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I began m y architectural education at C lem-son University w ith the intention of changing the face of the world. Now I have realized ar-chitecture’s impact expanses f ar beyond t he face and reaches as a physical translation of lifestyles.I now i ntend t o better the world’s connective communications and health by producing p ragmatic and philosophical solu-tions to enhance the lives of the individual as well as the whole.

I understand there is a deep responsibility in design, it must be a holistic design that com-piles cyclic systems and a complete integra-tion of the client, the users, the public, the en-vironment. This responsibility i s one t hat w ill require a greater depth and complexity of cre-ativity than ever before as our world is on the cusp o f an evolutionary movement; a move-ment f rom oblivious environment consump-tion to a realization that we must now join the regional ecology and contribute to the global ecological systems to survive.

My portfolio is one of space, of experiences, of preservation, of innovation.

Your time and consideration of my work is gra-ciously appreciated.

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Sculpting WaterA High rise for Graduate ResearchArch 352 with Prof. Lynn Craig

Green Roof TopographyCollaborative Landscape Project Arch 352 with Prof. Toni Montes.

Fueling a City with Trash2011 Charette Competitionwith Prof. Stephen Verderber

Extending the Rural OriginAn Impact on our HomeArch 352 with Prof. Lynn Craig

Burrowing Bike Borough

Arch 351 with Prof. Martha SkinnerProjecting Topography to Built World

Catalyzing CommunityCollaborative Healthcare ProjectArch 452 with Prof. Lynn Craig

Thinking in ColorArch 499 with Prof. Harry Harritos

Catalyzing the Com munity into Activity

Catalyzing the Com munity into ActivityAn Urban Health Clinic in GreenvilleThis was a collaborative design build studio project with a fellow architecture student and construction science student who contributed to the design.

Our client owned a piece of land across from a historic charter school that is currently being renovated from an old mill in an underprivileged neighborhood in Greenville, South Carolina. The land is situated be-tween two main streets of traffic, one containing small businesses and the other a link to residential neighbor-hoods.

We created an ideal master plan to give our client a peak into the poten-tial uses of their land to continue the develop the community.

The health clinic embraces both the school and community and serve as a catalyst for active living and healthy environment throughout the area.

Our health clinic provides interac-tive educational programs such as educational and community veg-etable gardens, indoor courtyard for exercise classes, a centering room for educational classes, and links to already established bike paths in the city.

By strongly zoning the program into front of house/ back of house, we provided efficient and enjoyable cir-culation for both faculty and patients. Our design is filled with indirect sunlight, natural ventilation opportun-ties, natural materials, efficent energy appliances, and future active energy systems.

Woodside Drive Elevation

East Bramlett Elevation 1/8”=1’

Master Plan of Land

I worked with a construction science student and practicing contractor to estimate the time and cost of the project at $194/ sq ft to provide our client with an inspiring vision that would be financially feasible for them.

Transverse Section Through Exam Rooms and Courtyard

Longitudinal Section through Offices, Lobby, Courtyard, and Exam Room

Zoning diagram of public and private spaces

Sculpting Form from Naval Influences

Sculpting Form from Naval InfluencesA High rise for Graduate ResearchThis was a collaborative studio project with a fellow architecture student who contributed to the design.

North Charleston’s naval industry was the origin of the region’s growth and prosperity. This site gave us access to

North Charleston’s historical origins and throughout our process our focus remained on the impact of its naval context. Our design seeks to express the erosive qualities of water through the structure’s ammorphic form. This organicism allows us to create a condition in which the program of the Graduate Engineering Center can be semi-emerged with the additional program of a corporate tenant. By embedding the academic and the professional, while maintaining their privacy, a collaborative and produc-tive environment emerges.

Texture Tension Analysis for the form of the Atrium

Approach View of Graduating Engineering Center

Longitudinal Section Cut

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1. Large Classrooms2. Medium Classrooms3. Restrooms

1. Student Work Cubicles2. Faculty Offices3. Restrooms4. Storage Space5. Fitness Center6. Exterior Atrium Walkway

1. Student Work Cubicles2. Faculty Offices3. Copy Room4. Planted Roof5. Exterior Atrium Walkway

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Master Site Plan

Interior Render of Cafe and Atrium on 1st Floor

Raising program to

How does a fluid language converse with an established rigidity?

How do we create a sprawling space in an established block?

conserve the block

How do we begin to interact with historical structures when must insert our modern needs amongst them?

Green TopographyThis was a collaborative studio project with a landscape architecture student who contributed to the design.

It was necessary that we maintain the established rigidity of the block while we attempted to make the connection between an existing gym and the neighborhood. To preserve the block from destruction of neighborhood homes, we decided to con-struct this park ontop of the roofs while keep-ing the existing struc-tures below.

This project consisted of a large sprawling recreation area for the neighborhood block’s residents and potentially public access

in the heart of Barcelona, Spain.

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sections of the cir-culation, vegetation,

and sports courts respectively, which

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SportsBy building ontop, we could braid our

vegetation,program,and circulation

systems while pro-viding superb views

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Projecting terrain of North Clemson

Projecting terrain of North Clemson

How can we begin to live not just alongside but inside the natural environment?How does one balance an organization of program while intervening

in an organic terrain?

Burrowing Bike Depot

Clemson is a quinessential American college town. The life of the town is the uni-versity and the university revolves around the downtown strip. Part of the down-town bock has fallen wayside and with this project we sought to re-energize this branch of the college’s life.

It was mandated that we disabuse the city’s sprawling problem through a mixed use building. Therefore the bottom floor serves as a commercial space for a bike share depot. The second and third floor provides loft residences for singles.

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To create a structure that emerged from the natural ter-rain, I modeled the topogra-phy of the site then sliced it in a series of orthagonal grids to reassemble the terrain in a programmatic organization. These slices that generated the form become transcenden-tal panes that project the ter-rain through the space

The slices have become glass panes that project from the ground to the roof.

The transparent outdoor circulation creates a indirect relationship between the bike depot below and the residents above.

Nature interpretative center in the farm

Nature interpretative center in the farm

“Touch the earth lightly”-Glenn Murcutt

Extending the Rural Origin

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The Bottoms Nature Interpretive Center is an arm of Clemson University’s campus extending into the heart of its origin, the farm. It serves a place of education and observation for students, faculty, and the public that can be phased overtime. The site is a flood zone along a prominent tree line in the farm off of a main highway that surrounds campus.

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The entire structure will be net zero, as it will provide its own energy for consumption through the use of photovoltaic panels. To heat and cool the space during the few months that will require more than natural ven-tilation, there is a geothermal heating and cooling system with a horizontal loop buried in the new pond behind the building for easy mainte-nance. There are two rainwater cisterns the water collected will be used for the building’s grey water needs as well as flowing into the pond to be pumped through the geothermal system for cooling.

An analysis of the campus’ axis and the food market lo-cated on the organic farm, created an extension of these axis to se-lect the location on the site for the nature interpretative center.

To make it iconic and draw pass-ersby’s’ interest from the busy highway, user’s views of the site was analyzed to confirm a location for the structure where it would have the most prominence.

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A 2 story mezzanine structure provides students with a lab and classroom space that facilitates open communication

between the act of learning and doing through its design. The lab

space overlooks the classroom and a small gathering space to catalyze discussion

and spontaneous observations.

An open transparent screen allows cross ventilation and encourages cross

communication.The office plan is open and frames the view of the wood-line.The boardwalk shades the circula-

tions from southern and western sun and the celestory allows indirect light to brighten the office space.

The exhibit introduces the farm to the visitor with transparent facades that

are shaded from the southern and western sun. The opening between

the exposed beams and roof allows indirect light to reach as well as hot

air to escape and capture cool air to passively cool the space for 7

months of the year.

Lab and Class Room Section

Office Section

Exhibit Section

Fueling a netzero city with trash

Fueling a netzero city with trashCan future cities’ design be self- sustaining? How do we design waste disposal process to rid our city of landfills?

This was a competition within Clemson University’s Architecture College, where I worked with two younger architecture students to create a submission for the “City Sense” infrastructure pro-posal of a system that would be a future design for self sustain-ing “smart” cities.

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Wall detail of trash chuteconnection shows disposal bin within the building’s structure.

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Garbage ChuteWet Shredder

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A: Sensor and Air BlastsB: Magnet

The trash chute infrastructure can be applied to a metropolis as seen in this city plan. Each neighborhood block consists of an individual gathering and sorting organ that passes through veins to central heart of the body which converts waste into recycled products, fertilizer, electricity, or vapor.

This fuel is then pumped back into the city’s extremities.

implementing thewaste INfrastructure

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Pen drawings provided by Prof Harritos

Thinking in Color

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