Group Projects

Ecclesiastical Illuminescense, November 2011

Our first semester project for Year 2 B.Arch Architecture was to work as part of a team to create a component based architectural system as part of a wall or ceiling that was relevant to our site; the ruins of St. Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Scotland. Our team was comprised of five third year student (Taylan Tayhir, Antonio Zhivkov, Reggie Reynolds, Izzi Smith and Julie-Ann Walker) and four second year students (myself, Portia Heley, Ahmed Jalloh and Tianpei He).

Our site had previously been a place of worship and an environment to teach and be taught about religion. The building itself had become obsolete soon after its completion and, in the 30 years that followed its abandonment by the church, it began to decay and the harsh weather of the North soon began to break it down until it was left an empty shell.

Having conducted a site survey and looked into the building’s history we decided to base our concept around the Blood of Christ.

Our system would gather rain water, collected through a spiral funnel, and guide this water to a dish, containing red dye, which, when full, would overflow into the glass containing oil. The effect was like droplets of blood. The glass was illuminated from beneath. This represented the Jesus as the light of the world. The candle caused the glass to glow.

The idea was to have many of these systems within the main altar space, and for them to glow blood red, casting shadows around the derelict space.

IDA Rhino Project

For this project we had to design a Pavilion to be erected in University Park, Nottingham.

The pavilion had to use recycled materials and needed to have a strong concept and narrative. We chose the idea of folding architecture based on a concept model I had produced. The pavilion would be timber framed and the insert panels would be made of recycled umbrella fabric and plastic.

We chose the site based on its central location. It would be a meeting place for students and a place to view the picturesque landscape of University Park.