A dedicated final-year architecture student at Loughborough University, with a solid foundation in technical, digital, and conceptual design. Passionate about community engagement and designing spaces that create positive social impact.
A dedicated final-year architecture student at Loughborough University, with a solid foundation in technical, digital, and conceptual design. Passionate about community engagement and designing spaces that create positive social impact.
Grounded Movement is an underground sports centre in within Nicosia’s UN Buffer Zone, uniting Greek and Turkish Cypriots through shared physical activity. Rooted in research into how intergenerational trauma, stemming from the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, is stored in the body, the building proposes movement as the vehicle for healing a divided city.
The building is buried within the Venetian wall, as deep scars demand internal healing rather than on the surface interventions. Soil excavated from the site is cast back to make the interior walls and floors, connecting movement through the building back to the ground it was carved from. The enclosed running tunnel permeates the building across every level, creating chance encounters between Greek and Turkish Cypriots across the spaces, moving in parallel. The building can also be traversed as a street, passing from North to South Nicosia through the fortification itself, acting as a contemporary reinvention of the original Venetian wall gates. To go underground is to begin healing from within.
