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SOF T SHADE Hand-cut and assembled | Photo manipulation with Photoshop
Strands of folded felt that can stretch to be adjusted to create a customizable acoustic sun shader. Intead of cutting holes, this process involves cutting a slit and folding the felt so zero waste is produced.
Visualization - closed
Visualization - expanded
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Folding process Closed arrangement
Folded components
Open arrangement
SUBTRACTIVE PROCESSES Modelled in Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | 3D Printed | Spray painted
As supporting material to ‘Divertable Space’, this project explores subtractive 3D modelling processes developed from subtractive painting processes.
Adaptive circulation
Unfolded elevations
Adaptive assembly space Axonometric views
Immersive photograph of physical model
Subtractive painting
Physical model
DIVERTABLE SPACE Modelled in Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
Subtracting from an abandoned building, this project proposes a methodology for disfiguring abandoned architecture to spark reuse.
East elevation (front facade)
Interior view
South elevation (faces alley)
West elevation (faces park)
Street view
North elevation (faces street)
DIVERTABLE SPACE Drawn in Rhinoceros | Edited in Illustrator
This process applies a Hausman-logic to architecture where buildings are subtracted from to create new trajectories and to reconfigure space.
Floor plan: Level 10
Floor plan: Level 9
Floor plan: Level 8
Floor plan: Level 7
Floor plan: Level 6
Floor plan: Level 5
Section A
Section B A
B Floor plan: Level 4
Floor plan: Level 3
Floor plan: Level 2
Floor plan: Level 1
Floor plan: Level B1
Floor plan: Level B2
Material assembly precedent: Chanel Pavilion by Zaha Hadid
Site Plan
DIVERTABLE SPACE Hand-painted | Diagrammed in Illustrator | Modelled in Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
This project takes place in a speculative setting where the building is partially deconstructed and 3D printed with recycled carbon fiber by robots and drones as a prototype for revitalizing abandoned structures.
Placed Aggregates
Positive Layer (Black)
Ideal curves inventory
Level of irregularity
Too irregular
No Edge Bottom Edge
Subtractive Painting Live Traced
Park view
*scale of curve based on size required for detail resolution
Negative Layer (White)
METHODOLOGY
INVENTORY CREATION PROCESS
Subtractive Painting
Inventory
INVENTORY SELECTION PROCESS
Painted Aggregates
Ideal level of irregularity
Top Edge
Legend
Too regular
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2
Existing building
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Position ideal curves from inventory with rails intersecting at least two perpendicular faces
4 Material close-up Sweeped curve objects
Booleaned objects
DIVERTABLE CITY Drawn in AutoCAD | Rendered in Illustrator
As a precurser to ‘Divertable Space’, this project explores the same methodology as a means for reclaimimg productivity in the obsolescence of Downtown Detroit’s urban demolition and surface parking sites.
Through the layering of different material subtractions, interuptions and diversions create a new pedestrian network for public access. This project began with the implementation of autonomous vehicles to reduce the necessary vehicular infrastructure.
AUDIO-TONIC Modelled in AutoCad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
Chiming multi-unit dwelling that challenges perceptions of privacy through manipulating intensities and presence of sound.
Main floor plan - communal amenities
Street view
The large plastic tubes hung from the facade chime together as the wind blows, or as someone passes through them. Designed for communal living, residents have their own private living spaces on the upper level, and share kitchen and living/entertainment spaces on the main level.
Studies on the social psychology of noise found that people perceive spaces with higher levels of noise as providing more privacy than spaces without noise. In this project, high intensities of plastic chimes are arranged in areas where privacy is desired. Second floor plan - private living quarters
AUDIO-TONIC Modelled in AutoCad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
Varying densities of the plastic chimes creates both an audio and visual distinction between levels of perceivable privacy.
Private bedroom
Second floor hallway
Private living room adjacent to bedroom
Main floor shared dining space
CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER Designed in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Modeled in Maya and Rhinoceros in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Rendered by Sarah Sy
Located along Calgary’s Bow River, this project inserts itself into a revised revitalization plan for the city’s East Village. As part of a social sustainability strategy, the project extends into its surroundings to enhance the waterfront with a variety of public spaces and amenities.
Site plan
Wall Section
South street view
CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER Designed in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Drafted in Autocad
The main floor of the building features public amenities such as a resource library, a gallery, a cafe, and an open auditorium leading up to the upper level where research offices are located. The lower level has a parking lot which is open to the site and waterfront.
Main floor plan
CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER Designed in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Drafted in Autocad
As part of a comprehensive studio, these drawings are a selection of the documents produced in collaboration with Sarah Sy.
Section A
Section C
RETROFITTING GLORIES Modeled in Grasshopper and Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Drawn in Rhinoceros and Autocad
Designed during a study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain, this train station introduces a new stop to an existing train line and connects it to the existing metro station. This would serve as a transportation hub with additional connections created to existing bus routes and tram routes above ground. In response to the Mediterranean climate of Barcelona, this project experiments with open-air materials and level connections while maintaining security and universal accessibility.
Section through multiple transit modes
Plaza view
Section through plaza
Street view with connection to viaduct
Interior view
HOTEL ESPOSTI Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Hand-drawn | Hand-made physical study model
Hotel designed for Milan, Italy with adjustable louvers that allow guests to customize day lighting levels to their personal preferences.
Elevation
Park view
Process sketch of restaurant interior
Interior of restaurant
Study models of restaurant
Interior of restaurant
HOTEL ESPOSTI Drawn in Autocad | Rendered in Illustrator | Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max
The height and location of the louvers corresponds to the interior program based on potential concerns for glare and privacy.
Rotating louver detail
Typical bedroom
Typical bathroom
Typical floor plan with axonometric of standard room
Typical dining/office space
GARDEN BOX Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
Prototype for integrating small rentable pre-fabricated greenhouses in an urban context for local farming. The Seed Exchange tower is dressed with an interior metal grid from which envelopes of seeds may be hung to create an active facade.
Aerial view of site
Interior view of the Seed Exchange tower
Rentable pre-fabricated modules use lock-in-place corner connections, as commonly used in shipping containers. Locked together, the modules form a canopy system above public spaces.
Lower rented greenhouse module with walking platform
Upper rented greenhouse module
Lower rentable module with walking platform
Upper rentable module Sample arrangement of various modules
GARDEN BOX Drawn in Autocad | Rendered in Illustrator | Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
Located in Calgary’s Kensington Village, the site includes a supermarket, a cafe, restaurants, an office building, small retail stores, and the Seed Exchange tower.
Existing train platform with greenhouse module canopy
Greenhouse modules penetrating into the market
Ground floor plan
KLINE PAVILION Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Drawn in autocad | Hand-drawn
Memorial pavilion designed to display Black Reflections painting by Franz Kline.
North elevation
East elevation
West elevation
Street view
Layered gestures
Ground floor plan
Aerial view
Process sketch
Process sketch
South elevation
FUR NITURE Hand-drawn | Physical construction photographed | Edited in Photoshop
Left: Desk designed for children in Africa built without electricity. Right: Donated chair from Toronto’s Furniture Bank revamped for the Chair Affair live auction charity fund-raiser. This was part of a collaborative project involving Ryerson University’s Interior Design, Architecture, Early Childhood Education, and Film students.
Completed chair
Constructed desk imagined inside the school built by the architecture students
Process sketches
Concept sketch
MULTI-SPECIES HOUSE Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Drawn in Autocad | Built by hand and with laser cutter
Multi-species dwelling unit that houses a young family and wild Jack Rabbits that are common to Calgary.
Master bathroom interior
Front view peering inside the site
Site view
Physical Model
Floor plan
Rabbit’s-eye view
LUCID PAVILION Modelled in Grasshopper for Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
Plastic translucent beach pavilion designed as abstract shell.
Perspective
Material iterations
Side view
Interior view
Aerial view
ROC KET CONDOS Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
As an alternative to dumping subway cars into waterways or disassembling them for recycling, this project proposes repurposing retired subway cars into condominiums.
Street view
Dining and living area
Typical bedroom
Courtyard view
ROC KET CONDOS Drawn in Autocad | Rendered in Illustrator | Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop
The subway cars used on the main floor of the building provides commercial opportunities, while the units above are large enough for one to three bedroom condominiums.
Section of one bedroom unit
Two bedroom floor plan
Ground floor plan
One bedroom floor plan
Three bedroom floor plan
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