Architectural Work Sample

of Virginia School of Architecture Worksample 2024

Savannah

Eppley University

Oak Tree Middle School

UVA SoA ARCH 3020 Spring 2023

Studio: Middle School Program in Albemarle County, Virginia

This design embraces a fundamental component of a grided tree system throughout the entire site, implementing trees as apart of the architecture, playscape, and education of the students. These biophilic trees acts as key components to the structural composition and sensational experience of the school buildings. These biophilic trees inform a composition in wrapping glass boxes to be concealed into the gridded forest, to create the language of fluidity in the student experience of inside and outside. These biophilic trees allow the student to be inside yet still under the tree canopy. This biophilic tree canopy reposes in a weaving system to encompass the obscurity of light from the organic sky lights, representing the movement of water systems. This school takes fundamental core on the library and cafeteria with immense biophilic trees than to smaller calibration of biophilic trees in the classrooms. The cafeteria acts as a kitchen learning centers adjacent to the co-existing community gardens. As students will engage with the already existing community gardens that extend beyond the site boundaries, allowing students to rehabilitate the gardens to function not only better for the community but ultimately to provide supplement to a culinary living environment. The overall digression of this building will allow students to be diffused in nature, increasing educationally time spent outside that will allow for these students to be the next generation that will help create a better planet.