“To reimagine and redefine the relationship between humans, nature, and the built environment.”
Hi, I’m Chris, a Part II Architectural Assistant at Whittam Cox Architects. I’ve recently completed the Masters in Architecture at Sheffield Hallam University where I was awarded the Year 6 prize for my Thesis project. I have worked at Whittam Cox Architects for 4 years now, and my architectural interests lie somewhere between creating meaningful and inspiring spaces for people and exploring the harmonies between both natural and built environments. Outside of work, I enjoy playing golf (badly), rugby, and going on holiday.
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Set within Sheffield’s Effingham Street gasworks, Fluid Lives explores the possibilities of an unmaintained world; an eventuality circa 2050 where botany, design and architecture meet outside of the technical frame of sustainability and the comfortable setting of the bucolic.
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The contaminated site, caused by decades of gas storage, decommissioning, and a catastrophic explosion has released toxic substances and byproducts. Through processes of 3D-printing, a network of bio-cement towers remediates the land into a biodiverse wetland; aiding an extension upon the existing ecologies and habitats along the River Don and Canal. Humans assist this process; undergoing study in labs, observing from the lodge retreats, and informed in the event space.
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