CIERRA HIGGINS | DESIGN PORTFOLIO
EDUCATION
CIERRA HIGGINS cierrac.higgins@gmail.com 816 977 5580
Aug 2016 - Dec 2019 Washington University in St. Louis Masters of Architecture + Masters of Urban Design Jan 2013 - Jul 2016 University of Missouri - Columbia Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
EXTRACURRICULARS + STUDY ABROAD
WORK EXPERIENCE Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 Teaching Assistant - Segregation by Design Washington University in St. Louis
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 Johannesburg, South Africa + Kampala, Uganda Masters of Urban Design | WUSTL
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019 Photography Lab Monitor Washington University in St. Louis
Mar 2019 London, England Masters of Urban Design | WUSTL
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019 Woodshop Monitor Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 Graduate Student President National Organization of Minority Architecture Students
April 2015 - Jun 2016 Architectural Intern Campus Facilities | University of Missouri - Columbia
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019 Vice President Graduate Architecture Council | WUSTL
Aug 2012 - Jan 2013 Sales Associate Pier 1 Imports | Kansas City, MO
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018 Barcelona, Spain + Venice, Italy Masters of Architecture | WUSTL Aug 2017 - Jul 2018 Vice President of Architecture Graduate Architecture Council | WUSTL
SKILLS Adobe Creative Suite | Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Autodesk | AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max Rhinoceros 3D ArcGIS Microsoft Office Model Making Photography Presentation Skills
PUBLICATIONS + DISTINCTIONS Fall 2019 Book Editor | Segregation by Design Washington University in St. Louis Fall 2018 3rd Place NOMA Student Competition NOMA Conference - Chicago Fall 2017 1st Place NOMA Student Competition NOMA Conference - Houston Fall 2017 Research Analyst | Segregation by Design Washington University in St. Louis
Nikola Tesla Museum M.Arch Spring 2018 International Housing | Berlin M.Arch Fall 2017 Lewis Place Dwellings M.Arch Spring 2017 Fragmented City | Fragmented Mind M.Arch Thesis Design Research Spring 2019 Seeking Sanctuary M.UD Fall 2018 [en] Shoring Adaptability M.UD Spring 2019 Photography + Renderings
Nikola Tesla Museum M.Arch | Spring 2018
Bryant Park New York City, NY
Nikola Tesla, world renowned Serbian scientist has transformed the way in which the world operates because of his numerous experiments. One of his most iconic experiments, the Tesla Coil, has re-engineered the very foundation of how we currently use electricity. By merely holding a light bulb up to a small replication of the coil, the bulb illuminates without the need of a lamp or cords. This technology has revolutionized the use of free energy. Based in Bryant Park in New York City at the Nikola Tesla corner is the proposal of a state of the art museum highlighting Tesla’s experiments and achievements.
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International Housing | Berlin Photo by Jan Ulmer | Edited by Cierra Higgins M.Arch | Fall 2017
Wrangelkiez Berlin, Germany
Affordable and equitable housing has become a crisis around the globe. In an effort to better understand and challenge housing typologies within specific regional contexts, this international housing studio allowed us to explore housing in 3 separate countries through short design charrettes, ultimately ending in our third rotation which became the focus of our final design investigation. My ‘home’ location sat along the Spree River on the periphery of the urban core of Berlin in the small and trendy neighborhood of Wrangelkiez. Much of the investigation towards form was generated through the study of figure grounds in the immediate context of the city.
The housing complex sought to create multi-scalar units suitable for many demographics of households; specifically designing for families of broad income ranges. Of the five fingers extruding out from the central corridor, tetris-like configurations were tested out through both plan and section, generating numerous unit variations.
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This glass box provides the perfect view of the riverfront while also providing the convenience of being set within near proximity to urban amenities. The overall circulation of this building is based around a central cascading staircase within each arm of the complex; which provides most of the structural support in the core, allowing the glass exterior to be a non-load bearing curtain wall along the riverfront.
Lewis Place Dwellings M.Arch | Spring 2017
Lewis Place St. Louis, MO
Many contemporary cities are facing the need to revisit housing regulations in order to keep and promote diversity. The economic, social, racial, land-use and productive diversity has proved to nurture healthier cities over time. In very dense cities, like New York, Paris, London, or Barcelona, they must control gentrification in order to maintain a certain percentage of local work/live dwellers in the historic centers. On the other hand, in low-density American cities, where the middle class left the downtown or historic centers under the phenomena know as urban sprawl. More urbanites then before, like millennials; intellectuals, artists, or entrepreneurs, are interested in re-occupying the dismantled centers with various and in many cases innovative ways of work-live. The need, then, is to promote and to support this reactivation with good mobility, services and social diversity. This proposal aims to investigate a dual dwelling typology while housing a single parent family in Unit A and a multi-generational family in unit B.
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Fragmented City | Fragmented Mind M.Arch Thesis Design Research M.Arch | Spring 2019
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In a society fragmented by race, class, opportunity, crime, and access, marginalized communities often suffer from a lack of resources to stimulate growth and promote upward mobility in education, economics, and spatial agency. Denying a community agency of space and mind has historically been used as a tool of oppression and marginalizes these circles from ever aggregating to fight back. These tools of oppression are physically and mentally debilitating, often moving in silence as institutional barriers; making it harder to be seen by the naked eye. It is only when these marginalized communities unite and work together to build themselves up, can they truly reclaim the power from those who have used it against them.
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The Delmar Divide in St. Louis, MO is a popular topic of study amongst design professionals, however a very real and devastating reality among the daily lives of residents; especially those living North of this invisible boundary. It is less evident along certain points of this boundary than others, however once one passes through this threshold of newer development saddling along Delmar, one will notice the striking drop in care for housing stock and infrastructure; perpetuating conditions of blight, poverty, food deserts, and crime, not otherwise seen South of this line.
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Most Common Causes: Depression & Anxiety
+ Assault + Childhood Abuse + Sexual Abuse + Combat Exposure
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stemming from urban sprawl and white flight into St. Louis County
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during the mid 20th century. Much of the territory north of this diviGR
sion was land that had previously been redlined; which suggests that much of those older legal practices are still very prevalent in its cur-
city, one must start to consider the trauma endured by residents who have been systematically told they aren’t worthy of investment nor access to resources towards upward mobility for generations. This then led to the study of anxiety, depression, and mild forms of PTSD in blighted communities; suggesting not only the lack of agency to move through space, but also the lack of having agency of mind.
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Set between 3 catalyst institutions near Fairground Park in North St. Louis, the site chosen will serve as a hub to further perpetuate existing initiatives of reclaiming mental and physical agency. These catalysts all aim to educate, inspire, and provide resources to help alleviate the burden of generational disinvestment within the area.
Beaumont High School shut its doors in the Spring of 2014 after its last graduating class. It is now being used as a technical institute for college and career preparedness. It offers 4 programs in culinary arts, cosmetology, construction trades, and nursing.
Mission STL is
a nonprofit organization that focuses
on breaking the cycles of poverty by focusing on education and attacking recidivism. Their 3 primary programs are Beyond School, Beyond Jobs, and Beyond Charity, in which all 3 are aimed at bringing up the surrounding community and perpetuating upward mobility for generations to come.
The Boys and Girls Club of St Louis aims to guide children towards HS graduation and foster healthy lives and work ethics to better ensure a successful future. It does so by providing numerous after school activities that not only build useful skills, but allow for vulnerable children to stay off of the streets. They’re programs include, education, sports and recreation, art, career development, and character and leader development.
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The proposal of a campus centered around mental and d physical well being is the first step in reclaiming agency o of self. The program aims to challenge the negative conno-tation of mental illness within minority communities and d seeks to do that by fostering spaces for education and d cultural celebration which has historically been the path h marginalized groups have used in reclaiming space. Ad-ditionally the site aims to provide transitional housing for n youth and single parent families escaping trauma within d their respective households, allowing them to utilize and become engaged with services offered within the th campus. s
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Seeking Sanctuary M.UD | Fall 2018
Gravois Park | Dutchtown St. Louis, MO
Every year, thousands of families seek asylum from oppressive and war-torned nations around the world. The process of seeking refuge is a long and tiresome journey that many never see the end of. With the tightening of America’s borders, coming to the U.S. - the nation of immigrants - is more difficult than ever with our current administration. Just over the past two years, the city of St. Louis has taken in 90% less refugees than under the Obama administration, despite the continued international crisis in countries such as Syria or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Though the amount of families let in have become fewer, organizations like the International Institute of St. Louis have continued to strive in providing as much assistance to immigrant families in need to help them establish themselves within the city. Immigrant families have and always will be the backbone of America’s success and we’d be remiss to turn our back’s on them.
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Over the past 4 years we’ve seen staggering numbers in the amount of refugees the city has taken in. In 2016 at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis, STL took in just over 1000 refugees. However with the tightening of our country’s borders under our current administration, that number has plummeted by over 90% in 2018, taking in only 69 refugees within city limits.
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Bhutan - 191 Burma - 75 Vietnam - 5
Nigeria - 1 Central African Republic - 1 Burundi - 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo - 464
ember’s application is family is eligible to avel loan through the ent of State, Bureau of efugees and Migration yment on the loan er 6 months of arriving and must be paid back 46 months. Once the flight has landed in entative from IISTL will from the airport and their new home.
Somalia - 401 Ethiopia - 34 Uganda - 3
On the first day after arrival the family will begin their three week orientation. The primary focus is on English literacy in which all family members will be registered for ESL courses at Chapman Academy; also being the location where K-12 aged children will attend school until they are acclimated to transfer to a local neighborhood school. There are also U.S. citizenship and computer instruction courses available to adults. There is no tuition for any of these services, they are all at no cost to the family.
Housing is fully orchestrated by IISTL, to which the new tenants will pay rent to on a month by month basis; harboring no lease agreements. The Institute works with roughly 200-300 private landlords, some of which who were at one point refugees themselves.
Afghanistan - 86 Pakistan - 1
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After the first 6 months of family members becoming settled within their new communities, they must start repaying PRM for their travel loans. Around this time they are also easing off of the regular assistance of IISTL.
Adults are eligible to take job placement courses that set them up to be able to market themselves within the American economy. They will learn job search skills, application preparation, interview etiquette, employee rights, etc. Most job placements are concentrated in healthcare, hospitality & tourism, manufacturing & assembly, and transportation.
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International Institute Saint Louis Founded in 1919, The International Institute of Saint Louis is the largest resettlement site in the state of Missouri, and the only resettlement agency in St. Louis. The Institute funds and arranges housing for incoming immigrant families while also offering language literacy services, health screenings, assistance with job training/placement as well as offering services to families interested in starting their own businesses, including providing small startup loans up to $35k. Their mission is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to help immigrants and their families be productive Americans and to champion ethnic diversity as a cultural and economic strength.â&#x20AC;? With this goal, the Institute and many of its staff are active in many diverse organizations and events throughout the city, including but not limit
South City STL Demographics
To establish a more stable resettlement plan for incom-
Population: 188,694
ing refugees the International Institute needs to partner with a few key organizations within the city.
Median Age: 35.1 Median Income: $42,373
RISE, headquartered in Downtown St. Louis, specializes
Education: 86% HS Diploma + 36% Bachelor’s +
in assisting communities with neighborhood revitaliza-
Living Below Poverty: 17%
cation of acquiring land and providing funding strate-
tion projects. They will be essential in the overall appli-
gies for project development. RISE is known for working in vacant and/or blighted communities throughout the 4.75% Hispanic
city, so developing in Gravois Park won’t be foreign territory. Knowing that refugees will be transitioning into an entirely new culture I’m proposing a few differ-
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Since the complexes would be larger projects, IISTL would have to consult a developer; much like the projects that Jason Deem is currently doing in the
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neighborhood. The short term [<2 year] complex would be adjusted on the vacant land near the older vacated International Institute, which can then be revitalized to
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serve as a refugee transition center. Long term structures can be later invisioned near the TOD locations for the incoming Metrolink stops. This would be beneficial
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for refugees who want to start a business along an up and coming commercial district.
For individual structures, the Institute can partner with Habitat for Humanity who specializes in single family homes and provides a service to deconstruct and recycle materials from deteriorated buildings. This will possibly later serve the institute in proposing a meandering community garden along Chippewa that can help feed refugee families.
Single/Duplex Housing + Larger units for larger families + Possibility of a rent to own process + Can be utilized in community corridor initiative to create shared communal spaces and foster micro economies
Short & Long Term Complexes/TOD + 2 year transitioning units that are in close proximity to IISTL and other resources needed to acclimate within a new culture + Affordable apartments that can help subsidize the cost of resettling + Ability to live within a community of people seeking refuge from similar condition in their native countries
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+ Provides homeownership opportunities for families between 25-50% of the area median income.
+ Nebula - 3407 S Jefferson - co-working space - 25,000 sqft
Group Training Sessions
+ Builds LEED Platinum for all homes
+ 2755 Chippewa - 4 Commercial Storefronts - 7 residential units; 3 dedicated to low-income
Partnerships & Network upport
+ Uses volunteer labor
Real Estate Consulting
+ Finance, budgeting & credit education
Finance Consultation & Tax Credits
+ Treffpunkt - 3453 S Jefferson - Lecture Hall/Basement Event Space - Old Church
+ Insurance Education + Home Maintenance Courses
Project Planning
+ Schoolhouse - 3449 S Jefferson - Private Offices - Extension of Nebula
+ Cooking & Nutrition Courses Market Assessment + Self Enhancement Courses Feasibility Projections + College Prep
+ Homestead - 2811 Chippewa - Arsoned Property - no use as of yet; ruined site; possible garden
Financial Projections + Design on a Budget Course Site Assembly / Brokerage Design Oversight Municipal Processes [Zoning] Financial Structuring
Development Team Management
+ Deconstruction Services that collect reusable/recyclable materials from buildings being renovated or demolished.
+ Bakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Union - 2615 Winnebago - TBD, 4,000 sqft, 8 office sized spaces, 1 large room + Globe Drug - 2626 Cherokee - local businesses; printing & graphic design studios, property management company, Screwed Arts Collective + 2608-10 Cherokee - Mixed Use Residential/Commercial
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These few blocks along Chippewa St. present an opportunity for informal communal spaces to coexist between residents. Due to the high conglomeration of vacant parcels, we can create pockets of shared space that promote informal economies. One proposed use would be to create a passageway to not only navigate through the neighborhood between the Chippewa Metrolink stop and Froebel Elementary School, but to also create a chain of community gardens that feed the residents. IISTL already provides a “Global Gardens” initiative to use the refugee’s previous farming experience to feed incoming families, and with this space we can further perpetuate that healthy food system throughout the community. Proposed Long Term Housing Lot The Chippewa TOD Station can be used to foster small businesses of the refugees with the small [<$35] loans that IISTL is willing to loan them. It is the ideal location for a grocery hub with its proximity to the proposed community gardens along Chippewa. All of the buildings will be mixed use to include apartments, markets, commercial spaces, and educational facilities that the Institute could possibly help charter. In addition to the building modules, Jefferson's street section will be divided to better control the flow of various modes of traffic. With the incoming of the light rail, the central 3 lanes will be dedicated to the North and South traveling trains, as well as the terminal. On the exterior of both train lanes will be two car lanes, followed by a small bioswale to collect rainwater and litter, as well as a bike path to perpetuate healthier modes of traveling.
The Cherokee TOD Station will capitalize off existing business along Cherokee St. There are possibilities for mixed use development that will allow for affordable housing and small business investments similar to the cultures found along Cherokee St. There is
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[en] Shoring Adaptability Co-Designers | Nathan Severiano + Kathryn Karl M.UD | Spring 2019
Red Hook | Bedford-Stuyvesant | Jackson Heights Brooklyn, NY | Queens, NY
Position: In order to repair the spatial divide that the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) has created in Brooklyn, we propose to re-appropriate the land within the easement to increase connectivity within Brooklyn and its communities. In utilizing the right-of-way area of the BQE we propose to create a system composed of a flexible framework that acts as a public amenity by adding value in the form of community revenue, culture, and resiliency. Furthermore, the model of a flexible framework aims to empower the communities in the form of spatial agency.
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nities apart is the highway arterials that Robert Moses constructed during the time of Urban Renewal where cities were trying to adapt to the increasing interest with the car. In order for cities to compete with suburban sprawl, they had to become more efficient, especially in regards to transportation. Moving fast and individualizing transportation was the concept at that time because of the prevalence of the automo-
Areas of Interest Subway Stop: 15,000-30,000 riders/day 30,000 + riders/day
bile industry. However, people suffered in retrospect because Moses was designing for the car instead of the community. Furthermore, this infrastructure is decaying and needs to be renovated.
The Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) is the major disruption in the city fabric of Brooklyn and Queens.
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4 ppl in a car: 1,000 people
130 per train car: 2,600 people
60% of US GHG for transportation
2% of US GHG for Transportation
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50 cargo train cars in 500'
17 tones of freight per truck: 1,700 tons
22 tons of freight per cargo: 1,100 tons
23% of US GHG for transportation
2% of US GHG for Transportation
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A mixture of passenger trains and cargo trains Transports more people Better for envrionment Accessible to a wider income range
For our intervention, we have decided to focus in Red Hook for multiple reasons. Red Hook is a neighborhood completely cut off from the rest of the city via the BQE because there are only two bus lines in Red Hook and the closest subway is an entire neighborhood away. It is also the neighborhood where most of its residents live in New York City Public Housing (NYCHA), so many depend on public transportation to get around the city. Lastly, the industrial heavy economy of Red Hook provides a cohesive environment to develop and test out this new public infrastructure that is the flexible shoring framework in the BQE right-
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Red Hook Existing Conditions
Container Terminal NYCHA Food Prep Construction Fabrication Artists
Community Space
Finance Help
Community Center / Sports Fields
Hiring Assistance
Individual Modular Build-Up Spaces
Markets
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Tax Incentives
Advocate for Business Interests
Neighborhood Improvements
Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation (an IBZ)
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Formal Markets Pop-Up Vendors
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industry for the flexible framework of the en(Shoring) system, the local Red Hook en(Shoring) Community Organization will run the management sector of this now public
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Helping Neighborhoods Grow and Create Employment for Local Residents
While the NYC government will establish the construction
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infrastructure. This will be done through an en(Shoring) App and connected to the established Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation to provide ser-
Industry Accessible Manufacturing Jobs
designed to create the spaces that the community wants and needs and to reclaim the right-of-way for residents. .
Housing Transportation People Increase Manufactuing Sector
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vices to local business development. The whole system is
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Industrial Business Zone (IBZ)
Community Benefits Agreement
New Job Sector for Scaffolding Development
Residents
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The cells filled in green are the available cells for people
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Community Center / Sports Fields
of cells. The en(Shoring) flexible framework manages the
Individual Modular Build-Up Spaces
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public space of the scaffolding infrastructure with a user friendly app. Consumers, residents, and businesses can
Formal Markets Pop-Up Vendors
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pick the location they want to occupy and have a choice
Cargo / Freight
between many different crate packages that can be as-
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Self-Storage
desired, a “make your own option” is available. New and
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popular “make your owns” are continuously added to the crate packages to make sure the community’s interests are heard.
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The framework of the scaffolding is intended to be parasitic as it grows and expands throughout the city grid, allowing for opportunity to develop stronger connections with adjacent businesses and roofscapes. As a new typology of temporary and adaptable infrastructure, this framework can be used at any point along the BQE, thus allowing ultimate flexibility as community needs change over time.
NYCHA RED HOOK WEST
F & G SUBWAY LINES
REFUGE RECORDING LITHO PRINTING PRESS
OTHER HALF BREWING COMPANY
Renderings + Photography B.S. Architectural Studies + M.Arch + M.UD | 2016 -2019
B.S. Architectural Studies Thesis | University of Missouri School of Music
B.S. Architectural Studies Thesis | University of Missouri School of Music
M.UD | Modderfontein Reserve | Johannesburg, South Africa
M.UD | Ghandi Square | Johannesburg, South Africa
M.Arch | Fairground Park | St. Louis, MO
M.Arch | Fairground Park | St. Louis, MO
M.UD | Williamsburg | Brooklyn, NY
M.UD | Navy Yards | Brooklyn, NY