Resume

Community Center

Date: Spring 2003, Second Year Interior Design Undergraduate Studio
Project: Design a community center that includes an art gallery, spinning area, farmers’ market, and poetry/ music space.
Concept: Reverberations of music translated into continuous corroded metal elements that tie the spaces together.

Chaise Lounge

Date: Fall 2004, Fourth Year Undergraduate Furniture Design
Project: Design and manufacture an original piece of furniture.
Materials: Bent plywood, rosewood veneer, fasteners

Sunshade House

Date: Spring 2008, Second Year Graduate Architecture Studio
Project: Propose a house for the Solar Decathlon competition. Locate the house on the Tennessee River in Knoxville, TN.
Concept: Several different levels and types of operable shading devices provide various degrees of shade throughout the day and year.

Path, Plaza, and Park

Date: Spring 2009, Third Year Graduate Architecture Thesis

Project: A series of multifunctional spaces at World’s Fair Park, Knoxville, including a coffee/ newspaper cafe, flexible market stalls, bar/performance venue, and new pedestrian bridges.
Concept: Flexible architecture that physically changes to respond to different user needs, weather conditions, etc., tied together by a visually continuous ribbon of glowing acrylic to draw people from downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods into the park on a regular basis.