Bachelor of Science in Architecture, expected graduation May 2025 Aug 2021-present GPA: 3.85 Minors: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability Honors: James B. Angell Scholar, 2023-2024; University Honors, 2021-2024.
Barcelona School for International Studies Barcelona, Spain Participant, Multidisciplinary Studies in Barcelona June 2022
University of Illinois Champaign, IL Participant, Discover Architecture Pre-College Program July 8-21, 2018 Experience
University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
Ann Arbor, MI Peer mentor May 2024-present
•Provide guidance and mentorship to incoming Taubman members to enable academic and social support.
Acknowledging the increasing demand for artificial turf with hopes of sustainability,this project explores innovative ways to transform a building into a dynamic showcase for Turfmania, an artificial turf company. The design prominently features a strip motif, echoing the dimensions of Turfmania’s products, which typically come in 12 and 15-foot strips.
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By seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor spaces, the building caters to three distinct perspectives: potential customers, office staff, and landscaping professionals. Strategically situated near the US 23 exit and at the intersection of Geddes and Dixboro Roads, the building erves as a beacon for visitors, embodying the essence of turf both externally and internally.
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The unique curved roof not only offers glimpses into the building’s interior but also serves as a canvas for showcasing the versatility of artificial turf, highlighting different surface types and applications.
In addition to showcasing turf applications, Turfmania focuses on meeting the demand for sports fields in the county, specializing in field marking. As such, the site transforms into a practical playing and working field for landscape professionals, particularly on its south-facing facade, where mark-making techniques can be demonstrated and perfected.
Turfmania
An investigation of the figure ground relationships within the house drawn based off of the floor plans to explore the relationship between the intended boundaries of the house and actual boundaries
University of Limerick President’s House: UNDO
Course: Architectural Design I | Instructor: Jono Sturt | Fall 2023 | Individual
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The University of Limerick President’s House in Limerick, Ireland by Grafton Architects was built in 2010. The house gains inspiration from traditional Irish architecture with its three-tower structure as it sits isolated in a rural landscape to serve as the living space of the university’s president. The formal rooms of the house occupy three levels facing south as they are confined to one tower while the more private informal rooms and bedrooms are stacked to form a protective wall to the north within the other two towers. The two staircases located in the house allow for two parallel worlds to co-exist; that of the private family life and the more formal public role for which the house has to cater. Therefore, the private space is kept separate from the formal world of the house.
Study models investigating various ways to convey the solid and void relationship within the house as the “hub” evolves into being shown as a solid
The UNDO portion of the investigation of the University President’s House entails the translation and abstraction of house. The final model produced employs and reveals the precedent’s mechanics by interpreting and re-forming them into a distilled The model emphasizes the solid and void relationship within the dimensionally through an analysis of the way people move through
The two similar right-angle triangles dictate the form of the intersect at the “hub” of the house. Within the regions bounded triangles, the house’s circulation takes place as both of the confined within these regions, creating unoccupied space. Additionally, “hub” becomes the sole location that enables movement
showing the finalized programmatic solid and void relationship within the house twodimensionally as the black regions indicate voids while
Diagram
white regions convey solids
University of Limerick of the precedent precedent’s formal distilled abstraction. the house threethrough the space.
the house as they bounded by the the staircases are Additionally, the among towers.
The three-dimensional abstraction of the solid and void relationship indicated in the diagram manifests itself in the final model as one triangle becomes implied as it splits the solid into two while also maintaining its integrity and the other shoots through the left side at an angle. Contrary to the initial impulse, the intersection of these two void triangles creates the “hub” that becomes a solid itself, which is
University of Limerick President’s House: UNDO
Final model
University of Limerick President’s House: REDO
Course: Architectural Design I | Instructor: Jono Sturt | Fall 2023 | Individual
The REDO of the University of Limerick President’s House explores the process of copying, transforming, and recombining existing ideas within the precedent house to a new house in an urban context within a 24’ x 60’ lot with two neighboring houses.
Isometric drawing indicating the 3 tower assembly
Tower 1
Tower 2
Tower 3
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Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Second floor plan
While the REDO maintains the three-tower structure, it re-evaluates the existing program and the definition of public and private space. Tower one, which exists on all three floors, encapsulates the entertainment and communal spaces such as the kitchen, dining room, living room, and terrace. Tower two manifests itself on the first floor as it serves as the secondary unit of the house with bedrooms and bathrooms for guests. Lastly, the third tower only becomes visible on the third floor as it serves as the primary unit for the residents and it includes the largest bedroom, bathroom, closet, and balcony space. The balcony space refers back to the UNDO assignment as it shows a glimpse of the triangle void shooting through the solid at an angle. Sectionally, the contrast among the towers becomes visible through the shift in ceiling heights, wall thicknesses, and roofs.
1/8” scale model of the massing of the house portrayed from the front, left and top
The core model built at a 3/8” = 1’ 0” scale conveys the three-tower assembly through its modular design.
Sections
This project investigates alternative images of the body as a system of parts registering orientation, measure, and movement. The 1:1 scale Neck Piece apparatus, made after an exploration of folding techniques, enables fluidity, continuity, and multifunctionality as it exists through the translation of two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional objects. The rigid form of the Neck Piece created based on geometric and structural logic, enables the apparatus to have the flexibility to define and accentuate the relationship between human skin, material skin, and structure.
Becoming a second skin, the apparatus wraps around the neck and is adjustable for every individual. Through every movement in the neck, the individual cells on the neck piece compress and expand within the region of movement, in contrast to the rigid form without movement, and exaggerates a particular action with the neck.
Folding technique samples
Seamless: The Neck Piece
Course: Scale | Instructor: Zain Abuseir | Fall 2022 | Group work with Enzai Li
This project aims to create a three-dimensional cube construct with solid and void relationships. Starting with unrolling a cube and constructing a grid to produce a series of profiles of geometric primitives, this cube inhabits varying scales of curves and compound shapes.
Then rolling up the cube, the curves are extruded at various depths through the cube as they all touch. Subsequently, the extruded curves are unioned into one water-tight volume to subtract from the original cube.
Form generation isometric process drawings
Isometric (NE)
Isometric (NE)
Isometric (NE)
Isometric view (NE)
Elevation oblique
Elevation Oblique
Elevation Oblique
Elevation Oblique
Isometric (SW)
Isometric (SW)
Isometric (SW)
Isometric view (SW)
Elevation Oblique Isometric (SW) Isometric (NE)
Plan oblique
Plan Oblique
Plan Oblique
Plan Oblique
Plan Oblique
Form Generation Isometric
Plan Oblique
Elevation Oblique
Isometric (SW)
Multi-view
Multi-View
Plan Oblique
Plan Oblique Sections
After producing two profile curves of the newly produced volume, these profile lines became trimming objects in order to achieve the final solid as they were extruded.
Irem Hatipoglu | Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Working with a precedent design, this course investigates how things are built and assembled. Throughout the course, working with hand tools, wood, and various joinery methods, such as dowels and chiseling, the final iteration of the stool was constructed as a weight-bearing full-scale piece of furniture.
The final stool incorporates squared-off 2x4s and dowel joinery to enable the assembly of the two wings of the stool.
Top view Front view
Multi-view drawing
The Cube
Course: Imaging | Instructor: Adam Fure | Fall 2022 | Individual
Created through iterative combinations of simple shapes, the cube embodies various elements such as rectangles, lines, circles, arches, and organic figures throughout its six faces. These elements are presented with a vivid color palette that includes colors such as green, blue, orange, purple, white, and ivory. Whereas, the background remains consistent within the cube through a neutral solid fill.
Some geometries also act as a background, which is visible on the top face with the purple rectangle. Through overlaying, interweaving, and utilizing various opacity values, a sense of depth and threedimensionality is conveyed to the viewer.
Unrolled cube map
Isometric views of the rolled up cube
Isometric view
Back view
Interior detail
The final iteration of the cube aims to provide an expanded threedimensional version to the viewer. Utilizing the previous color scheme of greens, blues, ivory, beige, magenta, and orange, the rectangular prism embodies various two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.
Similar purple and blue arches, orange half circles, orange toruses, and ivory spheres from the cube reappear within the expansion in order to create varying volumes and voids. With the final addition of entourage, the space and objects become more defined in terms of purpose, such as a living room, bookshelf, hallway, and couch.
Isometric view
The earring consists of amber-colored glass that is shaped using a torch. Later on, the individually shaped petals were glued with epoxy to achieve the layered half-circle pine cone form.
The Pine Cone Earring
Independent | Winter 2020 | Individual
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One of the most prominent and influential architects, Antonio Gaudi said, “Nothing is art if it doesn’t come from nature.” As the concept of biomimicry inspires me, the Pine Cone Earring and the extension of the project, the Pine Cone Chair utilizes this concept on the micro and meso levels. The Pine Cone Earring accentuates the natural layers of the pine cone. It melds together eco-friendly materials and the natural idea of beauty.
As the subsequent piece of the pine cone series, the chair executes biomimicry on the meso level. The form of the chair recreates the conical and the layered silhouette of the pine cone.
The project is also an interplay of the relationship between practicality and aesthetics. Generally, foldable chairs serve functionality; however, they simultaneously deprioritize aesthetics. Therefore, this foldable wooden chair is not only practical and ergonomic but also aesthetically pleasing.
The chair consists of an assembly of cut-out elliptical wooden strips that were stained and polished to enhance its natural grains and gray metallic spraypainted thin strips of wood.
Close up depiction of the natural waste
Close up depiction of the human waste
The Waste Capsule
Independent | Winter 2020 | Individual
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Blending human and natural waste into a capsule inspires a contrast that we ignore and deny.
The use of transparent colorless glass in the form of a capsule enables a clear display of the composition of materials and textures on both sides of the capsule. The rigid division in the middle of the light fixture is formed by a barrier of resin that helps strongly depict the disturbance of nature by human waste.
The human waste half of the capsule contains cables, plastic waste, plastic bottle caps, and others. These are fixed into place by resin to signify that they are firm and difficult to recycle.
The other natural half with unfixed decomposable waste such as leaves, pine cones, and branches is brightened with an LED strip. The light softly pours to create a soothing environment that references the natural flow and decomposition within natural ecosystems.
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The Pavilion
Course: UIUC Discover Architecture Program | Summer 2018 | Individual
Pavilions are structures that are visually pleasing and functional in communal spaces. The pavilion’s main purpose is to create a resting space for passers-by who want to sit on the grass in the park under its shadow.
The varying basswood sticks and panels used for the model represent varying functions of materials. Different-sized rectangular wooden panels on one side of the v-shape represent pieces of colorful stained glass that may be incorporated into the actual construction to reflect sunlight while also incorporating dimension and color. This ingenious use of shadow gives the structure appealing dynamism. Its structural frame made from wood promotes organic material usage that is also durable.
