"Modernism is the art of simplicity. It is the essence of order, of elegance, an - Le Corbusier
d of style."
The objective of this project was to design an intergenerational row house that would be a part of a larger development of differing programmatic row houses. The site was in West Philadelphia, Mantua neighborhood, in between the 3700th block of Mt Vernon St and the 3600 block of Wallace St.
The project encourages a connection between the first-gene second/third-generation. The First-generation unit was plac ground floor, primarily for ease of access, while the second/third was placed on the third floor, leaving the second floor shared whole family. The glass balcony connects to the curtain wall er the southwestern side of the building, projecting up, termina skylight. The glazing promotes openness making te space in also fostering circulation throughout the building.
eration and ced on the generation among the rected from ating at the viting while
3RD AND 2ND GENERATION : PRIVATE
SHARED
THIRD FLOOR
1ST GENERATION : PRIVATE CIRCULATION
SECOND FLOOR
The objective of this project was to design a row house for Philadelphia City Rowing (PCR). Philadelphia City Rowing is an organization that provides students of the Philadelphia public school with a structured athletic rowing program while also offering academic support, mentoring,and other activities that promote personal development. PCR currently doesn’t have a boat house, the goal of the assignment was to design a boat house that also serves as a facility for all the programs the organization offers. The site was located on a Boathouse Row in Philadelphia in between The Lighthouse at Turtle Rock and Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club.
The project aimed to break the mold of along Kelly Drive, fostering more welcoming atmosphere. The building funnel, offering visitors a distinctive s approach the river. It compresses and to the water. Wrapped in stone with a c structure creates a pathway and fram of the Schuylkill River from Kelly Drive space can accommodate large group suitable for hosting weddings and othe
the existing boathouses transparency and a g's design resembles a sense of arrival as they releases in its approach central glass atrium, the es the picturesque view Inside, the open interior ps of people, making it er rental events.
FLEX SPACE
BOAT STORAGE
RESTROOMS
STUDY ROOMS
CAHNGING ROOMS
LOBBY
CUBBY STORAGE
FITNESS AREA
OFFICES
ROOFTOP GARDEN
BOAT STORAGE
The objective of this project was to design a branch library along with residential housing in the Francisville neighborhood of Philadelphia. The site is located between 19th street and Wylie St, while the projected focused on the library and the residential housing we also had to account placeholders for twenty rowhouse on the site.
FOUR STORIES
THREE STORIES
TWO STORIES
ONE STORY
OPEN AREA
SITE
BUILDING HIGHT STUDY
The project aimed to influence the m community center that is ascent to the si at the north end of the site, as the topo the building starts to rise eventually crea structure that serves as the beacon for t
EAST ELEVATION
ovement to the park and the te. The building being on grade ography descent moving west, ating a welcoming, transparent the small community.
PARKING
PUBLIC INTERIOR SPACE
PRIVATE INTERIOR SPACE
WALKING CONNECTION
BUILDING SECTION LOOKING NORTH
BUILDING SECTION LOOKING WEST
FIFTH FLOOR
LIBERY APARTMENTS
CIRCULATION
PARKING
FORTH FLOOR
LIBERY FLOOR
MEETING ROOMS
RESTROOMS
PARKING
ONE BEDROOM
TWO BEDROOMS
STUDIOS
SERVICE ROOMS
THIRD FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
STUDIO 2C SPRING 2023 PROF. JENNIFER HOFER JEFFREY
The objective of this project was to design a community center along Powelton Ave and 36th Street in West Philadelphia. The lot had a rectangular shape, spanning one block, and featured an old middle school building. The challenge for the design was to incorporate and repurpose the existing steel-framed middle school building into the new community center.
The project aimed to design a building with the community while enhancing the w Inspired by tree branches, horizontal planes pathways for physical activity and a close planes also form canopies and a courtyard being and community. The glass facade is connection between occupants and nature
that harmoniously coexists well-being of its inhabitants. s shape the building, creating r connection to nature. The d, fostering a sense of wells penetrated, enhancing the e
MATERIALS & METHODS I FALL 2023 PROF. JAMES ROWE
DETAIL AXONOMETRIC
DETAIL AX O N O METRI C
REPRESENTATION IV FALL 2022 PROF. JEREMIAH WOODRING
