INTEGRATED DESIGN STUDIO

Centering Sustainability In Office Design

INTEGRATED DESIGN STUDIO | SPRING 2022 PROFESSOR IRENE KEIL beams 8x20

The project required the design of an office building in downtown New Orleans . My response centered around water collection, filtration and reuse.

The massing strategy was driven by a desire to maintain public access routes though the site. The structural response is that of primarily mass timber,investigating the use of wood structures in wet climates, whilst utilizing an expressed metal southern solar shading system.

Dropped timber ceiling baffles conceal major HVAC ducts. Sprinkler system and LED lights drops through baffles.

Columns 12x12

Glulam is Douglas fir, concealed steel joist ties

3 ply CLT raised floor on timber batts

6” pressurized air plenum for UFAD system

Floor vent with from VAV reheat. 5 ply CLT slab insulated sofit panel within curtain wall system

Insulated glass curtain wall, stick construction.

Steel L frame - clips to curtain wall mullions

Perforated metal mesh panels

3’ concrete slab acts as transfer girder rigid insulation

1’ concrete walls concrete slab pile caps piles grade beams

SAFER PERFORATIONS IN HURRICANES

HURRICANE SEASON OCCUPATION

HURRICANE ROOF TIES CLOSING DOWN THE MODULE FOR SHELTER IN PLACE NON HURRICANE SEASON OCCUPATION

Caukin South Pacific Research Project

CYCLONE-PROOF HOUSING FOR ISLAND COMMUNITIES

I worked as part of a research forum to develop community-built cyclone proof housing for island regions in the South Pacific. The work is my own, but forms a body of research developed by a team of architects, community members and climate advisors. The design responds to local material restraints, ease of construction, and reduction in loss of life and property.