MArch: Reflective Journal

This blog is a space to document the final year of my Master of Architecture degree at the Leeds School of Architecture. It will be a...

It is my view that the success and value of any given piece of architecture is dictated not by its adoption of any particular style, form...

My MArch1 work was created in the context of Keith Andrews’ Abstract Machine studio. This studio focused on a prototypical design...

My design thesis project, Laboratory of Productive Ecologies, is sited on Pomona Island, a strip of brownfield land bounded by the...

Key to my design process has been a hybrid technological toolkit, amalgamating digital and analogue tools in interlinked programmes of...

On the Pomona site, the Laboratory of Productive Ecologies will continue to develop in 4-yearly phases. The primary programme is always...

Trafford Local Plan: Core Strategy (TLPCS) (figs.1,2, Appendix E), adopted by Trafford Council in 2012 and setting out their vision up to...

The present reality of the site is that it is owned by The Peel Group and is earmarked for mixed-use development by them. Prior to this,...

With regards to the three major project management constraints of cost, time, and scope/quality, time is the least pressing issue...

The architecture practice running this project, Productive Ecologies Architects, will work from a small office on the site. This is to...

After completing my Master of Architecture degree, I would like to find employment as a Part 2 architectural assistant in a small to...

This evening a member of UVW-SAW, Taty, phoned me to welcome me to the union and explain to me more about its workings and ways that I...

Due to the current circumstances of the university lockdown, in lieu of the semester 2 final review with external critics we have just...

At the end of DS3, I had used the growth of bacteria in a petri dish as a visual analogy for how the site could develop in phases. Of...

One of the aspects of my project that has taken a bit of time to work out is the phases of development, how this correlates with the food...

I have just submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology C (DSIT C) report. This is the second component that makes up the MArch2...

In a previous blog post, I mentioned how Geraldine Dening of ASH brought the new trade union for workers in the architecture industry to...

This week, instead of having a tutorial over video call with Nick, we were timetabled to have self-organised peer-review sessions. The...

As one of our two sessions with engineering consultants for technology was cancelled in the run-up to lockdown, and as we have been...

By this stage, the university and department have fully accepted that the closure of all campus facilities will continue until the end of...

By this stage, I have conducted a fairly substantial amount of research and investigation into most aspects of the construction process...

After testing out bracing, I've now moved back to the main set of physical testing, focused on fabric formwork. The latest aspect of the...

As an update to the blog post on the Fabricate 2020 conference from a few days ago, I have found out that the Fabricate 2020 book has...

About a month on from having a discussion with Chris Matthews, I've now had the opportunity to run my scheme past another engineer, Peter...