Lucy is Cullinan Studio’s Health and Wellbeing Sector lead. She has a special interest in the way the natural and built environment shape us as individuals. Her Masters dissertation looked at how the positive effects of landscape can inform architecture to create therapeutic environments and enhance mental wellbeing. By understanding the cognitive and evolutionary principles of landscape preference, we can create restorative settings in buildings and the places in-between.
Lucy was Project Architect on the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Newcastle, which used these ideas to create a place of calm and care for people affected by cancer. She recently worked with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool on The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House, completed in 2023, which brings together a range of clinical services for young people, including an inpatient mental health facility, in a therapeutic setting.
Lucy has also worked on a range of educational, cultural and residential projects, including research and study facilities at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, and archive facilities for the British Film Institute.
