Alexa Smith Architecture Portfolio 2026

ARCHITECTURE

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Alexa Smith

Inspired by architecture that harmonizes simplicity and modern innovation, I am driven by a belief in the transformative power of detail to elevate design. My goal is to continually learn, grow, and create meaningful designs that inspire, whether collaborating with individual clients or large teams.

Technical Skills

Rhino Continuing Revit Knowledge

AI Knowledge: ChatGPT, MidJourney, X-Figura

Laser Cutting

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Village of the Atolls

Springdale, Arkansas | 2025

Partner Project

Taylor Heath

Project Type

Food Resource Center

Software used

Rhino

Adobe Suite

Twinmotion

Springdale carries a quiet reality: many within its community live with food insecurity. This project responds as an open invitation, a place where people of all ages can gather to learn, cultivate, and share food. At its heart is an acknowledgment of Springdale’s Marshallese community, whose presence is deeply woven into the city yet too often goes unseen. The design seeks to counter that absence by expressing warmth, familiarity, and belonging, creating an environment that feels like home for those who have long searched for recognition within the spaces around them.

concept

forms into a rhythmic sequence called BAAC, translating cultural vernacular memory into a unnique take on traditional architectural geometry.

Traditional Marshallese bamboo braiding informed the joinery language of the project, shaping the columns and rafter details. This translation of historic craft into structure carries cultural memory into the architectural expression.

Situated in Springdale, the building’s form draws from the geography of the Marshall Islands, pairing island references with program. The architecture becomes a a quiet map of memory, translating homeland into place and purpose.

site plan concept

The building’s form generates its own structural logic, with columns organized by the BAAC rhythm. Gaps in the sequence mark the high points of the gabled roof, allowing structure and form to resolve into a single spatial system.

thresholds, shaping moments of passage.

Grass transitions from manicured to managed to overgrowth as the landscape moves away from its focal point. Cultivated areas invite gathering, while the gradual return to wild growth restores the site’s natural character, a gesture of giving land back to itself.

The Harlem Nexus

Harlem, New York | 2025

Partner Project

Rebekah Ulasewich

Project type

Educational

Software used

Rhino

Adobe Suite

Twinmotion

Located within Columbia University’s Manhattanville campus, this project brings together an Environmental and Learning Resource Center with an Architecture Department, treating sustainability as both practice and purpose. An urban forest

awareness of the environment. Though designed separately, the building works in step with its partner, creating a shared academic and environmental connection. Together, they suggest a way of learning that supports both people and the planet.

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locationsite plan

facade

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The main lobby opens as a welcoming threshold, where a learning stair and gallery space frame views outward, inviting occupants to engage with both the building and its surrounding context. exchange between occupants and the surrounding community.

The Loop

Los Angeles, California | 2024

Partner

Born from Los Angeles’ housing crisis, this project frames dwelling and community as inseparable. A looping edge holds the residences, shaped and interrupted by movement, while the interior becomes a shared green commons. As the city grows denser and open space disappears, the design asserts housing and landscape as parallel priorities — creating not just places to live, but room to gather, breathe, and belong. In doing so, the architecture positions collective life and environmental relief as essential components of urban housing rather than secondary amenities.

concept

aligning the architecture with long-term environmental responsibility.

At the midpoint of the loop’s interior green, the space settles into a shared gathering ground, where layered seating and amphitheater views invite pause, connection, and participation, fully accessible to all.