Architectural Portfolio : Brenda Vasquez-Meza

BRIDGE IN A SONG

SO-CAL NOMA 2022 COMPETITION: BRIDGE IN A SONG

As the Team Captin of this competition, I led a group of 19 students and we designed a community space for the displaced families of North Nashville.

Our team won 3rd place in the comeptiton out of 28 univeristies nation wide.

Our project beings with a song titled, “All Blues”, by Miles Davis. We took a single strand of the sound wave, excrated it and developed the spinal cord as the main feature of the design. A bridge is a musical passage that connects two sections of a song and takes it in a new direction. In our case, the bridge mends a fractured community and projects it into a newfound rhythm.

Our project is an ode to the renowned identity of Nashville as being the Music City. Jefferson Street was the stomping ground of many musicians who had suddenly been displaced due to the highway construction.

This bridge evokes a sense of community, like any great song. In this project, the community grows as a united front, by cultivating the histories of North Nashville and writing new ones with the future generations of artists and hustlers.

Program Diagram