Architecture

This visitor’s center serves as a delicate addition to the nature of the Barataria Nature Preserve, letting the conditions of the existing boardwalk dominate the visual expression of the building. As one approaches, they are offered the option to enter the visitor’s center or remain on a path which traverses over the building’s service corridor.

The Earth Lab is a design-build project that I did at Tulane's Small Center with Groundwork New Orleans. Groundwork is a non profit that teaches local youths about green infrastructure and urban planting through the lens of civic engagement. The Earth Lab is Groundwork's home base and demonstration site. Our task became to take the disorganized and hidden site and turn it into an outdoor classroom that announces the identity of groundwork to all passers-by. We did this by building two 15-foot tall blue concrete walls. 5 tons of concrete poured 1 gallon at a time.

Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in New Orleans, LA, is experiencing a period of rapid commercial growth and urban revitalization. Unfortunately, long-time residents are being forced out of the neighborhood at an alarming rate due to rising rent prices. The Oretha Castle Haley Creative Community is an affordable housing effort, aiming to play host to the monthly art market in its courtyard while providing 24 studio apartments to mixed-income residents.

This project is my thesis at Tulane School of Architecture to complete my M.ARCH. The project aims to reverse the de-pedestrianizing of the city of New Orleans by taking back a busy transit corridor for multi-modal use and public right of way.

Camp Taylor is a proposed children’s summer camp in rural Mississippi designed for inner-city children. There are one and two week programs, offered to children residing in the metropolitan areas of Jackson, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Biloxi.

The Menil Collection, in Houston, Texas, is synonymous with progressive art. The institute often subsidizes housing in its surrounding neighborhoods, hosting artists, while they display their works in it’s renown galleries. The Living Arts Institute is a synthesis of the housing and gallery functions of the Menil. 10 housing units are located in the upper “zone”, allowing artists visual access to the other buildings of the Menil Campus. Beneath, 4 consecutive galleries weave sectionally through necessary support spaces.

The city was a mapping exercise, focused on the analysis and synthesis of urban geometries. Topography, water, population density, street layouts, historic property lines, and more all have a far reaching effect on the lived experience of the present-city.

This page is meant to serve as a gallery for models or other sculptural studies that may not appear in other sections of this portfolio.