projects
art center proposal
Sophomore Year Studio ARCH 2520
Professor Virginia Melnyk
AIA People’s Choice Award Nominee
This semester, using analytical techniques as generative design devices, we created a masterplan and art center proposal for Downtown Cayce, SC. Using a given precedent, analyzed form, light, and program to influence my design with the Cayce art center. Being influenced by Steven Holl’s Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, I prioritized light and open spaces in my design while maintaining a clear and efficient organization of program.
outdoor classrooms
from a socially-distant perspective
Sophomore Year Studio ARCH 2510
Professor Joseph Choma
For this project, I explored grid logic and how part to whole relationships lead to heterogeneous spaces. Through this exploration I learned how grids can influence space, structure, and landscape. To create socially-distant outdoor classrooms was a challenge but ultimately helped my design intentions and process, accomodating not only to the physical context of the site but also social.
exploring “what-ifs” in an everchanging work environment
Junior Year Studio ARCH 3500
Professor Clarissa Mendez
Partner Cory Yingling
This was the first intimate collaborative project I’ve had. Throughout the project I developed my team-working skills, communication and collaborative skills, and explored new ways to design through transparency, depth, texture, voids, and color.
Our “What if” was this: What if work was understood through layers of transparency? Instead of walls or floors dividing programs of work, what if space, material, and light was used to define the work place? For our project, we used interconnection to promote productivity in the workplace by organizing individual work, collaborative work, and the combination of both with the use of mezzanines, window conditions. and the relationship between the plaza and the lobby.
295 Calhoun St.
sustainable, mixed-use, affordable housing
Senior Year Studio ARCH 3520
Professor Bradford Watson
Studying in Charleston, SC at the Clemson Design Center, I learned about sustainable design strategies and how history and context further drive architectural design. was inspired by the concept of identity, through personal expression of resideents and material expression of their units, and how it builds community.
studies
object analysis
Freshman Year Studio ARCH 1510
Professor Robert Silance
The object analysis project was an opportunity for me to improve my drawing and modeling skills, as well as developing a better understanding of spatial relationships, movement, function, and orthographic projections.
chapel analysis
Freshman Year Studio ARCH 1510
Professor
Robert SilanceThe chapel analysis project helped me study space and light. This particular chapel allowed me to build my skills through drawing and modeling, and challenged me to understand more about sun and shadows and how they affect the viewer’s experience of the building.
