design principle, and thresholds provide a gradient of opacity ranging from solid walls, to breezeblock dividers, to operable screens.
The entire collective is united within a gridded facade of hydroponic growing systems in the form of a “juvenile home,” reminiscent of Oswald Mathius Ungers’ Solar House. By reimagining the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment, The Solarium aspires to redefine housing typologies for a more interconnected and sustainable future.
NORTH ELEVATION / CO-DIVIDUAL FAITH FULLERTON + MORGAN LEWIS, DE LUNA
Chunk Axonometric Drawing
In this community housing project, even the smallest dwelling units prioritize both privacy and access to nature to ensure quality of life for residents. In affordabe housing projects, layers of privacy are crucial for fostering both individual wellbeing and community harmony. The unit types accomodate a sampling of solitary residents, to couples, to families, and all with ADA options. These units are oriented to provide communal areas between a diversity of demographics.
Minimal Dwelling
Unit Model | Kinetics
| Top View
Unit Model
Chunk Model
Model View
Model View
Model View
The Tacoma Townhouses
Tacoma, WA
2024 / Professional
LEV Architecture
Lynnwood, WA
Principal: Jan Hromada
Software: Archicad TwinMotion Photoshop
As an architectural designer with LEV Architecture, I contributed substantially to the conceptual and design development for the Tacoma Townhouses. These are a passion project for Ascend Development Group, a sustainable real estate development business that builds wealth and knowledge for BIPOC and women in the development community. We chose to take advantage of the new zoning that the City of Tacoma implemented, which fast-tracks middle housing development projects, with the goal to develop ten four-bedroom townhouses and provide dense, affordable family housing amidst Washington State’s current housing crisis.
During my years at LEV, I took the lead on client communication and developed drawing sets for contractors, the City of Seattle, the City of Tacoma, and the City of Everett.
Street Perspective Facing Northeast
Aerial Playground View
Analytical Section Drawing
The Bainbridge Eco-Arts Education Center
Bainbridge Island, WA
2023 / Academic University of Washington
Architectural Design Studio 400
Professor: Alicia Daniels Uhlig
Software: Rhino 3D Lumion Adobe Suite
The Bainbridge Island Eco-Arts Education Center cultivates creativity, sustainability, and community enrichment. As it forges a ramped throughway from Madrone Lane to Henshaw Way, this design takes advantage of its prime location between the city’s most active civic zones: townsquare and Winslow Way. Its purpose is to enhance, entice, and educate. In alliance with the AIA Design Excellence strategies, this mass-timber building specializes in water management, collecting rainwater from the grand sloping roofs in a cistern system, and filtering wastewater using bioswales.
The building stands in harmony with Bainbridge Island’s natural beauty, with humble, human-scale wood construction and public greenspaces that celebrate the city’s ecological and cultural identity. By serving as an incubator and civic space, the Eco-Arts Education Center would become a new “heart” of the Bainbridge Island community.
Section Perspective Facing East
Site Context Diagram
Ideation Diagram
Classroom Perspective
Courtyard Perspective
Annotated
Tectonic Model AIA Design Excellence
Media: Plaster, Basswood, Chipboard, Metallic Paper, Acrylic, LED Strip
Methods: Casting, Laser Cutting
Wood Block Model
Wood Block Model
Tectonic Model View Tectonic Model View Tectonic Model View
Courtyard Perspective
Georgetown Early Learning Center
Seattle, WA
2023 / Academic University of Washington
Architectural Design Studio 301
Professor: Angela Yang
Software: Rhino 3D
Photoshop Lumion
Collaboration: Nathaniel Miller
Julia Dobles
This project is a renovated gas station turned youth education daycare center, located in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood just off of Corson Ave. The Center is composed of two small classrooms, a large gathering and kitchenette space, a library, two semi-private courtyards, and one playground at the central “heart.”
Quality daylighting and effective artificial lighting are most crucial within educational spaces. The intersection of light, greenspace, design, and education are important considerations in this project. Thick white stucco walls, permeable facades, and douglas fir accents give the space a sense of tactility to promote touch and play. The fascinating psychological considerations for designing learning space drove the creative process throughout design development. Rhino model, floor plans, renderings, and photography are my own. Spatial design and model-making done in collaboration with peers.
Temporal Lighting Study
The Courtyard | 7:00am
Courtyard | 7:00pm
Library | 7:00am
The Library | 7:00pm
The
The
Temporal Lighting Study
The Classroom | 7:00am
The Classroom | 7:00pm
The Classroom | 7:00am
The Classroom | 7:00pm
Physical Model
Corson
Little Lake Village
South Lake Union
Seattle, WA
2023 / Academic University of Washington
Architectural Design Studio 302
Professor: Junichi Satoh
Software: Archicad Enscape Photoshop
Collaboration: Kayden Viacrucis Felipe Cruz
Little Lake Village is a new approach to remedy Seattle’s housing crisis. The vision prioritizes collective ownership, self-sustainability, and walkability, to create an egalitarian neighborhood welcoming a diverse array of residents and visitors. By fostering a space where individuals of various social strata can freely interact and build a shared collective identity, a community is created that promotes egalitarian ideals and values while dismantling socio-economic barriers.
Appropriate agency over one’s home encourages collective responsibility and humanistic growth, forming robust, thriving communities. Little Lake Village is an expansion of an existing tiny home community. Integrating social housing with market-rate units offers variety and permanence. The architecture maintains a transient, neighborly quality with higher density and without risk of demolition. All work shown is my own; ideating done in collaboration with my excellent team.
World Cultural Kitchen Hearth Design-Build
Seattle, WA
2024 / Academic Neighborhood Design Build Studio 400
Instructors:
Steve Badanes
Jake LaBarre
Katherine Ranieri
Damon Smith
Software: Revit
The 2024 UW Neighborhood Design-Build Studio designed and constructed a World Cultural Kitchen Oven Pavilion for the UW Farm over the course of one academic quarter. The project is designed to create a farm-to-table experience to support the UW Farm’s function, sitting on the east side of the 2023 build to connect a functional outdoor kitchen with the existing gathering space.
This UW NDBS intervention provides a vibrant, welcoming setting for the celebration and enjoyment of locally grown foods.-table experience at the UW Farm, sitting on the east side of the 2023 build to connect a functional outdoor kitchen with the existing gathering space. Project completed in collaboration with Julia Carceroni, Karisa Choi, Hannah Hu, Elyse Jiang, Izzy Koop, Judy Liu, Mackenzie Manalo, Sydney Miyasato, Vinh Nguyen, Maddy Robertson, Muyun Xiao, Ketki Bhaskar, Paige Cardwell, Kang Hu, and Helen Santoso.
Conceptual Rendering Site Plan
Conceptual Rendering
Design Build Team
Watercolor Paintings
Various Projects
2020 Conceptual Collage | Dormitory on Village Drive
