Armley Strategic Masterplan, Leeds

Undergraduate Project

A group project with Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Canal and Rivers Trust to develop a strategic-level masterplan for Armley and NewWortley in south Leeds. The design proposals were driven by a programme of community consultation to help ensure interventions were duly considered, justified, and responsive to residents real-life needs.

An art trail linking Armley and New Wortley to a proposed community hub is one of the key features of the final masterplan. These collages from pictures taken along the route of the art trail show the intention of creating large and small scale interventions that respond and reflect on Armley’s history and community. Each instillation should be an expression of where it was, urban or natural. Ultimately these works should come from the community, as a chance to have a tangible positive impact on where they live.

Armley Park Gateway, Leeds

Undergraduate Project

A follow on from Armley Masterplan, this module was a deeper exploration of one of the proposed interventions. In this case, a public art piece that was to double as a landmark-entrance for a major park in south Leeds.

A clay model was invaluable to informing curvature and gradients: using the path itself to set up views of the surrounding park and city, to then be reinforced by a series of corten-steel frames.

The frames themselves are a nod to the wool industry and the 'tenter field' that had once occupied the park, where cloth would be stretched taught between 'tenter hooks' to protect against shrinkage. Now the fabric on the tenter frames could be used by the community, schools, and groups as a means to create a tangible expression of themselves onto where they live.

Anglia Square, Norwich

Detailed masterplan for a new neighbourhood in Norwich delivering 1200 new homes, 11ha of new and enhanced public space, and redevelopment of a central public square and canopy.

Joining the project at the start of Stage 2, I was part of a team collaborating with Broadway Malyan Architects to deliver to planning.

I was Involved in concept and design development, detailed drawing packages, and visualisation.

Norwich's rich medieval character is to be reflected in the master-planning of this development. Historic pedestrian avenues are reinstated and give way to smaller scale through-routes and ginnels. Residential blocks are focussed around an internal, semi-public 'yard': a trait seen in much of Norwich's housing.

This incurred detailed study of materiality to reflect hierarchy of public space and incurring programming. A concise design language between each street-scape or yard would create a legible, cohesive public realm.