Spring 2018
Max Boston, Sandy Courtois, Lubi Dimitrova
The Urban lab is an institution of higher learning that is socially involved and serves as a resource for education and improving the health of the city of Atlanta.
The lab provides teaching laboratories, research laboratories, student life as well as student residence, to help with the goal of achieving distinction in globalizing the university of GSU by becoming a leading public research university addressing the most challenging issues on the site located in downtown.
Fall 2017
Developing new typology to critically imagine and develop new architectural configurations through iterative exploration and refinement at every step along the way.
The Bionic Zone is a revolutionary space that allows us to use drones and robots as assets to further the new jobs of the future. It offers a multitude of activities from printing titanium prosthetics to printing items of clothing.
Spring 2017
Max Boston, Sandy Courtois, Lubi Dimitrova
As today’s society is faced with rapidly changing conditions of work, live and play, traditional building programs must be revised and reworked in order to provide a level of dynamism sufficient for today’s modern spaces.
Situated in downtown Atlanta, the site of the Hub is deeply rooted in prejudice and inequality. Encouraging diversity, movement, and social interactions are all associated with play, therefore our proposal involves the development of a new typology known as the “playshop”.
The playshop’s design provides open spaces for collaboration and innovation to live while simultaneously giving back to civil pride of Atlanta.
Fall 2017
Kown as a refugee haven, the city of clarkston is the most diverse square mile in America.
The design of center and the open roof introduces the sense of natural daylight and strengthens the indoor/outdoor relationship.
The community center serves a rapidly growing population of both residents and visitors and provides many open spaces in which people can learn, relax, stay and have fun, and serves as a destination in the city of Clarkson.
Complimentary outdoor gardens and athletic spaces are also included.
Summer 2016
What started as a small settlement of tents quickly grew into what is now the third-largest metropolitan area in the country.
Canaan has become the new home of a large group of Haitians after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck , and has now became the testament to the resilience and strength of the Haitian people.
The project focuses on the importance of community by offering two types of modular housing suitable for a wide range of people from individuals to families.
Spring 2016
Max Boston, Sandy Courtois
Inspired by the rich history of the library as an institution, the new design the public library was to be conceptualized using another institution as a metaphor. With the goal of creating spaces that facilitate communication among its users, the program of a marketplace came to be.
The new library is enveloped with a curtain wall allowing for an indoor/outdoor relationship. It accommodates for more accessibility, flexibility and is more open, allowing the users to interacts if they were in a marketplace.
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
The Challenge is to integrate a programmatic component to accommodate a work/live/ exhibition space for an artist-in-residence on the site.
The Living space house two people (artist+spouse) in a loft like arrangement which providing for sleeping, personal hygiene, cooking/dining/ entertainment. The Work space allows sufficient flexibility and access to accommodate the range and variety of creative production.
The siting of the artist studio/residence is well integrated with and reinforce the design the urban stair/ramp which creates a node of vertical connectivity between the street and the Beltline trail.
Fall 2015
100 units of temporary micro- housing to house 200 international amateur gymnasts attending a one-month biennial competition to be held in Atlanta. The challenge is to propose a single prototypical unit that is optimized through design both to comfortably assist the daily domestic rituals and routines of the athletes and to facilitate prefabrication, etc.
Each unit includes facilities to accommodate two athletes with requisite provisions for sleeping, preparing food, dining, relaxing, and storage space. The maximum volume of each unit conform to the size of one standard parking space 9’x18’x18’ tall. Entries and openings are oriented to optimize public/private relationships and solar exposure.
