Projects

PVAMU School of Architecture architecture students, Roderick Henderson, Cleon Davison, Kenya Lopez and Ollie Davis, students completed the Existing Building CAD TRANSFER of over 25 campus buildings.

CURES met with UNESCO Nepal and given the historic Pancha Decal Hindu temple to conduct a 3D laser scan and product reconstruction drawings of the earthquake damaged temples. The Pancha Deval is located in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Heritage Sites.

The PVAMU CURES Center with PVAMU-SOA Graduate Davin Wade, 3D Laser Scanned the Pullum and Jay Vance Lewis Homesteads to assist the Rutherford B. H. Yates Museum Inc. in their reconstruction efforts in the historic forth ward Freedman’s town Houston, Texas. (Photos taken by Chris Daigle)

CURES 3D Laser scanned conducted field measurements of the Badin-Roque House an early Creole building style known as poteaux-en-terre (posts-in-ground). In this style, vertical timbers placed in holes that are later filled with stones or dirt. This building method was popular amongst early French settlers between the years 1769 and 1785. The Badin-Roque House is located on Hwy. 484, Natchitoches, LA.

CURES scanned three historic vernacular structures on the historic Jim Shankle property and Cemetery for preservation and documentation purposes for the Shankleville Community in Newton County, TX.

Sarah Marie Jackson of the Natchitoches National Center for Preservation Technology, 645 University Parkway, LA 71457 invited The PVAMU-SOA CURES Center to scan eight (8) slave cabins located on the former Magnolia Plantation located at 400 Rapids Drive, Natchitoches, LA 71457 at the Cane River Creole National Park, Natchitoches, LA 71457.

CURES field-measured the Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church at 1519 B Waller Texas 77484 to secure a Historical Preservation funding for the Rev. John Crawford.

Javier Candela and Rubin Cheeks created a landscape design complete plan with pool and waterfall using AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, and Lumion for Residence in Cypress, Texas.

Stephon Song, Pankaj Chhetri and William Batson 3D-Laser Scanned the historic Fire Station No. 3 building in Galveston, Texas.

Stephon Song, April Ward, and William Batson laser scanned the Kellum-Noble House at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park, 1100 Bagby Street, Houston TX 77002-2504. On Friday June 24, 2016, fellow colleagues Stephen Song, April Ward and I traveled to the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park. Emily Ardoin gave permission to laser scan the historic Kellum-Noble House at the Sam Houston Park site. The entire process took approximately four hours. We were able to complete several scans from all sides of the structure for a complete rendering of all four elevations. Emily gave us a tour of their new museum under construction.

CURES 3D-Laser scanned and conducted field measurements of the four remaining columns of the main building of the Baylor Female College. The 1884 drawing was created before Baylor University left Independence to join with Waco University, and the Female College moved to Belton, ultimately becoming the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. A 2D reconstruction drawing was completed using the existing column point cloud and extrapolations from photographs. 

A.M.E. Church Scan (with audio interview conducted by Sean Benson)

Manuel Ochoa and Rubin Cheeks designed a small a rental residence for Patricia Mosley.

CURES met with Gladys House and provided architectural drawings for proposal to secure funding for the 4th Ward Community Center Development Center, 1605 Anderson Street, Houston Texas, 77019.

CURES along with students from Design Studio V Fall 2014, provided Roy Douglas Malonson with new ADA cabin and landscape design proposals for his RS Deer Ranch, Hempstead TX 77445.