A Place Fit for People, Leeds

Heritage and infrastructure project creating a new citycentre park and supporting green infrastructure for social housing and cultural facilities in Leeds Innovation District.

Seeking to connect and unify one of the few open spaces in Central Leeds, the proposed city park would cap the existing ring road, creating a single expanse of public open space, populated with allotments, arts facilities and community gardens.

Within the design language there is a conscious movement towards the ornamentation and texture that exists within many of Leeds' institutional and industrial buildings. A series of cast iron arches enclose raised planters. Each arch is adorned with a gilt loop of cast iron 'fabric'; a nod to the city's past as an industrial giant of the fabric industry.

Zodiac Court, London

Community gardens, play space and workshop space, adjoining a permitted development project in South London. A community consultation led process, the outward-facing forecourt aims to provide accessible public space in an otherwise hard urban street-scape.

Working with ShedKM Architects, I was part of a team at Planit-IE that took Zodiac Court to planning. I worked on site analysis and concept development to create a concise design intent for the contractor to detail.

A series of public and semi-private spaces are to be linked with a cohesive design language that is explored and stretched throughout to give each space a distinct and responsive character.

Level changes within the architecture and surrounding context enable a considered breakdown of sheltered spaces. This in turn results in a more engaging journey throughout: views become framed and movement more purposefully drives a transition in character and programme.

2 Finsbury Avenue, London

Professional Project

A future City of London skyscraper that seeks to integrate nature as a fundamental element of the architecture. The project encompasses both exterior and interior design through from RIBA stage 1 to stage 4 across 12 months.

Sketch exploring materiality as a means of level transition (Hand drawn, Photoshop)

As part of a team, working with 3XN and Adamson's Architects, I was responsible for concept and design development, visualisation, detailed drawing package and BIM modelling.

This project was an intensely collaborative interdisciplinary process, seeking to create a seamless integration between public and private space, both exterior and interior.

Each typology of planting and materiality had to respond uniquely to its setting and intended programme, eventually requiring 4 separate design packages. Interior planting was to remain as fluid and seasonal as the outdoors. Scheduled rotations of displays, instillations and events would keep the planting integrated into the every day running of the building. The landscape hereby takes on another dimension beyond flowering, fruiting, and seasonal colour.