Billy Gibson Architecture

Architectural Designer B(Arch) M(Arch)

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Born in Plymouth, bred in Plymouth, I am a Part Two Architectural Assistant at van Ellen + Sheryn Architects in Ashburton Devon This documentation of image and text shall keep record of work I have completed across my years studying to qualify. These posts follow my architectural education from Day 01 of Architecture School onwards, allowing me reflect upon + document my development and ultimately aspire to produce great architecture that is rational + pragmatic. Achievements through my education so far include ; First Class Degree - MA Architecture Welsh School Of Architecture, Cardiff University First Class Degree -  BA(Hons) Architecture Plymouth University RIBA Dissertation Presidents Medal Nomination Plymouth University Faculty of Arts & Humanities Dean’s Award Winner - Highest Achieving Year 2 Student from each course within the Arts Faculty Technology study trip to Innsbruck - 16 student selection from Plymouth University BA(Hons) Architecture Year 2 Best Design Work - Plymouth University BA(Arch) Year 2 Award Cultural Context Award for Best Written Work - Plymouth University BA(Arch) Year 2 Award Cultural Context Award for Best Written Work - Plymouth University BA(Arch) Year 1 Award

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We will install a crown of 130 meters in diameter and 2000 tons above the whole area of the Tacheles. Today is the day when the Berlin giant crown starts to become real - the attendees throw their visions for the future of the Tacheles into the flames to let them become real

Film - Unbreakable - speaker at rebellious artists cermemony

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The Tacheles Crown

Grey Card Study

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Memory Map Collages

1. Masterplan Development

2. Hilde Schramm Centre

3. Yiddish Theatre Academy

4. Palace of Tacheles

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1:50 Lightwell Cast

Maggie’s Farm was a biotope created amongst the ruins of the historic Tacheles arcade and within the bomb crater adjacent. Local people brought structured natural life back to empty spaces of the city. Through atmospheric architectural representation, the lightwell element within the academy houses is a memorial to the loss of this natural landscape that was demolished and excavated in preparation for the re-densification of the block. Within the deep plan, the lightwell offers a reflection back to the natural world, and the spectacle of light.

With inspiration from Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Chapel, the lightwells funnel natural light into the centre of the academy studio spaces. The shuttering shall use natural remains removed from empty sites in Berlin that are now being built upon again. After being burnt away, the surface quality left shall serve as a reminder to what has been living in the empty spaces of berlin during it’s process of restoration and re-design.

‘‘I think it is more about creating a feeling for the things that are absent than about creating a feeling of presence for things lost. So I try to create a feeling for things that are no longer here or for the lost context of things that are still here.”

Peter Zumthor

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Solomons Temple / Kunsthaus Arcade

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Palast Der Tacheles: The KunstHaus Arcade

This 1:5 column detail study returns to the overarching narrative and Walter Benjamin’s musings on the Angel of History. It interrogates the tension between the angel and the devil, where the progressive spirit is built upon a dark, ruinous perception of memory. This manifests in an incomplete connection,  fighting a way to suppress the darkness, whilst re-shaping one’s perspective on history to ‘complete the circle’, attaching a newly optimistic way of thinking to how one perceives and overcomes the events of history.  

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We took off in my fire truck from the club “Eimer”... with a group of people, with Leo’s friends. Andre was there too. And so we drove up with the fire truck... climbed onto the truck roof, smashed out the windows on the first floor and went in.

Tacheles founder Tatjana Besson recalling her first encounter

Unbreakable - The Tale of Art House Tacheles - Film

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Yiddish Cafe - Addressing / Barricading to the street

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Jacob Adler Yiddish Theatre Academy + Cafes

Card Model @ 1:200

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Yiddish Theatre Facade Panel

Card Study

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Lightwell Studies - Yiddish Theatre Academy

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Jacob Adler Yiddish Theatre Academy

Card Model Explorations

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Hilde Schramm Centre

1:200 Grey Card Model

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Umayyad Palace / The Monumental Gateway, Amman, Jordan

Resurrected dome and palace following disastrous Galilee earthquake in 749AD 

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Treasury of Atrius / Tomb of Agamemnon

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Due to the prevalence of corbelling in the ancient world, and the fact that many of the structures which were built with this spanning method are still standing today, thousands of years later, archaeologists have become interested in studying this technique more closely. “The Treasury of Atreus, also known as the Tomb of Agamemnon, is a tholos tomb in Mycenae, Greece. It is considered to be the finest tomb to have survived and dates to about 1300 BCE.

Corbelled Domes in Two and Three Dimensions: The Treasury of Atreus