Payette is pleased to announce the 2020-2021 recipient of the Payette Sho-Ping Chin Memorial Academic Scholarship, Cornell University student Allexxus Farley-Thomas. She is the fifth recipient of this scholarship.
Allexxus Farley-Thomas
Allexxus is a third-year student pursuing a Master of Architecture at Cornell and is from Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Maryland. Allexxus believes in architecture as a means to improve our society through addressing the need for quality spaces and places for all, particularly in our daily lives – where we live and where we learn. She is drawn to issues that solve challenges in the realm of everyday life. She also is compelled by architecture as a means of “giving back”.
As a young designer who considers the balance of both the ideal and the practical, studying and testing design through fabrication has also been a focus of her graduate studies. She has particular interest in exploring the applications and limits of natural materials and environmental responsibility in construction.
I feel the responsibility to become a designer that engages and tackles issues larger than architecture, with architecture
Examples from Allexxus’s Portfolio:
The yearly process of giving in Sho-Ping’s name offers us time to reflect on the professional and personal values she brought to our practice, and it is an honor to select a recipient who exemplifies these qualities. As a firm, we are excited to support Allexxus and see her advance throughout her career.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently completed a new inpatient building in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. A rich texture and palette of materials adorn the wall along the base of the building. Polished black granite forms the watercourse and seat walls, warm gray granite is used on the large wall panels, and an alternating texture of black granite, green glazed terracotta, and weathered steel is applied to the vertical recesses between the granite wall panels.
This design accentuates key elements in the landscape and introduces an intimate human scale and craftsmanship to the pedestrian realm.
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