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Thesis: The Sublime & the Artifice Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship: The Sublime & the Artifiice Borderline Encounters: Traveling Fellowship & Exhibition Thesis: Borderhood, Re-imagining the Canada | U.S. Borderlan nds Extractive States: Chemical Valley: Site Investigation of Sarnia, Aamjiwnaang First Nation and CN Rail

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Questioning Standards: Reimagining Cuban Road Construction n Re-tooling Metropolis: LA! The Four Ecologies 2.0 KPF Paul Katz Fellowship: Hybrid Infrastructural Ecologies for Sydney Searise and Sunset: Re-imagining Miami Prototyping the City: Land-form/ Urban-form Towards a Transcendental Infrastructural Urbanism The (Green) Continuous Monument Danteum Redux: Incision Cryonics Purgatory Et in Arcadia Ego Medusa: Toxic Actuation Interactive Moss Canopy Structural Modeling: Bijlmer ArenA Train Station Hans Bethe: Installation Paper Thin Installation Snow Grid

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Detroit Future City Models Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan

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Nantucket Coastal Resilience Plan Coastal Resilience Solutions for East Boston and Charlestown Coastal Resilience Solutions For Downtown Boston And North End New England Aquarium And Blueway Design L Street Power Station Redevelopment A Regenerative Strategy: Arnos Vale Modern City Project C Shenzhen Future City Shenzhen Xili Transportation Hub Competition Proposal Boston Public Library Plaza Gallaudet University 6th Street Development International Competition: Open Door Seaport City Feasibility Study Jingdezhen Visitor Center Proto Kendall Square: 88 Ames Street NYC Residential Tower RFP / Twin Towers Miami Apartment Interior Design Other Architecture Professional Works Sustain: Energy & Daylighting Research Research: Modeling & Rendering Complexity Modeling Mangroves Mise-en-Scène Drawings: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes Buoyant Clarity Mapping Urban Intermedia: Mumbai, Animation

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Ink Acrylics

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1_Existing site section 2_Existing site plan 3_Panorama of the Empire Stores, the “white box” for the experimentation 4_A perspective cut framing the Brooklyn Bridge from within the Empire Stores

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Thesis: The Sublime & the Artifice 1st Place Thesis Award, Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Silver Medal 2013, Cornell University Spring 2013, ongoing personal research Advisers: Andrew Lucia, Kevin Pratt† & Val Warke

Defined as “greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation”, the sublime describes the unbelievable sights and transcendental qualities of architectural conditions, art installations, or vast landscapes. It causes astonishment and visceral experience in the viewer in which all the “motions of the soul are suspended, with some degree of horror” (Burke, 57).

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Monumentality: Carl Zimmerman: Models

Michael Heizer: City

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Mastaba

Kofun

Coolidge Dam

Pilgrimage Church, Neviges, Germany

Junya Ishigami: Balloon, One ton of floating mass

Mario de Biasi: Milano, Piazza Duomo, 1951

Google Satellite Map of San Francisco Salt Mines

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty

Mines

Walter Niedermayr: Atmosphere.

Mer de Glace

Salt Mines

Lois Hechenblaikner

Inca Stepped Farms

James Turrell: Roden Crater, Plan

Ryue Nishizawa: Teshima Art Museum

Toyo Ito: Crematorium in Kakamigahara

Peter Eisenman: City of Culture

Antelope Canyon

Tara Donovan: Transplant

Pier 62

Chinese Landscape Paintings

Kverkfjöll Ice Caves, Iceland

Ice circles: Form from slow rotating slabs of ice

Alberto Burri: Gibellina Vecchia

Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Mount of Olives

Maya Lin: Wave Field

Tadao Ando: Awaji Yumebutai Center

Carnac Stones, France

Robert Smithson: Dallas- Fort Worth Regional Airport

Hypostyle Hall at Persepolis, Drawing

Hypostyle Hall at Persepolis as ruins

Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain

Giuseppe Terragni: Danteum

Tokyo Sewage System

Snøhetta: Library of Alexandria

Axel Schultes Architekten: Crematorium Baumschulenweg

Gerco de Ruijter

Junya Ishigami: KAIT Workshop

Stepped Wells, India

Piranesi: Prison Drawings

Martha Schwartz Partners: Xi’an International Horticultural Expo

Giovanni Michelucci: Dell’ Autostrada del Sole

Pieter the Elder: Library of Babel

Enric Miralles & Carme Pinos: Igualada Cemetery

Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies

Israeli West Bank Barrier

Christo and Jeanne Claude: Running Fence

Brasilia: Tunnels

Peter Zumthor: Witch Trial Memorial

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ten Million Oil Drums

Lynn Davis: Icebergs

William Turner: Fishermen at Sea

Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz: Woodland Cemetery

Vast Man-altered Landscapes:

Undulating Surface:

Repetitive Forms:

Repetitive Forms (Columns):

Incomprehensibility & Complexity:

Suggestion of Infinity: Ambiguity:

Sound:

Exaggerated Proportion: Taughannock Falls in winter time

Taughannock Creek

Tate Modern: Ai Wei Wei

Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin

Niagara Falls

Random International: Rain Room

Antony Gormley: Blind Light

Christo & Jeannie Claude: Wrapped Reichstag

Étienne-Louis Boullée

Boullée: Cénotaphe à Newton (1784)

Kenzo Tange: Yoyogi National Gymnasium

Peter Zumthor: Bruder Klaus Kapelle

Steven Holl: Chapel of St. Ignatius

Frank Lloyd Wright: Johnson Wax Factory

Peter Zumthor: Kolumba Museum

James Turrell: Afrum I

Light & Contrast:

5_A catalog of the different sublime conditions organized by horizontal rows 6_The construct, the perspective and the scalar relationship to the human figure for comparison

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Junya Ishigami: KAIT Workshop

Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain

Tokyo Sewage System

Carnac Stones, France

Giuseppe Terragni: Danteum

Mount of Olives

Axel Schultes Architekten: Crematorium Baumschulenweg

Alberto Burri: Gibellina Vecchia

Field of unaligned grid of columns

Corridors of aligned column-archways

Two-point perspective

Field of aligned stones with varying geometries

Grid of round columns of glass

Field of tombs with similar rectangular geometry

Field of unaligned grid of columns with light pouring down

View looking down between two city blocks

Carl Zimmerman: Model

Toyo Ito: Crematorium in Kakamigahara

Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

James Turrell: Roden Crater

Herzog & de Meuron: Tate Modern

Tadao Ando: Awaji Yumebutai Center

Artificial landscape

Field of rectangular extrusions

The oculus and the crater

The triangular wedge plan and the suspended stairs

The scale and the triangular geometries of the ceiling

Ai Wei Wei: Floor covered by handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds

Landscape of terraced gardens

Ryue Nishizawa: Teshima Art Museum

Tara Donovan: Transplant

Kverkfjöll Ice Caves, Iceland

Georges-Henri Pingusson: Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation

Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin

Richard Serra: Opened Ended

Indian Stepped Well

Textured artificial landscape

Cave with undulating surfaces

Descending narrow staircase with diminishing view of Paris on the horizon

Sound of metal clanking

Narrow curved spaces

Meditative descending to a pool of water

The Perspective:

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The Construct: Arne Jacobsen: Danmarks Nationalbank Pilgrimage Church, Neviges, Germany

The Perspective: Carl Zimmerman Interior view of the dome

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The Construct: Peter Zumthor: Bruder Klaus Kapelle

The Perspective: The oculus framed by the charred timbers The oculus and art piece by Rei Naito

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The Sublime & the Artifice: The Analysis of the Sublime I tried to understand how the sublime is perceived and imagined both in historic and contemporary contexts. This thesis re-examined the 18th century idea with 21st century thinking, technologies and methods.

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i. Field Condition of Columns

ii. Field Condition of Extrusions

iii. Field Condition of Shaved Stones

iv. Ground Condition

v. The Mount/ Monument/ Monolith/ Wall

vi. The Ditch

vii. Ceiling Condition

viii. The Monstrous Object

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The Construct:

The Scale to the Human Figure:

The Perspective:

Irregularly populated field: 200 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 6’x6’x15’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

8_Three consistencies to evaluate each condition 9_Conceptual axonometric sketches of schemes in the same testing environment

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The Sublime & the Artifice: Setting Up the Experiment Nine categories of conditions were extracted from the analyses. These conditions were modeled digitally and rendered to capture the construct, the perspective and the scale to the human figure. The renderings are all framed as if the photographer, standing at 6’ tall is using a 35mm lens.

Consistent lighting condition (natural day lighting) was also used.

To keep the results of the experiment truthful, the renderings were left unedited. The testing ground is a historic and now abandoned warehouse space in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Brooklyn. The thesis recalls the lost urban sublimity of New York and offers the artifice as a device for urban reclamation.

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Regular grid: 9x10, radius: 1’ Individual Geometry: extrusion, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 5’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: square extrusions, max XYZ: 3’x3’x1’~7’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid based on the existing structural column grid of the building: Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x6’x3’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 5000 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 1’x1’x1’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, radius: 6” Individual Geometry: extrusion, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 5’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: rectangular extrusions, max XYZ: 3’x3’x1’~7’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 5’x5’x5’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 20000 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 6”x6”x6” View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 34x38, radius: 2.5” Individual Geometry: extrusion, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: rectangular extrusions, max XYZ: 6’x9’x3’~8’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 5’x5’x10’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Symmetrical mount Maximum height: 23’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 29’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 300, radius: 2.5” Individual Geometry: with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: rectangular extrusions, max XYZ: 6’x9’x5’~9’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 5’x5’x15’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Symmetrical mount Maximum height: 33’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 39’, 35mm lens, person can touch the ceiling at 42’

Irregularly populated field: 100, radius: 6” Individual Geometry: with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 3’, increasing slant trimmed top surface Individual geometry: rectangular extrusions, max XYZ: 6’x9’x5’~21’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x6’x25’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Symmetrical pit Maximum depth: 33’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the pit at -25’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150, radius: 6” Individual Geometry: with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 3’, increasing slant trimmed top surface Individual geometry: rectangular extrusions, max XYZ: 6’x9’x6’~36’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x3’x35’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Symmetrical pit, flooded with water Maximum depth: 33’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the water-filled pit at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 300, radius: 6” Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x19, spacing: 3’, flat trimmed top surface Individual geometry: rectangular extrusions, max XYZ: 6’x9’x38’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x6’x42’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly sunken ground: 20, spacing: 3’, flooded with water Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 78’x78’x4’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from on the pathway at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 500, radius: 6” Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Regular grid: 60, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 25’x25’x5’~9’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 100 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x3’x35’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Nonuniform surface Polygon count: 759 808

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the valley at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150, radius: 1’ Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 10, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 100’x100’x5’~9’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x3’x25’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Nonuniform surface Polygon count: 189 952

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the condition at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150, radius: 2’ Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 20, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 78’x78’x3’~7’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 200 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 6’x6’x15’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Nonuniform surface Polygon count: 409 599

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the condition at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150, radius: 3’ Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, full building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 50, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 45’x45’x 11’~14’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 306 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 10’x10’x10’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Nonuniform surface, flooded with water Polygon count: 759 808

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the water-filled valley at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150, radius: 3’, Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, exceeds building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 98, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 26x26’x5’~9’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 500 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 15’x15’x6’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Nonuniform undulating vertical surfaces Polygon counts: 393 216 each

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the surface at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 150, radius: 3’ Individual Geometry: extrusion with entasis, exceeds building height

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 249, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 14’x14’x14’~21’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 1000 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 15’x15’x2’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Terraced surfaces Stepped by 2’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the stepped landscape at 6’, 35mm lens

10_Field condition of columns: a parametric study 11_Field condition of shaved stones: a parametric study 12_Field condition of extrusions: a parametric study 13_Ground condition: a parametric study

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33’ x 162’ x -12’ extruded

View from -6’ underground

Symmetrical dome: Maximum height: 22’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the dome at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Ellipsoid Length: 260’, width:31.5’, height:31.5’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

View from 18’ aboveground

22’ x 162’ x -18’ extruded

View from -12’ underground

Symmetrical inverse dome: Maximum depth: 14’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the inverse dome at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Ellipsoid Length: 260’, width: 55’, height: 39’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

130’ x 130’ x 18’ tapered

View from 21’ underground

13.5’ x 133’ x -24’ extruded

View from -18’ underground

Symmetrical inverse dome: Maximum depth: 22’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the inverse dome at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Ellipsoid shell Length: 260’, width: 167’, height: 52’, thickness 6”, hole diameter 3’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

84’ x 134’ x 24’ tapered

View from 0’ ground level

84’ x 154’ x -6’ extruded

View from 0’ ground level

Symmetrical inverse dome: Maximum depth: 35’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the inverse dome at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Deformed ellipsoid Max length: 237’, max width: 120’ height: 38’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

134’ x 52’ x 36’ tapered

View from 0’ ground level

84’ x 154’ x -15’ extruded

View from -24’ underground

Symmetrical bowing ceiling, maximum depth: 3’ Number of cuts: 300, individual cut’s length: ~1.5’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the starry ceiling, at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Deformed ellipsoid Max length: 237’, width: 120’ height: 38’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

134’ x 52’ x 36’ extruded

View from 0’ ground level

84’ x 154’ x -30’ extruded

View from -24’ underground

Symmetrical bowing ceiling, maximum depth: 10’ number of cuts: 300, individual cut’s length: ~3’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the starry ceiling, at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Deformed ellipsoid Length: 266’, width: 169.5’ height: 41’, thickness: 6”, hole diameter 1.5’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

110’ x 52’ x 36’ tapered upsidedown

View from 0’ ground level

50’ x 270’ x -14’ tapered

View from -8’ underground

Flat Ceiling: Number of cut: 1, length: 276’, width: 3.5’ extends into wall 4’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from under the cut at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: sphere, number: 4 Individual radius: 19.5’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

84’ x 8’ x 36’ tapered upsidedown

View from 0’ ground level

77’ x 165’ x -24’ tapered

View from -18’ underground

Flat Ceiling: Number of cut: 1, length: 276’, width: 23’, extends into wall’s full height View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from under the cut at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: half spherical shells, number: 4 Individual radius: 19.5’, thickness 1’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

32’ x 221’ x 24’ extruded

View from 0’ ground level

135’ x 243’ x -24’ tapered

View from -18’ underground

Symmetrical dome with oculus: Maximum height: 19’, oculus short diameter: 44’, long diameter: 61’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from under the oculus, at 6’, 35mm lens

Irregularly populated field: 10, spacing: 3’, wavy trimmed top surface Individual geometry: randomly generated, max XYZ: 100’x100’x5’~9’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

4’ x 204’ x 45’ tapered

View from 0’ ground level

84’ x 154’ x -160’ tapered

View from -154’ underground

Nonuniform dome with oculus: Maximum height: 32’, oculus diameter: 20’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: existing door extrusions, solid, number: 4 Individual length: 232’, width: 9.8’, height: 9.8’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Symmetrical inverse dome with oculus: Maximum depth: 19’, oculus short diameter: 40’, long diameter: 48’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from under the oculus, at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: existing door extrusions, number: 4 Individual length: 232’, width: 10.8’, height: 10.8’, thickness: 1’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Nonuniform inverse dome with oculus: Maximum depth: 32’, oculus diameter: 20’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from under the oculus, at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: existing door extrusions, crisscrossed, number: 4 Individual length: 232’, width: 10.8’, height: 10.8’, thickness: 1’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Flat Ceiling: 5’ gap between ceiling and the walls

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the gaps at 6’, 35mm lens

Geometry: Deformed ellipsoid Max length: 266’, width: 157’ height: 37’, thickness: 1’, hole diameter: 9’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

100’ x 243’ x 6’ tapered

View from 12’ aboveground

100’ x 203’ x 12’ tapered

The Sublime & the Artifice: The Experiment with the Artifice Following analyses of the sublime, a series of architectural moves are extracted, parameterized and applied to the “white box” as an experiment. I aimed to generate conditions that are seemingly infinite, incalculable, immeasurable, and unrepeatable. However, each condition’s exact quantifying data and description are listed so the condition can be recreated in real life.

14_The mount/ monument/ monolith/ wall: a parametric study 15_ The ditch: a parametric study 16_ Ceiling condition: a parametric study 17_The monstrous object: a parametric study 18_The catalogue at the review

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Plan of projection to A1

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Plan of projection to B4

Plan of projection to C4

View from A1

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View from C4

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Flat ceiling with occulus Surface rolled in the shape of a frustrum of a cone

Symmetrical inverse dome: maximum depth: 35’ Pit:

Symmetrical bowed ceiling, depth: 3’, with oculus Irregularly populated field: 5000 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 1’x1’x1’

Plan of projection to D4

View from D4

Symmetrical bowed ceiling, depth: 3’, Number of cuts: 300, individual cut’s length: ~1.5’, Irregularly populated field: 20, 000 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 6”x6”x6”

Plan of projection to E4

View from E4

Symmetrical pit Maximum depth: 33’

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View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

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View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 29’, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 39’, 35mm lens, person can touch the ceiling at 42’

View from within the pit at -25’, 35mm lens

View of the ring of light at 6’, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 29’, 35mm lens

wed Ceiling with field of rocks Irregularly populated field: 100 dividual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 3’x3’x35’

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 39’, 35mm lens, person can touch the ceiling at 42’

wed Ceiling with field of rocks, Irregularly populated field: 500 dividual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 15’x15’x6’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 29’, 35mm lens

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the pit at -25’, 35mm lens

rface condition with field of rocks, Regular grid: 17x18, Spacing: 16.1’x8.8’ dividual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 5’x5’x10’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from top of the mount at 39’, 35mm lens, person can touch the ceiling at 42’

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View of the water-filled pit at 6’, 35mm lens

rface condition with field of rocks, Regular grid: 9x10, dividual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 10’x10’x10’ View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the pit at -25’, 35mm lens

Upsidedown triangular extrusion cutting through ceiling plane

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

View from within the field at 6’, 35mm lens

Upsidedown triangular extrusion cutting through ceiling plane Geometry divided to fit passageway for a person

View from south-east corner, 35mm lens

Wedge cutting through ceiling plane and wall

Coplanar walls cutting through perpendicular ceiling and walls

Wedge cutting perpendicular through ceiling and wall

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Symmetrically bowled ceiling with oculus: maximum depth: 30’ Symmetrically mounted floor with same circular opening: maximum height: 30’

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Number of cuts in ceiling: 300, individual cut’s length: ~1.5’, Irregularly populated field: 20, 000 Individual geometry: randomly generated, Maximum XYZ: 6”x6”x6”

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View from within in the field, at 6’, 35mm lens

Sculpted floor conditions to simulate glacier and snow flooded with water from site

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The Sublime & the Artifice: The Combined Conditions An evaluation chart was made to examine each permutation in terms of simulating the sublime. Then the preferred conditions are crossbred, with the goal of amplifying sublimity, some more successful than others.

19_Perspective cuts on facade framing the Brooklyn Bridge 20_Combined conditions: ground + ceiling + monument/ ditch, a parametric study 21_Combined conditions: ground + ceiling + the monstrous object, a parametric study 22_Combined conditions: ground + ceiling + field conditions, a parametric study 23_Three combined conditions 24_Evaluation charts with criteria extracted from the analysis catalog (fig. 5, pg. 3) 25 & 26_Physical modeling and photographing to test materiality and lighting

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1000 Columns 0.2m - 2m column width Scaling 1D based on distance to the points

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1000 Columns 0.2m - 4m columns Inversely scaling based on distance to the points and rotating based on distance to the points

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Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship for Landscape Architecture Research The Sublime & the Artifice: Kait Workshop Analysis 2018 - Current, Cambridge, MA Fellowship: $15,000, funded by Peter Walker and Partners, awarded by Harvard Graduate School of Design Continuing design and research work from Cornell Bachelor of Architecture and Harvard Master of Landscape Architecture theses to better understand sublime conditions in the world. The Fellowship allowed me to travel to Japan and study spatial conditions across the fields of architecture, art, landscape architecture, urbanism and infrastructure. I visited sites in order to document the perspectives from the human eye, the spaces relationship to the human

body. I measured and produced 3d models. I then analyzed and iterated upon them, to produce and further my understanding of what is artificial sublime.

KAIT Workshop by Junya Ishigami + Associates.

Design Feature: 305 columns of various sizes, spacing and orientations are scattered across the space, creating diffeent densities and clusters. The spacing and sizing of the columns allow the design students inside to form indiviual study spaces, and group study zones. The seemingly random scattering of the columns create the opportunity for one to explore and discover “favourite spots” and to express individuality through occupying and customizing the

otherwise open floor plan with furnitures, plants and personal belongings.

The parametric study picks up on the forest like qualities of the architectural space and looks at the number and size columns and the number and size of the clearings.

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8_ Rocks at Osaka Castle, a field condition of shaved rocks 9_Kasai Rinkai Park, a field condition of rocks 10_Yoyogi Park, a field condition of trees 11_Awaji Yumebutai, a field conditon of repetitive forms

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22_ Reiyukai Shakaden Temple, monstrous object + light and contrast 23_Embassy of Canada, monstrous object + ground conditions 24_Edo-Tokyo-Museum, monstrous object 25_Stone wall at Osaka Castle, monstrous object 26_Ginkaku-ji, perfect object 27_St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo, exaggerated proportion

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Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship The Sublime & the Artifice: The Daisen Kofun Navigating through the suburbs of Osaka, Japan, I turned the corner. At the end of the street, instead of the usual row of houses, I found myself confronted with a dense forest. I looked down at my phone, the blue dot on the map pulsed at the edge of what seemed to be a gigantic keyhole shaped island surrounded by rings of vegetation and water. I knew I had arrived.

The Daisen Kofun, the historic 5th century tomb of Emperor Nintoku, located in Osaka, Japan. The moats around the kofun block off human access- allowing the Kofun to become a sanctuary for flora and fauna. Nature thrive on the historic man-made mound. At night, when observed from above, the Daisen Kofun along with other Kofuns, become giant voids in a city, devoid of light and human movements.

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historical and archaeological significance and spatial qualities.

More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, were carefully studied and modeled in 3 dimensions and recreated as scale model and paintings that explore the construct, the eye-level perspective, and the scale relationship to the human body.

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Borderline Encounters: Traveling Fellowship & Exhibition Summer - Fall 2017, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Collaboration with Joseph Henry Kennedy Jr., Project completed (July August, 2017) for the Eidlitz Fellowship’ 17-’18 from the College of Architecture, Art & Planning at Cornell University, lectured and exhibited (September - October, 2017) at the Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Cornell University, and Washington State University (2018).

The construction of the North American railroad system is legendary.

Begun from points on opposite sides of the continent, two teams of workers laid tracks from coast to coast and met in Utah in 1869. Conversely, the Canadian Pacific Railway (1881) and the American Empire Builder (1929), though built side by side, were separated by a national border and never intended to meet.

These railways have been adopted by Jirauntarat, Kennedy and Xu as the paths of two separate but simultaneous journeys spanning the longest border in the world: one from the perspective of an American (Kennedy) traveling between Vancouver and Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Railway

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This exhibition is a visual conflation of the documentation of Jiranuntarat, Kennedy and Xu’s individual journeys and presents their collective experiences in an installation of drawings, collages, maps, postcards, and models. Through the study of the American-Canadian Border and its various adjacent landscape and urban conditions, Jiranuntarat, Kennedy and Xu hope to better understand how immigration and politics can directly affect the forms and fabrics of the modern city in order to redefine the elements that constitute a border within contemporary North America.

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Point Roberts / Boundary Bay

Mount Rahm

100m

Point Roberts / Boundary Bay

2km

Peach Arch

300m

Surrey, BC / Blaine, WA

100m

Surrey, BC / Blaine, WA

200m

Langley, BC / Blaine, WA

700m

Aldergrove/ Lynden

200m

10km

Nighthawk / Chopaka

200m

Oroville / Osoyoos

100m

Osoyoos, BC / Oroville, WA

500m

Kootenay Boundary E, BC / Okanogan County, WA

1km

West Midway, BC / Okanogan County, WA

500m

Ferry / Midway

100m

Central Kootenay C, BC / Boundary County, ID

1km

Porthill / Rykerts

100m

Central Kootenay B, BC / Porthill, ID

100m

BC/ MT

1km

Chief Mountain

100m

Piegan / Carway

100m

Boundry / Waneta

100m

East Kootenay A, BC / Polebridge, MT

800m

Cardston County, AB / Blackfeet, MT

2km

Lone Tree No. 18, SK / Blaine County, MT

1km

Portal / North Portal

100m

Maida / Windygates

Lake of the Woods / Angle Township, MN

200m

3km

Metaline Falls / Nelway

Long Knife Peak

100m

700m

Warner County No. 5, AB / Toole County, MT

300m

Morgan / Monchy

200m

Northgate

Walhalla / Winkler

Lake of the Woods / Angle Township, MN

100m

200m

2km

Sweetgrass / Coutts

Val Marie No. 17, SK / Phillips County, MT

Sherwood / Carievale

Gretna, MB / Felson, ND

Rainy River, ON / Wheeler Township, MN

300m

500m

300m

500m

Central Kootenay C, BC / Boundary County, ID

500m

BC/ MT

1km

Warner County No. 5, AB / Toole County, MT

Old Post No. 43, SK / Valley County, MT

Antler / Lyleton

Neche / Gretna

500m

Rainy River, ON / Baudette, MN

300m

1km

100m

200m

800m

Warner County No. 5, AB / Toole County, MT

300m

Opheim / West Poplar River

200m

Westhope / Coulter

100m

Rhineland, MB / Neche, ND

2km

Baudette / Rainy River

200m

Whitlash Aden

Scobey / Coranach

Carbury / Goodlands

200m

200m

200m

Pembina / Emerson

300m

International Falls / Fort Frances

200m

Eastport / Kingsgate

100m

Cardston County, AB / Blackfeet, MT

1km

Cypress County, AB / Hill County, MT

2km

Whitetail / Big Beaver

Morton, MB / North Rolette, ND

Franklin, MB / St Vincent Township, MN

Rainy Lake

200m

10km

400m

5km

Aldergrove / Lynden

Kootenay Boundary D, BC / Danville, WA

400m

Laxton Lake / Judson Lake

500m

200m

Danville / Carson

100m

East Kootenay C, BC / Lincoln County, MT

200m

Cardston County, AB / Blackfeet, MT

2km

Cypress County, AB / Hill County, MT

2km

Raymond / Regway

Peace Garden

Lancaster / Tolstoi

Rainy Lake

200m

400m

200m

7km

East Kootenay C, BC / Lincoln County, MT

500m

Cardston County, AB / Blackfeet, MT

2km

Wildhorse

200m

Fortuna / Oungre

St. John / Lena

Pinecreek / Piney

Grand Portage / Pigeon River

200m

200m

200m

200m

Huntingdon/ Sumas

200m

Kootenay Boundary D, BC / Danville, WA

200m

East Kootenay B, BC / Lincoln County, MT

1km

Cardston County, AB / Cut Bank, MT

1km

Willow Creek

200m

Ambrose / Torquay

Hansboro / Cartwright

Roseau / South Junction

Sault Ste. Marie, ON / Bay Mills Township, MI

200m

200m

500m

3km

Abbotsford, BC / Sumas, WA

200m

Fraser Valley E, BC / Whatcom County, WA

100m

Laurier / Christina Lake

100m

Frontier / Paterson

100m

East Kootenay B, BC / Eureka, MT

700m

Del Bonita

200m

Frontier No. 19, SK / Blaine County, MT

3km

Noonan / Estevan

300m

Sarles / Crystal City

Warroad / Sprague

Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge

Garden River, ON / Sault Ste. Marie, MI

100m

Cardston County, AB / Blackfeet, MT

1km

Turner / Climax

200m

200m

700m

1km

Hannah / Snowflake

Angle Inlet

Sault Ste. Marie, ON / Sugar Island Township, MI

2km

Blue Water Bridge

800m

Fort Erie, ON / Unity Island, Buffalo, NY

1km

Niagara Falls, ON / Niagara Falls, NY

1km

1km

Cardinal / Benedict Island

1km

Iroquois / Whitehouse Bay

500m

Elgin, QC / Burke, NY

100m

Elgin, QC / Burke, NY

1km

Overton Corners / Lacolle

200m

Richford / Abercom

100m

East Richford / Glen Sutton

100m

Coburn Gore / Woburn

100m

Estcourt Station

100m

Grand Falls, NB / Caswell, ME

1km

Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge

Trout River

Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, QC / Champlain, NY

Coalfields No. 4, SK / Portal, ND

St. Joseph, On / Soo Township, MI

500m

Peace Bridge

Roosville / Grasmere

2km

100m

100m

Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, QC / Pittsburg, NH

Pohénégamook, QC/ Northwest Aroostook, ME

4km

1km

3km

Courtright, ON / St Clair, MI

3km

1km

Walpole Island Indian Reserve / Clay Township, MI

2km

5km

Lewiston-Queenston Bridge

300m

Ingieside / Long Sault Islands

2km

Seaway Bridge

1km

Churubusco / Franklin

100m

Franklin, QC / Clinton, NY

300m

Alburg Springs / Clarenceville

100m

Highgate Springs / St Armand

300m

Derby Line – Interstate 91

100m

St Juste

100m

Saint-Camille-de-Lellis, QC / Seboomook Lake, ME

1km

100m

Sombra, ON / Marine City, MI

300m

Whirlpool Rapids Bridge

300m

Mariatown / Ogden Island/ Waddington

500m

Morrisburg / Murphy Islands

1km

50m

Chateauguay / Herdman

100m

Rouses Point

200m

Morgan / Monchy

800m

Alburg / Noyan

100m

Potton, QC/ Jay, VT

400m

North Troy / Highwater

200m

Beebe Plain / Stanstead

100m

Derby Line / Stanstead

100m

200m

Sainte Aurelie

100m

Sainte Zacharie

100m

Saint-Robert-Bellarmin, QC / Jackman, ME

5km

1km

Fort Kent / Clair

100m

2km

200m

Sarnia, On / Port Huron, MI

Armstrong-Jackman / Ste Theophile

Rivière-Bleue, QC / Northwest Aroostook, ME

Rainbow Bridge

Franklin, QC / Clinton, NY

Edmundston-Madawaska Bridge

100m

200m

Niagara Falls, ON / Niagara Falls, NY

St Leonard-Van Buren Bridge

200m

Moulin-à-Albert, QC / Northwest Aroostook, ME

Ambassador Bridge

700m

Windsor, ON / Detroit, MI

3km

Amherstburg, ON / Grosse Ile Township, MI

500m

Brockville, ON / Morristown, NY

3km

Maitland, ON / Oswegatchie, NY

3km

Prescott / Ogdensburg

2km

200m

Fort Covington / Dundee

200m

Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, QC / Champlain, NY

200m

Blackpool / Champlain

300m

100m

Richford / East Pinnacle

100m

Abercorn, QC / Richford, VT

500m

100m

Saint-Venant-de-Paquette, QC / Pittsburg, NH

Pittsburg / Chartierville

100m

2km

Saint-Pamphile, QC / Northwest Aroostook, ME

600m

Saint Pamphile

100m

Fort Fairfield / Perth-Andover

100m

Easton / River de Chute

100m

200m

Beaver Creek / Alcan

10km

Windsor, ON / Belle Isle, Detroit, MI

2km

Detroit-Windsor Tunnel

700m

Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON / Porter, NY

1km

Thousand Islands Bridge

700m

St. Regis Mohawk Reservation

500m

St. Regis Mohawk Reservation

200m

St. Regis Mohawk Reservation

200m

Cannon Corners / Covey Hill

100m

Havelock, QC / Mooers Forks, NY

1km

Mooers / Hemmingford

200m

Saint-Armand, QC / Highgate, VT

200m

Morses Line

100m

West Berkshire / Frelighsbrug

300m

Canaan / Hereford

100m

Beecher Falls / East Hereford

3km

Lac-Frontière Township, QC/ Northwest Aroostook, ME

500m

Hamlin / Grand Falls

200m

Limestone / Gillespie Portage

100m

Calais / International Avenue

400m

Milltown / Saint Stephen

100m

Norton / Stanhope

800m Saint-Pamphile, QC / Northwest Aroostook, ME

Edmundston, NB / Madawaska, ME

1km

St. Regis Mohawk Reservation

1km

Bridgewater / Centreville

100m

Monticello / Bloomfield

100m

Houlton / Richmond Corner

200m

Orient /Fosterville

100m

Forest City

100m

Vanceboro / Ste Croix

Ferry Point Crossing / Calais

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FDR Bridge

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1_Catalog of Border Crossings and Non-Crossings (West Coast to East Coast) 2_Catalog of Landscape Technologies of Surveillance and Control 3_ Catalog of Landscape Types of the Canada | U.S. Border 4_ Creating a gret zone between the United States and Canada

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Given the historically close relationship of Canada and the United States and the pressing issues the border sees such as ecological degradation, displacement of First Nations, separation of local communities, and surge of migrants, Borderhood reinvents the Canada | U.S. border.

Through the mapping of the flows (ecological, commercial, daily and migratory), anomalies and grey zones along the border, the thesis aims to understand the different types of conditions the longest “undefended” border crosses. With the advancement in technology and surveillance, how does the border, vista, checkpoints evolve (or become obsolete) to fit 21st century visions of a seamless transition between two neighbouring

countries? Through the creation of six bio-political zones that serve ecologically, socially and culturally, Borderhood proposes cultural reimagination of the Canada | U.S. borderland privileging human subjectivity.

Thesis: Borderhood Re-imagining the Canada | U.S. Borderlands A Master of Landscape Architecture Thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design Awarded the Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship Spring 2018, ongoing personal research Thesis Advisor: Professor Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Thesis Preparation: Professor Charles Waldheim

The thesis recognizes the body of work on borders, borderland urbanism and migrant issues. Borderhood aims to contribute to that body of work by studying and re-imagining the Canada | U.S. border while providing insights and design ideas to the solution of the Mexican | U.S. border and other borders of conflicts around the world.

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Flow of Daily Commuters

Passage of Time

Ecological Flow

An U.S. exclave of 1,314 people that is connected to British Columbia: Delta, BC | Point Roberts, WA

The 8000+ border monuments Oungre, SK | DeWitt, ND

A shared tiny garden within a wetland landscape: The International Peace Garden, Boissevain, MB | Dunseith, ND

A filled box

An empty box

A dashed line

Flow of Migrants

A frequent migrant crossing of 1,000 people (2017 data): Emerson, MB | Noyes, MN

Moving segments

Flow of Pollutants

A First Nation situated on a river between Canada and U.S.: Sault Ste Marie, ON | Sault Ste Marie, MI | Whitefish Island Indian Reserve

Accumulating segments

Flow of Goods

The “Slash” that runs for 1349 KM Elgin, QC | Constable, NY

A continuous line

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9_Existing conditions of the 1km2 International Peace Garden 10_Depaving the roads inside the proposed International Peace Park 11_Watercolors of the proposed International Peace Park 12_Perspectives of the four seasons, on four sides of the proposed International Peace Park 13_Painting 14_Site Plan of the proposed 3000km2 International Peace Park 15_Model 1:8000

The proposal is the expansion of this shared zone from a peace garden of 1km2 to a peace park of 3000km2. The peace park recognizes the existing unique landscape of wetlands and mountains, wildlife diversity and beauty of the area. I propose ways of preserving the existing conditions by allowing the existing ecology to fully flourish. Human access is restricted by the use of a moat around the new International Peace Park. Roads are unpaved inside the zone to make mounds for observation. The new International Peace Park will be the preservation of the last undisturbed landscapes of its type in the region and it will offset the carbon footprint and destruction the nearby farmlands and industries create.

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16_ Existing condition: the “Slash” 17_ Section perspective: Can the 19th Century vista “Slash” transform into a productive landscape?

18_ Watercolors of the Christmas tree farm that runs in the “Slash” 19_Aerial rendering of the Christmas Tree Farm as a productive landscape 20_Site plan 21_ Model 1:25

The “Slash” runs 1,349 KM (838 miles) along the border. It is a 7 meter (20’) wide clearing that is maintained by the International Boundary Commission every six years and costs taxpayers millions of dollars (1.4 million dollars each year). The clearing of the border through the forest is not only an outdated notion of keeping a vista for surveillance but also causes ecological disturbance. I propose a Christmas tree farm to fill the voids created by the IBC. 30-50 million Christmas trees are sold in the U.S. and 3-6 million Christmas trees are sold in Canada annually. The most popular Christmas tree species is the Balsam Fir, which has a life cycle of one to 14 years. The clearing of the trees every six years is replaced by the ceremonial and seasonal cutting of Christmas trees. The project proposes an economic opportunity for the borderlands which has been economically draining for centuries. At the sametime, the proposal critiques the commercialization and consumerism of nature and religion.

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Borderhood: #3 Passage of Time The 8000+ border monuments Oungre, SK | DeWitt, ND

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23_Materiality of border monuments 24_Watercolors of the proposed monument park with 8000+ retired border monuments 25_ Model Perspective at 1:50 26_Site plan 27_Model at 1:50 28_Aerial rendering

The 8000+ border monuments located within the “Slash” mark the border between the two countries. The monuments placed historically with outdated surveying technologies are very much inaccurately located on the 49th parallel. Their locations do not reflect to the terms agreed in the Treaties signed by the two countries.

Their forms, often symbolic of obelisks, trace back to colonialism. I propose to retire all the monuments and place them in a gridded field condition in the picturesque kettle hole landscapes of where Saskatchewan and North Dakota meets. The placement of the monuments align with the Spring and Fall equinoxes, marking the solar movements for the enjoyment of the people. The monuments, just like the Carnac Stones in France, and the Epytian obelisks should reference the sun. The proposal of the monument park serves local communities and tourists as a place of enjoyment and a place of memory.

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Sault Ste Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste Marie, Ontario are sister cities. The two cities shared a long history of friendly relations and was one community before the border cut them apart. The Whitefish Island Reservation is situated on the tiny island between the two cities. The steel mill on the Canadian side and the ships that pass by release a lot of toxic wastes into the river- causing environmental and health concerns for Canadian, Americans and First Nation citizens alike. The project proposes a series of island creating floating wetlands made from the dredge material from the maintenance of the shipping lanes.

The productive wetlands will clean the water and restore the ecology for the residents. As the wetlands grow in numbers and sizes, the new islands become additional land for the First Nation whose land was annexed and lost.

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Borderhood: #5: Flow of Daily Commuters An U.S. exclave of 1,314 people that is connected to British Columbia: Delta, BC | Point Roberts, WA The U.S. exclave is only connected to mainland by a single checkpoint, creating a bottleneck condition. The implementation of 21st century facial recognition technologies created a new society. Despite surveillance technologies allow for the easy commute of the people on either side of the border, the privacy of the commuters is sacrificed. The project paints a picture of a dystopian society where surveillance technologies become the norm of everyday life- the trees, rocks and mailboxes become hosts for surveillance technologies. Everything around you is constantly looking at you. The project offers to the thesis as an antithesis to illustrate the current state of the border and what the future might become if technological advancement is not integrated with humane design.

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Borderhood: #6 Flow of Migrants A frequent migrant crossing of 1,000 people (2017 data): Emerson, MB | Noyes, MN

40_ Influx of migrants into Canada from the United States 41_Migrants losing fingers due to harsh winter climate when getting lost crossing the Canada | U.S. border into Canada.

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The implementation of a “nationality-neutral” movable zone between Canada and U.S. for the temporary stay of migrants, refugees and IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and other people of need. With the current political situation and U.S. president Donald Trump in power, Canada sees an influx of migrants from its Southern neighbor, the U.S.. The U.S. meanwhile, sees an increase of migrants from Central and South Americas. The project aims to offer alternatives to the practice of installing refugee camps which often become slums and “tent-cities”.

The project will take advantage of the existing Amtrak and CN rail tracks to make deployable temporary housing.

As migrant flows’s location and numbers are hard to predict, how can designer use a method that is both fluid and modular? By designing with the dimensions and forms of a train cabin in mind, I propose movable housing on tracks. The proposal, at the same time will provide weather shelter, medical care, work, food, amenities and the transportation of the migrants. At the sametime, the zone becomes an attractor point for aids and volunteers. First Aid beacons are also scattered along the border to provide the migrants with gloves, food and jackets to combat the potential cold and hunger (Porter,1).

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Getting out of GTMO: Roads, Borders, Landmarks Questioning Standards: Reimagining Cuban Road Construction Spring 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Collaboration with Yun Shi and Jonah Susskind Professor: Fionn Byrne and Coordinator: Pierre Bélanger The word “Guantanamo” reminds people of the United States military detention facility that’s been spotlighted by international debate for over a decade. Its image is by all accounts iconic. The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is a small but integral piece in a large and rapidly changing landscape framed by the legacy of colonial occupations, the promise of new economic challenges, and the ecological richness of the Caribbean archipelago. At a territorial scale, the flat arid lowlands of Guantanamo sit behind the rain

shadow of the tropical mountains to the east which absorb most of the moisture from the prevailing tradewinds. Scattered serpentine outcroppings have, over millions of years, contributed to the region’s ultramafic soil profile, meaning it contains large quantities of nickel. This favors particular plant species, many of which are only found in eastern Cuba. Currently, there are very few roadways in eastern Cuba. But we know that with the rising tide of tourism and other incoming stakeholders, an intra-national highway system is imminent. Our project takes this future infrastructure as the site for a comprehensive phytomining program that operationalizes plant material and precipitates an entirely new set of land-use designations.

Over time, as this program either begins to exhaust the available resources in the soil, or new programs begin to grow up in place of roadside phytomining, the offsets that define the managed planting zones will likely become sites for alternative occupations that are not tethered to traditional real-estate driven geometries. The project works through section to operationalize these future roadways by developing a design strategy that challenges traditional engineering standards. By thickening their sectional profile to include peripheral grading and live matter as active agents, our new standards can produce novel economies across heterogeneous territories and implicate the ground itself as a catalyst for territorial change.

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Re-tooling Metropolis: LA! The Four Ecologies 2.0 Fall 2017, Harvard Graduate School of Design A manifesto proposed in collaboration Advised by Professor Chris Reed The project challenges the 20th century notion of single-function infrastructure and transit system and proposes multi-functional ones.

The project reexamines LA through the lens set up by Reyner Banham in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. The project confronts the aging and underutilized infrastructural systems of LA and its lack of public spaces. It imagines new versions or 2.0’s of Banham’s Four Ecologies that not only tackles mobility issues, but at the same time incorporates cultural, social, commercial and ecological functions to create hybrid infrastructural systems for the future.

With the approval of Measure M in November 2016 (Metro’s $120 billion plan over the next 40 years to expand the transportation infrastructure), the city set its vision to enhance mobility and accessibility, improve bus, rail, and highway systems and develop bike and pedestrian connections.

It also aims to embrace technology and innovation, reduce pollution and generate local economic benefits. Meanwhile LAX, is anticipating a $5 billion infrastructure plan to improve its connectivity to the terminals and rail lines. The Four Ecologies 2.0 project sees these initiatives and fundings as fantastic opportunities to rethink and transform the urban landscapes.

The project re-imagines Reyner Banham’s Four Ecologies as following:

Ecology IV: Autotopia 2.0 is Metrotopia Instead of personal vehicles of transportation, the projects proposes Metrotopia or mass transit as the main form of mobility. The project replaces the single-functional freeways with a catalog of multifunctional infrastructure.

Metrotopia reexamines the different infrastructural types (freeways, rail, high-speed rail, hyperloop, plumbing, electrical and water collection, filtration and distribution) and combines them into new hybridized conditions that serves an array of transportational, social, cultural and ecological functions.

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Ecology II: Foothills 2.0 is Everyday Fantastic Banham describes the foothills as: “The financial and topographical contours correspond almost exactly: the higher the ground the higher the income…This is what the foothill ecology is really all about: narrow, tortuous residential roads serving precipitous house-plots that often back up directly on unimproved wilderness.” Everyday Fantastic provides a light cable car system that cuts across the terrain and connects residents to and from nearby metro stations. The project is both functional and recreational, connecting people from home to work, simultaneously taking the users on a fantastic fly through of LA’s reservoirs and parks. Take Silver Lake Reservoir for example, the project opens the gated reservoir to the public and provides a series of programs such as water retention, co-working spaces, libraries, playgrounds and showers.

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The Fields of Intensities reclaims the LA river as public spaces and amenities by providing public access and other ecological and social functions. By stacking vertically the different forms of existing and proposed mass transits such as the Hyperloop, the high speed rail and metro, the project frees up a lot of the shoulder spaces along the river.

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Infrastructure of the 21st century should no longer be designed as single-purpose structures. certainty, and order” with “a set of conditions and relationships with political, economic, and Instead, they should be imagined as hybrid, multi-functional systems that integrate social implications.” These ideas, rather than seeing infrastructure as management solutions, transportation with ecological functions. In the recent past, there has been a resurgence of propose dynamic systems that can be combined to serve multiple purposes. “Infrastructural ecology as an integral part of design thinking. Ecological Urbanism (2010, 2016) edited by Urbanism” (1997) by Stan Allen and Landscape as Infrastructure (2017) by Pierre Bélanger Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty views “the fragility of the planet and its resources redefine the roles of architects and landscape architects in infrastructure development and as an opportunity for speculative design innovations rather than as a form of technical emphasize infrastructure as the backbone for resilient city. The city and its infrastructure need legitimation for promoting conventional solutions.” Projective Ecologies (2013) edited by to be re-imagined in light of significant climate change, evolving economic drivers, and shifting Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister replaces the Newtonian ecology concerning with “stability, social demographics. Recognizing the plurality of these ecological ideas and infrastructural

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theories, and through the multiple lenses established by ecologists, urbanists, architects and beaches, rivers and canals - including the Johnstons Creek, Parramatta River, Georges River, landscape architects, I examined Sydney’s existing infrastructural systems and explored visions coastal salt marshes, seaside swimming pools, and tidal pools - I also investigated the manfor hybrid infrastructure that accommodate dynamic flux and flows. made associated structures such as sea walls, dams, sewers, and sidewalks - and imagined them not as fixed concrete infrastructures that contain, tame, and control the natural forces but I examined Sydney’s Green / Blue Infrastructural Ecology - including parks like Sydney integrated dynamic systems that works with other types of infrastructure to accommodate Park, the Napier Street Reserve, and other open space networks - as performative landscape multiple functions and changes. I gained a better understanding of Sydney’s existing coastal infrastructures that are not only recreational but also serve ecological functions such as air defense, and tried to come up with innovative methods to tackle climate change, sea-level filtration, wildlife restoration, urban farming and water cleansing. By rethinking Sydney’s rise, floods, droughts, and bushfires.

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Through analyzing the Transportation Infrastructural Ecology - including highways, cable car, metro systems, pedestrian and bike networks, I aimed to explore ways in which the city can transform current transportation infrastructures, designed with a fixed, single-function in mind, in combination with underutilized spaces once served by these infrastructures to unlock hidden potential by imagining additional uses originally excluded in their planning process and increase social, environmental, and economic value.

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The project develops a strategy for urban design where the landforms, building forms and public spaces performs systematically. By analyzing the barnacle, a successful sea creature living in the tidal zone, the project mimics the way the barnacle collects and stores water. This new strategy aims to create a more resilient Miami shoreline, at the meantime give a new identity to the city.

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A prototypical study of landform urbanism which enables water performance and human interactions to occur. By creating landform conditions and integrating public spaces, the design reveals hydrological conditions and ecological processes to its visitors and inhabitants over time.

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Spiral Jetty Land art in water + Active meditation + Tidal Indicator + Register of Salinity & Sedimentation

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Towards a Transcendental Infrastructural Urbanism Fall 2015, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Received “Distinction” for Studio Landscape Architecture III: Landform Urbanism Collaboration with David Zielnicki Professor: Fionn Byrne

“Enduring places, of which there are very few in the world, speak to humanity. Most monuments cannot survive the decay of their cultural matrix. The more specific and representational the object the less it is likely to survive: since the end of British imperialism in Egypt, the statues of Queen Victoria no longer command worlds but merely stand in the way of traffic. In the course of time, most public symbols lose their status as places and merely clutter up space.”

Yi-Fu Tuan, “Space and Place”, pg 166 The development of the former rail yards and chemical plant in Allston, MA holds massive potential as a site for exploring a new typology of Boston neighborhood. While the site is rich in its latent potential, it also runs the risk of becoming a bland continuation of Boston’s existing neighborhood typologies or a meaningless formal exercise, offering the same types ands scales of public space.

How can we explore methods of developing this high-value land while providing new kinds of open space which avoid erasure and speak to the monumentality of the site?

Can we intersect a pragmatic urban planning solution with a new typology of open space that strives to transcend the cultural period in which it was developed? Can such a typology outlast and respond to projected cultural timelines?

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Relic: Existing site conditions are preserved and transformed into new types of public spaces, building forms and city fabric respond to these voids.

Building massing is transformed to allow dominant solar access to these new voids.

Street Intersections: Existing context roads are extended into the site, creating an excess of vehicular and pedestrian circulation. The intersections of the new streets, the streets and unusable blocks become public spaces. The building forms terrace down to the intentions, giving prominence and grandeur to the urban voids.

Proposed Design: The proposed design combines the elements explored through the four study schemes. The design takes advantage of the 30’+ change in elevation created by the construction of the new West Station, and creates a series of public spaces on the vertical cliff like surface. Such public spaces are sensitive to the program and size of the neighboring buildings and resist erasure from future development. Topography is introduced to create a soft water edge, to increase human-water activities and biodiversity.

Topography: Topography introduced to redirect water flow and pedestrian flow, and provides ecological diversity. Building forms echoes historic and cultural significant monuments with terraced public spaces and outlooks for pedestrians.

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The project aims to create a new cultural center that derives morphologically from natural forms to activate the architecture.

Through the use of an incision, the monolithic mass is divided into programmatic spaces, creating Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, referencing the Divine Comedy. An internal ramp guides the visitors’ experience from one space to the next.

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Situated on the water edge of Rio de La Plata in Argentina, this project proposes a meandering esplanade that stores the bodies of the terminal ill patients in cryogenic temperature cases. They are preserved in hope that future technology can restore them back to health. The state the bodies are in, neither dead or alive, is metaphorically compared to the shoreline, and poetically to the purgatory. I was responsible from idea to representation, including all the graphics shown.

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In progress: Medusa is a proposal for an chandelier-like installation that plays on the mythological notion of toxicity and beauty in our contemporary culture.

Actuating mold growth in an airtight network that responds to light levels, human occupancy and movement, this system strives to visualize the invisible microbiotic particles that exist all around us. Hanging tentacles with LEDs and sensors attracts human interaction and triggers the installation to jitter, hence activating the system. As the concentration of mold increases and spreads, our attraction to toxicity also grows. This project inquires the contradiction of beauty and health. I was responsible for the concept, and deeply engaged from designing to prototyping. I have also created the final visualization of the envisioned condition.

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“Nature does not exist”: an artificial/ natural system that is digitally monitored through computer programs namely Grasshopper, Firefly and Arduino, allowing human to interact with a catenary canopy that is covered in living moss. A webcam detects human movements in directional

vectors and tells a manifold distributing system where to feed and water the plant matter. It is a prototype experiment for a scalable upside down landscape which filters light and air for the occupants underneath. The installation is imagined at many scales: the 1:1 installation, a room, or a streetscape.

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Structural Modeling: Bijlmer ArenA Train Station Spring 2011, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Collaboration with Jenny Kwon Structural Systems Professor: Brett Schneider

A model of Bijlmer ArenA Train Station by Grimshaw produced for Structures III class that imitates the construction methods, materiality and joinery of the structural system. Techniques such as 3D printing, laser cutting, metal casting, Rockite casting and welding were used during the combined efforts.

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Hans Bethe: Installation Spring 2010 - Spring 2011, Hans Bethe Hall, Ithaca, NY Collaboration with Jean You Advisors: Dean Porus Olpadwala and professor Jack Elliott

A winning entry for the University-wide competition to design a permanent installation at Hans Bethe Hall, Ithaca, NY to honor the late Physics Nobel laureate and Cornell Professor Hans Bethe and his contribution to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and astrophysics. Through the use of stainless steel spheres and cables, the installation aims to be scaleless and timeless. I was deeply involved from the birth of the concept, to design and mock up, and to fabrication during the one year process.

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Winning proposal for the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial 2013 themed “Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology.” Using an optical profilometer, we measured and generated 3D models of paper’s texture at a nano scale for three types of paper, A4, newsprint and Museum board. We imagined these texture to be then scaled up to form a landscape at the human scale. A bird’s eye video camera is installed to record the human interaction with the piece, zooming out throughout the 2 week process. I was responsible for the birth of the concept, and deeply engaged in design and research.

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A column of stacked A4 paper stands 5’ tall, the thickness of the A4 paper when scaled to the city of Ithaca, NY. Subtle markers of black paper on the column also indicate the thickness at the scale of the Arts Quad and Cornell Campus.

The four corners of each invisible plane are indicated with QR codes at sites, geolocating back the viewer in reference to the installation. An Ipad is installed inside the column playing an animation zooming in and out at a piece of A4 paper from life size to nanoscale. I was deeply engaged from design to fabrication during the months long process.

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Designed and built a series of 10” x 10” 3D printed models for the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum Exhibition in New York.

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From Stoss Project Description: Immensely rich in culture and history, St. Louis struggles to become a connected city, along with facing significant equity, economic and urban renewal challenges. Chouteau Greenway is a project that aim to address these issues. The project team aimed to bring together a network of embedded histories, discovered and undiscovered, to the forefront of the greenway. The project activates key existing amenities while also redirecting attention to forgotten civic spaces like the Griot Museum of Black History at St. Louis Place, and the historic Mill Creek Valley, a vibrant African American community erased in the creation of a freeway overpass, hereby creating a

new network of 100 unique spaces for St. Louis to celebrate. The catalyst sites contain unique landscape opportunities and poignant architectural details like the reflecting pools memorializing the lost foundational structures of Mill Creek Valley. In addition, a design toolkit of paving patterns, benching, lighting and sculptural beacons was articulated by the design team, giving future development a cohesive template from which to draw. The design team articulated a design toolkit of paving patterns, benching, lighting and sculptural beacons that provide a cohesive template for future development.

Elemental paving patterns take the rolling form of arches, rock and cave-like shapes that provide an iconography that is even expressed three-dimensionally in forms like “the stoop”. This concept celebrates the residential stoop, where generations have gathered and shared stories, bringing this intimate communal activity out into public space giving people a place to connect.

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The Coastal Resilience Plan draws on the cherished built and natural heritage of Nantucket to create a community supported road-map to implementation for a series of layered flood control and adaptation approaches that lessen the loss from storm surges and help the community adapt to rising seas and eroding coastlines. The plan addresses the whole island and county while respecting the unique characteristics of each neighborhood. Driven by the inclusive and equitable engagement, the plan aspires to create social, environmental, and economic benefits to everyone who will share in Nantucket’s future.

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1_East Boston waterfront landscape design, looking out at the Harbor/ Downtown 2_East Boston landscape during a storm 3_Charlestown waterfront landscape design, during game day 4_Charlestown waterfront during a storm

For this comprehensive report to generate coastal resilience solutions for East Boston and Charlestown, I developed and refineed the graphics to show to the public how the resilient landscape designed by Stoss responds to flooding in a storm condition.

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Coastal Resilience Solutions For Downtown Boston And North End Fall 2018 - Summer 2019, Stoss Landscape Urbanism Professional Work: Stoss team: Chris Reed, Amy Whitesides, Kanani D’Angelo, and Co. Project Role: Landscape Designer Collaboration with ONE Architecture and Urbanism, Kleinfelder, Arcadis, Woods Hole Group.

Boston is a city with strong relationship to water. Due to sea level rise and team developed a set of coastal resilience strategies at the neighborhood the increased severity of coastal storms caused by climate change, the low- scale for Downtown Boston and North End. The published report lying coast along Downtown and the North End is increasingly vulnerable summarizes the project methodology, design concepts, and next steps. to flooding. Through a series of multi-stakeholder planning process, the

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This project re-envisions Central Wharf as a resilient waterfront park. The NEAQ will be graciously relocated to the adjacent parking garage site, allowing Central Wharf to become a place for public education, recreation and ferry transportation. This project also responds to the previous Stoss work of Climate Ready Plan Boston- Downtown, and the Blueway Connection along the Greenway.

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The L Street Power Station is a unique opportunity to combine adaptive reuse of historically significant industrial buildings along with neighborhood creation. The project is set in the context of a thriving working port and a growing residential neighborhood in South Boston. The landscape design will provide a range of public and community benefits to promote community welfare, new open space, environmental remediation, economic activity, improved circulation, and a mix of uses and housing options.

The water’s edge is modified using a tiered approach which provides opportunities for dynamic ecologies while addressing tidal and nuisance flooding as shown in the sequence to the left and on the next spread.

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A Regenerative Strategy: Arnos Vale Modern City Fall 2020, Professional Work At Stoss Landscape Urbanism Professional Work: Stoss team: Chris Reed, Amy Whitesides, Davi Schoen, Hongfei Li, and myself.

Project role: Lead Landscape Designer Project full team includes: Office of Charles Waldheim, SOM, HR&A, Weston & Sampson.

The decommissioned E.T. Joshua airport represents a once-in-a generation opportunity for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The proposal offers a regenerative approach to make this tremendous asset and re-integrating it with the life of the island. This vision and this approach represent a first step in creating a foundation for an urban revitalization project that balances the imperatives of economic development, social benefits and ecological restoration. It centers on relationships between people, economy, place and the environment to craft a framework capable of adapting to a range of possible future demands.

Importantly, the proposal is rooted in an evolving understanding of what is unique to this place, that is in the urban design, sustainability and resiliency practices, and also reflects the spirit, character and possibilities of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The proposal aims to create a unique urban waterfront destination within the Carribean, one that combines diverse waterfront attractions and amenities with a sensitivity to nature.

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The proposal represents a design approach that centers on landscape and the environment. As such, the ecological regeneration of the site is a key goal, with landscape and engineering strategies helping drive design decisions. Leading with landscape is not only improving environmental systems, it also informs our approach to designing a modern resilient city, infrastructural efficiency and the role of recreational space and social life. This begins with an acknowledgment that Arnos Vale sits upon a formally filled riverbed and is at risk of inland flooding, sea-level rise, storm surge, volcanic activity, earthquakes, and other phenomena. Landscape can provide cost efficient and ecologically regenerative strategies to address and mitigate these interacting risks and vulnerabilities. Our proposal recognizes the impacts that climate change has already had on Arnos Vale and builds disaster risk reduction into the design. It also recognizes the need for more shade, for increased biodiversity, and for using landscape systems to clean water, to upgrade the rivers, and improve environmental and public health.

I was responsible for leading the landscape design efforts, coordinating with the subconsultants. Apart from executing the drawings, I was supervising the quality and consistency of all drawings to match the overall vision and narrative.

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the gentle slope of the upper plateau rendered as urban fabric, and the lower ravines and wadis manifest as the new Royal Park. Here we draw true inspiration from the geologic foundations of this place, allowing the dramatic cliffs and the vegetated wadis (both in their scrubby native and gridded agricultural forms) to provide the physical, spatial, and imaginative starting points for a truly world-class, contemporary park. In this way, our ambition is to knit together the rich and distinct environmental and cultural fabrics of Riyadh: the land itself gives form to the city and the various open spaces that define it. And the parklands extend via the extant finger-like This is a proposal for a comprehensive masterplan in the Middle East. I was the lead designer ravines into each of the government districts and neighborhoods of the new Center, bringing for the landscape design. Our proposal starts with the dramatic landscape of Riyadh itself— access and air and light into the heart of the city.

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Interspersed within the planted lowland wadis are bands of programmed sporting fields (helping to encourage healthy and active lifestyles for residents of Riyadh) all within a system designed to accommodate water in times of need.

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Working with the topography of the wadi the royal gardens create a series of cascading terrace gardens that become more heavily planted and lush. The royal gardens also frames views out towards Ad-Diriyah, site of the historic beginnings of Riyadh. Within the formal gardens patterns, pulled from the rich Islamic tradition, take form as both hard and soft landscape features, providing differentiated spatial experiences. Plantings of fruiting and flowering trees create a garden that appeals to the varied sense. Fountains use the sound and movement of water to further add to the sense of wonder and beauty.

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The North Square connects the train station main entrance to the city in the north, via a clear delineated pedestrian path and pedestrian bridges over the highway. The plaza’s dramatic diamond-shaped paving pattern is simple yet dynamic, mimicking the language of the architecture. Diamond-shaped planting mounds emerge from the plane to allow for flexible circulation and gathering, and the surface erupts into a celebratory water fountain and jets that reach into the sky, marking this important new civic venue.

The North Square planting scheme consists of 2-3 deciduous and flowering trees (Delonix Regia, red flowering tree that symbolizes departure and saudade in Chinese culture). Some of the mounds are integrated with seating, of those who want to pause from their daily routine, or have lunch with a friend.

The North Plaza sunken areas are forest gardens, with bamboos rising up from B2. These welcomes and draws people, up and down the North Plaza, at all levels--and extend again the experience of landscape into the depths of the technological and underground city.

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Shenzhen Xili: Canyon The Canyon is a deep, multistory landscape space running the full length of the central station hub. It creates an unexpected but stunning landscape threshold between the urban fabric and entry plaza to the north and the main station to the south--a sensorial landscape top the experienced and passed through during the daily comings and goings of commuters and travellers.

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Shenzhen Xili: The Hub The heart of the transportation hub is marked by the most refined and exquisite landscape spaces: special areas for ticket-holders rendered as hanging “Biospheres,” or glassenclosed botanical gardens, based on five distinctive Chinese ecologies and landscape types: Mountain (Tropical/ Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forest), River (Pearl River Delta), Desert (Deserts and xeric shrublands), Plains (Cultivated orchard and urban farming), and Pollinator Gardens (Butterfly, flowering).

These Biosphere ecologies are combined with train station programs such as waiting area, exploration paths, and play areas, and all are integrated with technological sensors for heat/ humidity/ soil/ etc. and wired through social media to allow the flora to “communicate” with local and international audiences.

From these Biospheres, ticket-holders can access commercial areas in the station, but not the other way around. The biospheres allow views from and into the waiting hall below and for skylight to penetrate down from above. A multi-layered circulatory system includes a network of elevated and suspended pathways that circumnavigate the hubs, allowing the ticket-holders to have different views of the suspended garden crystals.

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Shenzhen Xili: West Rail Park The Rail Park on both the east and west sides of the main transportation hub extend the vitality of the station through new urban landscapes and forests. Together, the East and West Rail Parks offer a range of cultural and community-based activity spaces and a chance to connect to nature in the busiest and most vibrant part of the city.

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The West Rail Park is designed for larger event and gathering spaces, including a water plaza, pavilion, concert space, and public art spaces. Criss-cross circulation paths cut across landforms, connecting plaza program spaces to each other and to the urban fabric around-allowing for free flow of people from all sides. It is a place for celebrating Chinese culture and the Shenzhen spirit.

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Shenzhen Xili: East Rail Park The East Rail Park is a smaller series of green urban rooms set between lushly planted mounds. This park is programmed with more intimate community and neighborhood scaled spaces (playgrounds, sunshade/ trellis for vines, art installations, frog pond, community gardens, large boulders for play and hangout).

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Shenzhen Xili: Cultural Plaza The Cultural Plaza is a large celebratory space on the west side of the transportation hub, situated around and beneath the event and exhibition spaces of the building. The pleated languages from the West and East Railpark fold up to the elevated plazas on both sides through a series of civic scaled ramps; these create continuous gathering spaces and many places for art and sculpture displays and cultural performances.

access to the building to not block essential routes. The edge of the Southwest side of the Plaza has a pleated landform that folds up; evergreen, deciduous and flowering trees are planted to block noises from the highway viaduct. While driving on the viaduct, you will see the train station behind this veil of evergreen trees, extending the transportation hub landscape experience even to those just driving by.

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The OPEN DOOR project is inspired by the idea of exchange: spatial, social, and cultural. The project builds an inclusive environment at Gallaudet University that generates educational, creative and economic opportunities for the Gallaudet community, adjoining Neighborhoods and the City at large. By adjusting the proposed PUD Phase 1 Building Form – while respecting height limits, core location and overall development areas – OPEN DOOR links the Gateway Pavilion, the Gallaudet Innovation Lab and the Plaza to establish a new crossroads between the University, the public and the diverse, human capacity for creativity and innovation.

OPEN DOOR explores the design of a cohesive, sensory landscape experience- that links the Gateway Plaza with new activated edges of Olmstead Green, the EMG building and the campus. This Sensory Trail offers a set of spaces, thresholds and experiences that engage diffuse light and subtle reflection, tactile materials, aromas, thermal sensation and the resonance of tactile sound to celebrate the sensory reach of Deaf culture.

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A published report titled: “Southern Manhattan Coastal Protection Study” evaluates the feasibility of a multi-purpose levee along the East River in Lower Manhattan to protect the city from storm surges and rising sea level. The project aims to pay for itself and other resiliency efforts. After Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg recommended this concept in his report titled “A Stronger, more resilient New York”.

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Project Role: Architectural and Urban Designer

Researching and designing the cultural center, museum and hotel for the historic porcelain capital in Jiangxi province, China. Jingdezhen has over 1,700 years of history making porcelain.

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Designed and executed conceptual, SD and DD packages: including drawings, 3D models and renderings for the project.

The 250-foot tower has two floors of affordable micro-units on the base.

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Situated in the Hudson Yards, the tower form cantilevers over an active expressway. Inspired by the works of Lucio Fontana and the curves derived from transportational vehicles, I came up with a way of creating identity for the 70-story residential tower through a series of gestural cuts. I used the “incision” method as a way of creating balconies on the tower facades to direct views for the inhabitants. The bottom half of the tower looks toward the city, where the top half gets an uninterrupted view of the Hudson River. I was responsible for the idea, design, grasshopper script for the facades and rendering.

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Two towers, one office and one residential, are connected by an amenities podium in the middle. The facades of the towers are made up of different types of fins which fade from the bottom to top both in size and density. Two large canopies slices the tower bases and anchors the composition. Involved in the design process, I was responsible for the 3D modeling, in-house renderings, and working with the renderer to produce the final renderings for the SD submission package.

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Winter 2014, National Academy Museum, NYC Collaboration with Kevin Cannon and team at FXFOWLE Architects

Summer - Fall 2014, Hudson Yard, NYC Collaboration with Dan Kaplan and team at FXFOWLE Architects

Summer 2013, Manlius, NY Collaboration with Principal Dana Cupkova and team at EPIPHYTE-Lab

Designing, fabricating and constructing the installation and exhibition at the museum. Materials include wood, cardboard and wires.

Executed SD plans, sections, 3D models and interior renderings for client meetings and packages.

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Measured and modeled the existing conditions of the house in Upstate New York. Redesigned the 60’s cubist house to enhance energy performance, daylighting, interior circulation and programmatic needs.

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Spring 2015, Financial District, NYC Collaboration with Stephan Dallendorfer and team at FXFOWLE Architects

Conceptualized, designed the building and produced the drawings, 3D models, physical models and images for the two schemes for this invited study of an office building on the High Line.

Conceptualized, designed the building and produced the drawings, 3D models, physical models and images for the competition entry’s four schemes (Runner-up) of a residential tower, overlooking the Columbus Circle in NYC.

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Conceptualized and designed the architecture and produced the drawings, 3D models, and images for the winning competition entry. The mixed use project provides a residential tower, a public school and a subway station in the heart of the Financial District.

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Research adviser: Dr. Donald P. Greenberg

A case study conducted on Morphosis Architects’ Gates Hall in Ithaca, NY to analyze the energy efficiency and daylighting qualities of the building. The building uses a combination of perforated panels and frits to reduce energy usage and glare. Using Diva for Rhino and Sustain, a Cornell energy analysis software, we compiled a comprehensive report to better understand the building and to improve the software, Sustain. Collaborating with national architecture offices such as FXFOWLE, Ennead and SOM, we produced similar analyze to improve building performance along the design processes.

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1_Model of Dale Chihuly’s glass sculpture in V&A, London, with 30 million triangles 2_Model of a chandelier from 1815 in the V&A, London, with 600 000 triangles 3_Model of a J.&L. Lobmeyr chandelier from the Metropolitan Opera House, NY 4_Detail of the model of Dale Chihuly’s glass sculpture

Modeling complex luminaires and sculptures in Rhino and rendering them to test a new software written by computer science Ph.D. student Edgar Velazquez-Armendariz for a research paper on the same topic. The numerous crystalline structures with multiple points of light (uniformly spread or scattered sources), bouncing from crystal to crystal make it difficult for the rendering software in the field right now to render effectively.

Hence the Lab is working on a new software and algorithm to solve this issue with less computing time while maintaining accuracy of how the chandeliers will look lit up.

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Research: Modeling The Red Mangrove Spring 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Collaboration with Yun Shi Professor: Fionn Byrne and Coordinator: Pierre Bélanger

Through researching and representing the plant’s parts, reproductive cycle and ecological effects, we can begin to use the red mangrove, a native Cuban species as a powerful agent in design projects.

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1_Circulatory flows of people and water amidst cluster of hillocks and seating, opening to large areas for gathering and flexibility. Venice High School, Venice, CA 2_Wooden Origami: folded surfaces scaled to the human body and varied social groupings and to the forces and scale of the river. CityDeck, Green Bay, WI 3_Seawall upgrades to counter climate effects can inject new social activity, new adapted ecosystems: a social magnet at the beachfront. Galveston Seawall, Central Galveston Island, TX

4_Can a single-minded seawall be rethought to offer opportunities for social life and emergent ecologies? Study models for public engagement. Central Galveston Island, TX 5_Toolkit creates consistent identity and legibility across 18 neighborhoods; open-ended discussions among community members determine specific neighborhood combinations from almost limitless possibilities- and promote individual expression and ownership. Chouteau (now Brickline) Greenway Framework Plan, St. Louis. MO

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Mise-en-Scène Book Drawing gs Chouteau (now Brickline) Greenway Framework Plan Falll 2018 - SSummer 2020 Colllaboration with Chris Reed, Mike Belleme, Alysoun Wright and team Project Role: Designer and Illustrator

Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes is a book project authored by Chris Reed and Mike Belleme that explores the actors and actions that compose the daily theater of urban life. The book is center around seven visual case studies depicting life in seven American cities: Los Angeles, Gavleston, St. Louis, Green Bay, Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Boston.

The result is a rigorous and artful examination of the social, cultural,

environmental, and economic challenges of life in American cities today.

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6_ Circulatory and drainage logics inform topographic variation across a campus green, producing new ecological expressions and new social possibilities. Eda U. Gerstacker Grove, University of Michigan, MI. 7_ Reimagining newly productive urban landscapes (cultivated, artful, water-absorbing, habitatproducing, densified, and green); new landscape-based forms of urban living. Detroit Future City, Detroit, MI.

8_ Distinct sitting profiles—tuned to a variety of body types and reclining/lounging positions— are morphed from one to the other, creating smooth transitions and unique bench form. Science Center Plaza, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 9_ Can increased flooding and impending climate disaster spur new approaches to inclusivity and open space? A public park reimagined with dynamic coastal ecologies and new activity areas that invite a fuller range of urban dwellers to the harbor. Moakley Park, South Boston, MA.

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10_ Polluting, resource-intensive freeways—endemic to LA—that sever, consume, and oppress.

Can we reimagine them as ecological machines that clean air and water, harvest precious resources, and bridge social divides? LA2 Freeway, Frogtown–Elysian Heights–Silver Lake, CA.

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12_Galveston Island, TX. A city on a barrier island along the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston is poised (again) to be blown or washed away. It’s a tenacious place that has rebuilt itself many times, a whole town raised to protect against floods.

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13_Detroit, MI: Detroit is a city on the rebound, a place where culture has long been built around food, music, art, and social life. People here are rediscovering and remaking their communities on the vibrant social scenes around the city.

14_Boston, MA. A city of history on the edge of the Atlantic, Boston is a cultural, educational, and research center that still struggles with its identity and with transformation.

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1_Waiting to Leave: To prepare to leave is a mobilization toward mobility... Expanding the scope of resettlement to a territorial, or even global, scale seems impossible. Yet the development of large-scale temporary settlements and associated infrastructures is inevitable and necessary. Global mapping demonstrates that over 600 million people live in low-lying elevations threatened by sea-level rise. While many of

these people can access higher grounds farther inland, other populations will soon be forced to face these questions. Island nations in Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Maldives are particularly susceptible.

2_Morphing Edges: As glaciers melt and water levels rise globally, the transformation is largely absorbed along edge conditions...how will the existing edge populations and settlements transition to an aquatic life?

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Buoyant Clarity Mapping Fall 2016 Collaboration with Christopher Meyer, Daniel Hemmendinger, and Shawna Meyer Project Role: Designer and Illustrator Maps published as part of the book Pamphlet Architecture 36: Buoyant Clarity, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2016

I was responsible to designing and illustrating the maps and timelines.

Annotations are excerpts taken from the book.

3_Preparing to Stay: The choice to stay is born of responsibility, desire, and commitment to preservation - of self and of place. Someday, staying will mean floating. While people may be able to inhabit the same position on the earth, their relationship to water will have to be reconfigured.

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bodies because a failure to do so has negative effects on the systems and apparatuses they supports. What is our responsibility to a body?

6_Global Hydrological System: When dry ground is represented as void, one can clearly depict the continuity of the wet. As water forms vary in scale and ecologies, the guiding principle to be understood is interconnectivity. The influence of one relatively small culture living adjacent to a freshwater steam can have global impacts on the systems.

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the accumulation of human settlement, which is precariously often concentrated within littoral zones. As global population increases, the finite resource of dry ground causes an increase in settlement densities. How dows the inevitable expansion of settlement foster dry and wet zones, and eventually create wet urban and city-scale settlements?

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The animation featured in the traveling exhibition explores the aesthetics about the urban informality and formality in Mumbai, India through the case study of Worli, Dharavi, and Nariman Point.

1-5_Worli, a fishing village home to the Kolis, is part of the original city settlement.

Skyscrappers in the background of the images are actually built on illegally acquired land 6-10_Dharavi, may appears to look like a slum, however it is a neighborhood community of Mumbai that processes over 44 tons of plastics a day. The houses are the units of the recycled plastic -processing living machine.

11_The presence of a fishing community at Nariman Point has been used as justification to prevent the completion of the island city’s final planned land reclamation scheme.

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1 - 5: Exploration in architectural panoramic distortion. The long drawing merges different building interiors into a composition with several vanishing points for creating spatial fluidity.

6- 9: Exploration in accumulation of similar but varying forms to create a surreal pattern/ field conditions.

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A series of paintings that explore abstract compositions of found and natural forms.

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