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.

Conceptual sketch

Stadium during a soccer game

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.

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

Del Webb Lake Murray

LAKE MURRAY,

Project Type

SC | Ongoing

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