Highlighted Projects

Year: Spring 2022

Team: Todd Garland, Sweet Haus Tiny Cabins

Role: Design Development and Documentation

Status: In Progress

This project was designed as a HUD sustainable tiny home project for Sweet Haus Tiny Cabins. The design consists of a living space, two bedrooms, and two bathrooms that maintain a 600 sq ft area to remain on a hitched platform. The desire was to maximize the tight square footage, but still create a space that felt large and comfortable while inside. The project’s main focus was to create a sustainable living method for South Carolina’s Housing of Urban Development (HUD) for low income housing. While the small footprint was a given, the design utilizes passive design strategies with increased natural light, operable windows, and includes a prefabricated metal structure.

Year: Fall 2022

Team: Mia Walker

ARCH 8510; Clemson University

Professors Ulrike Heine, David Franco, and George Schaefer

Above The Marsh seeks to solve the disconnect in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, a coastal community that continues to be washed away with rising sea levels and land erosion. The design protects the coast from flooding and erosion with a living shoreline composed of a native marshland ecosystems. With an artificial, but natural protection, the site can provide activities to attract new populations such as agriculture, retail shops, and low impact boating, that would otherwise not be possible on a site bound to be submerged under water within future decades through a series of building, harvesting, and inhabiting from land to sea.

Recognitions: 2023 COTE Top 10 Student Award

                           2023 SARA NY Design Student

                           2023 AIA Greenville Student Design Award

Spring 2022

ARCH 8420

Professor Peter Laurence

Clemson University

The design focuses on creating a textile school around living, learning, and a sense of community within Asheville, NC. To revitalize a lost industry in Asheville, the inclusion of a textile school can aid the overall community socially and economically. The school will provide an education to students that will help the growing homeless population of the city, and create new jobs in an industry that has been lost over time. The combination of mass timber and glass creates an envelope focused on sustainable materials with an emphasis on natural light. Wind ventilation and the stack effect are focused in the design to create a city structure that incorporates passive design strategies.

Spring 2024

Team: Todd Garland, Sweet Haus Tiny Cabins

Role: Design Development and Documentation

Status: Complete; Taking Customer Orders

Tiny home living has a standard of creating a similar floor plan repeatedly to enhance space within small confines. The goal of this design was to rethink how spaces can be pieced together within a small 400 square foot frame. With inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright’s forward thinking, the Mesa model optimizes natural light and compressing spaces to enhance the tiny footprint with more modern architectural features. This design is the second piece of a new style of cabins Sweet Haus is building, incorporated with their HUD model, the Acadia. It has become a sought after model within their line of successes. 

Spring 2024

Team: Pierce Thomason

ARCH 8920; Clemson University

Professor David Franco, Thomas Savory, Dustin Albright

The design’s goal is to create an art and humanities school that combines emergent technology

with traditional craftsmanship. By adding this aspect to South Carolina’s Governor School

model, students can be prepared to become servants of Charleston to enrich its culture in

an engaging environment. The school’s design was created to become a new feature of Charleston, combining aspects of the unique urban context and bringing to light the work of the students to the city.  This project also explored the use of mass timber structure, UFAD air systems, and  a  protruding  brick  facade to bring viewers eyes to student’s work on the interior. Cultivating a project that not only combines emergent technology and  traditional craftsmanship on the interior with students, but also on the building’s  use of new building strategies into the historical Charleston surroundings.

Summer 2021

ARCH 413

Professor Bob Pavlik

Roger Williams University

The challenge for this project was to design a comfortable living and working residence for artists to present their work in collaboration with the Menil Art Collection in Houston, Texas. The site provided a location surrounded by art, culture, and recreational parks. A strong contrast was developed in the layout to achieve the separation of spaces. This contrast extended into the facade and material choice. The public gallery represented a free flowing form of glass and steel that created a connection between the site and the interior of the gallery. The private residence remained contained above and constructed of the wood facade.