Hydro Electric

This project was one of my most interesting so far as a graduate student.  We began the quarter picking out an infrastructure that we would like to work with then redeveloped an element of it.  I chose electric transmission lines and narrowed in on distribution substations.  Something I noticed is the excess of land at most substations and the potential that land could have within the city.  My project is very theoretical and I had a lot of freedom to be creative with it, so I took that opportunity to the fullest.
The design is to use the excess space at substations and create a park that would increase activity of local residents as well as create energy going directly into the grid.  Energy would be created by: when people used the exercise equipment, water would be pumped to the top of this 'water tower', once the tower reached a certain capacity, the water would drop, creating electricity through hydro power.

1st Year Design Studio

As one of my first projects in the architecture program at Kent State University, we worked mostly in model. The project was to create a museum within certain parameters of a section of a city block.

2nd Year Design Project

This project is from my 2nd year studio, sited in Cleveland Ohio.  The program is set primarily for SRO housing and market space, designed so that people living within the facility are able to work in the market to establish a steady income.

Building Axonometric

Exploded Axonometric of housing units

Model - Roof Plan

Model Images

3rd Year Design Project

This project is from the Fall of my 3rd year of architecture at Kent State University.  The site consists of 30 acres, set in Willoughby Hills, OH. and has a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home on the property.  The Chagrin River runs through the site which led to a lot of research of watershed conditions and site typologies I had never dealt with.  These are just a few images I have of the project, renderings are done with PrismaColor Markers.  This was my first project working with these markers. This project definitely got me hooked on landscape architecture and marker renderings!

Frank Lloyd Wright Penfield house

Entrance/Spa Pavilion Plan

Private Spa Pavilion Plan

Iteration of Educational Amphitheater Plan

Educational Amphitheater Plan

Educational Market - Senior Year Architecture

This is a project from Fall quarter of my senior year of architecture at Kent State University.  The site is an existing parking lot in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, PA.  Program elements are market(yellow), agricultural garden(blue), and educational facilities(purple + pink).  My section and perspectives are definitely over activated with people which I have learned to tone down over the past few years. Great site and project for one of my final architecture studios!

Programmatic Axonometric

Building Section

Entrance Perspective

Agricultural Garden Perspective

Sketches from Italy

Calatrava Bridge - Venice

Duomo - Florence

Cathedral - Milan

San Miniato - Florence

Florence

Graffiti Park

This is a perspective image and some sections from my first studio in graduate school.  My design was to create a graffiti park where artists could come and display their art freely.

Getting Started

I want to use this blog to showcase projects from both school and my free time.  Any feedback would be great to help me improve designs and other skills.
My design background is in architecture, having a bachelors of science from Kent State University and presently, I am attending The Ohio State University for a masters in landscape architecture.