Developing extension design for a bungalow. The proposal will open up the ground floor creating a kitchen/dinning area. The loft is utilised for a further two bedrooms. A gold zinc feature shower enclosure completes one bedroom with a skylight providing atmospheric lighting.

The extension is clad with pink ceramic special bricks, precast concrete lintel with a wildflower roof.

Royal Academy summer exhibition 2021 exhibited model made by Marrianne Weineck. The design of the model is from our Three Brooks Nature Reserve bird hide scheme.

Developing design for a wildlife Pavillion/bird hide. The design creates two unique hides to observe nature across the reserve with different personalities.

The Forest Schools aim is to engage children with the outdoor environment, develop key life skills, and create nature conscious citizens. The hut provides a multi-use area for the children to use during sessions, and provide shelter when needed.

The project forms part of a mini-master plan for a larger forest school area including a mud kitchen, compostable toilet, and nature trail.

Developing carport designs 🚗

Developing design for a family extension

Design children’s stools and table with various animal outlines

Design development for a staircase design

Extension and alterations to a family house

Design competition entry

Architecturally, the proposal aims to create a ‘Home from Home’ utilising the domestic details of the terrace house. Through the analysis of the terrace house, its architectural features are highlighted which invite comfort and familiarity; creating as such a series of spacial devices, each with their own architectural qualities. For example the bay window, the inglenook and the cupboard under the stair. These moments and elements are utilised in the scheme with unique architectural interpretations. These elements lead to spaces of varying scale and interaction, making flexible spaces with different character. In such, the proposed Maggie’s centre feels like a ‘Home from Home.’

Design competition entry

Gimli, a tiny town of 2,000, is at the heart of ‘New Iceland’ in Canada, a region that boasts the most Icelanders outside of Iceland. Located about an hour north of Winnipeg, the town was founded by Icelandic immigrants in the late 19th Century. In the Norse mythological text the Völuspá, Gimlé is a pagan heaven, a golden-roofed hall where the survivors of Ragnarök. Heaven is what the land now known as Gimli must have seemed like when they arrived at Willow Point, on 21 October 1875. As visitors approach the hut, the in scripted text from Völuspá echo and tell the story of Gimli;

Sal sér hon standa sólu fegra, gulli þakðan á Gimléi; þar skulu dyggvar dróttir byggja ok um aldrdaga ynðis njóta. More fair than the sun, a hall I see, roofed with gold, on Gimle it stands; there shall the righteous rulers dwell, and happiness ever there shall they have.

– from the Völuspá, a Nordic epic myth

The warm gold zinc facade echo the myth taking visitors in to the hut to share the warmth of the fire. The Völuspá warming hut celebrates norse mythology and the ancestry of Gimli through the creation of a golden hut where passers-by can share their stories.

Design competition - Finalist

Woodside is a small riverside locality in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England, situated almost opposite Liverpool Pier Head across the River Mersey. The Finsa brief set out a challenge to design a pop up pavilion for the people of Woodside. Key elements of the brief included the following;

- Draw on the historical and geographical context of Woodside in the design.

- Provide a structure that invites people but also one the community can make their own.

- Create a series of flexible spaces that can adapt to the nature of activities needed.

- Demonstrate a flexible module design that can be taken down and transported to different locations.

- Explore the potential uses of Finsa materials.

Vision

The vision for the design is simple, a modular pavilion that could be fabricated and assembled by unskilled labour, using materials supplied by Finsa. The structure will be designed so that it can be reused, reconfigured or recycled while minimising wastage, using low-tech processes and the use of appropriate and ultimately flexible passive and active design techniques to provide light and ventilation. This design report illustrates the design proposal and presents a scheme to meet the above brief. The report illustrates the proposed construction and cost to fabricate the design.

Alterations to a grade 2 listed building to adapt the ground floor into a flexible space which includes a shop, exhibition to highlight the history of the mill, and open spaces for functions.

Design competition entry

The key design concept for the scheme was to demonstrates how recycled plastic components can be used to created uncompromising architecture expression. The project proposes the collaboration with precious plastics to demonstrate the possibilities of low technology methods of plastic waste recovery. Included in the project budget is for the fabrication of a precious plastic shredder and extruder. The two devices open up a wide range of recycled plastic products. The aim for the project was to use 100% recycled plastic for cladding and primary structure. Using small standard recycled plastic beam, a strong striking structural frame is created. The scheme is clad in recycled plastic terrazzo hexagon shingles. The use of such cladding gives the scheme a striking expression of colour and a symbol of the beauty of plastic that is lost in its mismanagement by society. To provide racking support plywood is used to brace the plastic structure. This is the only non recycled plastic produce apart from the concrete foundations in the scheme.

Architecturally the design utilises passive ventilation methods to bring cool air in to the spaces pushing hot air out at high level. Recycled plastic is used to create opening Louvre windows, this allows for controlled ventilation creating a stack affect in all spaces. This environmental strategy is a key driver in the massing and scale of the scheme to create controlled comfortable spaces for teaching and learning. The layout of the scheme centres around the mature trees on the site. This courtyard space creates a dialogue between the teaching spaces. Utilising garage styles doors, the multi-purpose spaces opens up to the courtyard for performances creating a stage/ theatre, the gives the school flexibility in use so the school can adapt to the changing needs of the community so the building work for everyone.

Overall the scheme successfully pushes the boundaries of plastic recycling and will be an icon for the possibilities of recycled plastic. In addition the scheme does this whilst expressing architectural quality in design. The design and layout itself opens up to the community in layout and form creating inspiring places for education. The building will become a beacon for education and community with the collaboration with previous plastic and the fabrication of the equipment to construction the school. The school can become a centre for recycling excellence offering vast opportunities for Turning recycled waste in to a plethora of products.

Refurbishment

The project of making the parvise of Crowland Abbey into a chapel furnished in the Orthodox tradition of Christianity came about as a result of this room being the place which houses the skull of Theodore, the abbot of Crowland who was killed by the Vikings. As the Orthodox regard Theodore as a saint and martyr, they venerate this skull whenever they visit the Abbey. Orthodox Christians visit the Abbey to conduct their liturgy once a year, and individual Orthodox visit at other times to venerate the skull.

The aim of the project is to fully furnish the parvise into a chapel according to the orthodox tradition. In doing so it will become a fitting place of pilgrimage for orthodox Christians. In addition it would also be a place for private prayer for anyone that visits the Abbey. Whilst also highlight and celebrating yet another piece of history associated with the Abbey through the education of the Orthodox and story of Theodore. The Parvise itself currently is an unutilized space within the Abbey offering a unique perspective sitting above the central naïve. Its refurbishment will gives significance to this space and awareness creating an asset for the Abbey to use.

Overall the project is made up of four elements a reliquary, Iconostasis, prayer stand and alter. Each item has been designed in a holistic manner so the overall project will sit seamlessly together. Important design aspirations where set at the beginning of the process to create objects that sit subservient to the historic fabric of the Abbey in a temporary light touch manner. For ease of construction and simplicity one section size of timber is used through all elements, this allows for the creation of crafted considered objects. Particular care has been given in the design of the Iconostasis to create a partition that feels light weight allowing light to filter through to the alter. Its height has been considered as to not obstruct views to the stone vaulting. Four picture frame boxes are placed on each opening to allow for the additions of icons in the future as and when they are collected.

For 44 years this pond has captivated the hearts and minds of generations of local children as they have pond dipped for tadpoles, newts, frogs, water boatmen, snails and other pond wildlife.

Over the last few years. The pond has silted up, the water has become foul, and the pond is leaking. Why we make have helped the Willsbridge community trust to bring the pond and its surrounding landscape back to its former glory.

Extension project to provide enhanced living and additional bedroom spaces