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SELECTED WORK

Below is selected work consisting of professional and university.

SAL SPA, LAGOS, PORTUGAL

This project involved the conversion of a disused space within an apartment complex. The proposal required spatial reconfiguration to transform the space into a boutique spa. I produced the drawings and visuals shown below while construction was carried out by my brother.  
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BEACH HOUSE, PORTUGAL

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BEACH HOUSE RENOVATION, SOUTHERN PORTUGAL

This is a beach house renovation in southern Portugal. It involved gutting the upper floor to create an open plan kitchen and living. The house is four metres wide, so it was important to maximise the space effectively.  The new false ceiling was designed in a way to frame the separate spaces without building walls.  I produced the drawings and visuals shown above while construction was carried out by my brother.  
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EXARCHIA, ATHENS

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Athens, Greece
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Exarchia, Athens, is highlighted in blue.
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Site Plan - drawn @ 1:500
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Site Plan - drawn @ 1:200
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Site Strategy: Site 1 - Neo-classical Ruin
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Plans: Basement [Left] and Ground Floor [Right]
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Plans: Upper levels
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Section
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Elevation from Navarinou Park
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Civic composition
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Gallery Entrance
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Site Strategy: Site 2 - Missing Tooth
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Library Plans
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Perspective Sections taken through the Library
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Steel Frame Detail
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KATHMANDU, NEPAL

In November 2016, my unit went on a two week study trip to Kathmandu, Nepal. I spent my time surveying the northern edge of Bungamati, a traditional farming suburb of Kathmandu. The area suffered particularly badly from the earthquakes in 2014. 
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View showing Bungamat's Northern Edge ; where the town meets agriculture
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Section through my site in Bungamati
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Section through my site in Bungamati
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Axo of my site in North Bungamati
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Sketches before (top), after demolition (middle), and after proposed (bottom).
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Axo of North Bungamati following demolition of ruins and implementation of sewerage system, water tower and flower market
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Perspective View overlooking proposed road
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Proposed Plan
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Proposed Section
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Proposed Section
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Incremental Housing Scheme (Clockwise from top left: Stage 1, 2, & 3)
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Internal View of Proposed Flower Market
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Perspective of new civic assembly
2ND YEAR - INDIA - FIELD WORK 
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In my second year, my studio went to Agra, India, to survey the slums of Taj Ganj with the intention of designing a scheme which would benefit the area and serve as a precedent for sustainable development.
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On-site survey section through my site looking north towards the muslim cemetery.
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On-site survey section through my site looking west towards the 5-Star ITC Hotel which is separated from my site by a 10 metre tall brick wall.
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Site Axonometric
2ND YEAR - INDIA - PAPER RECYCLING FACTORY 
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For my project I designed a paper recycling factory which would benefit the local area in terms of waste reduction and also through the production of schoolbooks for local children. The project also had to set a precedent for sustainable development. 
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This section looks north towards the Muslim Cemetery. The western boundary is defined by the 10 metre tall ITC Hotel Wall which I have left blank as it is completely disconnected from the site.
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- Scale: 1:5000 - - Orientation: S > N - - This is a 1:5000 model of South Taj Ganj which I surveyed over two weeks. The Muslim Cemetery forms the heart of the area. I made the topography from grey card and the buildings from clay as I felt this was the best way to represent the typology of the area.
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After gaining an understanding of the process involved in paper recycling I began to spatialise the process. On the ground floor, the building houses the wet and heavy processes, with the light and dry elements on the first storey. The drying pulp is pulled up through the gallery on trays.
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Free-hand plans 1:100
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Section through my proposal, looking West. Drawn with the roof closed.
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Section through my proposal, looking West. Drawn with the roof open to invite sunlight onto the drying racks.
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Annotated Axonometric looking north-west. Drawn with the roof open.
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Rendered Axonometric of the proposal in context, looking north-west with the roof opened.
3RD YEAR - KINGS LYNN - PRELIMINARY PROJECT - ENTRANCE TO EXISTING ARCHIVE AT THE GUILDHALL
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In my third year, my studio's design projects were located in King's Lynn. King's Lynn has a rich shipping history and was where Captain George Vancouver set off on his search of the west coast of the Americas. For the preliminary project I designed an entrance / extension to the town's medieval Guildhall housing the town's archives. The project included enhancing the public realm.
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This is the south facing facade of the Guildhall built from sandstone and flint. The alley leads to my site.
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I studied the facade detail closely. The sandstone piers are made up of three different components. I then made 1:5 plaster cast models of these components. The moulds of these casts are what inspired the profile of my project.
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My site strategy involved removing the ugly staircase from the back of the guildhall, and building up against the northern facade. I also plan to improve the flow internally by removing some of the partition walls. I also want to landscape the space and encourage footfall through the space increasing connectivity from the commercial street to the historic core.
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This is a sketch of one of the later ideas I had for my proposal. The shape was inspired by the piers on the southern facade of the Guildhall.
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Axonometric sketch of my proposal
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I decided to use copper cladding in reference to the town's rich shipping history and also because I like how it ages if untreated.
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This shows the Guildhall's roofplan before and after my proposal. The car-park is replaced by an inviting garden. The route to the mayor's garage has to be preserved however.
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North-facing facade, before and after my proposal.
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North-facing facade, before and after oxidisation.
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Staggered Section cutting through my proposal and shows how it connects to the existing and how the staircase would look. The staircase's balustrade is supported by copper wires in tension.
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This is how the proposal would look from the garden space looking south-east. It shows the proposal before and after oxidisation.
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This is an internal hand-drawn projection of how my proposal and existing interior spaces would look. The existing spaces to the right has been opened up by removing unnecessary partition walls.
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This is a 1:100 model I made of my proposal. I made the existing from plaster of paris to represent the old and heavy guildhall and to provide a contrast to my lightweight copper proposal.
3RD YEAR - KINGS LYNN - MAIN PROJECT - SHELTERED HOUSING PROJECT
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The main project was also based in King's Lynn on a site which previously served as a granary. The project is a medium-scale sheltered housing project for an elderly demographic. The project also involved taking into account 
flooding as the site is extremely prone to flooding.
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Section through the site, looking south.
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Section through the site, looking north.
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Section through the site, looking east.
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Rendered section through the site looking south.
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Rendered west facing elevation showing the site in context.
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Axonometric of my site and context
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Site strategy
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Site plan following removal of silos and steel warehouse
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An internal view of one of the units showing the qualities and materiality.
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An internal view of one of the units showing light qualities.
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Design development.
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This is how I was influenced by a precedent in North London by BERE Architects. Its rooftop garden is what attracted me to the project.
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Another precedent which influenced my design was Odhams Walk in Covent Garden. Its shared gardens over split levels influenced my proposal's massing qualities.
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This is a massing study I did at 1:250. This massing idea consists of 42 units, none of which are north-facing.
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Ground Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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West Facing Elevation - Summer's Day
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West Facing Elevation - Winter Flood (1.3m high)
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Construction section cutting through my scheme running from south (left) to north (right).
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Section through my scheme running from west (left) to east (right).
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Perspective View of one of the gardens overlooking the fleet.
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Perspective over the entire scheme, overlooking the central courtyard and pond. This projection illustrates some of the 2 kilometres squared of new gardens created in my scheme.
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Final Model
3RD YEAR - DISSERTATION RESEARCH - THE CITY OF LONDON PLANNING

For my dissertation, I won the Architecture Dissertation Prize, and have since been nominated for the RIBA Medal.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK - ECD ARCHITECTS

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Flexible Housing Solution
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  • SELECTED WORK
  • ABOUT
  • THESIS
    • DISSERTATION
    • PETER REES - INTERVIEW
    • ROWAN MOORE - INTERVIEW
  • FIELD WORK