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MEHEK FATIMA

2023-2026

3-7 Work Placement

Clements & Porter Architects

8-13

Year 3; Semester 2

14-18 Roots & Rituals

Year 3; Semester 1

19-26 Sunken Spaces

Clay Scape

Year 2; Semester 2

WORK PLACEMENT

Part 1 Architectural Assistant; Clements & Porter Architects

During my time as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant at Clements and Porter Architects, I produced drawings and strong visualisations to help clients and planning officers understand our design concepts better. This experience gave me significant insight into the realities of the profession and improved my ability to communicate ideas effectively and much more confidently. I was also introduced to the planning process, which helped me comprehend regulatory constraints and the larger framework in which architectural projects are completed.

Christmas Card 2025

GARDEN HOUSE, TOTTERIDGE

45 MILE END ROAD, LONDON

SUNKEN LIGHT

Year 3, Final Project

Sunken Light is a housing project for the Ant Tribe community in Beijing; young, educated migrants living in cramped, poor conditions despite their qualifications. Located on the former Fusuijing communist block, The design creates light filled, ventilated homes anchored by water as a surrogate space; serving social, environmental, and symbolic roles. Greywater is naturally filtered and used in shallow channels that reflect light into sunken courtyards and provide evaporative cooling, inspired by Indian palaces and Iranian wind towers. Combining shop-house and compact dwelling types in a modular, grid-like layout, the project extends into nearby hutong; restoring connections and reimagining community living through the shared presence of water.

DWELLING FRONTAGE

WATER EXTENDING INTO THE HUTONGS

DWELLING FRONT

SUNKEN LIGHT; KEY IMAGE

ROOTS & RITUALS

Year 3, Semester 1

Set atop the Fusuijing building in central Beijing, this project reimagines the rooftop as a space of cultural reconnection for the city’s youth. In an era of rapid urban pace and digital overload, it offers a moment of pause through the revival of the traditional Chinese tea ceremony. Visitors begin their journey in a tranquil rooftop café, then navigate a maze-like garden to pick fresh fruit, which becomes part of their tea. Guided by this sensory and spatial sequence, they arrive at private tea pods where they engage in each step of the ceremony preparing, serving, and drinking tea, as an act of mindfulness and spiritual grounding. This ritual not only celebrates heritage, but reminds a new generation of the value of slowness, intention, and cultural continuity.

FRAGMENTS OF EXPERIENCE

TEA MAKING SENSORY GARDEN

TRACING TEA: A CULTURAL COLLAGE

JOINT 1

JOINT 2

CLAY SCAPE

Year 2, Final Project

Clay Scape is a therapeutic community and brickmaking center set near the historic Bulmer Brickworks in Sudbury, a site long known for producing traditional fire bricks. As clay becomes an increasingly overexploited resource, Clay Scape addresses both environmental and emotional sustainability by repurposing waste clay from failed brick attempts at Bulmer Brick. It explores the healing potential of working with earth materials. The project includes a gym, yoga studio, therapy rooms, and most importantly, hands-on clay workshops where visitors engage in the mindful, restorative process of shaping reclaimed clay into new bricks. By fusing craft, care, and sustainability, Clay Scape celebrates the cycle of reuse while nurturing personal and material resilience.