Portfolio 2024

AN ABBREVIATED RESUME

Education

Oklahoma State University – School of Architecture: Graduating in May 2024

Work Experience

Intern - Grace Hebert Curtis Architects, LLC. New Orleans, LA

May - August 2022

June - August 2023

Student Employee - Saint John Catholic Student Center

Stillwater, OK

August 2023 - Present

Teaching Assistant - Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, OK

January - May, August - December 2023

Photographer - GradImages

Covington, LA May 2021

Leadership Experience

Bible Study Leader

Stillwater, OK Aug 2022 - Present

Retreat Staff: Small Group Leader Stillwater, OK Aug 2023 - Present

Retreat Staff: Staff Team Group Leader

Stillwater, OK Aug 2022 - February 2023

Additional Skills

Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Drafting, Modeling, and BIM: Rhino 3D, Revit, Covetool, BlueBeam

Honors and Awards

Oklahoma State University Out of State Tuition Waiver

Fall 2019 - Spring 2024

National Merit Scholarship Corporation Scholarship

Fall 2019 - Spring 2023

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I was born and raised in Covington, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. Growing up I was fascinated by the beauty of the historic buildings in the City. In high school my original interest was engineering, but a Civil Engineering and Architecture class had me realize my love was in

Architecture. I received an academic scholarship to attend Oklahoma State University, where I have spent the last five years as a dedicated student in the School of Architecture, After I graduate this Spring, I plan to begin work in an architecture firm and becoming licensed, my mission

is to craft spaces enrich the lives of its users through highly aesthetic, yet environmentally sustainable, architecture. This commitment to sustainability, functionality, and aesthetic excellence, drives me to deliver projects that will live forever in my client’s minds.

GUTHRIE TOURISM CENTER

GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA

A new visitors center for Guthrie, Oklahoma, an older city in Central Oklahoma with an iconic downtown district that possess an equally iconic Victorian architectural style.

Inspired primarily by Robert Venturi and postmodern architecture, this project is focused on using signage and the building surface to project as architectural expression. This is illustrated in the large sign is surmounted on the project facade.

The building’s facade design incorporated many individual architectural features from specific historical buildings in Guthrie to create a single form. Artificial lighting was used to highlight the features of the facade, with the massive jumbotron-like video board displaying active community events in Guthrie, orange lighting that imitates older warm temperature bulbs highlighting the older Victorian aspects of Guthrie’s downtown, and blue lighting that mimics modern fluorescent and LED lighting highlighting the modern additions.

ELEVATION

FLOOR PLAN

MAGGIE’S CENTER

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Maggie’s Centers are a United Kingdom based group of support centers for those suffering with cancer. The centers are used to provide information, support, and therapy services to those affected. This project explored a hypothetical Maggie’s Center to be located in Amsterdam, specifically in an peninsular lot in the Borneo-Sporenburg neighborhood. The driving force behind concept development was the use of parametircs to design a freeform building reminiscent of a wave on the adjacent coastline, both to connect the project conceptually to the waterfront and to give a more organic feel to the interior. The interior was designed to be as open as possible on the first floor, where public activities would be held,

such as yoga classes, community outreach, and donor events; while the second floor was designed to be more secluded and private for such services such as therapy, medical direction, and one-on-one counseling.

The use of glazing was highly intentional, with one large curtain wall used to form a visual connection with the water, and all other ones to highlight specific spaces or thresholds within the building, such as the staircase, fitness space, and dining area.

SECTION 1/8” - 1’ 0”

STILLWATER CHAPEL

STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA

To achieve a conceptual division between the sacred and the profane, The programmatic spaces were divided into the two categories, profane and sacred. These programs were then allotted into the two primary volumes of the structure. In a plan view, this was created by taking a triangular shape and subtracting the central courtyard to form the triangular volume for the secular spaces and the trapezoidal volume for worship space and similar areas. This divide is also seen in the height difference between the two volumes, as the sacred spaces are housed in a volume twice as tall as the secular one, giving it a priority and dominance. Two structural members are used

to conceptually bridge the divide between the profane and holy spaces and they also form thresholds for the building’s courtyard.

The central courtyard forms a spiritual connection between the sacred and secular spaces and an aspen tree is placed in its center to act as unifying feature in a literal and a symbolic sense. Literally because it provides a visual continuity with the site and it acts as an object to ambulate around, and symbolically because the tree illustrates how in life one bust seemingly balanced a dichotomy of forces, that which is sacred and that which is profane.

CAPITAL BREWING CO.

GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA

Based in the former Oklahoma capital of Guthrie, this project is a multi-use building consisting of a microbrewery, a music retail space, and residential apartments. A live music gathering space has been added across the street from the project to host live performances, especially in conjunction with Guthrie’s annual International Bluegrass Festival. The primary material choice is brick, the common material of Guthrie’s Historic downtown district, which is contrasted with the bottom level’s storefront system that encloses the brewery taproom and music retail space.

Patrons can process their way into a beer garden located on the second either from the interior or exterior of the building. This subtraction in

the form to create the beer garden is aligned to the outdoor performance venue to allow patron easy visual and auditory access to the shows.

The inclusion of apartments is to encourage residence in Guthrie’s downtown in an effort to revitalize the town. Each apartment is fashioned with a balcony over looking the street below and is completely secure from the patrons of the brewery and retail space below.

NORTH ELEVATION 1/16” - 1’ 0”

SOUTH ELEVATION 1/16” - 1’ 0”

STUDY ABROAD

EUROPE PROGRAM - SUMMER 2023

For three and a half weeks I was a part of the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture’s European Travel Study program. This program was took us to three countries with our primary cities being Rome, Italy; Paris, France; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. These Cities were also paired with singular day trips that took us to other cities in the area. These included Florence, Italy; Versailles, France; Chartres, France; and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Our main academic focus of the trip was to learn how to creatively document our travels. This was done primarily through a series of sketchbooks done by each student. These are some selected excerpts of the sketchbooks from my journey.

These selected sketches are from some of the most recognizable buildings and locations in their respective countries and in the entire European continent, including the Pantheon, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Colosseum, the Boboli Gardens, the Arc de Triomphe, Sainte-Chapelle, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Chartes Cathedral.

The Pantheon, Rome, Italy

The Cathedra Petri, Detail from St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy

Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Sainte Chapelle, Paris, France

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Streetscape, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Choir of Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France

SAN SIRO II

MILAN, ITALY

Inspired by the monumental projects designed by Italian Futurist architect Antonio Sant’Elia, Il Nuovo Stadio is a monument to Italian Serie A teams AC Milan and Inter Milan that evokes a grandeur to reflect the history of two of Italy’s best football clubs. The exterior of the structure is composed of a series of concrete ribs which support a walkway that circumambulates around the stadium and gives the teams’ patrons an up-close look at the most dominant

feature of the new stadium: the five meter wide, nine and a half meter deep, and almost three hundred meter long trusses of San Siro, the former stadium of Milan’s two teams. Those trusses have been moved from the old San Siro, which is set for demolition) and relocated to the new stadium. These members act as an architectural metaphor for these two teams’

AXONOMETRIC