Interiors, facade and garden design for a country house in the Stockholm archipelago. Concept, design development and technical coordination done with Fox & Vince design studio.
A modern villa with magical views over the Stockholm archipelago, brought to life with a warm, eclectic and international feel, using the architecture as a balanced envelope to the more vibrant interior. Interior design and bespoke joinery done at Fox & Vince.
design & build of solid ash table with Japanese inspired joinery
Wood + Plastic material hybrid pavilion for “Hybrids” exhibition at Chalmers University, Gothenburg. The aim of this pavilion is to push the limits of both materials. There are no glue, screws or any other fixings in the structure. All that was used here was heat and gravity to melt the PET plastic into position to create a composite. The material thickness is the very minimum that ir needs to be - 4mm plywood and 3mm plastic. Without complementing each other the materials could not perform in this way as they would not create a stiff structure - and this is where the beauty and purity of this concept lies.
National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire, UK - Design, Interior Architecture and tender information for Reception, Retail, Restaurant and Cafe Spaces - in collaboration with Glenn Howells Architects.
RIBA West Midlands Awards 2017 - Building of the Year Regional Award
Design proposal and technical development for Entrance/Reception areas.
Comprehensive refurbishment of the Grade II listed Assay Office in Birmingham into a new creative community for media and tech firms. This included detailed analysis and careful new works to a historic building, working closely with a historic buildings specialist and structural engineers. Taking the project through a successful planning process and up to tender - in collaboration with Glenn Howells Architects.
Design Implementation, Development, Technical Coordination and delivery of the ground floor and podium spaces for Ballymore - in collaboration with Glenn Howells Architects
Creating a display that glimpses into the true Japanese values, history and aesthetic. simple, minimalist, modern, allowing product to be the hero - in collaboration with Green Room Design
Experimental research project about natural form wood in architecture, completed as part of the final master’s thesis at Chalmers University of Technology.
The structure of a tree has evolved in response to the natural forces it was subjected to during its growth, by standardising and sawing wood for mass production, these qualities and natural intricacies are lost. I believe a more natural approach to wood is needed - preserving fibres, understanding its properties and how each part can be used for different purposes. Should we look at each tree individually, harvesting only what we need, instead of clearing whole forests?
This thesis explores a method of 3d scanning three particular trees and using them as efficiently as possible in order to incorporate them into a holistic structure. The focus is also on challenging the conventional approach where wood is being treated as a generic substance. The project takes the point of departure by criticising paradoxes of engineered timber, where we take a natural material, saw it into small pieces, glue it back together, to then only take it through a complex digital manufacturing process in order to use it in organic and geometrically complex structures.
Techniques like cleaving, instead of sawing were used for hundreds of years in boat building, to produce wood that was extremely strong, flexible and stable. These techniques were replaced by sawing wood into standardised stock, in order to get the most wood out of the tree. However, once the natural grain fibres, that are aligned to transmit force are cut, the material immediately loses strength. The final aim for this thesis is a design exercise that combines all the research and knowledge produced during the exploration into a ‘Zero Waste Pavilion’. This pavilion uses real trees that were 3d scanned, showcasing a more natural approach to wood as a building material, using the whole tree, looking closely at its natural properties and how each part can be used optimally, not only focusing on functionality, but also challenging the flatness and lost sense of materiality in the conventional aesthetic of wood in architecture.
Bespoke toolkit for Asics HyperGel Kenzen collection, designed and developed for Asics 5th Avenue flagship store, New York - in collaboration with Green Room Design
Competition entry for 100 years of Bauhaus - The small house of universal design award.
Project Description:
The environment set for the project, is in a future with extreme temperature changes. Due to climate change, the pictured climate has hot and dry summers and cold winters but as time goes by the environment turns into a desert with hot days and cold nights. It is too harsh for farming and greenery outside, therefore the growing areas are moved inside the living space.
The shelter/roof is a vault assembled with modular boxes. They are filled with a high thermal mass in assorted parts which allows the structure to be self-load bearing. The highest mass is put in the lower parts of the vault, making the forces that are projected on the structure to be more vertical than horizontal. The vault is lowered into the ground and the high mass of surrounding earth is compressing the vault to keep its shape.
The higher parts of the vault has boxes with translucent plates which make the boxes lightweight. The translucent parts of the structure allows the space underneath to become a greenhouse.
To allow for air flow through the building, the two short sides of the building volume have vertical windows that can open, creating a wind tunnel through the space.
To fully maximise the farming possibilities within the greenhouse, there are aquaculture tanks underneath the floor in some of the growing areas.
Wood + Plastic material hybrid pavilion for “Hybrids” exhibition at Chalmers University, Gothenburg. The aim of this pavilion is to push the limits of both materials. There are no glue, screws or any other fixings in the structure. All that was used here was heat and gravity to melt the PET plastic into position to create a composite. The material thickness is the very minimum that ir needs to be - 4mm plywood and 3mm plastic. Without complementing each other the materials could not perform in this way as they would not create a stiff structure - and this is where the beauty and purity of this concept lies.
Design of a product focused story for Asics Gel-Kenun MX running shoe. Marrying the idea of lightweight Nimbus clouds and urban running through the layering of colour, lightweight/polycarbonate materials and mirror base to create a floating illusion.
Concept, Design Development, product photoshoot and the retail toolkit, that was adapted for global and bespoke flagship store executions - in collaboration with Green Room Design
design & build of solid ash table with Japanese inspired joinery
Intimate City - Centre for Alternative Learning and Thinking - Brown Hart Gardens, London - Concept Project, Middlesex University
