Architectural Design and Planning
neoLagos
Fifth Year Thesis Project
I believe place-making and redevelopment with new transit infrastructure are catalysts for social change and collective progress. Construction and infrastructural costs can be reduced by exploring the use of contextual materials and found objects for construction and adaptive re-use in design. This thesis investigates the manipulation of these objects to be utilized at various scales, from small furniture to large building structures.
Lagos, Nigeria has approximately 1.7 million people living below the poverty line, 300,000 of whom are homeless in the growing city. I have chosen the National theatre light rail stop in Lagos Island as the site for my thesis. This is an underdeveloped area in close proximity to a cultural landmark that, with a new stop, is a viable location for redevelopment. Being a highly active port city, there is an overabundance of shipping containers abandoned on the streets as it is cheaper to keep them than to ship them back. Starting with a community center in the first phase of redevelopment, I have chosen to re-adapt these shipping containers for use in new construction. |
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Fourth Year San Francisco Urban Project
This project explores master planning and architectural design development of an underutilized Safeway location in San Francisco. It produces a framework for providing community amenities and various forms of inclusive and affordable housing, with costs being offset by the market-rate housing options on the site.
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Cale Tenarias
Fourth Year - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Study Abroad Project with Mikki Okamoto
This project is a resource center in San Miguel, focused on serving locals and indigehous community members, as we found that the town focused heavily on planning and providing for tourists and retirees. Serving as a place for community gatherings, showcasing art which is a large part of the community, access to techonological resources, and providing meeting spaces for community groups and non-profits.
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Brewery and Theatre
Third Year Winter-Spring Project
This project explores integrated design of a brewery and theatre in Minneapolis. During theatre off times, its front lobby is designed to serve as an indoor market space that can be utilized by community members for farmer's and craft markets. Its suspended bridge that serves as utility access to the brewery, also doubles as a pedestrian bridge providing visitors with uninterrupted views of the area over the cliff.
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Timeline
Third Year Fall Project
This project uses narration of climate change effects to guide visitors through the exhibits, going from past to potential futures, highlighting the good and bad results on humankind's interaction with the ocean. All of these exhibits cradle an amphitheater/tide pool that will be continuously lost to the ocean as sea level rise progresses.
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E-Learning Center
Second Year Spring
This project explores the use of the environment and experiential phenomena as tools for education. Using collaborative and varying scaled design to create spaces for intereaction and self exploration within learning spaces.
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