Make Yourself at Home by Borum Kim

Make Yourself at Home by Borum Kim is an architecture student portfolio project about housing, public realm and neighbourhood life in London’s Royal Docks.

The project is useful because it reminds students that housing quality is not only about unit plans. Streets, shared space, thresholds and everyday public life shape whether a neighbourhood feels liveable.

Project images

The project visuals support the portfolio story by showing atmosphere, public space and the relationship between buildings and everyday life.

Project overview

Borum Kim is a Part II Architectural Assistant with an MArch and BSc from the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University. Her experience spans cultural, commercial and residential work, with a particular interest in housing and public buildings.

Her final design thesis, Make Yourself (at) Home, Inside and Outside, looks at how public realm can support housing development in the Royal Docks.

What students can learn from it

• Start with the site problem, not the image style.
• Explain how public routes and shared spaces improve the housing proposal.
• Make the relationship between inside and outside clear.
• Show who benefits from the public realm strategy.
• Use captions and headings so the reader understands the work quickly.

Architecture Social view

Stephen’s recruiter view is that portfolio projects land better when the reader can see your decisions. A good project page should answer what the site needed, what you changed and why the proposal is stronger because of it.

Next step

Read the Part II architecture CV and portfolio guide, browse Part II Architectural Assistant jobs, or submit your student project.