Current Featured Student Work

First Exercise- Understanding Spatial Relationships by
Joshua Word

Third Exercise by
Katherine Giraldo

The primary emphases of the 2nd year studio has been of defining the necessary skills of seeing, thinking and representing. The studio is structured into 3 exercises. In the 1st exercise we have been looking at fundamental issues of understanding spatial relationships and the physical manipulation of space as place-making. In the 2nd exercise the focus has been on the exploration of architectural vocabularies and languages and the inherent ramifications of the manipulation of these languages in the act of design. In the 3rd exercise the main issues have been the idea of program viewed through the lenses of typology and perspectival point of view.

Recycling Center (Education Center) by
Travis Hampton

The 3011 studios designed a variety of projects from a contemporary art center to a community boat house. The studios aim to explore the making of flexible facilities with expansion capabilities. Programs aspire to engage a broad and diverse audience, create a sense of community and be a place of contemplation, stimulate a discussion about contemporary culture. Pedegogical objectives were three fold to question the relationship of Architecture to Nature and vice versa; engage the issues of Place and place-making; and the studio’s third and primary focus was upon Tectonics -the art of joining.

Reconversion of industrial
waste site by
Brian Alcorn, Phi Tran, Kate Tans, Erin Connolly

The Paris senior studio explores the reconversion of one of the last remaining industrial wastelands left inside Paris into a new district for urban living, working, and pleasure.  The vast area consists of approximately 45 hectars (or 5 Million square feet) between the town of Clichy and the district of Batignolles in the 17th arrondissment.  Students worked as team promoting the building’s relationship to the public street and park, the meeting of open and closed spaces, and the material and formal qualities of the public façade.

Portman Competition First Place Winner, NEXUS
by Jeremy Magner
Teacher: Jimmy Smith

Options I Studio focuses on a comprehensive design project for the Portman Jury Competition. Students produce an architectural project informed by a comprehensive program, from schematic design to the detailed development of programmatic spaces; including structural and environmental systems, life-safety provisions, wall sections, and building assemblies. The project is developed with a critical understanding of the contemporary urban condition in Atlanta, as it relates to sites along the proposed Beltline. 

Portman Competition Second Place Winner
by Miharu Morimoto
Teacher: Ed Akins

Read more about the Portman Competition

Portman Competition Honorable Mention
by Courtney Kelly
Teacher: Jimmy Smith

Catalogue Houses by
Lorraine Ong
Teachers: Lars Spuybroeck & Stuart Romm

This Options III studio built on Lars Spuybroeck’s, principal of the architectural office NOX, research and experience in digital prototyping and the future of the dwelling unit. Students researched “flexible systemacy” in textile techniques as basis for designing a detached house.   The techniques are related to structural systems, programming, and panelization.  Variations result in a series of five houses which have different grades of alteration.

Atlanta: Urbanizing the Downtown Connector

Atlanta is on the cusp of its Third Motor Age, created by the City’s rapid growth in population and decline in automobility. Richard Dagnehart’s Studio 6053 proposed to urbanize Atlanta’s downtown connector. The class worked collectively developing strategies for regional automobility, multi-dimensional transit, and reconnecting Central Atlanta’s network of blocks and streets.

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Project Advisor: Dr. Russell Gentry

The Masonry Institute Award project was designed as an exploration in advancing the application, fabrication and implementation of masonry construction.  In the early stages of the research phase, an interest developed in how to highlight and advance a duality that all units of construction share: the fabricator and the installer.  It is this codependent relationship that one must address in order to adequately and effectively understand the roles of the designer, manufacturer, and contractor within the built environment; as they are often not the same person or entity.  Specifically, this project investigates how a new construction module or methodology may become integrated with that of existing units or systems.
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The Solar Decathalon is a project of the U. S. Department of Energy in the partnership with Doe’s National Renewable Energy Laborartory.  The studio designed a state of the art, 800 sf, solar-powered house that can completely operate off the power of the sun.  The solar decathletes include students from the College of Architecture, Engineering, Managing, and Sciences.

Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon Web Site