College Work

The projects in this section were completed during my time in college at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The focus of the projects is mentioned in the project description. My role in each project also varied depending on the project assignment.

Architectural Graphics 1 Final

This was the final project for my very first architecture class at Pennsylvania College of Technology. We had to design our dream house and build a 3D model of the house we designed.

Building Materials Model

This was a 3D model that we had to construct with a partner while we learned about different building materials that are commonly used in residential construction.

Residential Working Drawings

In Residential Working Drawings, we reproduced the main sheets of a carriage house provided by the professor using AutoCAD. The sheets included the garage (first floor) plan, the living quarters (second floor), all four elevations, a building section, wall sections, and a few details.

Site Design Reproduction

This was a project in which the teacher gave us a image of a floor plan for us to reproduce. The image on the left is the original and my version of it is on the right.

Three Part Site Reproduction

This project was a three part project to reproduction of an existing site plan. We started by reproducing the site plan in black and white. Then for the second part of the assignment, we added color to the drawing. The last part was to build a model of the site.

Klump Academic Center Patio

In our Sophomore design class, our first major project was to redesign the entrance to one of the buildings on campus. The existing entrance has one ramp to the side that is kind of difficult to maneuver in a wheelchair. Due to deterioration from winter weather, the stairs and some of the other materials were falling apart. Since they were planning to redo the entry, we got a chance to design the entrance patio.

Carl Building Technologies Center Entrance

In our Sophomore design class, we also had a chance to designed a new entrance to the Carl Building Technologies Center on campus. This project was to make a more aesthetic entrance to the building and figure out how to increase the comfort in that hallway. The existing doors let air into the hallway when closed so during the winter that hallway is freezing cold.

Trade & Transit Parking Entry Portal

Another project from our Sophomore design class was part of larger design project being completed by the city of Williamsport. The larger project was the construction of a new bus terminal and a parking lot. We were tasked with designing a structure to delineate the parking lot entrance.

Rhinoceros House

Rhinoceros is a 3D modeling and animation program that I learned as an elective. We used floor plans, sections, and elevations from AutoCAD to create the renderings of this house.

Rhinoceros Interior

In the Rhinoceros class, we also had to duplicate a commercial interior space. We had to create each element from the original image to the best of our ability. The only thing we were allowed to bring in as components were trees and vegetation.

Commercial Working Drawings

In Commercial Working Drawings, we used Revit to reproduce and learn about the sheets that create a set of construction drawings. The building we used was actually built by our professor's architectural firm a few years before the class.

Passive Design Residence

Our Junior design class was all about using passive design strategies. This was our final project for that class. As a class we were given a new development and each person had to design a house on two adjoining lots assigned by the professor. As my main source of heating for the winter months, I used a thermosiphon. A thermosiphon captures the heat from the sun and stores it in a chamber under the house which allows the warm air to enter the house and then the cool air gets cycled back through the chambers.

Mantua & Belmont Project

In our Sustainable Sites class, our final project was to work with a group to improve the Mantua & Belmont areas of Philadelphia. We proposed changing a few of the streets to make them more walkable and aesthetic in hopes that it would help the rest of the community improve over time. We also wanted to hide the existing railroad so we proposed they be placed underground. The streets we chose to improve appeared to have had the most vacant lots and also impacted the majority of the community. Along with the walkable streets, we also proposed a new route for buses that would provide new easily assessable bus stop locations. The sketches are from one of the other group members and are used to help show what we had in mind for the streets we made more walkable.

London Daycare Center

Our Junior year design class was all about sustainable small commercial design. This was a group project in which we created a daycare for children in London, England. We had a few restrictions that we had to abide by including limiting it to one floor and not exceeding a certain height. We incorporated multiple sustainable strategies including green roofs, photovoltaic panels, solar hot water panels, and stack effect windows for passive ventilations.

Stockholm Modern Library

Our Senior year design class was focused on medium size commercial projects. This was a group project in which we had to design a modern library in Stockholm. My group and I created the exterior to look like books standing up. The façade has biodynamic cement panels that help to clean the air. The interior space was designed to help the community by providing them a space that they can learn. We used a lot of glazing, photovoltaic panels, the exterior façade, shading fins on the southern glazing, rooftop gardens, and a skylight over the stairway to allow natural light into the center of the building.