CAMERON A. AVERY

Designing a New Spatial Order
… a Community Wellness Center

This 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.

The 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. Each generation was a development upon the next, all situated on the study of light and shadow. 

... a Culinary School and Cinema

Situated 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.”