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As I finish my BArch, I look forward to exploring prospects within urban design/ humanitarian architecture. Improving one's spatial quality of life inspired me to start my architecture journey, and I plan to continue this passion into my early career.
Final Project
The Inside – Out Factory
The Inside – Out Factory is placed in Digbeth, Birmingham, and is a green technology factory. The key architectural goal of interior space is for people to never feel fully enclosed within their internal location. A flexible design with varied typologies of space within multiple separate building envelopes avoids feeling of dullness and lack of reward, often associated with factory work. This is because connection to the outdoors, achievable through physical placement, material choices and geometric patterns of indoor relationships, boosts well-being and reconnects people with nature. Considering how other mediums can be used architecturally to stimulate innate connection with nature, such as water, creates sensory experiences encouraging relaxation, redefining the boundaries of the workplace. A river on the ground floor of the architecture supplies a blue mind state of relaxation,
The form of The Inside – Out Factory is inspired from the two compartments of Digbeth of interest: the historic industrial architectural language, represented through the wooden lattice frame embracing the building, and the modern movement of sustainable energy expressed within the frame of the curated building envelopes supplying function. This architecturally celebrates the two dialogues of Digbeth in union.
Factory work stigma, such as un-safety, unskilful work, outdated approaches, and lack of prospective opportunity turns people away from the opportunity of manual manufacturing work. This project challenges these stereotypes and stigma by considering which parts of outdated architecture contribute to a negative view of factories, and how generated solutions are reflected within the spatial layouts used to encourage behaviours and relationships.
Factory work is often considered unstable because people don’t feel appreciated or attached to their physical workspaces. To overcome this, all departments provide a welcoming space of outdoor and indoor space to give people more healthy responsibility and a sense of ownership towards their daily space.
Kinaesthetic Revitalisation
Kinaesthetic Revitalisation explores a new category of work of advancement of technological space through analysing two elements of Digbeth, Birmingham: invisible space and industry.
Advanced technological spaces, such as 3D printing labs, vertical farming, and solar panel observation labs provide people the opportunity to utilise and learn physical skills of green technology. These labs are designed with individual learning spaces to optimise the advantage of indirect learning and to separate playful spaces with conventional teaching spaces which occupy more volume.
By moving with modern times of technological change, the historical working skill of the area can be revitalised through a revolutionised form of teaching and learning through a green technology apprenticeship centre, keeping young, vulnerable people away from street crime whilst championing a prospectus future.
Work Experience
CAUKIN Studio: July 2022 – September 2022
During summer 2022, I worked and lived in Zambia for two months contributing towards the Shiyala Kindergarten School architecture project. This broadened my experience to an international scale and enriched my knowledge of masonry builds, as well as fulfilling my passion for improving peoples’ relationships with their space.
Murphy Philipps Associates: August 2021 – July 2022
My Part 1 placement experience was undertaken in London, at a fantastic architecture firm specialising in healthcare and hospital architecture. During my time I worked on interesting schemes such as Great Ormond Street Hospital which educated me on clinical principles and responsibilities involved with architecture and design.
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