MUROTELA - "Wall tissue," is a mixed-use, media-centric tower conceived as a single mass that is pulled apart to reveal its ethereal organs. The intent is for MUROTELA to become a beacon for the Creative Corridor (a historic downtown Little Rock revitalization effort), achieved through its conglomeration of functions being transparent, physically separated and suspended between two cast-in-situ concrete walls. Each volume is connected to full-width verendeel trusses at key points with structural steel strand and appear to quietly hover when viewed from the street. The result is a series of light, contiguous programmatic elements that maintain a dialogue with the innovative technologies housed within. The overall design takes a position in the surrounding urban fabric by overtaking an unused, paved site, and creating a beacon that, through its massing and lightness, mitigates the real and nonreal forces that speak to the future of information diffusion and the importance of building a forward-thinking community in little rock.

Comprehensive studio project Fall '12, awarded honorable mention for innovation and strategic decision making between both semesters' comprehensive projects that year.