This project focused on designing a vertical modular and expandable housing typology for dense urban areas. By analyzing industry standards for mobile construction and rethinking conventional approaches, the goal was to produce a high-rise multi-family housing strategy that transforms perceptions of modular housing. The design utilized a simple modular system to construct towers with communal spaces, elevated plazas, and garden areas to provide amenities within a small footprint. Renderings and plans depicted the modular construction approach and layout of the housing units.

1. Remember
Class | Graduate Design 3
Professor | Juhani Pallasmaa
from Juhani Pallasmaa Architects in Helsinki, Finland
Project | Non-Denominational Funeral Home
Gainesville, FL.
Semester | Fall 2009
Site Perspective
This project focused on the emotional aspects of death and how these senses
can influence architecture. By relating to the emotions that one goes through
with the loss of a loved one, this building embraces that feeling by expressing
its power in a natural physical way. This is achieved through utilizing light and
space where the building’s design revolves around the capture of natural light
and flooding an enlarged open interior chapel space with it. The interior of the
chapel becomes empowered by nature and reconnects the soul to the natural
world. The chapel is a simple rectangle building extruded 32 feet high and
encased with a cast glass wall system that filters all the natural light into the
interior space while distorting the exterior image. A patina copper skin wraps
the chapel on the north and south sides for sun protection, light control, and
movement through while exposing the east and west facades of the chapel.
Cast Glass Studies Axonometric Study Floor Plan: First Floor
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5: Restrooms
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South East Day Perspective South East Night Perspective Interior Rendering

2. Experience
Class | Graduate Design 2
Professor | Gregg Pasquarelli
Jon Mallie
from SHoP Architects in NYC, NY.
Project | Versioning (Promenade)
Gainesville, FL.
Semester | Spring 2009
Precedent Analysis: Promenade Promenade Scale: University Campus
Promenade Plantee High Line South Promenade 3rd Street Promenade Site One Site Two Site Three Site Four
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Promenade Proposal Context Analysis: Promenading was a design strategy of diagramming and versioning from
User / Transportation which a series of architectural outcomes of program and form were generated.
Program / Movement Non-Game Day This project evolved from investigating the term promenade, where precedent
case studies of promenades at different scales and locations resulted in
PROMENADING
understanding different spatial organizational strategies. These strategies
were then examined at a local level on campus in order to discover possible
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design proposals for creating a hyper-dense spatial area between the college’s
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two major sporting arenas; football and basketball. The proposal would thrive
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Procession Alternate Game Day A series of design versions lead to the conclusion of one promenade that was
spatially investigated further. Through plan and section studies, the
occupiable spaces were manipulated to control the space under, above, along,
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3. Invent
Class | Masters Research Project
Professor | Guy Peterson
from OFA in Sarasota, FL.
Tony White
Project | Vertical Modular and Expandable Housing
for Urban Conditions
Gainesville, FL.
Semester | Spring 2010
This thesis challenges the precedents of modular, Design Studies
multi-family housing by identifying industry standards for
mobile construction and developing simple,
non-conventional ways of thinking and making, thus
producing a vertical modular high-rise multi-family housing
strategy for dense urban areas. For centuries, the
strategies developed regarding individual housing have
remained unchanged, influencing a notion in society on how
we occupy shelter. Through rigorous analysis of specific
theoretical approaches to housing design and a firm
understanding of the distinct facets of the consumer
economy, massive change to the development and design
of high-density housing is achievable, transforming any
preconceptions or prejudices of modular and mobile
housing. Reconstructing this image is approached through
changing societies view on their housing choice. East / West Section North / South Section
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Elevated Plaza
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Elevated Plaza Perspective Second Floor Communial Space Plan Fifth Floor Elevated Plaza Plan
Communial Building
Module Bay
Extruded Garden Space
Elevated Plaza
Entry Ground Plaza
South East Day Perspective South Elevation North East Elevation