Rhinoceros/Grashopper, Revit, AutoCad, 3DS Max, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, MS Office, Hand drafting/ modeling
Vray, Endscape, Lumion
3D Printing, Powertools, CNC Routing
EXPERIENCE
2022-2024 + Atelier Hay| Bowling Green, Ohio
Research Assistant
Conducting and assisting on architectural research projects scrutinizing cultural and environmental affairs.
2021-2023
+ Teaching Assistant| Bowling Green, Ohio
2022-2023
Giving assistance on concept, design and technical skills for the Freshman Architecture Class at the Architecture and Environmental design Program.
+ BHDP Architecture | Columbus, Ohio
Higher Education Co-op
Acting as a Higher Education Co-op producing iterative architectural models, design solutions, graphical and construction drawings for large scale projects.
EDUCATION
2024-2027 + Columbia University| New York City, New York Master of Architecture
2021-2024
+ Bowling Green State University| Bowling Green, Ohio
Bachelor of Science in Architecture - GPA - 3.97
Dean’s List (2021-2024)
Selected for Junior Honors Studio
Selected for Senior Honors Studio
ACHIEVEMENTS
2024 + CBTUH Timber Student Commpetition Fourth Place
+ AIA Foundation Scholarship
+ IMI/BGSU Masonry Design Competition
2022 + BGSU Faculty Research Grant Recipient 2023, 2024 + ALA Student Merit Award Recipient
2024
2023
PUBLICATIONS
+ Design/Build Student Competition
+ Beyond Eco-City: Re-Envisioning the Impossible Dream of Dorr St, Toledo, Ohio.
The Plan Journal TA
Recipient First Place First Place
An exploration of affordable housing through mass timber and 3D Printed concrete construction. Led by Prof. Yong Huang
+ Hybrid Mass Timber + Additive Construction: Projecting an Urbanistic Building System for Social Housing.
The Plan Journal
An exploration of indigenous design methodologies to renew undesirable neighborhood considerations. Led by Prof. Yong Huang
Lakewood, Ohio
BGSU, ARCH 4220 - 2024
New York City, New York
CBTUH Student Competition - 2024
ripple
New Orleans, Louisiana ASCA Competition - 2023
New York City, New York
Columbia GSAPP, CORE I - 2024
trapdoor 131 w 133rd st mattering toxins metamorphose table of contents
Bowling Green, Ohio
BGSU, ARCH 3210 - 2022
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Trapdoor
Lakewood, Ohio
BGSU, ARCH 4210 Design Studio 6
Prof. Jake Miley Spring 2024
Trapdoor is a mixed-use project that aims to preserve the ground plane while experimenting with subterranean public space. Located in the heart of Lakewood’s commercial district and responding to the city’s request for the “finest multi-functional outdoor community gathering space”, the project challenges traditional mixed-use development by turning above and below ground spaces into biospheres. The resident neighbors of the site grew into dispute against the creation of more private spaces, protesting for outdoor flexible space for the community.
In an attempt to favor both the city and residents, Trapdoor combines two of the most significant assets of Lakewood’s surroundings to generate the best public combination: the Cargill Salt Mines and Cleveland Metroparks. The inherently discrete mines provide the social preservation required due to the urban density, using the ‘trapdoor’ to attract the aboveground by-passers into its submerged space. The park introduces a new typology into Lakewood’s urban fabric, covering the existing building with a blanket, while simultaneously lifting the veil to reveal the public space that lies below.
3D INTERPRETATION
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland
Cargill Salt Mine, Ohio
The material and textural variations of the caverns were explored through a salt block. The salt block went through a progressional deterioration by boiled water, which resulted in different textural and formal qualities of the object. Hard processed salt as a building finished material provides a sustainable element that contributes to the air quality of the space. The raw textural richness allows for a seamless integration of the natural environment to an industrial space, providing the user a biosphere parallax of the two worlds.
LEVEL 01 RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLAN
0 10 25 50 100 ft
Townhouse Hotel
Townhouse Terrace Integrated Balcony
RESIDENTIAL BIOSPHERE
Communal Space
Concrete Foundation
Anchor Bolt
Steel Post
Gimbal
Space Frame
LED
The Trapdoor Screen provides a visual connecting point from the site to the pedestrians. Serving not only as a multi-functional screen projector for advertisements and events, but also as a system that provides for sustainable practices.
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131 W 133rd St
New York City, New York
CTBUH Mass Timber Student Design Competition Fall 2024 - 4th Place
Partners:
William Pyle
Yuka Imada
Phil Martel
Caroline Harris
The modular CLT building is located in central Harlem, on 133rd Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Malcolm X Boulevard, on an abandoned lot nestled between two existing residential buildings. The design integrates a direct street-to-garden connection through a public space on the ground floor, fostering accessibility to the garden and enhancing the building’s relationship with key local infrastructure, such as nearby subway stations and the public school on 134th Street, which faces the “Harlem Grown” garden.
The six-story building, designed to align with the height of neighboring structures, features modular CLT units stacked vertically, allowing for easy disassembly, transport, and on-site assembly. The 99-foot-long lot is divided into three sections, with a focus on a central core that houses communal kitchens and seating areas, while residential units on either side are designed to maximize natural light with balconies on the outer walls—a unique feature in the neighborhood. A central light-well vertically connects the two sides of the building, ensuring ample daylight and promoting a sense of community while integrating ecological and social renewal.
TWO BEDROOM UNIT
ATRIUM / COMMUNAL SPACE RENDERING
STUDIO UNIT
Balcony
Balcony
RIPPLE
New Orleans, Louisiana
ACSA Concrete Masonry Competition
Prof. Yong Huang Spring 2023
Partners: Chenglang Xia
RIPPLE is situated on the waterfront of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The wavering walls respond to the flow of water, and shimmering reflections of lights, and their symbolic form manifests the spirit of the community commons. The Woldenberg Park illustrates the beauty and ingenious city of New Orleans, housing significant events, live performances, shops, and an aquarium. Considering these aspects of the site, we proposed to make a symbol of unity that will not only commemorate the people of New Orleans but also celebrate and give continuous experiences.
The lemniscate-shaped building plan forms two courtyards. One is covered by a tall roof, serving as the Multi-purpose Hall; the other is an ample open space, functioning as the Outdoor-Event Space. For convenience, a kitchen and public bathrooms are between these two main indoor and outdoor spaces. Galleries, offices, classrooms, and other programs are distributed along the loop. The sloped, continuous roofscape is accessible to the public as an extension of the park and an elevated terrain to view the river and the city.
4. Accessing The Green Roof
1. General Massing
3. Looped Circulation
5. Facade Application
2. Program Distribution
6. Landscape Refurnishing
MAIN LOBBY
LOBBY
In response to the climate of New Orleans, the design optimizes natural ventilation and sun shading through permeable façade system and courtyard layout.
Meanwhile, to reduce energy usage, under this continuous roof system, only programs such as classrooms, offices are held.
Circulation, lounge, gallery, and flexible spaces are protected by screen walls without enclosures.
The multifunction hall have fully enclosed façade system which serve as a storm shelter.
BUILDING STRUCTURAL SYSTEM: WALLS + ROOF
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
LOAD-BEARING WALL W/ WINDOW + OUTER SCREEN WALL
DOUBLE SCREEN WALL SYSTEM
The system of Load-bearing CMU wall with arched windows + outer CMU screen wall creates fully weather protected building envelope for offices, classrooms, bathrooms, and other specific programs.
CMUs can be subtly shifted while stacking each CMU to create a porous wall system. With steel posts in-between the two layers, it supports the beams and the roof. This sustainable design strategy generates an expressive screen-wall system, benefiting natural ventilations, sunshading, and acting as a rain screen.
CMUs can be rigidly stacked as robust load-bearing walls for the storm-shelter - Multi-purpose Hall. Arched openings are designed to optimize its structural integrity.
DOUBLE SCREEN LOAD BEARING WALL SYSTEM
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MATTERING TOXINS
New
York City, New York
Columbia GSAPP, Core I Prof. Virginia Black Fall 2024
The Hudson River has carried toxins throughout the decades. General Electric contaminated the river with PCBs between 1946 and 1979. These actions resulted in a significant negative shift in the river ecosystem’s well-being and usage. As a hydrophobic substance, the PCBs do not merge with the water. Instead, they merge with the river sediment. All maritime animals and microorganisms get intoxicated, resulting in biomagnification and bioaccumulation of the fauna and humans.
After decades, General Electric was forced to clean the river through dredging. Dredging is a cyclical damaging process because it is constantly driven by anthropogenic influences that produce erosion. Dredging accelerates the forces of erosion established to counter, stimulating more damage to the river bed. With the appropriation of the river by industrial companies through a capitalist system, How can local populations re-appropriate the different processes of the river for socio-political engagement & empowerment of improving the state of the river?
The project intends to generate a state of renewal in the Hudson River ecosystem and create a new reality of river improvement for the people through civic collaboration. This civic collaboration is achieved through home-craft devices that call for the integration of people onto the river. All these devices are facilitated through modular pavilions that showcase the hidden process of treating the contaminated sediment. It will also contribute to facilitating non-profit organizations like Clean Water to host events, educational conferences, and workshops to teach how to make these devices.
PHASE 01
De-watering The Contaminated Sediment
Beginning by cleaning the already dredged contaminated sediment, Geotubes are used for the de-watering process. Through outlet punctures, the water on the sediment is let out. With the use of pedaled water fountains it will generate kinetic energy, contributing to the energy usage of the pumps that feed the geotubes while maintaining in move those doing exercise on the pier. Later, Collecting the water with gutters that will redirect it to the river.
PHASE 02
Eliminating the PCB
With the use of the PCB’s Absorbent Spikes, civilians can fish the PCB out of the sediment from the river, later disposing it on UV tanks. The solvent on the spikes is able to expand the polymer based corn lattice allowing the absorption of the PCBs into the tube. The polymer of the tube allows a semi-permeable membrane to get absorbed into the plastic, giving the PCBs a more preferable habitat. Attracting the PCBs from the sediment in the water to the tube and finally to the reagent inside.
PHASE 03
Capping the River Bed
Providing coconut fiber sheets on the pavilions, civilians can create their own capping device which contains cleaned sediment from the UV tanks and seagrass seeds to capped the river bed, protecting the river life from the contamined sediment.
SECTION De-Watering Geotube
SECTION - Pedal Drinking Fountain
SECTION - PCB Absorbent Spike
SECTION - Fishing For PCB
SECTION - Capping The River Bed
SECTION - Coconut Fiber Capping Device
SECTION - Capped River Bed
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Metamorphose
Bowling Green, Ohio
BGSU, ARCH 3210 Design Studio 3
Prof. Kerry Fan Fall 2022
Noise pollution today is no longer restricted to industrial environments, but it is an issue affecting small, mid, and big towns worldwide. This project investigates how an environment under industrial pressure can manifest a completely different atmosphere by creating dissimilar spaces.
The defining concept of metamorphism in a natural and man-made form sets the parameters for exploring how “raw form” can become less porous, proficient, expressive, and free after being under hazardous or extreme conditions. The architectural conditions of the Carving Sculpture Studios change in behavior from stacked shifted spaces that host rigid programs into a singular gesture allowing for open circulation, individual creative spaces, collaborative studios, and gallery displays throughout the building. The use of limestone and steel also portraits how two opposites can coexist and be an element of solution to sound pollution.
“Atlas Slave” by Michelangelo portrays a man struggling between the duality from raw material to a museum piece, encapsulated in a block of stone. This piece sets the exploration of how dissimilar reliefs play individual roles but coexist in a general compositional form.
Hand sketches were made to interpret the duality between the raw and the free form. Metamorphism is embraced to execute the idea of two opposite things: one emerging from the hazardous conditions of another.
ATLAS SLAVE
Steel metal panel
Metal plates for panels support
Curved steel bars for panels anchoring
Steel Brackets
Steel framing for facade support
Wood Panels
Waterproofing resin
Rigid Insulation
Acoustic Insulation
Structural steel ribs
Aluminum framing system
Acoustic insulation
Screed
Structural Beam
Structural slab
Screed
Concrete Foundation
Concrete slab
Radon barrier membrane
The constitution of works presented in the former pages directly relates to the pursuit of experimenting with different design methodologies and challenging the possibilities of the built environment. These projects are worked within their parameters, scrutinized, and pushed to seek unexpected outcomes. These works are a direct visual representation of my own constitution of ideas, which I hope to continue to redefine and explore as I continue my educational and professional career.
