Harry Mellor
Architecture MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Architecture / Landscape / Garden Design / Modelmaking
My location: London, United Kingdom
Harry Mellor
First Name: Harry
Last Name: Mellor
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Architecture MA
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Architecture / Landscape / Garden Design / Modelmaking
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
An architectural assistant from Hertfordshire, UK, who has studies at the RCA Architecture (Ma) the University of Westminster (Ba Hons). He is interested in how the environment shapes how we learn and adapt our ways of living seen in both my masters projects, ‘When the Well is Dry’ and ‘Patient Ground.’ Each project begins with the investigation of a phenomenon or substance as a catalyst for design; water and lithium. Although they approach these subjects very differently, both investigate how architecture can respond to environmental challenges while creating socially beneficial infrastructure, an approach that underpins his design ethos.
Patient Ground reimagines a future lithium quarry in Cornwall, UK, as a landscape of learning, challenging the separation between education and the environments it seeks to explain. Cornwall’s mining heritage once embedded knowledge within landscape through observation, labour and apprenticeship, a relationship lost alongside extraction. At Trelavour Downs, the project responds to the paradox of extracting ‘green’ resources for decarbonisation by allowing the quarry’s future educational legacy to influence the mining process itself. Carving out rock to make spaces defines by qualities rather than subjects. The Quarry School transforms geology, water, weather, making and ecology into the curriculum, with spaces shaped by their environmental qualities rather than predetermined functions. Former miners and local communities contribute to intergenerational knowledge exchange, creating new forms of stewardship. Rather than erasing the quarry’s scars, the project inhabits and learns from them, proposing a post-extractive landscape where care, responsibility and participation become Cornwall’s next inheritance. This Project was his ma architecture thesis project at the Royal College of Art 2026.
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