Sustainable Environments: Maxwell Retrofit & Masjid Sakinah This portfolio presents two final-year Architectural Design and Technology projects exploring how sustainable architecture can improve building performance, extend building lifespan and enhance user wellbeing. The primary project focuses on the environmental retrofit of the Maxwell Building at the University of Salford. Instead of proposing demolition, the scheme […]
WCML Ev//4.0 WCML Ev//4.0 explores education as a powerful tool for resistance, protest, and social change. Building on the Working Class Movement Library’s collection of working-class movements and political histories, the project investigates the issues currently affecting working-class communities and how people believe these challenges could be addressed. A key finding behind the project was […]
Order and Chaos This project proposes an extension to the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, creating new spaces for learning, culture, and community engagement. The scheme introduces a café, exhibition areas, expanded library spaces, flexible community rooms, and a dedicated event space. Together, these additions improve the visitor experience while supporting the library’s role […]
Reclaimed This project responds to the significant issue of furniture waste in the UK, where households discard around 670,000 tonnes of furniture each year. The proposal addresses this waste problem by creating a sustainable facility for processing, repairing, and restoring discarded furniture. The project is located within a restored 18th-century cotton warehouse. This site was […]
Reawakening The WCML The project redefines the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, focusing on the protection and future accessibility of its most valuable asset: the vast collection of working-class artefacts gathered by the Frows, the library’s founders. The proposal responds to a wider social shift away from physical engagement with shared working-class history, identity, […]
Sensory Led School for the Blind This project proposes a sensory-led school for blind and partially sighted students, designed around clarity, independence, and safe navigation. The building is organised around a central circulation spine, creating a simple and legible route through the school. This spine acts as both the main movement route and a tactile […]
The Salford Foundry The Salford Foundry is an art gallery project in Salford that celebrates the city’s industrial heritage while creating a contemporary space for creativity, culture, and community engagement. Inspired by the structure and character of traditional foundries, the building uses strong vertical elements, robust forms, and open public spaces to reinterpret Salford’s manufacturing […]
BEYOND – Astrological Museum + Experience BEYOND is an educational space and cultural destination located within a four-storey Victorian red brick mill, just a short walk from Manchester Oxford Road railway station. Positioned in the heart of the city, the project is designed to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds through the wonder of […]
Environmental Retrofit and Community Architecture in Salford This exhibition presents two final-year Architectural Design and Technology projects exploring environmental performance, adaptive reuse, and community-focused design. The primary project reimagines the Maxwell Building through a holistic retrofit strategy. The proposal integrates façade redesign, environmental systems, and low-carbon technologies to improve thermal performance, reduce operational energy demand, […]
Common Ground – Veterans’ and Community Wellbeing Centre CIAT Outstanding Student Award 2026 Common Ground is a veterans’ and community-focused PTSD rehabilitation centre in Salford. The project challenges the idea that recovery should take place in a clinical or isolated setting. Instead, it brings veterans, families, and the wider community together through shared therapeutic, social, […]