From Soil to the Stage
Architecture: BArch
Zamir Rahman
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Atelier 01: SITOPIA: Feeding our future
Project
My third-year architectural project explores my design philosophy within the evolving context of a future food place in Newark-on-Trent.
The proposal reimagines food as both a resource and a creative medium, using plants and natural dyes to connect processes of growing, making and performing.
The building is conceived as an interconnected system where food is cultivated, transformed into natural dyes and expressed through fabric production and theatrical performance.
Spatial Concept
Designing for process over outcome underpins the spatial logic of the building, where rooms are sequenced around the full lifecycle of making. This approach directly supports my spatial concept of community and wellbeing, positioning shared activity as a catalyst for social connection and collective care.
Workshops for fabric dyeing and costume design allow people to work side by side, learning how to extract colour from plants and applying these dyes to fabrics. These hands‑on processes become moments of communal learning, strengthening wellbeing through creativity, collaboration and sensory engagement.
The dyed textiles are then transformed into garments for theatre performances or sold within the community.
