Light Slot

Social Environmental Overlap

Conference Business

Live WorkCommercial

Portland’s Urban Incubator

Building Uses

Portland’s Urban Incubator is designed to blend into its’ social and environmental context. An open framework mimicking the classical forms found in Old Town Portland would provide the basic unit between which food carts can vend. A green roof on the second floor would provide a more private place for the residents who live and work in the building. A trellis of vertical green would provide shade in the lush summer months and omit light in the dryer winter months. A light slot down the center of the building would leave no part of the building more than forty feet away from access to natural light. This was the first successful project on which I used Revit. The renderings from Revit were combined with Photoshop to create these renderings.

Concept Diagrams

Sustainable Strategies

Diagram

Context Healing Center

Part of my ongoing Thesis Project, these select images represent the Healing Grove: a transitional housing project aimed to heal not only the occupants who inhabit the buidling, but the Lloyd Eco-district of Portland, in which it is designed. Healing through nature was the primary aim of this studio and so I took inspiration from the Sacred Groves of India where I did research for four months in 2011. Here, I am translat-ing the qualities of the grove, both physically and conceptually into this design. Physically there stands a grove of trees at the heart of the building over an interior sacred space. Con-ceptually, the units are organized around the grove with the idea that the occupants can form a support network from which to grow. The building itself acts as a grove, with a water catch-ment system retaining water and harvesting heat from the sewer system, similar to root systems, and the roof top farm acts as a seed bank preserving biodiveristy for the district.

The Healing Grove

Axon Perspective

Green Roof to Wall Detail - 1 1/2” = 1’-0”

Green Roof to ParapitDetail - 1 1/2” = 1’-0”

Green Roof to Wall Detail - 1 1/2” = 1’-0”

Green Roof to ParapitDetail - 1 1/2” = 1’-0”

Green Roof to Wall Connection Detail

Green Roof Parapit Detail

Drawn using AutoCAD these details show typrical wall sections and green roof sections of my thesis project. These high performing envelopes focus on the five critical control layers in a perfect wall system, as well as continuity of those control layers and durability. They attempt to push the evelope of what an enclosure system is capable of, weather is a green roof or a curtain wall.

Details

WINDOW HEAD DETAIL - 6”=1’-0”

CAULKING

3/4” THICK WOOD PANELING

6” STEEL STUD FRAME (18” O.C.)

1/2” SHEATHING

SELF-ADHERED MEMBRANE

1/2”-1” WIDE AIR SPACE

3” THICK MINDERAL WOOL

CONCRETE SLAB - SEE STRUCTURAL

CONCRETE EMBEDS -SEE STRUCTURAL

FLASHING

STRUCTURAL STEEL ATTACHMENT

STEEL BEAUTY CAP

WAUSAU 7250i-UW

FIBERGLASS THERMALSPACER

WIN

DOW

JAMB

DET

AIL -

6”=1

’-0”

WAUSAU 7250i-UW

FLASHING1X4 WOOD

STEEL BEAUTY CAP

3/4” WOOD PANELING

6” STEEL STUD FRAME

1/2” WIDE SHEATHING

1/2”-1” WIDE AIR SPACE

CONCRETE EMBEDS -SEE STRUCTURAL

CONCRETE SLAB - SEE STRUCTURAL

3” THICK MINDERAL WOOL

SELF-ADHERED MEMBRANE

FIBERGLASS THERMAL SPACER

WINDOW SILL DETAIL - 6”=1’-0”

Window Head

Window Sill

Window Jamb

Broken Strap Chair

A chair inspired by an object of nostalgia: my mothers purse. To me, this broken purse is a symbol of the once broken link between my mom and I through my adolescence, and the now strengthened bond between us. Mimicing breaking and reformed bonds, I chose to steam bend the wood piece connecting the seat to the back of the chair, the process of which is quite similar. Mimicing the seams of the purse, the connections appear to stitch the chair together. Mimicing the curvature of the leather, the profile flows in a rounded form.

Whiteaker Station

Shipping Container Lofts Cisterns for Water CatchmentAbove they are living wall art and below they are booths for PRI

Urban Farm for Pizza Research InstituteNever out of Season

Electrically-Run Mass TransitSustainable transportation

A Public VenueFor the Community

Covered Bicycle Parking

Electric Charging Stations

5th Street Bicycle Boulevard

Plus Bioswales for Parking lot Runoff

Solar panels on the roof take them off the grid

Because it Rains

Cars and Bicycles Can Get Along

An independent project with a local entrepeneur and business owner where he asked for a vision of what a block in the whiteaker district of Eugene could be in twenty years. This plan and perspective demonstrate how Whiteaker Station, as the owner calls it, can rejoin a sustainable cycle. Most importantly, this proposal seeks to accomplish such a development through a celebration of both the ecologically and socially rich environment in which it is set.