1. Paul Cuthbert Portfolio 2012
Project Documentation
A history of learning and record of Portfolio
Introduction:
Like The Book of Kells which contained four Gospels of the scriptures
written in black, red, purple, and yellow ink preceded by prefaces,
summaries, and concordances of passages; these boxes contain the
projects undertaken since inception as a graduate of architecture. Each
box consists of a series of 4 books which contain a total of 340 leaves,
or folios. The folios part of larger sheets, called bi-folios; folded in half to
form two folios then nested inside of each other and sewn together to
form ‘gatherings’ called quires.
On occasion, a folio then is not part of the bifolios but is instead a single
sheet inserted within a ‘quire’. There are between four and twelve folios
(two to six bifolios) per ‘quire’; the folios are commonly, but not invariably,
bound in groups of 7 pages. Some folios are single sheets, as was
frequently the case with important books and their decorated pages from
history.
Project:
The books have an educational purpose; each represents a project
undertaken or one assisted with since graduation and covering varying
degrees of language, typology and scale. Where the Book of Kells would
have been left on the high altar of a church and taken off only for a
reading during service, each box may be taken here; each folio read,
intending that the reader return on occasion to learn and recall eventually
reciting from memory the pictures more than reading the text from the
book.
The design of the book then seems to take this purpose in mind; that is,
the book was produced with appearance taking precedence over
practicality. There are numerous uncorrected mistakes in the text. Lines
often completed in a blank space in the line above. The chapter headings
that were necessary to make the canon tables usable were not inserted
into the margins of the page. In general, nothing was done to disrupt the
look of the page: aesthetics being given a priority over utility.
Programme:
The folios have lines drawn for the text, sometimes on both sides, after
the bifolios are folded. Prick marks and guide lines may be seen on some
pages. Although the folios have an uneven thickness; some being close
to leather while others may be so thin as to be almost translucent and
printed on trace.
The text is then is accompanied by many full-page miniature pictures,
while smaller painted decorations appear throughout the text in
unprecedented quantities. The decorated engraving of each of the
whitewood boxes combines intricate detail with bold and energetic Celtic
composition. Their characteristics representing a kinetic energy of their
contours which are freely engraved by hand; spiral lines which in turn
generating their curvilinear motifs.

2. Paul Cuthbert Portfolio 2012
Autonomous Design Proposal
A Montessori Pre-School Playground
Wellington
New Zealand
2001
Project:
House for a Clann engages a mythology linked to reality, like a parallel
exploration during life in the day transformed and interpreted by dreams
at night. As a reality, it will become an “orphanage” for the young boy
within any boy or man, a place to be visited during the course of a day,
allowing the re-awakening of childhood dreams; as a mythology, it will be
an architectural construct wherein these boys can discover the youth
they may have missed, the dreams they could have dreamed, where they
can come to an understanding of the father figure who may no longer be
present to guide their lives.
The project will use architecture to explore the mythological aspirations of
an “orphaned” figure engaged in an archetypal adventure in search of his
father’s roots, the childhood memories. The site will be the Montessori
Pre-School of Otari, Wellington, the ‘boys’ enclosure, which lie alongside
Otari Reserve. Like a lost landscape waiting to be rediscovered, they
engage elements of the mythological as well as the real. As an
enclosure, they become places of nurturing, places of learning, now
rediscovered.
Programme:
The House for a Clann will be composed of gateways, towers, and
courtyards, representing passages of discovery, growth and
understanding. We all traverse these passages at different times in
different ways. One childhood lesson is of finding place. Another is facing
up to fear. The next lessons are balance, strength, aloneness,
togetherness and ultimately inner peace.
Each of the ‘towers’ contains a single dream; These are not towers to be
slept within, but towers within which lost dreams might be found, each
providing an architectural key to a passage into adulthood sought by the
orphan in each of us, regardless of our age. The dreams visited within
these “towers” become manifest as architectural elements within the
courtyards beyond, culminating in the ultimate lesson of adulthood, the
discovery of an infinite horizon beyond the boundaries of the presumptive
self

3. Paul Cuthbert Portfolio 2012
Autonomous Competition Entry
The Art Fund Pavilion
Tent London International Design Competition
London
2009
Project:
The Art Fund Pavilion Design Competition 2009 was an open,
international competition co-ordinated by Tent London and The Lightbox
art gallery in Woking, London.
The brief was to design a semi-permanent Summer Pavilion, to sit
alongside the Lightbox’s RIBA award-winning building by Marks Barfield
Architects.
The Pavilion had to be no more than 35 sqm, be constructed from ‘Facit’
prefabricated timber components and accommodate an exhibition space,
formal seminar space and an informal gathering/party space.
The response was to design a structure that, while carrying out the
function of the display of art, was in itself an architectural exhibit, playfully
generated through fundamental historical principles of architecture.
The aim was to provide The Lightbox with a semi-permanent summer
pavilion which would sit alongside their RIBA award-winning building by
Marks Barfield Architects.
The pavilion was first shown during the London Design Festival 2009 as
part of Tent London and then traveled home to The Lightbox, Woking's
new gallery and museum.
Programme:
Pavilion footprint: 35 square metres. Maximum height: 4 metres. Illustrate
your design as being used in the following 3 scenarios:
• Exhibition space with 8 x A1 size wall-mounted pieces, 6 x plinth-
based pieces (500 L x 500 W x 900 H mm) and 4 x floor-standing
pieces (1sqm each) allowing space for circulation.
• Formal presentation space for up to 30 persons seated.
• Informal gathering and party space.
The design had to be assembled in 72 hrs and disassembled in 24 hrs.
The pavilion was to be transported and stored therefore the design had
to include practical considerations for disassembly and reassembly i.e.
stackable components, modularity, longevity.

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Grimshaw Architects
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI)
Boldrewood Campus
Southampton University
2011
Project:
The Southampton Maritime Centre aims to create a world-leading hub for
innovation, business and education. It will unite the University of
Southampton and Lloyd’s Register in a unique collaboration focusing on
marine engineering and engineering sciences. The redeveloped campus
on the university's 4.3 hectare Boldrewood site is Grimshaw’s largest
European university project to date.
The campus is located at a key junction leading into the city. The new
buildings in Phase 1 will be the most prominent, seen when entering or
driving past the revitalised Boldrewood Campus. These buildings will set
a new quality benchmark for the redevelopment, designed to respect the
campus’ suburban parkland setting.
The construction of a Technology Centre for the Lloyd's Register Group
will follow together with an Engineering Building for the University, a
shared Maritime Institute between the two and soft landscaping
screening new car and cycle parking. Each of the buildings has been
designed to create simple orthogonal blocks with strong clean lines as a
foil to the adjacent trees and rolling lawns. They have been developed
with efficient layouts grouped to promote healthy interaction between
conference, training, library and collaborative spaces
Programme:
The design replaces the existing science block in the centre of the site.
Working closely with Land Use Consultants, mature landscape features
have been preserved whilst accommodating existing topographic levels.
The retention of existing vegetation and appropriate new planting will
enhance biodiversity on the site with new parking zones constructed
using permeable paving. This hard and soft landscaping will include a
sustainable urban drainage system within a high quality pedestrian
environment.

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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Exemplar Properties
Fitzroy Place
London
2012
Project:
A joint venture to create a new mixed-use community in the heart of
Fitzrovia London, 9 December 2010 Kaupthing Bank, Aviva and
Exemplar Properties entered into a development agreement to develop
the former Middlesex Hospital site in Fitzrovia, London.
The three-acre site will be transformed into an integrated sustainable
mixed-use community, centred on a new landscaped public realm
embracing the existing listed hospital chapel.
The sites master plan includes a mix of open market residential
apartments, affordable homes, retail, Grade A commercial space, and
amenity for local occupiers including a health centre and an education
facility.

6. Paul Cuthbert Portfolio 2012
AEDAS (collaborative venture AECOM)
Highway 407
Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension
Canada
2010
Project:
The Highway 407 Station provides a strategic interchange between
private car park-and-ride, subway, express guided bus transit way and
local bus services adjacent to Highway 407, reducing passenger
circulation distances. Sheppard West will be an important intermodal
station providing an interchange with the GO Transit regional rail service.
This station— located within Parc Downsview Park, slated to be the first
national urban park in the Greater Toronto Area— will be a gateway to
the park, designed as part of the undulating landscape.
Key concepts of the scheme include minimising passenger circulation
distances by anchoring the transit nodes around a central retail
concourse, providing column free spaces for simplified way- finding
providing direct sunlight deep into the station and subway platform
reducing the need for artificial light.
The station responds to the surrounding site by merging the boundaries
between internal and external spaces - introducing landscaping deep into
the building. This improves the environmental performance of the station,
minimising the need for mechanical ventilation and reducing operational
costs.
Through the introduction of native species within the car park and
building, the impact of development will be lessened, encouraging
biodiversity and increasing the sustainability of the development towards
achieving the Toronto Green Standard - LEED equivalent.
Programme:
Highway 407 Station is a key base in Toronto’s “Transit City 2050”
Master plan to reducing inner city congestion by providing a strategic
interchange between private car park and ride, subway, express guided
bus transit way and local bus services adjacent Highway 407. Key
concepts of the scheme include minimising passenger circulation
distances by anchoring the transit nodes around a central retail
concourse, providing column free spaces for simplified way-finding and
providing direct sunlight deep into the station and subway platform
reducing the need for artificial light.