“Life is all about questions. If you stop asking, you stop living.”
- Louis Kahn
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Figures and Logics Advanced Studio
Marfa, TX
Cultural Artists Residency
Integrated Design Studio (IDS)
North Little Rock, AR
Sports and Leisure Complex
Rome, Italy
International Exhibit Graphic Design
Gran Sasso Design Charette
Calascio, Italy
Mountain Bird Watching Tower
Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS) AR Home Lab
Fayetteville, AR
Affordable Housing
Marfa, TX
In Figures and Logics, led by Marlon Blackwell and Ati Blackwell, students were given a facade out of Philip Schaer’s Bildbauten series to be the DNA of the project. The studio was charged with speculating what the building might be beyond it. Located in Marfa, Texas, this Cultural Artist Residency is critically regional, being inspired by local typology, material, and flora. To add one more layer of influence, a question was asked and answered daily: how might one occupy a skylight? The cultural artist residency provides the visiting artists with spaces that change throughout the day. The artist’s studios utilize zenithal light to transform the outside world into a distant reality. The living studios use the local ocotillo as branch screens in a transformative way that envelopes the space with its place.
Before work on the Cultural Artist’s Residency began, the studio explored inhabitable building archetypal elements.
Studying and developing a skylight I used sketching, model making, and physical light studies to create a space which utilizes zenithal light to create mystery, drama, and reflection using natural systems.
Using the same logic as the element studies, the interior spaces change through out the day. In the living studios, the local ocotillo is used as a screen door, casting changing shadows into the space. In the working studios above, zenithal light is used to transform the outside world into a distant reality, allowing artists to focus on their work in a dynamic space.
North Little Rock, AR
Integrated Design Studio emphasized learning and developing integrated architectural methods to respond to issues of typology, context, and technological suitability as sources of theoretical and developmental responses.
The Sports and Leisure Pavilion used a mixed structure of concrete and mass timber that extends the public and community domains based on the integration of different communities to the city center, its green spaces, and natural landscape.
Led by studio section professor Bradford Payne, the project uses mass timber and concrete to lift the building and program off of the ground. This large move was done to promote the bicycle community in the area as well as to experientially shift the viewers focus from the city to the river front.
Longitudinal Section
CLT Slabs
3 Ply
Glulam Beams
5”x16”
Spaced every 2’ 6”
CLT Columns
14”x21” Every 15’
Concrete Circulation Cores
Concrete Two-Way Waffle Slab
4’
Concrete Shear Walls
MAIN LOUVER SYSTEM
8” COPPER LOUVERS SPACED EVERY 15’
SECONDARY LOUVER SYSTEM IRREGULARLY SPACED TO GIVE EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION VISUAL EFFECT AND IMPROVE SHADING ON WESTERN AND SOUTHERN BUILDING FACES
4” COPPER LOUVERS
Rome, Italy
During my time in Rome for my semester abroad, I had the opportunity to work on a team that curated SustainabITALY, a traveling exhibit. Working with the Italia GBC, we were tasked with the curation & graphic design for an exhibit highlighting Italian architecture projects that scored high on LEED. The exhibit traveled to Italia GBC headquarters, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Troy, New York, USA, and Dubai, UAE.
INDOOR
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
DESIGN INNOVATION REGIONAL PRIORITY
LOCATION & TRANSPORTATION
MATERIALS & RESOURCES
ENERGY & ATMOSPHERE
WATER MANAGEMENT
SITE SUSTAINABILITY
During my time in Italy while studying abroad, I had the opportunity to attend a design charrette hosted by the University of L’Aquila. Several teams were formed, being made up of students from Italy, Germany, the United States, and South Korea. Over the course of one week, each team designed a bird watching tower located in the Gran Sasso mountain range.
Fayetteville, AR
The UDBS AR HOME LAB is an advanced housing studio at the University of Arkansas. Led by Architecture Department head, John Folan the studio tackles the issue of affordable housing in Northwest Arkansas, specifically for workers earning $16.00 to $18.00 per hour. Utilizing Wave Layered Timber (WLT), the housing solution aims to provide home ownership to the targeted wage earners and boost local labor forces.
Every semester new students inherit the work built upon previous development. This student led, collaborative effort hopes to develop a solution for the housing crisis in Northwest Arkansas.
As a part of the Service Core team, three other team members and I were tasked with the design of a centralized service core.
