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How can the violent strokes of paint - found in late 20th century portraiture painting - become not merely representational but productive and suggestive of an architecture? This inherent space between the surface of paint and canvas is where this research project exists. Can investigating and stretching this space inform a design process saturated by its own duration; where drawings must be constructed and models must be drawn simultaneously and in the same move; where the relationship between theory and creative practice is a progressive dialectical back and forth rather than a hierarchical sequence? This question is negotiated through three paintings which test a formal repertoire devised from the paintings of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.
DETAILS: Year 2 - design project - composite painting triptych
Unlike Bacon or Freud my subject is not a person. It is, however, arguably a ghost disguised by its monumental concrete aesthetic. Scattered across former Yugoslavia we find these haunting reminders of a lost county and state of mind. They have seen many winters, many wars, many changes. So, do they persist: because once they stood for something, or because you are endlessly forgetful? Through painting, the project proposes the reconfiguration of a war memorial near Sarajevo to create a public space with a new identity. An architecture that legitimises itself as a platform for creative public expression through the appropriation of its history.
DETAILS: Year 2 - design project - sectional model of proposal
Waffle House is a refined refurbishment and modern side return extension of a Victorian townhouse. To effectively design for a fast growing young family, is to design flexibility. With a tight site, and modest budget, we created a new space that is largely undefined. Such that - in a space filled with light, air, and timber - the family can creatively misuse their home for the purposes of everyday life.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 1-6, Project Architect
DETAILS: Private domestic client, London, 150K, Completed 2021
Extension to, and reconfiguration of a Victorian townhouse in Haringey. A modest, teraccotta clad side return extension allows the previously cramped kithcen area to breathe, and the removal of part of the floor above allows a damatic double height space above the dining table at the rear. An integrated planter within the kitchen worktop brings greenery into the centre of the home.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 1-6, Project Architect
DETAILS: Private domestic client, London, 150K, Completed 2022
Extensive refurbishment, rear extension and landscaping works to a large terraced house in North London. The project aims to mediate between the distinctive character of the existing house, and the new extension. Opening up the rear of the property creates a dramatic kitchen / living area, with the dining room housed in the new extension. The home’s new layout is a mix of open and broken plan design, with double-height ceilings and windows and a newly cutout mezzanine that allows for light to enter. The kitchen sits below this mezzanine, playing with levels and views. An attached, enclosed dining area has custom furniture and lighting.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 2-4, preparation of drawings & schedules
DETAILS: Private domestic client, 900K, Completed 2016
AWARDS: Iconic Awards 2020 winner, Build 2020 - winner, Homebuilding & renovating awards 2019 winner, Dont Move, Improve! 2019 shortlisted
The brief was for a building that inhabits the landscape as a piece of sculpture. It was to be analogue, not digital. Natural, not synthetic. Mechanical, not electrical. Matte, not gloss. Not fussy. Comfortable, not luxurious. Solid.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGE 4 - preperation of tender package
DETAILS: Private client, 500K, Completed 2016
AWARDS: AIA Award - winner 2015
Previously a worn out first floor flat with 2 lock up garages beneath, we transformed this mews building into a 3 bedroom house. The existing first floor courtyard has been brought down to the ground floor, where frameless glazing brings light into the living / kitchen area. A single tree fern inhabits the space. (Fern fronds in the process of unfurling when photographs taken)
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 1-5, Job Runner
DETAILS: for The Howard De Walden Estate, Marylebone London, 350K, Completed 2020
Portraiture has been an ongoing interest alongside my studies and professional career. Having been completed sum twenty portrait commissions to date the work has influenced my approach to architecture, particularly during my time at the RCA.
DETAILS: Oil on Canvas, 72x48”
AWARDS: Selected for TALP Art Prize 2022
Previous portrait works exhibited at The Mall Galleries 2011, RBA Star Students
collection of previous works
DETAILS: acrylic on canvas
A commercial-led, mixed-use scheme offering: seven floors of best-in-class office space, an activated public retail ground floor, and replacement of existing residential units on site. Shaped around an extensive and detailed sustainability analysis which investigated the existing buildings on site and looked at how the operational energy of the building in use can be reduced, biophilia and urban greening increased and social sustainability enhanced, all whilst exceeding ambitious upfront carbon targets (across A1-A5, i.e. from cradle to practical completion).
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 2-3, Architect
DETAILS: Derwent London + Lazari Investments, with the Portman Estate, Marylebone London, 350M, Currently awaiting planning approval
A commercial-led scheme offering: a highly sustainable 26-storey building (plus mezzanine and two basement levels) extending to 108 m AOD, providing high-quality office floorspace (Class E). A new public realm including the creation of a new entrance to London Bridge Underground Station. Restoration of listed Georgian terrace buildings along St Thomas Street, and reconstruction of Keats House with retention of existing façade to provide affordable workspace (Class E). Delivery of publicly accessible rooftop garden with high-quality landscaping and the facilities of a restaurant and a panoramic café.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 2-3, Architect
DETAILS: GPE (St Thomas Street) Limited c/o Great Portland Estates plc (GPE) London, 350M, Currently awaiting planning approval
The CAT A Refurbishment & Extension of this former school building, dating from 1849, has created a 5,000sqft self-contained office building. Tucked away down a passage-way close to Paddington Street Gardens, the interior refurbishment and external alterations have given the building a new lease of life, improving daylighting and visual connectivity between office floors, and improving the building’s relationship to Grotto Passage.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 2-5, Job Runner
DETAILS: for The Howard De Walden Estate, Marylebone London, 400K, Completed 2020
Remodelling of a series of retail units in Seven Dials, London. The character of the area is influenced by the tight-knit urban grain, the particular scale of the buildings and the narrowness of the streets. The new shopfronts reinstate the rhythm of the original Richard Siefert Building, but with contemporary materials.
INVOLVEMENT: STAGES 2-4, preparation of drawings & schedules
DETAILS: for Shaftesbury Covent Garden, London, Completed 2019
It is Japanese tradition that the community look after their shrine, and the shrine looks after its community, spiritually - but why not socially / economically / educationally too? The Craft of Sumo proposes the reconfiguration of Nomi No Sukuni Shrine, Sumida, Tokyo as a new Sumo training facility and living quarters designed for the under-represented rise of women’s Sumo.
DETAILS: Year 1 - design project - portfolio pages extract
The progression of women’s sumo has been stifled by its origins (during the 1700’s) in prostitution houses. Rather than looking to conceal such a past here the architecture wears it as armour, and conceptual basis of its form. The aesthetics of human flesh suspended by rope became the architectural language of the project, later formalised as a lightweight monocoque plywood structural skin - hanging above the existing shrine - inside which the buildings occupation took place.
DETAILS: Year 1 - design project 2no. large format paintings, on canvas + structural model
RCA year one offered a live project to all design units to collaborate with British Land and design a 1:1 protoype to be implemented throughout their new co-working office spaces. My unit was selected by British Land, and myself and two others from the unit chose to see the project to fruition. We worked with the head designer from Ercol Furniture to fabricate the 1:1 protoype which was later exhibited at the British Land offices.
DETAILS:
1: Cabin on the edge of the woods, Somerset. designed and self built over a few weekends.
2: Birch plywood ‘curved wall’ designed to provide private spaces to make calls, sleep, and work, within open plan co-working offices.
3: series of bespoke furniture designed for flat refurbishment project on Harley Street, London.
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From imagined Metaverse futures, to AI lighting, these projects have been pursued in parallel to my professional career as a platform to develop technical skills and pursue aesthetics.
DETAILS:
1: Competition entry offering an ‘NFT gated’ public space within the metaverse, whereby NFTs could be obtained through community services in our offline/physical world; bridging the gap between our online and offline self.
2&3: Sculptural lighting design, created in Maya and developed with AI DALL-E.
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If a monument could speak, what would it say?
Scattered across the former Yugoslavia we find haunting concrete ghosts of a lost country and state of mind Their message was to remain united in order to be indestructible A message unfulfilled to this day A game of (ones) identity The eternal recurrence of the same
DETAILS: 10minute short film (self motivated)
AWARDS: Selected for the Solaris Film Festival 2020, nominated for ‘Best Cinematography (short film)’
