The remodelling and renovation of  a flat in Stoke Newington - Currently on site.

Installation

Proposal For The Old Paddling Pool Millfields Park

In Association with Appropri8Theatre

The Cine-Theatre is envisaged as an installation which will transform the site of the Old Paddling Pool at Millfields Park into a dual function pop-up; a cinema and open air theatre for, a day during the month of June.
The Old Paddling pool, which has been disused for several years, already has an amphitheatre like quality which would lend itself to the creation of a stage.

It is intended to make a place that will play host to the work of local Filmmakers and performers and be somewhere the diverse, Clapton community can engage in a shared experience. The Cine on at the Old Paddling Pool would be a testbed project for a process that could be rolled out across various sites in London.

Micro projects are seen as facilitating the exploration of ideas on a small scale. in much shorter timeframes than demanded by larger projects.

These testbed projects are seen as ways of exploring design and production processes.

These lazer  cut objects were geometric doodles derived from a theoretical cut through The Gherkin.  They have become something of a studio motif,  generating patterns which have been proliferate over surfaces, pendants and other small objects.

Installation

Hackney

Urban Histories explores the fictional lives and stories of a victorian house it’s previous occupants. t came about as a result of speculation about who had once lived in a house the Studio was involved in renovating.

In the process of renovation a house, walls are stripped back, old coverings removed, holes knocked through stud and brick walls. A house’s past is hinted at in the layers uncovered; a fragment of 1970’s wallpaper, a victorian tile. What lives have these walls witnessed? Urban Histories seeks to explore these musings through series of vignettes.

The piece was first presented as a work in progress during the LFA in June taking the form of an installation composed of fragments of the house under renovation.

Submission for Bournemouth County Council's competition to create accessible beach huts on Boscombe beach.

Competition

Liverpool

‘Droplet’ Pavilion proposed for the south section of Liverpool and Leeds canal takes its cue from the optical properties of water and droplets in particular. The droplet studded ellipsoid surface traps, refracts, and reflects light capturing images to form a highly visible structure that can act as a focal point for community activity.

The Pavilion is intended to act as a catalyst and repository of local aspirations in Sefton by providing a space which can accommodate a range of community functions. It is envisaged that it will act as a hub and magnet for community activity its façade providing surface for communication, a notice board comprised of prism like structures, It will hold images of community activity past and present. 

Remodelling of a victorian house in Tottenham.

Completed March 2016

Competition

Architect's Journal

Runner Up 

Proposed Installation

Dalston

The Pavilion of Stories draws on traditions from African and Western of storytelling. It is intended to play host to oral storytellers, storytelling, and theatre.

In use it morphs from the typology of Hut to proscenium arch theatre to cinema screen.
It was envisaged as being set in a diverse community such as Dalston which has been the site of much migration, re- cently as a result of the dual forces of global con ict and gentri cation. 

Thus disparate, diasporic communities are juxtaposed, making Dalston at once the site of sometimes uncomfortable tensions but also opportunities for communities to share cultures. 

The pavilion refers to the vernacular of the simple shed and the façade ornamentation draws on patterns from fabrics found locally. It is envisaged that the façade will act as a constantly changing exhibition wall, curated by local groups, featuring the work local artists and school children alike. Whilst the interior will house recorded stories, live storytelling, theatre performances and lm screenings. Thus it is hoped the pavilion would facilitiate the sharing of culture, memories and stories between diverse communities. 

The studio is committed to community engagement and is involved in a number of self initiated projects including the Cine-Theatre on which we are working with our sister organisation Approri8theatre and the RARA collective. It is envisaged that the amphitheatre seating will be constructed out of a pre-existing modular element, possibly the humble brick palate.  

The idea of using these is firstly to re-use existing materials but also to make the theatre construction a simple process with which community volunteers can be part of the construction process.

Written whilst at the Architectural Association, this is a piece of research into the architecture of the Asylum. In 1791 William Tuke lead the project to build The Private Lunatic Asylum to be named, The Retreat. Patients admitted to such an establishment would have included people that we now class as psychotics, neurotics and depressives but also some, social deviants, rebels and misfits, who would later be excluded from the current perceptual frame of what constitutes madness. The modest Georgian building, famous to the cognoscenti of social and psychiatric history, still operates as an institution for the care of the mentally ill and draws in pilgrims from various disciplines. They come to see the place which pioneered the system of care for the insane, known as ’moral treatment’.