William Brotherton Academic Selected Works - Spring 2025
WILLIAM BROTHERTON
WILLIAM BROTHERTON
WILLIAM BROTHERTON
WILLIAM BROTHERTON
WILLIAM BROTHERTON
MISSISSIPPI STATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
MISSISSIPPI STATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
MISSISSIPPI STATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
MISSISSIPPI STATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
MISSISSIPPI STATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ACADEMIC SELECTED WORKS
ACADEMIC SELECTED WORKS
ACADEMIC SELECTED WORKS
ACADEMIC SELECTED WORKS
ACADEMIC SELECTED WORKS
“Architecture is about people.”
Diébédo Francis Kéré
ACADEMIC WORKS
KEEGAN’S LEVEE
Biloxi, Mississippi
2024 Fall Semester
AFRICATOWN HARVEST VILLAGE & GARDENS
Africatown, Alamaba
2024 Fall Semester
THE SPIRAL
Memphis, Tennessee
2022 Fall Semester
Various Media
KEEGAN’S LEVEE
Flood Resilient Mixed-Use/Landscape
2024 Fall Semester
Architecture Undergraduate Studio
Group Project - William Brotheton & Madison Studdard
Credit to Madison Studdard for Original Mixed Use Plans, Sections & Elevations
Biloxi, Mississippi
Keegan’s Levee is an aggressive flood resilient urban intervention in the context of East Biloxi. The Project aims to create a fully functioning, downtown-like node that connects residents from the neighboring Porter Ave community and traffic from Division Street to Keegan Bayou’s natural beauty. Keegan’s Levee has sizeable parks with floodable program, complete commercial downtown streets, and a mixed-use building, all of which are raised to meet a 12-foot-tall circumnavigating levee.
Individual raised structures, while resilient against flooding, can feel disconnected from the street atmosphere. Our goal with Keegan’s Levee was to elevate structures and the street to form a raised complete street that is resilient and cohesive. This model of development is an aggressive example of how coastal communities can simultaneously maintain an intimate street environment and stay resilient against flooding.
In 1860, after the US had banned the importation of slaves, weatlthy Mobile shipyard owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could sail to Africa and bring back slaves without getting caught. Meaher was successful in his bet, buying and transporting 110 Africans back to the states from Benin. The 110 Africans would eventually go on to found the beautiful city of Africatown.
Africatown was once a thirving community, but decades of environmental injustice, invasive infrasturcture, and lacking econonical development has left the town a shadow of it’s former self.
However, since the discovery of Maeher’s ship, the Clotilda, which had be burned and sunk upon his return back in 1860, the town has gotten national attention. In the year’s since, inspiration and efforts to improve the community are at an all time high. The following is my adaptation to the Africatown History Village and Park
AFRICATOWN
RESIDENCES
HEAVY INDUSTRY
SITE
Current Site Conditions
Conceptual Sketches
DOWNTOWN MOBILE, AL
Historic Africatown Shotgun Houses - Residential Street Section
Existing Conditions
SAME VIEW...
Underbridge Rendering
Underbridge
THE SPIRAL
Experimental Housing Development
2022 Fall Semester
Architecture Undergraduate Studio
Indivdual Project
Memphis, Tennessee
The Spiral’s take on experimental housing focuses on openness and a sense of sequence in space with a subtractive form and subtle level changes respectively.
The project attempts to deconstruct our preexisting notion of privacy as it appears in midrise residential structures by breaking down conventional boundaries between tenants and creating a neighborhoodlike environment.
The units are tessellated on the floor plan in a manner that maximizes an unobstructed panoramic view of the urban horizon for all residents.
Parti Diagram of Building Form
Concept Sketches
Axonometric Section
Physical Model
Hand Rendering - Alcohol Markers and Ink
ADDITIONAL WORKS
Sketches - Starkville, Italy, & Morocco
Film Photography - New York City
Pixel Art & Animation
This section offers expanded insight into my artistic hobbies. breadth of travel as an academic and aspiring professional, and wider design interests.
