Third Year Thesis Project:
The Urban Theatre of Printing and Making
The Urban Theatre of Printing and Making is a civic project that includes a public realm strategy devised from site specific conservation moves along the Nash Grid. A new public piazza is created: New Portland Place, It’s tactile topography introduces new possible journeys through site and new meaning to its users. The public realm reaches into the Theatre via the Path of Tactility, an Atrial Vessel of Vertical Circulation which services the sub-enclosures.
Third Year Project:
A Gatehouse to a Path of Tactility
A Gatehouse to a Path of Tactility challenges the notion proposed by Nolli in his map of Rome, that porosity is to be defined spatially, by what can be accessed physically. While relevant in 18th Century Italy, the private urban landscape of London today would yield no new insight. Thus porosity is here studied on many scales, tactile, visual, spatial and social. Where each classification can be used to understand a specific detail where the conditions are always in flux. And so it is that viewing becomes an act of rebellion towards the top-down, deity like approach to masterplanning.
Second Year Project: Seeds For Change
Seeds for Change compromises two phases. Phase 1, A Paddington Pollution Solution seeks to manage the dangerously high levels of air pollution around the Paddington Basin through absorbing it with algae from the canal. A parasitic structure to the Westway suspends two laboratory modules that house technology for processing algae and generating energy, allowing self-sufficiency. In the forum, art, seminars, and workshops raise the issue of pollution, making the exchange of knowledge accessible to shift the priorities in land use. This project stands in resistance to an automotive centric city with the view to reclaim land in an act of community redemption, culminating in Phase 2: The Westway Garden Path, where residents without gardens in adjacent tower blocks are allotted a plot. The new abundance of community run outdoor space promotes healthy habits. The elevated path provides a safe route for cyclists and pedestrians into and out of West Central London. This project was nominated runner up for the Future of Transport Prize.
Second Year Project:
Welcome to Our Back Garden
Our Back Garden is a response to the lack of representation of Afro-Caribbean cuisine in the Maida Hill area. This investigation led me to understand that the reasons for this are cultural, and that the best way to address them in a meanwhile project, would be to facilitate outdoor cooking and eating on an unimposing basis. This is manifest in the projects spatial arrangement, threshold conditions and programme. The threshold into the garden takes shape as a series
of four arched shed-like units, spaced equally and framed with scaffolding. The arcade reads as a wall, offering the garden privacy, while always remaining open. The equipment for gardening, cooking, dining, and performance are stored in each of the units. When in use the unit doors are open and it becomes a point
of entry into the garden.
First Year Project:
Drapers' Studio
Drapers' Studio was designed as a proposition for the Worshipful Company of Drapers' contemporary role in society. With accommodation for two artists in residence, a cafe, the main weaving floor, and separate spaces for spinning and dyeing wool. The speculative project was located in proximity to Weaver Fields, Bethnal Green.
