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A growing downtown civic district demanded an updated city hall

which took the needs of the community, the natural landscape that

defines the pacific northwest and the culture of efficient building

design present in the city into account. This design sought to ab-

stract natural metaphors present in the landscape into a cohesive

building design that's impact and abilities transversed its skin. A

district hub for stormwater treatment, energy production, commu-

nity conversation, and a step towards a new future for Eugene.





The live+work building type

is gaining momentum as more

people desire smaller dwell-

ings, are moving to cities,

and are working remotely or

in an entrpreneurial mode.

This work housing design

used tesselation and repeti-

tion to create unique clus-

ters of stacked apartments

that dealt with the site to-

pography, natural daylight-

ing, privacy, and access/con-

nection to outdoor space.

Double height spaces make

the apartments feel large,

while their foot prints

were small and accessible.





Imagining a new industrial

identity for Detroit, Michigan

founded on the growing urban

agriculture and DIY art culture

began with an exploration of the

agricultural, ecological, and civic

roots of this charged site. The

deserted 9 acre Detroit Tiger's

baseball stadium site allowed the

design to give this unique part

of Detroit's history and equal

playing field with its exciting

future as a hub of innovation.







Situated in an existing railroad corridor, this light rail station tried to

reconcile the lost ecology of the prairie grassland it resided within and

the prospect of a sustainable, public art enhanced transportation system

for Minneapolis. The program included spaces for public art installation,

ecological learning, interaction design, and art education facilities.





Gateway is located outside of the

Portland, Oregon metro area and

is home to a diverse group of people

a burgeoning medical, residential,

retail district. Working with

an interdisciplinary team of

landscape architecture, business,

architecture, and planning

students, this project aimed

to make incremental, catalytic

design interventions that had

multiple simultaneous benefits-

ecological, social, and economic.

By creating a series of nodal

design moves, within a larger

conceptual framework, the

scope of the project considered

the timeline of the real world

and designed for flexibility

and resiliency over time.







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