When: January 2010
Work: Stewardson Design Competition
Site: Norristown, PA
Size: 70,000 sq.ft.
Individual Work

This project was part of a 10-day design competition open to graduating students enrolled in accredited architecture programs in Pennsylvania. The project involved expanding and adaptively reusing a 19th century prison into a Museum of Industry and Industrial Arts. My strategy for the adaptive reuse removed specific partitions that allowed remaining walls to act as a series of panels for display. The remaining walls would also utilize thermal massing strategies as a means of heating and cooling the space. The focus for the addition revolved around the skin of the building, which is a steel grate that derived from preexisting grates in the prison cells. By modulating wind and light, the skin turns a once imposing material into one that has a positive effect on the site.