Reconstructing Childhood is a refuge for homeless children and young people. Framed by histories of broken childhood, it deconstructs the demolished Lesnes Estate into a layered, child-scaled mass of accommodation, dining, learning and public memory.

View from the street

Structural Diagram

This carbon-negative hempcrete structure invites city-goers to cross the canal and escape into a living heritage experience. Visitors become creators, actively resurrecting traditional ropemaking and hemp cultivation techniques.

Stakem Scade is a third space linking residential and office communities, where food (meat and fish), making (curing and dry cooking), social activity, and skate culture bring people together through shared movement and indoor–outdoor experiences.

This project reimagines Smithfield Market’s Red House as a grounding space for emigrants in a new city, offering freshly prepared food from home and quiet areas for reflection, comfort and pause, reconnecting memory, community, mindful observation.

This smokehouse is designed to play with light and space, highlighting the smoking processes at its core. The dining experience pays homage to the Smithfield Market and its history within the meat industry, celebrating preservation traditions.

Smithfield’s Red House Cold Store is reimagined as a Cultural Food Museum, transforming industrial food infrastructure into a space exploring migration, identity and cultural exchange through exhibitions, immersive storytelling and shared dining.

Concept Models

Situated in the central void of the Smithfield Market Annexe, the underground rail infrastructure is repurposed into an acoustic driver for a Pickling Fermentary. The train vibrations are converted into rhythmic movement through an isolation system.

Long Section showing the structure connecting to existing building and lower level

Recycled Vegtables Drop Off Point

The Grainfall reimagines brewing as a public ecological process. It transforms beer production, food waste, heat recovery and community gathering into a connected system. Brewing becomes visible, educational and social, creating warm public spaces.

Bird's eye view

Smithfield Red House Cold Store bakery exploring yeast and mycelium as fungi for food and shelter. Food waste recirculates into bread and building cultivation systems; L-system geometry and gluten-inspired porosity shape spatial/environmental design

The project explores the relationship between movement, building function and occupants. The building transforms in two dimensions through rotation and rail movement, while an attached food bank responds to limited food availability at dawn and dusk.

Open Structure - View from the top

A UCL Climate Centre on the Billingsgate Market site, combining climate-resilient crop production in a controlled greenhouse, food-system research in labs and studios, and public and student education that shares the findings.

View from above