Last week we welcomed Hana and Stevie, Y10 students from Charter School North Dulwich into the studio for work experience.

They took part in the studios activities – visiting site, sitting in on design sessions, Architectural Assistants Julia and Carl shared their portfolios and Dovile showed them some of her first year students work from the Bartlett.

They also had their own project – a home and garden for an artist of their choice on the roof of our Spitalfields studio. Stevie chose artist Damien Hirst and Hana chose music producer Zack Nahome.

They carried out a survey, developed a brief and a design using hand-drawing, sketchup and enscape concluding with a presentation of their proposals to the team on our Friday show & tell.

Well done Stevie & Hana 👏👏👏

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Last week Ruby Sleigh – Hayhurst & Co’s sustainability and regenerative design lead – participated in ICSA2025, the 6th International Conference on Structures and Architecture, which focused this year on reuse.

Ruby presented in the special session ‘Kind Structures and Architecture’ with a paper on adaptive reuse in non-human worlds, specifically the adaptation of industrialised structures used to farm animals. Uniting biodiversity and climate crises with contemporary ethical and social crises, her paper explored the reimagination and expansion of co-design towards multispecies partnerings.

Excited by innovative material studies to reuse demolition concrete; making reuse of structural timber standard practice and learning how computational analysis and design could facilitate localised earth constructions, Ruby will be further developing the practice’s sustainability road map over the coming weeks. In particular, how to anchor these academic knowledges into professional practice and the built environment into our London & Bristol studios.

Ruby’s paper is part of the Special Issue published by Springer Journal – available Open Access for the next 5 weeks here: https://link.springer.com/collections/dcaffihijf

The main conference proceedings can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.1201/9781003658641/structures-architecture-mario-rinke-marie-frier-hvejsel?context=ubx&refId=7d0abd4e-8bce-4f43-8182-193cf9033d75

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