Thesis · 2025–26
Euston SecondSelf
A negotiable, demountable timber hub for Euston.
Euston station as a testbed for a timber structure whose boundaries are negotiated, not fixed — a gridshell / CLT–glulam hybrid that can be added to and taken apart. Structural behaviour drives form (Karamba), pedestrian flow drives the plan (QGIS), and an AI framework negotiates between them rather than optimising one.
My thesis. Euston Station — a site in permanent flux — becomes a testbed for an architecture whose boundaries are negotiated rather than fixed.
The structure is a timber gridshell / CLT–glulam hybrid designed to be added to and taken apart: a fixed core with demountable arms. Karamba drives the structural form, QGIS pedestrian-flow analysis drives the plan, and an AI framework negotiates between the two rather than optimising for one. The tectonic logic began in Echoes in Gothic and grew here into a full adaptive system.
The boards below are the end-of-year exhibition set.
