The BSc course has both creatively and technically challenged my skills, working on a variety of projects at different scales. All the projects have had realistic briefs, which makes understanding the technical details an important feature in combination with design flair and individuality. It has allowed me to discover a diagrammatic style and find my creative motives.
The projects include residential, cultural, mixed use, temporary and theoretical. These projects are from 2019-2020 as I am still undertaking my final graduate project.
I really engage in understanding the users’ experience and how architecture makes people feel. I try to inhabit the minds of the users and use my personal experiences to inform how a building will operate. This is a result of understanding observation is key to architectural education and we can learn from everything around us.
Whilst working on Governor House Ceramics I discovered an adoration for reinterpreting historic buildings and allowing the forgotten to be revived and respected. This sparked an interest in Carlo Scarpa’s methods and helped me develop a strategy for the project. Over the summer, further research allowed me to discover more about his methods and subsequently evolved into my dissertation. This lead to a deeper understanding of the founding of the Modernist movement and ideas from John Ruskin that transcend this theme in architecture.
For me successful buildings are idiosyncratic and contextualised this enables no two spaces to be alike and something I strive towards in the designs I produce. I feel my education thus far has been well rounded and open minded with s heavy focus on the environmental operation of buildings and the climate crisis being incorporated into design and additional modules.
This portfolio aims to guide you through the range of projects I have undertaken they are in an order that connects the projects and work physically, poetically or metaphorically.
