charlie usadi

architectural design

Architecture Capstone: FPCG Redesign, Spring 2025

Established in 2006, Providence’s Fox Point Community Garden (FPCG) is a vibrant community space in which roughly 150 gardeners care for plots. A four-story development abutting the garden was just approved, which will shade out a significant portion of the garden’s footprint. My capstone project used this context as a design prompt to develop a conceptual redesign for this rich community space.

Structural Structural and Architectural Analysis, Fall 2023

  • Section Perspective – Caixaforum, Herzog & De Meuron
  • Transcript Model
  • Section Perspective, Detail
  • Section Detail Transcript Model
  • Sequence Diagrams
  • Analytic Diagrams, Series

This course examined materials, structures, and processes in architectural design, with coursework focused on specific case-study buildings. For my case-study, I analyzed Herzog & De Meuron’s Caizaforum Madrid, exploring the new elements applied to this monumental architectural reuse project of a post-industrial site.

Intermediate Design Studio, Spring 2023

  • Intermediate Design Studio – Final Exterior Render
  • Site Analysis
  • Site Analysis
  • Concept Model
  • Process Model
  • Concept Diagram
  • 3D Model
  • Final Render, Interior
  • Final Render, Interior
  • Exterior Render

This design studio emphasized design as a mode of critical cultural inquiry to explore the cultural, environmental, and political forces which shape relationships at various scales in Providence, RI. Our design brief was a “center for craft and design, and my project centered the design workshop as a “creative core” of the program, with supporting spaces opening into it both physically and through viewsheds.

Architectural Projection, Spring 2023

  • Section Perspective – Villa Müller, Adolf Loos
  • Unfolded Plan
  • Photo Model
  • Exploded Isometric Diagram
  • Exploded Materials Study

This course covered the origins, media, geometries and roles of projection drawing in the design and construction process. Through hand drafting, model-making, computer drawing and Rhino modeling, my projects created in this course illuminated custom interior detailing as central to my case-study subject, Adolf Loos’ Villa Müller.