It’s impor­tant to think care­fully about what we design. Not just about how it looks, or what it’s made out of, but wider issues of how it effects the peo­ple around us, the envi­ron­ment and how we live. This is an inte­grated part of my design work.

But it’s not just about think­ing by one­self. It’s about dis­course, debate and a the abil­ity to adapt your ideas as the design prob­lems change. All of these activ­i­ties are only pos­si­ble through the inter­ac­tion of design­ers with their clients, col­leagues and wider com­mu­ni­ties. So please feel free to get in touch if you would like to dis­cuss ideas, archi­tec­ture, design or any­thing else.

My think­ing at the moment is focused on how small spaces can deliver multi-modal pro­gram­matic func­tions within the most effi­cient con­struc­tion bound­aries. I’ll be putting up more writ­ing on this topic soon, but in the mean­time please take a look at the range of spec­u­la­tive projects pre­sented here.

DESIGN APPROACH

I approach archi­tec­ture and design as way of address­ing chal­leng­ing issues. It’s a way of think­ing about prob­lems and what we can do to pro­vide con­sid­ered, per­sonal solu­tions. It’s about being inno­v­a­tive in this prob­lem solv­ing, with­out for­get­ting how we came to this point.
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STAIRWAY CINEMA

Stair­way Cin­ema uses archi­tec­ture as a way of engag­ing in a dis­cus­sion about cura­to­r­ial prac­tice, oppor­tunis­tic urban­ism and the role of Archi­tects as place-makers and provo­ca­teurs. It is the third major instal­la­tion of OH.NO.SUMO. Con­tinue read­ing →

MOMOYO KAIJIMA OF ATELIER BOW WOW

Since form­ing Ate­lier Bow-Wow in 1992, Yoshi­haru Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kai­jima have been pro­duc­ing some of the quirki­est and most sub­tly nuanced work of their gen­er­a­tion. Their seem­ingly light hearted name masks what is an extremely insight­ful research based prac­tice. Con­tinue read­ing →

PALIMPSEST & THE MODERN GRIEVING SPACE

Archi­tec­ture has the power not only to frame sig­nif­i­cant moments within our lives, but to actively project our val­ues and sup­port us within these moments. One of these moments is the fare welling of a loved one. This project exam­ines the archi­tec­ture of griev­ing within the con­text of land­scape and con­text. It aims to exam­ine what fac­tors must be taken into account in the design of con­tem­po­rary archi­tec­ture on sites which exhibit a palimpsest of cul­tural, land­scape and socio-economic his­to­ries. Con­tinue read­ing →

OH.NO.SUMO.

OH.NO.SUMO. is a col­lab­o­ra­tive design stu­dio that I jointly run with Patrick Loo, James Pearce and Kather­ine O’Shaughnessy. We have worked together for a num­ber of years on projects that are out­side the bounds of con­ven­tional archi­tec­tural prac­tice. Con­tinue read­ing →