Claude St Arroman

Claude is a practicing architect and mother of two teenagers. Her research investigates phenomenological tools which would enable architects, urban designers, planners and users to shift current paradigms of 'either private','either public'understanding of the built environment into a rapprochement between the two principles. The theoretical approach proposes that in order to include this betweenness and encourage flow between the two principles, the designer's approach of investigation should be positioned at the boundary itself.

By apposition to observations made in the natural world, the research studies the boundary in all its dimensions, material, physical, conceptual and cultural, in the context of an urban world constituted of parts and wholes which require the agency of imagination and metaphor to become organic instead of abstract. This, it is proposed, would provide a gateway between human everyday and the natural world and provide a new appreciation of the dynamics of sustainability to inform sustainable design.

Tel: +44 (0)7786 243416
Email: dtp01cs@gold.ac.uk