Select Architectural Works
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Academic Work
University of Pennsylvania Masters of Architecture
The Living Laboratory
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Between Two Piers
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Boundary Dispersions
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Shifting Grids
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Governor’s Island, New York City, NY Climate Adaptation and Policymaking Studio
Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia PA Adaptive Reuse Studio
Manayunk, Philadelphia PA Urban Market Studio
The University of Pennsylvania Penn Museum, Philadelphia PA Museum Archive Addition Studio
Passion Projects
Installations + Sketches + Speculative Ideas
Chambers | Empty Shadows
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Still Life Studies
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University of Pennsylvania Chambers Group Project
Varied Subjects
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The Living Laboratory Governors Island, New York City, NY Climate Adaptation and Policymaking Studio Partner Project
It is widely accepted that climate change is a crisis of historic proportions. The fact that seas are rising, and coastal cities are in grave danger of immeasurable flooding and destruction are not in dispute. Recent super-storms and other natural disasters have been directly linked to changes in our atmosphere from a host of man-made pollutants and actions. Governors Island is in a unique position to host a global climate center with its proximity to Lower Manhattan, the most populous of coastal cities likely to experience the effects of climate change. Additionally, the Island has established itself as an early adopter of some of the landscape principles associated with climate sensitive modifications, highlighting a flexibility and progressive governing body. With these positive metrics in mind, the next logical step for the island is to create a international research center as the work put into understanding the effects and potential solutions to climate change has now become a worldwide endeavor.
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WETLAND + RAINWATER FILTRATION SYSTEM Rain water is collected through the umbrellas that funnel runoff to pipes fitted within the root structure that drain to retainment ponds. This gives users immediate access to samples to monitor acidity levels in the rainwater which can then be funneled into freshwater wetlands on the roofs. Once the collected water has been filtered through the artificial wetland system, it is then drained safely into the sea via the internal piping system located in the building’s structural ‘root’ system
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FLOOR PLANS
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PUBLIC EDUCATION + ENGAGEMENT SPACE
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LIVING + ADAPTING FORM Capsules combine public education and research spaces where users can spend time in spaces intended to flood over time to provide a visceral experience to help guests understand the affects of sea level rise. They also learn how wetlands protect coastal communities and fragile ecosystems through interactive research spaces showing how wetlands protect coastal communities and ecosystems, and watch researchers collect sea and rain water samples for testing during flooding and other extreme weather events, helping to learn more on optimizing wetland restoration and protection in built environments.
Between Two Piers Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia PA Adaptive Reuse Studio
The Cherry Street and Race Street Piers act as urban foci along the river where each hold critical activity generators including art, park, and play spaces, coupled with food and beverage, yet both piers act as dead-end peninsulas linked back to Delaware Avenue. Despite having much of the program diversity of a real neighborhood the waterfront lacks urban fabric at a scale that organizes Philadelphia-style block culture. This project generates a new urban fabric that adapts the Philadelphia row-house neighborhood typology to the Delaware River waterfront, spatially existing in-between the binary conditions of inside-out, private and public, and critically, how space is used on land and water Interstitial spaces become critical, facilitating relationships between those who occupy the space for work, leisure, and living, investigating themes of ownership, mixed-use, and material expressions that respond to a unique and fluid landscape and facilitate a housing project inclusive to all residents of Philadelphia.
URBAN FABRIC ON THE WATER Both piers create distinctive ‘places’, yet lack an urban strategy to connect and unite them with a cohesive identity. Ignoring the obvious solution to provide housing built atop the pier’s, the proposal instead uses the space in between to insert housing, allowing residents and guests to circulate the neighborhood via waterways and boardwalks.
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NEIGHBORHOOD FABRIC TYPOLOGY + APPLICATION
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Building a neighborhood from scratch is a daunting endeavor and one that often brings to mind monotonous suburban sprawl-- not the ideal solution in urban centers that rely on density to create affordable housing solutions. This process began with a deep analysis of what makes a row home a row home, a Philadelphia Street a Philadelphia Street, and how these combine to make Philadelphia neighborhoods and a unique urban fabric.
INFILL STRATEGY + UNIT ASSEMBLY PROCESS
Inspired by the growth of barnacles and other water-loving anthropoid creatures, the housing strategy groups different housing types into small clusters to evoke the shared-wall typology of Philadelphia row homes and used their growth logics to develop a site strategy that promoted future infill and growth.
MODES OF CIRCULATION
Pedestrian Circulation
House Circulation
Kayak Circulation
The neighborhood is fully accessed via the boardwalk and kayak launch pads, located on each cluster with public stairs to the main level. Internal circulation for each unit is centered around shared core stairs that lead to outdoor patios both above and below the core living areas.
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LEVELS OF LIVING Each cluster features open living, dining, and kitchen spaces with a intimate atmosphere generated through the use of sunken floors. Dramatic skylights offer views of the iconic Benjamin Franklin Bridge, allowing ample daylight to penetrate deep into the units. This in turn allows privacy to be retained for the residents despite the increase in foot traffic from visitors to the neighborhood. Windows along the sides of the clusters are narrow and focused, staggered to minimize the opportunity for neighbors awkwardly peer into one-another’s homes.
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HOME EXPERIENCE
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RIVER EXPERIENCE
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Dispersing Boundary Conditions Manayunk, Philadelphia PA Urban Market Studio Featured in Pressing Matters 9 Distributions of program, landscape elements, and micro collections reveal inherent boundary conditions that affect perceptions of space. These boundary conditions are both dissolved and exaggerated through the employment of scale and is used as the metric in which to question what a marketplace historically has been, is currently, and can become in the future. Relationships between collections of material studies were drawn through a set of rules to both disrupt, co-exist, and dominate the manifesting boundaries, revealing qualities that challenge biases and unveil opportunities. The emergent qualities embody the market’s main commodity, air, as an entity that organizes space through diametric placement in order to blend spaces of both restrained and unrestrained elements in parallel to one another.
MICRO MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION STUDIES Through a series of ink and water studies, binary conditions are immediately revealed. However, deeper readings reveal more nuance than this either-or conclusions and highlight the transition between as a gradient. Multiplying and layering the individual binary conditions can act to further the dissolution of the initial boundary perception.
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MACRO DISPERSIONS ANALYSIS When applied to the larger context of the city, scale is employed to both exaggerate and dissolve the preliminary threshold reading between conditions
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AIR AS COMMODITY Sensory experiences are the dominant interpretation of how air can be commercialized. Spatial sequences generate a speculative parkland in the marketplace allowing users to question their understanding of how space is defined, what it can be used for, and where it begins and ends. Inherent within this built landscape is the dispersion of boundary conditions as spaces flow and merge into one another defying definition and compartmentalization.
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PROGRAM KEY 1. Infusion House 2. Skydiving Center 3. Trampoline Room
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CUT-AWAY AXONOMETRIC CHUNK
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Shifting Grids The University of Pennsylvania Penn Museum, Philadelphia PA Museum Archive Addition Studio Museum archives offer diametrically opposed experiences to users despite their purpose to educate the public and preserve and research the artifacts they store. Offering the appearance of transparency in the guise of promoting cross-cultural understanding, at first glance, archives appear to facilitate learning across ages and cultures. However, the majority of archives hide their procedural operations from the public, continuing to perpetuate misconceptions, errors in object uses prevent and a more holistic and deep understanding of a culture. Revealing the hidden functions of the archive to bring greater clarity to the user experience is the project’s premise. A series of shapefinding manifestations to derive solid and void form from found objects is used to create a spatial arrangement that highlights the new addition’s increasingly complex programmatic functions, yet maintains transparency for the user experience.
FOUND PATTERNS AS FORM GENERATION Site patterns are layered, then aggregated, creating a found and contextual form where space is carved and filled. Previously hidden functions are brought to the fore yet sequestered through structural layering of frame and volume to protect the integrity of those spaces
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FRAME + VOLUME IDEATION
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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SHIFTING GRIDS Programs intersect and overlap in response to the additions geometric form with user’s experiencing spaces that allow traditionally diametric spaces to coexist in parallel to one another to create a richer, more nuanced user experience.
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Chambers | Empty Shadows University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA Museum Artifact Installation Partner Project
The act of display elevates an object in the mind to one of great importance. This gesture can do much to bring understanding to museum guests when ordinary object’s receive this treatment as attention is finally given to it, leading observers to inquire to its purpose, history, and impacts. While the celebration of everyday objects is not without value, the act of displaying an object inherently skews the perspective of patrons to perhaps give an object out-sized importance or reverence. The distorted perspective that displaying objects causes, brought rise to exploring how one could view artifacts, without having the mind create a bias towards the objects importance. Using light, shadows, transparency, and projection, this conceptual project strove to create a new lens in which to misdirect the understanding of artifacts contained within the chamber, highlighting the distortions that change how one views certain common, every-day objects.
ARTIFACT SHADOW PROJECTIONS
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EMPTY SHADOWS Users are only able to observe the traces of the artifacts, deliberately placed to have their outlines bend and fold over extrapolated euclidean geometries pulled from the artifacts themselves. This further distorts their reading, preventing attachment and significance from replacing understanding and learning by users distracted by the preeminence of having the object placed on a pedestal.
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Passion Projects Digital Media, Charcoal, Graphite 2015-2019 Free Hand Sketching and Digital Composition
Left | Formal exploration using found profiles from Giambattista Nollis’ map of Rome, seam articulation and material application tests Rhino 6 Render + VRay
Page 50 | Interior stairwell still life sketch Graphite on recycled sketch paper series 200
Page 51 | Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Cast Gallery Charcoal on heavyweight series 500
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