Carmen Downing

Over the course of the last three years at Falmouth, I have found that my approach to design varies greatly in interior architecture, but circulates primarily around the adaptive reuse of old buildings, specifically those that once served a religious purpose. Thus, I aim to understand the sites I am working with above all else, in order to respectfully modernise the buildings without detracting from the history of the site. The images shown are from various stages in my last three projects, all of which fall into the adaptive reuse genre.

I have also found that I have an affinity for British Post-War buildings, specifically those of the Brutalist movement, something that I hope to continue working with and studying outside of university.

More on these projects and some others can be found on my online portfolio, or my Instagram page.