Half Street

ACADEMIC WORK 14 weeks Spring 2023 Design Excellence Recipient

SOFTWARE : Revit, Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop

Project

In a career of constant collaboration and coordination, architecture has an immense focus on working with your peers and consultants. In my final studio at Arizona State University, we took on the challenge of a studio wide project following a real RFQ that the City of Phoenix was working on. The project exists on a real downtown site that is looking to be developed and in our case, developed for artist residency and their community. My partner (Jess Calabrese) and I were tasked with designing the site and first level. It needed to integrate into the urban fabric of downtown Phoenix while still giving back to the communities that were going to be using it.

Solution

Jess and I focused on the “One and a Half” Street which is an old alley that we decided to re-purpose as the central point of the first level. This organic structure pulls attention from the street into a space calibrated for artists and community members alike. Juxtaposed by the orthogonal form on the exterior, it brings life to gallery space, retail niches, and opportunities for the resident artists to brand themselves and community members to explore.

modeled after the Expo 2000, this project sought to bring together our studio in the hopes of designing for the artist community