Architecture that unfolds, designed from the inside out
About
Scoot / Practice is informed by both professional industry and academic teaching, each field is passionate about the promotion of good design through rigorous design detection, design development and considered project proposals. Each appointed project looks at design from the inside out and enables clients needs to inform each project.
Through the articulation of each project narrative, new transformations occur as a result of a shared understanding, which seeks to embrace new solutions, social and environmental responsibilities and promote a new social change.
This desired recalibration, to create new ways to live and inhabit space is paramount to Scoot Studios practice, where sharing resources, responsibility and awareness of design within its larger context is promoted. This transition, we all face, is celebrated and used to pioneer a new way to live, work and even learn.
Jason has over 20 years of multidisciplinary experience in practice and academia. His role within the studio is design direction on all appointed projects from concept to detailed design. He is passionate about design across a range of contexts and scales, with a particular emphasis on human experience, driven by an interest in narrative. This being informed by both clients and their sites, which in turn, looks at the meaning of ‘place’, its essence and purpose. His design thinking and pedagogy has been recognised nationally, in academia and by his client base and repeat commissions.
He is a registered architect, interior designer and is an award winning graduate from the Royal college of Art, where he studied architecture and interiors. Here, Jason was taught by Sir David Adjaye OBE, where he later worked at Adjaye Associates. Here, he was part of a multi disciplinary design team working on a range of architectural projects. To build upon his breath of design understanding and professional practice, he made the decision to work for S333 architecture + urbanism, an Anglo Dutch firm, where was made an Associate and project lead on a variety of award winning mixed use schemes in London and across the UK.
Services
As an architectural practice we offer assistance at ALL stages of the RIBA Plan of Work, including the following key items:
- Innovative architecture and interior design.
- Bespoke furniture and joinery design.
- Feasibility and design consultancy support.
- Planning applications including conservation areas and listed buildings.
- Building control applications.
- Specialist technical design packages including specifications for formal tender.
- Contract administration and site inspections.
Jason qualified as an Architect from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he obtained both ARB/RIBA [ Part3 ] in Professional Practice and Practical Experience.
Jason is a member of:
ARB [ Architects registration Board ]
RIBA [ Royal Institute of British Architects ]
FHEA [ Fellow of the Higher Education Academy ]
Teaching
Since running the MA Interiors (architecture & design) course at Middlesex University, Jason has explored the notion of In‑Betweenness and how it is revealed and interpreted within the city and its architecture. He has encouraged creative speculation, experimentation and innovation in order to extend knowledge and skills in the creation of new interior environments. As a tutor, he is fervently aware of growing public, political and commercial concern about the future suitability and sustainability of our urban environments, the need for inspired and innovative leadership in the re-imagining, re-use and transformation of our existing buildings through considered design of the interior and its architecture as a whole, becomes ever more urgent.
Jason’s breadth of knowledge in both practice and study, encourages new thinking, and a platform that celebrates the integration of ideas, knowledge and critical reflection from a range of other creative areas that interweaves with the domains of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, humanities and history, as well as architecture and the visual arts. He direction, also demands a clear and explicit articulation of the functional, physical and experiential relationships between the existing and the imagined, body and place, and an ecological approach to the built environment.
The way Jason has structured the programme therefore questions the meaning and explores the limits of the ‘interior’, through the many ways we encounter, occupy, interact with and experience it. He encourages each cohort he teaches to explore the notion of interiority from the intimate scale of objects and furniture to the urban context of the city, investigating its specific essence and how its quality and atmosphere affects human perception and emotion.
In order to communicate each learning stage, Jason requests the production of three publications that captures a continually developing and accumulating record of student investigations and experiments, each volume informing the next, and together acting as a navigational guide for both student and reader.
Each publication acts as a physical record that communicates an exploratory narrative, where creative investigation informs speculation, design development encourages experimentation and critical evaluation results in the generation of innovative design strategies.
Since teaching, Jason has taught and been a visiting critic at a selection of UK Universities including; The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College (now part of UCA), Royal College of Art, Bedfordshire University and Norwich University.
Following Jason’s promotion to Senior lecturer in 2015, Jason obtained his PGCert HE accreditation and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Here his area of interest was around the notion of performance and tutorial based learning. In 2019 Jason presented: Improving student productivity through tutorial PITCH based learning at the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, where he reflected upon his initial writings made during of his PGCert studies and methods of learning implemented after success of academic review.
In 2018 Jason was shortlisted for the ‘OUTSTANDING FEEDBACK AWARD’ at the Student-Led Teaching Awards.
When Jason met Vicky
Self Surveillance
King’s Cross Station
Dear Jason,
Today on 23rd July,2021, we celebrate a festival called "Guru Purnima". Guru Purnima is a tradition, dedicated to all the spiritual and academic Gurus, who are evolved or enlightened humans, ready to share their wisdom with no monetary expectation, based on Karma Yoga. It is celebrated as a festival in India. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Guru Purnima, and would like to thank you for everything that you have done for us. To start with, coming to London for my post-graduate, was my first ever trip abroad, so every single day for me was a fresh start and a different learning experience. When the course started, since the beginning you have been an absolute amazing tutor one could ever ask for. I really respect your dedication to teach and your work ethics, which inspired me to see the profession with a broader eye. Unfortunately, when COVID-19 hit the UK and the world, everything changed. We as students were really shattered and clueless with our future…But you did not give up… ..I never got a chance to thank you enough for making the most difficult time of our lives so comfortable and safe…
I would really like to thank you for not letting me break, for opening up new perspectives in the design field, for always being there for me, for showing us what a true teacher looks like, for being not just a teacher but also a phenomenal guardian, for making sure that our future is safe and were able to carry on with our learning. As an update, I have started my own firm here in India, designing interiors and architecture for residential, commercial and hospitality sectors. Also, I have started teaching again at my university, after getting inspired by a wonderful tutor like you.
I will always look forward to you and you’ll always be an inspiration to me. Thank you for showing me the right path, and I still miss your insightful design discussions.
Happy Guru Purnima, Jason!
Warm Regards,
Harsh
Dear Jason,
I wanted to say thank you... because of your books (yes I took them always to my interviews) and yes I say your books because of your commitment, as a teacher, to make them better and challenge your students to become better professionals. They were so impressed I got the job at a top architecture firm, Pascall and Watson…
…Obviously due to the pandemic I returned home and moved to Chicago as a diplomat. Regardless, I took everything I learnt from my masters (which improved my work ethic by 100%) and used it for my own work. I still get compliments in every interview I go!
Thank you for your commitment as a teacher!
Best,
Gigi
Dearest Jason
…I’ve always wanted to email and tell you how grateful I am for the opportunity I had at Middlesex University and how lucky I was to do my MA under your supervision. Everyday I benefit from the knowledge and experience I received from my MA course.
…my MA project was called Beyond Construction and I focused on creating interventions and different educational experiences on construction sites…
…I believe that you are the main reason why this project exists and I guess I just wanted to thank you for all your efforts and for bearing with me as I know how inexperienced I was and how I really struggled with my creativity and ability to reach the end line. I started to go through my books again to refresh my brain for ideas and it makes me so emotional every time I look at them…because I never felt more proud of anything I did in my life!
...I just want to thank you again for being part of this and for changing my personality and career for life!
Sending my warmest regards,
Samar and the MDX family!