Aran Shuttlewood – Architecture End of Year Show 2023

Final Project

Dig for Yourself

The Lea Valley’s Institute for Self-Grown Food is a productive afforestation and compost farming project to give people space and time to grow their own food. It supplies London’s future food-growing spaces with planter bed lumber and rich, healthy soil while operating as a gathering centre for enjoying-, learning about- and growing food for yourself.

P2 Project

Squatter’s Garden

Squatters’ Garden manifests as an ecosystem of planters on an adaptable stacked façade, forming inhabited walkways for growing. The vertical framework seeks to give the local community of artists and squatters a megaphone to speak, protest the local landfill site, advertise their bespoke music equipment, express their creativity, fundraise, and above all else, grow food, plants, herbs, and spices. The vertical garden acts as open-source mini allotments, for people to plant, care for, and tend to. They can harvest, consume, sell, cook, share, donate, replant, recycle, or compost.

Awards

2020 Best Pitch in the Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Team Design Challenge, awarded by the Dean of the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, UK.

Work Experience

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 Part 1 Architectural Assistant at
AT Architects Ltd, Leamington Spa, UK.

2020-2021 Lu-Arc Student Ambassador.

May-Aug 2018 Summer Internship at AT Architects Ltd,
Leamington Spa, UK, 3 weeks.

2017-2021 Lifeguard at Nuffield Health Fitness &
Wellbeing Gym, Warwick, UK.