Iona joined the practice in 2023. Iona has 16 years' experience across Education and Science, Healthcare, Public Realm, and Residential sectors. Her focus is on Higher Education and Science sectors, but as a specialist in sustainable and low-energy buildings will be working across the sectors to enhance teams’ expertise.
Why Iona is right for your project
Iona is an experienced Architect, with a wide range of experience across a variety of sectors, from feasibility and client consultation to the delivery and certification of Passive House schemes.
Education & Science Experience:
Horsenden Primary School (previous practice) – £2.5m, RIBA Stages 3-6, delivery of a new school building to accommodate 8no. classes, with entrance library space, staff rooms, and a dining and sports hall.
Cardiff & Vale College – 6th form and Adult Learning (previous practice) – £45m, RIBA Stages 3-4, design of a 16,000sqm facility, including a gym, spa, beauty salons, shops, a fine dining sky restaurant, and a conference centre. The facilities are wrapped around a central learning resource block, separated by a full-height internal ‘street’, with a single sloped roof accommodating a 1,850sqm photovoltaic array.
Maxwell Centre Laboratory, University of Cambridge (previous practice) – £63m, RIBA Stages 1-3, feasibility consultation through to planning permission for the University of Cambridge, providing 13no. new laboratories, study, administration and office space, lecture and seminar rooms, and a business lounge.
American School of Paris, Saint-Cloud, France (previous practice) – RIBA Stages 0-1, feasibility consultation for a multi-purpose arts building promoting collaborative learning.
CAPE Youth Centre, Crouch Hill Community Park, Islington Council, London (previous practice) – £13.5m, delivered alongside the BREEAM Excellent Ashmount Primary School. Reconfiguration and refurbishment of an existing youth centre surrounded by woodland, creating new workshops, a dance studio, recording studios, and a timber clad extension for a new Ecology Centre.
Passive House Delivery Experience:
Agar Grove, Camden, London (previous practice) – £9.6m, RIBA Stages 3-6, delivery of 38 Passive House apartments and maisonettes for London Borough of Camden, gaining Passive House certification.