Case Studies

The project was a proposal for the Park Ranger Services of Joshua Tree National Park for an overnight visitor and educational center. The program had four major components; a day visitor center/exhibits, a cafeteria, educational classrooms, and an overnight dorm component for school trips.

The project asked for the design of a museum that would display digital art in the neighborhood of Lavapies in Madrid, Spain. In addition to a space that displays artwork, it asked that the museum give something to the city and its immediate community.

Students in this course work with a rural South Dakota community and create a real-life project that will aid the community. In this case, the students worked with Mobridge, SD, located on the Missouri River.

The design approach to the HEXA building began from experimentation of a hexagon as a predominant geometry and motivator of an architectonic idea.

The program is a student residential discovery center in Joshua Tree National Park. It is used for students to stay in Joshua Tree National Park for about a week and have classes.

This Residential Education Discovery Center would be primarily for children groups who come as a summer camp or boy scouts to experience and learn more about the desert environment.

The Kansas Mall project will be located in downtown Huron, South Dakota. The Mall is a vacant urban infill site linking Dakota Avenue and a public parking lot heavily used by movie theater patrons and downtown workers, visitors and shoppers.

The Pikes Peak Visitor Center is a studio project in collaboration with EnCon, a precast company out of Denver. The project, while creating an iconic center for the top of Pikes Peak, was also about using a precast system in a unique and unprecedented way.

Students were charged with designing a precast high-rise using tessellations of precast concrete pieces.

The site location, Live Oak, is an area that has very low light pollution. With the lack of locations to enjoy the night sky full of stars, this project attempts to preserve this dark night and the experience that comes with it.  

Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning recently exhibited their final freshwater innovation design clusters for review to school faculty members, industry leaders, professional architects and the building community.

The target market for this project is the active individual who values a healthy lifestyle. The design incorporates large outdoor spaces such as balconies and green space, as well as ample storage for items, such as bicycles, that the target market might need.