Merton Sites, 96 Units across four sites in Merton, London
4 Sites in the London Borough of Merton being developed to provide 93 affordable Passivhaus residential units. The projects gained planning approval in August 2024 and lead a team to produce a Tender Package for L&Q, who acting as developing partner of Merton and Merton Council.
Designed with different constructions systems, going from load-bearing masonry blocks to RC frames with Metsec infills, the complexity of the design increased with the target to achieve Passivhaus Classic Standard for Elm Nursery and Low Energy Building for Raleigh Gardens
I was in charge of the production of all tender packages with weekly submission during Stage 4 and fortnightly reviews with L&Q’s delivery team (QCS) and our Passivhaus consultants QODA (and CPW).
Buckland and Wimbourne, 113 units in Hackney
The design proposal at Wimbourne Street formed part of the Hackney HSP programme which is developing a number of Hackney Council owned sites across the borough.
Delivered for Higgins Partnership, Buckland Street project provides 54 units and Wimbourne 59, split in two plots. We were appointed under a PCSA to carry out a study of the feasibility of delivering the schemes using a pre-cast concrete panelized system by FP Mc Cann.
Thanks to a very close interaction with the pre-cast subcontractors and the quality achieved for the off-site manufactured panels, my team managed to deliver a design of the highest standard.
Wimbourne South will be completed in September 2025 and Wimbourne North in early 2026.
Currently on-site, the first one of the thee Villas of Buckland has been topped out an will be completed by the end of 2026;
A new-build development on two vacant sites at Commercial Way in Peckham, contributes 109 units towards the initial 1,500 target in Southwark’s New Homes Programme
Commercial Way was awarded the 2024 Architects Journal Award for Housing Project (£10-40 million). In this highly competitive category, the judges noted the design quality of the scheme and were persuaded by the enthusiasm of the residents they met living there.
This council-led scheme delivers a mix of social rent and intermediate tenures. Efficient and cost-effective design was key to our design approach, ensuring that we could optimise the number of much needed new homes within the project budget.
We designed private amenity spaces along this frontage that also provided acoustic screening and solar shading, whilst adding detail and craft to elevations.
Rodney Place, Elephant & Castle, London
For a tight program of 5 weeks, I was responsible for the production and submission of a tender package for the earlier submitted Planning Application for a small block in Southwark.
As part of the London Borough of Southwark’s ‘New Council Homes’ Delivery programme this scheme at Rodney Place includes 9 new homes are proposed at first, second and third floor levels, along with the reprovision of commercial space at ground floor level.
The site has one primary frontage along Rodney Place, with its rear boundary abutting the rear gardens of neighbouring properties. The north and south ends of the site are fully built up forming party-wall boundaries with the neighbouring properties.
Kenavon Drive, Reading UK
Kenavon Drive is a residential development in Reading in a former commercial site split in three parcels with 4/5 blocks per parcel, delivering 765 homes within a range of residential tenures and unit size and types to create a balanced community.
The new residents will have a choice between apartments, duplex houses at ground floor, penthouse houses, and town houses on the riverfront or on the private Jopling Mews. The intention has been to develop typologies and floor plates that can be replicated from one building to the next, while still providing the necessary variety and flexibility required in terms of flat types and mix within each building. In order to do this a small selection of standard unit types were developed to be used throughout the scheme. Further typologies were developed to maximised the opportunity of the site, the ground floor activities, the riverfront and relationship with neighbouring sites.
My involvement in this project started soon after planning approval was achieved to study ways to optimize the scheme which my team succesfuly did increasing the total number of units from 765 to 795 in the consented envelope. Since then I have been working on the subsequent planning applications and the delivery of the first block (East parcel) that includes 229 units. The project broke ground in September 2019 and works on site are moving fast currently pouring the first floor slab.
Kidbrooke (Phase 2 West) 99 Units, London, UK
Phase 2 (West) forms part of the Kidbrooke Village Regeneration area in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
This phase inlcudes 2 blocks linked by a landscaped podium over a carpark comprising 14 Podium Houses and an 85 apartments block. This block will be built with off-site prefabricated modules above 1st floor.
I joint this team to lead the technical development in direct liason with the Modular team of our contractor client.
Our scope inlcuded all non-modular element and the interface with the modules. We we also supervising the design of the modules to ensure Building Regulation and the warranty provider requirements were met.
The project is currently at Stage 4 and the team on site will be ready to break ground in May 2021.
Kidbrooke Village, London UK
Clapham Park, 2535 Units, London, UK
Clapham Park
Clapham park was the largest detailed planning application ever made in the UK and successfully got planning consent in 2017 for over 2,500 units and 1,800sqm of commercial space.
The site was split in 9 different parcels with a number of blocks each one of them.
I assisted the team in technical aspects in the last few month before submission and was also involved in a later amendment and Stage 3 report to reduce and simplify typologies at our client’s request.
My team primarily focussed on detail bay studies and windows in general producing a catalogue showing all window types in the scheme and detailing areas of special architectural interest. The blocks were designed to be constructed using brick-clad pre-cast concrete panel and my knowledge obtain while working with Techrete in Wembley Park project (further down) was applied to resolve complex details.
PRP Wembley Park, E05 458 Units, London, UK
Wembley Park E05
Wembley park masterplan is a mixed used scheme in West London including over five thousand residential units in which the ‘E sites’ were comprising over one thousand units was designed and delivered by PRP.
The development totals of 63,686 sqm GEA, comprising:
• 17,996 sqm NIA Coach parking, basement parking and two levels of DDA parking
• 264 sqm NIA A1-A3, D1-D2 or B1 space
I was involved in E05 project for three months working together with a pre-cast concrete manufacturer to assess the suitability of delivering this project with their system rather than a traditional brick facade.
The work included the geometric studies for panelization of the pre-cast elements, study suitable locations for fixing corbel points and minimizing joints to retain the brick facade look as much as possible.
Lewisham Gateway Phase 2, Mixed-use 844 Units, London, UK
Lewisham Gateway, Phase II
Phase II of Lewisham Gateway is the cornerstone of Lewisham’s vision of its centre providing 854 residential units, a leisure and commercial hub and convenient transport links to London.
The residential element of this mixed-use development will deliver 538 PRS units, 144 co-living units, and will provide new and existing residents with an 8 screens cinema, a gym, office space, retail and F&B units.
A Minor Material Amendment had been submitted soon before I joined PRP and LGW was the first project I worked on to develop the design, coordinate a large team of consultants and produce a Stage 3 Report that could be taken forward for an imminent start on site.
The facade of the all blocks was designed by UN Studio and a big part of my role during my time working in LGW was to assist UNS with the production of a external envelope detailed package.
The complexity of the scheme given the mix of uses, block shapes and massing, size of the design team to coordinate made this project especially challenging but my team succesfully delivered the reports with high levels of satisfaction from the client.
Cherry Park - Westfield, Mixed-use 635 Units, London, UK
PRP
Cherry Park
Cherry Park is a mixed-use development in Stratford, London, that comprises over 600 units in three towers and 5no. medium size residential blocks.
I worked on this project for a month after a Stage 3 report had been issued to identify areas that would need detail studies and ‘cartooning’ the scheme to cover all details that could potentially be included in the Construction detail package.
International Competition for Alternative Layout design, Russia
DOM, International Layout Design Competition
I teamed up with a friend from university to take part in this international competition launched in 2018. The competition organized by the Russian Ministry of Housing, aimed to find creative proposal for the establishing of Housing Standard for affordable housing across Russia focussing in typologies of 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom residential unit in 4 different block arrangements from a ‘mansion house type’ to a tower.
Our team was selected for the second phase of the competition where the proposals were refined adapting to Russian regulation and current standards.
At the end of 2018, our proposal was finally awarded a 3rd prize with over £20K in cash and our panels exhibited in Moscow.
Aberfeldy New Village, Phase III, 344 Units, Poplar, London
Levitt Bernstein
ANV is a high density development and a new public park (East India Green) structured around an urban swale, play spaces and a grid of trees.
The residential buildings are responsive to the urban context, varying in character and scale across the masterplan, and ranging between a 10 storey tower at the east end of the park, a series of linear, muscular buildings along the A13, and lower rise courtyard housing on the north side of the park. Aberfeldy Masterplan comprises a total of 1176 units
The approach draws on the history of the site, creating a ‘modern warehouse’ aesthetic, with open plan interiors, generous glazing, large floor to ceiling heights and dramatic, light filled circulation cores. All homes achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 and are designed to comply with London Housing Design Guide standards, across all tenures. Non-residential elements achieve BREEAM excellent rating
Phase III
This phase comprises Buildings F, G, H and J and a total of 344 new homes. In additon, as noted above, a series of key non-residential uses are being provided, including community uses, retail provision, as well as an Energy Cente which will supply the energy for the whole Aberfeldy New Village masterplan area.
Aberfeldy New VIllage, Poplar, London
Aberfeldy New Village, Phase III, 344 Units, Poplar, London
Levitt Bernstein
I joined Levitt Bernstein soon after the Reserved Matters Application for phase III was submitted and immediately started working on the Stage D+ submission which was being prepared at that time. I was responsible for the compliance of flat layouts to LHDG, Lifetime Homes and AD Part M. Continuous contact and coordination with the rest of the design team was also part of the tasks at this stage.
Following this submission we were asked to continue with the design development and prepare a Stage E submission.For this stage was responsible of preparing the 1:50 set of GA’s, elevations and Sections.to a greater level of detail.
I was also in charge of producing detail drwing for all 4 blocks of the development and keeping the coordination with structure and services.
Waddon Block Cs and F (69 Units), Croydon
Levitt Bernstein
Blocks C and F are part of Waddon Masterplan designed by Levitt Bernstein and approved by Croydon Borough in 2010. Following a Non-material Amendment Application in April 2016 to increase the number of units in the consented envelop and minor changes to balconies and facades, NHHG comissioned LB to progress the design to Stage 3 / D+ and produce a package of information for tendering purposes.
All new homes irrespective of tenure were desifned to be compliant with Lifetime Homes Standards with the NHHG Housing Design Guide and also meeting NHF Version 2 Standards.
The residential development also meets Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 in environmental terms.
I was Project Architect for this submission responsible for a team of two architects and the overall coordination with consultants.
Thames House
After two refused applications in the last 15 years Levitt Bernstein put together a design prpoposal for the redevelopment of the Thames House site, commissioned by Capital Services Ltd, the site owner. The three parallel blocks included in the proposal ncluded:
• 41 new dwellings in two blocks
• 50% affordable dwellings
• 34% 3 bedroom dwellings
• 283 dwellings per hectare
• 50% of the floor area to be employment space
• 10% of the employment space area to be affordable
The application was refused in 2013 and I got involved in the project to increase the amount of commercial space without modifying the external envelope which was policy compliant because the AAP (2013) considers it a Priority Employment Area and identified the site as an ‘opportunity site’ for a mixed-use scheme with retail and/or employment on the ground floor with employment and residential above and. The employment space is located in the basement and ground floor of block A, the whole of block B and a portion of the ground floor of block C, making up 50% of the gross internal area. The residential use is also 50% of the gross internal area and is located within the upper floors of block A and the remainder of Block C.
As a separate exercise we a were asked by the Planning officers to study “braver” options to reduce the impact and overshadowing on the curve park to the north of the site.
Constrains diagram
project by adding the plots that connect the site to the main road.
I worked with a team to initially create proposals that would reduce the footprint and cost of the approved buildings and proposals that increased the number of units in the consented envelope. We were also asked to produce a number of capacity studies that would assist the client to value the additional plots.
After successful client presentations LB was commissioned to work a Planning Applications for the additional sites that would create a gateway access to the approved development and a separate Minor application to optimise the consented one in 2013
1_24 Residential Units in Harrow, HA1 2AA (Currently on site)
Autor Ltd is an award winning office based in central London specialised in residential architecture with a focus on planning and early stages of the design process. I joined Autor in October 2013 to be the Project Architect for this £4.5 m development a few yards away from Harrow-on-the-Hill Station.
The project was at the begining of RIBA stage 3 and I came on board to take it forward to Technical Design and all the way to completion. It included the conversion of an office building on the high Road into 4 no. 1 and 2 bedroom apartments and the construction of a new build block at the rear comprising 20 no. self contained units.
From the time I joined the office I was responsible for the design team coordination and the adjustment of the drawings to be fully compliant with the GLA Standards. I produced a full detail package for the front building for Building Control submission and on-site consultant support for the contractor.
1_24 Residential Units, Harrow, HA1 2AA (Currently on site)
Following the completion of the refurbishment part the client asked us to improve the efficiency of the New Build block by adding a new top floor and a total of 4 extra units.
I was responsible for the submission of a full Planning Application for the addition of an extra floor and a total of 4 more units in a very short period of time - 6 weeks. Permission was granted in July 2014 and the project is currently on site.
1_Front Building - Refurbishment Section
Residential Units in Ealing, W5 5AH
The proposed strategy consists of a continuation of the axis defined at an architectural scale by the existing
towers and their directionality that extends through the Dickens Walk passage onto to the axis of the Walpole Park.
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the scheme proposes the following interventions:
on that basis, the scheme proposes the following interventions:
01. The conservation of the existing building that sits along New Broadway.
01. The conservation of the existing building that sits along New Broadway.
The owner of 35-57 New Broad, a locally listed building in Ealing Centre, approached us to study the development potential of the derelict rear of the building on 35-57 New Broadway.
02. A redevelopment of the rear area to obtain a six storey residential block at the center with sideways views. The interior structure of the central section of the existing building will be part of the new development but the front facade will be kept unaltered.
02. A redevelopment of the rear area to obtain a six storey residential block at the center with sideways views. The interior structure of the central section of the existing building will be part of the new development but the front facade will be kept unaltered.
We provided a number of Feasibility Studies with 3 different options including a 14 storeys tower due to the high rise development in Ealing Town Centre.
03. The construction of two communal green decks at first floor level, over the back part of the retail units, that will serve as amenity space.
Following the client’s approval of the low rise option and a consequent Pre-Application Advise meeting with Ealing Council we were commissioned to submit a full Planning Application for 52 Units in April 2015.
Three key constraints have been indentified:
An exclusive West - East view and a south orientation of the green deck areas, both which allow for adequate solar gain levels.
The existing vehicular access to the rear part of the site through a public alley that connects with Bond Street.
I was a main member in the design building and responsible for preparing the full set of drawings and assisted in the constrains analysis of the site and the production of urban design diagrams that explained the design logic and development in the Design and Access Statement.
The requirement to provide an escape route for the future adjoining Film Works Buildings.
URBAn Design stRAtegy
URBAn Design stRAtegy
The New Broadway
Residential Units in Ealing, W5
The site is occupied by two types of structure: A long, five storey building that stretches along its New Broadway boundary, and the constructions at its rear, ranging between one and three stories. The former is comprised of residential flats with retail units at street level. The latter is formed by the rear extensions of the retail units and some structures used as storage facilities.
I was involved in this project from the very first moment the client contacted our office and was involved in the preparation of the first Feasibility Study as well as all the drawing documentation and the Design and Access Statement for the Application submission
This project was shortlisted for the 2012 London Architecture Awards in a challenging back-land site in Ealing.
Due to its slim shape the site was nearly fully constrained by the BRE 2m - 45degree angle rule, which recommends a clear view line from the rear garden fence, measured in a two meter height at an angle of 45 degrees. The rear part of the site between the rear gardens of Church Road and Balfour Avenue was mainly constraint by overlooking and general building height as well as the disturbance of neighbouring properties through noise and light at night.
The developable area was constraint by five existing 10- to 17-meter high trees with large root protection areas (RPA) that penetrate up to 9 meter into the site. This was nearly a quarter of the site in some parts.
To the rear of the corner protected clear view lines of neighbouring windows reduces part of the site developable area. These cut across the site in a 45-degree angle.
A hybrid system using CLT (cross-lamintaed-timber) and concrete for the basement was chosen to reduce the construction time and because of the complex geometry of the houses. I assisted the team in the preparation of a detail package that included this unusual but highly efficient construction method in February 2014 and the design of the window pods and solar panel roof structure.
The project will be completed in July 2015.
International Competition
This scheme was awarded with the 2015 NLA Awards for its intelligence resolving a very complex site and the capacity to adjust to the numerous constrains and provide a suitable in the context 2 Bedroom family house.
Following the Council’s refusal of the scheme assisted on the modifications of the project and took part in the Appeal currently being decided. I also prepared the documentation for the competition submission.
In the summer of 2014 I took part together with Autor Architecture in the competition for the New Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, the most participated archi-
After weeks of intense study of the urban grid of Helsinki ‘s city centre we discovered relationships and connections nbtween the building’s orientations and grid alignments that we found of a great interest.
Our proposal suggested elevating this geometrical matrix in the form of a viewing tower that becomes the landmarks that the competition brief was aiming for.
5_Granted Planning Applications
I collaborated in the design of this new build residential scheme in a former derelict Public Convebniences building and prepared the documentation for a full Planning Application granted permission in March 2015. The project consisted of four studios and two 1 Bedroom apartments.
9 no. Residential Units in Barnet, NW7
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Conversion of a former warehouse and office building into nine self-contained 1 and 2 bedroom units. Permission was granted in June 2014.
Refurbishment of a vacant dental practice and
retail at ground floor level into five 1 and 2
units with the addition of a new mansard
The Application was granted in April 2015.
In addition to this granted Planning Applications I took a main part in the preparation of over 10 Feasibility Studies for over 100 units.
1_Harrow - 3D Sketch
1_Barnet - 3D Sketch
1_Bexley - 3D Sketch
2_Harrow - Urban Analysis
2_Barnet - Proposed Section - Outlook
2_Bexley- Section
3_Harrow - Street Elevation
3_Barnet - Alley View
3_Bexley- Street Elevation 4_Harrow - 1st
2_Nicosia Town Hall_B3_Finance Department IKA
Finance department - New Nicosia Town Hall. Walled Nicosia Old town. Completed 2012. 1,000 m²
The building for the new finance department of the Nicosia Municipality is located within the old walled town of Nicosia, adjacent to the site of the new town hall construction. It is one of several buildings that will house the functions of the municipality in the area, and it stands as the first example of a new civic building Type for the old town.
Housing the required functions for an accounts department, the brief includes the CFO, meeting room, cash desk and various offices.
My involvement in this project went from early phases of the concept design, implementation of the design brief, outline of proposals for structural and building services systems to the completion in January of 2012. My main tasks included detail design, General Arrangement drawings, design team coordination, scope drawings, fixed furniture design and 3Ds and a direct involvement in the decision making of the design issues.
2_Nicosia Town Hall_B3_Finance Department
Finance department - New Nicosia Town Hall.
The building is split at ground floor level into 2 parts with an urban passageway passing through and connecting Apostolou Varnava Street to the south and Tempon Street behind. Within this opening a twisting wooden staircase winds up to connect the first floor with a bridge, continuing up onto the roof where a shading ‘pavilion’ canopy provides a space with a view and a mini kitchen spacing for lectures, projections, parties, seminars or BBQ days. This horizontal urban link combined with the vertical public stair generates the symbiotic link between the programmatic brief of the department and the unprogrammed actions of the citizen and civil servant.
Both passageway and roof terrace can be used without disturbing the work of the department, or out of office hours, giving a balance between the requirements of privacy and public use.
1_3D Construction Detail
1_Window Plan Detail
2_3D Construction Detail
2_ Nicosia Town Hall_B3_Finance Department
Finance department - New Nicosia Town Hall.
Achieving this standard required incorporating solutions into the design from the beginning using simple and integrated processes rather than control technology and moving parts. The building is a ‘Hybrid’ design which allows for machine use for energy needs at peak periods, whilst maximising the period of the year when no or extremely low energy is used.
Some of the simple criteria included reducing solar gain in summer, maximising natural lighting for working, minimising energy loss using high thermal insulation of envelope, facilitating thermal mass ‘flywheel’ and with night-time cooling effect, providing very low energy machines for peak use.
To address these needs proposals were developed and tested using computer simulated thermal and solar analysis as well as life cycle and seasonal calculations together with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. A south facade with deep set shaded windows floor to ceiling was calculated to optimise the relationship between natural illumination (turn off the lights) and solar gain (negative in summer and positive in winter) throughout the year. A flatter north façade was developed with vertical shading fins to reduce Eastern summer solar gain on the facade.
All rooms have secured ventilation openings to the outside individually (rather than computer) controlled to allow for day and night time ventilation. Internal floors & ceilings have exposed concrete/screed to allow the thermal mass to be used for heat sinks for this flywheel to take effect. Individual ceiling fans are introduced, computer controlled lighting, and the use of the stair encouraged over the lift (the latter being a slower low energy system for occasional use).
A ventilation stack chimney connected via the corridor spaces to each office (via an acoustically baffled vent) allows for cross ventilation of the offices this has the advantage of significantly multiplying the effective air transfer and is especially useful during days of more stagnant hot air. The building was assessed for the Swiss Minergie award for which it has been designed.
3_Limassol Cruise Terminal, Cyprus (currently on site)
Finance department - New Nicosia Town Hall. Walled Nicosia Old town. Completed 2012. 1,000m²
The Limassol Cruise Terminal currently on site comprises over 10,000m² ofa passenger terminal on the East pier of the Limassol Port. It includes immigration, customs, baggage hall, passenger lounges, restaurants, cafes and a skybar.
The client is the Cyprus Port Authority and it was assigned after the competition was won by IKA in 2006. It is currently on site under construction and competition it is due in 2015.
The competition was won in 2006 and when I joined IKA the Cyprus Port Authority had decided to ahead with the project. Initially my role in this project was to reshuffle some of the function in the brief and do a series of GA proposal to optimise the efficiency of the scheme. I worked on this project on all phases except for concept design but especially on the preparation of detail information for construction, coordination with consultants, technical design and specification writing.
1_Detail Section 1:25
2_ Construction Detail Section 1:5
3_ Construction Detail Section 1:5
4_Nicosia Town Hall_Stage 2. Nicosia, Cyprus (currently on site)
Stage 2 of the New Nicosia Town Hall. Building 1. 5,000m² Currently on site
Administration and Planning Departments, Mayor´s office, city hall, Nicosia Masterplan Department. Civic Square and city landscaping
The new Nicosia town hall is located within the Venetian walled city of Nicosia, an area which has seen human settlement since the Bronze age era. It was not a surprise to many therefore when the construction of the original competition winning scheme was halted after only a few weeks of excavations for an underground car park. A 6 year pause followed, as teams of archaeologists dug up almost the entire area in a ‘rescue excavation’. What emerged was a pattern of ruins rather than any single major edifice, and it was agreed after some lengthy debates that these should coexist with the new town hall.
Several options were examined, each supporting the buildings on foundations without damage to the antiquities, whilst maintaining the coherent urban stitching exercise as originally conceived by the architects. In the final building solution, the program is broken down into a number of parts, both new build and renovation work, which gather around the simple perimetrical path created around the antiquities. Together with various bridges at the first floor level, these unite the building programme whilst simultaneously letting the city flow through it. The building becomes porous and woven within the city fabric, rather than a displacement object within it. You can walk through the town hall without actually going inside. Along the walk, between the buildings, public spaces are generated which can host events for the municipality as well as those using the building for lectures, music, or any other performance activity.
3_ Construction Detail 1:5 2_ 3rd Floor Plan
4_Nicosia Town Hall_Stage 2.
Stage 2 of the New Nicosia Town Hall. Building 1. 5,000m² Currently on site
The Swiss Minergie standard was used as the energy standard for the new town hall from the beginning. As an example the new ceramic clad offices are all designed as ‘slow envelopes’, using passive night cooling and exposed heavy structures.
I worked in this project on similar stages as the ones described for the Finance Department Building. The construction of it started soon before the first building of the Town Hall was finished. This second stage included four different buildings
- B1.1 which houses the Mayor´s office, secretarial services and administration
- B1.2 houses the Planning Department offices and the Nicosia Masterplan offices
- B1.3 with more offices for planners and Masterplan related issues
_B1.4 is the main Hall where the Municipality meetings take place and different cultural events and lectures are hosted.
The three office building are interconnected by bridges at first and second floor level allowing workers to freely move and interact between the departments in a fast way enjoying the spaces created at these levels for pause and contemplation
4_Nicosia Town Hall_Stage 2. Nicosia, Cyprus (currently on site)
By contrast, B1.4 -the main hall- is relatively lightweight, a deceptively simple glass, designed to respond quickly to the occasional use for which it is intended. The main conditioning factor in the design of B1.4 was the fact that the building is surrounded by the archaeological remains found on the site. It was thought then as a light glass box floating over the ground. To protect the inside from the strong sunshine of the summer months a “basket” woven through the steel structure was designed.
This wooden basket, apart from reducing the solar gain, allows hot air to rise next to the glass and leave the building through the ventilation flaps at the roof level.
This building was designed to minimize the energy use. The climatization is done through micro-perforation on the floor finish and A hybrid energy policy allows for high efficiency VRV machines to take over when the passive techniques are inadequate during the middle of summer.
5_House in Nicosia, Cyprus (completed)
The house is located in a suburban area of the city of Nicosia on a large site of 3200 m2, surrounded on 3 sides by roads and overlooked by large urban villas. The client, a busy professional, wanted a modern house for family life and occasional large parties with an emphasis on privacy.
Rather than build walls around the property to this end, the garden site was dug out and lowered by approx. 90cm from street grade, with a perimetrical planting zone raised to 1.20 m around. This effectively gave 2.10 earthen wall around the site, which when the planting grows up will provide ample privacy, whilst avoiding overbearing enclosure to the neighbours. The house is set out on a pinwheel plan to create 3 main areas- an entry courtyard paved in basalt sets, a children’s playground under the shade of trees, and a garden & pool court interacting with the main living spaces. It is a long and low house which will substantially disappear behind planting as the years progress. Ramps and steps lead down from the entry court both outside and inside the house to the main garden level.
Space on the ground floor has been treated as open and fluid with views and reflections through the house linking the spaces together. The palette of materials is intentionally kept limited with both smooth and roughened volcanic black basalt, sand blasted air-faced concrete, and perforated steel sheets being the main components. In contrast to this setting, the furniture, objects and most importantly the occupants themselves are seen as the brighter colours & therefore the focus of the house- the lived space of daily life as opposed to the abstract space of design.
Family House in Nicosia, Cyprus
1_Ground Floor Plan
2_First Floor Plan
5_Gate View
4_Entrance View Plan
3_Swimming Pool View
6_Apartment Block in Nicosia, Cyprus
7_Public Park & Underground Parking Competition, Cyprus
1_Ground Floor Plan
2_Detail 1:5
3_Detail 1:5
1_CGI Top View
2_Section AA’
3_Section BB’
8_”Nido Spitalfields” Student Accommodation, Office space & Aparment Block
Mixed Use Development
Contract value: £110,000,000
Private developer: Blackstone Property Management
Middlesex Street in London’s City.
Completed August 2010
Main contractor: ISG to construct Nido Spitalfields
Student Housing
Total GEA: 60,000 sqm
Student : 42,000 sqm
OFFICE: 8,000 sqm
RETAIL + GYM: 2250 sqm
PRIVATE RESI: 1150 sqm
Regeneration & Renewal, October 2007
60,000sqm mixed-use regeneration development comprising 35 storey student accommodation tower, 6.500sqm office space and 11 one and two bedroom apartments private residential plus a number of retail units.
The 33-storey building will provide 1,200 student beds as well as retail units, offices and leisure facilities. The main services for the accommodation were manufactured off site and craned into position.
Located in the city of London “Nido Spitalfields” is a student accommodation complex with over 1200 beds, placed in a 35 storey tower and a 5 floors podium in a residential site where a 70’s building use to stand. The complex has a variety of apartment types from single studios to 6 bedroom apartments where the twin apartment is the most common one. The regeneration development includes also an office building with 6.500 sqm of space and private 11 residential apartments with 1 and 2 bedrooms.
Worked carried out: Coordination of packages, information for tender and construction Scope drawings, Cladding details, Design changes, Structure setting out, Room layouts, Project progress meetings, Roofing packages, Brickwork and Blockwork packages, Dry lining package, Screed package, Plastering packages, Flooring package, Cleaning cradle package, Joinery and Internal Doors package Staircases package, toilets and pods package, Scope drawings, Model making Finishes boards, Presentation brochures, Scope drawings, 1:1 Mock-up Louvre Model making.
Collaborated in the technical design sufficient to coordinate elements of the project Assisted in the preparation of production information in sufficient detail to enable tender to be obtained. Installation and all kind of project requirements and information for delivery. Technical design drawing such as cladding sections, facade singular spots, dry lining details, services installation and all kind of project requirements and information delivery.
9_Semidettached Houses in Pamplona
Tabuenca & Saralegui Associates
Housing Project in Olloki, Navarra
During my 18 months internship at Tabuenca-Saralegui y Asociados while studying at the University of Navarra I prepared CGI’s for CLient Presentations for a Residential Development in the outskirts of Pamplona.
The 16. Semi-dettached dwellings adjust to the sloppy plot with the creation of a split level section.
In my time at T&S I also was involved in the design of a series of street furniture to be used in the various Masterplan project that the office was working on. The design was based in 76 degree angle which was used to create a whole range of benches, street lamps, bins, bollards, etc.
1_South Elevation
2_Section AA’
10_University Work University of Navarre
The project was handed and presented in
Exhibition space, research centre, lecture hall and archives for the Museum of Francisco Goya in Zaragoza, Spain.
During my time as a student I did an internship in Germany working as a Praktikant for three months in the summer of 2003.
As my first professional experience my duties included model making, material presentation boards, hand drawn sketches for interior design views and assisted with the bill of quantities and calculation of budget for an office block project.
The office was awarded several prizes for projects they were working on at that time and they have been published in many technical periodicals, books and daily newspapers.
Diploma Project at the University of Navarre, Spain.
September 2006.
Please note that most of the CGI shown on the grey band on the right hand side of portfolio were not produced by me. They are used for illustrative purposes only.
