Architecture · People · Place
Architecture belongs to everyone. I travel to find the proof, and I use my voice to bring it back.
The mission
Architecture education can be a closed world — elite institutions, expensive tools, and a culture that celebrates the exceptional over the essential. I don't think that's good enough.
I travel to find the architecture that actually matters. The schools built on almost nothing. The hostels designed with care. The NGO projects where every square metre has to earn its place. Spaces built for people — not for publications.
And then I come back and I talk about it. On TikTok, on Instagram, on podcast stages and in competition halls. Because if even one person from outside the usual circles decides to pursue architecture because they saw it was possible — that's the gap getting smaller.
That's what I'm here for.
What I look for
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Projects built not for profit but for people. Schools, clinics, community halls — spaces where good design makes a measurable difference to real lives.
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Hostels are one of the most democratising building types in existence. Affordable, communal, often beautifully designed under serious constraints. I find them everywhere.
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Who is design actually for? I'm interested in the spaces that answer that question well — buildings that don't exclude, don't intimidate, don't assume.
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Constraints breed creativity. The most interesting architecture I've found on my travels wasn't the most expensive — it was the most considered.
Where I've been
SE Asia — Singapore · Malaysia · Indonesian Archipelago
Vernacular architecture at its most intelligent. Buildings designed around climate, community and culture with no need for a brief. I spent months looking at how people actually live — and what happens when design respects that. Singapore's skyline is a collision of colonial legacy, hyper-modern ambition and vernacular wisdom all at once.
Australia — Sydney · Melbourne
Where I worked with Giant Design in Sydney. Seeing how a practice operates from the inside changed how I see architecture — the gap between what gets built and what gets designed is wider than students are told.
Morocco
The medina is a masterclass in spatial logic — wayfinding, density, light and shade all working without a single architect's name attached. I also hiked the Atlas Mountains with school friends. Architecture is everywhere once you start looking.
Europe — Madeira · Barcelona · Malaga · Zante · Copenhagen · Stockholm · Cologne · Munich · Innsbruck · Germany · Italy · France · Belgium
Europe has taught me that architectural culture varies wildly even within a short flight. From Scandinavian restraint in Copenhagen and Stockholm to the baroque density of Munich and the raw heat of southern Spain — every city has a different answer to the same question: how do people live together?
Americas — Florida · (India 2026)
Florida added a different lens — the architecture of leisure, sprawl and sun. Next stop: India, summer 2026.
Next chapter
This summer I'm heading to India — drawn specifically to the architecture that doesn't make it into the magazines. Schools built by NGOs. Community centres designed on shoestring budgets. Hostels where design and hospitality intersect. Spaces where every decision had to be justified by human need.
I'll document it all — on social media, on Polarsteps, and in my work. This trip is part of the mission: to show that the most important architecture in the world isn't in Zaha Hadid's portfolio. It's in the places most people never think to look.
Using my voice
The point isn't just to see things — it's to bring them back. I document my travels on TikTok, Instagram and Polarsteps because I genuinely believe that showing people what architecture looks like outside the elite institutions changes who thinks they can be an architect.
I've been coached by a TEDx speaker. I've appeared on the EEMUA podcast. I judge and present at F1 in Schools competitions nationally. In the future, I want to give talks — about this mission, about architecture education, about what it looks like to build a career in the creative industries as a young woman who didn't come from the obvious background.