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ALEXANDER COOPERPART II ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANTSAMPLE WORK
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THE WAALHAVEN SKILLS METABOLISER: LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF OBSOLESCENCE.
The shipping industry, and in particular act of transporting the vast amount of goods across the world can be used as a litmus test to indi-cate what state the global economy is in. The man made incisions into the landscape in geographically strategic locations provide evidence that our pursuit for reducing the gap between supply and demand is reaching an intercontinental scale (see the Panama Canal, The Suez Canal).
The recently built super sized container ship, the Maersk Triple E heralds a new stage in the our obsession with the age of fulfillment. At 400 metres long, 165,000 Tonnes and capable of carrying over 18,000 containers, the Triple E is a vessel that has been specifically designed to respond to a rel-atively new shipping technique Slow Steaming. This technique involves the consolidation of several cargo loads at the port, and the subsequent transportation at a slower speed in order to save money on the exponen-tially rising cost of diesel fuel.
This trend will force shipping companies around the world to design new ships that will specifically deal with slow steaming as the industry norm. More worryingly, the same companies will have no choice but to scrap vast numbers of their aging fleet. These ships will become a casualty of our obsession with narrowing the time frame between supply and demand. Thousands of ships will become cost ineffective to run.
My prospective project asks the question what becomes of the Triple E once the next logistic technique renders it obsolete?
The location of my site, the Waalhaven Harbour, has arrived at a very sim-ilar conclusion to the outdated container ships we see today. Stuck in a rut between the city and the industrial sprawl of the Harbor, it has been largely ignored by the logistic effort of the Rotterdam Port authority. The aim of the Waalhaven Skills Metaboliser is to take these obsolete elements and use them as a base to regenerate. Taking queues from Rotterdam Makerspace and Rotterdam Academy of Architecture (who both house their teaching spaces within old boat building warehouses) I aim to pair up with TU Delfts Centre for Logistics and Control to re train the seamen that would usually work in the Maersk Triple E.
By pairing the ships structure along with new pier-style constructions, I aim to create education in deconstruction. The form of the Triple E will become repurposed and manipulated to serve the needs of the inhabit-ants. The ship will experience terminal trauma - structural members will be ripped from their positions in the most horrific way, it will be torn limb from limb as the parasitic structure moves in and takes hold. It will be a living demolition site, in a constant state of flux. Within this shell of agitated steel and rust, seamen will learn new logistic techniques, ways to adapt aging systems of control to propose new and experimental methods, allowing them to control the ports destiny. The Triple E will become a living case study, radical design that has run its course. Its corpse will now be regenerated into spaces to export knowledge.
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Maker Rig + Maersk Triple E
The lifeless corpse of the container ship is picked apart. The workers who live in the ship now inhabit a building site. Living quarters must be adapted in order to
enable the metabolisaion process.
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Power Rig
The Power Rig severs the outer skin of the Triple E. Vast chunks of metal are torn away in order to access the heart of the ship. Irreversible trauma is caused as the fuel and engine of the
behemoth is extracted to power the education Rigs.
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The Waalhaven Skills Metaboliser: Learning to live in the shadow of obsolescence. Alexander Cooper
The Waalhaven Skills Metaboliser: Learning to live in the shadow of obsolescence.
The shipping industry, and in particular act of transporting the vast amount of goods across the world, can be used as a litmus test to indicate at what state the global economy is in. The man made incisions into the landscape in geographically strategic locations provide evidence that our pursuit for reducing the gap between supply and demand is reaching an intercontinental scale (see the Panama Canal, The Suez Canal).
The recently constructed super sized container ship, the Maersk Triple E, heralds a new stage in the our obsession with the age of fulfillment. At 400 metres long, 165,000 tonnes and capable of carrying over 18,000 containers, the Triple E is a vessel that has been specifically designed to respond to a relatively new shipping technique slow steaming. This technique involves the consolidation of multiple cargo loads but transportation slower speed in order to save money on the e rising costs of diesel fuel.
This trend will force shipping companies around the world to engage in designing new ships that will specifically deal with slow steaming as the industry norm. More worryingly, the same companies will have no choice but to scrap vast numbers of their aging fleet. These ships will become a casualty of our obsession with narrowing the time frame between supply and demand. Thousands of ships will become cost ineffective to run and become obsolete.
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The location of my site, the Waalhaven Harbour, has arrived at a very similar conclusion to that of the outdated container ships we see today. Stuck in a rut between the city and the industrial sprawl of the harbor, it has been largely ignored by the logistic effort of the Rotterdam Port authority. The aim of the Waalhaven skills metaboliser is to take these obsolete elements and use them as a base to regenerate. Taking queues from Rotterdam Makerspace and Rotterdam Academy of Architecture (who both house their teaching spaces within old boat building warehouses), I aim to pair up with TU Delfts Centre for Logistics and Control to retrain the seamen that would usually work in the Maersk Triple E.
By pairing the ships structure along with new pier-style constructions I aim to create education in deconstruction. The form of the Triple E will become repurposed and manipulated to serve the needs of the inhabitants. The ship will experience terminal trauma - structural members will be ripped from their positions in the most horrific way; it will be torn limb from limb as the parasitic structure moves in and takes hold. It will be a living demolition site in a constant state of flux. Within this shell of agitated steel and rust, seamen will learn new logistic techniques, ways to adapt aging systems of control to propose new and experimental methods allowing them to control the ports destiny. The Triple E will become a living case study radical design that has run its course. Its corpse will now be regenerated into spaces to export knowledge.
waste
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Lacerate
Great effort is spent extracting pieces of rusted metal from the ship. The most valuable material is transported into the maker rigs, whilst the scraps are left for the seamen to retrofit into shelter.
Dislocate
Whilst being mercilessly picked apart piece by piece, the Maersk Triple E will still perform its regular duty of sheltering its crew mates whilst they attend the Waalhaven Skills Metaboliser.
They will live on the building site and once the graduate, the ship will be totally ingested.
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Lacerate
Great effort is spent extracting pieces of rusted metal from the ship. The most valuable material is transported into the maker rigs, whilst the scraps are left for the seamen to retrofit into shelter.
Dislocate
Whilst being mercilessly picked apart piece by piece, the Maersk Triple E will still perform its regular duty of sheltering its crew mates whilst they attend the Waalhaven Skills Metaboliser.
They will live on the building site and once the graduate, the ship will be totally ingested.
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
Waste
ConjoinAs the rig and the ship meet, a junction is created. Fittings are hand bolted onto the ships skeleton which in turn allows an infrastructure
to be founded around the reclaimed ship.
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MARCHD YEAR ONE: DYNAMO CITY
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Practice Rooms(G23)
Practice RoomsPractice Rooms(G24)
Practice RoomsMusic Room(G25)
New dance Studio94.3m/sq REDECORATE
THROUGHOUT
G24
D.01
D.02
D.03
D.04
D.01 - D.04All new doors to be 838 x44mm solid core acousticdoors and frames includingacoustic double glazing tovision panels.
NEW PARTITION164mm GypWall quietpartition studs w/ 65decibels sound insulation.
pdp architecture llp
2 beechworth road havanthampshire po9 1axtel 023 9248 1100fax 023 9247 5050
email [email protected]
www.pdp-architects.co.uk
pdp architecture llpchartered architects town planning
interior design consultants
notes
scale width 50 mm @ a1 - 25 mm @ a3
this drawing is the copyright of the pdp architecture llp andmust not be reproduced in whole or part or used for theexecution of works without their permission.
all dimensions to be checked on site prior to commencementof construction works and the architect notified of anydiscrepancy.
figured dimensions are to be used in preference to scaleddimensions.
no deviation from this drawing will be permitted without priorconsent of the architect.
all drawings are prepared subject to a full measured andstructural survey of the buildings and site.
all structural work is subject to the appointment of a structuralengineer to confirm and agree the structural proposals.
os promap licence no. 100020449.
reva1 scale
date status
drawn checked
detail
project
client
a3 scale
health & safety:exceptional risks involving specific methods of consruction orexceptional maintenance issues:
pdp architecture llp
notes date checkedrevision drawn
N:\27926-TOTTON COLLEGE NEW RECEPTION\14 - Misc\Totton new logo.png
Totton CollegeRefurbishment ProjectSUMMER 2014ACOUSTIC PARTITIONING EXISITNG ROOMS DETAIL
AC MBW
19.06.14 TENDER
1:75 1:150 27949WD105
NO SIGNIFICANT RISK
PRELIMINARY
152x152 UC 37
admin
ELECTRIC
office
officeexams office
female staff wc
male staff wc
m o e
staff room
examst
male wc female wc
CORRIDOR 1
MAIN ENTRANCE LOBBY
CO
RR
IDO
R 2
science
science
business
business
science
business
humanities humanities humanities humanities humanitieshubrm
hubrm
store
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
111213
FEATURE WALLdulux 72yy/47/743
DULUX DIAMOND TOUGHTIMELESS WHITE
DULUX DIAMOND TOUGHTIMELESS WHITE
DULUX DIAMOND TOUGHTIMELESS WHITE
FEATURE WALLcosta reddulux12yr 07/279
SD
SD
store
W W W W W
corridor corridor
store studentmale wc
studentfemale wc
store
case
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remo
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pan
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BC
0.0
-.015
G31
G41
G40
G47
G42 G43
G48
G44 G45G39
G10
D3
LIFT
D3
LIFT
G38G37G30PLANTROOM
CHEMICALSTORE
G16
G23
G24
G25
G36
G35
G34 G33
G32
ROOMS INCLUDED INPROPOSED WORKS
FOR DETAILS OF WORKSIN ROOMS G23 - G25 SEEDRAWING WD105
RDS 01
RDS 02
RDS 03
RDS 04
RDS 05
G10 pdp architecture llp2 beechworth road havanthampshire po9 1axtel 023 9248 1100fax 023 9247 5050
email [email protected]
www.pdp-architects.co.uk
pdp architecture llpchartered architects town planning
interior design consultants
notes
scale width 50 mm @ a1 - 25 mm @ a3
this drawing is the copyright of the pdp architecture llp andmust not be reproduced in whole or part or used for theexecution of works without their permission.
all dimensions to be checked on site prior to commencementof construction works and the architect notified of anydiscrepancy.
figured dimensions are to be used in preference to scaleddimensions.
no deviation from this drawing will be permitted without priorconsent of the architect.
all drawings are prepared subject to a full measured andstructural survey of the buildings and site.
all structural work is subject to the appointment of a structuralengineer to confirm and agree the structural proposals.
os promap licence no. 100020449.
reva1 scale
date status
drawn checked
detail
project
client
a3 scale
health & safety:exceptional risks involving specific methods of consruction orexceptional maintenance issues:
pdp architecture llp
notes date checkedrevision drawn
N:\27926-TOTTON COLLEGE NEW RECEPTION\14 - Misc\Totton new logo.png
Totton CollegeRefurbishment ProjectSUMMER 2014PROPOSEDGROUND FLOOR
AC MBW
19.06.14 TENDER
1:250 27949WD103
NO SIGNIFICANT RISK
PRELIMINARY
DETAIL OF PROPOSED PARTITION WALL IN SITU 1:25
TECHNICAL DETAIL OF SUGGESTED PARTITION WALLCONSTRUCTION 1:5
152x152 UC 37
admin
ELECTRIC
office
officeexams office
female staff wc
male staff wc
m o e
staff room
examst
male wc female wc
CORRIDOR 1
MAIN ENTRANCE LOBBY
CO
RR
IDO
R 2
science
science
business
business
science
business
humanities humanities humanities humanities humanitieshubrm
hubrm
store
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
111213
FEATURE WALLdulux 72yy/47/743
DULUX DIAMOND TOUGHTIMELESS WHITE
DULUX DIAMOND TOUGHTIMELESS WHITE
DULUX DIAMOND TOUGHTIMELESS WHITE
FEATURE WALLcosta reddulux12yr 07/279
SD
SD
store
W W W W W
corridor corridor
store studentmale wc
studentfemale wc
store
case
d s.
v.p.
remo
vable
pan
el s.v.
p.
to m
atch c
ubicl
es
BC
0.0
-.015
G31
G41
G40
G47
G42 G43
G48
G44 G45G39
G10
D3
LIFT
D3
LIFT
G38G37G30PLANTROOM
CHEMICALSTORE
G16
G23
G24
G25
G36
G35
G34 G33
G32
ROOMS INCLUDED INPROPOSED WORKS
FOR DETAILS OF WORKSIN ROOMS G23 - G25 SEEDRAWING WD105
RDS 01
RDS 02
RDS 03
RDS 04
RDS 05
G10 pdp architecture llp2 beechworth road havanthampshire po9 1axtel 023 9248 1100fax 023 9247 5050
email [email protected]
www.pdp-architects.co.uk
pdp architecture llpchartered architects town planning
interior design consultants
notes
scale width 50 mm @ a1 - 25 mm @ a3
this drawing is the copyright of the pdp architecture llp andmust not be reproduced in whole or part or used for theexecution of works without their permission.
all dimensions to be checked on site prior to commencementof construction works and the architect notified of anydiscrepancy.
figured dimensions are to be used in preference to scaleddimensions.
no deviation from this drawing will be permitted without priorconsent of the architect.
all drawings are prepared subject to a full measured andstructural survey of the buildings and site.
all structural work is subject to the appointment of a structuralengineer to confirm and agree the structural proposals.
os promap licence no. 100020449.
reva1 scale
date status
drawn checked
detail
project
client
a3 scale
health & safety:exceptional risks involving specific methods of consruction orexceptional maintenance issues:
pdp architecture llp
notes date checkedrevision drawn
N:\27926-TOTTON COLLEGE NEW RECEPTION\14 - Misc\Totton new logo.png
Totton CollegeRefurbishment ProjectSUMMER 2014PROPOSEDGROUND FLOOR
AC MBW
19.06.14 TENDER
1:250 27949WD103
NO SIGNIFICANT RISK
PRELIMINARY
DETAIL OF PROPOSED PARTITION WALL IN SITU 1:25
TECHNICAL DETAIL OF SUGGESTED PARTITION WALLCONSTRUCTION 1:5
PAULS FIELD DEVELOPMENT, WOKINGHAM
Within this project I assisted in the production of the hous-ing types needed to populate this project. This project gave me experience in how to design a dwelling to a particular stand-ard, this particular project was specified to the Lifetime Homes Standard.
TOTTON COLLEGE REFURBISHMENT, SOUTHAMPTON
Under the supervision of an Architectural Technologist, I was tasked to specify and draw up wall partitions that would be suitable to house a music recording studio. This exercise al-lowed me to research the appropriate type walling and specify it in a tender package.
STUDENT ACCOMMODATION, PORTSMOUTH
The architect who ran this project began by allowing me to propose a solution to the clients needs. After I was given a set of parameters and a brief, I created drawings that would be used as a conversation starter in client meetings. After client feedback I would amend the drawings and propose my ideas to the Architect.