Ayza joined Studio Woodroffe Papa in 2024 following the completion of her Master’s degree in Housing and Urbanism at the Architectural Association in London. She is a chartered architect since 2019, when she started practicing in Pakistan, focusing on rethinking housing and its integration with the fabric of the city.
Since joining Studio Woodroffe Papa, Ayza has been working on a competition project aimed at redefining Proctor Street and the area around Holborn Station to improve its connectivity while creating social value. She is also assisting principal architects with research on collective domestic environments and the incorporation of work into the life of the home.
Prior to Studio Woodroffe Papa, Ayza was working at an architectural practice in Lahore, honing her skills in designing a range of housing typologies that protect the relationship between privacy and conviviality. Before that she worked with a masterplanning team on 15+ large-scale housing and mixed-use projects at international design studio, Arcop Pvt. Ltd., aspiring to develop a dialogue between context, people, culture and the built environment.
Ayza brings to SWP an approach that is based on systems thinking; she maintains simplicity and cohesiveness within the work to communicate complex ideas with clarity, emphasising strategy and detail throughout the design process.
MA Housing and Urbanism, Architectural Association, UK, 2023
GDip Architecture, Newcastle University, UK, 2022
BArch (Hons) Architecture, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, PK, 2019\