whilst studying at UWE I have developed a deep interest in the emotional and sensory effect spaces have on us. How buildings can heal us as individuals and connect as a community. As a designer I'm curious about how narratives and storytelling builds place-based identity as explored in MArch 1, and how this storytelling can include materials and their detailling as developed in MArch2.
Studying Architecture and Planning as an undergraduate inspired me to engage with large-scale, ambitious projects, giving me the confidence in my ability to read, recognise and reimagine places, centring social and environmental sustainability. While my Part 1 placement taught me how to combine this with economically sustainable practice and the importance of workflow, refining my skills in Revit and Adobe.
As an architect and designer, my future practice aspires to prioritize the experience of space, creativity in the creation process, and truly sustainable designing and
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Documenting the textured, multi-sensory, layered experience of site. The film combines archival footage and audio with the authors own footage across Spitalfields. The music by Rival Consoles exacerbates the journey between overwhelm and calm.
Sitting behind the Historic facade of the Whitechapel Washhouse, the new Washhouse cleanses the spirit of Londoners navigating burnout and overwhelm. Woven willow facade panelling, timber-frame with light-weight aluminium roof and stair.
The building is arranged to take you on a journey; from the overwhelm of modern life, to a grounded connection to yourself and your spirit. Starting with resetting through sensory devprivation, each floor rebuilds your senses through the four elements.
Materials lead the scheme; colour, texture, smell and spiritual responses it stirrs. The outer circulation core has a woven willow panel system on the outer edge, with cork cladding the floor, wall and ceiling. Rammed earth at lowerfloors cocoons+ groundsyou
The plan for each floor was based upon a cyclical journey, asceding the building anti-clockwise. During the ascent you pass through cleansing water showers, purging through sauna/fire, up to restorative light therapy before a clockwise descent returns you outside
Almost overlooked, the entry invites you in as the rammed earth curves into the building. Theres a striking contrast between the modernity of the building form and the traditional application of building materials and practices.
