2020 Projects

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Women and Children's Health Hub
Reyes, Katie; Hamilton, Kirk; Ma, Ping; Mann, George; Haliburton, James
There is a unique relationship between nature, health, and architecture. I believe that architecture if designed to do so may aid to elevate people’s physical and mental health. Similarly, nature has been proven to reduce an individual’s stress, restore attention, and allow the body to heal at an increased rate than in its absence. Architecture if designed intentionally may foster this relationship that people have with nature (Wilson,1984, Biophilia)Thus, becoming an aspect that may aid in the healing process. Architecture that is designed to heal.
FRAME: an Aging Community for All-Age[s]
Liao, Eric Wen; Ali, Ahmed K.; Pentecost, Ray; Lee, Chanam; Haliburton, James
The project's name is FRAME. The idea is to frame the important activities, frame your loved ones, and frame the special moments of life. The project is an aging community for all ages located in Taichung, Taiwan. When I was doing my internship in Taiwan in the summer of 2019, I came across a project that is building on this site. Its idea is to build a village surrounded by mountains to bring people closer to nature for better health. I saw this as a good opportunity to have an aging community built at this nature site. This way, the nature property of the site and the green surrounding can benefit the health of the seniors.
La Grange Community Resource Center
Bock, Britany; Tripp, Andrew; O'Brien, Michael; Ali, Ahmed K.; Van Zandt, Shannon; Holliday, Ray
A natural disaster can hit anywhere and any time. When a community prepares through the use of disaster mitigation, it enables a community to be resilient in the face of adversity. Architecture can play a key role in the mitigation process by facilitating support and designing in meaningful ways that integrate emergency shelters into communities in a seamless fashion. Resource centers can be used in a multitude of ways that can benefit a town all year round. This complex combines housing, outdoor spaces, a learning center, a recreation center, and a resource based building in the rural town, La Grange, Texas. The program of the complex was developed to adapt their city to promote disaster relief and mitigation, as well as, stimulate the local economy, culture, and resident engagement. The process of combining all of the facilities in one site enables not only full access by the community, but also forms a space that can be rented out to generate an income.
Fred Turner Agriculture Museum
Calvin, Sara; Jain, Priya; Fortenberry, Brent; Winslow, Jane; Holliday, Ray
This project arose out of a visit to the Museum of the Southwest where I noticed a need. The house museum and library simply didn't have enough space to display all the pieces they had acquired throughout the years. The large majority of these pieces were agriculture and ranching related so the idea to design a museum specific to these interests was a natural fit. After this decision the next question that needed to be addressed is how to design a new building that relates to the existing buildings on campus. This was a challenge that took a lot of thought and deliberation, especially considering the campus was already made up of a variety of building designs and styles. The Fred Turner, Jr. Agriculture museum strives to integrate the exterior design with the material the museum highlights. With these thoughts in mind I researched agriculture and tried to find aspects of the industry that would translate into design features of the building. From this I landed upon the idea of designing features that would represent the four elements that are crucial to the agriculture industry; earth, water, wind and fire.
The Vertical City
McMahan, Joshua; Borges, Alejandro; Aitani, Koichiro; Newman, Galen; Holliday, Shelley; Haliburton, James; Rogers, Julie
The Vertical City was a project meant to reexamine the role of skyscrapers within the urban environment. Rather than seeing skyscrapers as just another low to mid-rise building placed within the context of the city, the Vertical City sought to explore what would happen if the skyscraper was treated as a vertical extension of the city itself. While many skyscrapers have taken approaches to change how the skyscraper is integrated within a city, most skyscrapers are inaccessible to the average urban pedestrian. Not in that you can’t enter them, but rather, they are meant to be utilized only for the patrons who rent space within the building. As such, most skyscrapers don’t have the same feeling of belonging that your local coffee shop might. While part of the reason for this stems from the monumentality of a skyscraper, that conception is often born from the notion that skyscrapers are representations of major corporations and thus have no place for the individual wanting to simply relax and read or grab a coffee. In order to overcome this, a different approach was taken that developed the skyscraper with the concept of a vertical city in mind. This came down to three main design aspects: urban approach, vertical purpose, and green infusion. All three elements were derived from components that make up great cities and would be developed utilizing concepts for good city design. Urban approach is a concept meant to reconfigure the transition from the horizontal plane of the city to the vertical plane of the skyscraper. While both the infrastructure of the skyscraper and the streets of the city serve as a way to travel from one point to another, there is a stark difference in the sense of community that each one provides. Utilizing an urban approach to infrastructure design would help mediate this difference and help create a stronger sense of connection within the building. Vertical purpose stems from the concept that cities need a variety of business, commercial, and residential in close proximity in order to flourish. By doing so, it allows for a variety of pedestrian traffic throughout the day making the city feel alive and helping smaller businesses that give a city its character stay open. Green infusion refers to the concept of green community space. Most great cities have a variety of parks and green spaces for the community to meet up, relax, and spend part of their day. As such, it is important that those “moments” occur throughout the skyscraper. While this element alone doesn’t result in a vertical city, the culmination of all of these concepts create the essence of a vertical city. While more of a conceptual project, steps were taken in order to make this new design more feasible. With innovative design often come new costs and so it is important to consider the economics of the project. This was done by designing in such a way that new elements would serve multiple purposes thus reducing costs and giving credence to any new design elements.
Garden of Displaced Roots
Joseph, Neethi; Pentecost, Ray; Tate, James Michael; Brown, Robert; Haliburton, James
The Garden of Displaced Roots creates an affordable agro-based community accessible to underprivileged and disenfranchised segments of society because they were formerly incarcerated. The project hybridizes living and working programs organized in a fluid manner. The project serves as a vital platform to focus on the necessities like shelter and food over the nations of luxuries.
The ONEdermental Center: A New Pattern for Aging Living
Lang, Shiduo; Pentecost, Ray; Zhu, Xuemei; Huang, Chang-shan; Gibbs, Brian
Create, on 7.5 acres in Mueller, places that provide flexibility to adapt to changes in lifestyle, climate, transportation and employment. Define a prototype for the next 50 years. Make the space attractive, affordable, innovative, and sustainable. Provide incubator space to experiment and test different models for living, creating, and doing business. Provide a model that can be adapted to meet the challenges of any location in the world (ONEderment Central, Preston Tyree, 2019). The 7.5 acres will be divided into four parts each with a different function to serve different generations, including, but not limited, to aging adults, children, and younger adults. The main focus of my project is an aging living facility, short term living, and a community house.
Hughes Springs Early College
Rodriguez, Juan; Borges, Alejandro; Aitani, Koichiro; Newman, Galen; Holliday, Ray
Designing a school for the well-being of everyone, from faculty to students, can be a struggle. However, at a site like Hughes Springs, you can do so by taking advantage of all that the town has to offer. The town is known for its strong community, pleasing natural scenes, and hospitality towards visitors. But how can a school bring all of those great attributes together? This school encourages everyone to use the outdoors. There are plenty of great spaces for all to use with a great amount of naturistic scenes. It encourages visitors in the space to communicate with those who use the school. The mind of a small school happens to be connected with its small town through its ways of living and the knowledge passed down from person to person. The school gives an abundant amount of spaces for people to converse and connect in order to share ideas and encourage the younger generation to achieve greater goals.
Equine Rehabilitation Center
White, Heather; Aitani, Koichiro; Heird, James C.; Holliday, Shelley; Holliday, Ray
Traditional architecture focuses on human comfort and convenience. Equine architecture targets the health, safety, and wellbeing of the horse and their handlers. The Equine Rehabilitation Center has been designed to bring comfort and to meet the special needs of the horse as they complete the rehabilitation program customized specifically for them. The Equine Rehabilitation Center is located in Lexington, Kentucky. Also known as the "horse capital of the world." The region is home to about 450 horse farms as well as Keeneland, the world's largest thoroughbred auction house. It is believed that Kentucky's hills are filled with limestone whilst the bluegrass is rich in calcium. This is believed to build strong bones in horses. When designing an equine facility, several considerations should be addressed such as sound, insulation, maintenance, durability, safety, and appearance. Steel frame construction is commonly used in public equine facilities today while post frame barn structures are a popular choice when designing private stables. However, cost and maintenance becom a big factor when considering materials. The materials used throughout the Equine Rehabilitation Center are heavy timber, stone, and steel. Large windows throughout the facilities allow natural light and provide views around the property. Large open spaces and high ceilings allow for proper ventilation. The overall facility consists of six buildings: the rehab barn, stables, main lobby with attached indoor arena, exerciser-wet, exerciser-dry, and equipment-hay barn.
Distinguished Transitions
O'Donnell, Nicole; Erminy Castillo, Marcel; Fortenberry, Brent; Holliday, Shelley; Roberts, Andrea; Holliday, Ray
Located in the Industrial District of Galveston Island, Distinguished Transitions is a unique complex that offers housing for the homeless and working poor combined with a public community center, al within the fabric of a listed historic building. This transitional housing facility exhibits a self-sustaining nature that encourages community interaction among the building's residents. While providing services such as case management, job training, and housing assistance to help residents get back on their feet, the project imparts the skills necessary to prosper in a tourism society.
Architecture for Art
Irving, Michael; Ali, Ahmed K.; Borges, Alejandro; Bieber, Susanneh; Haliburton, James
Much of Donald Judd's life was spent making pieces of art for existing works of architecture. Towards the end of his life, Judd started to explore the idea of space designed for art, rather than, art designed for the space. He planned to make ten concrete domed structures that were centered on 12 equally spaced squares. Each structure varied in height and width based on the object that was to be housed. However, due to his untimely death and structural instability, Judd's idea of space designed for art was never realized. All that is left of this project are two unfinished concrete domes that sit in an open field in Marfa, Texas. This idea of architecture for art is the driver for this project by building off the ideologies of Donald Judd and his critiques of museums for the sake of museums.
Emergency Response Shelter Prototype
Gilcrease, Miranda; Mann, George J.; Holliday, Shelley; Koliou, Maria; Haliburton, James
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a psychological theory containing a five-tier model of human needs. The needs on the lower level needs to be satisfied before the next level can be attained. Physiological needs are biological requirements for human survival like air, food, drink, shelter, etc. Once those needs are satisfied, the next level of needs includes safety and security. Individuals want order and control. Those needs are satisfied by family and society: police, schools, businesses and medical care for example. The next level of human needs is love and belongingness. Examples include friendship, trust and acceptance. This level talks about a sense of community and being part of a group. The fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy includes esteem needs. There are two categories, esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, independence) and the desire for reputation or respect for others (status, prestige). The last level is self-actualization needs which refer to the realization of a person's potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. This project will address the first four levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Reflection of Peace
Field, Hayley; Holliday, Ray; Holliday, Shelley; Fortenberry, Brent; Newman, Galen; Gibbs, Brian
The West End Historic District is located on the far west side of Dallas' Central Business District. Composed of turn-of-the-century industrial warehouse buildings, the West End is the only remaining part of downtown Dallas undisturbed by skyscrapers. Unfortunately, the historic district is also known for its part in one of the most infamous days in United States history: November 22, 1963 - the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Because of this, the West End has an air of sadness and negativity. This begs the question, "What can be done to bring a positive light to such a historically negative district?" The Dallas Center for Peace is a direct response to the posed question. History can never be rewritten or altered; however, the positive can always be found even when reflecting on the darkest of days.
Restore
Fletcher, Sarah; Erminy Castillo, Marcel; O'Brien, Michael; Ettekal, Andrea; Holliday, Ray
The effects of living through and being freed from human trafficking are clearly those of great proportion that impact every aspect of a survivor's life. While healing from such trauma, a human trafficking survivor's thoughts and emotions are incredibly susceptible to her surroundings. There have been several studies both in the fields of architecture and psychology about the impact one's environment has on their mind, body, and wellbeing. Results from these studies have formed hypotheses such as biophilia (the tendency of humans to gravitate to connections to nature) and prospect and refuge (the feeling of a space being enjoyable based on its provision of a scene to observe from a place of safety). This project utilizes these two concepts heavily as well as extrapolates their underlying principles in the investigation of how to create a space that feels empathetic and enjoyable for someone who has undergone severe trauma. This project also employs principles from psychological theories such as embodied cognition (a theory that one's environment constantly plays a role in their thought process). Through the integration of the natural environment, the use of warm and familiar materials, the implementation of passive security methods, and the telling of a symbolic narrative this project aims to create a space optimal to a human trafficking survivor's healing before transitioning back into society.
POLA Energy Recovery Center
Li, Ziyang; Ali, Ahmed K.; Borges, Alejandro; Layton, Astrid; Haliburton, James
This project is a Waste to Energy facility in Wilmington Waterfront, Los Angeles, which integrates municipal waste treatment facilities with outdoor green roods, indoor exhibition hall, and indoor visitor centers. Encouraged by the book The Right to the City written by David Harvey, this project starts with how we recognize the boundaries between city areas which are referred as urban zones and the areas where support the city area which are the industrial zones. This project focuses on the formation, iteration, and overlapping of the boundaries between the city, the urban zone, and the industrial zone. This project celebrates the overlapping boundaries of urban space and industrial space in the modern city. This project is about the liminal space that exists in human awareness. The spaces we occupy and the spaces that make the occupation possible - this continuum is recognized and experienced through the liminal spaces.
INTERSECTION: Harrison County Airport
Thayer, Tyler; Erminy Castillo, Marcel; Geva, Anat; Newman, Galen; Haliburton, James
The Harrison County Memorial Airport Terminal Building is a historic airport terminal located in Marshall, Texas roughly 20 miles west of the Texas/Louisiana State Border. The airport itself is 2.5 miles from the city center, 35 miles to Shreveport, Louisiana, and 142 miles to Dallas, Texas. The terminal was built in 1953, crossing the 50-year threshold for the National Register of Historic Places. Harrison County saw service from Trans-Texas Airways between 1953 and 1963 and sat dormant until the 1980’s when a new airport manager decided to reuse the terminal building as a fixed base operator which provides services to pilots and passengers such as fueling, basic maintenance, flight planning, courtesy cars, and more. After undergoing maintenance to keep the building usable, the airport terminal building currently remains open as a fixed base operator. In 2016, the terminal was placed on Preservation Texas’ Most Endangered Buildings List.
The Green Box
Yun, Jiaxin; Hamilton, Kirk; Ali, Ahmed K.; Lee, Chanam; Kent, Jeffrey S.; Gibbs, Brian
The project of 'Green Box' aims to propose a new pediatric hospital to solve the indigenous children health problems of Deptford Township, New Jersey. Based on the local medical condition, the project will be the first overall pediatric hospital in the town. Jeffrey S. Kent from Nemours provided the program of the project at the beginning of the process as well as the generous academic help. The aim of the project is to provide enough medical space and service for the family with children in Deptford, NJ and maintain the long-term mental and physical health for children and their families. The design intends to provide children with public activity space, routine examination clinic, surgical space and emergency department. The site itself is located adjacent to a residential area of Deptford Township, New Jersey.
Transitional Living Community: a Study of Transformation
Markham, Katelyn; O'Brien, Michael; Aitani, Koichiro; Van Zandt, Shannon; Holliday, Ray
The model of removing and replacing slum areas with new infrastructure has widely proven to only relocate its current residents to an equal or lower standard of living by the product of property value increase. The goal of this mixed-use urban community model is to design a temporary living, learning, working community that allows 'quality of life' advancement for typically marginalized individuals and the city as a whole through Asset-Based Community Development. This objective is achieved by creating a self-funded amenity that provides services for both the homeless and low income population as well as business class individuals that work in the surrounding office towers and complexes that can conveniently eat, shop, and invest in the community complex as well. This project evaluates how to effectively achieve the transformation of the individual, the community, and the building fabrication itself in a mixed-use complex.
Borderline
Batarse, Andrea; Borges, Alejandro; Erminy Castillo, Marcel; Caffey, Stephen; Price, Edwin; Loureiro, Livia; Holliday, Ray
Borderline analyzes the political nature of architecture as a line. Lines define space, creating boundaries. This project studies the international border separating the U.S. and Mexico and current detention practices. Borderline proposes a new building type: a family reunification center, a space that reunites migrant guardians to their children. Exploring the relationships between architecture and memory; architecture and politics; and the elasticity of vernacular architecture in its materiality, elegance, flexibility and sustainability; this project proposes the U.S.-Mexico order is vernacular to the area, and as such historic preservation of the border as repurposed or redefined is intrinsic in repairing divides between both countries and developing peaceful relations.
TA-TU
Flowers, Brittany; Ali, Ahmed K.; Tripp, Andrew; Holliday, Ray
The world of art and creative expressions is where my passion in life resides. Art of all different forms and mediums inspire wonder and admiration within me. However, there is one particular form of art that intrigues and fascinates me nearly to the point of obsession: the art of tattoo. Talented tattoo artists create beautiful works of art in the absence of the luxuries provided by art mediums such as drawing and painting. A painter gets to choose his or her canvas, while a tattoo artist does not. Tattoo artists work with the most delicate and inherently unique canvas; the human skin. Not only do they have to constantly acclimate to different colors, textures, and ages of the skin, they also have to tailor their designs to the form and qualities of the body parts they tattoo. All the while maintaining a high degree of finesse to execute the tattoo as painlessly as possible on a living human canvas that is rarely perfectly sill. Tattooing indisputably has the highest stakes of any art form. Tattoo artists must mitigate high levels of pressure associated with the moral, emotional, and ethical implications of permanently altering the human skin. Of all artistic mediums, tattoos arguably provide the most physically intimate connection between oneself and art. Our bodies are the most sacred canvases to exist, which is why they craft of tattooing deserves to be amongst the most highly respected art forms. This can be observed in different traditions and cultures all around the world, but unfortunately, this is not currently the case in today's world perception despite such a large portion of the population having at least one tattoo. This could indeed be accredited to the outdated and largely unfounded stigmas surrounding people with tattoos which have been used to unfairly diminish tattooing as an art form. In addition to the negative stigma, tattooing as an art form has rarely been celebrated in the built environment. Artists usually practice in the dark, neglected, and unnoticed spaces associated with the "bad part of town". The driving force behind my project is to eradicate these harmful stereotypes and secure tattooing's rightful place in the world of fine art. Through architectural intervention the true essence of tattoo is revealed and celebrated.

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