ARCH402_conert hall

_the program
A 500 seat concert hall, club and event spaces for the Academy, rehearsal and dressing rooms and an attached music store. The tripartite parti uses the lobby and the theatre as the spaces in which the performers and audience interact. In the lobby, the program is inverted, as the green room looks across at the stairs, which then become both stage and circulation. From the upper lobby, the audience engages the performers across the no-man's-land of the triple height space lobby below. In the hall itself, the rigid edge of the parti is broken as both audience and performer spaces slide into the no-man's-land, creating a moment of convergence and shared experience.

_the site
Roma, Italy

ARCH401_solar pavilion

_the program
Fit living space for four students into some combination of a 20'x20'x20' and a 10'x10'x10' cube. The building should be
expressive of and responsive to the climate in which it is sited.

_the site
Everglades, FL

_the solution
A series of horizontal and vertical planes create overhangs and fins on the south and west facades to shade the building during the hot summer months. The vertical plans, positioned parallel the the prevailing winds, act as funnels to increase and direct ventilation throughout the building as well as frame a dynamic entry sequence.

ARCH400_postoffice

_the program
As the most visible and publicly interactive arm of the US government, the post office has a unique place in our culture. This design creates a place of convergence between the patrons and the employees with repeated and offset echoes of forms and spaces. A sacred wall that forms the boundary between public and private is transposed, "dragging" the counter, blurring the private/public threshold and creating a shared space in which employees and patrons can interact. The program also consists of event spaces and public galleries, both of which serve and engage the local community.

_the site
College Park, MD