Master of Architecture
The Ohio State University June 2024 (EST.)
Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture
Minor in Real Estate Development
The Ohio State University June 2021
Participated in Seoul 2023 Biennale - Bridging the Mega-city
Semester Award Winner of Fall 2022
Helped begin annual event RAMP UP! at K.S.A.
Graduate Representative for 3 years
Landscape Management Group July 2024 - Present
Designed residential landscapes from conception to installation. Worked directly with clients to tailor their design. Produced CD’s and details for construction. Worked directly with projement managers and crews to ensure proper installation. Reviewed and cost estimated bid documents for commercial installations.
Knowlton School of Architecture August 2022 - June 2024 (EST.)
Instructed Ohio State’s introductory to architecture studio. Gave presentations, ran design crits and reviews, and helped students learn to present their ideas visually and verbally.
Ohio State University’s Planning, Architecture and Real Estate
June 2021 - August 2022
Assisted the University Landscape Architect, University Architect, and planners in design initiatives throughout the university. Gained experience primarily with design, documentation, specifications, initial cost analysis.
Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills
Problem Solving
Developing innovative solutions to complex issues with multiple stakeholders
Leadership
Previously formed and managed teams to accomplish specific goals in the workplace
Interpersonal Skills
Mentorship, relationship building, and fostering open dialogues about expectations and performance.
Adaptability
Capable of thriving in dynamic environments while collaborating with multiple complex teams.
...incorporates the context of the project ...thinks of the future of the materials used ...enables simplistic maintenance of the space ...re-purposes existing structures wherever possible ...considers social and environmental impact beyond the site
As a designer, there is not always time to wait for inspiration to strike. To create cohesion and interest within design, techniques have been developed to consistently be able to progress formal designs.
Through my education, I was introduced to a design technique I think of as “Change 3”. By identifying three reoccurring parts of the project and manipulating them in different ways as they occur, layers of complexity can be continually added to a design as it develops in a systematic way.
Designed in partnership with Andi Moore & Marie-Lou Moulanier
The Home-Stayer seeks to challenge the convention of hotels being designed exclusively for those seeking a short term stay. In a modern world, life is transient, and our buildings need to adapt in ways that can accommodate this. As such, this design seeks to create a space that can accommodate the needs of people over various lengths of stay, from several days to several years, and everything in between. Through design, we sought to explore the unique relationships that may be created in such a space.
The design seeks to mimic a small city, providing all the amenities that one would need during their stay there, scattered across the site. The building is separated into chains of small towers that are linked at their corners to create unique spaces throughout the building and landscape around it.
Seasonal is a building that seeks to challenge the way we inhabit our buildings by providing a different experience of the space depending on the time of year.
Following the seasons, the building will transition between three states, expanding during the winter and contracting during the summer. This will allow the building to better control solar gain both within the building and in the exterior spaces it provides.
During the winter, the building will open to receive maximum solar gain, creating large exterior spaces with clear access to sunlight. During the summer, the building will close, blocking out the sun and creating small and well shaded exterior spaces.
FIRST FLOOR
GROUND PERSPECTIVE
Designed in partnership with Chris Wright, Sabrina Hooker, and Hannah Repasky
Hallyuwood Bridge was a project done for the 2023 Seoul Biennial’s “Bridging the Mega-city” exhibition in which we attempted to envision what might exist on a mega-scale bridge across the Han River.
Our team decided to design our bridge focusing on South Korea’s strong Indie Film culture, creating a space that challenges the design of a traditional black box studio. Alongside film spaces are teaching spaces to support a small film school that exists in Seoul.
The architecture is designed to have several layers of both thermal, acoustic, and light isolation as you move within the building. It is clad in an operable ETFE skin that helps it to mimic the form of the mountains found in South Korea.
One of the main goals of the project was to address sustainability within the building. This was done through two primary methods; adaptive re-use, and the application of a “thermal onion” strategy to the layout of the building.
Adaptive re-use occurred primarily through the re-use of crushed concrete. It was used as pavers for a “mid-door” space within the ETFE skin, as well as within gabion walls as a part of a facade system.
The “thermal onion” strategy applied to this building relies heavily on the creation of a “mid-door” space using a large scale ETFE-skin structure. To allow for this space to remain temperate throughout the year, the ETFE panels would be operable, changing in opacity to block out unwanted solar rays. Nested within this skin are the fully conditioned spaces, divided into towers and large-box film studios.
EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
A Maintenance of Distance explores the possibility of design through maintenance regimes rather than specific CAD documentation as is standard. Through outlining a yearly maintenance regime that allows for changes based on new growth, the space can adapt over time.
By designing in this way, it allows for faster, more general design to be applied to a variety of spaces. It also allows for those that maintain the space to have some control over the design, making maintenance easier and more streamlined.
As this project took place during the COVID-19 epidemic, this regime seeks to explore how this form of design could help to maintain social distancing in public spaces. A tool was designed with the intention of naturally indicating circulation direction by selectively fertilizing sections of the space, mimicking ground signage that was popular in retail stores during the pandemic.
Trevin Stewart
Maintenance Ordinance
M>A>C @ Chadwick Arboretum
Goal: To reduce the amount of mowing done on site in order to:
The + The Arrow The T The O
Reduce emissions from mowing Increase amount of plant growth on site Increase biodiversity Offer an interesting aesthetic that challenges conventional mowing practices
Note:
Mowing is still done to allow movement throughout the site to continue and to keep the park from looking abandoned, overrun, or uncared for. In still mowing, it makes it clear that the patterns and changes from conventional mowing are intentional.
Targeted species:
The target of the increased biodiversity is primarily pollinator plants, as they serve to both help the ecosystem while often being ornamental. Some plants in this list may not be pollinators but provide some other benefit to the ecosystem. In trimming, try to allow these plants to flourish by trimming growth around them, but not trimming these. The exception to this is if they begin to crowd out all other species, then trim them back or remove them. This list is meant to provide an idea of plants to look out for based upon their existence in other parts of the site but is not meant to be a comprehensive list. If species outside of this list are found that are also beneficial to the local ecology, they should be treated the same as these species.
Tool: The Directionator’s These tools are meant to be used to create suggestive one-way paths throughout the park like the one-way paths we find in stores during COVID-19. Once the first mow of this ordinance is done, use the Arrow to make rows one-way paths through the site, determined by the installer, dependent on the manifestation of the mow patterns for the year. Then use the T and the + to dictate intersections as needed throughout the year. The O should be used to designate social distancing for seating. As its diameter is 3’, either spacing one apart or directing visitors to sit one apart will do.
Use: A mix of fertilizer and sedum seeds should be filled roughly ¼”- ½” into the Arrow-ator and left to sit. The Arrow-ator itself can be moved once the fertilizer mix is filled into it. This will encourage both a faster growth of the grass under the fertilizer, and hopefully a strong sedum that can withstand some foot traffic. Try to use specific sedum based on the direction, for example use a Red Carpet for the northbound and eastbound rows and Summer Snow for the southbound and westbound rows.
Mow North – South or South – North whenever possible
Follow the curve of the berm using two turns, keeping mow paths at roughly the same elevation through the cut. Try to keep the turning points and angle the same for every row.
Connect mowed rows with an East – West mow to allow for movement between rows
Use these connection mows to target unwanted species
A row is to be considered roughly the width of the mower
Canada goldenrod should be allowed to grow, but not dominate the area
Any plants that cannot be managed by a mower or string trimmer (woody plants) should be removed as they are found
Invasive and harmful species should be removed, ex:
Amur Honeysuckle
Poison Ivy
American Pokeweed
Garlis Mustard
Buckthorn
Purple Loosetrife
Reed Canary Grass
Knotweed
Spring:
• Mow roughly once a week, increase frequency if grass is growing quickly enough to reach roughly 6” between mows.
Mow down entirety of Berm for a fresh start on the first and second mow
• Starting at the third mow, skip one row starting from the West, and add another row every other mow until you reach the top of the berm.
• Starting from the third mow and at the top of the berm, only mow every other row moving east.
If there are unwanted species, mow over them and make a connection to the neighboring row
Summer:
• Continue regiment from spring, reduce mowing frequency to roughly once every week and a half
• Begin to use a string trimmer to trim down the rows that have been left to grow as needed
• Focus trimming on rows east of the top of the berm
Fall:
• Stop mowing on a strict schedule, instead aim to mow when the grass gets to be roughly 6” in length
• Lessen trimming throughout the season, allow unmown rows to grow through the end of the season
Mow East to West, and North to South. Skip a row between each mowed row, allow those squares to grow through the year.
A row is to be considered roughly the width of the mower
Any plants that cannot be managed by a mower or string trimmer (woody plants) should be removed as they are found
Canada goldenrod should be allowed to grow, but not dominate the area
Invasive and harmful species should be removed, ex:
Summer:
Reduce mowing frequency to roughly once every week and a half
• Use a string trimmer to trim down patches that are getting overgrown after mowing. No more than 25% of patches should be trimmed in one go, focusing on the most overgrown.
Pick around 5 sections of the grid, from 3-9 squares, of varying interest to maintain differently. These will be used to create two different types of spaces, grown and mown.
• Try to pick roughly a 50/50 mix of grown spaces and mown spaces
• Grown spaces should be based around areas of ecological interest while mown spaces should target unwanted species
Spring:
Mow roughly once a week, increase frequency as needed if grass gets too long to walk through comfortably
Allow unmown patches to grow through the season, remove only unwanted species
Fall:
Stop mowing on a strict schedule, instead aim to mow when the grass gets to be roughly 6” in length
Reduce trimming throughout the season, goal should be no more than 10% of patches are trimmed at once
• If a space is dedicated grown, stop mowing the rows going through the zone. Still maintain a walkable edge around the grown zone, but otherwise let it grow and develop, only interfering to remove destructive or noxious plants.
• If a space is dedicated to mown, begin to keep it mown with the rows. These spaces are intended to provide inhabitable spaces for people, while also offering an interesting way to manage unwanted species.
• These zones may change and develop throughout the year as diversity changes.
Rules:
A path is to be considered roughly the width of the mower
• Path’s should be straight, outside the mowing of the circle
• Total mowed area should never be more than 25% of the prairie
• Canada goldenrod should be allowed to grow, but not dominate the area
Any plants that cannot be managed by a mower or string trimmer (woody plants) should be removed as they are found
Invasive and harmful species should be removed, ex: Spring:
• Mow three circles of varying sizes, one with one rotation of the mow, one with two rotations, and one with three. Aim for at least one of these circles to receive shade throughout the day
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Summer:
Reduce
Fall:
Remove
Designed in partnership with Scott Allen
The Bison and the Bees is a project focused on the conversion of an existing golf course into a nature preservation for the endangered American Bison, Karner Blue Butterflies, and Rusty Patch Bumblebees. To decide on the plant species to be used in rewilding the prairies, an ecological study was done to assess how this new environment would operate.
The American Bison provide challenging design criteria on their own, requiring large amounts of heavily controlled land. In order to prevent them from overgrazing, they must be relocated between four separate prairies. To do this, we divide the prairies using a “blind,” designed specifically to bring visitors closer to the fauna without disturbing it.
Our larger design goals for the project were to create an expansive prairie within the city reminiscent of the natural plains the American Bison would typically be found within. We also sought to uncover the natural waterways that were converted into irrigation systems, transforming them into riparians that act as a buffer between the different prairie zones.
ECOLOGICAL STUDY
RIPARIAN
Following my time in school I found myself wanting to experience landscape design work in the field. During my time as a landscape designer I’ve had the opportunity to work on projects varying greatly in scale, ranging from simple planting designs to a full revision of a common area for rental properties in the Hocking Hills area.
These projects have all been driven with client statisfaction as their primary concern. I’ve had the pleasure of being able to work directly with all of my clients, ensuring that the design not only matches their vision for their space, but their budget as well. Tying both of these challenges together has taught me a lot about exploring creative solutions to provide my clients everything they’re after while holding to a budget they can afford.
One challenge I faced in the field that helped me develop as a designer was the fast pace that comes with design-build in the residential space. With project timelines being as short as two months from intial design meeting to installation, problems had to be solved quickly and effectively to avoid any delays in the expected timeline. This has taught me to make decisions as a designer much more quickly than I felt able to during my time in school.
STRUCTURE