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Academic Project 1 Cultural Compass
Academic Project 2 Power of Nature Trail
Academic Project 3
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Personal Project inLight House
Practice Experience 1 Harbour Hideaway
Practice Experience 2 Rixlade Cottage
Dissertation
Exploring The Dance of Light and Shadow in Architecture: Through Photography
Cultural Compass
ACADEMIC PROJECT 2024
This project is zooming into my previous master plan, which aims to enrich the cultural landscape by introducing new opportunities for residents and visitors. This is a cultural building designed to draw people from the High Street into the park; the building serves as a gateway, guiding visitors through the site. The building’s form harmonises with the site’s grid, ensuring aesthetic appeal, environmental sensitivity, and functional efficiency. Designed to captivate attention, the structure utilises high contrast in materiality and textures, drawing inspiration from the historic fortifications of the Gosport Lines. The exterior’s robust appearance, which reminds of bastions, contrasts sharply with the interior’s soft, light timber finishes, symbolising a journey through a forest. With its unique curves and thoughtful detailing, the structure not only tells a story of the park’s past but also serves as a beacon for cultural engagement in the present and future.
Functioning as a “cultural compass,” the building serves as a gateway to the park, directing visitors through its spaces. A highlight is the comprehensive gallery, showcasing rotating exhibitions by local artists every 1-2 months. This strategy ensures a continuous flow of fresh themes and styles, drawing locals to revisit the centre regularly for new cultural experiences. Flexibility is a crucial aspect, with a multi-purpose ground floor space adaptable for events, exhibitions, and presentations. The design also includes entertainment areas for community gatherings, concerts, markets, and more.
POWER OF NATURE TRAIL
ACADEMIC PROJECT 2022
This building will serve as a gallery space for local artists/ designers. A gallery space would work really well because it would change constantly, which would encourage people to visit more frequently. A showcase of local artists’ work contributes to the community’s unity as well as allowing local artists to showcase their work.
As for the design, I wanted something that would stand out. In light of this, I have chosen a more triangular design. The contrast will attract more people. Additionally, I designed my gallery space to be fully open to allow the path to run straight through it to encourage more people to come in. By doing this, everyone who wants to get past the building has to pass through it, which gives them a glimpse of what’s inside, which may catch their attention. I have decided on using corten steel and weathered wood for the exterior of my building, these weathered materials represent the power of nature. Corten steel will also make my design stand out because its brown/ orange colour will strongly contrast the greens of the grass/ trees.
SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE
ACADEMIC PROJECT 2023
This project was located at a locally well known area in Portsmouth, a well-known tourist destination that includes numerous attractions, such as Spinnaker tower, HMS Warrior ship and Gunwharf Quays. Having designed this building, I strived to make it stand out from its neighbouring buildings while still respecting the history and culture.
This building serves as an exhibition and studio space for local artists/ designers. The main challenge with this project was to design a building that doesn’t block any of the windows on the side of the building next door. My solution to this problem is to open up a gap between the two buildings and cover the existing side with a green wall to make it more aesthetically pleasing.
A simple frosted glass facade covers the front of the building. This creates a strong contrast to the neighborhooding buildings as they are all made up of limestone or brick, with lots of textures and details. As a result of this element of transparency, people are curious and tempted to explore what’s inside.
inLIGHThouse
After finishing my bachelor’s Degree, I was eager to return to design. Therefore, I entered an architectural competition with one of my classmates (all of the work shown in the portfolio is mine).
The project is located in Easdale, Scotland, mainly known for its slate. The task was to create a waiting area for the ferry station. When tackling this design challenge, we aimed for something small that respects the island and a structure that emerges from the landscape. The interior had to have soft, pale timbers to create a warm and calm atmosphere, as well as contrast the harsh, moody outside. The main design feature is the extruded roof, which brings the light in while making the interior feel larger. We introduced fluidity to the design to blend the shape of the skin with the mounts nearby. This curved waiting space also allowed us to maximise views while keeping minimising the size of the building.
HARBOUR HIDEAWAY
While doing work experience at Deniz Beck and Partners, I worked on multiple local community-based projects. One of them being the Harbour Hideaway. Currently, this is only a concept project where we produced different graphical iterations to get sponsors and funding. The design aims to elevate the harbour by adding an educational centre and other facilities overlooking the Rasmar Site. My job in this project was to sketch down our initial ideas, which we would later use to develop, and then turn these iterations into renders to create an atmosphere for the project, which aims to sell our intentions to potential clients. I have also came up with a logo containing all the site’s key features, which we can use later if we produce a website and any merchandise.
Rixlade COTTAGE
PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
At AR Design Studio, I have worked on multiple different scale and type of residential buildings. One of them being Rixlade Cottage. This is an extention project, of an old cottage. I have chosen this project, as this was one of my first real projects, and also the one that i had the most experience, which lead me to learn the most. I have worked on this project from the begining of the technical stage. I was responsible for the deatils draings, as well as fixing up the existing plans and sections (mainly adding in the wall build ups). I have made the details drawings from scratch, using previose AR Design Studio projects for reference. Throughout all of these drawings I had help and guidence from architect. And the labelings were done with close help with arhcitects. Other, than these I have also done the drainage plans, bathroom regulation layouts, as well as electrical layouts.
Exploring The Dance of Light and Shadow in Architecture: Through Photography
DISSERTATION 2024
I love to play with light and shadows in my designs as they build on the atmosphere and mood of the space. With my dissertation, I researched how the dance of light and shadow affects the way we perceive buildings and how it can form an emotional connection to a space.
I used my love for photography as a tool to explore light and shadow. To elevate my research, I explored light and shadow through the lens of a camera. Observing a building with our own eyes and through lenses is completely different because of how many factors can influence the outcome of an image.
To build on this, I went even deeper, so as an artefact, I hand-crafted homemade pinhole cameras out of beer cans. It was a fun journey, with numerous failed attempts, but the outcomes of the raw films were extraordinary.
