Final year project
Spotlight
Restoring a Sense Of Place
The above is a series of drawings produced for my current, work-in-progress project rooted in restoring a sense of place in Cornwall through principles of reminiscence therapy. The drawings were created as part of a workshop that worked to combine context and concept through an artistic and abstract approach of mapping, that dissected the existing and historical sense of place to carefully reactivate the site socially, environmentally and economically.
Spotlight
An architectural proposition directed at relighting Lincoln’s Inn Fields as a safe place of passage and refuge for women.
Spotlight : Abstract Mapping
Spotlight: Concept Modelling
Spotlight: Physical Model
Spotlight: Facade Intervention
The intervention worked to reconsider Spotlight from a critical perspective. The project revised the original proposal to identify various traces of failure within the project and work to provide a solution through a small intervention.
Subsequently, the project worked to disentangle the question of safety in the urban context and provide a solution that critically appraised and responded to issues of visual, physical and light accessibility alongside materiality and focal processing capabilities.
Olivia Geear
Final year project
Spotlight
Awards
In 2020, at the end of the second year, my final project Entwine was awarded Most Innovative Project sponsored by Sheppard Robson and was also shortlisted for Best Library Project, sponsored by Chapman Taylor at the LU ARC end of year show. Various images of this project can be found on my Instagram page.
More recently, in October of 2021, a group project Illuminate, produced by myself and four other students, as a collaborative submission, was awarded second place in Leicester and Rutland’s Society of Architecture’s Love Architecture Presidents Prize Design Competition.
Work Experience
During my placement year, despite the challenges of Covid-19, I worked at App Architecture, a small residential firm dealing directly with clients, rendering floor plans and producing brochures.
During the summer of 2017, I spent a week at HKR Architects and worked on a small design task to produce a podium garden access pod for an existing project. Prior to that, in the summer of 2016, I spent a week at Sheppard Robson shadowing both architects and interior designers.