Alexander.Baldwin.Cole.Designs

Architect - Designer - Maker

My name is Alexander Baldwin-Cole, I’m a Chartered Architect and a growing designer and maker based in Cornwall / Bristol. I’ve studied Architecture over the past years, achieving my Part III at UWE in Bristol, my MArch from Newcastle University and BHons from Kent University in Canterbury. This site is all about the work I've created, the experiences I've undertaken and anything else I find that interests me along the way.

If you’d like to get in contact about some work, please feel free to get in touch I’m always looking for new challenges, whatever form they may take.

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Modular Final Presentation

Its taken me a while to upload this as I took some time off working over Christmas as you should do. With the new year comes the ever increasing urgency to get that Part I Placement organised, so its time to get updating again. 


This is the Final presentation I gave for my critique for this years first design module MODULAR. We Initially had to work within a Master-plan group to create a scheme for an area of used land in Canterbury, which would house a new student area. The link to the presentation we gave and my Intercrit Presentation can be found below. The brief was based around the topic of Modular. I chose to develop the Education Building which possessed a key element of "Flexibility", in order to allow multiple users to easily adapt the internal spaces. I decided to go down the route of a more component based interpretation of the idea of Modular construction. This was due to  thinking that a Volumetric (room by room) approach would not work with the building and plot I was given. I also since visiting the Richard Rogers Inside Out exhibition over the summer finally clocked that I've got a great interest in understanding how structures stand up. Due to this I was interested in designing an external structural envelope which would allow the interior spaces to be as free as possible from load bearing elements. 

That's all for now I hope you Enjoy.

Links for related Developement below

Masterplan Crit Prsentation

On the 1/11/2013 I gave a presentation, which was the concluding aspect of part I of our group work for Modular (this terms design module). He have been working on this scheme for some time, it has been hard going as group work often is. It started out with a day long Charette (as I mention on a previous post). Then we had a few weeks to finalise the design, taking into account the feedback from the Charette viewers (which weren't great). After the Charette we had to quite drastically rethink our scheme, as although there were aspects that they did like, there were a few which they really didn't. The initial idea of a 1st floor boardwalk spread over the site thinking all the buildings together with a pedestrianized  area was seen as an excessive design feature. So with our tutor we rethought the scheme. Below is the final scheme we arrived on. 

BackGround Image By Alexander Baldwin-Cole