Sample Portfolio

Project 1:GENDER? HOME!

‘Gender? Home !’ originates in the perpetual state of transcendental homelessness that women of the diaspora experience. This thesis aims to re-centre the periphery by creating a gender equitable dwelling.

A major factor for gender inequity in the dwelling is the harsh separations of the processes of production (productive labour) and social reproduction (affective labour) that happens under capitalist systems.

By exploring the opportunities offered by cooperative models when it comes to ensuring ownership and providing a flexible environment for methods of habitation that do not revolve around the nucleic family, I propose a programmatic ecology, a socio-economic and administrative system and lastly a spatial configuration that create equitable living for women of the periphery.

Spatial Sequencing: Building Organisation Systems

Working Method:

By analysing the mundane processes that women of the periphery engage with, in this case Making Onion Tea a spatial sequence is created.(1) Based on that a prototype (2) for habitation is created. Collective Kitchens and urban farming Terraces are combined to create a system for the Dwelling programme of the building .

1. Urban Farming Terraces

2. Collective Kitchens

3. Urban Farming Terraces and Collective Kitchen System

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4. Explode Axo of Urban Farming Terraces and Collective Kitchen System

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1. Spatial Sequence

2. Spatial Prototype : Model for Habitation

1. Collective Garden

2. Collective Kitchen

3. Propagation Box

4. Collective Living Area

5. Smaller Communal space

6. Private Enclosure

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Level 3 : Dwelling program

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Key:

1. Core A : Atrium

2. Collective kitchen A

3. Residential Core B

4. Residential Core C

5. Aeroponics and co-working terrace CD

6. Residential Core D

7. Urban farming terrace DA

Typical Plans: Connections

1:200 @ A1

Using the system of Urban Farming terraces and Collective Kitchens created, the four cores are connected. This enhances community building on the level of the development and provides easy access to all public facilities. The urban farming terraces have two layers, an aeroponics covered part and a more traditional planter part that is open to the elements.

Heat exchange chimney

Terrace farming

Communal kitchen Private dwelling Circulation System

Exploded Axonometric of Core A showcasing the circulation system and the ventilation chimney

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Level 3 Core A Atrium : The Circulation Space is used as a Social Condenser and Community Building Tool

Level 1 Core A Atrium : View Towards the Central Chimney

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Level 3 Core A

1:100@A1

1. Type 1 : 108 m2

2. Type 2 : 81 m2

3. Communal Kitchen , laundry and leisure space

4. Atrium

5. Stairway, positioned to create

connections between

dwellings and collective spaces.

6. Ventilation Chimney for the production spaces expressed in the dwelling programme

Level 3 Collective Kitchen: Urban farm view

Level 3 Collective Kitchen: Gallery view

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*Drawing done 100% in Revit using filters

Family apartment: 108 m2

5. Dining, exposed towards the atrium and circulation area

6. Flexible Living area

The arrangement around the core of the living areas of the apartment creates opportunity for different divides of day and night. Minimal area is dedicated solely to circulation. The inhabitants can flow from space to space, from room to room if they so desire. The layout is flexible with minimal intervention needed for addition or subtraction of traditionally private areas.

Apartment Type

Core A 1:50 @A1

1. Core of the apartment: Kitchen

2. Bedroom 1

3. Bedroom 2

4. Bedroom 3

7. Balcony A

Level 7 View Towards the Roof Garden.

Project 2: Somers Town Community for Women

The project is part of an effort to in-fill the urban voids in Central London with social infrastructure. The Community targets retired single women who can live independently, it offers an alternative to care homes and urban loneliness. The chosen site, Chalton Street, Somers Town is part of the Euston - King’s Cross corridor, a dynamic, vibrant and well-connected location. The 5,5 width of the street’s typical London houses - is used to create a grid for the proposed estate, so the design can be fully integrated into the site.

Type Location

Target Group Category

Academic Project Chalton Street, Somers Town, London, UK

Retired women

Mixed Use : Residential & Ateliers

Long section with Cooking Atelier, Market and Sculpture Atelier Hi-lighted

View from Kitchen towards Music Atelier

Level 2 Fragment of Houses 1 and 2

1. House 1 Library

2. House 1 Stairway

3. House 2 Guest Bedroom 4. House 2 Guest Bathroom 5. House 2 Working area

Sculpture Atelier

Level 4 Fragment of Houses 1 and 2

1. Communal Laundry Balcony

2. Communal Laundry Room

3. Crossing point between Houses

4. Sitting area of Communal Laundry Room

5. House 2 Master Bedroom