Architecture / Landscape / Section Studies
Common Ground
Jefferson Avenue Art Campus & Memorial · Buffalo
A separate investigation situated near Tops supermarket and considered in the context of the tragedy there. The drawings explore relationships between public landscape, spaces for gathering, and occupation above and below ground.
Process / Physical studies
Landscape, material & space
Study models explore relationships between planted surfaces, linear elements, and layered spaces. Felt, paper, denim, and timber pieces give the investigations a tactile scale.
Art, memory & public life
The Jefferson Avenue Art Campus and Memorial proposal brings an art center, art walls and market, and a public plaza into a shared neighborhood setting beside Tops. A second phase extends across Riley Street with an artist residency and a pond envisioned for ice skating.
Reading Jefferson Avenue
The site analysis layers lines, planes, and landscape imagery to investigate relationships across Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street.
Gathering across levels
Sectional perspectives examine planted roof surfaces, shared interior spaces, and stepped connections. Orange, teal, and yellow elements distinguish walls and movable partitions within the larger framework.
A connected campus
The drawing brings the street-level plan, second level, and lower-level arrangement together, showing circulation and the distribution of spaces across the campus.
Understanding the East Side
The research examines Buffalo’s population change, segregation, neighborhood resources, and the context surrounding Jefferson Avenue. The complete analysis board is preserved below; its historical figures are not presented as current statistics.