These are a series of projects that show the range of design work with reclaimed materials, such as pallets and vegetated assemblies.
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Sustainable Blacksburg
This was the category winner for full pallet reuse. Pallet were salvaged from a variety of sources in assembled into a larger deck and planter system for abandoned urban lots.
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Mountain Cabin Renovation
Using the existing foundations and only hand-labor to protect the current forest conditions, a series of cabins was designed for summer programs at Mountain Lake Biological Station.
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Phone Mono Speaker Holders
The phone holders were made from excess material from a full-scale construction project using wood panels, deck screws, gusset plates and 2×6 dimensional lumber scraps.
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Pandapas Park Ranger Station
A Capsule design of a ranger station and visitor center for a local national park with a focus on the threshold as a path between the forest surrounding the pond at the waterline.
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Solar Garage
The Solar Garage is a full-scale test of the prototype section designed and based on the Mountain Lake Cabin Thesis at the Research and Demonstration Facility at Virginia Tech.
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Local Nature and Architecture Studies
A series of drawings and small analytiques in watercolor, prisma marker, and graphite focusing on the local flora, fauna and residences of Blacksburg, Virginia.
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200 Church Avenue SE
Located in downtown Roanoke, this mixed use structure focused on the threshold between the surface and underground and the role light plays in this transition.
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Aging in Place Community
Designed as a focus studio for Friendship Retirement Community looking at the process of gracefully aging in place using expandable unit homes and modular vegetated roofs.
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation
A series of structures comprising a research center in Virginia Beach for educating the next generation of environmentalists including a fully suspended office structure.
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Prototyping a Section
A temporary bus stop designed by combining two group projects from the Sustainable Blacksburg Competition to test potential stations for Blacksburg Transit.