Spring 2025

2nd Place Winner - AIA Middle TN Fourth Year Integration Studio Scholarship Program

Designed with partner Maddie Palmer, this project responds to its urban context by mapping people, movement, wind, and water to guide circulation, environmental strategy, and form. A porous street-level floor maintains pedestrian flow while passively ventilating the building, reconnecting an old road as a walkable market and bike corridor buffered by vegetation that manages runoff, reduces noise, and restores habitat. The building is organized into three thermal zones—an unconditioned market, conditioned residential spaces, and a production floor driven by a thermal chimney—shaping the massing around an atrium that provides daylight, circulation, and flexible public space. Grounded in the Old City of Knoxville, the material strategy uses brick as both homage and reinterpretation, drawing from the site’s industrial history through asymmetry, perforation, and structural logic. Passive systems are reinforced by geothermal heating and cooling and DOAS ventilation, integrating environmental performance, program, and material expression into a cohesive mixed-use architecture.