In the smaller volume we have the nursery space on the lower level and the office on the upper level.

To make sure we still have adequate lighting in our project, we created a large courtyard that separates the two main volumes of the project. Our main design move to achieve these goals was to put our building underground, this is done to create a completely independent and homogeneous sound environment, especially since the daycare rooms where children will be in sit in excess of 10 feet underground. The main focus of our design was to create a space that was well lit, appropriate with each programmatic element, and could be acoustically conducive to the daycare program, working to separate itself from the busy street, walkways and BUILDINGS that surround the site. POLYCOMPLEX+ is an extension of POLYCOMPLEX, which introduces the new programmatic addition of a daycare center on the SU campus.

class: arc 407 - Architectural design vi Instructor: professor david shanks Tools Used: hand sketching, sketchup, RHINOCEROS, meshroom, vectorworks, illustrator, photoshop, lumion, premiere pro, audition Additionally, the tops of the monoliths sits at street level creating a processional field of cypress trees while preserving elements of the existing market stalls, allowing for the public condition to infill the tops of the monoliths along the edges of the cut line. This illusion that these are solid, thick tectonic elements is only broken when the user enters the project and sees that they are in fact light, book-filled elements. These processional, monumental staircases allow the Students and the General Public to access these blocks of knowledge equally, additionally, to the public eye from the street all that is visible is the clad structures. The two main points of access to the main promenade come directly from the public piazza as well as directly from the existing school of architecture. The project centers around the core tectonic operation of the cutting of the ground plan to reveal monolithic blocks of knowledge. The project plays host to approximately 100,000 regular-print books as well as a swath of other print media such as newspapers as well as an audio-video library and a space to house and care for archival materials.

davis Awards: Nominated for king&king Prize Tools Used: hand sketching, sketchup, RHINOCEROS, meshroom, vectorworks, illustrator, photoshop, Autodesk flow, lumion, premiere pro, audition, quixel mixer, quixel bridge, mayaĪtheneum: Unearthed monuments Atheneum is a proposed extension to the Università degli Studi di Firenze’s Architecture library. Malsegna Instructor: professor lawrence c. class: arc 409 - Architectural design VIII Project team: Mason K. We have raised the surrounding grade by 4 feet, additionally, in the event of storm surges, we have designed mechanical flood gates to provide protection for the buildings occupants and for the collections. In order to combat the rising sea levels. The axis runs directly to Luanda in Angola, the former capital of the Kingdom of Ndongo, where the first enslaved Africans were taken from by the Portuguese. The main axis line of our project runs through a memorial ramp that will slowly fill up with the rising tides and rising sea levels over time, providing a large reflecting plane. Our project centers around the concept of creating three large seawalls, to serve as elements that protect the galleries and learning spaces as well as to protect the building from flooding given that our project is located on a coastline that is prone to storm surges annually and stands to be significantly impacted by climate change in the coming decades.

The site of our project marks the first location enslaved Africans were brought to the colonies in 1619, as a result, our Museum is dedicated to preserving black history and culture in America where today, black America and black Americans are under assault. BASTION Bastion is a proposal for a museum and community center located in Old Point Comfort, Virginia.

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