SEI Architects
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Spring 2016 University of Maryland | Studio IV Professor James Tilghman Indepedent work Revit, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop
Fall 2015 University of Maryland | Studio III Professor Brittany Williams Indepedent work Revit, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop
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My approach to architectural design focuses on the impact the built environment affects on a personal level the experience of the user within created space, and the effect that structures can have on the betterment of community or a people as a whole.
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Fall 2015 University of Maryland | Studio III Professor Brittany Williams Indepedent work Revit, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop
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Summer 2015 University of Maryland | ARCH389V Professor Lindley Vann Indepedent work AutoCAD, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop
Designers are storytellers. The designer, just like a storyteller, knows that a good story alone is not enough it's about how you tell it. This aspect of design plays a crucial role in my approach to architecture. Namely, that representation is just as important as narrative.
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Forest Park High School SEI Architects
Design for the revitalization of Forest Park High School began in 2015, following a grant initiative by the Maryland General Assembly in the Spring of 2013 to overhaul the infrastructure of the Baltimore City Public School System. This initiative, headed by 21st Century Schools, seeks to renovate over 14 schools within the city. Forest Park High School embodies the mission of the 21st Century School Program design that is future focused, adaptable, and sustainable.
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Schoool + Community Tennis Courts
Outdoor Classroom
Preserved Historic Gate
Geothermal field beneath football field
Restored stadium Seating
Main Entry
Main Addition Community / Multipurpose Space
The revitalized Forest Park High School allows for recreational opportunity within the community, and fosters an environment for cooperative school partnership programs. The main area of addition features a community room complete with a pantry, laundry room, and planning space, accessible after school hours. The addition lobby has direct adjacency to public program, including the auditorium, pool, and blackbox theatre.
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New Bus Loop Dedicated Community Entrance
Forest Park High School Sei Architects
Forest Park High School SEI Architects
The focal point of the revitalized Forest Park High School is the new public atrium, dramatically cutting through the center of the school and connecting all four levels. The atrium brings ample daylight into the building through an upper level clerestory, naturally lighting a collaborative teaching stair below. The materiality of the atrium and addition lobby reference the original brick facade of the school, providing a sense of continuity to the two main public spaces.
The color palette of Forest Park instills wayfinding that is both intuitive and visually appealing. On each teaching level, the color palette is stratified to a single color. The color theme of each floor comes together in the atrium and addition lobby, signifying the connective tissue of these public spaces. The selected colors reference the consolidated Forest Park and Northwestern High School, whose students will come together as one when the revitalized Forest Park High School opens in Fall 2018.
Forest Park High School Sei Architects
Mount Vernon Rec Center SEI Architects - Proposal
Located in Fairfax County, Virginia, the Mount Vernon RECenter houses an aquatics center, fitness center, ice arena, and provides a venue for numerous community organizations. This multifaceted proposal adds a leisure pool, performance ice rink, modern fitness center, all while establishing a unique aesthetic identity that is visible to the community from the adjacent Belle View Boulevard and Fort Hunt Road.
The proposed site plan addresses numerous challenges facing the existing RECenter. Primarily, the existing structure is unrecognizable from its street facade, with its main entry accessible only from the parking lot on the back side of the building. The proposed design connects the two sides with a grand canopy structure, raised above the roofline and glazed below to let in natural light. This connective feature creates a distinct visual icon, engaging the community and enhancing the user experience.
Mount Vernon Rec Center Sei Architects - Proposal
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PUBLIC BUS STOP RESIDENTIAL AREA 895 THROUGHWAY PUBLIC BUS ROUTE PEDESTRIAN WALKING ROUTE PEDESTRIAN + DRIVING ROUTE
John Ruhrah Elementary SEI Architects - Proposal
John Ruhrah Elementary / Middle School is a historic building of Baltimore City, known for its strong community presence. The school facilitates numerous programs that aid a largely immigrant population, assisting students and family alike with partnership services such as Hope Health Services and the Baltimore City Public Schools Newcomer Project. This addition / renovation proposal provides the school with infrastructure they need to accommodate their growing community.
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The proposed design includes a dedicated community entrance, with spaces specifically intended to accommodate outreach programs. The addition surrounds a central courtyard, with massing that steps down to maintain daylight to interior classrooms. The proposal reimagines the unappealing concrete berm on the south edge of the site as an immersive learning environment, with a stepped garden used by the school and accessible to the community at all hours. The garden also provides natural stormwater mitigation.
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John Ruhrah Elementary Sei Architects - Proposal
Berry + Craik Elementary SEI Architects
This renovation and addition project adds a dedicated kindergarten wing to Dr. James Craik Elementary and Berry Elementary, both located in Charles County, MD. All new classroom spaces have access to natural light, or indirect natural light provided by skylight. The additions also provide collaborative learning space, a flexible environment for diverse approaches to teaching and learning. The additions limit site and environmental impact, and limit interior disturbances for phase while occupied use of the school.
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Rock Creek Center, a proposed special education magnet program in Frederick County, presented a uniquely complex design challenge. The educational specification detailed a program with intricate connections and adjacencies, intending to provide special education students with the ideal environment for learning. Additionally, the client for thie client had not chosen a site for the proposed structure. This proposal approached design from the micro level by evaluating key adjacencies room by room, before moving on to macro level organization.
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Rock Creek School Sei Architects - Proposal
Locust Point - Baltimore, Maryland
Locus Waterfront Institute in Baltimore
The community of Locust Point once supported a thriving shipping industry. Today, these concrete towers lay vacant, and the shipping yards create an impassable barrier between Locust Point and the Harbor. The community lacks self sufficiency, routes of basic public transportation, connection to its waterfront, and a sense of identity. Baltimore Waterfront Institute seeks to reconnect a community to its city. The building showcases Locust Point's efforts to restore the health of Baltimore Harbor, establishes a new cultural destination for the city.
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Massing focuses on drawing the community to the waterfront, and engaging with the harbor. The superstructure is raised to maintain views to the surrounding harbor. Utilizing the urban plan revitalization, a grand entrance raises out of the waterfront park and wetland. This structure cantilevers over the water, providing a stunning perspective of the Baltimore harbor. Unique structural members establish a distinct identity, and allow for additional transparency. Their hollow metal construction is vastly more efficient than structural steel members, requiring far less material to build.
Locus Waterfront Institute in Baltimore
Locus Waterfront Institute in Baltimore
Spaces of the institute serve as tools for education about healthy waterfront practice. Maker space within the building allows the community to take a hands on approach to this subject matter, with facility for production in an open environment. Lecture halls provide venue to present these topics. The top floor houses an exhibition hall, where the community displays their work and topics of cultural relevance.
The unique structural members establish a distinct identity, but also serve an additional purpose. Through operable lighting color, the Institute accents the section of the structure in use during events. Shining through the transparency of the enclosure, this accent lighting is a direct form of communication between the Institute, Locust Point, and Baltimore.
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The site lies within the heart of Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon District, within short walking distance of Mount Vernon Square. North Charles Street serves as the main thoroughfare between the site and other districts of the city, running uninterrupted from Station North two miles south to the Inner Harbor. Though the site connects easily to the majority of the Mount Site Vernon district, the distance between the site and the rest of Baltimore is restrictive. Pedestrians would find difficulty in walking from the site to the Inner Harbor, and encounter below average walking conditions along the way, passing directly through the largely non-residential downtown. Additionally, the topography change between the Inner Harbor and Mount Vernon is so great that the walk from the Inner Harbor to Mount Vernon is noticably uphill. Due to the distance between the site and the southern regions of Baltimore, pedestrians would likely choose to drive or seek public transportation to other parts of the city. SOUTH BALTIMORE
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The city of Baltimore faces a conflict of perception and reality. The perceived image of the city reflects a state of unrest, heavily nested in community relations. Systematic problems resist systemtic solutions. The built environment does not heal conflict. People heal conflict. The focus of this civic building is to create an environment that allows the citizens of the community to affect meaningful change in their community. By fostering diverse dialogue through architecture.
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Shift - the moniker of the civic building, represents its objective to foster a shift in traditional approaches to conflict resolution. The design shifts the main axis of the interior, emphasizing the key spaces of the building. Deriving their form from this shift, a series of four small meeting spaces are given main emphasis in the entry atrium of the structure. These spaces promote transparency and glorify the small meeting space as the main stage for dialogue in activist groups. The large meeting space, utilizing the same shift in axis, provides the community with a venue for presenting this discourse in a larger scale
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The main atrium space brings natural light into the building through a skylight, eliminating the need for extensive artificial lighting. the first floor affords ample open space for galleries, promoting unrestriced displays from citiziens of the community on concerns facing the city. The second floor features a large meeting space for public forums and presentations of the work conducted in the building. A pre function space eases the entrance of users into the large meeting space and hosts receptions following forums.
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The third floor houses the office space of the civic building, with accomodations for five memebers of staff, and a chairman's office. The third floor hallway offers a entrance to a balcony overlooking the large meeting space. The fourth floor allows acess to a rooftop terrace, engaging the building with its surroundings in a natural environment. Back entrances to the building draw in the community further with a landscaped underhang, situated beneath the large meeting space
Shift Center for Diverse Dialogue in Baltimore
Shift Center for Diverse Dialogue in Baltimore
View from North Charles Street The small meeting space of the civic center is glorified from the street front, establishing transparency to the community, while the facade of the atrium maintains the stylistic integrity of mount vernon
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Phyiscal Modeling Original modeling constructed at 3/32" = 1' scale of site
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The community of logan Circle boasts a rich culture and vbrant street life. With the rise of commerce on 14th street, increasing population of the area demands a higher range of residential options. The 804 adds to this urban fabric a mix of housing types and amenities for its occupants and the greater community. The housing unit mixes a balance of aesthetic beauty and functionality, with a focus on environmental integrity, adding to the greenscape of logan circle, not detracting from it.
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The 804 utilizes principles of modular housing design, deriving its massing from three blocks of unit space. The wood of the facade carries a motif throughout the structure, visible from the street and acessible to the users up to their doorstep. each unit offers a direct interface to the street through balconies, and a rooftop Landscape on the top floor open to the public. An extensive green roof lines the top of each unit block, mitigating rainfall and passive heat gain, improving building performance.
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The housing unit offers multiple amenities to the community. The thrid floor is a meeting space, open to discourse for residents of Logan Circle,and providing a professional environment to its users. The fourth floor houses a gym with a secondary group fitness studio. The top floor engages the surroundings of the structure, with a rooftop terrace adding to the green space of Logan Circle. The ground floor provides ample commercial space, complimenting the street life of its urban context.
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Unit B - Studio The 804 offers two unit types - Studio and one bedroom layouts, allowing for a diverse range of occupants. Each unit maintains an open floor plan for its living and dining space, lit naturally by a wall of glazing separating the unit from the street. Every unit in 804 offers a balcony, running the full width of the unit, promoting a sense of interface with the community
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The commercial space of the ground level is set back from the road, creating a buffer between the street and the housing unit. This setback provides ample space for commercial business to provide outdoor amenity to the community, with outdoor seating and vegetation a design impetus for the future. The buffer space created mirrors the intimate feel of the rowhouse community surrounding Logan Circle, while matching the street character of 14th street.
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The city of Castellamare di Stabia, located in the Bay of Naples, boasts one of the largest arrays of surviving roman villas In the summer of 2015, I conducted field surveys and created digitally drafted orographics of the villa, with a group of students on the study abroad program offered by the University of Maryland. Our class was tasked to produce a collection of work to be submitted to the Italian superintendancy, and contribute our work to the efforts of Restoring Ancient Stabiae.
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The class taught a wide breadth of surveying techniques. We began by employing traditional methods - freehand measured drawing, moving into contempory methods such as Theodolite and electronic distancing measurement, and culminating with LIDAR, a modern technological technique utilizing laser distancing.these methods contributed to three dimensional models of the site, and the resulting model was employed for our digital tracing of wall elvations
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Personal Artwork Board Game Design - Feed the Fire
Board game design is much like architectural design. Start with a narrative, a story to be told. Find ways to tell that story through elements of the design and mechanics. Choose a style that reinforces the intended user experience. Then, iterate. Test your design. Take what works from the first iteration and remove what does not work. Test your second iteration. Test your third, fourth, and fifth iteration. Design until the user experience is engaging, memorable, rewarding. Design until the game truly tells the story.
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How did you find this in the middle of the woods? Best not to think too hard about it. Fuel Cards are played FACE DOWN during the Fuel Phase.
Feed the Fire is a mystery game, with elements of cooperation and lighthearted competition. The art style intends to reinforce the mystery and whimsy of the game’ s narrative. Minimalistic representation and stark color contrast allow the players to imagine the scene in more detail, drawing them farther into the experience.
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