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Collections
My projects divide into three categories; professional experience, architectural education and personal projects. The following are highlighted projects from each organised into collections.
As well as these highlighted projects, the All Projects tab includes various other projects I have worked on. Through all projects, the colour used indicates which selection they fall under and how that context reflects on the goals and limits of my control over them.
Professional Experience
All the work in this collection was produced during my tenure at Pollard Thomas Edwards, an Islington-based firm that works primarily on residential and mixed-use developments in London are the surrounding region.
The firm was founded on post-modernist principles and grounds its design on the philosophy of evolution, not revolution. Their projects consider the importance of aesthetics in the built environment and aim to use design as well as possible to improve the quality of homes. I really admire their firm’s desire for quality homes, and how they push for nicer solutions in affordable housing units where clients often neglect the interior aesthetics. They have done a lot in mixed development with careful consideration of integration between uses
Although I feel I have contributed a lot of design input for a part 1, given my position and the nature of large-scale mainstream housing, these designs do not represent the entirety of my design skills. I am proud of the range kind of work I produced at this time and the quality of it. I am always keen to contribute well to a team and in future would love to explore smaller scale, more bespoke and exploratory designs.
Architectural Education
I studied my MA hons (Part I) at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh school for architecture and landscape architecture (ESALA).
I explored broadly in my education of architecture, integrating various artistic practices, examining the philosophical frameworks in which we understand the built environment, using technology to map the information layers of a city not perceivable by humans, and seeing the role of the architect as beyond the aesthetic but rather as deeply political and social. The projects in this collection represent these explorations as well as the fundamentals of designs such as suitability, materiality and structure.
Architecture schools offers opportunities to explore and challenge yourself in ways generally impossible within the industry. Given this, the following projects gives more insight into my design philosophy unbound by the job practicalities.
Extensive skills are shown here, from a foundation in technology and programming to video production and drawing. They all offer value in much of the creative sector. I love design broadly and I am open to jobs and roles outside just architecture.
This Collection explore four of the projects I have worked on for either personal reasons or as freelance work. They show my interests as well as skills that I have developed outside working outside an architecture firm. These highlights are not the only projects but show the scope and best of these skills. As well as giving insight into me, there is plenty here appliable to various creative industries.
