Professional Profile

A committed, imaginative, and creative person with an architecture degree. Demonstrated expertise in managing both architectural projects as well as teaching in a classroom environment in a timely and efficient manner. Highly organized team player with strong research, analytical, communication, and quick learning abilities. Always looking to learn new things to improve my understanding and abilities in the field.

Skills

2021-2023

2015-2019 2013-2015

2022

2022

Hobbies & Interests

2020-2021

2019-2020

2017

Competitons

• ACSA Timber in the City competetion

Technical

Microsoft Office

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign Autodesk AutoCAD

Autodesk Revit

Rhino

2016-2017

• Designing a proto-type modular housing for Puerto Rico •

Living NYC proposes to mitigate unaffordable housing and food insecurity through ecology-centric design. Circular systems coupled with economic incentives create a sustainable housing model that lowers the overall cost of living. The project acts as a harvesting, production and distribution facility for fresh produce and local goods to the community. Rain water is collected and recirculated as grey water and a compost collection drive converts organic waste from the Flower District and tenants to usable electricity. A cooperative housing model empowers tenants to have a stake in the community they live in, have control over rent prices and fees, and be a part of a more democratic housing process.

The layout of Living NYC is made to maximize available farming and ecology spaces. Thus, the design of the building is conceptualized by needs of the ecology via sunlight and soil depth. Perennial plants are grown in the greenhouse across the top of the skybridge for maximum sunlight, while hydroponics are grown in the level below. Annual agriculture is grown on the roof with a soil depth of 600mm. A variety of native and fruit trees are grown at the base where the deepest soil is available. Three primary service elevators circulate goods from the roof, to the compost collection, to the market spaces below.

Group Project: Erin, Jun, Monisha & Tanishka

Software: Rhino, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

Circularity is key to our project model, both as a sustainable construction and economic plan, but also for long-term sustainability. Our primary programs are residential spaces, affordable grocery and market, art incubators and ecology. All of these programs sustain each other to produce as little ecological and economic waste as possible. Compost collection reuses dead flora from the flower district into passive anaerobic energy used to power the building. A sloped roof directs water below the building to be used for irrigation and greywater. Partnerships with local growers and urban farms subsidize produce for the grocery and lower the cost of maintenance. Plants on the roof metabolize carbon dioxide emissions from the buses below to increase air quality and reduce stormwater runoff.

The primary structure consists of warren trusses stacked on each other up to the respective terrace roofs of the building. The roof is sloped a maximum of 10% which is ideal for irrigation and rainwater harvesting. Agricultural areas are designed with flat terraces to prevent soil erosion and for easy maintenance. Sections of the terraces are used for outdoor community spaces with native plants and grasses. Lastly, the building overall uses teracotta as its building material. A terracotta facade is both recyclable, durable, natural and energy efficient with a low thermal transfer. A biotile based wall structure uses Rockwool, a recyclable material, to attach and grow seedlings within an irrigated hydroponic system.