Architecture - Design - Research
Medium is a design studio working across a variety of scales and typologies. Our work explores the transformation of found spaces and materials, in search of an architecture that is contextual, sensitive and refined.
Medium is led by architect Benjamin Wells. Current and past Medium collaborators include Simon Hoebel, Nele Bergmans, Joe Mercer, Camille Filbien, Francis Naydler and Jacob Sturdy.
Benjamin is unit leader at the Welsh School of Architecture, with a focus on the potentials of adaptive reuse and material transformation.
Benjamin has worked with Mooradian Studio, Caruso St John Architects, Adam Khan Architects and Carmody Groarke.
Benjamin is co-founder of Lot Projects - a project space in Hackney.
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Design
Recent projects include Hearth House, an extension renovation of a 1950s house in the Surrey Hills, that has won a 2025 AJ Retrofit and Reuse Award. Other projects include a retrofit of a Victorian terrace in Bristol, exhibition design for a major London gallery and the transformation of a terraced house in Dalston.
Benjamin is Senior Architect at Mooradian Studio. Previously Project Architect at Caruso St John Architects in London, where he led the adaptive reuse of the Royale Belge in Brussels, which won a Europa Nostra Heritage Award and was nominated for the Brussels Architecture Prize. Previously held positions at Adam Khan Architects and Carmody Groarke - project architect for a Maggie’s Centre in Liverpool that received the Architects Journal Small Projects Award, two RIBA Awards and a Civic Trust Award.
Benjamin has a Master of Architecture from Political Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His thesis project The Agonistic City was awarded several international prizes (see below) and exhibited in Copenhagen, Tbilisi, Madrid, Venice and Chengdu. It was one of fifteen projects across Europe shortlisted for the Fundació Mies van der Rohe YTAA 2018. BA (Hons) Architecture from the University of Sheffield with First Class Honours - awarded the Stephen Welsh Prize in Architecture.
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Research
Benjamin is unit leader for BA Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, exploring the potentials of adaptive reuse and material transformation.
Published research projects include Innovation by Design - five texts written to accompany the Danish pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale (commissioned by curator Natalie Mossin and the Danish Architecture Centre). Research and architectural criticism published in PLAT Journal, Blueprint, MONU, DAC, Hammock, BRACKET, Transient Space Journal, Dezeen, Bauwelt, Arkitekten, Arcspace and Archdaily, amongst others.
Invited scholar with On Cities at the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid, led by MIT City Science Group. Invited participant at the UN Innovation Lab UNLEASH in Singapore, with other 'talents' from across a range of disciplines and geographies. Designed and built an installation for the International Union of Architects World Congress in Seoul.
Regular critic at institutions including the London School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Central Saint Martins.
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Awards
Europa Nostra Heritage Award. Royale Belge with Caruso St John.
WAS Awards - First Prize. The Agonistic City
YTAA Award - Nominated and Shortlisted. The Agonistic City. Exhibited at the 2018 Venice Biennale
World Architecture Awards - Jury Winner. The Agonistic City
Social Tectonics competition - 2nd Prize. Ishinomaki Port. Exhibited in Copenhagen and Tokyo
Architects Journal Small Project Award - First Prize (Maggie's Merseyside with Carmody Groarke)
RIBA Award - Regional and Small Project Award (Maggie's Merseyside with Carmody Groarke)
The Stephen Welsh Prize in Architecture - (Sheffield University) York Cycle Station
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Features
Interview with The Modern House Journal / interview with Dezeen / KADK / interview with Dezeen / interview with ICON magazine / matter magazine / Architecture Today / Tribune / Epiteszforum / Archdaily / YTAA / Design Tbilisi / Inspireli / Interview with Tbilisi Architecture Network / Interview with Hammock Magazine / World Architects / Future Architecture Platform
