Aeroponic Vertical Urban Farm

Greenhouse

The products produced in the greenhouse are sold or donated to the Merc store or local markets in the area. Visitors can see the greenhouse from the lobby and can learn more about the benefits of using aeroponics in a greenhouse.

Shading System

Cross Section

The Exterior

A community garden is provided on the east side of the building to allow community engagement in nature. On the north side of the buildings, a section of the parking lot will be used by farmers to sell their produce, allowing people to get fresh products.

Enclosure

Location | Lawrence, KS

Professor | Alejandro Aptilon

Year | Spring 2022

The performance building is located next to Potter Lake on the campus of KU. The building has a series of small rooms for visiting faculty. The purpose of these rooms is for visitors to study or practice their skills, ranging from practicing their music or drawing to just reading or meditating.

The building is to provide hospitality to KU’s visitors but also allow outside performances for KU’s students and community. The focus of the project is to create a relationship between the building and the natural and/or existing elements of the immediate surroundings.

Exploring Site

Concepts were to be found on-site and inspired by nature. Dead tree branches help create a facade on the building. Site analysis helped to determine how the building would interact with nature.

Developing Plan

Bubble diagrams and partis helped in the development of the mass of the building and the floor plans.

Developing Interior

Inspired by trees, the facade creates a shadow into the building, creating the feeling that someone is under the tree when in the building. Floor plans and perspective view of the room helped to understand the spacing in the room.

Overall

Model is used to understand how the building would sit on the site and how scaling a model helps you understand how spaces and rooms will interact in an actual floor plan.

Wall System

Material | Notecards & Basswood

Professor | Anne Patterson

Year | Fall 2021

This project was to create a concept shape that could maintain its form to create a wall system with repetitive patterns. The focus of the project is to see how light influence a wall and how facades create a dynamic shape on the wall.

The shape had to be held up with a system that could stand by itself. The system must hold the shape and pattern of the facade without interfering.

Sketching And Developing

Drawing the shape helped conceptualize how light would interact with it and how little changes can help to create more dynamic lighting and shadows. A structural drawing helped build the backbone of the wall to help it stand and support the pattern of the shape to create a wall system.