Adaptive Objects:
Designing a New Spatial Order
… a Community Wellness Center
Type: Architecture Core Studio
Site: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Date: 2024
School: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Professor: Jefferson EllingerThis project set forth to reorganize the original grid of an existing big box retail store and create a new spatial order within and outside the initial grid. This adaptive “recycle” design was driven by parametric Voronoi diagrams — in two and three dimensions — that resulted in 3 unique objects that were highlighted to create the form of the design. Extensions were made to fill programmatic needs
Multiplicity and the Heterogeneous
Type: Architecture Core Studio
Date: 2024
School: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Professor: Jefferson EllingerThe overt intention here is to develop transformational techniques that challenge the ‘ideal’ spatial order of the grid and to produce differentiated architectural spaces that are both of their own and part of a new larger order – multiple and heterogeneous.
Home Away From Home:
... a Culinary School and Cinema
Type: Architecture Core Studio
Site: Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Date: 2023
School: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Tutor: Betsy WestSituated on the principle that Place drives Identity, Identity drives Ability, and Ability strengthens Place, this project looked to create a new campus for the Community Culinary School of Charlotte. This project aimed to reflect the rehabilitating and life-giving nature of the culinary school by calling on references from the residential homes that were located in the neighborhood of the site before urban renewal. In doing so, this project sought to answer the question: Can/should a commercial building mimic the aesthetics of the “home.”