Sarah Evans 2026 PORTFOLIOPORTFOLIO
• spatial justice • Ethical Making • Co-design • Emapthy • Inclusivity • Decarbonisation • Play Who I am... I recenty graduated Architecture (BA) from newcastle university, and looking for a job as an architectural Part I Assistant. This year I have become passionate in community engagement and desiging with rather than for people. Skills Interests Studio group: RADICAL EMPATHY Thats me!!! My third year began with core principles from my studi, putting co-desing and emapthy at the forefront of the design process. Working collaboratively with young people encouraged me to see architecture through their experiences, using conversations about their needs, aspirations, and everyday lives as the foundation for my design decisions. This collaborative approach made me realised participation and conversation make meaningful and inclusive spaces. • spatial justice • Ethical Making • Co-design • Emapthy • Inclusivity • Decarbonisation • Play
Upcycling Workshop and Market space Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this project explores how architecture can empower young people through making, reuse and participation. Blyth’s industrial heritage informed both the scale and character of my proposal, while co-design workshops with studnets from Bede Academy revealed themes of limited agency, visibilty, and pride in place. In response, the preojct proposes a flexbile upcycling workshop and vintage market where younf people can desgin, repair and sell recycled clothing. By combining spaces of public engagemnt and partiicpation, the building aims to create opportunities for young people to shape their environment, build community, and establish a stronger sense of ownership within their town. Design Sell Donate Empathetic Economy Like a circular economy the emapthetic economy focusses on recycling clothing sustainably while promoting self expression. Create
Thinking through collaging My first impressions of Blyth was idea of fronstage and backstage due ot how i percived the spatial conditions of the town due to roadworks and construction. Social interaction on the high street. Roadworks and construction happening in town. First Impressions Front-stage Backstage
movement Agency Flexibility Participation Play Temporary Both/And Contradiction Ordinary Thinking through collaging
CO-DESIGN as a Practice Bede Academy Students Walk through Blyth... ...How you view your town... ...Emotional mapping... ... Day in the life Zine. ...Exquisite Corpses...
Constructivist This model was a trial and error into my thinking through drawing. Using props used for constructivist theatre, I tried to imagine how they would portray on my site. The different levels show how the building will offer multiple environments. The rods holding them together represent a flexible structure which could be adjusted for the users benefit. Hide and Seek Creating this concept model explored how the game hide and seek could be translated into architecture. The wooden structure holding the pod spaces shows an open space with these hidden elements inside. A big moment in this model was the curtain at the entrance. Playing around with the idea of the front- stage and backstage, this curtain created a moment of architectural language for my building a way of signalling the indoor space either by having it closed symbolising a private space or open, symbolising a more public space. Enclosure Enclosures idea started with the idea of performance. In the centre of the model a place where self expression comes to life and flourishes. The blue frame surrounding it supports this space, creating empathy in the structure by encouraging confidence to grow. Entities This model was created from my research on Constructivist theatre. The elements on the stage, the site, becomes the architecture and creates new places of exploration. Moveable elements keeps the external the same while having the ability to change internal conditions. Instead of viewing the site as a fixed object, the model explored how temporary interventions and shifting structures could begin to shape a places changing identity. Although this was an early concept model this helped me in my ideas for moveable shipping container pods later in my project. With regards to front and backstage the shifting spaces shows how places could incorporate duality, turning concealed spaces also into open public spaces on different occasions.
Revealing Designed as the ‘revealing’ condition, this space supports collaborative making and shared learning. The openness of the warehouse allows activities to become visible, celebrating creativity while giving young people the confidence to participate in a collective community. Rendered views
Concealing The pod creates a threshold between concealment and participation, enabling the Observer to control their level of visibility while overlooking the collective activity of the warehouse.
Up Up Up down down down down 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1- Mezzanine space 2- Stair cores 3- Bendheim glass channel stage walkway 4- catwalk space 5-seating 6-kitchen 7- storage7- storage 8- staff room 9- public cafe area 10- concealed cafe area 11-further quieter cafe space 12- Entrance from ‘backstage ’ to ‘frontstage’ 5 5 6 7 1- Entrance 2- flexible workshop space 3= Workshop with machinery 4= Loading bay 5- stair cores 6- Plant room 7- storage space7- storage space 8- Pods storage warehouse 9- community led garden 10- mesh walkway 11- Pod payment area 12- donation and market space 13- further market/ exhibition space with rotating13- further market/ exhibition space with rotating walls 14- Stair seating Up Up Up Up Down Ramp 8 9 10 2 1 2 3 4 11 12 13 14 Floorplans Technical Drawings Showing how the pods have flexibilty in where they can go in the building Ground floor First floor
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