Education2009 - 2011 M. Arch Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

2004 - 2008B.A. Arch University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

Professional Experience2012Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, New Orleans, La.DesignerNew Orleans East HospitalNew Orleans Adolescent HospitalNew Orleans ArenaCommerce Building Apartments, Baton Rouge

2008Foundation For Advanced Architecture, Lexington, Ky.Construction, restoration and renovation of Jose Oubrerie’s Miller House

Guyon Architects, Lexington, Ky.Intern Architect, developed renderings and drawings

2007University of KentuckyPence Hall Library Designer/Construction, conference room, storage, and media center

2006FutureProof, LLC, New Orleans, La.Publication drawings, renderings

Digital SkillsDrafting - AutoCAD, Revit 2013Modeling - Rhinoceros 5.0Rendering - V Ray for RhinocerosGraphic - Adobe CS5Etc - Microsoft Office

Analog SkillsAble to quickly produce detailed sketches and models, as well as quality drafted drawings and renderings.

Academic Experience2009- 2011Virginia Tech, Dr. Hilary BryonGraduate Assistant, assisted in research and documentation

2010Workshop Instructor, ‘distilling ideas through collage’Foundation Studio, Virginia Tech

2007Henderson Studio, Lexington,Ky., Henderson, Ky., and Los Angeles,Ca.University of Kentucky in collaboration with SCI ArcResearch and Stimulus Plan for Henderson, Ky

2006KNOA Studio, New Orleans, La.Pro Bono Park RedevelopmentResearch, Working Documents, and Procured City Funding for Markey Park

Awards and Honors2007Key to the City of New Orleans (with KNOA Studio)Pella Memorial ScholarshipFirst Place, University of Kentucky Bus Stop Competition

2006Digital Media in Architecture ScholarshipUK Architecture Alumni Scholarship

2005FIrst-Year Architecture AwardGodsey and Associates Architecture Scholarship

2004St. James Court ScholarshipDean of the School of Architecture Entering Undergraduate Scholarship

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4 X 4 HOUSEBlacksburg, Virginia

The house sits in a hillside.

It is carved out of a cubic 4 x 4 grid system in both plan and section. The grid is defi ned in the basement, dissolving but still apparent in the main fl oor, and broken in the third fl oor through a twisting motion. The main fl oor is a tube of light. To the north lies a wide view down the hill towards slumped mountains, to the south a walled garden with a small pond. It contains all of the social spaces. The space is centered around a large winter hearth. In the warmer months the front window wall can be opened, transforming the living space into a front porch.The fl oor below is dark and spare. It contains a garage and serves as the cluttered dresser drawer for the house, a place to put things out of the way. All of the odds and ends go here. On top of the light tube is a village of four houses- three for living, and one for the stairs and books. The houses are clus-tered around a pinwheel courtyard open to the sky, focused around the hearth that springs from the lower levels. Each of the houses in the village has its own four walls and a roof.

From far away the house appears as a whole icon, disinte-grating as one comes closer. The roofl ine becomes fragment-ed as each house in the village asserts itself. With the pitching of the roof, the project both breaks its cubic construct and becomes part of the suburban context.

MIGRANT FARM WORKER HOUSINGHarrodsburg, Kentucky

This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The complex deals with ar-chitecture’s relationship to place and community while provid-ing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex deals with place through a connection to the regional built context while creating a new formal typology. By externally revealing programmatic relationships through massing and allowing in-dividual housing units to assert themselves within the collec-tive, the complex becomes an interconnected housing cluster that is neither house nor barn. It instead imparts the image of a small village or settlement, an image of community.

MARKEY PARK REDESIGNNew Orleans, Louisiana

A Park Formed By ShadeThe park plays on the relationship between lights and shades of various intensities, and the activities that take place in light and shade. The physical activities are centered around sunlight and flourescent light, while leisure activities are centered around shade.The existing trees create a reversal of the traditional courtyard space- the private interior space has becomethe public interior space as people gather around the shade.

Markey Park was named after the proprietor of Markey’s Bar, Micky Markey, who originally owned the land and gave it as a gift to the Bywater neighborhood in New Orleans. Once a lively park, it fell into disrepair after Hurricane Katrina.KNOA Studio, as a collective, designed and aquired funding for the new park.The program park is determined by five existing live oaks, which provide much needed shade to its users. The park draws from the local tradition of courtyards, and in our design for the park we split the courtyard into two types- the courtyards that exist in the day, within the park, and the courtyards that exist at night, situated on the periphery of the park for safety.

Credits: Phase 1- Jason Richards, Tony Shiber, Ashley Beardsley, Caleb SearsPhase 2- KNOA Studio Pavilion

Exterior Courtyards

FRUIT BOWL

Constructed from a single sheet of quarter inch Plexiglas, the platform becomes manifest through a series of cuts, per-forations, and folds. The order of the manipulations of the plane lies in direct relationship to the manufacturing process. The bowl exists as a structural total, with the legs, expan-sive wings, and raised dais providing the basic functions of fruit containment by lifting the fruit off the ground and limiting movement of fruit to the zones within the platform.

Cuts Cuts produce secondary and tertiary planes operating within the boundaries of the primary plane.

Perforations Tiny diamond voids move the mass of the bowl towards the center, allowing the wings to extend further and the bowl to contain more fruit.

Folds Folding the plane transforms a one-dimensional drawing into a volume, creating a platform that contains the fruit.

Sketchbook