Design Statement
RIBBON
SPRING 2024 - PROFESSOR DAVE LEE
Designed in collaboration with Jenna McCoy, Harrison Stewart, and Kyra Whiteman, this museum in the historic sector of Genoa, Italy curves to increase outdoor open space and create a stimulating exhibition area. The fluid, central facade acts as the heart of the structure, accented by a staircase that stretches the length of the building and accent exterior fins that shift with the motion. The contrast between the curve and the more traditional massings both complement the surrounding cityscape and sets itself apart, tying together the old and new.
The goal of this project was to provide a space to unlock the Chelsea residents’ potential while catering to the neurodivergent community. This starts from the entrance with a non-stimulating facade and lobby that upon entry.
We dedicated an entire floor to helping neurodivergent persons focus. This is achieved by lowering the ceiling, selecting materials that do not contribute to noise amplification, and dimming the lights. This floor also features both portable and permanent sensory walls that ground the user.
North Elevation
Elevation
Elevation South Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Inspired by our sensory walls in the design, our Sensory Renders become a grounding tool that communicates the building’s atmosphere through the layering of color, paper, and embroidery.
Close-up of West Facade Details
The cityscape massing model communicates how the structure’s form relates to the buildings around it and the highline.
Cityscape Massing Model
Southeast Entrance through Cityscape
Northwest Angle through Cityscape
Luminescence
SPRING 2023 - PROFESSOR BRYAN BEERMAN
This civic center in Cayce, SC guides guests through space with the use of light. As art has revitalized this community, this path through the center represents the future itself.
Massing
VCU Institute of Contemporary Art
Courtyard Rendering
Lobby Rendering
Exterior Rendering
Gallery Rendering
Reflections
FALL 2022 - PROFESSOR HARRISON FLOYD
This field house at the Snow Center in Clemson, South Carolina caters to students using the lake area while becoming a reflection of the natural beauty around it.
1) Entry
Locker Room 3)ADA Restrooms 4) Janitorial Space 5)Equipment Storage
Model Photo
Axon Drawing
The goal for this project was to create a space that catered to the many amenities offered by the Snow Center for Clemson students, like watersports, activity rentals, and general universal space.
Lawn Rendering
Patio Rendering
Lake View Rendering
FALL 2022 - PROFESSOR HARRISON FLOYD
Exploded Axonometric
Model Photo
Rendering
Sliding Spaces
SPRING 2022 - PROFESSOR SWATI GOEL
Sliding Spaces focused on taking a project from inspiration to final design through a series of methods: orthographic projection, breaking down core values, and presenting the main idea in a new way. My inspiration, a vegetable steamer, led to the creation of an exterior courtyard that stimulates the mind, especially neurodivergent students.
Orthographic Drawing
Emma Grace Connelly
This concept analysis drawing breaks down the vegetable steamer into its core function, serving as a bridge between water and steam.
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Motion Diagram
FALL
2021 - PROFESSOR SYDNEY PARKER
Model Photo
Clemson University Planning and Design
SUMMER 2024 - BARRY ANDERSON & HARRY HARRITOS
I had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects at Clemson University Planning and Design under Barry Anderson and Harry Harritos.
These drawings were completed in AutoCAD for the Poole Hall ADA renovation in Clemson’s agriculture campus. The updates include the addition of a rain shelter and two ramps, one through the courtyard and one leading to the hall’s door.
These viewcaptures are taken from some preliminary design models I worked on in SketchUp for new Douthit Hills privacy enclosures.
Douthit E Options
Writing Experience
Excerpt: The Land of Milk and Honey: A Timeless Ideal
Writing Experience
Excerpt: Stick Figures
Writing Experience
Excerpt: Safe
The woods are still yet full. Crowded with the kind of silence that rides the coattails of summer, the liveliness of the past months a faded decrescendo. A shadow of what once was, tucked away in the depths of the towering pines.
Quill walks among them, a stranger in the presence of giants. Though August has long passed, the trail is an overgrown riot heavy with the scent of decay. Queen Anne’s lace has fallen away into brown stalks, surrounded by faded greenery. Brown pine straw muffles his steps on the familiar path he’s walked countless tiems with friends in boyhood, a few girls under the cover of night.
He can’t help but realize that everything has changed but the trees, the trees -
They stay the same. Stagnant; growing but never changing, never moving. Rooted in tradition, snapshots of time trapped within their spiral cores. The pines wave in the wind as if beckoning him inside, and like all the times before, Quill obliges. Not for the creek or blackberries of late June but for a standard sweep.
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