Physical Model: 3D Printing / Laser Cutting / Hand Drafting
Austin Cancer Wellness Center
Austin Medical Facility
Fall 2024
Arch 607: Brian Gibbs
Austin Cancer WellnessTreatment Center is a NCI-designated cancer facility in Austin’s medical district, right across from the University of Texas campus hospital. As part of the National Cancer Institute’s network, it offers the latest treatments, research, and top-quality cancer care. The center is designed to feel warm and welcoming, making patients feel at home rather than in a hospital. With natural light, calming materials, and comfortable spaces, it creates a peaceful place for healing. More than just a treatment center, it is a place of hope and support, where patients and families receive both excellent medical care and emotional comfort.
Appelt Aggieland Visitor Center
Texas A&M Community Spring 2024
Arch 606: Matthew Faulkner
The Texas A&M University Visitor Center serves as the gateway for prospective students and their families, offering an immersive introduction to campus life. Strategically located at the heart of campus near the iconic bell tower, the center is designed to enhance wayfinding and circulation, addressing the challenge of navigating a large university environment. A key design focus was creating an intuitive flow that seamlessly guides visitors through the facility and extends into the broader campus. The layout prioritizes clarity and accessibility, using visual cues, open sightlines, and interactive elements to create a welcoming and engaging experience. Thoughtfully designed pathways and gathering spaces encourage exploration while reinforcing the university’s rich traditions and academic spirit. This project blends functionality with a strong sense of place, ensuring that every visitor leaves with a clear and memorable impression of Texas A&M campus and spirit.
The Sliced Parcel
Archieve for City of Barcelona
Fall 2021
Carc 301: Miguel Roldan - Collaboration with Sunjin Lee
This project is an archive for the Barcelona Museum Collection Center. Beginning of the semester, we were asked to mainly consider surrounding parks, future extension of the building, and organization of spaces. I aimed towards repeating the same division and slice patterns of Barcelona blocks and made them decrease in length going to the right, in order to give an equal amount of green area in front of the building and better connect to the parks around. We have green coming up the building walls bringing the parks up to the roof.
PERFORATED CONCRETE
CONCRETE
GREEN
GLASS
STEEL COLUMN & BEAM
Mental and Wellness Center
Texas A&M Community
Fall 2023
Arch 605: Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi
Improving mental health among college students at Texas A&M University, recognizing its pivotal role in academic success but also essential for personal growth and overall life satisfaction. As a fellow college student, I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges and pressures that my peers and I face on a daily basis. The demands of academic coursework, social interactions, and transitioning to adulthood can create immense stress and anxiety, often leading to mental health issues such as depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout. Mental health issues among college students can have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only their time in school but also their future career prospects and personal relationships. By taking a proactive approach we can equip students with strategies to thrive during college years and beyond. This includes implementing biophilic elements, wayfinding features and creating a homelike atmosphere within the structure elements. Biophilic elements like green spaces and natural light can reduce stress and improve well-being. Wayfinding elements simplify navigation, reducing feelings of overwhelm. Creating a homelike environment fosters comfort and a sense of belonging, crucial for students’ mental well-being. Mental health issues among college students can have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only their time in school but also their future career prospects and personal relationships. By addressing these concerns proactively, we can help students by creating strategies they need to thrive during their college years and beyond.
Cedar Cuisine
Community Spring 2023
Arch 406: Mathew Faulkner - Collaboration with Ximena Calderon
For our project, we chose a new construction farm to table restaurant. Our goal is to create an inviting, restaurant-bar space that creates a stronger sense of community and gathering in Buffalo Gap. The concept for this farm to table is to be able to gather all of our ingredients from a local farmers market and greenhouse. This intent is to create a positive cycle between local consumption of goods and therefore create a rise in the economy and growth of Buffalo, Gap. We want this to become an experience not only an instance. This restaurant will give a typological attention of its own in order to raise awareness about sustainable and healthy agriculture/ food preparation, and promote this sector. Through key spaces we want to promote the ideas of safe and sustainable farming and sourcing into the community. They exeplify a consideration for the future that is essential to denote through these publicly accessible settings, not only health-wise but educating about sustainable and seasonal agricultural awareness and adaptability.
The Connection Path
Housing and Community
Spring 2022
Arch 305: Koichiro Aitani
With the increased use of mass timber in the last few decades, a corresponding increase in opportunities for creating new kinds of sustainable urban spaces emerges therein. The Timber in the City competition calls for innovative approaches to shortstay housing and community center in the urban context. The program calls for a 12-20 story mass timber building which will incorporate housing, an urban market space, and community facilities such as a recreational area with a pool and community kitchens. Our design focuses on the need to connect all of these respective programs with the context of the mass transit and the surrounding arts district amenities, i.e. the High Museum of Art. Thus, this project becomes both a hub of transportation and communal life for its neighborhood. The facade makes use of a treated glulam lateral bracing system.
Layer Compartamentalization
Government
Fall 2022
Arch 405: Marcel Erminy - Collaboration with Isabella Davis
This project is a pre-fabricated metal fire station with a hybrid-program of a cafe and food truck park. Compartmentalization is something used by firefighters physically and mentally in order to fight fires. This strategy was embraced along with layering in order to promote holistic wellbeing, not just physical. A fire station is a very regimented system with a regular cycle following daily activities, shift changes, and call outs. We devised a rhythm of a fire station to inform the compartmentalization of programs within the built environment. The compartmentalization and calibration of the project area approached at 3 levels: the site, the pod, and individual buildings. The site at large is a matte building logic, unified by a large pavilion reinforcing horizontal site circulation. Pods are independent of each other, each with their own height and brick-skin relating to levels of privacy. The brick skin with perforation allows for private courtyards with vegetation, these courtyards connect to the interior of the buildings with sliding doors and windows, allowing for natural light through the brick perforations and passive ventilation.
