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Hannibal Community Center

About the Project
This glu-laminated community center near downtown Hannibal, Missouri drew
its design influences from the folk architecture in the surrounding counties. The
program included a restaurant, bookstore, aerobics center, gallery, classrooms,
offices, and transient dwellings for a drug rehabilitation center for youth. The
design was in response to the abandoned and condemned hospital behind the
project site and the reflection of the degrading surrounding neighborhood.
Porch Perspective
Design Impact on the Community
The design would provide a safe place for youth to hang out and receive help, if
needed. The surrounding area is becoming more and more poverty stricken. The
solution for the community is to turn the hospital into low income housing, which
I believed would only hurt the area more. The design was supposed to raise the
quality of the area by drawing attention to the access of parks, schools, and
housing in the area. That way, the hospital could be turned into nice apartments
for small families and have some offered with government subsidization for
those with lower incomes.
Interior Perspective

Wall Section through Porch Area
Site Plan with Ground Floorplan

Planning Communites
Perspective from Virginia Street

A Place for
the Community
In collaboration with Keila Creed and Sara Kotanko (interiors)

Elevation Facing Green
Elevation Facing Street
Elevation Facing Church
About the Project
This project was for a local church in Berrien Springs,
Michigan. They were interested in knowing about their options
in developing the nine acres around and behind their existing
church and school. The design incorporated apartments,
small homes, and mixed-use living opportunities. The focus
of the project was the Community Hall, two small mixed-use
buildings framing it from the street, and a large event green.
The Community Hall was designed to be very open and a
venue for various events (church and community related).
This heavy timber design used its large overhang to make a
covered walkway from the church to the church school. The
design would be located in their previous parking lot, but with
the new master plan more parking was available closer to
entrances than was previously available.

Site Plan
Planning Communites
Isolated Site Plan

Creekside View of Nature
The heavy timber home was wrapped in structural insulated panels and
corrugated metal. The contemporary style was influenced by the surrounding
homes on the property. This home was designed to be a summer or vacation
home. The parti of the design was to incorporate the creek right next to the site.

North Elevation
South Elevation

About the Project
The design was set in the woods next to a meadow and creek. By continuing
the same flooring from the interior to the exterior patio space, and having
large amounts of glazing facing the meadow, the design was able to celebrate
the indoor-outdoor connection and living associated with the lifestyle in the
surrounding area. There was a separation of public and private spaces with
more emphasis put on the public space by having an open floorplan between
those spaces, higher ceilings, large windows with views, and doors with access
to the outdoor patio spaces.
Exterior Perspective
Floorplans and Siteplan
Interior Perspective

SECTION FACING LIVING ROOM
DETAIL ELEVATION
SECTION CUTTING THROUGH STAIRS
DETAIL WALL SECTION

European Watercolors
While abroad, I used water color to enhance drawings as a way of analyzing
and documenting details (above). I also used watercolor to learn more about
a building through perspective (below).

Analytical Summer Abroad Sketches

Sketches with Watercolor
Sweden
Missouri

Design Consulting for
Home Renovation
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Design Process
Because the project took place ten hours away from me, I had to start
measuring and getting information to help with the addition to the home from
images and Google Earth. From this information, I was able to draft the home
that is currently there. The goal of the project was to add an addition for a dining
room onto the back along with a carport and interior space planning renovations.
Working with a Client
Existing Building
With this project, I have learned how to work with a client and make design
decisions that they would approve. One of the first things I suggested was
adding something to the front elevation to make it stand out and mark an
entrance because there was no clear entrance. There were quite a few tries and
changes made to each design ranging from the most minimal addition possible,
to what would be ideal, and at the most extreme change-an attached carriage
house. This will be and is a learning opportunity to experience the process of
working with a client and contractor on small scale projects.
Working with A historic Board
The house is located in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It is zoned in the Historic
District so the client has to go through an approval process that they were not
aware they had to originally. I did the drawings of each elevation of what the
general design would look like and some of the materials that would be used.
Process Work

Library Color Pencil Analytique
Glasgow School of Art Watercolor
Fine Arts

Charcoal