Miranda joined Orms in 2024 as Head of the Living sector, bringing extensive expertise across diverse residential typologies including masterplanning, estate regeneration, student accommodation, co-living, later living, build-to-rent, hostels, market sale, affordable social rent, and homeless shelters.
She currently chairs the New London Architecture (NLA) housing panel and leads design review panels for Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets. She also serves as a panel member for Hounslow, Harrow, and Somerset and Taunton, and acts as an advisor to the Temporary Accommodation Action Group (TAAG) in Newham. As a RIBA client advisor, she provides strategic guidance on residential projects and judges several prestigious housing awards.
What does ultrapractical mean to you? Orms has more than four decades of experience in finding practical solutions to very complex briefs, so I want to focus my energies on how we can continue to make projects that are generous and responsive in an ever-changing social, economic and environmental context. We need to ask ourselves where we can best learn from our collective experience, and what we can learn by actively listening to those that know the context best. With these extraordinary challenges, ‘business as usual’ isn’t enough. We need to be innovative – ultrapractical, in fact.