The brief for St. Martins Church design competition called for a commercially viable use & redesign for this large, neglected, Grade II listed church in Brighton. A “closed loop” waste to product use such as paper re-cycling, coffee beans even wood pellets, was designed. Mandated service additions are used, to increase visibility & accessibility and, […]
Our concept for a housing competition on the Worli Koliwada peninsula on the Western edge of Mumbai’s Mahim Bay: The creation of 3 continuously sheltered “harbours” permits a range of activities including storing and repairing fishing equipment, even marine farming (as the sea link already shelters a zone less battered by wave action than elsewhere) […]
Project, to design an urban living model, on a central site in a large city in Northern Italy. The courtyards are oriented North-South to avoid so far as possible direct incidence of midday sun on apartments, except in winter, when each block receives some exposure. Externally openings are smaller & thermal mass is deployed to […]
Napping Pavilion: A small modular, demountable wooden pavilion designed to host, for sleeping & relaxing outside. Concept design in 2016 was a collaboration with a Chinese academic colleague Lee Lei (BJTU-SAAD); a competition for a winery, in China. L1 designed a feasible and deployable construction method, described this, simply engineered and specified it. […]
