Located along the bank of the Potomac River in Langley Virginia, this Hotel and Conference Center is a place of gathering and refuge for foreign dignitaries. Each building shares the characteristic of protruding volumes and surfaces reinforced by parallel load bearing masonry walls.  These brick walls buffer the interior from the exterior and demarcate the program. Punched voids provide natural light.  Each element including entry, wall, stair, column, and fireplace is designed to comply with the collective composition.    The circulation is situated along the building\'s edge, thus guiding people from center to edge across diagonals and through corridors naturally lit from adjacent windows.   Drawing played an essential role throughout the design.  In the following drawings the process of design and discovery in architecture is intelligible.  The question of "how" is more revealing than the question of "what." / Master of Architecture

The following is an exploration into the composition and construction of a marine research laboratory situated on a remote sea cliff off the coast of Norway. The settlement is composed as a model of the world. Located at the chaotic boundary of earth, sea and sky, the <br />construction acts against these forces as threshold and counterpoint. It is the reconstitution of a world, a settlement, a center in a perceived infinity. / Master of Architecture

The Garden Spa explores the healing and sensual qualities of a space. It offers a place of relaxation for the body to be restored through an atmosphere of tranquility. The spa rooms are an intimate place of rest, and the garden is a place to wander through sculptural forms. Curvilinear forms are used to bring pleasure to the eye and touch, creating harmonies with the body / Master of Architecture

This thesis seeks to tie into the underlying ideology of the middle landscape that has shaped housing development in the United States up to this point, and re-imagine its physical manifestation. An incremental approach is taken in imagining what housing might be in America, considering our myths surrounding the single family house, micro and macro community creation, density, sustainability (regarding the economics of the home and country, as well as our place in an ecosystem), emerging timber construction of tall buildings, and industrialized methods of building.  <br /><br />A mix of passive and active green building strategies are employed in making an expanded or "inhabited envelope", which surrounds a 22-story mass timber modular mid-rise residential tower in Red Hook Brooklyn. The base of the tower and development of the city block include a cooperative factory for wood based production, innovative bike storage, bike repair shop, shared use digital fabrication lab, shared use shops (wood, metal, and upholstery),  loading dock, laundry, gym, shared use office space, and café. / Master of Architecture

This project uses the program of a house on Claytor Lake as a vehicle for exploring the role of turning in protecting and uniting adjacent spaces.  Drawing was the primary means for this process of exploration, and can be read wholly and without the support of related text.  Figures at various scales -- from column to tree, resident to house -- both inhabit and articulate the project.  This house celebrates the preeminence of the hallway, and emphasizes its authority with the presence of subordinate figures and an agonistic landscape. / Master of Architecture

A chair was made of northern white ash wood. Steamed laminates make up each leg, and the spans are solid wood. A bent seat perches on this frame. Drawings, words, and photographs expose the chair in this book. A full exposition of the work can be found in the Art and Architecture Library at the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. / Master of Architecture

This project is a study of the process of human learning, specifically related to arts and culture, and how a community interacts with and creates its own art and memory. Historically, the museum has functioned as a type of self-guided institute of higher learning for the public. It has been utilized to display and memorialize works of cultures throughout history. It has become a place where the public interacts with artifacts from cultures past and cultures present. This project addresses the following: In addition to a museum's function of educating the public, can a museum function as a classroom or laboratory for tomorrow's artists and educators? Can museum visitors become part of the creative process? Can a college for fine art and museum studies become integrated creatively into a museum, generating mutual benefit for both institutions and the city? Can the present generation of artists and educators build upon the advancements and setbacks of the generation that went before it? This thesis is written as a fiction story to best capture and communicate the process of experiential learning and the making of cultural memory. Some people and events are based on true facts; others have been changed, added to or omitted for the sake of a good story / Master of Architecture

Die IFLA, der Internationale Verband der bibliothekarischen Vereine und Institutionen, richtet seit 1928 den „Weltkongress Bibliothek und Information“ aus. Dieses Jahr fand er unter dem Motto „Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities“ im August in Singapur statt.

This thesis began as a search, an exploration into creating a building using strong geometric forms that were defined by the structure. the thesis was tested, and retested, forgotten then restarted. every iteration through models, sketches, and drawings was a stepping stone for the final product ; a thesis. A thesis of exploring form defined by its assembly and the inherent questions, problems and ideas that arise. the program for this thesis is a hotel that is comprised of three parts. the pedestal which houses the lobby, is rooted to the earth. the framework which houses the guest rooms, embraces the sky. lastly, the buttresses which house the services and vertical transport, are the connection between the earth and sky. The true question of this thesis was when or how to stop? At what point did the figure become appropriate? It became a question of aesthetic judgement, and how did the building want itself to be? In the end the thesis is to make a building that shows a glimpse of its true nature. / Master of Architecture

What started as an exploration of the relationship between collage and architecture, developed into a tower of separations and ambiguities, separation of rooms and objects, ambiguity of meaning and placement. What started as a secluded room in the forest, developed into a tower that secludes itself and its rooms. The thesis is process and finality, always changing, always complete. The object is shelter of object. The purpose is to contain both material things and purpose. / Master of Architecture