The Oasis Project

The scheme is an experiment that operates as a self-sustaining ecology to demonstrate a virtuous cycle of hybrid urban-agricultural environment with an amalgamated co-working headquarters for a merged company, ‘Life Boat.’ The ground floor of the building houses a landscape which can also become a productive and a leisure space for all to enjoy. 

Restore Greenhouse Workspace & Café.

The aim of the project was to design a personalized new headquarters building for Restore with the focus of reflecting their identity and mission.  The scheme also includes a mixed-use aspect that responds the needs of the local community.

Crisis & Arts at the Old Fire Station 

 A new headquarters for charities Crisis and Arts at the Old Fire Station aims to include their existing facilities as well as providing on site services for those suffering from homelessness. The new buildings are designed to contrast with the existing listed building on site, predominantly consisting of timber structure and curtain walls. 

Restore Headquarters & Therapy Wetlands  

In this project I explored how water treatment processes could be used in conjunction with therapy to benefit mental health. Much of the design was built around constructed wetlands, a key part of the multi-dimensional water treatment process. 

Restore Art Therapy Centre

This project reflects the need for sustainable spaces designed to promote user wellbeing through their connection to nature, in this case, an enclosed forest used for art therapy spaces, which also adds to the existing calming acoustics on the site. The landscaping and structural design link the glulam beams to each newly planted tree.

Aspire Headquarters & Homelessness Services

This multitenant office for three non-profit organisations: Aspire, Oxford Hub and The Porch. My first image is my ground floor plan of my design showing a mixed office space for The Porch and Oxford Hub, a café and homeless services such as a library and computer suite. I decided to use different brick bonds in my design to allow natural light in, while maintaining privacy to spaces which require it. 

The Aeolian Workscape

Multi-tenant workplace for the Rivertime Boat Trust, Sylva Foundation and Restore, which includes a boat workshop and a variety of therapy spaces. I was inspired by wind conditions on site, which I studied in depth to create turbulent and sheltered to create different experiences across the scheme.

Hydroponics Oxford - The State of Vertical Farming

Hydroponics Oxford, The State of Vertical Farming is a multi-tenant workplace designed for three different charity organisations. The building has a hydroponic vertical farming cycle which consists of three different stages, producing, consuming and decomposing. The growing space include intensive roof farming areas, as well as green walls which perform multiple functions such as improving air quality and solar shading. 

Sport in Mind Dragon Boat Hub

'Sport In Mind’ work to improve mental wellbeing through use of physical activities & talks. The site located on Osney Island encourages use of sustainable travel & physical activity to gain access. The building has an office space & utilities for the Dragon Boating events hosted from the site.

Verdure Gemutlich

Verdure Gemutlich is a warm timber box filled with flora, welcoming those who work there and the surrounding community.  The project explores how the pandemic is influencing new office work environments to be more flexible and multifunctional. The timber structure brings a new characteristic on the historically significant site and explores a biophilic theme that is enveloping the building. 

Wildlife NGO Headquarters

My work aims to critically respond to current issues within our society, attempting to provide more healthy and sustainable spaces with a much greater consideration to our need to connect with nature. This design for the new headquarters of various NGOs focused on wildlife brings users closer to the environments and wildlife they are trying to protect. 

Subterranean House & Waterwheel Works

Subterranean home explores the verticality of the client’s occupations of astronomy and car restoration, whilst providing a cosy, light family home. Waterwheel Works is a combined ethical office space and outreach centre to promote activities in nature, featuring a water wheel, river channels and a kayak facility at its heart.

Conservation Workscape

The organisations using this building are focussed on researching and educating on nature conservation, which is something I was keen to express through the design. I did so by researching the local species and creating suitable habitats for them on site. The office was also designed in such a way that it could easily be transformed into an educational event space for visitors.

OX-Hill Coworking & Allotments

This project uses a 3x3m structural grid to create a practical, sustainable, and industrial café, student hub and charitable workspace. The building is designed to create an inhabitable green roof space for allotments and creates a public space from ground level to the roof to add to the local green network.

The Symbiotic Workplace

The project seeks to redefine the role of algae in our ecosystems by magnifying it on a larger scale and showing algae’s potential benefit to humans through expressing symbiotic relationships using vertical farming methods. This focus on Algae reflects the chosen charity organizations, as well as the proximity of the building to the river.

The Active Workplace & Pools

Rethinking the way we live and work, the project considers the post-pandemic condition and how it will affect the way we interact with our environment. The emphasis lies with active, healthy lifestyles that are engaged through architecture. 

Earth Watch HQ 

The two design projects I carried out over the last academic year challenged me to work around post COVID conditions. This project focuses primarily on reforming Earth Watch’s office and using the water on site and the adjacent power station to connect the users with natural cycles around them.

Romel Yared

Water conservation Headquarters

The building is an office of three environmental charities that work in conserving and protecting water. It features a courtyard that collects rainwater and reuses it throughout the building. For the staff, the building offers a mix of open-office areas and private space. The scheme expands into the surrounding water by including a canoeing area for the community and employees.

Shefa Quazi

Hi-Lo Home & Osney Spa Co-working

The overarching theme of both projects is to functionally and phenomenologically respond to ‘user needs’ affected byCOVID, while morphologically and sensitively integrating with the site context. The first semester project included a residential extension for the Hi-Lo restaurant’s owner in Cowley Road and second semester involved designing a mental health and wellbeing center in Osney with water therapy as its focus.