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My office in UISEK

For the coming month I am working in an office based on a 17 century monastery of Guapulo, built by…

Trompo

during last Monday’s visit to San Roque market I met the world champion of Trompo – an important game in…

Public transport in Quito

In order to travel between the accomodation and the architecture school I make 2 interchanges between buses, and the connecting…

CDMX Metro

During my one day stopover between London and Quito I used the city of Mexico Metro to visit the historic…

About me

I am an architect, a traveller and a researcher. My current PhD thesis, undertaken at the University of Manchester, is…

Another Hotel in Africa: Project Summary

My project questions the present methods of developing plots of land excised by West African governments to the indigenous villages. The key objective is to test alternative methods of planning by proposing an architectural prototype for a village-led hotel, where a local indigenous community remains the long-term owner and benefactor of the intervention.

Платформа Дмитровская, 6:36 утра

[Dmitrovskaya Platform, 6:36 am] Платформа Дмитровская, 6:36 утра, пять или шесть градусов мороза. Чёрные силуэты снуют между постепенно просыпающимися 6-11…

Modeling Ajah site evolution

The proposal is a framework permitting an overtime evolution of a hotel / hospitality school. This sequence of photos visualises…

San Po Kong

A former industrial area, rapidly changing under the rising market prices and changing building uses. As the blue collars populations…

171107 Design Review

BREEZE (From Previous Year) Consistent strong southwesterly wind enters the building through large scoopes. Cleaned from the dust by ne…

Modeling elevated walkways

Based on last CUHK tutorial, I will be using models to represent the wider site situation and case studies, as…

CUHK Hotel School

Due to factors outside of its control, Nigeria’s hospitality education system is catching up with the rest of the world.…

Hong Kong Building Fabric & Services

Much of Lagos is a mixture of exaggerated luxury and crumbling dysfunctional mess. On the contrary, Places like Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong represent…