May 7: Final Presentation

Here’s the boards and selected drawings from yesterday’s final presentation. Model pics and project wrap-up to come.

Further Design Development

Things are coming together for my prefinal critique on April 16th–check it out. More boards, images, and models to come.

March 26

How does this model look? Five-story building at 1″ = 50′ that would start to blend public realm into interior space. Got a good critique today and will get this typology across the whole site.

Spring Break

I’m posting from Daytona Beach this week with some of my first iterations after mid-crit. I’m changing up organizations a little bit and putting different pieces in different locations–more details to come. What I’m most excited about is the addition in the southeast corner next to the overpass: a soccer-specific stadium for the Jacksonville Armada […]

Midterm Review Models

In addition to the four 36×48 boards, I built two models for the March 5th midterm critique: a 1″ = 100′ model of the site and a 1″ = 500′ model of the site within the context of downtown. The entire downtown model and EverBank Field for the site model were 3D printed…fun stuff.

March 5: Midterm Review

The main purpose of a midterm review is to have a discussion about the current direction of the project. Keeping in mind that the past month has been the only time to start designing on the selected site, I chose to focus on the creation of forms and massing at this stage. Based on the […]

February 5, 2014: Preliminary Review

Today, all twelve of the students in my studio section presented a 36×48 board with their initial findings, linking the concepts and conclusions from their thesis documents to a tangible building project. I put up the following on Jacksonville, indicating the lack of cohesion in planning because of a disconnect between infrastructure based on the […]