Heat Island is a new design studio working across architecture, urbanism, software and environmental engineering.
We are currently working with industry leaders, researchers, developers, social enterprises, schools and community groups. Our studio model brings together years of cross-disciplinary expertise fit for the new challenges of the 21st century.
Meet The Team…
Luke is an architect, lecturer and writer. He is the author, with Anna Mill, of Square Eyes (2018). He leads the Foundation Architecture studio at the Cass School of Architecture, London. His architectural work explores the potential of self-building and experimental materials. He is also the co-host of a podcast About Buildings + Cities, exploring architectural history, theory, process and ideas from the distant past to the present day.
Christopher Burman is an urban technologist and artist. He studied Architecture at The Bartlett, UCL and participated in The New Normal post-graduate research programme at the Strelka Institute Moscow, before joining Strelka KB as Director of Digital Strategy. He was core-team member at Pachube (now Xively), a platform for storing and sharing sensor data and connecting IOT devices acquired by Google in 2018, for which he was nominated for a Design of the Year award by The Design Museum, London. His work as an artist explores the politics of technology and digital production through the use of installation, software and audio and has been shown internationally including at MANIFESTA12, Palermo, KW Institute, Berlin, Jupiter Woods, London and Kunsthalle Lissabon, Portugal.
After specialising in Environmental Design at Cambridge University, Joseph worked with a number of highly regarded practices operating internationally. He has experience on a wide range of projects; masterplanning a pioneering carbon neutral town in North Africa, designing for university faculty buildings in Austria, large and small scale residential projects in the UK and developing innovative solutions to passively cool environments in hot-arid climates. He currently teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and as part of Heat Island’s practice-led research, combines advances in building technology with an understanding of vernacular techniques and traditions in pursuit of meaningfully sustainable futures.