I am a junior pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon. I am passionate about community led design, challenging approaches to sustainability, communication & graphic design excellence, and creative problem solving within the field of architecture.
My interests include abstract approaches to design, art, photography and being in nature. These are reflected within my projects, strengthening my critical thinking and architectural endeavours.
FLIGHT / ANCHOR
Project: Portland Performing Arts Center
Professor: Sioban Rockcastle
Course: ARCH 384 Spring 2023
This project focuses on a creative theater within an urban infill project in downtown Portland. Located across the Park Blocks, this building is a gift to the local community, celebrating the experience of the arts. The architectural concept is grounded within the experience of the performer, and this is reflected in the careful design of prospect and refuge. As visitors enter, they can either ascend to the curving tiered atrium which reflects the stage, or decend to the dark black box theater within the basement which represents the role of the audience.
PROCESSION THROUGH THE ATRIUM
ATRIUM AS A STAGE
GALLERY
CAFE
SCENE STUDIO
OFFICE(S)
GROUND LOBBY
LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVE SECTION THROUGH CENTRAL ATRIUM
EAST ELEVATION FROM NORTH PARK BLOCKS
NORTH ELEVATION FROM PUBLIC STREET
CROSS SECTION THROUGH CENTRAL ATRIUM
INTERIOR RENDER OF CURVED TIERS FACING EAST PARK BLOCKS
EAST EXTERIOR RENDER FROM PARK BLOCKS
REVIVING ROOTS
Project: Portland Performing Arts Center
Professor: Sami Chohan
Course: ARCH 484 Winter 2024
This project is set within an abandoned industrial lot located within the lively community of Whiteaker, Eugene. The studio focuses on redefining relationships - including all forms of life, the natural elements, and the earth. This led research towards concepts such as urban forests, agriculture, and indigenous knowledge systems. Looking to indigenous culture as a source of inspiration and guidance, the project simultaneously aims for this solution to be collaborative, inviting indigenous communtiies in Eugene to lead, and recognizing this land as the original home of the Kalpuya people. Thus, the project attempts to heal the land, center indigenous agency, and rebuild the relationship between humans and the natural world as a shared ecosystem.
How can we design for a collective ecosystem of people, animals, plants, trees and soil?
How can agiruclture support reciprocity, rather than harmful cycles of extraction? How can we simultaneously heal the land through this process? Can growth and healing become a symbiotic relationship?
GROWTH
HEALING
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
CROSS SECTION - RELATIONSHIPS OF THE SHARED ECOSYSTEM
IL COMPLESSO DELLA
BASILICA PALLADIANA
Project: Vicenza, Italy, Palladio Museum + Market Hall
Professor: Jim Givens, Donald Corner
Course: ARCH 484 Spring 2024
This studio focused on exploring a civic gift for the city of Vicenza in Italy that celebrates public life and the cultural history of the region. The program is divided into the Palladio museo, public market hall, and the central courtyard. The massing takes strategic moves in shaping public space and responding to the vernacular fabric, and the museum takes on a vital role in facing the main piazza alongside the Palladian Basilica.
How can we design at the intersection of old and new?
Taking inspiration from many architectural projects during the study abroad program, the museum design is centered on providing a transformative spatial experience for users. Utilizing existing ruins spaces underneath the site, the Palladian museum leads users down into a basement gallery. The basement is celebrated by sacred toplighting and concrete material expression, and thus creates a social plateau above for the public courtyard and marketplace. Users are then lead upwards towards washes of light, a sequence that ends with a grand collection room of works by Palladio.
MARKET DEFINES PUBLIC CIRCULATION
SITE AXES RESPONSES
RESEARCH
MAJOR AND MINOR SPACES
SITE RESPONSE DIAGRAMS
PROGRAM MASSING
Z SHAPED CIRCULATION
OUTDOOR SPACE RENDER
AXONOMETRIC SECTION THROUGH MUSEUM, MARKET, AND OUTDOOR SPACE
OUTDOOR URBAN FURNITURE AND SOCIAL PLATEAU
SACRED TOPLIGHTING STRATEGY NATURAL LIGHT WASHES
STRUCTURAL MEMBERS JUXTAPOSING GRID
EXPRESSION OF CONCRETE MATERIALITY
BAY STUDY
MAKE / SHIFT
Project: Portland Furniture Studio
Professor: Sebastian Guivernau
Course: ARCH 484 Fall 2023
This studio focused on exploring spaces for remote work within existing building programs. I chose a furniture studio: a creative, productive and aesthetic environment to work in. The Woodworking Furniture Store and Factory focuses on Modularity: an idea echoed through form, sequence and materiality - both in regards to the manufactured projects and the facility design.
A key concept emerges concerning the user experiencein which invited work can make module furniture, and shift it to accomodate personal and worklife needs. The project aims to lead a return to woodworking craft and quality within it’s industrial context, opposing modern applications of plastic and metal mass production.
GROUND PLAN OF FURNTIURE FACTORY + STORE ON THE SITE
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF FURNITURE FACTORY
WOOD WORKSPACE BALCONIES
ACCESS TO FRESH AIR AND NATURE ON PUBLIC LEVEL WOOD MODULAR WORKSHOPS
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF FURNITURE STORE
SAW TOOTH SKYLIGHT ADDED FOR NATURAL LIGHT & COHESION WITH INDUSTRIAL TYPOLOGY WOOD FLOORING IN PUBLIC HALLWAYS
ALONGSIDE WAREHOUSE TO CREATE PUBLIC SPACE FOR WOODWORKING AND WORK WOODEN SIDE DECK EXTERIOR ADDITON THAT LEADS TO NATURE AND VIEWS OF RIVER FRONT COURTYARDS BELOW DECK IN FRONT LINING ENTRANCES INTO FIRST LEVEL WORKSHOPS
CODING CIRCULATION FOR SAFETY AND ASTHETICS IN THE FACTORY
CROSS SECTION OF FURNITURE FACTORY
FRACTURES
Project: Grasshopper Parametric Design
Professor: Nancy Cheng
Course: ARCH 423 Fall 2023
While the goal was to utilize the program Grasshopper to produce a unique architectural project, I focused on the opportunities computational design can offer landscape planning. Developing an iterative complex geometric pattern, this design transformed user experience of green spaces, as well as the approach to gardening. It is adaptable to any context, and can be integrated into community gardens, city green spaces, and even children playgrounds.
The seemingly “Fractured” pattern becomes a method of organizing landscaping, and supports species growth through filtering rainwater into deep planters that penetrate the soil In addition, the pattern becomes adjustable and through an attractor, meaning that one could manipulate the sizing of the fractures for different applications.
