Selected Works

ClearSphere

Design Intent:

ClearSphere is located at Ada Hayden Park in Ames, Iowa. It was created with the intent to provide a relaxing and meditative space for faculty and students to recharge and refocus.

Project Context:

With the confines of a college campus and daily stresses of life, especially after the last several years, finding moments of peace and relaxation have been scarce. ClearSphere allows for that clarity and relaxation.

Architecture 202: Ritual In Detail

Professor: Ayo Iyanalu

Project created with: Alexis Clark

During the ideation process, there was still a question of the ritual in practice until we created our massing model. We felt that the negative space we created provided a great interior space of calm and relaxation. A quiet place of retreat and serenity in an ever-changing world. Therefore, embodying the ritual of a meditative space.

A 360 view of your surroundings fully submerges you into the natural landscape, pulling you out of the cycle you spin every day. Floating beds anchored above a pool of water serve as a meditation space. Tin roofs atop the two of the smaller domes allow for complete submersion into the landscape as the rain falls and the sound echoes throughout the space. On clear days the nearby lake acts as the water supply to provide the calming effect of floating above water as well as the soothing sound of running water.

Crematorium

Design Intent:

The Crematorium, located at St. Johns Cemetery in Collegeville, Minnesota. An intentionally designed building providing the space for those tender final moments of parting.

Project Context:

Being that this is a resting place for the deceased a peaceful and inviting environment was designed so the families of the deceased could enter this space to mourn the loss of their loved one with minimal worries and plenty of space to do so. Alongside that process, creating a remembrance space proved important for the family in their most grievous states. Through the use of light, the Crematorium directs family members through the space with light as a symbol of life.

Architecture 302: Architecture x Landscape

Professors: Nick Lindsely // Nathan Griffith

Project created with: Edwin Paz // Colton Clark

Convening the idea that light and dark could affect and control emotions study allowed for visual learning to take place to establish what design made that a central hallway spanning the entirety of the building was coincides with the procession of life.

emotions and aid in reflection became the main theme. Conducting a light design encapsulated the theme best. Through this study, the discovery was was extremely emotive and captivating in creating a processional that

As you make your way through the building during the ceremonial process, the chapel opens up to a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the nearby descend down to the main corridors, there you enter a hallway filled symbolizing the passing of time through your life. At the end of the outdoors representing the end of life and the bright light you will light flooding in from the southwest facade allows for continued reflection beauty and peace we will reach in heaven.

South Elevation of Mausoleum

process, you are taken through the stages of life. The entrance to nearby lake symbolizing the birth of life. As you exit the chapel and with skylights that begin to fade and lessen as you continue, the corridor, you will come across a large expanse open to the reach as you ascend into heaven. Upon entry into the mausoleum, reflection upon the life you are mourning as well as promises for the

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Drake Studio Arts Addition

Design Intent:

This new addition creates an emphasize on many of the features lacking in the existing building. While also enhancing the existing infrastructure of the Studio Arts Building. It combines tasteful simplicity in a grand statement.

Project Context:

Drake University located in Des Moines, Iowa houses a number of colleges and departments. One department in particular,the College of Arts and Sciences, has seen a surplus in numbers over the last few years and is looking to expand their facilities. In collaboration with the University, in an attempt to improve their facilities, a new addition was designed for their existing Studio Arts Building.

Architecture 401: Architecture Restoration

Professor: Paul Mankins

Project Created with: Jaida Christensen

Through massing studies the layout that proved most successful encompassed creates a community space using the previous entrance and walkway as new entrance on the East side. These spaces allow for the students and building lacked.

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encompassed the existing building with a donut floor plan. This design a new atrium, as well as creating a double height space above the and faculty of every department to interact in ways that the existing

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By absorbing parts of the old building and reallocating spaces, this building into the next, making circulation and way finding a much simpler and making a grand statement, it puts an emphasis on the main entrance entrance also allows for ample natural light into both the stair wells

new design allows for a smooth and seamless transition from one simpler process. Finally, by moving the main entrance to the East side, entrance where the existing building lacked and caused confusion. This new wells and the atrium space creating an open and inviting space.

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Rome Study Abroad

Design Intent:

The San Lorenzo neighborhood in Rome, Italy is on the rise and in need new supporting spaces. Creating a multi-purpose, residential and community space can fill this void in their community.

Project Context:

The functions and relations of the topography, the building mass, and interior programs, the final decisive design process included the internal organization of typologies and servant versus served spaces. Implementing the buildings-in-a-row typology in the residential building with clear nodes of servant spaces proved most successful. Choosing to implement this same typology into a community center, with nodes of servant spaces located along the central axis of the building created the new space needed for the community.

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Architecture 402: Ritual In Detail

Professor: Consuelo Ciuffa // Lavinia Minciacchi // Simone Capra

Project created with: Alexis Clark // Carlie Boelk

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