Our Mission Evolve Architecture is committed to highest standards of design and to providing our clients with a sustainable product that fulfills their vision. The client's needs are the most important element in our designs. We are always exploring new methods to improve efficiency and the aesthetic quality of our designs. We seek to educate about concervation of resources and concervation of the built environment through a sensitive approach to urban context. As the built environment continues to develop, there wil always be a need to EVOLVE.
Our Design philosophy The insertion of Union Station into the historic plan of Washington DC disrupted the city plan and isolated the H street corridor from the central city. The organic movement created by the train corridor contrasts sharply with the northeast quadrant of the city creating distinctions between Order and Disorder that simultaneously prevent and encourage differing measures of movement. EVOLVE Architecture, seeks to investigate organic Order and Disorder to facilitate transit use on the H Street Corridor.
Marcus Johnson 20johnsm@cua.edu
Javid Farazad 64farazad@cua.edu
Jeff Sozio 78sozio@cua.edu
Endalk Terpaye 79tesfaye@cua.edu
Rory Walker 78walker@cua.edu
Kevin McNamara 88mcnamara@cua.edu
Public transportation is undergoing rapid change due to evolving economic uncertainty and the insecurity of earths natural resources. Society is rediscovering public transportations usability, environmental kindness, and cost effectiveness. A majority of transit passengers are traveling within a local area or region between their homes and places of employment, shopping, or schools. A transportation center often serves as the citys gateway for visitors and reflects the cities heritage, people, and values. The program encourages students to merge two modes of public transportation while considering the facilitys potential symbolic aesthetics and connection to the city with its surrounding community. Students are to design a Transit Hub to accommodate the needs of their city. This will be a ground-up design facility. This transportation center will need to support two means of mass transit and should be designed to be able to expand in the future. Passengers will change or transfer between the modes of transit; convenience in getting around and through is important, since many travelers need to quickly and efficiently move from transportation and back. The center will also be a hub of interaction and a significant emblem of the nature and character of the culture it serves. The center may include convenience services such as a coffee shop, newspaper or magazine stand or other small retail.
School of Architecture Catholic University 620 Michican Ave. NE Washington, DC 20064 evolve.architecture@gmail.com