Architectural illustration of a modern, multi-level interior with exposed structural beams, staircase, and colorful wall panels, featuring figures of people walking and sitting.

NATURES NEXUS

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Lowell, USA

Nature’s Nexus is a community-focused makerspace designed to reconnect people with organic craft, planting methods, and sustainable living. Located at the terminus of a riverway in Lowell, the project transforms a central urban site into a vibrant hub where nature and learning intersect.

The building’s form invites ecological integration, with green systems woven through the structure and surrounding landscape. A bold, articulated façade signals the center’s civic role while showcasing its environmental mission. As a new anchor for community resilience, Nature’s Nexus embodies a regenerative approach to place-making and education

2023

Map of Central Lowell showing various land uses, including residential, commercial, education, and green spaces, with a focus on the lack of natural space.

A technical schematic drawing of a building with labeled sections, including curtain wall, mullion, transom, and ETFE

Architectural blueprint of a building's structural components including steel prisms, concrete floor slabs, corrugated steel floor decks, steel beams, steel girders, hollow steel columns, steel J-anchor brackets, and concrete footings, all labeled.

Four stages of designing a landscape site plan, including filling in the site, creating pathways, shaping the form for a central gathering zone, and orienting terraces for water views.

Architectural site plan showing a U-shaped building with a surrounding green dotted circular path, an arrow indicating clockwise movement, and nearby landscape elements including trees and pathways.