MArch: Reflective Journal

As I sit and write this blog post from my flat in Leeds, I was supposed instead to be in London attending the Fabricate 2020 conference....

As well as carrying out my own physical modelling tests, I knew that I could also learn a lot about the fabric formwork process by...

The last week or so has seen a rapid change at the national level and also at the university level, due to the rapid escalation of the...

Having roughly devised a strategy for bracing the bamboo against the tension of the fabric and the weight of the cast material, based on...

For the next phase of physical testing, I wanted to look at how different types of fabrics or membranes would affect the casting process...

For this latest review, Nick had invited Ian Fletcher, a tutor in undergraduate architecture, to be our guest critic. Joe Mills...

Keith Andrews organised for Rosemarie Andrews from Bryden Wood to come and talk to us and then give us each individual tutorials on our...

Over the many hours spent putting together Grasshopper definitions to create the forms that I am proposing, including the indentations...

I was asked by Anna Pepe, studio leader of 1st year undergraduate architecture, if I would participate as a guest critic in their interim...

A few weeks ago, Nick mentioned that a contact of his, Chris Matthews, a structural engineer from Atelier One, may be a useful person for...

This week, Simon Warren invited two students, Hanzla Asghar and Jake Wright, who graduated last year from his studio, Cityzen Agency, to...

This week in the Open Lecture Series there were two talks which very much focused on what architects can do in the community as a force...

This Friday I went on a trip to Liverpool, to see the 'Forest of Fabrication' exhibition at RIBA North, and also to explore some more of...

This week's Open Lecture Series lectures were on the theme of Future Cities. Drone Futures: UAS for Landscape & Urban Design Paul Cureton...

Nick arranged for Adam, who had been the guest critic for our final review of last semester, to come and give us some tuition on Rhino,...

As part of the Open Lecture Series, a number of postgraduate students were asked to present work, to showcase some of the things being...

The initial two fabric formwork tests were both based on hanging the fabric loosely from a frame and then draping the material over...

The Context Symposium, organised by tutors architecture tutors Mohamad Hafeda and George Epolito, was one of the best symposiums that I...

For the last couple of weeks, I parked my physical modelling tests whilst I focused on pulling together my DS3 portfolio for the draft...

Handing in DS3 marks the end of semester 1's work. Overall I was fairly happy with the work that I handed in for this draft submission....

I returned to the site a week after the previous visit, with the primary aim of attaining the photos for the photographic site sections...

Thinking ahead to the need to physically print out and bind my design work into portfolios, I have been weighing up different formats...

With the Technology module out of the way and the DS3 draft hand-in coming up imminently, it has felt like a good time to really...

In the second iteration, the variable that I changed was the heights of the bamboos. I retained equal heights around the perimeter, but...