KENYAN ORPHANAGE

COURSE: Arc252

ADVISOR: J. Lindsey & S. Burtelson

YEAR: Spring 2015

Creating a stable & holistic environment for orphans. This village of homes seeks to provide a design solution for Touched by Love International Ministries. Each home houses up to six children and a parent. The interior design allows for the front room to be used in multiply ways, with a built in ‘L’ shaped table along the shared living room wall, children can eat, study, get together or do arts and crafts together.

The homes are placed around the perimeter of the property and surround the playing field, water well and garden. Keeping sustainability, cost and convenience in mind each house is constructed from locally sourced materials, have a simple modular form and is designed to collect any rainwater to be used for gray water.

COURSE: Arc251

ADVISOR: J. Lindsey & S. Burtelson

YEAR: Fall 2014

This project sought to teach us the basics in communication and architectonics. Before we could start designing buildings we first had to understand the relationship between solid and void and how together they shape the spaces we exist in.

For this project we merged two cubes into one while still defining were both cubes begin and end, creating another cube where the two meet.

We had to keep in mind organization, regular repetition and alignment as I chose to focus on interconnection, dialog and interaction.

Always asking ourselves “Did we accurately define space? Articulate concept? Think of scale in relation to humans?