Caty Mills
Architecture
welsh school of architecture, cardiff university
Specialisms: Architecture / Digital Design / Drawing
Location: London, United Kingdom
Caty Mills
First Name: Caty
Last Name: Mills
Specialisms: Architecture / Digital Design / Drawing
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: welsh school of architecture, cardiff university
Course / Program Title: Architecture
About
My name is Caty, I am a recent
graduate of Cardiff University’s BSc programme. I have spent my time at
university honing my creative communication skills and learning to push my designs to create proposals that make people’s lives better. My hope is that my passion for the built environment comes across in my commitment to design spaces that anyone can appreciate, whether they have experience of the industry or not. My fine art background has been an incredible foundation for me to approach the fast-changing architecture industry over the last three years. I have pushed myself to learn new digital and analogue methods and am keen to enter into a practice as a Part 1 Assistant which will both challenge and support me in this.
This retrofit proposal for a set of civic buildings brings light, spatial connections and openness into the existing Hoover factory to preserve memories of place and simultaneously create new ones. The quality of space is intended to unfold and rework itself, shaped by communal use over time. Much of Hoover’s steel structure is retained and celebrated, while other elements of the original building are dismantled and playfully reused throughout the scheme. At masterplan scale, the proposed buildings act as a passageway between housing sites, providing access to an extensive programme of community spaces. The detailed focus of this project is on one of the four buildings: Merthyr Town Hall and Library.
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