One Tree Hill Radio Tower

Interior Perspective Sketch

This project focused on designing a space with a specific purpose and audience while beind conscience of the surrounding site.

Entry Threshold

The design of The Pit revolves around the concept of being transported to a place within that city that is also isolated from the surrounding environment. The Pit is designed for Strawberry Mansion athletes. In Philadelphia Strawberry Mansion High School athletes were feared for their aggressive rough and rugged physical play style. The plan of the building is organized to reflect the importance of sports in the teens life, with a primary focus on active meditation to channel feelings that may have been buried deep down and hidden. The design also influences those feelings they have taught him to hide to be revealed and reflected upon. The Pit is a place for Strawberry Mansion student athletes to learn about what makes them great and how to channel it at will.

This Architecture program at Thomas Jefferson University so far has taught me to pivot and stand firm in the face of adversity. It’s also taught me the importance of co- creative partners and the creative process itself. Overall this program has allowed me to realize that as a designer you must design with intention and for all parties involved not just the client. A designer must design for those who are marginalized and excluded while also designing for those who are neither of those things. I would like to become an architect for those very reasons. As a true Philadelphian I have grown disgusted by the site illiterate designed residential properties popping up in neighborhoods neglected by the city in order to drive marginalized groups out of these “Neighbors on the Rise.”

With this University’s education within me I won’t be able to solve it myself but will be given the opportunity to design for those who are not considered in designs today.