These are a series of projects that show the range of design work with reclaimed materials, such as pallets and vegetated assemblies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.