From Architectural Design: Tectonics - Timber Studio
2026
Proposal isometric [above]
1:50 model video [below]
Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather, and wait. Tides rise below. The project draws together the lessons from each of the preceding chapters. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, and occupation as changing flesh.
A detailed section through the harbour wall became the key drawing through which the project was tested. Cutting through wall, tower, and wharf simultaneously revealed how the proposal sits across multiple levels. Sea below, landing deck above, drying structure rising vertically, and sheltered occupation nested within the frame.
The model excludes cladding and internal lining, revealing only structural members, joints, spans, and sequence of assembly. It is the building before occupation. Making the model clarified chronology in the sense of which members must be erected first, how secondary beams stabilise the primary frame, and where structure relies on triangulation or restraint.
Like the harbour buildings of Lunenburg, the model suggests that while skins and uses may change, the underlying skeleton can persist through many lives.
1:50 model video [below]
Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather, and wait. Tides rise below. The project draws together the lessons from each of the preceding chapters. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, and occupation as changing flesh.
A detailed section through the harbour wall became the key drawing through which the project was tested. Cutting through wall, tower, and wharf simultaneously revealed how the proposal sits across multiple levels. Sea below, landing deck above, drying structure rising vertically, and sheltered occupation nested within the frame.
The model excludes cladding and internal lining, revealing only structural members, joints, spans, and sequence of assembly. It is the building before occupation. Making the model clarified chronology in the sense of which members must be erected first, how secondary beams stabilise the primary frame, and where structure relies on triangulation or restraint.
Like the harbour buildings of Lunenburg, the model suggests that while skins and uses may change, the underlying skeleton can persist through many lives.
2026
Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather. Tides rise below. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, occupation as living flesh.
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2026
The network of sheds extends Monks’ Walk into a continuous industrial landscape. Timber moves through a sequence of spaces that operate as both processing infrastructure and adaptable work environments. The Ridge operates within this system.
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2025
Through case studies and a variety of lenses (such as historical, material, feminist, environmental, etc.), investigating the architectural detail as a locus for design intelligence, rigour and imagination.
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Collaborators: Xander Froggatt, Andrea Lumina, Cameron Paul
2024
Not the Highlands, neither the Lowlands of Scotland, are the Pentlands, this dense patchwork of territorial samples literally at the doorstep of Edinburgh, the test site for future habitation in the country’s side.
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2024
A sloped garden and playground, bridging the gap between Rue de l’Eemitage & Rue de Cascades. I chose the site due to the challenges imposed when working within a sloped context particularly through the modelling of context and the leading of people upwards and downwards between both streets.
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2023
Positioned off the tip of the Meadows - a secluded, grafitti covered space of ‘grunge’ for which few pass through aside from inhabitants of the site. A site of spanning history, locked in stone.
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