SYSTEM
INTEGRATIONS This project contains all the necessary details and research to be considered a buildable and successful structure. This project reflects the importance and effect sustainable design has within architecture. The building meets LEED Platinum Standards, meets COTE standards, and explores design within the Living and Learning challenge. These challenges were completed and explored in order to test the limits of sustainable design, but also explore new mediums and ways of saving energy. The Tesla Center’s values and capabilities were meant to be in harmony with the idea that architecture should be sustainable because there is no other option. The world needs to be more conscious of its waste and we feel Tesla is a company which seeks to resolve many of Earth’s problems by improving humans’ resources. There are several Tesla products used in this structures design, such as Tesla Solar Panels and Boring Bricks used for construction. Completed with studio partner, Tori Eslick under the studio direction of Mark (Robert) Dekay and Lisa Hoskins.
APPALACHIAN
DISTILLERY The spread of alcohol has been one of the most important and lucrative processes in America. It fueled the economy of the south and Appalachia. Creating billion-dollar industries in both the fields of liquor and NASCAR. While the process of illegal liquor transportation was dangerous and frowned upon, it created opportunity and strengthened the poor economies of Southern America. This Distillery is broken into a series of campuses which each perform their own crucial functions and programs within the small community of Greenback, TN. This project was just as much a designing of architectural systems as much as it was the designing of culture and creating a new identity within the small community of Greenback using alcohol. The site is connected by a moving channel system which allows for inhabitants to travel undetected, just as moon shine runners attempted to do during prohibition. Hopefully these systems can create a stronger community and draw an outside presence to Appalachia.
SCALE: 1/4” = 1’-0”
CHATTANOOGA
RESIDENTIAL RENOVATION This has been one of the few residential projects I have worked on, however, this has been my favorite. The idea behind this project was to select an existing cookie cutter house floor plan within a book full of generic and lifeless layouts. The most important aspects of the redesigning of the layout were the central communal space which contained an existing chimney/ fireplace. Hopefully this courtyard can be utilized to draw loved ones closer and give them a chance to relax within an enclosed outdoor space and maybe even tell each other ghost stories around the fire. By the end of the project we were tasked with developing a ramp addition which may potentially be built or adjusted to fit an existing home within a low-income neighborhood.
ARONOFF
GALLERY ADDITON The University of Cincinnati remains one of the most well-designed campuses in the world, it has been master planned by few and designed by many. The campus contains pieces of work from some of the most highly acclaimed architects and it reflects many different styles throughout, serving as a place for architecture to flourish as its own and become a place for design to express itself. The Aronoff structure is a building which contains no axis within its interior movement. It houses the DAAP programs which makeup UC’s design lifestyle. he structures itself is disruptive by nature and its numerous additions seek to take more attention from the last. So the goal was to create an addition for the DAAP program, which included multi-purpose gallery and exhibition center which contains areas for students to work and employees to feel comfortable and more valued by being placed in a more stable condition, without disrupting the values that the Aronoff exhibits.
KARAKOW
RIVER WALK A project compeleted during a semester abroad in Krakow, Poland. This River Walk serves as a historic tribute to the Polish people who were murdered by the Germans during in WWII. The river it sits next two is located in the old city of Krakow where a large portion of the city can be seen regularly inhabiting because of its improving scenery and its numerous activities. The area used to be a a ghetto neighborhood for the Jewish community when the Germans invaded and occupied Poland. The area is seperated into two levels, the sub level which is and the walking area above the flood wall. There isnt really an easy transition bwteen the two and it often forces the public to choose between the two levels without the opportunity to switch The incline walkway serves as a mediator between the two levels, as it moves inhabitants through a series of exhibitory stations. These stations were meant to ediucate those passing and also provide a better connection between two highly populated levels in downtown Krakow which were previosly poorly connected.
DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION The remaining projects in this book are committed to presenting built and constructed projects. The built work is an expression of my own personal interests and passions. Model making has always been something ive been intrigued by, and I love to treat it as a way to create reaction, intrest, and a form of passion. These models are an expression of curiousity of material and craft, and are the products of my construction interests. This section will remain an ever growing part in my life.