Haven.
Year: 2024
Course: DES 202
Instructor: Riley Baechler
Location: UBC
Haven is a performance stage project conceptualized in Vancouver’s Grandview park, a contested site regularly used by an diverse community. Based on the imagery of curled wings and possessing a circular stage without defined audience and spectator, Haven is intended to convey a kind of performance absent from the park--one of reflection and sensory respite. Winding, twisting and oblique entrances becomes transitional space, where one has time to meander and reflect before entering the main performance space, becoming part of the performance.
Haven began as an apparatus designed to measure the angle of the head in respect to the neck.
The movements of the apparatus during phone scrolling was diagrammed.
The visual language of the diagram was reinterpreted into a physical object of sticks and skins.
creative process
1. apparatus
2. diagram
3. object
4. haven.
Two different types of chipboard were used to emphasize the textural differences between grass and path. The forms were 3D printed then treated into a porcelain-like materiality that highlights the purity and tranquility of the project.
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LINKED PLAY
Year: 2023
Course: DES 201
Instructor: Autumn Riggan
Location: UBC
As a final studio project, I redesigned a 10 by 14 meter square located on Granville island’s Ron Basford park. Centered around the ecological goal of supporting the water movement of the site through materiality and planting and the social goal of connecting visitors to local history, this colourful playground evokes Granville island’s industrial past while supporting ecology through bioswales, gabions, native plantings.
Though the project began as a four person group project, conception of the design to the final renders were completed by me, with input from peers and instructors.
context map
site plan
With my groupmates, we mapped the contrasting materialities of an seemingly industrial Granville Island vs the postindustrial, residential False Creek South. This concept helped inspire our project goals and guided the design of my final individual project, located on Ron Basford park (below).
Chains were chosen as the base form as it allows Island’s industrial past. By emerging from the ground, it is as if Granville Island’s history is rising to the present, renewed. freedom of play for children and
I felt that a more playful, colourful, almost clumsy approach would fit my project more than something more explicitly architectural. Using flocking, moss, stones, and dirt, as well as painted mesh and wire, I sought to convey atmosphere and realism through textures.
model photos
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60 Richmond East Precedent
Study
Year: 2024
Course: DES 301
Instructor: Tania Gutierrez-Monroy
Floor Plans
Location: UBC
Floor Plans Housing Cooperative
Housing Cooperative
60 Richmond Street East is an 85-unit housing co-operative built in 2010 that was designed to house tenants that required relocation due to the nearby Regent Park redevelopment -- situated in the complex landscape of gentrification, redevelopment, and urban politics. Employed in the hospitality industry, most residents are members of a local union called Unite Now.
With training spaces and a shared restaurant owned collectively by the residents, 60 Richmond aims to create a new form of urban living; one where one is an extension of the natural environment, rather than as a machine invented to modify and temper it.
With my group members Rita Troinikova and Ethan Lou, we analyzed and recreated this project through diagrams, drawings, and artwork.
parti diagram
One Bedroom Unit
Two Bedroom Unit
Houses students, seasonal workers, couples Houses couples, single parents
Floor Plans
Housing Cooperative
Floor Plans Housing Cooperative
Of all floors, the sixth was the most interesting, with its walkway and shared garden. The garden, tended to by the residents, provides fresh produce to the shared restaurant, whose food waste in turn fertilizes the gardens-- an urban permaculture.
GARDEN WALL
KITCHEN GARDEN
GARDEN WALL KITCHEN GARDEN RESTAURANT / KITCHEN
RESTAURANT / KITCHEN
contextual collage
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Travel Sketches
Year: 2024
Location: China (Beijing, Chengdu), France (Paris), Italy (Rome), Czech Republic (Prague, Brno), Austria (Vienna), Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Last summer, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to China and afterwards participate in a study abroad trip in Europe. I took this chance to fill up my sketchbook with architecture so drastically different and to practice sketching with speed, accuracy, and intention.
All drawings were completed within 10-30 minutes of sketching and drawn in-situ with micron pens.
