Y3: Marine Research Facility, Helsinki.

Straddling a new pedestrian thoroughfare, the marine research facility combines public amenity with engineering research – dramatically revealing material effects to passersby.

The structure as seen from a ship’s entrance to Helsinki harbour.

Exploded Isometric, highlighting public route and experimental facades.

Short section through impact testing zone.

1:200 Model.

The public thoroughfare.

Y2: Recycling and Trading Cooperative, Beijing.

The building addresses the valuable assets of recyclable waste (that typically occurs on the city outskirts) within downtown Beijing. The centre provides local hutong residents a place to recycle plastic and turn organic waste into power , serving as a model for a cooperative micro economy.

Aerial View, Qianmen Dajie Hutong.

Day Section through structure.

Night Section through structure.

Y1 Loggia: The Alignment Cabinet. 

The installation links the loggia at the Sir John Soane Museum and Pitshanger Manor House. It does this by aligning certain paths towards the Museum and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, raising and trapping the user within its interior frame.