Frick Chemestry Lab Re-Design
Exploded Structure Diagram
Select Proposed Designs 2019-2022
PJ1 BASIN PARK MASTER PLAN
Smart Cities and Sustainability Design Project in Long Island City, NYC
PJ 2 FRICK CHEMISTRY LAB RE-DESIGN
Sustainable Laboratory Re-Design for Princeton University
PJ 3 END OF LIFE CENTER
Funeral & Crematorium Facility in Reykjavik, Iceland
PJ 4 BORDERS DESIGN COMPETITION
Border-Crossing Terminal between Pakistan, India, and Kashmir
PJ 5 HIGH PERFORMANCE ENVELOPE
Technical Project Applying Energy Performance Strategies to an Urban Context
PJ 6 HISTORIC VISUAL ANALYSIS
Eastern Urban Design Perspective and Analysis in a PostBubble Economy
Located : Long Island Citty, New York,
Existing Buildings: Block group 25, 26, & 27.
Concept: Re-design using data driven solutions, sustainable strategies,and prcedent studies.
Collaborative Project with Viv Vu and Brie Valenciano
Project Vision - Proposed design intervensions
This design project is an exercise in using data driven analysis and trend projections to strategize design interventions at the urban scale. A “smart design” which takes into account climate events and sea-level rise to build resilient neighborhoods which take advantage of the waterfront assets to serve the public, while allowing the natural environment to regain claim to the same spaces to regenerate habitats, vegetation, erosion prevention, and natural storm surge protection.
Located : Princeton, New Jersey, 08540
Existing Building: Frick Chemistry Laboratory By Hopkins Architects, collaboration with Payette Associates, and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Concept: Re-design with greater sustainable strategies/materials and further incorporation into the landscape.
Collaborative Project with Victoria Posadas and Emily Bartel
West Elevation
This project was an other group endeavor, where we were tasked to analyze and model an existing chemistry department building and then redesign the building with improved energy efficiency standards, site integration, and inclusion. The single stipulation was to model the entire project and produce the construction documents through Autodesk Revit. We were asked to include the site design, system construction details, R-values for all the wall/ roof assemblies, and material choices/justifications. Unlike the other groups, we decided to use a more sustainable structural system using CLT. We also reorganized the program to take advantage of optimal daylighting, have operable windows to all office spaces, gave all exterior walls a minimum of a 30 R-value, and integrated green spaces throughout the building.
Located : Reykjavik, Iceland, Gearset Park
64° 7’44.80” N, 21° 50’22.13” W
Average annual cloud cover over 75% (57% low, 95% high)
Concept: A space for transition – Where thresholds and mists divide the living from the ones they’ve lost.
This is a design for an End of Life Center, situated in the city of Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik, which translates to Bay of Smoke, earned it’s name from the natural mist that rises from the local waters due to volcanic activity native to the site. I’ve applied this concept, as well as, taking inspiration from the burial practices and forms of the ancient Gaelic and Nordic cultures - historic to the region but also ethnically tied to 93% of the current Icelandic population. In this building programmed to memorialize and celebrate the lives of those who have past, this center orchestrates a metaphor for allowing the living to pass through thresholds to the realm of the dead, where they can express their final farewells. The primary circulation leads family members and friend to a spiritual center inside of the ground. There, a portal to the sky, signifies the gateway to the realm of the dead. The living can look beyond the glass and see trees and fog, heated by geothermal pools, acting as the a veil between the two worlds. In this space, an opportunity is present to enable peace and potentially closure by reflecting on the passing of your loved ones, just beyond the veil; a place we living cannot yet reach, but as close as we can be - on the Isle of Mist.
Steel Plate
Space-Frame Column
Earth Material/Green Roof
Filter Layer
Drainage Layer
Protective Mat
Waterproof Membrane
Insulation
Vapor Barrier
Under Layment
Concrete/Corrugated Steel
Stone Veneer Cement Board Insulation
Triple-Pane Store Front Glazing
Steel Beams
Cement Board/Plaster
Finished Floor
Thermal-Hydro System
Sub-Floor
Insulation
Vapor Barrier
Under Layment
Concrete
Ground
Concrete Footing
Reykjavik received its name from the steam and natural hot springs native to the region. It loosely translates to Smoke Cove; and the city is sometimes referred to as “Bay of Smoke” or “Smokey Bay.”
Located: Kashmir, Pakistan, and India Border 32°20’22.2”N 75°19’30.0”E
Collabrative Submission with Brie Valenciano, Danny Christie, and Gillian McGlone
Site/Context Analysis
This international project competition for redesigned border conditions was completed with a group of 4 designers including myself. For the year 2074, we propose a resolution will be made for the independence of a new countryKashmir. Following current events, trends show the eventuality of peaceful relations between Pakistan and India. Their current border conditions, which were established 50 years prior, are well known for its mostly militant and fortified line of control. This is due to disputes over the territories of Kashmir and Jammu. The new intersection of these three countries introduces a trinity condition specific to the site that has influenced our architectural intervention.
Structural Diagrams
Central Checkpoint
International Hall
Visitor’s Center
Amphitheatre
Market Stalls
Bus Terminals
CODE ABSTRACT:
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTAIL CODE, THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION CODE, AND THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE.
ZONING DISTRICT CODE: RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED (RSA-5)
OCCUPANCY GROUP: RESIDENTAL 3 (R-3)
CONSTUCTION TYPE: TYPE V-B WITH 40 FEET ALLOWABLE
ABOVE GRADE PLANE
THE GROSS FLOOR AREA IS 1,508 SQFT
CONSTRUCTION TYPE V-B (NS) DOES NOT REQUIRE FIRE PROOFING. EXCEPTION: 2 HR FIRE RATING FOR SEPARATION WALLS
OCCUPANCY: 1,508 SQFT/ 200 OCCUPANCY LOAD FACTOR= 8 OCCUPANTS
EGRESS REQUIRMENTS: SINGLE EXIT OR ACESS TO A SINGLE EXIT IS PERMITTED FROM ANY STORY WHERE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS EXIST: CONDITION #4- GROUP R-3 AND R-4 OCCUPANCIES.
LOCATED IN PHILADELPHIA: CLIMATE ZONE 4A
INSULATION REQUIRMENTS: 49 FOR ROOF, 20 OR 13+5 FOR WALLS, 19 FOR FLOORS, 15/19 FOR BASEMENT WALLS, AND 10 FOR SLAB.
This re-imagined row home continues to relate to it’s context by embracing traditional elements from the surrounding context, however the interior is outfitted to accommodate the contemporary lifestyle. I’ve employed a split-level strategy to maximize spaces while carving out a light-well which floods through the entire house.
Located : Hu-tong, Osaka, Japan (2002)
Architect/Designer: Waro Kishi and K Architects Accociates
Building Type: Private Residential
Design: Modern Japanese-ness
This residential project in the urban context of Osaka, was completed soon after the “lost decade” of architecture in Japan due to the economic recession of the 1990’s. Very little public architectural opportunities took place under a slow economic rehabilitation, therefore, a new shift defaulted to adaptive reuse and private residential projects. In this home, Kishi Plays with the ideas of modernity and the “Asian lifestyle”. Using cultural concept derived from Zen Buddhist, Wabi Sabi, and other Asian models, he designed the Hu-tong house. Hu-tong
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