TBS Portfolio 2023

Trenton B. Scott

Architecture Portfolio 2023

My name is Trenton Scott, an African - American born and raised in Birmingham, AL where I developed a love for art and design in the realm of my city. I use architecture as a means of restoring communites for longevity and purpose. My favorite aspect of design is the amount of research that is put into the conceptual phase through design, this helps increase my awareness and knowledge about people, places, and things, which influence my final design outcomes.

TRENTON B. SCOTT

D.O.B.

June 5, 2000

AfricanNationality American E-mail

tscott4204@tuskegee.edu

Cell

(205) 835-1187

Portfolio Link

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s in Architecture - 4thyear

Shades Valley High School/Technical Engineering Academy

LEADERSHIP

NOMAS Competition - Team Leader of Selah, first place winners

AIAS President Tuskegee University Chapter - Led Students in workshops to enhance their skills for the workforce

NOMAS Competition - Awarded second place among 29 schools and took lead in the diagrams of the project

Elected AIAS Vice President Tuskegee University Chapter

EXPERIENCE

Intern with HOK St. Louis Office

Worked on technical drawings, community pro-bono project, Room Data Analysis

Intern with Beck Group ATL Office

Worked on Process analysis of large scale sites and floor plan layouts

Documentation of St. Luke A.M.E Church, Birmingham, AL

Drawing existing and new floor plans of the church for further development

Tuskegee University Cultural Documentation

HABS Drawings for Trinity Lutheran Church Parsonage in Montgomery, AL

Brown Chapel Plaza Design, Bloody Sunday Presentation

Led in Drone Photography and took part in the design of the plaza

National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Competition

Contributed to the Site and Logistics Team

Preservation in Architecture - Wyoming

Learned practical and hands on skills in the preservation of Wyoming dude ranches

HBCU/HBTSA Summit - Drone Photography/3D modeling

Participated in drone photography of buildings around Tuskegee Campus

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ELEVATE Tuskegee, Alabama, Moton Field Municipal SELAH

North Nashville, Nashville, TN

HISTORIC PRESERVATION Selected Locations

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HEALING

Professor: Amma Asamoah

Location: New Weija, Ghana Spring 2021

This project is inspired by Amma Asamoah’s father property in New Weija, Ghana. The task was to come up with a design solution for the African Diaspora returning to Ghana. In other words Coming Home! The idea of one community merging together with another was my driving passion in designing this sustainable project!

5 Mile Radius 10 Mile Radius

1. Uncle and Child of Asamoah standing at opportunitites of site

2. Current site conditions of existing construction

3. Broad Context Map of Site

NEW WIEJA, GHANA - SITE CONTEXT

1. Vacant Lots on Site

These surrounding lots open up future thoughts for development

2. Sun Study

Ghana only has summer heat and rainy seasons

3. Rainwater & Wind

Rainwater runoffs on 3 corners of the site

Harmattan Winds Blow Northwest over the site

4. Views from the site

Entry way and access to the site is key to attractions for visitors

5. Vegetation Map

Lush vegetation on site helps rainwater collection

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Each scar has come from different backgrounds and customs, each scar is a symbol of strength and resilience from the individual perspective. Each individual scar will come together to create change no matter what life, lifestyle, or comfort they are leaving behind. “With no sacrifice, there is no success”.

What is a scar exaclty?

A scar is a growth of tissue marking the spot where skin has healed `after an injury. African Americans living in the U.S. have all battle racism in some shape or form. We have battled with slavery, seperation, low economic value, police brutality, gentrafication, and the list can go on and on. These mental as well as physical painful experiences have left battle scars on each and everyone of us. All blacks in America can relate. However, strength is found in each scar that we carry!

2 BEDROOM UNITS

3 BEDROOM UNITS

Patterned skylight 16’ diameter

Mud Plaster Roof

OPERABLE WINDOW DETAIL

This window operates by the end-user. They would manually lift or push the bamboo louvers down or up to allow for breeze ways to come in and out of the space.

Curved Culms Bamboo - structural dome support

On-site bioswale allows for runoff to a near by storm sewer inlet. These storm sewer inlets ar normally found under the roadways. The bioswale is sloping towards the SE direction of the site.

The tree canopies not only serve as a pleasing asthetic in contrast to the structures. It also delivers ease of passage for rainwater runoff, as well as providing shading during those many hot sunny days.

The commercial 78”x39” solar panels facing the southern sun were used to give energy to each adjacent unit. The regular residential solar panel size did not have enough energy to give to each unit.

The heating and cooling fans regulate the air input and output into the residential spaces as well as the community spaces.

Tree Canopy Palm

Solar Panels Commercial. 78”x39”

Heating and Cooling Fan

NEGRO PICASSO

Professor: Amma Asamoah Location: Mantua, Philadelphia Fall 2020

Creating a gallery space for James Dupree. Located in the heart of Mantua, Phladelphia, James Dupree’s Studio stands strong against the competition. The gallery consist of art studio spaces, retail for artwork, community kitchen, and residential spaces. The exterior is an open plaza space allowing guest and others to live freely with no interuption.

1. Desmond Drummond and community partners

2. James Dupree in action

3. Site Plan of James Dupree Studios

JAMES DUPREE STUDIOS - SITE PLAN

Negro Picasso

Dupree Plaza

1. Zoning of Site

Community engaging churches are located around the site for support

2. Sun Study

They experience a very cold winter

3. Noise Study

High construction zone along main street

4. Views to the site

New buildings block many views

5. Vegetation Map

Showing rain water runoff

James Dupree is a bold artist that has a striking edge in each of his art pieces. Within my design process, I challenged myself by using striking forms and elements that tell a story through James Dupree’s eyes. The Don Mask in the top left, express different emotion from the people of Liberia in the Dan Tribe, the emotion striked a movement in art and architecture in today through vivid expressions. I connected the mask to Mr. Dupree’s life in Philli.

My sketches, models, and paintings embodied the color, form, and boldness of James Dupree and Picasso’s artwork. The building outcome is a merge between African Art, Picasso artwork, and James Dupree’s life work.

Brick Copper Mass Timber

Program:

Indoor/Outdoor Gallery

Cafe Space

Studio 1

Studio 2

Bathrooms

Kitchen

1st Floor

Program:

Maker Space (Student)

Studio Bedroom x4

1 Bedroom x3

Computer Lab

Co-Lab Working Room

Program:

Rooftop Garden

Rain Covering

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

Greenroof Section

Rainwater Collection on Site

Mass Timber Beam Construction/Slope

Maker

JAMES DUPREE GALLERY DISPLAY

ELEVATE

Tuskegee Airmen Monument

Professor: Rod Fluker

Location: Tuskegee, AL Fall 2021

A memorial of honor and discipline representing the Tuskegee Airmen who served as a separate U.S. Army Air Corps consisting of pilots, navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, medical personnel, parachute riggers, administrative personnel and dozens of other supportive jobs. The monument is located in the existing Moton Field, Tuskegee, AL. Home to the current Moton Air Field Museum.

Existing Walkpaths New Walkpaths

Plane Noise

White Noise

Views From Sight

1. Charles McGee with his great grrandson - next generation

2. Image of the Tuskegee Airmen observing flight patterns

3. Site Plan of proposed Tuskegee Airmen Memorial

Touch

Throughout the monument visitors will find many opportunities to physically engage with the sight.

Sight

People will be able to see a broad context of the site in detail.

Hear

For those who are blind or sensitive to light the digital interface has the option to play voice messages of what is on the screen

Each pillar is raised at a higher elevation as the monument extends into the direction of the runway. This pillars are raised up to 32’; however, the names stay at a datum of 7’ for the visitors to see. Each pillar is hollow and is made out of Corten steel, the hollowness of the pillar allows for a faint sound of the wind as it passes of the structures. This gives a play on the 5 senses of the end user.

They span across the site for 590 Fft.

Names are on both sides of the monument = 1,180 sq. ft. So all 15,000 names will fit on the monument

Pillar Size 1’ x 1’

Pillar Height 28’

1. Tuskegee airmen entrance

2. Under the Lights Canopy

3. Red Tails Premiere (ampitheater)

4. Ronald McDowell Statue

5. I am... Playground

6. Elevate Monument

7. Digital Interface

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RED TAILS PREMIERE

SELAH

North Nashville Cultural Center Team Leaders: Trenton Scott; Tyler Littles

NOMAS E-Board:

Chanse Huff, Journi Goodman, India Scott, Satchel Sandifer, Andrea Meija Support Team:

Jalen Carlyle, Rikeya Wallace, Lawrence Thompson, Elijah Cintron, Marco Aubin, Nile Johnson, K’Vaughn Dildy Advisor:

Amma Asamoah, Vicki Lyn Carter Location: North Nashville, Tennessee Fall 2022

Nashville the City of Music. North Nashville, is the root of it all. From jazz to Jefferson Street the North Nashville community is one that is rich in history, community, and culture. With 3 HBCUs born in the area, this was a thriving black community in the 1900s until the city of Nashville severed this heart-driven community with the placement of I-40. Our goal is to reverse the actions of gentrification and provide North Nashville with well thought out bridge and cultural center that reunites the community back together.

COMMUNITY DRIVEN PLANNING

Design Goals

A. North Nashville

B. Hadley Park

C. Hadley/Tennessee State

D. McKissack Park

E. Hadley/Washington

F. Fisk/Meharry

G. Fang

North Nashville Zoning Map

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1. Fisk Jubilee Singers

2. Jefferson Street Jazz Club

3. Black Leaders march Jeff. St.

4. Tennessee State Marching Band

SITE

Maps by Journi Goodman

Weather Analysis

Showing flood plain around North Nashville, the wind patterns that favor the site during summer and spring seasons. We used the sun patterns to our advantage by incorporating shaded interactive facades that show the history of North Nashville.

Process Diagrams

Noise Analysis

Dark Orange Line represents the noise coming from I-40. Our goal to solve the issue of noise and gas pollution was to incorporate our strip of landscape, which is heavily vegetated and provides amenities for community growth and development such as vendor spaces.

Phase

Phase

Phase

Final

Phase 1: Site

2: Building Footprint

Phase 3: Extrusion

Phase 4: Courtyard

5: Open Circulation

Phase 6: Entry Ways

Phase 7: Ramp to Bridge

8: Parking Garage

Phase 9: Landscaping

Axon Model

Harmony

All spaces work in HARMONY with one another to create one sound through culture, community, and connectivity.

notehead

stem

beam

Jubilee Bridge

Norf Urban Market

North Nashville Cultural Center

Park/Garden

West Side Monument

Parking Garage

SITE PLAN - Urban Landscape

Program: Parking Garage

Museum/Exhibition Collab Office

Urban Market Office

Education Center Office

Museum Office

1st LEVEL SHARP TRADE BUSINESS CENTER

Program: Parking Garage

Slim and Husky’s Classrooms

Job Training Center

Gift Shop

Live/Work Space

Large Multi-purpose

2nd LEVEL SELAH ACADEMY

Program: Jefferson St. (Current)

HBCU Exhibit

I-40 Exhibit

Jubilee Restaurant

Meditation Garden

Golden Years Exhibit

Jefferson St. (Past)

Ritz Theatre Exhibit

3rd LEVEL MUSEUM TIMELINE

Perforated Steel

Black Steel

Slim and Husky’s Pizzeria

Many small businesses have struggled with expansion due to lack of opportunity and accessibility following the Interstate-40 fragmenting of the community. With the Interstate cutting off access to those spaces, our design plans for a marketplace with rentable venues to develop and support a thriving network of small businesses. Venues will be available for local talent such as Jay “Woke3 ‘’ Jenkins, a North Nashville artist and TSU Alumnus whose goal is to make people feel connected, appreciated, respected and submerged through his artwork.

Fast Food Joint

Through this relationship, we plan to commission Jenkins for a mural alongside our bridge to heighten the value of our development. We anticipate an affordable and accessible marketplace for all visitors, especially existing residents. The goal of this agreement is to ensure that local businesses occupy our new and redeveloped spaces.

Community Kitchen

Black Keys Tram

WEST VIEW

28TH Avenue North View

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Advisor: Kwesi Daniels

I’ve been working alongside Dr. Daniels since my freshman year in the Historic Preservation sector. I’ve learned many different tools such as drone photography, laser scanning, and hands on work to advance the way I see architecture as well as preservation. Historic Preservation is important to every community because everyone has a story that needs to be preserved. I enjoy identifying that story and enhancing through architecture.

Police Self Defense Training Center Anniston, AL

Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church Montgomery, AL

Robert Graetz & Martin Luther King Jr. Montgomery, AL

Home of Robert Graetz Luther Church Parsonage Montgomery, AL

OLD SHIP A.M.E ZION CHURCH

The Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church, the oldest black church in the Montgomery, Alabama. It started with a frame building 60 feet long by 45 feet wide with galleries on each side at the rear. The Court Street Methodist Church South gave black people of Montgomery the building in 1852. Resourceful Black slaves, Sol Brock, Solomon Hannon and Emanuel Noble, helped a freed Black contractor, Thomas Wilson, roll the church on logs to its present location of Holcome Street near Mildred Street.

Top of Building

Bottom of Portico

Top of 2nd Floor

2nd Floor

1st Floor

Ground Level

LUTHERAN CHURCH PARSONAGE

This home was the church residence of Robert S. Graetz, a white Lutheran, placing him in the midst of community hostility the year of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The location of the parsonage partners in significance to Montgomery neighbor, Rosa Parks. Graetz came into the Bus Boycott with no intention of the physical and mental toll it would take on a race. As a minister he and his wife aided the boycott. In his Sunday sermon he urged parishioners not to board Montgomery’s buses on Monday and offered them rides to work. s buses on Monday and offered them rides to work. He was hated amongst the white community causing rifts in his families life. As a result, the parsonage was bombed three times by the Ku Klux Klan due to him joining the Montgomery Bus Boycott movement. Graetz was a man guided by faith, his home is a testament to the city of Montgomery and it is important to preserve the legacy created during his time.

POLICE SELF DEFENSE TRAINING CENTER

On May 14th, 1961, a group of activist called the Freedom Riders were traveling from Washington D.C. to Birmingham. They didn’t know that they would become a twisted plot in the Civil Rights Movement. They experienced many racist issues along the way but the Ku Klux Klan in Anniston, AL were prepared to unleash their hatred on the interracial group of peaceful activist. When they arrived at their bus station, their tires were slashed, windows busted, the bus was bombed, and the passengers were beaten. They were not offered any assistance from police or ambulance services until after the mob attack. The storefront across this tragic event was there in 1961 experiencing every ounce of the torment. Our task was to rewrite the history of this district and provide Anniston with a new identity outside of hatred and racism.

Make

Ephesians 4:3

every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.