2023 Architectural Portfolio

Jimmie Lee Dubuque III Architectural Portfolio

Capitol Hill Resilience Hub

Indigenous Community and Residential Center

Columbia City Food Center La Pavillion de Chance

Capitol Hill Resilience Hub

Community Center Capitol Hill, Seattle

The Capitol Hill Resilience Hub is located at the intersection of East Mercer Street and Broadway East in Capitol Hill Seattle. CHRH is designed to provide the community with a space for various celebrations from mental health to national heritage months. The form and orientation of the wooden structure maximize the summer winds and capture the southern light in dynamic ways. The space features a two-story gathering hall connected to the kitchen for quick service on the side closer to broadway. As the user navigates further east, they will encounter a yoga room that is utilized in conjunction with the counseling space as physical exercise has been proven to help the mental state. Behind the yoga room lies a counseling space that is surrounded by immaculate natural lighting as it pierces through the horizontal slats.

There is a concerted effort to include biophilic design attributes within the walls of the structure and on the rooftop. Each element that is emphasized leads back to the mental health focus of the local community.

Indigenous Community and Residential Center

Community

Affordable Housing Seattle Chinatown - Little Saigon Collaborative project - Group of 3

In conjunction with the Seattle Indian Health Board, the Indigenous Community and Residential Center intend to pay homage to the Indigenous community of the past, present, and future. The proposed project provides the community with affordable housing that intentionally mimics the surrounding area facade principles while allowing the materials to verbalize the indigenous connection. There are two structural towers that consist of eight residential floors resting above a daycare center, gathering hall, kitchen, business incubator, museum, office space, and an outdoor seating patio. Splitting the two towers is a community garden that focuses on native vegetation that has been utilized within the indigenous community for food, medicine, tools, and functional use.

The garden draws the user down a gradual slope to the backyard. The backyard is a space that celebrates the indigenous culture with 31 donated totem poles from tribes around the United States.

The residential space is planned in a way to allow multiple generations to live in close vicinity but still allow their own private spaces.

Columbia City Food Center

Urban Food

Center

Columbia City - Seattle

Located at South Edmunds St and 37th Ave South is the Columbia City Urban Food Center. The space includes indoor and outdoor grow facilities, a library, a market, a kitchen, and a teaching kitchen. The space is designed to mimic other urban food gardens within an enclosed structure. The intent is to teach the local community the power of becoming selfsustainable and bring people together with a common goal of teaching and learning. The Columbia City food market occurs every Sunday during the summer months and ends at this intersection which I believe would be the main factor to bring in new users. The bar and dining space is meant to draw in a younger crowd to the second floor after hours to celebrate the beautiful structure.

The first-floor market is meant to be an addition to the Columbia City Food Market held on Sundays. The second floor is the beginning of the library space with computer desks that bleeds into the kitchen spaces where classes would be held utilizing some of the locally grown foods. The third floor is a space for the employees and meetings to be conducted with the local community. The rooftop is a space to feature the outdoor growing systems and packaging, as well as the vertical, growing wall that drapes down the southern wall to maximize the sun.

La Pavillion de Chance

Tsunami Shelter Ocean Shores, WA

Collabrative project - Group of 3

Ocean shores, located on the coast of Washington state, is a unique destination for tourists from all around with 3 million visitors a year. Although this is a place of fun and excitement, the anticipation and dangers of a tsunami haunts this small town that is challenged by a disaster happening at any moment. Ocean shores are at high risk of a 47 foot wave washing up the land causing large amounts of damage and vast casualties. Because this city is located on a peninsula, there is only one main road out which isn’t enough to save the people who live and visit the shores. For an event of this magnitude, the population has a 15 minute reaction time and 45 min after the last shake to get to safety. The chances of everyone surviving is very low which makes this city a unique place to build an emergency evacuation tower.

One encounters multiple extensions along the boardwalk that gives users a moment of rest and pauses to admire the vast horizons. Once you’ve arrived at the base of the tower you witness the elements of the mass timber that makes up the structure. The material that defines the warmth of the tower guides you as you get closer to the top.