Architecture is about working within constraints. The best projects I have worked on came from finding creative solutions to challenges such as Grade-listed buildings, Green Belt sites, tight budgets, and heritage conservation areas. Instead of seeing these as limitations, I used them to shape and strengthen the design.
I am an architectural designer based in Liverpool, working across hospitality, leisure, wellness, heritage conversion, residential development, and urban mixed-use. My professional experience spans RIBA Stages 1 - 6, with hands-on involvement in concept design, planning submissions, heritage impact assessment, LPA pre-application engagement, accommodation schedules, spatial coordination, interior visualisation, material specification, and elemental cost planning.
Following graduation from the University of Huddersfield, I completed an Erasmus placement at The Way We Build in Amsterdam as an architectural intern. Working on community housing, mixed-use, residential and experimental projects, I developed an approach shaped by passive design, circular construction, and Dutch urban design principles. This experience reinforced my belief that sustainability should be embedded in the design process from the outset, rather than treated as a specification requirement.
A background in graphic design runs through everything I produce. Planning submissions are visually coherent and persuasive. Presentations are designed to communicate intent clearly to planners, clients, and contractors. Every drawing package, report, and render is produced to a standard that makes the design legible at every stage of the process. I am currently completing the RIBA Principal Designer Course, building a specialism in design management and CDM compliance alongside my design practice.
