Thesis | Showcase

Can Heideggar's 'being-in-the-world' emerge from an Architecture of Essentiality?

Presentation of my thesis question to Roger Tyrrell and the rest of the Emergent Studio, with invited guests Adrian Carter of the University of Aalborg and Nick Timms of the University of Portsmouth's Landscape Studio. My question was expressed through the creation of an artefact - a stripped out dolls house with a cave space carved from one of its rooms, with a candle in the centre representing the hearth - to demonstrate that the essence of a house is a cave. I pose the question can design based upon first principles (rather than an established historical typology), create a truthful architecture that gives its inhabitants a greater awareness of their own existence; this will be explored in full for my next project, a Spiritual Retreat in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Publications | Coming Soon

Tectonic Transgressions

A photobook recording the unique qualities of light found whilst on study trips to Finland, Denmark and Estonia (the North) and Morocco (the South).

INDIA Summer 2010 (with Vinesh Pomal)

A photobook recording our travels from inception (Vinesh being awarded the RIBA Barrington Smith Travel Award 2010) to reflection (Vinesh and I giving a lecture at the Portsmouth School of Architecture).

Nordic Transgressions | Orestad Church Competition (with Paul Cashin)

I worked with Paul Cashin to design a non-denominational church for a new community in a Copenhagen suburb. The congregation would first find a site in the scrubland outside the town, then build a fire which they would use to fire bricks made from clay on the site, which would then be used to build the church.

The central hearth is accessed from a tunnel starting beneath the bell tower in the town square, from which horizon and sky chapels radiate.

I also designed a clay votive candle to light an otherwise dark world.

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Nordic Transgressions | Linen Handkerchief

Nordic Transgressions | Basgvaerd Church (with Joshua Kievenaar and others)

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