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I have an interest in the field of conservation and explored the architectural intervention of ‘adaptive reuse’ for my thesis. This thesis design delicately yet deliberately rises from the ruins of the Old City, respecting the site’s history and preserving its essence. The new buildings unite the destroyed fragments of the site and seek to welcome the visiting community and integrate them with the local community by providing a space for a contemporary museum that immortalises the history of the city and is an ode to the evolution of Southampton as a Stone Age settlement to a maritime gateway to England.

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Southampton is a city that has a distinct lack of identity. Due to years of redevelopment, there has been a loss of culturally significant buildings that are dominated by large modern retail constructions. With this design, the defensive structures have been designed to be culturally more permeable, allowing for a celebration of local culture and art within its walls, drawing those pedestrians from the northern borders of the old city into the site. This was designed to be a cultural hotspot, celebrating local produce and identity against the lack of character of West Quay and branded shop.

Throughout my thesis year I have focused on the impacts and causes of poor wellbeing on individuals and communities. Leading me to analyse a variety of remediation techniques, in particular, the influence that varying typologies of natural interaction can have. This led me to analyse the city of Southampton which is currently working towards its bid for the City of Culture 2025. Focusing on the public’s disconnection from the historic water’s edge, and provision the of natural spaces, in relation to 21 st century wellbeing issues. Studying the City’s rich history of bathing, I came across the physical and mental benefits of thalassotherapy, and took this forward as a driver to connect the public to the water’s edge and improve wellbeing, providing a journey throughout the site and thalassotherapy centre to better wellness.

Based in the Dolomites in Italy, the project aims to restore the peaks of Mont Toc; a site plagued with an excruciating Past generated by human error. By reviving the land and restoring the ecology, we can learn and study from nature as a means of understanding and preserving it. Growing beneath the dome is an alpine forest, suffused with various species that coexist with one another as part of an ecological niche. As the equilibrium of ecosystems begins to shift, solutions must be explored to prepare for a future of uncertainty.

Growing up in Malaysia, in a small town in Borneo where a wide range of races and communities co-exist, I have been blessed to be able to experience the multitude of culture, heritage, and friends I have made along the way. Hence, I wanted to impart a similar feeling and concept in my work, to create a place where different cultures can exist and come together through arts and culture; a place for the community to exchange knowledge and learn from each other - a place where people can call home.

Motivated in the field of sustainable and environmental architecture, focusing on the promotion of wellbeing, my Thesis project aims to reinvent the approach to clinical design by creating a more comfortable and pleasurable environment to recover in. The Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Centre designed to be located at the University Hospital Southampton incorporates Passivhaus principles and is inspired by a dandelion seed head, a symbolic icon associated with being able to breathe.

Having worked as in construction for 10 years prior to architectural training, the knowledge I gained as a tradesman is a superior benefit to my ability to design.

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As an enthusiastic and creative individual, I take an open approach to architectural design. I hold particular interest within biomimicry and other radical methodologies to design. I aim to apply these through my knowledge within computational design to achieve efficiently resolved designs.

The project displayed explored the stadia typology of architecture and how sport can be a catalyst for regeneration and the overall wellbeing of people. The concept was to disguise the arena within and blend it within the beautiful landscape of the dolomite mountains whilst still retaining a modern and contemporary aesthetic to the building.

As an enthusiastic and creative individual, I take an open approach to architectural design. I hold particular interest within biomimicry and other radical methodologies to design. I aim to apply these through my knowledge within computational design to achieve efficiently resolved designs.

The project displayed explored the stadia typology of architecture and how sport can be a catalyst for regeneration and the overall wellbeing of people. The concept was to disguise the arena within and blend it within the beautiful landscape of the dolomite mountains whilst still retaining a modern and contemporary aesthetic to the building.

I am a bilingual postgraduate student with an interest in parametric design and tools. I am interested in masterplanning and the way in which these are constructed using live parameters. The project selected is based at the Vajont Water Dam in the northern province of Italy. The work presented shows part of the analysis of the territory together with a selection of drawings from the design unit. My experience during this course has been positive and I could not have asked for anymore support from the faculty and the school. Both were helpful with my personal and professional development.

My work this year has been to test the hypothesis that the urban planning strategy of New Urbanism, the founding principles behind places like Poundbury, can be applied into different contexts, namely the inner city. I wanted to draw out the good principles and ideologies of Poundbury, as identified in my thesis, and reapply those in a way that is more contemporary and acts as a more sustainable and mainstream model for future mixed-use developments. The following images are a selection of my works and experimentation to produce this high-density urban intervention.

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The Nouveau Bassin Nautical Centre is a building designed to fit into the context of the Nouveau Bassin Masterplan as a Place for people of all ages and abilities to learn about every aspect of the maritime industry. The building Aesthetic itself aims to complement this ambition in both style and material choices giving a great vein of the nautical concept running through the design from concept to detailing. To create the building out of such a loose brief was challenging as it meant having to investigate site constraints and responding to those influences in a personally guided way.

My thesis design project this year investigated how council housing can be improved for future generations within Southampton’s city centre and the UK. Using innovative construction systems such as U-Build by Studio Bark I aimed to develop a cost effective, high quality solution to the mass market of council housing within the UK. I feel passionate about the need for community and how architecture can create social interactions and flexibility, building for how we live now and adapting for future living.

Born and raised in Malaysia. Professionally, she has worked for two local architecture firm in Malaysia and has participated in several intentional competitions. In her final thesis project, the proposed scheme (Biofarm) offers a place to investigate how agriculture waste can be transformed into a new bio- materials that benefits the built environment which reduces the CO2 emission in future. Also, it offers a programme where the local community can investigate how agriculture production could strengthen the organic food production meanwhile keeping the local activities and regenerate it by adding new activities which help to seek solutions that tackle climate change.

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Graduating MArch 2 student with one year office experience seeking employment in London or the South of England. My Thesis Design Project focused on the possibility of incorporating more diverse forms of living within existing housing estates in a mutually beneficial way. This project aims to densify and infill existing land with slender forms, containing small apartments suited to city dwellers that in turn fund integrated communal spaces for new and existing residents and wider community. This includes access to an indoor pool, shared working and eating areas and many additional functions.

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The above page is an online platform that I created, with artworks of various artists and designers, promoting a unique style of object and furniture design. The site contains pieces created also by myself, and the works include design of: chairs, tables, side-tables, stools, lamps and lighting solutions, plant pots, decorations, etc. My research on restorative and therapeutic design with the impact of architecture in psychology, health and well-being (March 1 and March 2), helped me to find out what I really want to focus on in my career. A humanistic approach and an inner ‘’hidden’’ architectural language that subconsciously regulate users and their behavior within a space. With the right guidance, the helpful lectures and seminars, the supportive studio sessions, and the hard work on theoretical / practical research, have been fundamental aspects that made the master years the most constructive of all, responsible for all the knowledge and passion I developed for architecture.

The overall objective of my thesis design project stems from the idea of the rise of UK dementia. When researching various aspects of Southampton, I noticed that the City’s heritage and memory was diminishing. Linking the heritage and history with the memory of people both physically and mentally and also having the central courtyard as the focus point in my design was critical. Primarily, I wanted to extend the green corridor of Southampton and its connection to its natural environment, and extend it right down towards the waterfront. Revealing and informing the public of Southampton’s Historic Ruins and Walls whilst linking back to the ever-developing topic of dementia.

On the 29 th October 2018, northern Italy was hit by the largest single windstorm event in recorded history, the Vaia storm. Ancient forests in the UNESCO world heritage site of the Dolomite Mountains were raised to the ground. Due to global climate change, we will endure more frequent and more powerful storms in the future. It is therefore essential we incorporate the most cutting- edge technologies to the important task of conserving our most valuable and unique ecosystems. Having proposed how robotic automation and bio receptive materials could enhance the current disaster management cycle, I set about designing the HIVE. This is a meteorological station which hosts robotic and human activities relating to researching and remediating following extreme weather events. The building will be 3D printed by the robotic agents using power captured from storm events and mulched timber filament from the fallen forests turning a negative event into a sustainable, positive feedback loop.

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