Assorted Works
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Biotic Diffuser
- Chronotopes
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Paper A+Airplanes
- Tending Chaos
- Public Condenser
- New Appalachian Rail
- [In]Tangible
- Placa de Glories
- Toll Creek Nursery
- Paperwork
Info
1. An agency or means of doing something.
2. The intervening substance through which impressions are
conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance.
John Hamilton
BARCH + MLAI hold two accredited degrees from the University of Tennessee, a 5 year Bachelor of Architecture, and a Master of Landscape Architecture. Architecture and Landscape Architecture exist along a continuum. Landscape is to architecture as architecture is to building. I believe that expanding the field of architecture with specific knowledge of landscape-oriented site design and ecology has made me a more prepared, thoughtful, and creative designer. By recognizing their inseparability, we can recognize the role that the professions play in providing shelter to the human and more-than-human world. As I have pursued a hybridization of these disciplines, I feel equipped to see characteristics of ecology, landscape, materiality, and tectonics, that can generate more sensitive and dynamic relationships in the built environment.
During my education I worked as a craftsmen in residential construction where I learned about structure, wall assemblies, connections, and fenstrations. Working in this way allowed me to combine the knowledge I had aquired in my education with hands-on experience. This combination has acrued into a vision for architecture to be something that dignifies the skilled hands that build it.
What I find compelling about architect’s is their ability to use each project as a medium to talk about something greater—working through building, not just building. Operating in this way I want to create projects that are tools for living and working. I want to have a positive spatial impact on human and non-human life and occupancy. I want to create architecture that is not limited by four walls and a roof, that is living and breathing, complex, not complicated, simple, not simplistic, transitional, liminal, in place, and of place, that transcends construction and is never stagnant.