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EDUCATION

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Charlottesville, VA2016 - 2020

Charlottesville, VA2017 - Present

Charlottesville, VASummer 2019

Charlottesville, VAFall 2018

Charlottesville, VAFall 2019

Digital

Spring 2019Fall 2018Fall 2018

2017 - present2016 - present

Analog

Charlottesville, VAFall 2018

Boston, MAWinter 2019

Charlottesville, VA 2018 - Present

Charlottesville, VA2019 - Present

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAB.S. Architecture Pre-Professional 3.78 GPA

PRESIDENT, American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)Aided in reestablishing UVA’s AIAS chapter. Oversees and observes a detailed record of chapter activities. Works with local architects and organizations to create useful career building workshops and events for the student body. Formerly Secretary (‘17-’18) and Vice President (‘18-’19).

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Somatic CollaborativeAssisted in the and production of five models showcasing urban development patterns of resource extraction settlements in South America. The models were slated for exhibition in the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Also produced over a dozen images for Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary, a catalogue of 60 seminal housing projects built and unbuilt.

TEACHING ASSISTANT, ARCH 1020 | Lessons in MakingMentored and guided fifteen first year architecture students through the fun-damental elements of architecture and design. Through five exercises and a final project, each student learned drawing techniques, model making, design thinking and process.

TEACHING ASSISTANT, ARCH 1010 | Lessons of the LawnCo-taught a class of ten second-year students in a class dedicated to the creation of speculative fictions on architecture’s most important precedents. Strongly encouraged a hybrid between diagrams and written text as a way to generate new forms and ideas.

RHINO 5 (with V-RAY, GRASSHOPPER, KARAMBA, HERON, CURA, RHINOCAM), REVIT (with ENSCAPE) AUTOCADADOBE CREATIVE SUITE (PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, ILLUSTRATOR)ARCGIS

UVA ARTS COUNCIL DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD IN ARCHITECTUREINTERMEDIATE HONORSRAVEN SOCIETY MEMBERSELECTED STUDIO WORKS (Fall ’17, Spring ’18, Fall ’18, Spring ’19)DEANS LIST (Fall ‘16, Spring ‘17, Spring ’18, Fall ’18, Spring ’19)

DRAWING (including DRAFTING and FREEHAND SKETCHING)PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL MAKING (including CNC, 3D PRINTING, CASTING, WOOD WORKING)

STUDY ABROAD, CHINA, HONG KONGIn one month, visited six global trade hubs investigating and documenting the burgeoning African and Middle Eastern diasporas in order to understand their effect on the urban and social development of an ever expanding China. The research culminated in a month long exhibition of the work at the University of Virginia Elmaleh Gallery.

EXTERN, EYP Architecture and EngineeringDeveloped a series of construction documents and visualizations using Revit and Enscape respectively as part of a 5000 square foot university laboratory renovation. Assisted in the organization of project data as part of the firm’s AIA 2030 annual report.ASSISTANT, University of Virginia Fine Arts LibraryManages the circulation of the university’s continually growing fine arts and architecture collection. Supports both university students and local patrons with their research and work.

SELECTIONS CHAIR, Raven SocietyHead of a four person committee in charge of soliciting and reviewing over thir-ty applications and nominations as part of a rigorous selections process for potential members.

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The scheme, through a careful choice of exterior connect-ing stairs, helps foster a sectional relationship between each unit, creating spaces of varying privacy in the hopes of fos-tering a strong community. Afterwards, the infill scheme was applied to other moments of the site to imagine the possibility of growth.

A R C H 2 0 2 0 | A v e r b e c kGIANT STEPS r e w o r k i n g C o l u m b i a H e i g h t s

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ground floor planaxon

This project creates a continuous, multi-function-al, occupiable stair that encourages movement and stasis at various points of the structure. As one ascends the tower, stair becomes bench be-comes table becomes shelf. Structural supports extend beyond the treads in various directions to create walls and partitions. The stair itself be-comes a space maker, defining the inhabitable forms of the space.

A R C H 2 0 2 0 | A v e r b e c kMATCHBOX TOWER i n h a b i t a b l e s t a i r

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This proposed addition to the University of Virginia supplements the Miller Center and its Democracy Initiative. On the surface, the scheme appears as a series of separate pavilions with distinct roofs clad in Virginia slate. As one descends into each pavilion, the separate spaces transform into an interconnected space, reflecting the democratic ideal of parts contributing to a whole.

A R C H 3 0 2 0 | S o m e r sUNDER THE ROCKS AND STONES D e m o c r a c y a t U . V a .

SHEAR WALL STRUCTURAL AXON 1/16” = 1’ 0” WALL SECTION 1/4” = 1’ 0” WALL SECTION CRITICAL DETAIL 1 1/2” = 1’ 0”

WALL SECTION CRITICAL DETAIL 3/8” = 1’ 0”

INSULATED TEMPERED GLASS

NEOPRENE SETTING BLOCK

EXTRUDED ALUMIUM RETAINER CAP FRAMEINTERIOR CURB w/ RIGID VINYL THERMAL BREAKFLASHING

VAPOR BARRIERALUMINIUM SIDING

ROOF SHEATHING

ROOF BATTENS

SLATE SHINGLES

INSULATION

AIR GAP

METAL FLASHING

STEEL CONNECTOR PLATEFINISH FLOORING

WOOD DECKING

RIM JOIST

OVERFLOW GRAVEL DRAINAGE

OVERFLOW DRAINAIGE PIPEPRESSURE TREATED SILL PLATE W/ SILL GASKET

ANCHOR BOLT

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TRUSS CONNECTOR PLATE

ELEVATION 1/16” = 1’ 0”

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DRAINAGE PIPE

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GLULAM TIMBER GIRDERGLULAM TIMBER BEAMS

DRAIN w/ FLASHING

WOOD TRUSSING

WOOD TRUSSING

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PIN JOINT

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STONESAndre Grospe | S’19 ARCH 3020

Construction DetailsARCH 3260 | Building Matters

Seth McDowell | Shirl Xu This proposed University of Virginia cam-pus addition supplements the Miller Center and its Democracy Initiative which pushes an inter-disciplinary study of democracy, its theory, im-plementation, and evolution. To understand how the architecture accomplishes this goal, it is first important to realize that this democracy center is not the center of democracy. It is not where the democratic leaders of the world meet, make, and execute decisions. It is a refuge for those charac-ters and their supporting cast- a place for them to contemplate their past a future decision. It is a place for those who write, theorize, and imple-ment democracy on a civilian level to learn, de-bate, and challenge their practices in the hopes of finding a better way forward.

With this idea of retreat and dialogue, the spaces are organized around two main princi-ples- light, the former inspired by the congregat-ing effect of the Pantheon’s (and the Rotunda’s) oculus and the later inspired by the ancient Ro-man bath houses as important social and polit-ical spaces. A series of exaggerated roofs allow light to enter into the underground level, punctu-ating the main meeting spaces which would then act as beacons in the shadow cast nature of the underground level. These roofs are clad with Vir-ginia slate, and their forms mimic both the ver-nacular roofs of the pavilions and, from the ex-terior read as these enigmatic figures emerging from the earth, which takes inspiration from the abandoned slate quarries in Wales.

The primary structural system relies on thickened shear walls constructed of rammed concrete, a traditional buidling method used in buildings such as the Bruder Klaus Chapel by Pe-ter Zumthor. The intention is to create a weather resistant building envelop with the layered texture of rammed earth. The roof is constructed out of wood. The light that shines through the roof oc-ulus is focused by wood siding that sheaths the timber trussing that supports the roof. The ex-terior of the roof is clad with slate panels to re-inforce its connection to the vernacular roofs of UVA.

ground floorsite plane

exterior vignette grotto vignette

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Much like a suppressed memory, New York’s un-refined substructure continually rears its head at the most inconvenient time, only to disappear mo-ments later. The site is apt for a chance encounter with these beasts; it is a site at the nexus of all the underground histories and voices of Manhat-tan. The project attempts to tap into these under-ground forces, capturing and magnifying their enigmatic nature until it erupts from the bedrock.

A R C H 3 0 1 0 | W a l d m a nLOVE IN A VOID N e w Yo r k U n d e r g r o u n d

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