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A problem I was challenged to solve ended up being one of my favorite projects to work on. A tired glass-front display case located outside the president’s office became an opportunity to showcase programs, milestones and interesting memorabilia of the University of South Alabama. The large format, museum-like installation had to be flexible enough to fit through four narrow doors, but once I figured out how to get a full size canoe through the narrow opening, I realized I could make it whatever I wanted it to be. Sometimes I started with scale models to figure out how to build it. Other times I enlisted help from facilities and renovations to build pieces like plexiglass octagons or a shelf that mimicked a wharf on Dauphin Island. This project is an example of transforming a finite space graphically without making any structural changes.

A 2D rendering of the College of Medicine was separated into die cut layers, adding dimension to the building that was under construction.

This image shows what the space looked like at the outset of the project. Large format materials were placed over the tile and mirrored space.

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