Selected Works 2012-2017
[PROFESSIONAL WORK] WORKPLACE | Corporate Campus in Mountain View [continued...]
Nestled low into the landscape, this new campus will provide courtyards and green-roof access to over 2,000 employees in 640,000 square feet. This cam about the wellbeing and unity of people and place. This project is targeting LEED Platinum, Net Zero Water per the Living Building Challenge, and Well
mpus, utilizing timber construction, is first and foremost Building Standard certification.
[PROFESSIONAL WORK] INSTITUTIONAL | California State University, Monterey Bay
Located in the heart of the Cal State Monterey Bay campus, this new academic building will house the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Platinum. I was in charge of building a physical model emphasizing the relationship of the central courtyard to the existing landscape as well assisting
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RESIDENTIAL | Tropical House
This sustainable home is driven by the local tropical weather, emphasizing passive cooling, solar orientation, wind direction, and landscape design. Wo containing private program float above the main living spaces, while a central service wall runs east-west allowing sea-breeze to flow through the home. The opens up to the exterior in this region, where covered, airy spaces are frequently inhabited.
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RESIDENTIAL | Tropical House [continued...]
A large canopy creates a double-roof that folds down the south facade to protect against direct sunlight, while the north facade opens up to invite plenty of indirect light into the living spaces. The pool pushes right up to the southern facade, allowing light to bounce on to the low kitchen ceiling while the main living space enjoys ambient lighting in the double-height glass enclosure. Pleasant weather allows the spatial carport to transform into an informal living space.
COMPETITION | Social Housing - Macro study
The competition brief was to improve the quality of life for low-income families by providing a new speculative living environment in the city center of M Colombia. The intent was to breathe life into the dilapidated site at all times of the day, by connecting the street to the proposed commercial and residential fronting the elevated plaza. Straightforward construction methods and local materials help offer a feasible and simple solution to the housing problem at h
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COMPETITION | Social Housing - Micro Study [continued...]
Zooming in from the urban to the residential scale, the speculative units were thoughtfully designed to be flexible, allowing units to adjust accordingly as families expand and contract. Operable built-in walls embrace the “machine for living� philosophy, sliding open to create sleeping quarters only for rest, and remaining closed allow for ample living spaces. With minimal unit kitchens, the inhabitants come together in the experimental communal cooking and living spaces to bond as a community, as children play in the plaza below.
URBAN DESIGN | Famagusta EcoCity Project
After travels to Cyprus, this project was designed to revitalize the ghost city of Famagusta in hopes of unifying the divided country. Creating this livable city by improving walkability, sustainability, transportation and eco-tourism, would help promote this urban prototype to be implemented in other conflict zones across the globe.
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URBAN DESIGN | Famagusta EcoCity Project [continued...]
Zooming in from the regional scale, a prototypical neighborhood was studied as the sum of parts to the whole. This neighborhood concept could be implemented in “cells� around cultural hubs to keep residential and commercial program tightly woven. Each neighborhood could take ownership around a local plaza with its own commercial and nightlife culture.
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URBAN DESIGN | Famagusta EcoCity Project [continued...]
In order to create a sense of place that is unique to Famagusta, existing structures were restored whenever possible to act as relics of the past. The new construction needs to work together with the humble existing architecture to create a seamless architectural statement of regional modernism. New cultural hubs such as museums and libraries are placed within walking distance to connect the dots with commercial centers and public pools at the revitalized waterfront neighborhood. 4
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HIGH-RISE | Park Slope Tower in Tampa, Fl
At an urban scale, this speculative mixed use high-rise features an elevated public park, creating a new place for the neighborhood to hold events and have view of the city. In response to the quaint commercial street, the residential tower sits back on the south end of the site while the park slopes down to mee scale of the street room. The parking garage keeps a low profile by elongating itself along the underside the park. Private dog and children’s parks above th which fronts onto the central breezeway, are visible from the communal terraces on every third floor of the tower.
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HIGH-RISE | Park Slope Tower [continued...]
Taking a closer look, southern facade extrudes not only to give residents bay-facing terraces but to protect the units from the harsh southern sun. The units, comprised of studios, standards, and penthouses with double-height living spaces, alternate floors to rovide a variety of options for inhabitants. Communal terraces facing Park Slope allow for community activities, such as barbeque’s with neighbors, that would typically only be offered in the local suburbs.
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ADAPTIVE RE-USE | Live+Work Warehouse
By blurring the lines between object and architecture, the intent was to retro-fit an existing warehouse shell as well as designing many of the elements in t one with the architecture. Respecting the simplicity of the warehouse typology, the proposed architecture peels up the metal roof to allow light to enter unraveled elevation study makes it difficult to determine when the furniture elements end and the architecture begins.
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ADAPTIVE RE-USE | Live+Work Warehouse [continued...]
Programatically, the site calls for a residential unit as well as a small retail unit to service the immediate context. In this study, a coffee shop makes fronts the humble plaza. The residence makes use of the remaining shell space, allowing exterior access to the public and private spaces. Section mod
s use of the East portion of the warehouse and dels study the built-in elements at a larger scale.
ADAPTIVE RE-USE | Live+Work Warehouse [continued...]
Among many elements, the kitchen island lives in a world between coffee table and architecture. It becomes an functional expression of materiality an space with its retractable roller-table. Similar to a piece of casework, the front facade receives a flexible threshold which allows the building to brea
nd tectonics as it transforms the kitchen/dining athe as the coffee shop brings the outdoors in.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN | Flat-Pack Wood Stool
The intent of this prototype was to create a simple stool that provides visual clarity, ease of assembly, and mass production potential. Four simple forms come together with one fastener to create an elegant interpretation of the everyday stool.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN | Flat-Pack Wood Stool [continued...]
Creating sculpture out of everyday objects makes me think about how exceptional architecture relates to the banal. There is beauty in both, relative to time and place, so finding the balance between the two is very interesting to me.
FURNITURE DESIGN | Coffee Table
As the centerpiece of a space, the coffee table has the opportunity to make both a personal and architectural statement. The dual-function steel element serves as the primary structure while acting as a bookshelf. The cantilevered glass becomes a window, expressing the beautiful solid wood where a personal object is put on display.
FURNITURE DESIGN | Lighting
In a study of materiality and tectonics, concrete and steel come together using a variety of details to create a functional lamp. Seamless steel folds to direct light, while concrete is on display as the grounding element holding the piece together.
AFTER HOURS | Speculative Coffee Tables
The 2|4|1 steel coffee table in essence is two metal sheets, bent four times, and joined with a single detail, gravity. The stream coffee table utilizes concrete as a binding element for two walnut slabs. Details for a steel & leather coffee table express an architectural channel as a hand-hold and structural detail.
AFTER HOURS | Design Meets Machine Borrowing from 6 years of architectural education, I set out to build a motorcycle with a reduced essence. By refining an existing 1970’s moto, I used it as context to design and build the interventions that would allow this complex machine to embody simplicity. Using metal, fiberglass, and leather, while experimenting in a new industry, I like to imagine that I designed a building with two wheels and a throttle.
PHOTOGRAPHY | Bruges | Copenhagen
Travel allows me to see architecture through an alternative lens, one where the human experience interacts with and becomes one with the architecture. We design for people, so I truly enjoy when my shot is brought to life with a spontaneous passerby. Incredible traditional architecture sets the stage for contemporary architects to perform, challenging our notions of what the built environment should be.
PHOTOGRAPHY | Ghent
PHOTOGRAPHY | Copenhagen | San Francisco | Bruges
PHOTOGRAPHY | Teshima | Naoshima | Kyoto
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