walthamstow town hall extension: design diary (2010)

DESIGN DIARYIone Braddick

1.0 WALTHAMSTOW RESEARCH

2.0 VEHICLE/ INSTRUMENT

3.0 PRECEDENT STUDIES

4.0 OUTPOST - Michaelmas Term

4.1 - Crit 04.12.09

4.2 - Post crit/ Christmas vacation

STUDY TRIP - BELGIUM - 08.01.10 to 11.01.10

4.3 - Mid Year Review 15.01.10

4.4 - Lent Term

4.5 - Crit 16.02.10

4.6 - 1:50 Model

4.7 - Crit 12.03.10

4.8 - Post crit/ Easter vacation

4.9 - Easter Term

4.10 - Crit 11.05.10

CONTENTS

1.0 WALTHAMSTOW RESEARCH

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Employment

Walthamstow Major Centre

District Centres

Primary Shopping Frontages

Civic and Community facilities

Residential

Neighbourhood Centre

Cemetery

Recreation in green open space

Metropolitan Green Belt

Water Works

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North Chingford

South Chingford

Highams Park

Walthamstow Stadium

North Circular

Wood Street

Walthamstow

Bakers Arms

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WALTHAMSTOW RESEARCH

Focused in from City-wide, to Borough scale, to site, to individual people.

Employment

District Centres

Residential

Cemetery

Water Works

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South Chingford

Highams Park

Walthamstow Stadium

North Circular

Wood Street

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South Chingford

Highams Park

Walthamstow Stadium

North Circular

Wood Street

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Y3 S1 09/10 - Waltham Forest Primer

Public Space

Overview of Green Public Spaces

The borough of Waltham Forest is flanked by Epping Forest on the East and the Lea Valley Resevoirs on the West.

With over 70 parks in the borough, from fully equipped sports parks to contemplative memorial gardens, the borough hosts a wide variety of green public space.

As well as an array of different facilities within the parks, the level of access to these ‘public spaces’ also varies between the parks/ gardens.The amount of control over these spaces can be mapped in degrees of accessibility: - High; such as forests, open playing fields. - Medium; parks with limited opening hours, museums within green spaces.- Low; spaces that require membership or payment, or have extremely limited opening hours.

1.1 GEOGRAPHIES

Public Space Research

Public Space

Overview of Green Public Spaces

The borough of Waltham Forest is flanked by Epping Forest on the East and the Lea Valley Resevoirs on the West.

With over 70 parks in the borough, from fully equipped sports parks to contemplative memorial gardens, the borough hosts a wide variety of green public space.

As well as an array of different facilities within the parks, the level of access to these ‘public spaces’ also varies between the parks/ gardens.The amount of control over these spaces can be mapped in degrees of accessibility: - High; such as forests, open playing fields. - Medium; parks with limited opening hours, museums within green spaces.- Low; spaces that require membership or payment, or have extremely limited opening hours.

Lloyd’s Park, Walthamstow

Area: Lloyds Park, William Morris Muse-aum Gardens

Use of park: Comes to meet friends, route through to main street from home.

Age: 19

Comment: Good facilities- lots of football pitches.

Area: Lloyds Park, William Morris Mu-seum Gardens, Duck Pond.

Use of park: Family outings to feed the ducks. Good playground.

Age: (of child) 25 months

Comment: Can feel unsafe later at night, not enough play facilities for very young children (sandpit wanted).

Area: Lloyds Park, Skate Park

Use of park: Only skate park nearby. Good skating equipment. Acts as meet-ing point to meet friends.

Age(s): 11-16

Comment: Want floodlights for skate-park. And a park cafe. Like the graffiti.

Area: Lloyds Park, Hard courts with basketball nets.

Use of Park: Playing basketball and football.

Age(s): 14-16

Comment: Good for playing against other people because courts are opne. Good place to come in the summer because very busy.

Public Space

Lloyds ParkOpinion and Use

1.3 STORIES

Henner and Locke Photography Workshop(see seperate booklet)

Theatricailty of Suburbia: The local characters of Walthamstow

Theatricailty of Suburbia:

The local scenes of Walthamstow

2.0VEHICLE/ INSTRUMENT

Brief:

The Copper Pavillion, Arcade Site

Precedent for crystal form:Daniel Liberskind’s Serpentine Pavillion

Pavillion could display copper not only through materiality but through form.

[Academic use only]

Copper creates visual link to clock tower of Town Hall, but deconstructs the typical form.

Copper crystal shape leads to folded net for the form of the pavillion.

Pavillion sits in South-west corner of Arcade site, attracting the public from the market and central station.

View from North east corner of Arcade site

Interior view of pavillion

Form allows physical interaction with the pavillion

3.0PRECEDENT STUDIES

3.1 Barking Central I

AHMM ArchitectsCompleted 2007

North elevation

South elevation

West elevation

East elevation

3.2 Ideas Store, Whitechapel

Adjaye AssociatesCompleted 2005

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Ground floor plan

Axonometric showing Ideas store form and context

3.3 Ideas Store Model

Model made in pairs with another member of the studio.

Painted entirely white, focus was on spatiality and entrance sequence, not on materials.

Structure of the hanging envelope created through I-beam running along the roof of the building.

Circulation core sits in centre of building providing link between all floors. It is the first thing encountered when entering the building.

Exposed structural soffits on ceiling. Alternate directionon each floor.

Hanging facade stops 3m from ground. Allowing market stalls to continue uninterrupted.

4.0OUTPOST

Michaelmas Term

4.1 OUTPOST BRIEF

4.2 SITE

LAWNSIncline of 4m over the lawns of the Town Hall

Site panoramic

MAIN ENTRANCEProcessional route for cars and pedestrians down middle of front lawns

BUFFERRailings along entire front of lawns

ALLOTMENTSSit hidden behind Town Hall and Magistrates Courts.

ENTRANCESApart from main central entrance avenue for cars, smaller entrances to the side

PORTAKABINSServe as temporary offices for council workers on site

Initial site responses

Initial responses to brief

CAFE at heart of building, encouraging interaction between all users

LOW LYING building, to maintain iconic views of Town Hall

INITIAL PLANNING centred around the cafe

BAY SYSTEM as possible method of planning the building

Different roofs for each bay, representing function underneath

Initial ideas for entrance into building

Elevation of different roofs of bays

Diagram of roofscape

ENTRANCE via sloping roof

Precedent:Oslo Opera House,Snohetta Architects

Example of use of the slope of the site, creating new spaces on top of the building that link the different levels, and are able to be walked on.

1:500 Initial massing models

Access routes across the site, how to connect roofscapes to one another

Visible slices of interior through roof folds

Central route across roofscape to Town Hall- keep direct route to Town Hall

4.1OUTPOST

Crit4.12.09

Plan considering green roofing vs hard landscaping on roof

Section

1:500 model of alternate roof folds

View from South-east corner of site

Ideas for indoor public cafe space

• Airy• Light• Glazed facade• Levels within building• Mezzanine

Facade of public space (north facing)• Glazed• Shows different levels• Abrupt end to slope

Interior view of public cafe area

Crit NotesFor whole studio:

• Demands a landscape response• • Reaction plane of ground that is needed- need to find the scope for the entire

landscape• • 3d imaginative view needed• • Horizontal landscape• • Swap between physical models and projector• • ‘Horror of the formality’- but everyone is adhering to this formality?• • Scale needs to be addressed for Town Hall site, with bolded moves needed• • Need to consider very carefully the relationship with the Town Hall, a civic

response• • Do we need to respect the Town Hall so much?• • Need to use scale plans and precedents (models and studies)• • Challenge the brief more• • Overall all schemes are lacking in imagination• • A third year student project so budget is NOT an issue- need to go wild.• • Whole of public space needs to be addressed- all of the lawns.

4.2OUTPOST

Post crit/ Christmas vacation

Folded form moves further across whole landscape?

Precedent:City of Culture, GarciaPeter Eisenman

Shows cutting into earth, using contours of land for design

Experimenting with differ-ent roof forms through 1:500 massing models

Zamet Sports CentreCroatia3LHD Archtiects

Long section

Aerial View

Investigating extrusions from the roof surface through 1:500 massing models

STUDY TRIPBELGIUM

08.01.10 to 11.01.10

Concertgebouw, Concert Building.Bruges,

Neutelings Riedijk Architects

• More impressive exterior than interior

• • Intersting concrete

knuckle where ceiling folds meet

• • Beautiful interior

concrete finish• • Views out across

medieval Bruges not taken advantage of

Menen Town HallNOA Architects

• Attached to existing Town Hall

• Integrates old masonary structure with new concrete structure

• Large central courtyard/ atrium

• Offices of domestic size• Counter system for one

stop shop• Large foyer with black

and white diamond tilings

Interseting relationship with ceiling and rooflights, rooflights almost seem as another skin on top of the building

Distinct material change from white plaster finish to dark wood walls and floors.

Strong interior theme

STUK art galleryNeutelings Riedijk Architecten

• Outdoor cinema• Interactive theatre

space• Large public courtyard• Dance studios• Large cafe• Sits on slope from road

down to courtyard

PLAN / SECTION

Theatre/ cinema coomplex working simultaneously

Looking down steps of outdoor cinema

Central courtyard

Large stand alone I-beam, very obvious exposed structure

Colour of structure contrasts with ceiling and floor

Rabot Youth CentreGentStephane Beel

Shared by 3 youth groups the building provides individual space for the groups which pops out of the ground.

This leads underground to the communal areas such as the large multi0functional hall.

Rabot Youth Centre (continued)

Also as a precedent for underground/ sunken buildings

4.3OUTPOST

Mid Year Review15.01.10

Project 1: Pavillion

My pavillion hoped to act as a marker for the Town Hall in the centre of Walthmstow. By using a copper cladding to imitate the iconic green clock tower of the Town Hall, I hoped to abstract the form of the pavillion enough to encourage a new way of considering the Town Hall. The folded form is derived from the octahedral copper crystal, and the unusual shape aims to attract locals and tourists alike, to regain the public interest in the council.

Project 2: Outpost

Through research of green public space and meeting many of the locals of Walthamstow I decided to aim to transform the space occupied by the lawns in front of the Town Hall, to create a new public realm that is inviting and interesting for the public and council workers alike. The lawns have great potential as a space for a catalytic building, changing the environment of the Town Hall site, as it sits directly off the main Forest road. The current lawns distance the Town Hall from the public of Walthamstow making it a formal and unapproachable building. My design aims to integrate into the current landscape. By proposing a large low building I hope to maintain a strong view of the Town Hall from Forest Road. I aim to use the existing angle of the site to its advantage, creating a sloping roofscape that encourages pedestrian access to a new public space/park and a route across from the main road to the Town Hall. By placing light wells and cuts into this sloping plane natural light can enter the deep building and these will articulate the pedestrian roofscape. The building itself will house the much-needed canteen, also acting as a public café, to encourage interaction between public and council. Key areas such as the offices, the main hall and the smaller hall, and the meeting rooms will all stem off this vibrant central cafe/circulation space. The design aims to be an exciting intervention that doesn’t oppose the existing Town Hall, but instead creates a ripple in the front lawns that is necessary to revitalise the site as an accessible and lively place to visit or work.

IONE BRADDICKSTUDIO 1TOWN HALL OUTPOST

Mid-year review presentation sheet for the examiners

Post Belgium notes

Considering route across to Town Hall and extrusions of buildings

Simplified plan to allow in-tersting roof shap above

Axonometric showing filling of earth and extrusion of buildings out of landscape

View from South-east corner of site

4.4OUTPOST

Lent Term

Considering different placing of building across site and impact on surroundings

Rethink back to orginal key ideas

Abstracted/ figurative sketches for these ideas and ways to consider them dif-ferently

Meeting rooms provided with views out across the landscape

Somerset House

• As a public space• Different uses• Variety of activities

Cafe in summer

Ice rink in Winter

Sketches/ massing model showing extrusions or pavilions rising out of ground

Creation of new Town Hall square

Sketched landscape plan

Sketched landscape + building plan

Sketch of landscape and North-facing openings

Skecth section of entrance and cafe

Sketch view of outdoor cinema in connection to cafe space

Landscape strategy

1:1250 Folded landscape model made of trace and card

Sketch of sculpture garden

Sketch of gallery interior

Sketch of outdoor cinema

[Academic use only]

New landscape form

[Academic use only]

View from top of outdoor cinema steps

View from entrance off Forest Road

1:500 Model of folded landscape

OFFICE DESIGN

Consideration of Offices

Folded roof impacting on the rooms below-View of Main Hall

ROOFLIGHTS

View of bar with rooflight incorporated into the folds

Brick HouseCaruso St John

Precedent of folded roof plane and rooflights

Use of compression as you go deeper into the buidling

Rooflights highlighting the depth of the roof above

Detail of saw tooth north light

Light/ painted walls to re-flect the north light into the rest of the room

Rooflight iterations in sketches

• As lightwells• As lanterns• On a human scale• Relating to the folded

landscape• Create interesting cuts

in ceiling below

Model investigating roof-lights formed out of formal folds

Model investigating rooflights formed out of formal extrusions

Model investigating rooflights formed out of formal folds and movement of users due to changing surface/ planting

4.5OUTPOST

Crit16.02.10

1:500 Sketched plan

Use of landscape

Landscape plan

Night view from Town Hall

View looking North-east suggesting different strips of planting

Interior view:Entrance foyer

Interior view:Bar mezzanine level

Interior view:Cafe space

Interior view:Main Hall

Crit Notes

4.6OUTPOST

1:50 Model

Planning the 1:50 model

Testing roof folds/ slopes on the landscape

Testing roof folds/ slopes on the interior

Different types of rooflights in main hall

Different types of rooflights in cafe

STRUCTURES SUPERVISION

Felix Candela

Thick columns seen as an extension/ part of the ceil-ing/ roof

Looking at different methods of using columns in a large open space

Considering columns as extension of heavy roof

Considering columns affect-ing the Hall space

4.7OUTPOST

Crit12.03.10

View of cafe From 1:50 model shot

View of Main HallFrom 1:50 model shot

Elevation looking North towards the Town Hall

Opposite page: Plans of the central building

Universitätsspital,BaselHerzog & de Meuron

Precedent for rooflights/ basement lighting with concrete forms

Crit notes

4.8OUTPOST

Post crit/ Easter Vacation

CAR PARKING

Shift the car park from within the site into my building programme

• Pedestrianise the site• How to absorb the car park?• How many spaces to offer?

Car parking/ vehicle access

Pedestrianised area

Free up space to North of site

• Possible space for building development

• Extension of the allotments• Extended playing fields• New sports pavillion

New free space

New site

Car parking option 1:Underground linear

Car parking option 2:3 separate car parking areas

Car parking option 3:2 flanking car parks

Car parking option 4:Car parks between buildings

Sketch section displaying car park option 1 in relation to other rooms, landscape, and existing road height

Diagram showing buildings plan with linear car park

Car park leading onto the buildings on lowest level

Office building revealing itself and level change as a North facing courtyard

LANDSCAPE AS SERIES OF LEVELS

Landscape is created more as terraces of hard landscap-ing with soft landscaping in between

Plan showing landscaping strategy with levels and spot heights

Meydan Centre, DubaiForeign Office Archtiects

How to mediate between levels?Steps/ slopes

Sketch view of levels and ‘ha-ha’ wall of the central terrace

4.9OUTPOST

Easter Term

STRUCTURES SUPERVISION

With terraced scheme the ceiling no long folds in conjunction with sloping lawns, so a flat concrete roof needs to be supported instead,

Emphasize being underground by exposed structure.Very clear that the heavy earth roof needs support and structure.

Weight and depth of roof is highlighted by the structure

Possible use of portal frame in cafe space, as a exposed structural system.

Depth of beam required to span large length cuts off 1m of head space from mezza-nine floor

Possible portal frame spanning in perpendicular direction.

But perpendicular beams detract from the clear panorama of the Town Hall from within the cafe space.

Portal frame types and infor-mation

Concrete slabs to span the large areas between struc-tural grid.

Concrete slab construction

ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION

WALTHAMSTOW TOWN HALL SITEMicroclimate sketch

Microclimate of the site

Heavy rooftop planting• Drainage system• Soil depth• Waterproofing

Construction axonometric through green roof

LANDSCAPE STRATEGY

Opposite page:Axo showing layering of stretgy- built environment, landscape, pathways, series of pavilions.

Landscape ebcomes divided up by routes/ pathways

Pathway layout decided by users desire lines and access routes.

Both public users and office workers taken into account.

Pathway Strategy

Model testing pathway routes

Sketch placing pavilions on pathways

Making the 1-500 landscape model

1:500 Landscape Model

Skecth detail of how pathway can meet landscape, to create informal immediate meeting.

Sketch plan showing path-ways dividing the landscape use and planting

The High Line,New YorkDiller Scofido & Renfro Architects

Precedent showing how pathways can be integrated into landscape to create less formal, more intermediary feel to routes.

Overall landscape strategy sketch

Planting Strategy

Wild planting near the road, moving to more ordered towards the Town Hall to create space that can be mroe easily used for human activity

Experience of the civic archi-tecture of the Town Hall is altered by the planting that it is view over.

More colour, variety, biodi-versity brought to the site.

Wild flowers and grasses altering scenes and paintings

View showing wild planting looking towards the Town Hall from outside the office building and pavilion

PAVILIONS

Sketch detail of how to connect pavilion into ground

Pavilions look alien in comparison to the landscape

Bold materiality of pavilions seen throughout the buidling

Chrome columns, both exposed structure and decorative. Not too industrial.

H columns or cruciform?

SCULPTURE GARDEN AND STUDIOS

Sculture garden- not formal but more interactive

Outdoor walkway along the front of the glazed studios

The North Wall Theatre.Haworth Tomkins

Precedent for studios which open out into courtyard.

Rentable studios lead straight out onto sculpture garden and memorial

4.10OUTPOST

Final Crit11.05.10

Plan taken at ground level of Town Hall

Plans showing ground cut as well as building cut. All measurements taken from Town Hall ground level

walthamstow town hall extension: design diary (2010)

green spaces

epping forest

parks gardens

borough scale

medium parks

post crit easter vacation4

low spaces

easter term4

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