Undergraduate Portfolio
The Shell
Gainesville, Florida
Architectural Design VIII
Critics: Elizabeth Cronin, Charlie Hailey
Partners: Nicole Fleury Anthony Hernandez
Julie Noury
Laura Tracy
Jackie Zuckerbrod
Located in northeast Gainesville, Marjorie K. Rawlings Elementary School focuses on the arts as a means of pedagogy. With this, there was a need for new learning tools that would assist staff in educating young children. The Shell is a set of 8 modules of furniture that can, in one orientation, act as a desk for 2-4 small children. While in the other can be turned 90° to form an interlocking performance space.
Mocama Timucua Memorial of Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Architectural Design VI
Critic: Judy Monk
The Mocama Timucua Memorial celebrates the now-extinct indigenous people of the lower Saint Johns River. Drawing from their history, the construction acts as the gathering tree, a storied communal space of the Timucua people in what is now downtown Jacksonville. Suspended pieces of an artifact sit within to bind structure to the earth, and a filigree screen encapsulates the memorial so that these artifacts “project” themselves unto the city.
Market for Social Change
New York City, New York
Architectural Design VII
Critic: Donna Cohen
Partner: Laura Tracy
The project intends to revitalize the public space within an urban context by providing a sense of community withing playful unit parts which assemble together to create a neighborhood street market coupled with affordable housing. Vendors and residents can customize the physicality of their unit to reflect how the public space expands and diversifies as a collective community within the block. Retail exchange is revitalized to become a social experience for the community.
Complimenting the vertical mass is the market space. The horizontal projection from the base of the towers occupies a majority of the site and acts as a locus for the community and as a mediator of social activity. The filigree structure holds pod spaces thaat are assembled to provide an atmosphere of a neighborhood street market where retail and public activity happen on ground level. A terrace on each level creates a layered market atmosphere with seating and rest spaces. A central enclosed pavilion space opens to the sky and harbors a green space, a raisd walkway winds through this space as lightweight and colorful fabrics are suspended overhead to proovide a playful and breathable space of rest within the busy city.
