Resourceful and driven Part 2 Architectural Assistant with 15 months of hands-on experience contributing to the design and coordination of a largescale oil and gas infrastructure project in Uganda.
Skilled in producing detailed technical drawings, supporting multidisciplinary teams, and navigating complex site and environmental considerations. I have a strong diverse skillset developed through my time in practice, time on site in construction and creative hobbies running a business selling custom shoes and producing video content for brands. Demonstrates a strong foundation in sustainable design principles, project documentation, software skills and BIM workflows. Eager to bring a proactive and solution-oriented mindset to diverse architectural challenges within dynamic, collaborative environments. bring a solid understanding of both large-scale industrial projects and small to mid-scale residential design and construction.
EDUCATION
Nottingham Trent University 2021-2023
Architecture MArch (Part II) 2:1
Birmingham City University 2017-2020
Architecture BArch (Part 1) 2:2
2 week placement at Glenn Howells Architects (Birmingham)
The Heathland School, Hounslow 2015-2017
A Levels (Art, Chemistry, Geography, Math)
The Heathland School 2010-2015
GCSEs
SKILLS
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Rhino
Sketchup
AutoCAD
Revit
V-Ray
Modelmaking
Hand Drawing
Microsoft Office
Vectorworks
Navisworks
Grasshopper
Photography and Video
Image and Video Editing
Digital Drawings
Proficient in key CAD softwares such as Rhino, Revit, Sketchup, Adobe CAD Suites and BIM workflows, as well as strong understanding of AI softwares and its integration with new technologies.
-Worked on document control for Architectural and Projects discipline, including redlining client comments, completing Client Review Sheets, and marking up supplier drawings, verifying that changes discussed in meetings were implemented. Established a good understanding of project scheduling and specifications. Proficient in Autodesk Revit for architectural modeling, documentation, and collaborative project workflows
-Multidisciplinary coordination for model review facilitation. Managed direct client and supplier interface to track progress on model tags and architectural drawings, ensuring timely completion and alignment with project goals. Tracked tag progress on 3d models through Navisworks
-Maintained weekly updates of prerequisite action lists, construction deliverables register with Projects discipline and tracked internal documents under review, prioritising tasks for architects for the upcoming week.
-Participated in Client interface meetings, sub-contracting and internal engineering meetings to get a holistic view of current project status and lookahead
-Prepared weekly meeting templates for architectural reviews with subcontractors, outlining topics of discussion based on internal document reviewed and overdue deliverables. Issued and tracked minutes for weekly architectural meetings with clients and suppliers, coordinating with structural, cementers, projects and plumbing teams to ensure alignment of relevant information
-Conducted architectural review for contraction variation proposals, justifying dimension changes and building size increases, providing detailed AutoCAD drawings to illustrate changes from FEED to EPC stages.
-Designed new layout proposals addressing technical queries (TQ’s) on issues such as cross-contamination and space limitations, optimising circulation while minimising expansion of the building footprint.
Architectural Engineer Intern - McDermott Jun 2024- Sept 2024
-Taken part in company BIM LOD 300 client review. Taken actionable notes and tags referencing responsible departments. Mainly operating Navisworks
-Material takeoff analyses, calculated accurate cost estimates materials for various buildings on site
-Markup of section details for innacurate representation of information
-Markup of cross referenced drawings to check for anomalies and lack of clear representation of information, use of i -Ensured relevant data is shown for review analyses
Architectural Assistant- NTU - Oct 2022- Feb 2023
-Unpaid university module in collaborFation with Nottingham Council worked as team leader of digital modelling group
-Collaborated with a research and survey team to compile accurate floor plans, sections and elevations of the Nottingham Council House and carry out historical research
-Managed a team, delegated work and ensured the team produced work in time for deadlines
-Produced model using Sketchup, Rhino, V-Ray and used to present to the council house
Builder, CV Property Solutions Ltd - Sept 2020-2021 June 2023 to April 2024
-Produced visuals on bathroom, driveway, kitchen for clients
-Site visits on a daily basis to rented properties to establish property faults, liaised with letting agency, gave cost breakdowns and timeframes
- CAD drawings produced showing floor plans of proposed extensions, additional partitions for house renovations
-Liaised with localJ council and followed architecture drawings for garage conversion
-Involved in client meetings and consultations discussed ideas and initial concept design for material choice and colour palette, examples include facade iterations for rear shed, bathroom tiling, kitchen fittings, placement and colour choice
- Experienced with decorative work, skimming, plastering, wall tiling and flooring (laminate flooring installed, carpet, engineered wood flooring, vinyl). Plumbing work fixing miscellaneous leaks such as kitchen sink waste, toilet valves, electrical work installing spotlights, switches and plugpoints
- Operating equipment and machinery
- Insulating properties
CONTENTS
01. Work Experience McDermott - Oil and Gas Architectural Assistant (2024-Current)
Location: Birmingham, Spaghetti Junction M(Arch) Architecture NTU, Year 2 Studio Project
04-07. Extra-Curricular
Location: London
Architectural Assistant Work
I have 15 months of experience working as an Architect in the Oil & Gas Industry. The project have been involved in is situated in an environmentally sensitive region within a national park. The facility includes operational camps, support bases and central processing facilities.
Purpose of the project:
-Onshore facilities for the production, storage and export of heavy and waxy crude oil
-Facilities for re-injection of produced water
-Key operating facilities such as central processing facility, laboratory, canteen and EIT’s (Electric, Instrument,Telecoms Buildings)
Key Involvement (RIBA Stage 4)
-I have been involved in the technical design of the project resolving issues surrounding u-values, door details, and technical wall details
-Review of a package of 400 drawings, dealing with sub-contractors and client -Document Review, Client Response Sheets
-Involved in key meetings to resolve architectural issues, notably working on the design of a canteen building and addressing cross-contamination,justifying dimension changes and building size increases, providing detailed AutoCAD drawings to illustrate changes from FEED to EPC stages.
-Utilised key softwares such as Revit, AutoDesk Navisworks, AutoCAD
As the company is involved in international projects I have participated in meetings with consultants based abroad to dictate general layouts and meet local codes/standards.
Working in practice has been eye-opening in regards to meeting tight deadlines, sticking to schedule in order to provide drawings to constructors on site in a timely manner. This often involves having calls with crew on-site with technical queries. In terms of design changes in oil & gas there is a FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) Stage, this sets the stage for successful project execution. By meticulously planning and defining project parameters, FEED contracts help mitigate risks, control costs, and enhance stakeholder confidence.
I have been involved in the EPC (Engineering Procurement Construction) phase of the project, therefore any deviations in design from FEED to construction is heavily scrutinized due to impact on project schedule as well as cost.
As part of a heritage and conservation module during masters study, I was assigned onto a digital team to recreate an accurate digital model of Nottingham Council House, situated in Old Market Square. As team leader I was responsible for ensuring cad drawings provided by a survey team were accurate when compared with archived drawings obtained through a research team.
The intervention proposed was largely influenced by Carolyn Steels Ted Talk: “How Food Shapes Our Cities” about Sitopia and how agriculture was the foundation which enabled cities to establish in the fertile crescent.
The intervention aims to use the site as a focal point in Old Market Square and reinvigorate a communal spirit in the heart of Nottingham City by establishing a new experience which explores the production and consumption of food The form is inspired by the concept of a barn, used as a means to house livestock in the past it will evoke similar emotions in visitors through its form, however the use of openings and light will create a bright, communal space useable by a ranging demographic.
With all of these spaces the intervention provides users with a wide set of tools to establish a better relationship with those that produce food as well as those consuming it.
The restaurant space takes inspiration from The Decorators Ridley market pop-up. Through a hoisting mechanism food is lifted from the kitchen on the lower floor up to the public restaurant spaces. This makes the cooking process much more transparent as workstations are visible to clientele on the upper floors.
Tectonics
The visual shows the southern block which houses the restaurants and kitchen, a large atrium space is illuminated by glazed windows at roof level, the atrium space present the existing steel structure which is braced by new timber glu-lam columns which support the floors above the kitchen. At the highest level the glu-lam beams hold a hoisting mechanism which enables food to be hoisted up from the kitchen up to the dining spaces above. The atrium spaces supports the idea of transparency as diners can freely watch the chefs prepping and cooking on the lower floor.
Visual of Southern Intervention
Structure
There are three elements to the structure, first the existing steel would be exposed, secondly the glu-lam columns which support the beams as well as the roof structure, thirdly a timber roof structure which spans off steel and glulam columns.
Existing Steel Structure
Scarlet Senate 03.
The Consititutional Review by Gordon Brown highlights that London has long been the focal point of British politics, as a result the financial gains and power hasn’t been passed onto neighbouring cities. Consequently people feel invisible to their political leaders, decisions are made to influence the lives of people who will never experience the benefits of the changes made in the Houses of Parliament.
Thus this project aims to provide a new source of decentralised power located in Birmingham at the Gravelly Hill Interchange, also known as Spaghetti Junction. The site was chosen based on the works carried out by Yona Friedman, his conceptual Utopian city proposals aimed to provide housing with infinite adaptability and affordability based on the user, interestingly he proposed the use of underused/ forgotten urban spaces such as railroad tracks, ports, parks, parking lots and bridges. His conceptual framework has driven the choice for the site as well as the process to define the form and procession through the site.
The main principle for this project was to utilise the existing road columns to have floating elements to house my project. The site is experienced upon the existing axis of a canal footpath which cuts directly through the busy roads of Spaghetti Junction, the building breaks off this central axis along a grid line running perpendicular to the canal. The project also takes inspiration from Parc De La Villette by Bernard Schumi, with red walkways acting as visual aides to direct visitors around the intricate site, both through raised structures as well as the footpaths on the ground.
The main concept behind the project was to utilise the 559 existing concrete columns to span timber beams above the ground plane. As the site was expansive limitations were set, to reduce the scale of the junction. The first being a 25m offset distance between columns, this distance was chosen based on the maximum glu-lam beam span provided by local suppliers. The areas highlighted in blue show areas where columns from two roads interact, this provides zones where the buildings can span which are not entirely covered by the roads.
The Welsh Parliament was used as a scale reference to decide the amount of space designated for each function of the senate, the square feet designated to each space was converted into blocks which fit onto the site grids. This was followed by various block placement experiments within the grid, this process influenced the form and procession through the site.
Process
Mario Botta’s, Bergamo Church was used as a precedent for the idea of transition in form. These drawings show my process where the square floor plan is met with inverted corners on the upper floor.
This transition which cuts the corners of the floor plan in the debating chamber would lead to a change in form such as sloped ceiling forms, as well as displacing the viewing galleries, from being on the edges of the plan on the ground floor to cutting into the chamber on the upper floor.
This flip in the corners of the floor plan would form a nice transition which would be carried on into the ceiling form.
Debating Chamber Lobby Exterior Visual
Glass Skylights
Lime Washed CLT Timber Frame
Concrete brutalist structures often have textured surfaces with visible marks of the wooden frames used to pour on site. Lime washed timber provide a similar visual aesthetic in terms of colour and texture provide a more sustainable replacement for concrete.
Lime Washed CLT Panels
GRC Concrete Wall Panel Finish
The structure of the chamber would be timber walls, the finish however would be lightweight GRC concrete wall panels which eminate the appearance of concrete. It would provide a nice contrast in material to the roof as well as still celebrating the use of concrete seen in brutalist buildings.
Tiered Platform with steel balustrades, adorned with timber slats
1) Rounded steel plate connector The rounded steel plates are welded together in a semi circular form, this should wrap around the concrete column
2) Inserts in the steel plate enable prestressed bolts to be directly bolted into the concrete column, the rounded steel plate can then be slotted into the bolts and help up.
3) A steel connector is bolted to the rounded steel plate, this works like a u-channel joint that should provide additional support for the concealed beam hanger by spreading the weight onto the top and bottom round steel plate.
4) A steel concealed beam hanger is attached which enables the beams to be attached
5) The majority of bolts used to put the collar together would be blind-bolts.
Mechanically Operate Louvers
Wooden Window Frame equipped with openable glass
25mm Battens and Counter Battens
Vapour Control Layer
Blok Build Cassette System
Core Tex Concrete Wall Panel
Suspended Ceiling System
Thermaline Insulated Plasterboard
Bio-Based Sealing Profile
Steel Joint
Glu-Lam Supporting Frame
Custom Products 04.
After finishing my Part I at Birmingham City University I started a custom products business, mainly painting onto leather surfaces with leather paints, I slowly gained a following on social media and used The Custom Movement to spread my brand to get international sales.
The work began with phone cases but slowly shifted towards custom shoes as it became trendy over social media, running this business fuelled my work ethic. Although the products drove sales they were a small part of the job. I had to design my own packaging, learn how to make a website as well as ways of promoting the work on social media. This involved videos and animations which were created using Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro and various other softwares.
Time management was crucial in order to paint, set and package products within the timelines set by the companies which I used as a platform to sell on.
This business has been a work in progress for years and am constantly thinking about ways to change the products and innovate my craft. I often get bursts of creativity and this endeavour has been one of the main ways I shared that ability with my friends and followers.
Commissions
After starting my custom business was contacted by various people, I produced commissioned artwork such as posters and logos to the clients specifications. These processes helped me learn about what to offer and how much to charge, as well as ways to communicate with a client to ensure that every party is happy once all of the work is complete.
I produced animations for music videos and visualisers for new and upcoming artists on the British Asian music scene. This included character models, as well as visual drafts. Although I had never produced animations for a commission in the past I decided to push myself and get out of my comfort zone, this helped me improve my use of softwares as well as learning key skills with animation that I never thought I would need.
I worked with photographers who I helped establish a brand identity through logos and websites, in turn we have collaborated for the last couple of years, producing videos and edits for companies, such as Havana Club. The photographer would supply me with videos and photos which I would have to edit into a music video to fit a brief set by Havana Club for their social media campaigns.
These processes have helped me get out of my comfort zone and to experience new challenges, it has also improved my knowledge on After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator and Photoshop.
This link will take you to one of the visualisers I produced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBU69mPCLQ
Construction
I have been working freelance as a builder since 2020, taking part in client meetings, site visits, surveying, property renovations. Over the years I have gained an insight into the costs for materials as well as a better technical understanding of the composition of older housing stock in the UK.
I have carried out physical work on properties such as tiling, painting, plastering,dry wall installation, wall and ceiling repairs, kitchen fittings, bathroom fittings, installing laminate and vinyl flooring.
This experience has worked in tandem with my architectural education and has made it easier for me to understanding technical drawings and see how it is applied in real life scenarios. Additionally the job involved providing clients with visuals and CAD drawings hence helped develop my communication skills and ability to express concepts to clients.
The origins of all of my businesses and social media prescence was my desire to share my enjoyment of art. I like to use different types of media from pencils, charcoal, pens , watercolour and oil paint I started my art page during undergrad as a way of staying motivated and having a routine to my days, through daily portrait studies I carried on my passion for art which I had from a young age.
These hobbies of mine display my desire to be a creative individual, as well as my ability to work hard and knuckledown through various challenges even if they are going on at the same time. All of the successes and failures I have experienced throughout my education and extracurricular activities have made me a more competent student equipped with various skills.
