I’m Alice, an architecture student with a passion for creating thoughtful, people-focused design that improves lives and supports everyday wellbeing.
Throughout university, my work has focused on inclusive design that supports wellbeing and community. From a Deliveroo public house with a communal table to a reconfigurable floating village, I explore imaginative, people-centred solutions through architecture. Skilled in detailed drawing, model making, and CAD software, I communicate my ideas clearly and effectively.
My final-year project, The Reminiscence Village, reimagines dementia care through a walkable community inspired by the dementia village model. A key feature is its personalised ceramic tile wayfinding system, designed to help the residents navigate the village safely and meaningfully, creating an environment that feels familiar to them.
Studies have shown that a significant amount of women and girls feel unsafe when walking alone on the streets, whether it be at day or night the amount of women who feel this way is increasing. One thing woman have tried to do to solve this is to protest and march to ‘Reclaim the Night’ and ‘Take Back the Night’. These night-time, predominantly women-only marches, protest against male violence against women in public space and for safer environments for women. Protest begun in the 1970s and still go on to this day, proving that the protestors demands have clearly not been met as there is still a need for them to protest for the same reasons today. Similarly, there is little information available in the media which suggest these protests have bought about any long term change, and feminist architectural theories suggest the only way to bring about this change is for changes in design that make our built/urban environments safer and more accessible for women. However, one could argue that if protesters were in contact with professionals in design, such as architects and urban planners, who hold the power to effect change then safer and more accessible environments could be created. Therefore, through collaboration between women and design professionals, our built environments have the potential to become places where women can walk home without fear.
BA Architecture is a three-year full-time programme offering exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 1, and the first step towards a career as an architect. The programme interweaves the disciplines of architectural design, histories and theories, technology, and professional practice. The design studio is central to the work students undertake, with year 2 and 3 students taught together in design units. Each unit addresses a different brief and design agenda. This is a rigorous and highly inventive programme, dedicated to architectural ways of designing, thinking and seeing the world. It provides students will skillsets applicable to a wide range of careers.
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