Jack joined Orms in 2024 after completing his Masters Degree at Kingston University. He brings two years of professional experience as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant, having worked for the in-house design team at Daylesford for one year and Architecture Initiative in London for another. During this time, he developed expertise across residential, retail, mixed-use and education sectors, working on projects ranging from high-end holiday rental conversions to school designs. Jack received his Bachelors Architecture Degree from The University of Manchester in 2020.
What does ultrapractical mean to you? My thesis project explored how steel and rammed earth could be hybridised to lower the embodied carbon of mid-rise buildings, proposing a government building designed to increase public engagement with inquiries and debates—work that received a WCCA award for ethics. At Orms, I'm applying this sustainable design thinking to St Thomas Yard, a Borough office building where we're retaining the original structure while adding five additional floors. I assist with Pre-Application documents through model making and BIM modelling of facades and internal spaces, while reintroducing elements of the site's historic yards. As part of the visualisation and illustration group, I believe being ultrapractical means finding the balance between innovative sustainability solutions and contextual design that respects a site's heritage.