About
My work exhibited here is a culmination of my three years studying architecture. Over this time, I have come to understand my primary interests, in atmosphere and in building sensorial experiences for users, as well as the emotional qualities of a space. I am drawn to how architecture is felt rather than simply seen, and how user needs can be translated into experience, with spaces embodying meaning and reflecting culture and identity through light, texture and materiality. I have come to understand that creating such spaces requires a detailed awareness of a place’s lived history, alongside an intuitive understanding of its people. This is translated through atmosphere – driven thinking, as well as an exploration of user and community needs, contributing to the social and spatial sustainability of a place.
Project overview
The Fleetwood Bakehouse - Project 3 A03101
The Fleetwood Bakehouse is a spatial response to the daily rituals of Fleetwood’s labouring history, reinterpreting the town’s former identity through a contemporary lens. Once a thriving fishing town defined by its trawler men and the rhythm of the fish industry, Fleetwood’s character was shaped through repetition, labour, and collective routine. This project seeks to revive that sense of shared ritual in a modern context, translating it from sea to land. The Bakehouse becomes a space where makers produce and present the ritual of bread making, echoing the endurance and craft of the town’s historical labour. It acts as both a working environment and a public experience, where visitors are invited to observe, learn, and participate in the unfolding of process-driven work. Positioned at the end of a proposed food trail, the building becomes a destination for gathering and exchange. Large glazed openings behind solid pink arches reveal the act of baking to the public realm, dissolving boundaries between production and observation. Internally, a courtyard garden introduces a sensory pause, grounding the experience through nature, light, and seasonal change.
Emerging from a landscape of consumption, The Fleetwood Bakehouse offers a moment of pause. A place where production, baking and communal gathering animate the heart of the courtyard.
Framed by spaces of consumption and production . The courtyard brings together public life and social exchange at the center of the bakehouse.
