Nebraska Innovation Campus • Lincoln, Nebraska
ARCH 510 • Fall 2024
Elijah Velinsky • Muminjon Mirzoev • Calvin Glomb

• The Green Link is a 2,000,000-square-foot mixed-use community development at Nebraska Innovation Campus designed to strengthen connections between the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Innovation Campus, and the Devaney Sports Center.
• At the center of the project is a continuous green roof ramp that connects multiple buildings while transforming their roofs into an elevated public landscape. The system restores greenspace displaced by development and creates a walkable network of gardens, gathering areas, circulation paths, and views across the campus.
• The development integrates a public library, research laboratories, community center, greenhouse, retail, restaurants, and offices. A quieter research-oriented zone to the north transitions toward more active community and entertainment uses near the Devaney Center, balancing different activities while maintaining visual and spatial continuity across the site.
• Sustainability is integrated into the architecture and landscape through daylighting, natural ventilation, green roofs, solar energy, high-performance glazing, and stormwater management. The continuous landscape also supports biodiversity and helps reduce heat-island effects.
• The Green Link ultimately treats architecture, landscape, circulation, and infrastructure as one connected system, creating a public environment where research, education, recreation, and community life can intersect.

202 Fairground Avenue + 121 Logan Street • Wayne, Nebraska
ARCH 360 + ARCH 311 • Spring 2023

• This site inventory and analysis examines a mixed-use property in Wayne, Nebraska, as the foundation for a future architectural intervention. Historically occupied by trailer housing and light-industrial uses, the site sits within walking distance of much of Wayne and occupies an important transition between residential, commercial, and industrial areas.
• The study evaluates climate, ecology, soils, vegetation, zoning, land use, transportation, flood risk, local resources, and community culture. Climate analysis identified strong seasonal variation, prevailing winter winds, and solar conditions that would influence building orientation, outdoor space, and environmental performance.
• Land-use and regulatory analysis revealed a complex site divided among B-1, B-3, I-1, and R-4 zoning districts and located near floodplain boundaries. These conditions highlighted the importance of stormwater management, permeable landscapes, and careful integration of new development with surrounding neighborhoods.
• The analysis also considered Wayne as a college community, examining pedestrian activity, community events, Wayne State College, and seasonal changes in population and activity. Together, these findings identified the site as an opportunity for higher-density, community-oriented housing and mixed-use development that could strengthen connections between existing parts of the city.
• Rather than treating site analysis as documentation alone, the project uses environmental, regulatory, and social conditions as design inputs, establishing the framework for the architectural work that followed.

Fairgrounds Avenue + Logan Street • Wayne, Nebraska
ARCH 360 + ARCH 311 • Spring 2023

• Living Street is a mixed-use, community-oriented development in Wayne, Nebraska, developed from the environmental, regulatory, and social findings of the preceding Site Inventory & Analysis.
• The project is organized around a climate-controlled interior street formed by two linear building bars connected through a glazed atrium, greenhouse, and shared courtyard. Anchored by a large existing tree, this central space becomes the social and environmental heart of the development, providing year-round pedestrian circulation, gathering space, vegetation, and connections between residential and public programs.
• At street level, retail, offices, a café, and community amenities activate the edges of the development and connect with surrounding pedestrian routes and the nearby fairgrounds. Apartments and loft housing occupy the upper levels, with circulation and building organization designed to support daylight, accessibility, and efficient residential layouts.
• Materially, the project combines brick and timber with a transparent geodesic greenhouse dome, creating a recognizable civic landmark while reinforcing the relationship between architecture and landscape.
• Living Street explores how mixed-use density, walkability, shared public space, and environmental design can be adapted to a small-town setting. Rather than treating housing, commerce, circulation, and landscape as separate functions, the project brings them together around a shared interior public realm.

Kansas City Art Institute • Kansas City, Missouri
Wellness Center • 16,000 SF

• Harmony in Performance is a 16,000-square-foot wellness center designed for the Kansas City Art Institute that brings physical health, social interaction, and environmental performance together within a shared campus environment.
• The design approaches wellness as an architectural performance, using movement, light, transparency, and changing spatial conditions to shape the experience of the building. Circulation is organized as a sequence of transitions between active, contemplative, social, and outdoor spaces, allowing the architecture itself to participate in the experience of health and well-being.
• The program includes a swimming pool with an elevated running track, gym, yoga studio, study areas, changing rooms, administrative spaces, juice bar, public terrace, and accessible green roof. A central open stair beneath a glass roof forms the primary circulation spine, visually connecting multiple levels and reinforcing movement as a central element of the design.
• Environmental conditions informed the building's orientation, massing, and envelope. Daylighting, natural ventilation, solar strategies, rainwater management, efficient mechanical systems, and the green roof work together to improve environmental performance while creating comfortable interior and exterior spaces.
• Harmony in Performance ultimately explores the relationship between architecture, movement, environment, and community, creating a wellness center where physical activity and social connection become part of a larger architectural experience.

Toronto, Ontario • Participatory Urban Installation

• The Hub is a community-driven urban installation designed to transform public space into a forum for collaboration, creativity, and civic participation. Drawing from the architectural ideas of Aldo Rossi, the project explores how simple, recognizable urban elements can acquire meaning through repeated use, memory, and collective experience.
• At the center of the installation is a series of modular monoliths with writable blackboard surfaces. Visitors are invited to write, draw, respond to questions, and share ideas about their community and the future of the city. The monoliths can be rearranged into different configurations, allowing the installation to accommodate conversation, individual reflection, public events, and changing patterns of use.
• Movable seating and flexible gathering areas complement the interactive elements, allowing the public to continually reinterpret the space rather than simply occupy a predetermined arrangement.
• The Hub ultimately treats architecture as a framework for participation. Instead of presenting the city as a finished object, the installation gives people a place to contribute their own ideas, experiences, and aspirations to its evolving story.