Andrew Lum - Curriculum Vitae

Andrew James Lum: Curriculum Vitaeemail: [email protected]: 07800 854 834

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Cover Image: CITYpark Markets | Panspectric BradfordNW/SE section through my thesis project.

Andrew James Lum: Curriculum Vitae

Contact Details:Apartment 27 Delta Point76 Blackfriars RoadSalfordGreater ManchesterM3 7EL

email: [email protected]: 07800 854 834

Current Occupation: Master of Architecture graduate from the Manchester School of Architecture, seeking employment as a Part II Assistant Architect.

Academic History: 2007- 2013: The University of Manchester, The Manchester School of Architecture. 2002-2007: St. Peter’s School, York.I also attended school in Canada, Pakistan and Indonesia.

Examination Results: Degree Level (2013)Master of Architecture, MeritDegree Level (2010) BA(Hons) Architecture Advanced Level (2007) A’s : Economics, Fine Art (2)B’s : Mathematics (1) GCSE’s (2005)A*’s : Fine Art (1) A’s : Double Award Science, Mathematics, German, French, English Language, English Literature, Religious Studies (8) B’s : History (1)

Computer Skills:AutoCadRhinocerosGrasshopper Generative ModellingVRay Rendering EngineAdobe Photoshop, InDesign and IllustratorGoogle Sketch UpAutodesk Revit (Basic)

Work Experience: Summer 2008: On the Beach Holidays, Manchester, Operations Team: I dealt with flight and accommodation changes to customers’ holidays, informing them of changes that had been made to their bookings and helping them chose the next best alternative. Bookings for the summer of 2008 were subject to major disruption and this resulted in me having to deal with many unsatisfied customers. The work was very challenging and helped to develop my communication skills as well as my ability to stay calm and act professionally under pressure.

Summer 2009: Christies Bistro, Manchester, Service Staff: Primarily I worked serving customers but was also involved in preparing food and drinks and operating the till. Christies was a busy environment that helped me improve my customer service and organizational skills.

September 2009 – October 2010: Campus Group, Student Brand Manager: Working on behalf of O2 Communications, Microsoft, Accenture, and MetroLink I arranged numerous events and promotional campaigns to increase awareness of new services targeted at students. This role involved a great deal of contact with members of the public and was results driven which required determination and good time management to work successfully around my lectures and extracurricular activities

November 2010 – September 2011, May 2012: Arcus Consulting LLP, Manchester, Assistant Architect: Working directly under the lead architect within a small design team, I was involved in a wide range of tasks from feasibility studies through to detail design packages and costing. The majority of my work was focused within the public housing sector but also included a sports facility, an art school for disabled children and master-planning schemes. I was also involved in charitable work for the company, teaching Sketch Up at the Manchester charity, The Mustard Tree. My time at Arcus allowed my skills as an architect to develop greatly before returning to complete the Master of Architecture course at the Manchester School of Architecture.

August 2012: Hack The City - Interstitial Insertions: Urban Mapping & Evolutionary Morphologies.I participated in the international Hack The City events programme in collaboration with the Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. My role was that of a facilitator, offering a range of skills in design, graphics and virtual modelling, helping to contextualise the ideas conceived during the event. Working with experts and academics in the fields of urban theory, sustainable architecture, ecological design and critical urban geography, the event sought to develop innovative critical propositions and subsequent designs in order to enhance and transform the function and resilience of the city at a number of scales. The event was structured over a five day period, the output of which is due to be published at a later date.

August 2012: Freelance Visualisations:Through contacts made during my time at Arcus I was offered the opportunity to produce freelance visualisations for a large housing renovation project conducted by the Riverside Housing Trust.

September 2012 - May 2013: Manchester School of Architecture,Graduate Teaching Assistant:Within a team consisting of eight of my peers we were responsible for coordinating and delivering a weekly lecture and drop-in help facility aimed at providing information technology assistance across a broad range of computational software essential to architecture students. This service was the core software education resource available to students at the university and as such provided a vital resource for many architecture undergraduates. The role required me to organize my personal studies around preparations for each session as well as providing approachable, patient support.

Leadership and Team Work:Whilst studying for my BA(Hons) Architecture, I was the Social Secretary for the University of Manchester’s Rugby League Football Club. My responsibilities within the leadership team included the organization of functions for club members and events involving other university societies. My role also dealt with recruitment of new members and fund raising events to ensure the continuing success of the club. These duties required a great amount of commitment and organization skill.

Sports, Hobbies and Interests:I played first team rugby for the University of Manchester Rugby League Football Club as well as being a keen member of the University’s ski and snowboard club.I enjoy sailing (holding several qualifications), playing tennis and football. I am interested in music and play the violin, piano and bass guitar.In conjunction with my passion for Architecture I also enjoy art and design.

Charitable Work:During the summer of 2005 I worked on a malaria eradication project in Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. As part of a team I helped to create a facility where members of the local community were trained to spray houses against mosquitoes. During my time on this project I visited a clinic and learnt the process of collecting and processing blood samples from local children to check for the presence of malaria. This project was extremely rewarding and is aimed at the complete eradication of malaria from the island of Bioko.

During my school life I trained as a Peer Mentor within my Boarding House. I helped fellow boarding students with their problems and concerns on a day-to-day basis. This opened my eyes to the range of issues that students, like myself, could face whilst living away from home.

Architectural Interests:During my studies on the Master of Architecture course I selected to work within the [Re_Map] atelier, a studio unit concerned with interrogation of latent data in order to develop strategies for the contemporary urban landscape. My final year project aimed to explore post-capitalist urbanism and the effects experienced by a city when investments run out. The context for the project was the stalled Westfield site in Bradford’s city centre and my work responded to the hypothetical trajectory of the increasing private control over publicly accessible space. This research culminated in the design of a masterplan for Bradford city centre that would provide an urban park and market place for the general public that serves as a facade for a prototype government urban listening station, whilst analyzing the aesthetic and formal tensions that exist between such contrasting programs.

Future Aspirations:Having completed my BA(Hons) Architecture, a successful 9 months in practice with Arcus Consulting LLP, and a Masters in Architecture, I am now driven to gain further experience in the profession, across a greater variety of sectors, prior to my Part 3 examinations in architecture.

Referees:

Dr. Nick Dunn - [email protected] Lecturer and [Re_Map] Atelier LeaderManchester School of Architecture0161 247 6967

Alison Haigh - [email protected] Architect, Arcus Consulting LLP0161 905 3222

BA(Hons) ArchitectureThird Year Exhibition Synoptic:

This image was part of a triptych of boards used in the end of year exhibition, 2010, to summarise my final project of the BA(Hons) course. The brief required us to propose a building hosting a hybrid program in a highly constrained, vacant plot adjacent to Manchester Oxford Road train station. My response proposed a photography gallery and studio which would celebrate the city of Manchester whilst providing facilities for the general public to be educated and experiment with photography.

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Part I Assistant ArchitectArcus Consulting LLP:

Following on from the BA(Hons) course I was eager to gain a technically and legislatively strong year out in order to broaden the range of skills I had acquired at university. Working within a small team at Arcus, directly under the lead architect, I was immediately handed a great deal of responsibility requiring me to quickly gain proficiency in a broad range of tasks above and beyond those introduced at university level.

The majority of projects I worked on were residential, within both the private and social housing sector. Heavily participating at every RIBA work stage I was quickly trusted with leading several client meetings and completed both planning and building control submissions with no additional direction.

Outside of the housing sector I also worked on a sports centre in Droylsden, Manchester, as well as a feasibility study for an art facility for Mencap Pengwern College, Wales. Andrew James Lum: Curriculum Vitae

Merlin Road Terrace, Salfordfor City West Housing Trust

Droylsden Sports Centre Entrance (above)Axonometric (below)Ground Floor Plan (left)

Master of ArchitectureYear One, Studio Project 1.0:(opposite, left side)

Our task was to investigate the architectural ramifications of ‘wandering’ in the city and landscape. We were interested not only in the execution of these experiments but also their conception, their record and most specifically their translation into form that has geo-spatial context. Drawing upon research conducted through local blogs, resident interviews, police statistics and primary data our group proposed a variable route finder, allowing the town of Tunstall, Stoke, to be navigated based on crime statistics and the frequency of crime prevention devices. By scanning a QR barcode via a smart device our collated data sets were accessible through a graphic user interface that provided detailed information on the safest routes through Tunstall.

Master of ArchitectureYear One, Studio Project 2.0:(opposite, right side)

Within the context of Croydon we were tasked to explore the interstitial and residual spaces created as a result of the mainline railway which dissects the borough. The thematic foci of the studies were temporality, permanence, adaptability, mutability and materiality with my particular response addressing issues ownership and appropriation. The insertion of a series of flexible pavilion units were proposed as an anchor of identity for the citizens of Croydon, providing them with information on developments whilst their borough emerges through a complicated period of unrest and regeneration.

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Project 1.0: Variable Route Finder, Tunstall.QR scanner and graphic user interface

Project 2.0: Adaptable pavilion, Croydon.

Master of ArchitectureYear One, Studio Project 3.0:

Following on from the initial explorations into the borough of Croydon I began to explore the macro-programming that infrastructure facilitates. The output of the brief was to propose a piece of living and programmed infrastructure, providing connective tissue between the existing train station and the city. This project provided a vehicle for experimentation into parametric design, which culminated in the proposition of an area of raised public space the form of which was driven explicitly by peak circulation flows experienced around East Croydon Station. Numerous models were then used as a means to experiment with prototyping and assembly methods.

Selected Work 04

Evolution diagrams of the parametrically generated form.


3D printed model exploring possible structural bay configuration.

Master of ArchitectureYear Two, Thesis Project:

Emerging from a study into the ownership and use of public space within the context of Bradford, my thesis project focused around providing a masterplan for the centre of the city, filling the void left by the stalled Westfield project. My proposition is designed to stitch the city back together whilst providing an extension of the CITYpark scheme that the council have initiated, incorporated with both internal and external public markets. In contrast to these inclusive, explicit spaces the project also explores architectures of control, providing a subterranean data collection and analysis facility based around research on similar prototype facilities in operation overseas.

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First Floor Cafe Plan - The proposed internal market space and its ancillary program were designed to be submerged into their surrounding context, the roof of the scheme becoming an integral part of the circulation strategy for the urban park masterplan. The external organization of public space was informed by the layout and typology of goods on sale in the corresponding internal spaces, resulting in a shift from a more orthogonal, formal park space on one side of the masterplan, towards a much more organic, free space on the other, reflecting the internal retail strategy of the building.

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NW/SE Section - The vast contrast in spatial characteristics of the two core programs - market space and data centre, presented a myriad of aesthetic and formal tensions that were explored through various environmental and material strategies. The partial submersion of the building also introduced opportunities to investigate and develop interesting circulation routes, one of which is a lengthy external ramp that dissects the market hall in two.

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Internal View, Formal Market Aisles - The internal material strategy was chosen to reflect the goods on sale in each section of the hall. Staple household goods, as shown, are surrounded with a clinical, sharp finish whilst the more organic produce is accompanied by a natural, robust material palette. Large lattice steel columns are employed as the primary structure, providing both large, clear spans and a natural day lighting strategy offering visual stimulation.

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3D Detail Study - a highly detailed digital model allowed me to explore the materiality and assembly of my proposition, exploring structural strategies as well as issues of drainage, insulation, day lighting and user circulation.

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Detail A:a. Corten Flashing

c. Steel Box Section Roof Edge, 400x150mmd. Concealed Drainage Channele. Balustradef. Steel Balustrade Frameg. Concrete Footing

k. Rigid Insulation, 100mml. Waterproof membranen. Composite Steel Decking, 225mm deepo. Space Frame, 150mm diameter elements

BRACC_Building Realisation and Climate Change3D Detail Facade Study

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