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New Pedestrian Passage, Leesburg, VA

Hampstead Village Square, Charleston, SC

A proposal for infill development in Charleston's Eastside neighborhood. Shops are at ground level facing a covered south-facing sidewalk.  The apartments above all have porches and face the square.

Memminger Elementary School, Charleston, SC

The design for this elementary school is informed by both traditional architectural and traditional urban design principles. Designed with Charleston’s sub-tropical climate in mind, the plan is broken up into component parts such that rooms have as many windows facing different directions as possible in order to catch the breeze, an architectural solution found throughout Charleston. Whereas the current building has inoperable windows, making the building uninhabitable without constant air-conditioning, this proposal has our post-cheap-oil future in mind and makes use of operable shutters, shade from balconies, open courtyards, and covered walkways. The new school creates and faces a new public square to the east, Memminger Square.

Center for the Study of Traditional Architecture, Charleston, SC

Two proposals for a new architecture school for the corner of Meeting and George Streets in Charleston's Historic Districts. The first scheme provides a Hall of Architectural Review on the corner and porches facing a garden; the second scheme has two colonnaded entrances into a centralized courtyard. Both would be built of masonry and stucco.

A New Transit Hub, Charleston, SC

A hypothetical transportation hub in Charleston, with program totaling over 63,000 sqft.  including a light-rail train station and its associated concourse, ticketing room, staff offices, café, etc., a public meeting hall, a bicycle center (repair, rentals, lockers), 14,000 sqft. of office space, 8,000 sqft. of retail space, and covered, public storage for 116 bicycles.

We divided the program into two main blocks, one created by two buildings which together make up the bike storage and some of the commercial component, the other made of the rail terminal, offices, and more commercial space. A small public square is created between the bike storage and the rail terminal.

Grant’s Court, Charleston, SC

The inner-block court is an urban typology which has traditionally been found up and down the peninsula of Charleston. It is an excellent model for providing small single-family houses in a dense, garden-like setting. This plan proposes to re-establish one such inner-block settlement, which had fallen into disrepair, and almost completely disappeared after the city’s cross-town expressway cut a destructive swath through this once-thriving African American neighborhood.

A New Neighborhood in Charleston's Historic District Westside Neighborhood, Charleston, SC