New Pavilion Building

New Pavilion Building for Ascension Catholic

Involvement: Historic preservation, Coordination with main architect, Schematic design, Facade design, 3D model and perspective renderings, Cost analysis, Material Specifications, Client meetings, Design Presentation, Budgeting options (design phases), Marketing - Poster design

Ascension Catholic needed a facade design that would assimilate the new recreational facility into a historic campus.

I recently finished working on the Facade design of the new Pavilion Building for the Ascension Catholic campus. For this project I produced several perspectives for the proposed design phases. The new building will serve as a landmark for the campus. The Pavilion will be be much larger than any of the existing buildings on the campus. Our goal was to create a modern structure that would be cohesive with a historic campus. Elements from the Old Convent building are integrated into the design.

Facade Design

Some of the issues we dealt with included: Budgeting constraints, Historic preservation constraints, metal frame without a facade, needs to keep with the identity of the school, large building could dwarf other campus buildings.

History

The Old Convent building was established in 1850. It was used as a hospital during the civil war and later became one of the first interracial schools for the area.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED:

Performed ADA code research
Bathroom design
Custom cabinet drawings
Provided Labeling and Building Notes
Drafted Construction Documents
Designed and Provided Furniture, Fixture & Equipment Specifications
Fire code implementation and validations through the Fire Marshal
Handled all Printing of the completed construction documentation from the architectural firms involved.

ARIAL SITE VIEW

Image by Google Maps satellite imaging

CLEGG’S NURSERY

5696 SEIGEN LANE
BATON ROUGE, LA.

Architectural Drafting and Space Planning
with Architect, Jairo Leon

For this project I worked with a team of architects to design and draft the new building for Clegg’s Nursery.

We collaborated on construction documents and design ideas. I aided in fire code research for the building and document notations. In addition to the construction documents I collaborated on, I personally designed the bathrooms to ADA specification, and designed all the custom cabinetry for the building.

A few of my contributions are shown below including elevation and detail drawings. The detail drawings of built-ins that I provided were Of the office, bathroom and break room areas and the new registers.

Designing in Phases

Being that this is a 360,000 dollar project, the school would need to break the construction down into phases. Before starting the project, they raised half of their funds through community donations. The first stage would be the metal framing by itself. We call this The Pavilion and it is how the building got its name. In phase 2 we enclose the structure. For the third and final stage of design, offices are added onto the front and locker rooms to the back.

CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

Commercial buildings must abide by building codes and regulations. ADA Regulation and building code research is important in the construction of a new building.