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Academic work samples

Designing a polemical intervention to claim back the agency in architecture
for the benefit of the “many and not the few”, can stand as an advocacy
to resolve current issues in regards to the current housing crisis.
In response to the unfortunate fire that happened in Grenfell tower and
the dem- olition of Robin Hood gardens, our studio brief is propose a
housing infrastruc- ture project that provides structural framework and
building services to house and serve 129 flats that coincides with the
number of families that lost their home in the Grenfell fire. It includes
pre-requisites such as to design a pre-cast concrete frame- work to be
filled in by the resident’s flats and to provide a self-build flat scheme for
the residents in which they have the opportunity to be able to choose
materials that they can afford rather than settling for what is given to
them.
The proposal are made of two interconnected, continuous modular
structure that will provide new residents a chance to build a community
with the existing residents while introducing the site to the pedestrians
- by designing the ground floor as public space with a walkway that
connects the high street and the park. The repetitive grids reflect on the
standard measurement of the ordinary materials while the designation
of each space was precedented by Herman Hertzberger’s spatial organisation
theory and analysed through the point of view of inhabitants’ use
of space that could take place.
Holland Park: “Agency”
Academic Project 7 A.Y. 2017/2018
A polemical response to Grenfell tower and social housing

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3D STRUCTURE SAMPLE
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3D STRUCTURE SAMPLE
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JOINT DETAILS
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24. Gypsum board supported by furring
channels and hung as suspended ceiling,
Hanger wire
25. Adjustable ceiling spotlight
26. Galvanised steel cable trunk
27. Galvanised steel conduit trunk and fittings
28. 2 way push dimmer steel light switches
29. Galvanised steel double socket with USB
30. 12 mm laminated wood flooring
65 mm screed with UFH pipes
Polythene waterproof lining
35 mm sound insulation sheet
100 mm EPS thermal insulation sheet
Vapour barrier
Precast concrete slab with T-beam system
100 mm acoustic foam
Acoustic foam mount
31. Light switch
32. Cast iron radiator
33. Outdoor pendant LED lighting mounted
into the T-slab used for deck access and public
walkways
34. Precast concrete element that serves as
eave and shading mount
35. Steel anchor to secure the window frame
to the wall construction
36. Double glazed window with galvanised
steel frame
37. Snap-in glazing beads
38. Window flashing
39. Resident’s choice of exterior material
cladding e.g. wood tile, weatherboard, corten
steel, fibre cement sheet, corrugated aluminium
sheet, etc.
Cladding rail
Air gap
Vapour barrier
12 mm fibreboard sheathing e.g. OSB
150 mm EPS thermal insulation (between
a wood stud wall)
9 mm fibreboard sheathing
60 mm cellulose acoustic insulation
Resident’s choice of interior material cladding
i.e. plywood, magnesium oxide board,
dry wall, plaster or gypsum board, tiles, etc.
Skirting board
40. Precast concrete element seating
41. Drainage
42. Precast concrete ground beam
43. Dowel reinforcement bar interlocking the
precast concrete ground beam and precast
concrete pile cap, non-shrink grout
44. Precast concrete pile cap
45. Precast concrete pile

Cosumar: “Homage”
Land privatisation is the current world wide trend that drives the housing industry to build high
end residential projects while providing with little to none affordable homes. As the value of the
land continues to rise, old villages which houses generations of families can be easily subjected
for demolition to make way for an infrastructure development. The same can be said for the
pre-World War II dwellings of Cosumar in Casablanca, where the housing village for workers of
a sugar refinery is in danger to be taken away from its residents to make space for the expansion
of the factory.
As a part of the joint workshop with Ecole d’ Architecture Casablanca, the studio travelled to Morocco
to be exposed on a radically different context and distinctive cultural and social values to
observe through the “eyes of a foreigner” that sees things that, through habit, have been invisible
to locals.
To continue the exploration of housing typologies that provide for urban density as well as quality
of life, that are economically feasible, the studio was to propose a project that can contribute to
the current situation in Cosumar with a distinct “way of seeing” that simultaneously pays homage
to what is there and brings new expectations for the future. With the lessons learned from
its people, experiences and data collection through photography, sketches, interviews and site
surveys, we were to propose a mixed-use residential structure with the purpose of providing the
community with ideas that they could use as reasonable proofs to keep their town.
The proposal responded to the brief by reflecting the relationship between the factory and the
company town. The scheme proposes a hand embroidery studio and workshop with dwelling
units for the teacher and possible, visiting artists. It is set to be beneficial to the women of Cosumar
as the sugar factory only hires men. Providing an opportunity of work to the home stayed
mothers and grandmothers is a way to initiate equality in regardless of age and gender, taking into
consideration that homemakers have the capability to contribute to their family income. It is also
a response to the bias gender role issues our society is currently facing.
The scheme proposes a series of interior inhabitation spaces interconnected by a system of courtyards.
It comprises of two housing units in-between two embroidery workshops. The structures
are enclosed using a continuous perforated wall, creating an illusion of a singular structure when
viewed from the exterior.
Urban placemaking as counteraction against eviction
Academic Project 6
A.Y. 2016/2017 Winter

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SAMPLE: I did a sample setting a scene using
my model photogaph and just edited a few of the
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“What does regeneration would mean in the future? Will it impose or will it mimic?”
The Ham Close Uplift is an ongoing regeneration project for Ham Close Estate. This is due
to its flats’ construction and insulation falling below the current regulation standards. The
public and its residents were invited to join the public meetings and consultations along with
the estate owner and the council. The proposal was to redevelop the site by replacing all of
the existing structures with an increase in density which the people opposed to, citing two
negative effects.
Regeneration projects tends to break up communities due to the relocation of its current
residents. Therefore, the studio looked into social housing and the idea of communal living.
Our brief was to collectively design a masterplan that has shared layout, parking spaces and
allocated plots for the individual proposals. Each proposal would comprised of two dwelling
units that engage each other in a mutually advantageous relationship. Pre-requisites include
the overall height limit of around 4-5 levels and a sectional relationship between proposals.
Whilst taking precedents from the existing estates and maisonettes, the explored concept was
Louis Kahn’s spatial principle of ‘served and servant spaces’. It involved splitting a single
volume into many, categorising them into two types of spaces - served (perceived and experienced
as a habitable wall e.g. living room, bedroom, dining room, study, etc.) and servant
(kitchen, storage, closets, bathrooms, area of circulation such as stairs and hallways). Meanwhile,
the idea of boundary was taken - positive and negative boundaries can be dynamic
through the use of grids on plans and sections (Grids: walls as rooms) to simplify the concept.
The entire width was split into an equal grid of three where the two-thirds define the living
space and the remaining third act as an area of circulation - exterior stairs. The habitable
space denotes density with its program consisting of two flats with living, kitchen, dining,
bathroom and double bedrooms. Meanwhile, the stairs act as both the connection and the gap.
Whilst it links the units vertically and horizontally, it also breaks the collective proposal’s
continuous facade. Its only aim was provide another access route for the residents into the
building but the “5th elevation” emerged as a part of the design.
Ham Close: “Dwelling Island”
HORIZONTAL& VERTICAL BOUNDARIES
Textures and Materials as Modular technique
Using this technique, one can create a certain
feeling or atmosphere depending on what kind of
material is used.
Academic Project 5
Drawings explaining boundaries
Using line sketches to simplify some of my photographs,
I created illustrations where I only used
straight lines that differ in thicknesses. These created
depth and perspective but also made it a little
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abstract.
Like background and foreground, this technique
gives us clues as to which could be the part of
the negative and positive space. This then can be
interchange depending on how you look at it reminding
us of optical illusions.
This concept can be used in my design by making
the windows as if they were cut through it.
It is nice to experience a space not just by our visual
senses but as well as our sense of touch or
smell. Architecture should always give enough
arousal for our senses to respond to the space.
A.Y. 2016/2017 Autumn
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Collective living as an alternative solution to redevelopment

Studio Outcomes:
- Site model of Ham Close at scale 1/500 Group:
- Model of Dwelling Island formed of individual models
at scale 1/50
Individual:
- Model at scale 1/50 to be assembled into groupmodel
- Plans, sections, elevations at scale 1/50
- Perspective, of interior or exterior space
- Axonometric, showing spatial principle
Group Dwelling Island 2:
Abdi, Ash, Kristal, Reece, Imran, Yanjela, Camille
Initial masterplan:
My group decided to divide the plotted area equally for
everybody. We thought that giving the same amount
of space to each person allows us to easily manipulate
the space and encourages similar building ideas
and techniques so it will be easier for us later when
recognising our foundations. This as if we are actualy
designing it as a team but as well as an individual.
Our parking was decided to be put underground
which can be accessible by a slope through the main
road. This then let us keep the existing green space
above it.
JA House/ Filipe +Maria Ines Acosta, Portugal
Comments:
Each island is treated as a small unit of community
to be a part of a larger one. We have to respond to the
existing block of flats and design in accordance and
by giving consideration of what is already there. e.g.
sunlight, ventilation and traffic shoould be thought of
carefully so that our proposals do not end up as a disadvantage
for the existing residents and homeowners.
This is the first time I am actually working on a collaborative
group project design that needs our individual
proposals to work as a whole. I am not good at group
work but I hope that I get to practice this time to improve
my skills.
About brief, I think this is a productive way of solving
real life housing crisis in the UK. I like that it is relevant
and could potentially be of use. Since this has
been an on going project for years, there are a lot of
precedent masterplan designs that we can look up.

When an area has seen an influx of creative people forming a new type of community, the area
evolves into a trendy destination not just for locals and tourists but as well as the people in the
art, music, fashion and design industry. Private land owners then use the rich cultural identity
and booming immigration of people and small businesses as parts of their marketing strategy in
building new real estates which not only affects the housing market but could also be damaging
to locals’ livelihood and community.
The project requires a scheme for a ceramic school located at an abandoned site at the edge of
Largo do Intendente in Lisbon’s medieval quarter, Mouraria. Complete with studios, classrooms,
workshops, common rooms, accommodation and building services, the project also has to deliver
a particular programme focusing on the teaching practice of ceramics.
The project’s aim is to respond to the gentrification of Intendente and to contribute positive social
and economic impacts particularly on education, community development and place making.
The idea is to create a centre for research and development of ceramics that promotes sustainable
process of making and encourages to form relationships within and outside the community,
in formal, informal and institutional level. The intention is to integrate the diverse cultural influences
in contemporary Lisbon through encouraging the local residents to participate in free
workshops, seminars and exhibitions. This will give an opportunity to learn ceramics through
educational and cultural exchange, building international and local relations. Thus giving us the
possibility to promote local livelihood workshops and equal opportunity amongst artists, students
and community through product sales, festivals and promotional events.
All of these can be achieved by having flexible working areas, to accommodate various types
of makers and learners in large general studios which can double as lecture spaces. The gallery
and reception are both public spaces related to the square, encouraging community engagement.
Various studios, workshops and laboratories are designed on site for different types of ceramic
practice and to avoid material contamination. Open home studios and working areas are also
designed to encourage cross-pollination within the school, allowing academics and students to
work side by side. But it also include formal and private teaching spaces exclusively for the use
of the students and academics which includes the home studios, library, students and academics
communal area, canteen and accommodation.
Largo de Intendente: “Questioning urban regeneration”
Academic Project 4 A.Y. 2015/2016 Winter
Can architecture save a neighbourhood against gentrification?

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Hanbury Street: “Makers of East London”
Academic Project 3
A.Y. 2015/2016 Autumn
Architecture and Fashion provides people two of their most important necessities,
shelter and clothing. Though there is a traditional difference on the execution of
the two, the current technology has found its way to cross-pollinate the method,
idea and concept in creating such buildings or clothing. Not just with the materials
and keen attention to details but both practices exercise the importance of process
of design, context, environment, style, timeliness and proportion. But both are to
satisfy different context and time. Hence it was interesting to integrate the idea of
street into formal using two different forms of craft in one space.
This project’s brief focuses on the makers of East London, requiring a mixed-use
development project on an empty lot in Hanbury Street that would house the makers
and their workshops. The aim was to research and apply the learnings about the
making process, tools used and to explicitly define the meaning of craftmanship,
specifically (in this case) dressmaking in present time using architecture. And how
can we make the experience better both for the consumer and producer.
It is also important to distinguish the difference between a workplace and a home.
In this project, the typology of high street structures in where accommodation is
situated above a commercial space is applied. The common separation of public
and private access which is a typical characteristic of high street building entrances
was precedented to integrate the living experience present in current context.
Meanwhile, the programme of the workshop is a contemporary women’s formal
wear studio in which one can buy made to order clothing and dresses. The workshop
acts as both shop and fashion studio while providing an office, photography
studio, storage and social space for the owners and employees.
The spatial blur between living and working spaces

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London rooftops where we see the iconic buildings rose from the same
level creates a picturesque cityscape that defines the identity of the city’s
building fabric. But we need to reflect if these iconic structures satisfy
the needs of its inhabitants.
Located in between Angel and Kings Cross station is a modernist housing
project in Islington designed in the immediate postwar period by
the Tecton architecture practice led by Berthold Lubetkin. The grade II
listed building is completed in 1954 as a part of the housing complex including
the Holford house (echoes the form of Bevin court) and Amwell
house (modernist interpretation of the bay fronted victorian terrace).
And in reflection to post war austerity which imposed large budget constraints
on housing projects, the studio was asked to propose, design
and explore one of the few amenities that were unbuilt yet originally,
parts of the project scheme for Bevin Court.
The function of a space is not absolute. It does not conform to a singular
use yet it needs satisfy its original purpose to its users. Defining the term
‘eating’ as a social event or ‘cooking’ as a process encourage the design to
question, “can space move people?”. This design approach made it easier
to list design principles that is appropriate to the brief and hence was
used to resolve the project.
Bevin Court: “Rooftop: In addition”
Academic Project 2
A.Y. 2014/2015 Winter
Acknowledging housing estates built during the Post-war austerity period

Barbican: “Understanding space and identity”
Academic Project 1
A.Y. 2014/2015 Autumn
Located at the northern edge of the once Roman Londinium is the Barbican.
The mini-city that we see today is the result of redevelopment and infrastructure
projects done after the Second World War. Today, the Barbican complex
and estate stands as a landmark that showcases a principal example of London’s
Brutalist architecture. And is the site of the first project: Botanist Lab
- Using and applying the initial learning and experience on the kiosk project,
the key task is to come up with a scheme for a compact structure that can
accommodate a small laboratory for the botanists working on the Barbican
conservatory.
Proposal: Play on simple geometry - square inscribe in a circle defines the proportion
of the structure. The aim is to create a workspace, convenient enough
to produce work and research in collaboration with the Barbican conservatory.
It is a small laboratory that can easily house two botanist with dedicated
spaces for storage, microscopic work, computer work, laboratory instruments
and small environmental controlled shelves for their experiments.
In comparison to the laboratory, the exhibiting area is a small and simple
circular space with open interior. The room is divided halfway by the entrance
stairs but as well as the sensorial experience with light. With the stairs
blocking the light coming in and the shadow trapped at the expense of being
blocked by the conservatory on the the other side, the temperature and the
lumens of this particular area will be of opposite of the other. This difference
in environment creates a micro climate within the structure which can affect
the user’s experience and understanding when visualising artwork.
Designing according to the existing context

Skerne Road: “I could live with that”
Vertical Project A.Y. 2017/2018
At the forefront of a new housing project on Skerne Road in Kingston
Up- on-Thames is a sad patch of grass that seemingly was the answer to
a lack of any other use to this space. Completely ignored, it borders the
sidewalk of a public road mainly used by pedestrians.
Aiming to convert a negative space into a positive one through minor
changes and in hope of creating an interactive intervention with pedestrian
families, we propose to replace the grass with rubber resin bands
that manifest themselves into a hopscotch pattern for children. The rubber
material slightly spills over onto the sidewalk to grab a child’s attention
while approaching and begin their exciting hopping journey into
our space from one end, continuing out the other. As residential flats
border the grass plot from the other side, we found it is best that our
intervention is a temporary ‘passer by’ activity that would not require
people to linger around for too long. We hope through this to create a
spontaneous fun intervention for children walking by this new housing
complex.

Waterloo: “Constructing an archive”
The school’s running theme for the second year was dwelling into the periphery. This
time, we were asked to choose a specific point in which we need to describe our journey
in at least 10 different representations. In addition to that, we were to produce a
lumiere video that describes the chosen site.
Until when do we consider a specific point a part of a journey? Do we determine it via
zoning and fares? Do we decide according to the existing physical enclosure or do we
define it according to the people’s use of space? We are commuters and one large part
of our academic experience is travel- ling to and from the campus. Whether it is short
or long distance, an hour and a half train journey or a minute walk, the final location
is all the same. But how about our own individual periphery?
We agreed on a single site that we find quite important when traveling to Kingston
com- ing from central London. Waterloo is an obvious pick so we decided to choose
some- thing in context and concluded to study 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk.
The site is an underground circular walkway below the vehicular roundabout that connects
Waterloo road, Waterloo bridge and A3200. It has several entrances and tunnels
accessible to pedestrians, cyclists and waste trucks. In this project, we wanted to define
the word periphery in both tangible and in- tangible aspects of architecture. We
like the idea of the walkway as a busy public space. In this case, it was the opposite.
The site seemed calm when compared to its context, as if it was designed to act as a
break from all the things happening above it which contradicts its function to connect
spaces. The juxtaposition between above and below was very eminent. There was a
quick change in atmosphere coming from a busy Waterloo station packed with commuters
to the quiet underground tunnels that lead to the site.
From there, we individually interpreted our journey to this site using photographs,
models, sketches, poetry, diagrams, rubbings, mass study and videography creating a
small archive that describes our intangible and tangible experiences.
Vertical Project 2016/2017
A Project by
Camille Trinidad
Gemma Thompson
Claire Dimond
Mamta Patel
Josh Heath
Adriano Da Silva
Hana Zherka
Vertical Project A.Y. 2016/2017
Waterloo
Constructing an archive

Arnold Circus: “Observing a place in the city”
Vertical Project A.Y. 2015/2016
When visiting Arnold Circus - Boundary Estate it quickly became apparent
why it is described as an ’inner city sanctuary’.
The Boundary Estate was built as a result of careful observation by the
‘Victorian social explorer Charles Booth who produced a series of pioneering
maps that colour coded the streets of London according to the
ever shifting class of it’s residents’. It is arguably one of the first council
estates built. Rich and poor remain living along side/ above and below
each other to this day.
As a group we were interested in the bizarrely quiet condition that the
public space known as Arnold Circus possesses. The estate is built
around a central open garden within a ring road. The garden however is
lined with trees and creates a quiet sanctuary raised above street level
that has an oasis-like quality. We observed that the raised level of the
circus hides the garden from the passers-by on the street, and that the
height of the estate created a wall-like feeling between the centre and
the surrounding area.
The location of the estate, only one street away from the buzz of
Shoreditch High Street, suggests a potentially fast moving and noisy
space/ condition, but nothing could be further removed.

Hay Al Amal: “New forms of living”
Academic Project 7 A.Y. 2017/2018
The workshop is a joint effort between us and an architecture school
in Morocco where we studied and mapped different settlements in
Casablanca. The theme was ‘New forms of living and urban morphology’.
The aim was to visit the site and record its physical aspect,
understand the programme and analyse its morphology. At the end of
the week, we were to present our findings and compare these types of
settlements to London.
The study was split into survey and interview. Since we were in a foreign
city, it was polite to get to know some of the residents first. This
was also a way to collect data in regards as to how much change was
done to the interiors and as well as how the residents use the space.
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Bar: Disassemble
1:1 Project 2014/2015
Bar; Disassemble
A Project by
Studio 1.4
Semester 2
A.Y. 2014-2015
School of Architecture and Landscape
1:1 Project A.Y. 2014/2015 Winter

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