Competitions + Models
The Ballot Box, Atelier Astula, Event City, Potilla, Gro[w]svenor Square, Thames Nocturne, Lab City
The Ballot Box - 2020
An entry for the RIBA Summer Installation theme Power by The Bakerloos.
The proposal explored the theme of power as an immersive, inverted polling station. Behind individual polling booths lies a communal meeting table with a beach-side twist! A polling booth is the most private, and yet perhaps the most powerful space of a democracy. When visitors enter the gallery they encounter rows of seemingly individual polling booths - silhouettes moving behind curtains. These are no ordinary booths, each individual entrance opens onto a common space containing an oversized sandpit ‘ballot box’. Here participants could have come together to work as a collaborative decision-making body, giving shape to collective ideas.
image © the bakerloos
Atelier Astula - 2018
A commended entry for the RIBAJ Room within a Room SterlingOSB competition by The Bakerloos.
The proposal showcased how to revamp the Double Diamond Design Model, a method of mapping the design process. A spatial breakdown can help give more detail on the key activities in each of its four stages; discover, define, develop, and deliver. It posed the question of how far design processes can be formalised into frameworks and working environments.
image © the bakerloos
Event City - 2018
Exhibited at the 250th Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The sculptural model represented a city’s non-geographically represented components, time and space, through a colourful display of additivities layers.
Potilla - 2018
A showcased entry for the annual Antepavilion AF competition by JKA.
The proposal looked to nurture and propagate the social potential of informal interactions by transforming the Ouse into a floating ceramic and gardening studio. In partnership with the educational charity Global Generation the self-build scheme proposed a series of workshops along the Regent’s Canal, followed by an additional residency at Granary Square. Throughout the voyage, local groups would have been invited to work together to recycle broken, damaged and unwanted pots, into new pots left behind to green the towpath after the barge cruises on.
Gro[w]svenor Square - 2018
An entry for the Grosvenor Square Open call for ideas by JKA.
The proposal imagined a future for the historical square that focused on the verb to grow. To grow physically, to grow in its choreography and to grow into a place with a wider social appeal and identity. The action captured the essence of how the square could change by natural development, to evolve and adapt over the course of the year as well as during the time of day. The vision was to create a place that reflects the history of the site as a urban garden and build on the nature that was once there and still there today. The aim was to explore both the spectacle and sustainable opportunities planting could offer in an urban environment of the future.
Thames Nocturne - 2016
A shortlisted entry for the Illuminated River international design competition by SJS.
The proposal was for an atmospheric illumination to gradually appear above the Thames at night. It would emerge into the dark space between the 12 main bridges and connect Chelsea to Wapping through the medium of light. The volume of light would be created from a stream of live data collected from the Thames itself. The intensities and patterns choreographed would reflect the richness and complexity of London’s relationship with the river.
image © sjs
Lab City - 2011
A winning master-plan competition entry for the new École Centrale Paris by OMA.
The proposal was to create a “lab city” that contributed to a new educational, social and civic dimension and which would organise a university campus around the engineering school. The surrounding urban development was to become interconnected to the research and innovation by tying it together along a diagonal axis and as a result a re-framing of the collective agreement between private and public.
image © oma