Prosser Student Portfolio 2020 - Part 2

Payton Prosser

2020 Portfolio

Supportive Housing

Project Overview

The goal of Kansas City, KS Supportive Housing is to provide affordable, stable housing for residents with mental illness and promote a sense of community that supports recovery and treatment.

Kansas City, KS Supportive Housing aims to address a lack of healthcare facilities and support for people with mental illness in KC,K. By integrating treatment and housing, residents can get preventative care that can reduce hospitalizations and improve health outcomes. The supportive housing model aims to be flexible with resident needs and provide assistance where needed to create a stable living environment that might be difficult to achieve under other housing models. However, this housing is highly independent and is not dependent on employment status, program participation, or other factors. Resident choice is prioritized while making services easy to access and participate in.

The goal if this project is to create spaces if social connection and encourage building community among residents, as well as with the surrounding neighborhood.

Community and social interaction are a key component of treatment and recovery; here, they are used to connect the services and facilities in a meaningful way to residents. The project does this in several ways. The form is guided by the setbacks and building forms of the adjacent residences; this visually links the development with its context and avoids creating a space of “otherness”. Within the site, the interior courtyard is centered around a community garden is intended to draw people into the space. Porches along the interior provide spaces for small groups of residents to have a shared space. These porches, and 3 surrounding units compose a housing pod that allows for smaller social circles to form. This pod is designed so that one resident may act as an advisor or mentor to newer residents as they move in.

Research

5 Main Components of Supportive Housing

Mental Health

Community Agencies & In house Mental Health Services

Physical Health

Parks, Urban Agriculture, & the Mobile Market

Supportive Housing

Community

Churches, Schools, & Parks

Education

Schools, Mobile Library, & Job Training

Existing Mental Health Facilities

Transportation

Walkability & Bus routs

Swope Health

Primary healthcare and behavioral health services

Wyandotte Center: Wyandotte inc

Wyandotte Center Administrative Offices.

Community Mental Health Center

Site selection began by examining mental health facilities available to the community. Two available sites were then evaluated based the transportation, health, and community components of supportive housing.

Swope Health Wyandotte

Wyandotte inc. Central office

Wyandotte Center

Site & Form

Context

This site was chosen because it was the most connected with the key components of supportive housing. It was close to Jersey Creek Park( a site of physical activity) New Bethel Church (a source of community and a mobile market stop), a main bus-line and two bus stops ( transportation), & Sumner Academy of Arts and Science (education & community). It was also close to Eldin Forest Park, which is a place where members of the homeless community sometimes seek shelter; this is a group that the project aims to reach out to.

Resident Guidance

Eldin Forest Park

New Bethel Sumner

Institutional Form

Form

Emphasize Social Space

Cold Impersonal Unsettling Isolating VS.

De- Institutional Form

De- Institutional form creates interior social greenspace

Varied Facade

Warm Social Sheltered Builds Community

Allows facade variation similar to neighborhood context

Mentorship program established around shared communal space

Virtual Reality

Fall 2019

Cloud Arena

Relativity Group Projects

Cloud Arena

Inspiration:

Cloud Arena from Steven Universe (Rebecca

Sugar & Cartoon Network)

This project’s challenge was to create a highly stylised virtual environment.This project is a large, walkable arena and entrance based on the Cloud Arena in Steven Universe. There are many glowing objects that create a fun and magical environment for the viewer. In addition to this, the rubble surrounding the arena levitates and bobs slightly, giving the viewer the experience of actually standing in a levitating ancient structure.

Key Features

Animated, Floating Objects

Glowing Objects

Unique, Stylized Sky & Clouds

Relativity

Inspiration:

Relativity (M. C. Escher)

The challenge for this virtual reality project was to create a virtual reality experience based on a piece of art that inspired you. The artwork we chose is Relativity.

We Took the spirit of an infinite stairwell and added our own unique spin on it. Like Escher’s work, we used high contrast lighting and walking figures to create the illusion of multiple dimensions of travel. To add to the “infinite” experience, all doorways accessible to the user transport them seamlessly to a different doorway in the model; these portals add to the illusive nature of the experience.

Key Features

Seamless Portals

High Contrast Lighting

Immersive Optical Illusion

Peoria Illinois

Fall 2019

2020 Disney Imaginations

Semi-Finalist

Group Project

Project Overview

Project Challenge

“Create an iconic installation on your campus or city that serves as an inspiration, honors the past, and is a vision of the future. It can be architectural, ornamental, static, active, whatever your team feels is the best way to represent your unique chosen location. It can be intimate or grandiose, but it should always be appropriate for the location selected. In telling the very unique story of your chosen spot, it should respect and integrate local traditions and geography. Your icon should be a place to gather and celebrate, as well as reflect and educate the community. A concept that will go down in history as symbolic of your campus or city”

Team:

Walt-Disney Imagineering

Payton Prosser, Audrey Simmons, & Kelly Sofian

Story Behind the Design

In 1897 Lydia Moss Bradley founded Bradley University, then dedicated as Bradley Polytechnic Institute . The goal of the institute was to educate

the people of the present to progress toward the future. One of the founding disciplines at the school was watchmaking, and our team used watches and their relationship to time as the inspiration for our concept. Our project invites you into a symbolical clock and asks you to be a part of it. Clocks remain constant while marking the passage of what is always dynamic; like a clock, this structure is always progressing toward the future while being founded on the principals of the past. Through this project, we hope to invite students to be active participants of the story and history of Bradley University as it unfolds.

Project Statement

The Lydia Pavilion is a dynamic study space that will serve to inspire students in their studies. It showcases a 4 story mural that portrays significant Bradley University alumni and reminds students of the legacy of this institution. It is painted in a style that derives from the style of Peoria’s street art, the city in which the university is located. The top three floors rotate at a gentle pace so that the studier’s relationship with the pavilion and the surrounding landscape is always in motion. This symbolically represents how the university is always in motion progressing toward the future, while deriving in form for the rotation gears of a watch, an older technology.

Art & Drawings

Watercolor Paintings

Watercolor Paintings