As part of his Architectural training, peter undertook a wide variety of design and research projects. Of particular note is his undergraduate project for a new school of architecture in lincoln, which earned him a nomination for the prestigious riba bronze medal.
Peter gained a first class honours degree in architecture from the university of nottingham before moving to london to continue his professional training. for his postgraduate diploma, peter joined unit 15 at the bartlett school of architecture, UCL, under the tutorship of Nic Clear. Here, Peter continued to develop architectural design projects in conjunction with films and animations.
Lincoln School of Architecture
This final year project shows the increasing influence of digital media and graphics on Peter's work. The project - loosely based on the brief for the new architecture school by Rick Mather - was located on a difficult site, divided by an elevated road and bordered by the river.
Review
'Peter demonstrates a remarkable maturity of design understanding for a Year 3 student. Inspired by his studies of time, motion and media, the building is clearly a response to site and brief; setting up a dialogue with the existing campus, the Brayford Pool and the elevated highway bordering the site. Each aspect is brought into, and inspires, his building. His design is highly creative and yet believable; something many students, with their pre-occupation for abstract form-making, struggle with. His grasp of design, technological, presentation and computer / film-making skills stands Peter in good stead for a great career in architecture'
Tutor Statement, RIBA Bronze Medal Entry
Tall Building
This highly successful project for a 40 storey building was proposed as an alternative to the Kohn Pederson Fox designed 'Heron Tower' in London.
The design was borne out of a clear structural rationale and a desire to visualise the structural working of the building. With the office and residential 'halves' of the building acting in symbiosis across the structural 'pivot' the building in section acts as a balancing scale.
The highly detailed computer modelling and the construction development for the structural design demonstrates the excitement of the internal spaces, whilst maintaining a clear understanding of the practicalities of building at such heights.
Headquarters for the Architecture Foundation
This project utilised the original competition brief for the now defunct Zaha Hadid designed headquarters of the Architecture Foundation in Southwark, London. Peter's ambitious project presents a building revealed by a rupture in the pavement. The rippled concrete roof becomes a public park, whilst the sunken elements of the building provide secluded exhibition and lecture spaces.
The complex roof-form is interrupted by a series of tall fins that provide structural support and are integral to the building's natural ventilation. The building rationale and in particular, the shape of the fins, informed one of Peter's short films.
The Berlin Infection
After a study trip to Berlin, Peter produced 'The Berlin Infection' as a response to the project brief 'strange space'.
Thesis: Seeing the City
The subject of Peter's Special Research Project was the 'Impossible Perspective' a detailed technical analysis of the filmic environment and modes of vision. The research document provides a theoretical and inspirational grounding for the propositional film, 'Seeing the City'.
Reclamation Part 1
Whilst in full time employment, Peter undertook a Masters in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture. The masters was an opportunity for Peter to continue his exploration of the influence of cinematic environments on Architecture.
As such, Peter's final Masters Project was a propositional film about the transient quality of the 'Cityscape'. London itself is in a constant state of flux, with buildings being torn-down and replaced. Peter demonstrates this through the reclamation of London's Iconic buildings by wholly cinematic means: Terrifying Giant Mechanical Snakes!
