1/9
Naked House: London’s housing market is as dysfunctional as its building stock, prioritising glossy finished products over the lived reality of residents. When homes can’t adapt, people have to move, liquefying or trapping communities. Funded by the Mayor of London, our 22 prototype homes are engineered to evolve with the needs of the residents, so that they can affordably lay roots and grow with their homes.
Lead: OMMX
Structures: Eckersley O’Callaghan
M&E: Ritchie+Daffin
Planning: HTA
2/9
Afar Homes: Climate change, deforestation and aid cuts present an existential threat to the 2m Afar people. Their homes reach lethal temperatures, while land for traditional building materials gives way to cash crops. Working with local NGO Empowerment for Development, we are evolving the Daboyta to safeguard the people, their homes and their nomadic way of life.
Lead: OMMX; Structures: Webb Yates
3/9
UN Climate Change Conference COP26: The science is clear, inaction is now the greatest threat. Our exhibition for IKEA at the New York Times Climate Hub charts the deep connections between our homes, our cities and the planet. By revealing the mechanics of global supply chains, we spoke directly to governments, corporations, and people with power to work together and act decisively.
Architect: OMMX
Curation: Superflux
Graphics: Daly Lyon
Sound: Coda to Coda
Lighting: DHA Designs
A/V: Media Powerhouse
Fabrication: Setworks
4/9
Fleming Centre: Anti-microbial resistance will result in the next global pandemic. Working with Allies and Morrison, our design for The Fleming Centre at St Mary’s Hospital is the heart of a new global defence network. It provides a vital hub for research and public messaging, addressing the human behaviours that undermine medicine.
Collaboration: OMMX with Allies & Morrison
5/9
Within Reach: UK housebuilding is paralysed by a lack of economic viability due to high land and development costs. Our micro-masterplan creates a mat of affordable ‘seed’ homes that can grow into family dwellings, compressing the tropes of suburban life into a single room. In a global context of population growth and scarce resources, we must do more, on less.
Exhibited: National Gallery of Art in Poland, V&A Museum
6/9
Artists in Residence: Artists are being priced out of London, despite their profound cultural and socio-economic contribution. Many combine living and working to afford the generous light-filled spaces their practice requires. Rather than build mean apartments, AiR provides a multi-storey warehouse: a robust and economic shell. This blank canvas invites adaptation, allowing residents to transform the shell into their home and studio.
Lead: OMMX
Structures: Price & Myers
QS: Stockdale
7/9
Home Infrastructure: Delhi’s growth is outpacing its infrastructure, leaving many without basic sanitation.Our proposal for the Wellcome Collection integrates housing with essential waste management, constructed from recycled plastic sourced from local landfill. By unifying both, we provide a working prototype that offers immediate, tangible improvements to health and dignity for those living in majority world conditions.
Collaboration:
OMMX with Julia King
8/9
Keeping Up Appearances: British volume housebuilding is an unchecked suburban ecosystem rapidly defining the UK's housing stock. Our exhibition for the Venice Biennale dissects this overlooked phenomenon, acknowledging the homeowner’s desire for character. By re-presenting the housebuilder’s model as an accessible biographical process, we provide a counterpoint to the conventional image of good design, where residents are free to change their homes.
Collaboration: OMMX with James Taylor-Foster
9/9
A Marked City: Inner-city Detroit is being dismantled due to bankruptcy, abandonment and decay. When cities favour a clean slate to cut costs, they ignore environmental damage and risk alienating local communities. By replacing erasure with evolution, we honour the past. Steel markers, referencing the city’s automotive heritage, allow communities to reclaim the land and act as a barometer of rebirth.
Naked House: London’s housing market is as dysfunctional as its building stock, prioritising glossy finished products over the lived reality of residents. When homes can’t adapt, people have to move, liquefying or trapping communities. Funded by the Mayor of London, our 22 prototype homes are engineered to evolve with the needs of the residents, so that they can affordably lay roots and grow with their homes.
1/9
Lead: OMMX; Structures: Eckersley O’Callaghan; M&E: Ritchie+Daffin; Planning: HTA
Afar Homes: Climate change, deforestation and aid cuts present an existential threat to the 2m Afar people. Their homes reach lethal temperatures, while land for traditional building materials gives way to cash crops. Working with local NGO Empowerment for Development, we are evolving the Daboyta to safeguard the people, their homes and their nomadic way of life.
2/9
Lead: OMMX; Structures: Webb Yates
UN Climate Change Conference COP26: The science is clear, inaction is now the greatest threat. Our exhibition for IKEA at the New York Times Climate Hub charts the deep connections between our homes, our cities and the planet. By revealing the mechanics of global supply chains, we spoke directly to governments, corporations, and people with power to work together and act decisively.
3/9
Architect: OMMX; Curation: Superflux; Graphics: Daly Lyon; Sound: Coda to Coda; Lighting: DHA Designs; A/V: Media Powerhouse; Fabrication: Setworks
Fleming Centre: Anti-microbial resistance will result in the next global pandemic. Working with Allies and Morrison, our design for The Fleming Centre at St Mary’s Hospital is the heart of a new global defence network. It provides a vital hub for research and public messaging, addressing the human behaviours that undermine medicine.
4/9
Collaboration: OMMX with Allies & Morrison
Within Reach: UK housebuilding is paralysed by a lack of economic viability due to high land and development costs. Our micro-masterplan creates a mat of affordable ‘seed’ homes that can grow into family dwellings, compressing the tropes of suburban life into a single room. In a global context of population growth and scarce resources, we must do more, on less.
5/9
Exhibited: National Gallery of Art in Poland, V&A Museum
Artists in Residence: Artists are being priced out of London, despite their profound cultural and socio-economic contribution. Many combine living and working to afford the generous light-filled spaces their practice requires. Rather than build mean apartments, AiR provides a multi-storey warehouse: a robust and economic shell. This blank canvas invites adaptation, allowing residents to transform the shell into their home and studio.
6/9
Lead: OMMX; Structures: Price & Myers; QS: Stockdale
Home Infrastructure: Delhi’s growth is outpacing its infrastructure, leaving many without basic sanitation.Our proposal for the Wellcome Collection integrates housing with essential waste management, constructed from recycled plastic sourced from local landfill. By unifying both, we provide a working prototype that offers immediate, tangible improvements to health and dignity for those living in majority world conditions.
7/9
Collaboration: OMMX with Julia King
Keeping Up Appearances: British volume housebuilding is an unchecked suburban ecosystem rapidly defining the UK's housing stock. Our exhibition for the Venice Biennale dissects this overlooked phenomenon, acknowledging the homeowner’s desire for character. By re-presenting the housebuilder’s model as an accessible biographical process, we provide a counterpoint to the conventional image of good design, where residents are free to change their homes.
8/9
Collaboration: OMMX with James Taylor-Foster
A Marked City: Inner-city Detroit is being dismantled due to bankruptcy, abandonment and decay. When cities favour a clean slate to cut costs, they ignore environmental damage and risk alienating local communities. By replacing erasure with evolution, we honour the past. Steel markers, referencing the city’s automotive heritage, allow communities to reclaim the land and act as a barometer of rebirth.
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