Our building design
Our Building Design is an inter-disciplinary studio offering design-led Architecture and Structural Engineering consultancy. Our collaborative design approach places people and community at the heart of our projects, allowing us to engage with our clients in an unique way, resulting in an appropriate outcome that responds to the context.
Our story
Our Building Design is an inter-disciplinary and collaborative platform that provides a unique opportunity for professionals such as architects, structural engineers, researchers and strategists, to work with communities, to co-design to create spatial, environmental and social change.
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Our Building Design was co-founded in 2018, by David Fellows (a Structural Engineer) and Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows (an Architect) .
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Both Tumpa and David have a passion for design that transforms and improves lives. Before Our Building Design, they have worked together for many years to volunteer their professional services towards charity projects, with design that are socially and ecologically responsive, to adapt to the changing climate. Their completed building projects have received a number of prestigious architectural awards.
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Architecture and Structural Engineering
We are based in London.
Co-founders:
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David Fellows
BEng (Hons) MIStructE CEng
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Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows
BSc (Hons), Post-grad-Diploma,
MA-Arch, FHEA, RIBA, ARB
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Our Team
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Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows
Director | BSc(Hons), DipArch, PgDipArc, MA-Arch, FHEA ARB, RIBA
Tumpa is a chartered architect and has been practicing architecture for over 10 years, before co-founding this practice she has been a lead architect at a number of award-winning architectural firms in London. Tumpa has obtained her architectural degrees from the renowned institution, the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She has been recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) as a Rising Star in 2017 and in 2019 she has been awarded a commendation for the RIBA President's Award for Research. She is a co-founder of the UK-based charity Mannan Foundation Trust and she is the founder of FAME collective.
Tumpa is an educator and teaching architecture at the London School of Architecture and Central Saint Martins. Previously she was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster and also taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her teaching draws on her research methodologies on interdisciplinary approach to design. She is also a PhD candidate, undertaking practice-based research which focuses on community participatory methods on architectural responses to the changing climate, landscape and social practices.
David Fellows
Director | BSc(Hons), MIStructE CEng
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David is a chartered structural engineer and has worked in the construction industry for over 15 years, working on a wide range of projects. David began his career, as a structural engineer, working for Atkins on educational buildings before working on the Olympic Park and then in the Building Damage Assessment Team on the Crossrail project. After experience of working on larger infrastructure projects, David moved to Buro Happold to work on high profile building projects, architecturally designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Fosters, and lead the structural design of a sports centre in Cambridge. Before co-founding Our Building Design Ltd, David worked at Fairhurst to gain further experience of leading projects by working on a £50 million residential project in High Wycombe. Our Building Design Ltd was founded in May 2018 and has successfully completed nearly 100 residential projects, as well as a commercial project in the Battersea area.
Grace Izinyon
Architectural Assistant I Part 1 BA (Hons)
Grace is a freelance architectural assistant at Our Building Design. She is a Nigerian-born aspiring architectural designer, who is interested in the importance of architecture being a form of representation and in how we can visualise this in the way we build. She recently graduated in BA Architecture at the University of Westminster and is currently studying her Part 2 at the University of Cambridge.
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Tetdjim Arnaud
Chartered Structural Engineer
Tetdjim is a freelance chartered structural engineer at Our Building Design. He has over 15 years’ of wide range of experience in design and site supervision both in the UK and overseas. Prior to joining Our Building Design, has worked for award winning UK engineering companies such as Buro Happhold, Aecom , Robert Bird Group, W.A. Fairhurst and Oakcraft Holsmley Mill. In addition to being a chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers, Tetdjim is also a reviewer for the institution which consists of assessing the IStructE chartership exams.
Some of the significant projects that Tetdjim was responsible for the design and delivery, include the London 2012 Olympic Village, King Abdullah Financial District – KAFD, Chelsea Waterfront or Chelsea Power Station in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.
Yuka Ho
Architectural Assistant
Yuka is a freelance architectural assistant at Our Building Design, who is currently undertaking a undergraduate degree in Architecture at the University of Bath.
She has just completed a 6-month placement as a part of her thin-sandwich placement year, working with Orbit Architects in London. She has worked on commercial, office, and hotel refurbishment projects in both the design and construction stages. She has interest in sustainable and regenerative architecture and currently also working with FAME collective.
Hannah Ishmail
Architectural Assistant I Part 1 BA (Hons)
Hannah is a freelance architectural assistant at Our Building Design, who completed her undergraduate at the University of Westminster, with a first-class honours degree.
She's interested in urban planning and public realm schemes, particularly the importance of consciously embedding social value in regenerative projects. She has also co-led Equality, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives during her year out. And collaborated with cross-disciplinary networks such as FAME collective to help drive this forward.