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Fall 2022 • in collaboration with Isa Restrepo • under direction of Prof. Marcos Parga
Producing pockets of Puerto Rico in the Bronx.
Just as vernacular Puerto Rican casitas spring up throughout the gardens of Melrose, barrio cre ates flexible spaces for this particular type of gathering and cultural expression. In these shared spaces, neighborhood residents are seen sharing food, dancing, and any other facets of what may preserve the idea of home from hundreds of miles away. It’s an act of taking back parts of the city and revitalizing them to make the city feel more like home. barrio aims to give the city access to this space typology without the risk of being displaced. A system of casita spaces are established throughout a primary 30ft ^3 grid. Standardized units on a secondary 10ft^3 grid become the building blocks for endless permutations of space distribution with the agency of those inhabiting. The middle floor of each vertical 10ft^3 grid is reserved for negotation between the inhabitants of the top and bottom floor. This negotiable space allows the space to adapt with the changes that might occur within a household, such as a child moving away for college or the moving in of relatives immigrating from abroad, and encourages interaction between people who might have otherwise remained strangers. The permanence of the primary 30ft^3 grid is expressed with a dominating concrete materiality and the ephemeral moving parts allow for informal adjustment of space with lighter cross laminated timber panels. The framework not only evokes a need to fill, but also creates a lighter spatial language sensitive to the surrounding context.
Fall 2021 • solo • under direction of Prof. Seok Min Yeo
290 E Onondaga Street shouldn’t try to compete with the existing ego battle of church and state, but rather weave it.
Fall 2021 • in collaboration with Xiaohan Liu • under direction of Prof. Molly Hunker
A twisting formal grid expressing the passage of time is filled with semi-formal
In the Spring 2022 semester we were asked to propose a farm incubator and restaurant on the Mohawk River near Schenectady, New York. Our project aimed to play with the ideas of formality and sequence; the rotated grid and the volumes formed within express the journey from farm to research to retail.
Using my background as a Cranbrook weaver to play with the screen and ideas of privacy.
The final project for the Spring 2021 semester involved creating an art incubator in the downtown area of Syracuse. I interpolated a detail from a Loja Saarinen tapestry that I grew up looking at to create a screen with varying porosity to express the privacy of each space on the interior.
Spring 2022 • solo • personal
I make digital fashion collages in my free time that have helped me learn anything I need to learn.
This is a project in which I compiled looks for the remaining races of the 2022 Formula One season, and documented them with digital collages. The project was born out of my fear of Adobe Photoshop and my newfound interest in the sport—at its heart, the exercise is meant to take something I’m really quite afraid of (but really need to face nevertheless) and find a way to approach it in a way that I can find fun. I also enjoy playing dress up with my own clothes—using them to find what kinds of new characters I can create when I combine them. it’s been a really lovely way to translate the excitement of race week and race day so far, and it’s been working fantastically in the learning photoshop aspect as well.
