BA Third Year
Final year at Canterbury School of architecture. Throughout the year I wanted to explore timber architecture at different scales.
The first project, the activist project, explores a computationally generated shape, which is then rationalized into a timber cell structure.
The second project, the housing project, explores how to generate a housing typology, while utilising affordable and sustainable timber products, that are easy to build with.
The final project, the Institute of computational design and sustainable development, explores three different forms of timber construction, with a main basis in CLT developments in Hungary.
Institute for Computational Design and Sustainable Development
Final project based in Budapest, Hungary. The project explores different forms of timber construction, and how they can be integrated into an urban environment. The narrative is based around the client which is The Institute for Computational Design and Sustainable Development.
The main element of the complex is CLT, which is based on recent research conducted in Hungary, which explores using poplar lamella in the CLT.
The pages below are the submitted portfolio pages for the project, and explains the project in a linear fashion.
Housing
The housing project was based in Aylesham, England. It explored a semi-detached housing typology for crafting families. Designed to make sure that the family has spaces where they are all connected, and at the same time have a space to do their crafts.
The streets are made to be pedestrian areas, that promote interactions and connections through workshops facing the streets.
The move to make the streets pedestrian, was so that there would be a safe space for the community to wander around and at the same time it would promote opportunities for events in the streets.
The homes were designed to fit in the same price range as the housing that exists around the site, while at the same time reinvigorate the community spirit that existed in Aylesham before.
Protest
An activist focused project based in Cable street London. The pulpit explores how architecture can broadcast a message and help communicate what the client is say.
The client in focus is talking about green space, and how green space in the city is challenged by new construction. How green space is being trapped by structures while architecture could be a vehicle for more green space.
