Rachel Hoolahan is Associate Director at Orms. We design places for learning, living, working and mixing that are deeply functional and forever generous. Based in central London, we’ve been in practice for more than 40 years, continually evolving our studio to make it fit for purpose. In 2018 we became an Employee Owned Trust (EOT) and in 2024 a BCorp.

Rachel leads the practice's sustainability consultancy, bridging research and implementation to advance regenerative design, in particular material reuse, in the built environment.

She spearheaded Orms' materials passports research, developing open-source methodologies that enable design teams to catalogue and redeploy building fabric. In collaboration with Lancaster University, she published a policy paper in 2024 that provides frameworks for wider adoption.