portfolio.
CYNTHIA NASSALI Part 1 Architectural Assistant +44 7426503363 cynthianassali004@gmail.com
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The Dwelling The Dwelling is a community centre in Milton Keynes designed to provide a permanent civic space celebrating underrepresented communities, responding to the city's temporary and event-based cultural infrastructure.
Year 2025 - Year 3 Semester 2
Location Milton Keynes
Project Type Community Facility
Project The Dwelling
Renders Enscape & Affinity
The building is organised around accessibility and welcome. Public spaces anchor the ground floor so the community can enter without barriers. Cultural spaces form the heart of the building, while quieter offices and support areas sit above, enabling activity without losing privacy.
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Vessel & Vine A sickle cell rehabilitation centre that transitions from the institutional hospital model to a hybrid social rehabilitation model by replacing clinical 'coldness' with the warmth of a community space.
Year 2026 - Year 3 Semester 3
Location Milton Keynes
Project Type Rehabilitation & Community
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Project Vessel & Vine
Vessel & Vine A sickle cell rehabilitation centre that transitions from the institutional hospital model to a hybrid social rehabilitation model by replacing clinical 'coldness' with the warmth of a community space.
Sections AutoCAD & Affinity
The building sits in a tree-filled site and is organised around a central communal area- the social heart of the building. It is then divided into retreat, counselling pods to the left, and clinical, consultation rooms to the righ side of the building.
Project Vessel & Vine
Storyboarding Sketchbook
Storyboard allows the project to come to life, illustrating the activities of users and the spaces they occupy.
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Tectonic Touchstone I created a thermal and tactile wall fragment for sickle cell patients. The physical artefact was a layered wall section with a face designed to be touched. This wall fragment is a representative part of the sickle cell rehabilitation centre I am designing in my Design Studio Project. Sickle cell patients are very sensitive to temperature fluctuations so Architecture must stabilise temperatures and provide tactile comfort.
Year 2026 - Year 3 Semester 2
Location Milton Keynes
Project Type Artefact/Touchstone
Lime Plaster 5mm Fibre Board 15x330mm Wood Fibre Insulation + Sheep's Wool Insulation + Hemp Insulation 110x330mm Vapour Control Layer Polysterene + Timber Battens 45x45mm at 100mm centres Fibre Board 45x330mm Breather Membrane Timber Studs 25x45mm at 100mm centres Timber Rails 25x45mm at 300mm centres Vertical Timber Cladding 16x33mm In the artefact, I glued the timber battens for the external cladding together however in the real world, as shown in the section, there would be a joint used to connect the battens, in this case, it is a tongue and groove joint.
Project Tectonic Touchstone
Plan View & Section AutoCAD & Affinity
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CYNTHIA NASSALI Part 1 Architectural Assistant +44 7426503363 cynthianassali004@gmail.com