A collection of my student projects…

The Park View Plaza project in Ankeny, Iowa aims to create a sustainable building that harmonizes with its surroundings. It will feature energy-efficient systems, renewable energy sources, and locally sourced and recycled materials to reduce its environmental impact. The project sets an example for other development projects in the area, promotes sustainable practices, and provides opportunities for local businesses to adopt green technologies.

“Little Spaces, Big City”. What would students surrounded by busy streets need the most? Let’s create a one-stop center eliminating the need for residents to leave their home. How can we present new innovation to the dense urban fabric of NYC? What if the concrete jungle became more green one building at a time? This project seeks to answer multiple questions about what NYC needs to improve for it’s residents.

This project observes and provides a new model approach to the reoccurring hydrological disasters in New Orleans, Louisiana through a lens of major and minor. Research exploring the economic consequence of hydrological risk fueled by climate change through the years to 2050 predicts that droughts, floods and storms could wipe 5.6 trillion USD from the GDP of key economies, with some more affected than others. Through the lens of major and minor, we have studied precedent events of hydrological disasters. and proposes a solutions utilizing native technological systems.

Puerto Rico presents a series of new challenges brought by it’s extreme climate and environmental issues, landscape, weather, and more. This project forms a building that takes shape of an artifact and presents some new representation styles I was not custom to.

The project, Accessory Dwelling Units, is the seed for this second phase in the semester. After design affordable and livable, 3d printed ADUs, we then had to use our organizational skills to propose a large-scale building with numerous programs ranging from office to research lab to factory. This building would house the construction of the ADUs, along with many other additive manufacturing processes.

Post research and study of the redlining events which occurred throughout the U.S. and specifically in Des Moines, IA; the goal was to look at how architecture could form reparations to the communities effected by redlining. I understood that affordability would be a major factor to provide as an overarching objective, this is where the technological advances of 3d printing would be fitting. Then using small-scale design to model a Accessory Dwelling Unit to be constructed.

As a first year into the program, 3d modeling and digital skills were skills I was seeking to improve. The flexibility of this project allowed me to create something of my imagination and focus on the modeling process through it’s representation.

Lighting is a powerful enhancement to architecture and so through research and studies, my partner and I made it our goal to learn more about hw daylight and artificial lighting can be manipulated. This seminar resulted in furthering my skills and knowledge of how to design proper lighting, and how to render and represent this.