Team Project | With Frank Li and Syedomid Sajedi | AEC Tech Hackathon 2024 Los Angeles Winner CORE WORKING CONCEPT CORE
REVIT PLUGIN TO PULL OUT UNSTRUCTURED SPEC DATA, FROM THE PDFS, POWERED BY AI, SYNTHESIZES IT AND STANDARDIZES IT AT A MACRO LEVEL.
AI RECOGNIZES, FAMILY CATEGORY BASED ON PICKED KEYWORDS AND ASSIGNS AN ADAPTIVE REVIT FAMILY SPECIFIC TO THE RECOGNIZED FAMILY
THE ADAPTIVE FAMILY “ADAPT” ITSELF INTO THE RESIZED OR REINTERPRETED PROJECT INSTANCES OF THE FAMILY AND STARTS AN AUTOPLACEMENT PROCESS IN THE MODEL SPACE.
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ACCESS TO PROJECT METADATA
VIOLA! YOU’RE IN AN IMMERSIVE 360 VIEW OF THE RENDER
SCENARIO A
SCENARIO B
VIOLA! YOU’RE IN A DESIGN ITERATION CHAMBER
WALKWAY SYSTEM GENERATOR IN REVIT (RHINO.INSIDE.REVIT
Automation and Bridging Design Workflows | SLAM | 2024-2025 CORE WORKING CONCEPT
DYNAMO WALL BASE GENERATOR FOR ROOMS (WIP)
Revit Automation and Bridging Design Workflows | SLAM | 2024-2025
RHINO.INSIDE.REVIT POWERED REVIT FAMILY GEN AUTOMATION
Revit Automation and Bridging Design Workflows | SLAM | 2024-2025
Revit Automation and Bridging Design Workflows | SLAM | 2024-2025
CORE WORKING CONCEPT
KEY USER INPUTS
IMAGE OR GRAPHIC
NUMBER OF PANELS
MULLION THICKNESS
GRADIENT INTENSITY OF IMAGE
MAX AND MIN HOLE SIZES
SOME STEPS FOR THE FUTURE
- CREATE LIMITS IN MIN AND MAX VALUES SO THAT THE USER DOESNT BREAK MODULARITY
- FIGURE OUT A WAY DECREASE BREP COMPUTING TIME
- DO THIS NATIVELY IN REVIT?
CODE
REALITY CAPTURE AND XR (IMAGING ROOMS HEALTHCARE)
Revit Automation and Bridging Design Workflows | SLAM | 2024-2025
SLAM 3D PRINTING REVIT-PRINT WORKFLOW PRESENTATION
Revit Automation and Bridging Design Workflows | SLAM | 2024-2025
SLAM - AI PROMPT ENGINEERING (MJ AND SD)
UPLIFTING THE KOLI COMMUNITY
WHY GO PARAMETRIC FOR THIS PROJECT? REDUCING MODEL REPITIONS, PRECISION ISSUES, AND INCREASING SCALABILITY - AND RANDOMIZING THE MODULARITY OF THE DESIGN, ONCE THE BUILDING BLOCKS WERE SOLVED I COULD FOCUS ON THE MACRO MOVES. WAS IT ACHIEVABLE WITHOUT PARAMETRIC INTERVENTION? MAYBE, BUT IT LETS ME CHANGE MY PROJECT OVERNIGHT AND YET KEEP IT AT A FINISHED PRODUCT STAGE.
CLUSTURED INTERSECTIONS
Mixed Use High Rise | 1 Million Sq Ft | McArthur Park, LA, CA | 2022
This project is proposed as a redevelopment of a major portion of an existing city block that consists of McArthur Park Metro Station and two commercial towers. Located in the historically and culturally significant area of McArthur Park in Los Angeles, this project hopes to lay the seeds for the appropriate kind of redevelopment for it. The area has been one of LA’s core neighbourhoods and currently houses a major chunk of the city’s growing Mesoamerican population. This project tries to incorporate various levels of housing to balance the scales of costs, lifestyle and self sustenance. The 3 clustered towers come together, with their intersectional volumes uniting the occupants communally.
WHY GO PARAMETRIC FOR THIS PROJECT? IT HELPED ME BRIDGE THE GAP QUICKLY BETWEEN PROGRAMING LEVEL STRAIGHT TO A DEVELOPED FACADE SYSTEM THAT I COULD ASSIGN TO MY SELECTED WALL FACES THROUGHOUT THE FACADE. KEEPS MY MASSINGS MALLEABLE AND QUICK TO END PRODUCT IN FAST PACED STUDIO ENV ONCE I HAD ESTABLISHED MY MASSING TYPOLOGY.
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PLUGIN USED SKIN DESIGNER]
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PLUGIN USED SKIN DESIGNER]
WOOD FRAME WITH GLASS PANELS
OXIDIZED COPPER
IMP WALL WITH PUNCHED WINDOW
CURTAIN WALL PANELS
PERFORATED METAL PANELS
TYPICAL STOREFRONT PANELS
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3D PRINTED MODEL
ICSS Submission
UNIVERSITY
OF SURREY, UK | PROFESSOR ED SALIKLIS | 2020
DUALITY AND MOVEMENT v1
Library/Student Union+ Campus Design | Long Beach, CA | 2021 June
The black demography in Los Angeles has progressed and evolved, inspite of the disproportionate imprisonment rates, police brutality, low school and college graduation rates. This college campus design aims to further the the rise and prowess of the black community in the area while celebrating their core nature of duality and movement against the waves thrown at them. The painting helps interpret the internal battles of the African American that give way to a duality from within, and how the resilience makes way for movement and motions to move out of that struggle. The building and campus design hopes to celebrate the music, the movements that made a difference, and pave the way for an environment that elements of the African American past embedded into its memories with doors of oppurtnity that never “close roughly*” on those who need it the most.
DUALITY AND MOVEMENT v2
Library/Student Union+ Campus Design | Long Beach, CA | 2021 Mar
STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
LIGHTWEIGHT 3D PRINTABLE PROSTHETIC ARM CONCEPTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA | 2021-22
A TEMPLATIZED DIGITAL ASSEMBLY LINE CONCEPT FOR PROSTHETICS - STARTING WITH 3D CAPTURE OF INJURED PARTS, FOLLOWED BY LATTICE TO INFILL THE LIMB FOLLOWED BY STRATEGIC SKIN, AND ENDING WITH STYLIZING THE PROSTHETIC.
SKIN
GRAFT LATTICE GRAFT
TALARIA
LIGHTWEIGHT PROSTHETIC LEG CONCEPTS | 2022-23
Talaria is a post-anthropomorphic vision of prosthetic design—an adaptive exoskeletal limb that moves beyond mere replication of the biological human form. It embraces modularity, expression, and individual identity, transforming prosthetics from medical necessity into an evolving design artifact.
Inspired by the fluid dynamism of motion, Talaria redefines prosthetic aesthetics through switchable skin covers—akin to how iPhones utilize interchangeable cases. Users are no longer confined to a single, fixed form; instead, they can adapt their limb’s visual and material identity based on context, function, or mood. The skins range from aerospace-inspired lattices for breathability, to smooth biomimetic surfaces echoing organic musculature, or textured, high-performance shells for an athletic edge. This system moves prosthetics from static entities to adaptive design ecosystems.
Talaria’s form is derived from a precise 3D scan of the residual limb, generating a highly personalized digital mesh. This scan drives a parametric workflow, where algorithms adapt the structure to optimize fit, modularity, and seamless integration with the socket. The prosthetic core—engineered for mechanical stability—is complemented by outer covers that snap, slide, or magnetically attach, offering fluid, on-demand customization.
Envisioned as a made-to-order system, Talaria leverages computational manufacturing—where users select skins from a digital interface, akin to configuring a highend product. Fabrication employs additive and hybrid manufacturing processes, allowing for lightweight, structurally optimized bodies with custom surface treatments. This eliminates mass standardization, ensuring that no two Talaria prosthetics are identical.
Talaria is more than an assistive device—it is an extension of personal expression, a statement of identity, and a future where prosthetics transcend limitation. By blurring the boundaries between fashion, technology, and biomechanics, it repositions prosthetics not as replacements, but as objects of agency, adaptability, and empowerment.
PROJECT DUALITY
POLY SLO | TEMPORARY TENT STRUCTURE | DESIGN-BUILD TEAM PROJECT | 2020 slide rods through fabric pockets
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GRASSHOPPER WAS USED IN GENERATING THE TRUSS AND RING MEMBERS AND KARAMBA STRUCTURAL LOAD ANALYSIS TO SEE IF IT WOULD STAND AS AN OVERNIGHT TEMPORARY STRUCTURE.
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JAX PUBLIC LIBRARIES
City Public Libraries’ Update Proposal | Jacksonville, FL | 2021
A PROJECT TO CREATE AND SCHEDULE FLEX REVIT PROGRAMMING BUBBLE FAMILIES TO SYNTHESIZE AND SEPARATE PLAN AND AXON GRAPHICS ALL WHILE HAVING AN AUTOMATIC UPDATE ON PROGRAM AREA DATA FOR TEST FIT STUDIES FOR 30 DIFFERENT DESIGN OPTIONS FOR A DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR 5 DIFFERENT LIBRARIES. THIS WAS TO REDUCE THE LOAD ON THE DESIGNERS FOR INPUTTING ANY SHEETING, NUMERICAL AND GRAPHICAL DATA MANUALLY AND LET THE DESIGN BE THE FOCUS.
As part of Jacksonville County’s plan to update their various neighbourhood libraries, the county library has collaborated with a library consultant and a small design contingent from Haskell to work on various design options to show how the county could plan on updating their aging infrastructure and obselete facilities. Libraries are the heart and soul of many Jacksonville neighbourhoods and have been asource of employment, legal advice, knowledgeand just basic safety for the people. Most of the libraries that are due for an update are in communities that are damaged either by violence, poverty, or drugs. The role of the libraries is to serve as healing centers and catalysts to pull these communities back up.
The library consultant was basically there to give the design contingent advice on how to design the library test fits while those at Haskell were putting those ideas into full implementation with their technical expertise and representational methods. He was very informed with public data, conversations with local people and had a good understanding of the communities’ needs. The idea was to use those options to show to various community meetings, county meetings, friend groups and get the idea to update these spaces across to the stakeholders of the process so that it actually comes to fruition. was roped into the team at the producton phase when there was discussion to publsh some test fit sets with the various layout options of the libraries, their representation, markups, area calculations, and the way the documents looked in general.
JEA H20 CENTER
FL | 2022
This project was in the hands of the Haskell design team for almost a year and it was supposed to be a pet project for the Jacksonville Electric Authority to engage with its consumers. The facility is designed to be a water purification facility that has a water experience or exhibition space attached at its’ public facing periphery. The site that has been chosen is in a sensitive wetland area so the work for situating the building on the site has had to be very careful. Since the client comes from an engineering standpoint, even though conceptual creativity drove the initial concepts for the project, cost and value engineering have driven the actual design for the project.
My contribution in this project has mainly been in working on constributing to a 60% set and special furniture equipments and a shading structure at the entrance which defines the project which I brought into Revit as new families. also worked on developing the wall sections and partial plans and elevations. For the interiors was also co-ordinating with the interior design team.
There was a lot of talk about the quality of space being generated, natural light, furniture choices, and program distribution, which had to be uniquely thought out. It was quite a great experience for me to exercise creativity within a design-build environment.
BLENDER 2 RHINO RENDERDOC CONTEXT IMPORT WORKFLOW
TUTORIALS FOR STUDENTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO | 2022-2023
RHINO TO COVE TOOL SETUP
TUTORIALS FOR STUDENTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO | 2022-2023
OTHER PARAMETRIC WORK
PARAMETRIC PROJECTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO | 2021
OTHER PARAMETRIC WORK
PARAMETRIC PROJECTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO | 2021
OTHER PARAMETRIC WORK
PARAMETRIC PROJECTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO | 2021
OTHER PARAMETRIC WORK
PARAMETRIC PROJECTS | SAN LUIS OBISPO | 2021
KING SOLOMON VILLAGE
Winner | AIA - Next LA | Temporary Shelters
Homeless Shelter - Adaptive Reuse | Normandie, Los Angeles | 2022
The King Solomon Village is the adaptive reuse of an aggregate of vacant industrial buildings to provide a Temporary Shelter for a hundred homeless individuals in the heart of South Los Angeles. The project is located along the Rail to River bike and walking path along Slauson Avenue that will connect South L.os Angeles to the Los Angeles River in the east and the City of Inglewood in the West.
In empathy with the street life experienced by many previously homeless individuals, the design embeds a nuanced street and park within the existing buildings. By sculpting daylight from the industrial skylights and clerestories and positioning active spaces accordingly, the project recreates the openness of a less confined space. The design is articulated by an internal pedestrian “street” that extends from the entrance and continues to the sleeping areas, functioning as the primary axis along which discrete programs are organized. A greenhouse is situated on a perpendicular axis to the main corridor and recreates a well-lit “park” or public square that invites the community of residents to gather at the intersection of the cruciform axes.
The design transforms the existing structure by extrapolating the tectonic members of the building’s structural skeleton and envelope to construct a hierarchy of spaces for different programs. The intervention reshapes the industrial buildings into a vibrant community for the homeless. It provides a sense of home without alienating them completely from their previously unconfined living conditions.
