEPT WORK

This render is the newest visual produced for the Cathedral Green information centre, along with some concept development drawings from my sketch book showing development in the second year, the work from concept to final pro-

duce i.e. the building and render above.

ELEVATION AND FLOOR PLAN

Here are the CAD drawing and sketches that they where developed from. All of the CAD drawing where finalised and hand as part of the assignment.

05 BUXTON CRESCENT HOTEL & SPA, DERBYSHIRE.This second year project that was done in conjunction with the Trevor Osborn group, where we given the chose between two different projects one a renovation project of a listed building or one renewal of a boutique hotel in LA. I choose Buxton Crescent the renovation of grade 1 listed building in the Spa town of Buxton, Derbyshire.

SITE CONTEXT

The Crescent is a Grade-1-listed building in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Owing much to the Royal Crescent in Bath, but described by the Royal Institution of British Architects as “more richly decorated and altogether more complex”, the Crescent was it was designed by the architect John Carr, and built for the Fifth Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789.. Buxton, Derbyshire, England know as one of the spa town of England better know for it’s bottle water, it is know trying to re-opening the spa as has been done in bath. Cultural events include the annual Buxton festival and the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among other festivals and performances held in the Opera House and other venues.

These sketches are the interior space planning and below the develop-ment of these sketches. Where they were as inspiration to create the final visual, see the 4 visual below of the lobby and bar.

SPACE PLANNING & RENDERS.

FOUR WEEK PROJECT: This was a quick project which done as a team work excerise with other course basic in constuction.

06 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE & PROJECT MANAGEMENTThis group project was a combination of course working together with, 1 Construction manager; 1 Quantity surveyor; 1 Joint honours in Property Management; 2 Architectural Technologist and 2 Architectural designers working as team. We worked together to create a viable use for a new build on a brown field site out side of Derby. As Architec-tural designer myself and one other when about finding viable design for own proposed building, which was chosen as group during own bi-weekly meetings. What we choose was small garden centre focusing on the 2 story building. While in concept stage I worked with my team mate to develop a building conceptually so that we could have signed of by our project manger (Construction Manager took this role) and develop the

design further. This was a quick project working on team work in professional manner.

CONCEPT AND LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT

This is the development that was drawn during the a group meeting as the first de-velopmental stages of the project after the Project manger agreed for it to go a head, My self and my team spilt the tasked between use, while he collaborated every-ones work and made the presentation as well developing his own sketches, I carry on with my drawings that you can see below, as well as basic floor plans along with the 3d model and final renders.

FREELANCE: These are my most recent piece of work ranging from Interior Design the Ginger Spice Restaurant to Illustration with portraites from Marc Posch Ltd.

HALLWAY & ENTRANCEThis hallway and entrance was design to bring openness to currently coward, narrow space but by adding the 3D wall panels with the glass window. This makes the space feel separated and connected to the adjacent areas of Ginger Spice, the Grove Bar and the VIP dinning area side. This connectin to the main restraunt area is clear with snake booth seats drawing poeple in with golden upholstery fabric on the back of the seats.

Here the you can see some of the external night render and development drawings show how the exterior was developed along side the interior. While the dark work cladding of the exterior comple-ments the interiors was glow making it seem humble and welcoming to passers-by there for encour-aging them to patronise the restaurant. This along with sutle and more ovbious use of nature in the interior spaces.

Front Elavation

Dinning

The Grove Bar

PlANS & SECTIONS

These are the finalised plans and section of the Ginger Spice restaurant, where you can see the capacity, layout of the restaurant and the sections portraits the featured ceiling as well as the light of the ceiling creating the atmosphere.

FREELANCE ILLUSTRATION WORKThis was some of my first freelance work with was for Mark Posch ltd. where he got hold of me after see my behance work and had as me to produce these 6 portraites of his clients.

While over all Mark Posch was please with my work he did say some make some changes to these orginals to make them more simular in face shape and only mimute differeces in their faces and style.

Joseph. N. WhittleChartered Society of Designers

38 Beech Grove

Ellesmere Shropshire SY12 0BZ

07739873603joe-n-whittle@live.co.uk