A diversity of experiments exploring the translation of material and scale of a foreign and unknown utensil as a part of my final architecture thesis on curiosity.

Humans are curious creatures instinctively aroused by the weird and wonderful. My thesis project investigates curiosity as a fundamental condition of human development, and how it is provoked architecturally through our everyday experiences and material possessions. It explores the role of architecture as a multifaceted art for inspiring and orchestrating wonder, desire and discovery through an eclectic composition of influences and spatial sequences.

The project is located in Aarhus, Denmark and manifests as a Gift Shop that acts as a portrait of the complex and ever-changing human condition. Through an interwoven labyrinth of 5 rooms, the Gift Shop explores our identity through its Social, Cultural, Intellectual, Moral and Sexual components, offering an opportunity for residents of Aarhus to be curious about, and experiment with the uncertainties of ordinary life. It is the desire of the thesis to speculate the spatial identity of curiosity while utilising architecture as an explorative and social practice that provokes a world of fantasy abundant with possibility.

July 2018, myself and a small team of internationals spent 3 months building a classroom unit for a vocational skills centre in the village of Kassi Kunda in the Upper River Region of The Gambia. The building was designed as a case study project exploring Rammed Earth construction, where all materials and resources were sourced locally and physically collected by ourselves.

What proved to be quite a complex, yet incredibly successful build, the experience was both challenging and indescribably rewarding. The sheer hospitality and generosity from the local community allowed for an invaluable cultural exchange of unique traditions, language, cuisine and friendship.

Branding, art direction and graphic design for Danish barber shop specialising in old fashioned cuts, fades and shaves for the modern gentleman.

Pottery and the art of ceramics has always interested me with its creative formal freedom, natural texture and infinity of glazes. These are amongst the first pieces I have thrown, with the mentorship of Gaya Ceramic in Ubud, Bali.

The Aarhus Public Showers has been generated through a series of ongoing development drawings and physical models that investigate the tension and complexity that exists between a variety of contrasting everyday realities.

The project draws upon a diversity of filmic, literary, illustrative and artistic references for inspiration and architectural operation. Located in a back courtyard in Aarhus, Denmark, the public showers emphasise the subtle shifts in the seemingly ordinary materiality of the site to suggest at a hidden world beyond. It presents a duality between fantasy and reality - contrasted through the architecture itself and the programmatic operation as a method of illumination.

Overall, the Aarhus Public Showers aims to controversially engage with cultural themes of identity and belonging, while discussing relevant political and social conversations surrounding immigration and foreign integration.

Selection of collages from my architecture thesis exploring both spatial and human curiosity.

Selection of models that range in scale and materiality that are used as operational thinking tools in the development of my architectural thesis: Tchotchke: A Microcosmic Gift Shop of Human Curiosity. The project speculates the spatial identity of curiosity, utilising architecture as both an explorative and social practice that provokes a world of fantasy abundant with possibility.

visual imagery of the traveling merzbaus

In an eccentric museum where you can lose yourself in a maze of rooms and corridors, the following model analyses the curiosity embedded within the architecture of the John Soane House.

Architecture Moves undertook the design and construction of a 1:1 timber pavilion over 10 days, as a part of voluntary exhibition hosted by the Arkitektskolen Aarhus, for the public display of student work.

Programmatic collage as a part of my architecture thesis on curiosity.

Spin (2016), black ink on canvas.

Created using self-made, manual spinning tool.

Branding and graphic design for online Irish Whiskey store based in Denmark

Collection of sculptural experiments exploring the relationship between industrial man-made rope and the human body through a series of archeological recordings.

Branding, art direction and graphic design for Tir Na Nog, Elegant cocktail bar, exclusive whiskey experience and accompanying traditional pub located in Aarhus, Denmark.

Located in the small picturesque village of Skader in Denmark, the project aims to broaden the perception of diversity and inspire the co-existance of a diverse community in rural Denmark. Skader is used as a case-study for rural communities globally as agents of social and liberal change, where the project utilises Jørn Utzon’s theories on ‘Additive Architecture’ to form modular and adaptive housing inspired by the unique landscape character and local architectural language.

This fun and friendly food venture developed in 2016 while studying architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. It was the brainchild of my passion for cooking and bringing different cultures together. The venture has operated in both Denmark and Australia, continually adapting.

Jaime’s Jaffles aims to emphasise social diversity and foriegn culture as a valuable and exciting aspect of contemporary society through food - one Jaffle at a time.

Series of hand drawn fine line plans of Joseph Gandy (1805), rendered in water colour with hues of Pompeii.