Muiris FitzGerald Portfolio

Selected Works

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Date of Birth

Nationality

Phone Number

Email

Address

Skills - Autocad - Vectorworks - Revit - SketchUp - Archicad

University College Dublin 2016 – 2019

BSc Architectural Science Second Class Honours

Kingston University 2020 -2022

Masters of Architecture Second Class Honours

Work Experience

Morris + Company

March 2024 - Present

Architectural Assistant Part 2

DSDHA Architects

November 2022 - Present

Architectural Assistant Part 2

February - August 2022

On-SIte Draftsman and Architectural Assistant

Heneghan Peng Architects

June 2019 - August 2020

Architectural Assistant Part 1

- 4th of January 1998 - Irish - 44 7591 655990

- fitzgeraldmuiris@gmail.com - 40B Settles Street, London, E1 1JP

- Rhino - Photoshop - InDesign - Illustrator - Lightroom - Modelmaking - Casting - Enscape - V Ray

Referees

Associate - Sanket Ghatalia

DSDHA Architects, 357 Kennington Lane London SE11 5QY

Telephone: +44 7927 178859

Tutor - Simon Henley Henley Halebrown, 21 Perseverance Works, 38 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DD, Email: simon@hhbr.co.uk

Director - Róisín Heneghan Heneghan Peng Architects, Lord Edward St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Telephone: +353 1 633 9000

Senior Architect - Simon Walker Walker Architects, 19A Baggot Street Upper, Dublin 4

Telephone: +353 1 516 3067

Table Of Contents

Precedent Study - Allmahuvenant University Project, Kingston University, Year 5, Semester 1

Itasca Winery University Project, Kingston University, Year 4, Semester 2

Lake District Craft School University Project, Kingston University, Year 5, Semester 2

Personal Making Projects completed in my own time for my own enjoyment

197 Park Road House Extension

One Pulse Memorial Professional Competition, Heneghan Peng Architects

National Railway Museum Professional Competition, Heneghan Peng Architects

Holden House, Oxford Street Stage 2,

DSDHA Architects for Derwent London

Truman Brewery Stage 2,

Morris + Company Architects for Truman Brewery

Precedent Study - Allmahuvenant

Masters Year 2, Semester 1, Kingston University, Unit II: Sensible

Project Approach

During this precedent study, I studied the relationship that the buildings of the zinc mine museum had with the landscape. The interaction of every building with the ground condition and the journey through the landscape between each building was key to my understanding of this project. Through the process of modelmaking, I was able to explore this relationship at various scales. At 1:1500 how each building sat within the ravine and the relationship between buildings. At 1.25 to see how the museum was built up from the face of the ravine and onto a timber frame structure to support the enclosure above. This lead me to explore how each building sat on the topography and the experience of moving through each stage of the landscape as a separate section of topography. This culminated in a topographical diorama that layered sections of the landscape on top of each other and allowed the user to look through the sections and see the depth of the landscape as a whole.

Itasca Winery

Masters Year 1, Semester 2, Kingston University, Unit VI: Tradition

Project Brief

“We will design a group of buildings of varying classical natures in a landscape, from the utilitarian to the decorous and hospitable, which support traditional agricultural production: a winery in rolling landscape not far from Kingston.”

Project Proposal

The thesis for this project was to translate the composition and proportions of the Corinthian order while stripping back the ornamentation and instead expressing the language with buttressing and arches of heavy brick. This aims to give the feeling of weight and monumentality of older classical structures with contemporary materials and building methods and express the light and space of the building instead of its ornamentation.

Masters Year 2, Semester 2, Kingston University, Unit II: Sensible Lake District Craft School

Planometric

Project Approach

A craft school in Coniston in the lake district. For this project, a series of buildings was brought together to corral the landscape. When exploring the site in laying out the project it was situated in a dell framed between trees and an escarpment of rocks. This location defined an otherwise open landscape and allowed the buildings to act as perimeter walls to the corral. The internal space of the buildings becomes the interstitial space with the courtyard acting as the internal lining and the walls the corral. The buildings act as both space and wall. The courtyard acts as the main space of the project and all movement between buildings is through the walkways of the internal lining.

Personal Making

Projects completed in my own time for my own enjoyment

House Extension

Project Involvement

As part of this project my involvement was primarily in speccing the interior of the house and completing the design of unfinished areas such as the basement and garden. Te client had very particular requests to be developed such as a kitchen herb tray as shown on the right of the page. This is a lowerable herb tray that can be hidden away ito the top of the kitchen units when not in use and lowered when needed.

197 Park Road Herb Tray Section 1:20

One Pulse Memorial

Professional Competition, Heneghan Peng Architects

Project Brief

To commemorate the 49 victims of the Pulse Shooting In Orlando Florida, A series of shortlisted teams were asked to design a memorial, museum and survivors walk to honour the victims.

“The nightclub remains. Inside is silence. Together, we engage with this silence to realize our strength. It is through collectively facing this silence that the energy of PULSE emerges. The memorial is cast around the perimeter of this silence, delicately poised on the threshold that links what is outside to what happened within. The memorial’s form shelters visitors in an intimate embrace, revealing only a single wall of the nightclub.”

- Heneghan Peng Project Description

Project Involvement

As part of this project I was primarily involved in mapping the surrounding area and developing physical models for the client. I was also present and able to pitch ideas at design team meetings and I learned a great deal from working on this project particularly about the competition process and the rapid iterative design process required when working on competition teams.

National Railway Museum, York

Professional Competition, Heneghan Peng Architects

Project Description

“From the West, the existing railway buildings connect to its Engineering past where their locations are aligned to the radii of the railway tracks as they enter each individual building. But from the East, these same buildings seem disconnected without an organisational logic. Now that the railyards are decommissioned, what was front of house, its West face, has moved to its East face, the face of the National Railway Museum. Our proposal, from the East, through a series of carefully placed radii tangent to the existing buildings, joins these independent halls together with the Bullnose building into a singular network connected to its historic past and unique to this precise place and local. Creating a proposal that connects and creates a unique roofline seen from all directions.” - Heneghan Peng Project Description

Project Involvement

As part of this project I was Involved in developing 3D models of the site and creating diagrams with these models for presentation boards. Working on this project I was able to see how unique forms could be created by drawing on urban context and how a single building could be the centrepiece and beginning of a masterplan.

Presentation Diagrams

Stage 2, DSDHA Architects for Derwent London Holden House, Oxford Street

Project Description

The project involves the retention of the existing Charles Holden facade on this prominent location on Oxford Street which dates from 1910. The premises ofrom 66-68 Oxford street will then be demolished and a new facade built in its place with an extension being added on the 6-7 floor above the holden house building.

Project Involvement

As part of this project I was primarily involved in the facade design. Creating images and visuals and consulting with the client and planners to create a facade that was within there parameters. This process was strained as the planning had to be put through as a NMA of a previous scheme done by by hopkins architects while also fufilling the clients aspirations for the project.

Internal Views

Scheme development through Axo

Project Description

The project aims to develop the hisotoric Truman Brewery premises on Bricklane by developing unused sights and by renovating currently derelict buildings.

Project Involvement

As part of this project I was primarily involved in the design of interior spaces and the creation of visuals to represent these spaces. I also worked on developing conceptual models that showed the simplified moves of the scheme.

Reception View Block A Views on Approach

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