DANIEL McBRIDE

CV & PORTFOLIO

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Daniel McBride 31/08/1993 dannymcbride193@gmail.com 07595 338 964 20 Bear Hill, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7JX

Woodrush High School - September ‘04 - July ’09Shawhurst Lane, Wythall, Birmingham, B47 5JW. 10 GCSEs including Maths, English and Science at grade A

King Edward VI Grammar School - September ‘09 - July ‘11Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6HB.

A-levels: Biology - A, Art - B, Physics - C, Chemistry (AS) - C

University of Kent - September ‘11 - June 14The Registry, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NZ

BA(Hons) Architecture - Upper Second Class Honours (2:1)

RBH (Advertising Agency)Diddington Farm, Diddington Lane, Meriden, West Midlands, CV7 7HQ.

Work experience - July ‘10 (1 week)

Taylor Wells Design (Architects)

Work experience - July ‘11 (2 weeks)

Seymour Harris Architecture

26 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3DP. Internship, July-August ‘13 (1 month)

BDP - August ‘14 - August ‘15 (13 months)158 Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2HB.

Part I Placement

ADAPT + EXTENDThe brief for this project was to design an extension to an existing university library - the Templeman Library at the University of Kent. The aim was to respond to the needs of a modern library by adapt-ing and extending the existing. My project focused on the concept of parasitism and the relationship between the new addition and the existing library. The facade was informed by the undulating forms of the lamellae in parasitic mushrooms, its organic shapes are intended to soften the rigid geometries of the existing 1960s Brutalist library whilst retaining its vertical rhythm.

Exterior Perspective Masterplan

The image below is a render of an interior cafe space in the extension that I designed for this project.

The ‘fins’ on the facade, formed from glued layers of timber, are used both aesthetically and as louvres for solar shading.

Cafe Interior Perspective

Facade Model

The image below shows a perspective view of all three levels of the extension. My design tries to address the lack of flexibility that was created by the older struc-ture by creating more open, dynamic spaces. This is a reflection of the changes in the way people learn today compared with 50 years ago - social spaces and group working are equally important as private study in the organisation of this building.

Lobby Perspective

MODULAR - MASTERPLANNINGThe brief for this module was to, as a group, create a masterplan for a number of buildings on a restricted and historical site in the centre of Canterbury. Then, individually, we selected one of the buildings from the masterplan to design.

This project involved creating a set of urban spaces which reflected the Medieval quality of Canterbury’s urban fabric. The brief required a number of buildings to be fitted into the site; student accommo-dation, a boarding house, a primary school, and residential housing.

Masterplan

Concept ‘Urban Square’

MODULAR - STUDENT FLATSThis project coincided with the beginning of my disseration on Archi-gram, so the concepts and graphics that I used in this project were influenced by the montage (previous page) and ‘cartoon’ graphics that I had been reading in the Archigram magazines.

Of the buildings in my masterplan, I selected student flats to design in more detail. As the title of the module was Modular, my project incor-porated prefabricated units, which could be assembled off site and then ‘clipped on’ to to create each individual study bedroom.

Student Kitchen / Study

Construction Sequence Axonometric

Ground Floor Plan

Street Elevation

Development Sketches

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Concert Hall and Main Plaza

URBANThe brief for this module was to create a new set of buildings for a school of music and fine arts in a his-toric area of Rochester, situated between Rochester Cathedral and the castle.

My project aimed to find an architectural language that would respond sensitively to the rich and diverse vernacular architecture found in Roches-ter, whilst also creating a new cathedral close with public and private spaces.

Site Masterplan

I began by investigating the existing architectural language that was used in the nearby buildings, I sketched openings, windowns, doors and ornanentation.

I had been reading Learning from Las Vegas at the time, and became interested in ways of creating an architectural response that fitted with rich and ornate buildings in the local area, so it was important to understand the context of the building.

Development of concert hall building

At the centre of the masterplan, directly opposite the cathedral, is the most prominent building - the concert hall. With this building I wanted to respond to the powerful facade of Rochester Cathedral, so the building had to respond with a facade equally communicative but updated for the digital age with an LED media facade which broadcasts what is happening inside the venue to passersby.

Long Site Section

The elevations of the numerous buildings which form this school incorporate textured, patterned, and extruded brick. The building forms echo the battlements of the cas-tle at the rear of the site. The aim was to create a sensitive response borrowing from the historic area, whilst avoiding a simple pastiche of the surrounding buildings.

The New Cathedral Close

ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLINGThe aim of this module was to produce visualisations of a space that I had designed in a previous project using 3DS Ma x and Photoshop. This involved modelling the room in 3DS Max, rendering the scene, and finally adjusting the image in Photoshop.

Daytime render

Night render

3D construction detail

ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLINGThe aim of this module was to produce visualisations of a space that I had designed in a previous project using 3DS Ma x and Photoshop. This involved modelling the room in 3DS Max, rendering the scene, and finally adjusting the image in Photoshop.

Daytime render

Night render

3D construction detail

ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLINGThe aim of this module was to produce visualisations of a space that I had designed in a previous project using 3DS Ma x and Photoshop. This involved modelling the room in 3DS Max, rendering the scene, and finally adjusting the image in Photoshop.

Daytime render

Night render

3D construction detail

ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLINGThe aim of this module was to produce visualisations of a space that I had designed in a previous project. I used 3DS max to model the room and render the scene, and finally Photoshop to adjust the image.

DISSERTATION

BRIGHTON NEW HOMES COMPETITIONThis project was an RIBA competetition that I entered along with a fellow part 1 at BDP. The competition brief was to provide new housing typologies for small infil sites around Brighton that were relatively low cost as well as lifetime homes compliant. Our proposal aimed to create a standard typol-ogy that could be sliced and subtracted from according to the needs of the particular site.

BDP - SELECTED PROJECTSLandsdowne House was a project we were given on a very tight time scale. It is a residential block in the centre of Bir-mingham which was completed in a small team (3 people in-cluding myself). All of the images below, except the bottom right rendered image were produced my me. The project is awaiting planning approval.

The below image was produced externally, not by me.

BDP - SELECTED PROJECTS

Finally, this was competition that we entered as an office for an international School in Prague. The cover image for the submission (below) was produced by me.

The below image was not produced by me.