Thinking Outside the Bowl
QUEENS, NY | Spring 2020
Project Type
Sports & Entertainment, Recreation, Cultural, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Environmental Design
Project Size
3 million ft2 site
Academic Thesis
This thesis project seeks to rethink the role of the stadium, not as a singular catalyst, but as an integrated component within larger urban planning frameworks.
After completing research to identify issues that often plague stadia, I developed strategies to avoid or mitigate these pitfalls. I concluded the thesis by developing a stadium master plan that applies these strategies while addressing the issues and needs of its site in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York. The centerpiece is the Queens Community Stadium, a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium for New York’s two Major League Soccer teams with additional cultural and non-event day use. Adjacent to it are a recreational field house, a community track-andfield, a playground, plazas as well as open green space and a constructed wetland. A pedestrian bridge connects the site to the Corona neighborhood.
Stadium during a soccer game
Conceptual sketch
Residential Drug Treatment Center
PITTSBURGH, PA | Spring 2019
Project Type
Institutional, Health Care, Residential
Project Size
48,000 ft2
Academic Project
For this studio, I chose to design an architectural intervention that would help address the ongoing opioid crisis facing the United States. My research covered the causes and results of this epidemic and the effects it has had on mothers and the way the impacts extend to their children and into the foster care, health care, and education systems.
My design is the adaptive reuse of an apartment building into a residential treatment center where mothers are allowed to take care of their children while undergoing treatment. The upper level is comprised of reconfigured units with balconies added. The ground floor has different spaces to meet the needs of mothers, their children, and the staff. This includes communal living spaces, therapy rooms, enrichment classrooms, de-escalation rooms to handle behavioral problems, offices, and outdoor amenities.
Axonmetric showing the adaptive reuse of the apartment
Second floor plan showing different apartment units
rooms, communal spaces, classrooms, offices, and outdoor amenities
Del Webb Southern Harmony
NASHVILLE, TN | Ongoing
Project Type
Recreational, Hospitality
Project Size
3,550 ft2 Sales Center
21,500 ft2 Amenity Center
Professional Work | LS3P Associates
Del Webb Southern Harmony is a new active adult community located on a 580-acre site outside Nashville. The major structures in this community will be the Sales Center, Amenity Center, Gate House, and other accessory structures. The architectural language of these buildings is that of a modern farmhouse, with gabled metal roofs and board and batten siding, inspired by the barn vernacular of rural Tennessee. The Sales Center will have a sales room underneath its soaring central gable with a design center, office space, and support functions in its wings. The Amenity Center will contain an indoor swimming pool, fitness rooms, and flexible multipurpose spaces.
Role | Designer and BIM Lead
• Contributed to the design of the major buildings and accessory structures
• Built structures in Revit and managed cloud models
• Produced significant portions of the conceptual and schematic drawing sets
• Made drawing sets and renderings for client meetings
• Led Lumion animation production for client’s marketing team
Render of Amenity and Sales Centers as well as surrounding outdoor amenities Amenity Center ground floor plan
Sales Center transverse section
Del Webb Lake Murray
LAKE MURRAY, SC | Ongoing
Project Type
Recreational, Hospitality
Project Size
12,000 ft2 Amenity Center
Professional Work | LS3P Associates
This Del Webb project is located on Lake Murray, a popular recreational destination outside of Columbia.
LS3P is responsible for the design of the Amenity Center, as well as a few accessory structures. The Amenity Center’s form references the site’s many water-based recreational activities by drawing inspiration from boathouses and rowing facilities. The parti consists of two wings: a fitness wing and a meeting wing joined by the entry vestibule and community lounge in the middle.
The fitness wing contains the natatorium and fitness room, which overlooks the infinity edge pool and the lake beyond. The meeting wing includes the meeting space and features the outdoor lookout deck, which cantilevers out towards the lake—creating an outdoor connection to the natural landscape around the building.
Role | Designer and BIM Lead
• Contributed to the design of the Amenity Center
• Modeled structures in Revit and managed cloud models
• Produced significant portions of the conceptual design and drawing sets
• Made drawing sets and presentations for meetings with clients and consultants
Amenity Center floor plan
Amenity Center conceptual sketch
Amenity Center axon
Environmental Charter School
PITTSBURGH, PA | Spring 2018
Project Type
K-12 Education, Environmental Design
Project Size
71,000 ft2
Academic Project
The programmatic organization of the school was based on correlating a student’s daily schedule with the spaces they occur in and the sun’s angle both in plan and section.
Each classroom contains operable auxiliary space that expands the classroom area and facilitates different desk configurations and educational activities. It also serves as a sunspace or air lock and creates an interior-exterior connection
The fly ash concrete chimney walls are another sustainability feature in the school that promote stack ventilation and contain certain mechanical and water retention systems while reusing a polluting waste product.
Ground floor plan
West section-elevation
Multi-purpose/cafeteria space opened to greenspace
Pier 57 Megastructure
MANHATTAN, NY | Fall 2018
Project Type Office, Hotel, Cultural, Institutional, Transit, Urban Design, Landscaping, Environmental Design
Project Size
5.4 million ft2
Academic Team Project
The primary goal of the Pier 76 sustainable megastructure is to respond to the main crises New York faces that threaten its growth and viability as a top-tier global city. These are the transportation crisis, environmental dangers, and the threats to the city’s cultural heritage and production of knowledge and ideas.
The megastructure’s podium consists of a ferry transit hub and a theater/arena venue, as well as levels for residential, education, and shared workspaces. The skyscraper rises above it and contains offices, hotel, and residential floors. The riparian zone extends outward along the river’s edge.
Role
• Contributed to development of the conceptual basis for the project, design work on the tower and riparian edge portions, digital and physical modeling, and the final drawing set and model
Site plan depicting the megastructure and the riparian edge The elevated berm/riparian edge that strings together green spaces along the Hudson to protect the city edgeFin facade/double skin curtain wall study models
Section diagram showing passive and active systems
rainwater collected by fin channels and guided into cisterns
water collected by 6” thick extensive green roof collection rate: summer=70-80% winter=40-50%
transparent pv curtain wall
fins shaped to shade against harsh light in atrium gathering spaces
irrigation tank greywater/ rainwater storage tank
vertical axis wind turbine 1 turbine=10,000 kW/hr 384 turbines=3.84 mil kW/hr
fire sprinklers
