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Rachel has 25 years experience in practice with a long standing interested in projects for communities which have a social, sustainable and educational agendas.

These communities range from rural neighbourhoods in the rapidly urbanising Global South, mixed use schemes for Peabody Trust, homes for an ageing demographic where everyday connections to a landscape environment has proved central to well being. Educational communities at Oundle where close connections between wider landscape brought relevance to the science teaching, higher educational communities such University of Sussex where the scales of student mature landscape valley as the University of Southampton spaces for teaching and learning encourage serendipitous connections.

A number of other projects have explored ways of making places which directly reconnect people with the natural world, Eden Project Portland, the Journey, the new home for Bristol Zoological Society for their conservation work and outreach in the landscape, feasibility design for Eden Project Scotland.
She has had a lead role in a number of projects bringing sustainable principles to designing across cultures and climates including the Aga Khan Academy in Dhaka Bangladesh and masterplan and for the Royal Scientific Society and RSS campus in Jordan. These projects have involved close collaborations with partner architects.
Rachel co-leads our activities to promote equity and diversity in our practice, our profession and architectural education, supporting our commitment to the diverse communities we live in and design for.