ROMA COUNSELING AND REINTEGRATION CENTER

Location: Rome, Italy

Program: halfway house and counseling center designed in collaboration with Daniel Trent

This site is in close proximity to an anti-mafia detention center as well as the Regina Coeli Prison. The Roma Counseling and Reintegration Center provides therapeutic spaces and resources for the recently released or those seeking therapy. By designing a progressive journey throughout the block, one will end their time at the center with skills that can contribute to society. The journey an occupant takes through the site coincides with the progress they’re making in the program, encouraging a sense of accomplishment and growth. This center provides housing, public and private community spaces, counseling, and work programs to gradually guide people back into the community.

Six Residents

Residential Typologies

During one’s time in the center, they reside in shared housing. As time progresses, inhabitants move upwards into more private rooms with views of the surrounding city and direct connections to other programs, such as the offices and the Greenhouse.

To adhere to the surrounding heights of neighboring buildings, there are four floors above ground and two underground. However, there is a central atrium in the residential structure as well as another atrium that surrounds the building in the form of a waterfall that allows light in.

There are three residential typologies:

Levels -2,-1

Greenhouse

Six person rooms- External community living space and kitchens

18 units and 108 residents

Level 0

Levels 1,2

Community Space and Entry

Four person rooms- Internal living space and external community kitchens

19 units and 76 residents

Levels 3,4

Two person lofts- Internal living space and kitchens

18 units and 36 residents

Four Residents

Those who have made significant progress are granted the privilege of starting work programs in the Greenhouse. The Greenhouse is located in the public Western portion of the site, facing the residential and commercial areas. Work programs would be placed in the higher levels of the greenhouse, receiving the workers from the top levels of the residential structure. Public access would be placed in the lower floors of the greenhouse as well as the outdoor pavilion.

Tutto Milano

Location: Milan, Italy

Program: Mixed use Tower designed in collaboration with Daniel Trent

While Milan is the fashion capital of the world, it is also the business center of Italy and the main generator of revenue for the country. Between the financial hub and fashion weeks, Milan attracts a unique type of tourism. Tutto Milano is the culmination of the Milan experience. This form symbolizes the business and fashion industries and how they are perceived. At the forefront are the public hotel and fashion venues. In the back, nestled between the fashion and hotel shards, is the business tower. Although it is in the background, it rises above the accompanying shards to symbolize the financial significance to Italy and how it supports the fashion industry.

The skin is inspired by folds of fabric, and draws attention to the lower, public portion of the tower that houses the hotel and fashion venues. This designed skin is representative of the program inside.

On the ground floor of Tutto Milano is a permeable shopping plaza offering visitors the finest designer goods including some of Italy’s most well known retailers. Shoppers could be hotel guests venturing down from their rooms, businessmen and women enjoying themselves after a day at the offices next door, or Milan residents. There is also a rotating exhibition showcasing fashion on display in the plaza for guests to enjoy. This exhibition is located on the bottom floor of the business shard, allowing a buffer from the busy public shopping plaza to provide the offices with privacy.

Oncology Education Center

Location: Atlanta, georgia

Program: Oncology center designed in collaboration with Daniel Trent and Kyle davis

This Oncology center in Atlanta includes chemo infusion bays, radiation vaults, a hotel, and nursing facilities. It would also include an educational program for Atlanta’s youth to learn more about the medical profession. In Atlanta, there is a large gap in education between the city’s regions and very few students pursue a career in the medical field. Eventually, through the Oncology Education center, some may be inspired to volunteer and gain school credit for University scholarships. The auditorium would also serve as a lecture hall, bringing research resources to Atlanta.

Final Model

Form Finding Models

The spacing between the louvres in the facade of the chemo infusion bays optimizes patient views. Each bay can accommodate up to six patients and provides unobstructed views of the surrounding environment as chemo infusion can be offered both indoors and outdoors.

Orlando Medical Research Tower

Location: Orlando, florida

Program: Research tower and public space designed in collaboration with kyle davis and cody reynolds

Intersecting the diversity of Orlando - This medical campus is within close proximity to residential communities, the art museum, science center, and a train stop. These surroundings, along with patients, loved ones, and workers, create a diversity in program. This site creates both large and small scale intersections for people to come together. These intersections include programs such as the gallery, spirit garden, cafe, chapel, library, classrooms, auditorium, offices, and conference rooms.

These three forms intersect and stack to create the entirety of the Research Tower. The intersection of the three forms represents the diversity of the site as well as how the occupants meet at large and small scales.

Pocket Of Florida

Location: Polk County, Florida

Program: Distribution Center

This site is a distribution center, garden, and community table for Polk County. It is an integration of the natural assets of the area, such as vegetation and intense heat that is ideal for agriculture, with characteristics that are not typically associated with Florida, such as elevation. A unique pocket of Florida is created, where the topography creates natural movements that you want to follow. Up the slope, unassuming of the view ahead, and then gradually down the hill into the site where you are led around the curve of the valley. This sort of loop creates a sense of continuity.

This site also has an extension of the Distribution and Community Center. Visitors are led from the center to this showcase through a field, eventually discovering the entrance. From there, they discover various public spaces until they arrive at the community garden.

Orlando Museum of art

Location: Orlando, Florida

Program: Art Museum

This museum, located in the heart of downtown Orlando, offers an oasis away from the urban context surrounding it. Visitors are led on a path through the museum that weaves them through indoor and outdoor spaces, eventually reintegrating them back into the city. In the Downtown Orlando Museum of Art, there are three gallery spaces. The rotating gallery, the permanent installation “Art of the Americas”, and the outdoor sculpture garden.

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