The Forest Edge Inn is both a hotel and a community-focused destination in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The design is organized around two primary elements: a street-facing building that houses public amenities, and a quieter interior zone of sleeping spaces set deeper within the site. The public areas emphasize dynamic, overlapping forms that generate layered spaces for movement and gathering, while the guest rooms adopt a more rigid, modular layout. Together, these contrasting approaches test how architecture operates at multiple scales, from large programmatic strategies down to construction details. Throughout the project, diagramming was used to study relationships and communicate program, geometry, environment, structure, and context. Technical development included an exploration of the CLT structural system, as well as the integration of envelope and environmental strategies, all represented through drawings and detailed studies.
Awarded SU Integrated Design Studio Jury Prize Nominee
