Emily Ashby

Architecture is designed and experienced personally and communally, and I bring a deep conviction that it should engage the individual and enrich the community on a variety of scales, ranging from a single pavilion to a housing complex to an urban network or infrastructural system. I hope to design not only in response to current ways of existing and relating, but also to use design as means of reinventing the way we perceive, interact, and relate. This innovation should derive from a synthesis of critical thinking and human ingenuity with advanced means of collecting and interpreting data. I experiment with pairing parametric design potential with tactile analog design processes to develop dynamic design iterations that respond to data-driven and/or implied existing environment and conditions.