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Material Echoes

Carl Wiltshire

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RIBA Part 1 graduate with an architectural focus on spatial design led by innovation, social exchange, and material responsibility. Passionate about addressing broader challenges in which architecture operates within - I design in dialogue with ecosystems, communities, and cities to create a more sustainable and resilient future.

RIBA Part 1 graduate with an architectural focus on spatial design led by innovation, social exch...

Addressing the need for circular practices in the museum sector, this proposal facilitates the recovery, processing, and storage of leftover material from Somerset House’s existing artist studios, galleries, and exhibitions. Scaled across a wider network of art and culture establishments, this programme is expanded to harness cross-institutional collaboration and shared resources. The project celebrates the potential of reclaimed materials to reduce waste and orientate architectural processes towards a culture of sufficiency and maintenance. Embodying a living archive of creativity, the material bank will preserve Somerset House’s artistic and cultural legacy, while offering a path to a more resource-efficient materials economy.

Final work

  • Sectional Axonometric
  • sectiuonal axonometric
  • Sections of my proposal showing inhabitation and users
  • Series of section drawings
  • series of section drawings
Exploded Axonometric

The Masterplan

Unfolding the layers of my proposal to reveal the hidden systems. This exploded axonometric shows the proposal as a collection of spaces, illustrating the ways in which they interact with each other as well as the existing context. Inhabiting a historic and heritage site meant that designing with care was crucial. Adaptive reuse of the interior spaces opened up ceilings and circulation, while the storage structure was implemented without major interrogation with the existing facade.

  • views of my proposal showing a man and woman in a workshop
  • Views of my proposal showing the workshop
  • Views of my proposal

Research and process

  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
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Material Echoes

Addressing the need for circular practices in the museum sector, this proposal facilitates the recovery, processing, and storage of leftover material from Somerset House’s existing artist studios, galleries, and exhibitions. Scaled across a wider network of art and cultu...

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