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Competition Entry (2019) AFTERLIFE: Concious Reincarnation
Simpsonhaugh Architects, Manchester (2019) Various Projects
BA (hons) Architecture - Year 2 (2017) Center of Serenity
Arkitrek, Borneo - Work Placement (2020) Various projects
Artistic Explorations (2015 - 2020)
01: AFTERLIFE: Concept for a Concious Reincarnation Non-Architecture Competition (2019)
An AFTERLIFE van traverses the street, this is a common sighting in 2025. The van is part of a courier system which transports deceased bodies from their place of death to processing factories which reside in residential areas accross the country. The bodies are reincarnated into a biodegradable plastic (MBMPC) by combining protein, fat and cremated material, mixed with polyethylene and moulded into shape.
This project makes a link to Amazon, mimicking their modes of operation and commenting on habits of consumption. The concept provides an eco alternative to our excessive use of resources, providing the global population with a conscious afterlife.
Rain water is involved with all aspects of the building from aiding to decompose the bodys to generating contemplation. The diagram above highlights the journey that the water takes.
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(Top) An eduction hut within the community centre gardens, aimed at engaging with schools in the local area and providing storage for cultivation tools.
(Above) Schematic concept diagrams exploring the buildings engagement with its site.
Event Hall Facade Detail 1 Steel I-beam column 2 Steel cables 3 Steel transom with spider connector 4 Cork Blocks 5 Bamboo flooring 6 Steel beam and joists 7 Steel stilts 8 Concrete footing
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Constructed Wetland
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The foundations and ground floor slab respond to an inclined site that is on a floodplain. Therefore, a void has been designed to allow excess rainwater to be stored.
A transition from curtain wall, to a pre-cast concrete panel system. Real and dummy joints are utilised within the concrete to create desired motifs. The motifs are designed as a sensitive response to its context, with the building sitting between two periods of Manchester’s history; Victorian Commercial era and the contemporary development of towers.
Concept Drawing
Developing a Form
05: Center of Serenity: A Commemorative Space BA (Hons) Architecture, Year 2 (2017)
Project Nominated for: Rossant Award Women in Property Award
A building which provides spaces for commemoration and mourning in assosiation with a Natural Burial Ground situated in Heaton Park, Manchester. Means of commemoration for all regional cultures and religions are catered for with the building comprising a theatre space, a gallery, areas for dining and meditation pods for individual mourning. This is complemented by a wood workshop to create plaques for the burial ground, staff offices and a cafe.
Long Sectional Perspective
Thresholds leading to the Centre
The design is influenced by compositions within Japanese sacred landscapes. A stream forms a central axis to the building, sourced by rain from a roof aperture, joining a pond at the south of the site which anchors the building into its context. The axis is framed by a longspan timber structure adapted from Japanese Torii Gate designs, forming a ‘ribcage’ to the building. This generates a large adaptable space in the middle, referencing a nave in a typical church arrangement.
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06: Artistic Explorations: Various Projects (2015-2020)
Final piece: mixed media sculptures (Plaster, metal, slate, perpex, timber)
Combining building elements (slate)
Oxford Building Motif Collage (scavenged construction materials, paint, cardboard)
Documenting Building Data (clay)
Pigmented Resin
Ceramic tiles
Pigmented resin and jesmonite
Metal Casting
Documentation of residential drains
The drains become points of collision between man-made and natural systems, in effect, forming a green corridor which cuts through the concrete masses of the city.