Julia King

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Julia King is an architect and urban researcher with British - Venezuelan roots. She has been working on a decentralized sanitary and sewerage project in India in the Savda Gherva area since 2010 and was named Emerging Woman Architect of the Year in 2014 as part of this project .

Life

As a teenager, King lived in India for three years. Back in Great Britain, she attended the United World College of the Atlantic from 1999 to 2001 and completed her International Baccalaureate . She studied at the Architectural Association in London from 2001 to 2007 and received her PhD in architecture from the London Metropolitan University between 2010 and 2013 . In the course of her doctorate, she received a scholarship from the Institution for Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources to do her Ph.D. in practical use on the sewerage and sanitation project (Potty Project) in India. close. She is currently working on the opening of two offices in London and New Delhi .

The Potty Project

The Potty Project is a sanitation and sewerage project in the Savda Gherva area in India, which tries to reduce unsanitary conditions in the slums of India. In 2010, King studied the slums in India as part of her doctorate and developed ways of setting up a decentralized drainage system in them. The project includes a filter room to filter waste, a sewage digester for the first treatments, an activated sludge basin for the second treatments, a reed bed system for the third process and an underground, artificial sump for the storage and safe discharge of the treated water into the river. The system processes and treats 50,000 liters of “gray water”. The project is financed by the NGO CURE ( Center for Urban and Regional Excellence ).

Awards

  • 2007: RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary for One Year House
  • 2008: RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary for Zero Carbon furniture Range
  • 2011: Holcim Awards Next Generation 3rd prize Asia Pacific
  • 2010: Scholarship for a doctorate in practice at the Institution for Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources
  • 2013: Nomination for the World Design Impact Prize
  • 2014: AJ Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award
  • 2014: SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Julia King named Emerging Woman Architect of the Year - Architects Journal
  2. ^ RIBA McAslan Bursary
  3. ↑ Winners of the RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary 2008 announced ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.architecture.com
  4. ↑ Holcim Awards winners for Asia Pacific announced in Singapore
personal data
SURNAME King, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Venezuelan architect
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century