01_Project Specs
Washington, DC — UDC Campus
2026
Technical
UDC Community Resilience Center
Civic Resilience & Sustainable Infrastructure
Community infrastructure needed to serve daily civic life while remaining useful during emergency conditions.
Organized program around normal, emergency, and recovery modes with robust envelope and energy strategies.
A complete building proposal with plans, sections, renders, systems diagrams, and resilience logic.
Revit, Twinmotion, Autodesk Insight, QGIS
Principal Public Face: Exterior evening render showing primary entry and helipad integration.
A long-life civic resilience facility that supports daily community wellness while converting into an emergency shelter and support hub during crisis conditions. The building is designed to transform into protected emergency shelter and long-term recovery infrastructure, utilizing robust materials and autonomous energy systems.
The project utilizes a modular programmatic logic that adapts between 'Normal', 'Emergency', and 'Recovery' modes. It integrates high-mass thermal envelopes, renewable energy systems (solar + Powerwall), and advanced bioretention systems to ensure survivability and operational continuity.
Software
Revit, Twinmotion, Autodesk Insight, QGIS
Gross Area
43,489 sq ft
Energy System
Solar PV + Powerwall Backup, Geothermal
Target Certification
LEED Gold (73 Pts), WELL Silver
"The facility operates through three distinct modes: Normal (Daily Civic Resource), Emergency (Shelter + Critical Operations), and Recovery (Stabilization + Rebuilding)."
ISO_01 // TECTONIC_REASONING
This project serves as a physical manifestation of research into climate-responsive architecture and autonomous spatial systems, focusing on the intersection of community wellness and infrastructure resilience.
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