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about me

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professional work

photography

about me1

educationMASTERS OF ARCHITECTUREBall State Universitycertificate: business (in progress)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTUREBall State Universityminor: interior design

BALL STATE UNIVERSITYMuncie, IndianaGraduate Assistant + Collaborated with founder of ecoREHAB + Worked on construction site renovating house

arcDESIGNIndianapolis, IndianaArchitectural Intern + Created children’s play area for Greenwood Community Center + Produced details and construction documents for three Mainstreet Care Facilities + Redesigned Purdue McCutcheon Dorm bathroom tower

MSKTD & ASSOCIATES, INC.Indianapolis, IndianaArchitectural Intern + Developed schematic design presentation materials + Worked closely with coworkers on production of construction documents + Assisted with punch lists, cost analysis, and LEED certification

anticipated graduation May 2017

May 2014

January 2016 - present

August - December 2015

May 2014 -August 2015 May - August 2013

work experience

professional organizations

interests

ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICANorth Central High School, Indianapolis

USGBCLEED Green Associate

NCARB

CARDINAL LIFE YEARBOOKBall State University Campus Photographer & Column Writer

OMICRON DELTA KAPPA LEADERSHIP HONOR SOCIETYBall State University Chapter

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTSBall State University ChapterMidwest Quad Coordinator

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE SCHOLARSBall State University Chapter

ALPHA CHI OMEGAGamma Mu Chapter (Ball State University)VP Intellectual Development

August 2015 - present

April 2014 - present

May 2013 - present

September 2013 - May 2014

October 2012 - May 2014

August 2011 - present

January 2011 - May 2014

September 2010 - May 2014

photography + sustainability + graphic design + travel + figure skating + matryoska dolls + exploring new places + simplicity + organization + thinking + problem solving

computer skills

travel

titles & awards

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AutoCADRevit SketchUp Rhino

CAP AMERICANO SURBall State University + Traveled to Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru with a group of ten students and two professors to learn about the unique urban and social history of Latin Culture + Experienced interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural exchange, and the unique interaction of different cultures

May - June 2015

COMPETITION FINALIST College of Architecture and Planning

SECOND PLACE National Organization of Minority Architecture Students Competition

PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST WINNERCollege of Architecture and Planning

November 2013April 2013

October 2013

March 2012

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the connexion

UNDERGRADUATECripe Design Competition FinalistThe Connexion is a design solution in response to the revitalization of an abandoned railway elevated over Ozone Park in Queens, New York. The project invokes an industrial landscape into a post-industrial environment and works to revitalize the existing railway, while giving the community of Queens a link to their past. Driven by trans-programming, The Connexion is a design sensitive to the community, providing new communal spaces, as well as, redesigned existing ones. Two large elevators transport visitors up to the site, while a large ramp acts as an extension of the street and provides an alternative way up for bikers and pedestrians. A series of modules on the south end of the site offer the community a dynamic event space for markets, musical performances, and exercise programs. Merging past and current ideas, The Connexion creates a space for cultures, communities, and components to come together and define what Queens is really about.

Team Project

The Connexion links together cultures, communities, and components through the innovative and well thought out use of reusable materials that would have otherwise been thrown out. Old train cars are transformed into movable and interchangable market spaces for various vendors. Excess wood from the train tracks is given new life as a walking and biking path. Refurbished steel is celebrated through new structures to provide shade and circulation opportunities.

collage

UNDERGRADUATEEstopinal Design Competition FinalistSanta Monica has a very rich culture, full of people with unique beliefs and traditions. Even though the area has a very diverse blend of social classes, the citizens live and work together as one entity. This diversity is showcased throughout the city with its art and architecture. Since people value the collage that is Santa Monica, the project focuses on representing this unique blend. The site has two destinations at either end: the beach and the city. The bridge draws people into both destinations by creating views to both the beach and the city.

To emphasis the collage, the structural system is a mess of steel, overlapping in an organized chaos, similarly to coal mine tipples. To further celebrate the use of steel, it is painted to display how steel is used both structurally and sculpturally. The steel structure crawls onto the beach and the city cliff, encouraging people to circulate through it. The floor slabs were built into the steel frame, rather than building the frame around the floor slabs. The steel structure encompasses the program and brings it to life.

Team Project

This landmark encompasses diverse elements in an unexpected juxtaposition. Rather than separating the pavilion and the bridge, they have been combined into one unified entity to further the community created in Santa Monica. The program is not targeted towards one class of people, but rather invites all economic levels to use the spaces. They have been left open to allow a variety of programs to take place. Each level has its own character as to what sort of activities could take place. The top level reveals more sunlight, enabling the growth of vegetation and outdoor activities, such as sun bathing and playing.

The bottom level has the largest square footage, allowing for larger events such has street vendors, performances, and receptions. Running between these 2 levels is the main circulation path, which connects to the top of the cliff and provides views to the city, the beach, and the levels below and above it. Pedestrians, bicyclists, skate boarders, and rollerbladers can take advantage of this path to get down to the beach level by taking the elevator. Nightlife activities can also take place on the bridge. Colored lighting around the sails enhances the sculptural quality of the steel and provides a sense of security.

net zero house

UNDERGRADUATEThe goal of the Net Zero House was to balance energy consumption and energy production, focusing on efficient energy-producing systems, high-performing building envelopes, a surplus of energy production and a reduction of energy demands. During times when the house produces more energy than it consumes, such as a sunny summer afternoon, the surplus energy goes back to the electrical grid for others to use. However, when the house requires more energy than it can produce, such as during a cold winter night, energy is pulled from the utility grid to supplement any on-site production. Ideally, a surplus of energy produced will mitigate any consumption of energy from the grid.

Team Project

Extensive energy analysis was a driving factor in the overall design. Several modifications were implemented to improve the insulated value of the roof, walls, and window forms. Furthermore, by extending the overall length of the southern roof, we were not only able to utilize more solar panels, ultimately generating more energy, but also provide more shading to the southern elevation, minimizing solar heat gain.

The linear form of the house is intended to be very simplistic. By separating the living spaces from the utility spaces, the house creates a simpler form that is easier to walk through, allowing for a freedom in how the open spaces are used. It was important to the principles of the design that the house was accessible to people of all ages and capabilities. We designed for this by implementing wider hallways, a downstairs and upstairs bathroom, and a flexible first-floor space that can be utilized as an accessible bedroom.

localmotion

UNDERGRADUATENOMAS Design Competition - 2nd placeLocalMotion is a thematic conceptual response to a proposal for a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) located on the site which formerly housed the Monon roundhouse and turntable and now lies in the midst of a severely distressed community plagued by physical, social, economic, and institutional abandonment. The design concept facilitates opportunity and movement through multiple perspectives within the site as well as the surrounding King Park and Martindale/Brightwood neighborhoods in Indianapolis. The social construction of space encourages positive movement by directing the community toward economic prosperity, a balanced state of social welfare, greater environmental awareness, social unity, and stronger connections with the greater community. Such revitalization efforts often result in gentrification based on the social construction of race; however, Urban Design principles have been effectively applied to enhance the physical environment, improve overall quality of life, promote healing, and mitigate displacement of existing neighborhood residents. Group Project

24th Street

Urban Farm

Multi-Family Housing Theater

Mixed Use Transit

Hub

Grocery Market CommunityGardens

Library

Visitor’s Center

Single-FamilyHousing

Monon Trail

28thStreet

Monon Light Rail

Mac Pherson Ave

Winthrop Ave

25thStreet

SUSTAINABLE ELEMENTS

Solar Power

LED Lighting

Wind Energy

Water Collection

Passive Heating & Cooling

Carbon Sequestration

Recycled Materials

Green Roof

Native Plants

Natural Light

The implementation of sustainable systems considered many viable possibilities: water management systems, aquaponics, passive solar arrays, thermal mass studies, and geothermal energy systems. This grand gesture maximizes local climatic conditions through building orientation, material selection, and lighting techniques. These ideals are made manifest in a vast visual vocabulary of environmental common sense: roof gardens, vertical farming systems, urban garden plots, water collection storage

and filtration techniques, and the general respect for the thermal mass of the entire design. Evoking unity came in the form of a multifaceted solution by creating a community core within the site, promoting a sense of common ownership, fostering a renewed feeling of personal responsibility, and transforming the site into a node all aligned with a central design mentality. The Monon Trail serves as the key vertebral element interconnecting a triumvirate of components including a residential zone, civic zone, and a mixed-use zone.

beauty is freedom

UNDERGRADUATEWhat is the difference between something that is cool and something that is beautiful? How can we determine what is beautiful in architecture, and how can we create it through our own experience? The city of Denver has a very unique feature-the dominance of the Rocky Mountains. Words cannot explain the feeling of being on top of a mountain 11,000 feet in the air. After experiencing the compact lifestyle of the city and the flexibility of the mountains, the ultimate goal of this project was to intertwine them. The challenge is to bring the freedom of the Rockies to the density of Denver to an apartment complex with commercial spaces on the ground plane and a separate architecture firm all within a currently vacant block of space.

Individual Project

The inspiration for the building’s form came after hiking through the Rocky Mountains. Daniel Libeskind’s Denver Art Museum was also inspired from the Rocky Mountains, but produced a much different result. The mountains are natural, and the art museum is not. When standing on top of the Rockies, I felt free. I could walk around and didn’t feel like I was on a tip about to fall off, as mountains can sometimes be perceived. The art museum is jagged and does not resemble the freedom of movement. Libeskind got his inspiration while flying into Denver and looking down on the mountains, whereas my inspiration is coming from actually being in the mountains and experiencing them - the textures, the colors, and the seclusion.

Nature is always a million times better than anything we produce, so we should be designing around its influences. The beauty of the Rockies consists of five elements:

no limitsconnection to naturedefthe journey uprelationship to the sky

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Facade line work resembles how trees spontaneously grow in the mountains and create views out.

Every window is unique, making the user’s view to the city an individual experience with a different framed view in each living unit. No two views are the same in the Rockies, so the views in this project have the same advantage.

All vertical circulation is transparent so the journey up the building is just as fascinating and interesting as the destination.

Unique balcony spaces encourage neighbors to interact and also provide large and spacious views to the city. Working with dimensions created a variety of “look outs”.

The form of the building evolved from stacking different units in different combinations. Each way of stacking and grouping the units created unique spaces and forms. This system creates a modular structure yet each different section of the building is unique.

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student cafe

ARCHITECTURAL INTERNMSKTD had the opportunity to renovate Purdue University’s Engineering Buildings. Purdue wanted a multi-use space where students and staff could purchase food and drink, work on assignments, and meet up with each other. I faced the challenge of creating a modern and functional space that could provide all of these amenities while still being able to withstand the heavy circulation paths that cut through the area.

This particular engineering building is the same building where Purdue recently had a student pass away as a result of a school shooting. Purdue and MSTKD have worked together to renovate the majority of the building to help give it a fresh new look to try to help remove the memories of that day.

Individual Project

healing roof garden

ARCHITECTURAL INTERNIndiana University Health’s Women’s Hospital in Carmel, Indiana requested a Healing Retreat for their 4th Floor Roof Garden. I was given the task of designing various options based on their needs. They requested such things as a children’s play area, dining space, and multiple seating zones. I initially produced four alternatives for them to draw ideas from and based on their feedback, was in charge of developing the project even further. Twelve different designs were produced over a period of 2 years, drawing ideas from client feedback, on-site meetings, and adjusting designs based off of cost restrictions. The client also wanted a way for patients and sponsoring companies to help fund the project through materials that coud be donated and dedicated in the space. Items such as engravable bricks and donated benches are a part of the garden. Shown here is the final design.

Team Project

North Hospital

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The schematic design of this project was done entirely in SketchUp. Once the client was satisfied with the final design, we moved into Revit to produce construction documents.

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ice building

ARCHITECTURAL INTERNReid Hospital purchased an old Ruby Tuesday building to convert into a Medical Office Building. I was given the opportunity to design facade resurfacing options and a new entrance. The building was completely gutted and we were left with the challenge of adapting the existing structure to fit the new MOB requirements, and to redo the exterior to fit the “Reid look.”

While this building may not seem like the most exciting or architecturally magnificent structure, it is important to my career because I produced the majority of the design and construction documents by myself. Since the building was an abandoned restaurant renovated into a medical office building, site verification of the existing structure and changes made to it were crucial to the design process. While my coworkers guided me in the process, I was able to develop the entire CD set for the building. The experience of working through a CD set from beginning to end taught me to produce thorough and understandable documentation of drawings.

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hospice care facility

ARCHITECTURAL INTERNReid Hospital in Richmond, Indiana identified the need of a multi-million dollar hospice cabin building. Reid Hospital currently owns a large site across the street from their hospital where the building is to be built. Currently a heavily wooded area, the building will be located in the woods, essentially giving patients a cabin feeling. Because of the nature of this type of facility, the goal of the project is to make the patients and their families not feel like they are in a hospital environment. Tall ceilings, exposed wooden beams, spacious rooms and a garden area all work together to help create a calm environment.

Team Project

ReidHospital

The clients requested a grand entry similar to the feeling of a hotel check-in, 14 beds, designated family zones, and an out patient care office area.

The outdoor garden area design was delegated to me. I provided the client with three very different options to see what approach they wanted to take. Ultimately price played the biggest role in their decision and the scale of the outdoor garden space had to downsize.

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greenwood community center

ARCHITECTURAL INTERNThe Greenwood Community Center is in desperate need of renovation, as it is outdated and unappealing. The main users are currently elderly retired people who come to play pool. While the center does not want to push the seniors out, they want to provide new activities that will appeal to all age groups. The goal of the renovation is to draw citizens downtown, become an all season destination, and provide a variety of programming for different demographic groups. My main focus while working on this project was on the kid’s zone. I had the freedom of designing the outdoor musical playground, interactive play walls, life size building blocks, a children’s play kitchen, and bendable seaweed type poles for kids to run through and climb on. When working with a group of professional adults, having to think like a child creates a new yet exciting set of design challenges.

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jungle

+ceiling to mimic being under the canopy of the trees+climbing pads to look like leaves

outer space

+outer space ceiling with twinkling lights+planets hanging down from ceiling+floor design with layers of Earth’s crust

bug’s life

+scenery to feel like kids are shrunken down to bug size +at a picnic with giant food sculptures

under the sea

+bubbles come out of coral reef+ceiling under water with ship hull+shark with open mouth to climb in+have real salt water fish tank

The ideas shown are themed scenes I brainstormed and presented to fit into the designated kid’s zone. The final tenative design we ended up using leans more towards the under water theme, but is generic enough that the community center can change out some of the toys and murals in the future. We want the overall space to be fun, interactive, and inspirational.

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Indianapolis, Indiana Toronto, Canada

Seattle, Washington

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Chicago, Illinois Montevideo, Uruguay

Machu Picchu, Peru

Iguazu Falls, Argentina Gatlinburg, Tennessee

La Paz, Bolivia

Muncie, Indiana Santa Cruz, Bolivia

the more you use, the more you have.

you can’t use up creativity.

maya angelou