Architectural Portfolio

Onondaga Elder Care + Community Center

FA22 Core Design Studios III: ENGAGED PRACTICES

Critics: Anna Dietzsch+ Scott Ruff Partner: Jada Cannon

The Onondaga Nation, located near Syracuse, NY, tasked our Core Design Studio with creating visions for their new elder care center. This Elder Community Center is inspired by our admiration for traditional Onondaga handicraft, which is used as a basis for how we negotiated site and intergenerational programming. In keeping with a relationship to the land, the roof acts as a projection of the slope moving with the terrain as a lifted surface. Overall, our intention was to anchor our design into the earth while maintaining the overall profile of the landscape. Combining this with an interlocking and weaving system between interior and exterior, we proposed a cohesive approach to supporting the elder community of the Onondaga Nation.

Flower Station, TJAD Original Design Studio

FA22 Structural Systems II

Critic: Mark Cruvellier

Partners: Megan Mueller + Jada Cannon

This semester-long project consisted of producing a structural model of a built work of our choosing. The Flower Station, built in 2021 in Shanghai, China represents a built space that focuses specifically on structure and efficiency. This pavilion demonstrates structural systems such as the space truss and a support system of lattice columns. In order to construct this model, wood was hand-cut into dowels scaled specifically for this project, along with the use of guitar string to act as members in tension, and 3D-printed joint elements.

Collision Crop

SP22 Constructed Drawing II

Critic: Katharina Kral

Individual Work

This course called for the reconstruction of an assigned form/geometry through utilizing Rhino and then creating a parametric version with Grasshopper. Rendered visualizations and an animation of the form were the final products of this assingment. Rendering produced in Enscape.

Mycelium Pavilion

FA22 HOME:GROWN II Critics: Marta Wisniewska Partners: Megan Mueller, Brenda Bai, Jie Dong

Following previous research on constructed architectural elements using mycelium, this elective course called for a focus on one architectural form and implementing methods of construction and formation using mycelium to scale up. A vault structure was our main focus, with the intention of possibly scaling up to a pavilion. Trials and iterations of this pavilion were explored throughout the semester, resulting in various findings and outcomes. The final pavilion was constructed using a carboard waffle skeleton for added structure to the mycelium and a wooden frame which allowed for the structure to be hung upside-down during growth.

Not Quite Round

FA21 Core Design Studios I

Critics: Leslie Lok + David Costanza

Partner: Jada Cannon

This studio began with creating a building/construction system through finding and analyzing a specific abstraction of an animal. Our chosen animal was the anaconda with which we abstracted its movement through earth and water. From this, we were able to incorporate steam bending wood and joint connections that notated deformations in curves and served as moments of connection between the wooden dowels. Final product of this first phase in studio was the development of a sphere to demonstrate the abstraction and building system.

Not A Zoo

FA21 Core Design Studios I

Critics: Leslie Lok + David Costanza

Partner: Jada Cannon

A continutation of Not Quite Round, this phase in the studio called for a shift in focus onto an animal native to upstate New York, with which a rehabilitation center was formed utilizing a developed version of the building construction method created in the initial portion of the semester. The canvasback duck was our chosen animal, and the rehabilitation center housed an education center, exam rooms, operating rooms, nursery, staff offices, and pond. Netting provided allowed for certain ducks to weave in and out of the center as they please.