Hello! I’m Avery, a fifth-year architecture student from Cal Poly SLO. I’m interested in socially-impactful design and sensory experience as they relate to wellness and connectivity; I use these concepts to ensure that my projects are appropriately tailored to their unique contexts.
With limited space in Washington D.C.’s city center and demand for housing on the rise, Anchor is a speculation on how housing can take on significance beyond common programmatic function. A mixeduse building at D.C.’s NE2 boundary stone becomes a community beacon for Takoma, backing the neighborhood’s desire to evolve from its roots as a commuter town. Passerby are invited to pause and take in their surroundings at the ground-floor bakery cafe and adjacent seating areas. Thirteen affordable housing units and communal spaces, woven in between structural CLT panels, occupy the floors above.
Lot size: 10,700 SF
Building footprint: 6,000 SF (4,500 SF setback area) Program:
Cafe-Bakery: 4,000 SF
Residential units: 500 SF ea (13)
Green area: 3,200 SF (min. 3,100 SF)
Jun. 2024
Rhinoceros Photoshop
Illustrator
Left: Composite of local sights and influences
Bottom Left: Conceptual structure diagram
Below: Approaching from downtown
+66’-0”
PENTHOUSE STRUCTURE
+54’-0”
4TH FLOOR
+41’-0”
3RD FLOOR
+28’-0”
2ND FLOOR
+15’-0”
1ST FLOOR
Although an important component in many of our day to day lives, the world of sound remains relatively unexplored. A 50,000 SF high-rise for a VR/AR company in San Francisco’s financial district, Resonate fosters aural discovery, analysis, and sharing through innovative form and program informed by sound and lighting qualities. Suspension and isolation (in both structural and programmatic senses) support new modes for collaboration.
Program:
Workspaces: 16,000 SF
Self-proposed program: 8,000 SF
Parking: 6,000 SF
Amenities: 6,000 SF
Equipment testing: 5,000 SF
Public space: 4,000 SF
Support: 3,500 SF
Administrative: 1,500 SF
Jun. 2023
Rhinoceros Photoshop
Grasshopper Ladybug
FIBER CEMENT PANEL
ELEV. 228' ABOVE GRADE
PERFORATED 3MM TEMPERED ALUMINUM ALLOY PANELS
ALUMINUM GIRT SYSTEM
STICK MULLION
ELEV. 36' ABOVE GRADE
GRAVEL STOP
ELEV. 210' ABOVE GRADE FIRE STOP
STEEL BRACKET
ELEV. 192' ABOVE GRADE
INSULATED GLAZING ALUMINUM MULLIONS
TWO WAY CONCRETE SLAB
ELEV. 174' ABOVE GRADE
INSULATED GLAZING
STEEL MULLION
STEEL CLIP
SPIDER JOINT
5/8" FROSTED GLASS
JUN. 21: 76° DEC. 21: 30° B C A
5/8" EXTERIOR GRADE PLYWOOD
INSULATION
WATER RESISTANT MEMBRANE 2'
SCALE: 1/2" = 1'-0" 0'
ACOUSTIC BACKING CEILING TILE
WATERPROOFING T-TRACK
RIGID INSULATION
ELEV. 0'
DRAINAGE LAYER
GRANULAR BACKFILL
FILTER FABRIC
DRAINAGE PIPE
DRAINAGE GRAVEL
WOODEN BAFFLE
Peripheral Vision speculates on the future of Riverdale, MD and how it will develop as Maryland’s Purple Metro Line (currently under construction) comes to fruition. In response to a local need for nature access and teen-friendly spaces, the lightrail metro station doubles as functional public space. The space underneath the tracks, commonly relegated to being a host for “delinquent” activity, invites all with the addition of a dry streambed and the platform’s interactive structural supports. As seasons change, locals and visitors share in discovering the experiences the space has to offer.
2023
Conceptual sketches
From across the road
Form Sketch
Analysis & Form Drivers (1” = 64’-0”)
A social and spatial mediator located in a historically queer neighborhood, Castro, in San Francisco, CA. Site analyzed through lenses of ecology, culture, & the built environment. Synthesized site analysis with approximately 30,000 SF of self-determined community-oriented programming . Use of acoustic visibility to signal levels of interaction of different areas to center visitors.
Dec. 2022
Rhinoceros Covetool Photoshop
Circulation concept sketch: inspired by an experience common to older buildings in SF of entering a residence below street grade, then circulating upwards
An exploration project for thesis, Reboo[s]t draws upon the logic of a discarded vacuum robot’s (presumed) obsolete components to become a diffuser, exemplifying a redirection revealed through repair and maintenance. Shifting the focus towards architecture, what opportunities might arise from embracing the diversity of a building’s components, states, and interactions?
Nov. 2024
iRoomba Robot Arduino PLA Water
Essential Oils
My internship at NAC’s Seattle office helped me better understand the importance of storytelling, as well as the various roles architects take on. Major assignments completed in this internship include: development of a Community-Engagement Graphics Toolkit to be implemented firm-wide, topography editing in Revit and Enscape renders for a university housing project, compilation of materials for two AIA Civic Design award submittals (can show upon request), and RFP graphics.
responses from multiple respondent groups with considerable overlap
Instructions here: Use this when there's too much overlap in answers from your respondent groups such would reduce a Venn Diagram to a circle. You can point out how many respondent groups contributed to diagram on left).
Washington-Blakely Student Housing
Axonometric diagram courtesy of NAC Preliminary renders such that it
contribution: Editing topography and hardpreliminary renders
For displaying comparative data
See slide 5 of the PPT template (linked in
Foster collaborative, creative, vibrant, visible learning spaces
Encourage teacher collaboration
Size indicates total votes, opacity indicates # of user groups comment is from
Synapse Symphony, completed for the 2022 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition, re-imagines a pedestrian overpass to reunify two sides of a North Nashville neighborhood severed by Interstate-40. The seeds for placemaking and re-establishing community ownership draw heavily upon local performing arts strength.
Our project team of 11 members worked over 4 months. This entry advanced to the national final round and was presented at the NOMA National Conference.
Oct. 2022 Photoshop Indesign After Effects Rhinoceros
Personal contributions: Project management (schedul ing, team assignments); Presentation boards (layouts, additional graphic elements); Render view selection (also added entourage, colors, texture—base materials rendered by other team members); Digital modelling
“The Synapse Symphony” pays homage of a previously severed neighborhood for North Nashville to determine its own the major design strategy implemented interstate underground. Residents can
The Synapse Symphony conducts itself park space as an extension of Hadley Park, between Pearl-Cohn High School and the ground plane, the community is able additional communities to take back ownership as a tourist attraction but rather supplements
Title Presentation Board
homage to North Nashville, Tennessee’s past and present by prioritizing the reunification neighborhood while revitalizing and illuminating today’s community, and by sowing the seeds own future through placemaking. In order to repair the damages caused by the I-40, implemented to allow the community to retake ownership of their land is pushing the divisive can celebrate their history of musical talent, thriving black businesses, and activism.
itself towards the local community with integrated musical practice rooms, recreational Park, a sweeping monolith serving as a circulatory gallery, and a space for mentorship HBCUs such as Tennessee State University. By minimizing the highway’s presence at able to re-weave streets, grant access to student resources, and set a precedent for ownership of what was stolen from them. This design does not reinvent or try to act supplements and highlights the pride and richness of the North Nashvillian community.
