PORTFOLIO
Jocelyn Martos Castillo
BA Architecture Graduate
MSA 2025
Ovington Mews
MarcQuinn Bespoke Skylights
The Graduate Tower
Art Installation - MSA Degree Show 2025
[Community, Design & Culture]
Design and construction of an exhibition centre point celebrating the MSA graduating class of 2025. Key challenge- Through iterative prototyping the main construction elements were concluded as follows: braced wood frame, metal rods connected through laser-engraved acrylic plaques (holding graduate’s names), which together create the illusion of a light-weight floating tower of light and colour.
[Climate Resilience & Community]
Taking on the challenges of urban gardening in small spaces, the team designed and constructed the planting and infrastructure for a North facing balcony
The Woodland Retreat is a refuge for creatives in the city. Working wihtin a £500 budget and being renter friendly, the proposal creates an immersive space of relaxation combining a green wall, planters and water features constructed using reclaimed wood
Woodland Retreat
[Social Sustainability]
As cities rise, high-rise living often disconnects communities. The proposal introduces adaptable, facade-mounted spaces that promote interaction between neighbours across floors. These flexible, resident-led spaces foster lasting relationships, turning vertical isolation into social cohesion
“Temporary structures, lasting connections.”
RHS Urban Show 2024: City Spaces: Cloudscapes: North Balcony
Design]
[Reconstruction] Concept Collage
[Social landscapes] Site Analysis Diagram
[Adaptive Reuse for Community Spaces in Crewe]
The Ludic Shed 1
Reflecting on the post-industrial spirit of the site, the project centres around the metal shed as a typological symbol of the metal industries, ever-changing construction values, and the life and labour of railway workers
[1:500 Site model]
The design transforms the existing metal shed, alightweight, temporary structure into a long-standing, vibrant cultural hub, where tangible and intangible memory overlap in both the museum and theatre spaces.
The flexible stage
Communal spaces of storytelling. Memory in artefacts but also live and dynamic in performance.
Incentivizing exploration of the exhibition space and experiences led by light, sound and views. The Box of Curiosities
CNC topography, 3D printed gantries, wood modeling
Structural Strategy 3D Section
The [New] Hybrid Structure
Climate emergency: circular economies
The steel elements of the multi-gable portal frame are reclaimed from the dismantled sheds. The new engineered timber components will be prefabricated.
The [Retrofit] Shed
Climate emergency: circular economies
The project takes advantage of the high adaptability of the shed typology by retrofitting in a mezzanine level.
[The Flexible Stage]
Adaptability
Curtain installation to facilitate space transformation.
Inspired on traditional barn theatres and modern black box theatres the space emphasizes adaptability and shared experience. At night, the museum foyer transforms into a performance venue, with rigging beams reminiscent of railway gantries supporting lighting and spatial change, and reinforcing the project’s commitment to heritage and community.
Facilitating inclusive and safe access to cultural spaces: incentivizing active travel and pedestrianizing heritage space. [Social sustainability]
Restoring and enhancing biodiversity of natural local landscapes with native species [Environmental sustainability]
[Materialities of Re-use]
Retrofitting shed structures and crafting a facade made of reclaimed corrugated
and contrasting it with
Exhibition Wing]
Balustrade Detail
[The Golden Trim]
Train model gallery (Left)
As visitors enter the exhibition wing of the building, they are brought up close to the exposed rigging beams, being able to inspect the “backstage“. This in line with project goals of creating democratic spaces of storytelling.
[Visualisation] [Technical detail]
Implementation of 900<1100 mm railings on mezzanine level and fire stair cores. Building Regulations Part K: Protection from falling, collision & impact
Room with a view (Right)
In the farthest corner of the main exhibition room visitors will find a series of corner windows from which they’ll be able to observe the passing trains under Crewe’s skyline.
Dark oakwood handrail slotted into brass fitting
Welded brass frame bolted into floor plate
[Human-Plant Ecologies in Stockport]
Riparian Marks
Inspired on the cellular patterns of leaves, the proposal stretches along the site creating a new permeable boundary between the noisy urban zone and the ignored River Goyt.
On one side of the site, the public gardens and promenade invite Stockportians in a journey of topographical exploration and learning about their local woods and rivers. On the other extreme the Woodland restoration lab monitors and supports the depleted local ecologies. Finally, the main atrium serves as a central meeting space and learning hub for formal and informal exhchange of knowledge.
Concept
[1:500 Model]
Visualisations
Relating to or situated on the banks of a river.
Atrium (left) Greenhouse sampling (right)
Concept landscaping proposal inspired in chain patterns of cellullar structures in leaves
Riparian promenade and gardens
River Goyt
River Goyt
River Goyt
Transect 1
Transect 2
Transect 3
A Meal in Stockport
Stockport is changing. At the heart of this change is its 19th C Market Hall and the economic and social movement that it generates in the surrounding streets and neighbourhoods. As such, food and cooking has been identified as key
vehicles of creative, economic and social exchange
In this context, 3 dwellings, each with an associated kitchen space has been designed for the ever changing social landscape of Stockport.
Floorplans
Visualisations
Construction
Detail
Short Section