All Outputs (47)

Autoethnography of a home: Unpacking storage practices for enhanced wellbeing (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The home is a critical element of the city, and to foster healthy, sustainable urban environments, design must begin at the domestic level. This study explores how material possessions shape domestic spaces, emphasising how homes designed with a focu... Read More about Autoethnography of a home: Unpacking storage practices for enhanced wellbeing.

Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

COVID-19 brought unprecedented restrictive lockdown measures across the globe. This ‘enforced togetherness’ brought transformative changes in how homes were used and inhabited. The home was tested to its limits and the use of its spaces renegotiated,... Read More about Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment.

Urban building energy modelling and generative design - an integration for energy-optimised urban design: A systematic review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Global warming is having a significant impact on urban living conditions and putting pressure on finite resources. The built environment, particularly in urban areas, is a major contributor to this problem, highlighting the need for sustainable urban... Read More about Urban building energy modelling and generative design - an integration for energy-optimised urban design: A systematic review.

Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing (2022)
Journal Article

In the field of architecture, there has been scarce research on how the accumulation of material possessions impacts on space in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store, and dispose of, nor the implication... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing.

Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home (2022)
Journal Article

Lockdown impositions have impacted people’s lives, their health and wellbeing, changing the ways in which dwellings are used and occupied. Spaces within the home have had to be rapidly renegotiated, redesigned and resynchronised in ways not yet fully... Read More about Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home.

A cultural intelligent leadership: Architecture and the built environment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Inequalities and the attainment gap persist in Higher Education, whilst transforming Construction Industry diversity could take up to 200 years. This study examines the authentic development of a culturally intelligent leadership in Architecture and... Read More about A cultural intelligent leadership: Architecture and the built environment.

Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article

Nurturing Architecture explores how an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and supporting growth and development, might be understood as a founding principle for architectural education and practice. The term allows multiple interpretations, whic... Read More about Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing.

Prioritising storage practices: A new approach to housing design thinking (2021)
Journal Article

Inhabitants of UK housing have more possessions than ever, whilst space for living in standardised houses is at a premium. The acquisition of material possessions, and how it affects both space and inhabitants’ wellbeing, has not previously been cons... Read More about Prioritising storage practices: A new approach to housing design thinking.

The architectural model as augmenting a sensory ethnography (2021)
Journal Article

This study explores the effectiveness of the architectural model as a means of implementing a sensory ethnographical research methodology. An architectural model, constructed as part of a wider design research approach, became the visual probe in a s... Read More about The architectural model as augmenting a sensory ethnography.

Stuff and space in the home: How can an understanding of material possessions help to inform spatial storage design in UK housing? (2021)
Thesis

In the field of architecture, there has been little research on how the accumulation of material possessions is impacting on space for living in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store and dispose of, nor... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: How can an understanding of material possessions help to inform spatial storage design in UK housing?.

The COVID-19 External Studio: Can this blended learning model be the future of an agile architectural-studio? (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

The learning-by-doing studio environment has been redefined and transformed during COVID-19 and is now primarily delivered online. What before could have been considered an impossibility has now become the norm. Architecture schools all over the worl... Read More about The COVID-19 External Studio: Can this blended learning model be the future of an agile architectural-studio?.

Stuff and space in the home: An understanding of material possessions to inform spatial storage design (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the field of architecture, there has been little research on how the accumulation of material possessions is impacting on space for living in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store and dispose of, nor... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: An understanding of material possessions to inform spatial storage design.

A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership (2020)
Journal Article

The B&C special issue EDUCATION & TRAINING: MAINSTREAMING ZERO CARBON raised three challenges: How can education and training be rapidly changed to ensure the creation of zero-carbon built environments? How can this transition be implemented success... Read More about A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership.

Too much ‘stuff’ and the wrong space: A conceptual framework of material possessions (2020)
Journal Article

Space for living in new build houses in the UK is at premium and households have more stuff than ever before. The way this stuff is accommodated in dwellings can significantly affect residents’ quality of life and well-being. This paper presents a ne... Read More about Too much ‘stuff’ and the wrong space: A conceptual framework of material possessions.

Energy Modelling in Architecture- A practice guide (2020)
Book

Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England (2020)
Journal Article

Architects can play a key role in the wider public health workforce, in ensuring building and urban design is health promoting. However, there is no requirement to teach health by architectural accreditation bodies across Europe. To evaluate the long... Read More about Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England.

Energy-efficient design and sustainable development (2019)
Book Chapter

British housing: Timelines and types (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

British Housing: Timelines and typologies

New homes being built in the United Kingdom (UK) today have been criticised for not providing space for basic living functions1. We now have the smallest homes in Europe1&2, they tend to have very little s... Read More about British housing: Timelines and types.

Architects’ approaches to early stage design energy modelling – an organisational perspective (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Energy modelling practices have been mainly studied from energy modellers' and/or building services engineers' perspectives. In addition, most discussions have focused attention on analysis parameters and tool features, with less attention devoted to... Read More about Architects’ approaches to early stage design energy modelling – an organisational perspective.

Towards an energy ‘literate’ architecture graduate? UK educators’ and students’ evaluation (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Whilst calls for upskilling and retraining the UK construction workforce to meet increasingly stringent energy targets are repeatedly documented in construction strategy and policy repor... Read More about Towards an energy ‘literate’ architecture graduate? UK educators’ and students’ evaluation.