I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, in Ithaca, New York.
I am passionate about architecture and design work that helps democratize knowledge and provide interdialogue platforms.
I believe in creating and striving for the purpose that architecture should be a space for inclusivity, where access to information, resources, and decisionmaking is shared.
I grew up in Santa Clara county, where I witnessed Silicon Valley’s rapid technological growth and its transformative impact on the architectural landscape. While this dynamic environment is often experimental and not always perfect, it has influenced my perspective as a designer, fueling my desire to create responsive architecture for ever-changing needs of our society.
I also spent a few years living abroad in Hong Kong, where the city’s vibrant mix of modern skyscrapers and historical buildings taught me to appreciate the coexistence and dialogue between the old and new in architecture.
These experiences have instilled in me a deep curiosity on how architecture can act as a mirror to cultural values and progress—compeling me to reflect on my design responsibilities to create thoughtful, purpose-driven architecture.
Apple Visitor Center, Cupertino, CA.
View from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong.
01 PERSPECTIVA ANTIQUA
public history museum in Rome, Italy
Set within a landscape rich in archaeological and architectural display, the museum functions as an urban intervention that curates key elements of the park. Like a theater, it invites visitors to engage as an audience, appreciating the urban collage of historical layers as a living artwork.
The museum’s structure is anchored by three stairwells, each function as visors at the end that guide visitors through time. These visors frame views that transport guests from the ancient world—starting at the House of Augustus on the ground level— to different periods in Rome’s history, culminating in observation decks that offer curated perspectives. This design transforms the museum into a metaphorical time machine, seamlessly linking past and present.
A key feature of the museum is its inclusivity, particularly for the visually impaired. Braille handrails along the staircases provide descriptive guidance, while bas-relief walls at the end of each tunnel depict tactile representations of the framed views, ensuring that all visitors can experience the park’s curated narratives.
Ground level
ROMAN RUINS
Museum level GALLERY + OBSERVATION VISORS
Roof OBSERVATION DECK
Via di S. Teodoro
Via dei Cerchi
Le Fortezze dei Frangipane
Horti Farnesiani
Neronian Cryptoporticus
Domus Flavia <
The museum features a program designed for the visually impaired. At the end of each stairway, bas-relief walls present tactile representations of the framed views, ensuring that all visitors, including those with visual impairments, can engage with the park’s curated narratives.
For sighted visitors, the bas-relief initially obscures the view, offering a momentary experience of visual limitation. However, by walking around the wall, they are led to an observation area where the full, unobstructed panorama is revealed, creating a layered journey of perception and understanding.
SCHOLAR'S OFFICE
GALLERY
AUDITORIUM
GALLERY
ABas-relief walls offer tactile site views, enabling all visitors, including those with visual impairments, to experience the park’s narratives.
B
The gallery space is a flexible area with revolving walls that could also be removed. It is an open design that allows for various configurations, adapting to different curatorial needs.
CVisitors may walk through the House of Augustus and view rooms such as the Room of the Masks and the Room of Perspective—a preexisting visiting experience that would remain with the proposed museum.
02 STEP
DWELLINGS
artist residency in Binghamton, NY
Today, downtown Binghamton faces numerous vacancies and some buildings in unoccupiable conditions due to neglect. Meanwhile, socio-economic activity is shifting towards the city’s eastern side, where many cultural hubs such as theatres, libraries and historic landmarks reside. The progression from west to east along Court Street reveals a steady transition from towering offices, to mixed-use buildings.
The project explores the transformation of socio-economic spaces, from the downtown’s traditional desk job workspaces and groundlevel shopfronts to evolving business needs and cultural potentials on the east side of the city. It proposes these programs, each targeting a specific demographic challenge: start-up spaces (for career advancement independent of higher education), market (addressing food insecurity), and exhibition space (aimed at revitalizing the art scene).
The project aims to be a vibrant community hub that aims to connect with existing economic and cultural hubs on the east such as Koffman Incubator and KNOW Theatre. It also invites its residents and visitors to learn more about their community’s ambitions and development, by creating close proximity between the public and start-up spaces and exhibition space. An atrium space invites foot traffic by connecting Court St and Carroll St, and also serves as a public space for leisure. Affordable housing units are provided on upper levels for artists and creators that use the start-up spaces.
SITE PLAN — 1/32" = 1'
CARROLL
HOUSING
MIXED PROGRAMS + ATRIUM OBSERVATION DECK
GARDEN
PRIVATE, QUIET
HOUSING
GALLERY
HOUSING
HOUSING
START-UP SPACES
START-UP SPACES
START-UP SPACES
START-UP SPACES
PUBLIC, COMMERCIAL
START-UP SPACES
START-UP SPACES
ELEVATION_SOUTH
ELEVATION (NORTH) — 1/8" = 1'
03 BOOKMARK FOR FREEDOM PAGES
traveling library for censored books
• Grant-funded and supported by the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA)
Part of the CCA Freedom of Expression exhibition (March 4-22, 2024) at Cornell AAP
Featured on Cornell ASSOCIATION (student-run publication) Volume 13
In reponse to the harsh book banning climate in recent years, Bookmark for Freedom Pages proposes a collapsible and transferrable mobile library structure that serves to travel across states to bring awareness to banned and challenged titles in the United States, and to advocate against censorship and for freedom for speech.
According to PEN America, 3,362 titles were banned from public school classrooms and libraries across the U.S. in the 2022-2023 school year alone. Book banning is becoming an increasingly widespread method of censorship in the U.S., with children’s books and young adult books being the primary targets. These book bans are continuing to spread quickly through coordinated campaigns by vocal groups and increasing pressure from state legislation.
The mobile library boldly showcases titles that are commonly banned and challenged, such as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. Its compact size allows it to be able to travel to different locations in a truck. The mobility of the library is an attempt to reach a large audience, especially to states are affected by the book banning legislation and may not have access to these book titles.
Table of highlights selected books with unique cases of book banning
Greatest Classics banned/challenged books that were commonly read in schools
Foundation of Free Speech books about free speech and the history of censorship to help contextualize the current book banning climate
04 biblioITHACA
public library in
Ithaca, NY
Situated on a site with unique landscape leveling, between a partial segment of the Six Mile Creek and E State Street, the library is a middle host that connects the nature and urbanscape of Ithaca.
The library features layers of stone “screens” that invite its visitors from the busy urbanscape to a staged gradual reveal of the beautiful natural landscape of Six Mile Creek. The gradient of these layers of “screens” begin with stone blocks of strong presence, to stone stacking with gaps of filtered light, and finally opens to pockets of windows between a stone column grid that frames an unobstructed view of Six Mile Creek.
Built flat ground up from a sunk-in site level, the library elevates itself to the E State Street level in a “staircase” formation. The “treads” of the “staircase” contains the programs of the library, and its hollowed space underneath serves as a parking structure for its visitors. The “treads” translate into a set of programmatic organizational bars that has a private-to-public program gradient from north to south of the library—the most private bar houses the visitor-restricted administration program and the room-bounded auditorium, and the most public bar houses the seating area with an open floor plan and large glazing that creates a sense of transparency for the space.
With its unique gradient-layered arrangment and materiality, the library is intended to be a unique visual experience that highlights the contrast between the present-day artificiality in building quality—as shown beyond the stone material in the library and its surrounding context—and the authentic natural peace in monolithic architecture.
E State Street
E Seneca Street
SITE SECTION
05 MODEL STUDY
study on the structrual systems of Moses Mabhida Stadium
In collaboration with Danielle Mitchell (B.Arch ‘26) and Lily Mager (B.Arch ‘26)
The Moses Mabhida stadium was constructed for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The stadium features a broad compression ring that forms the stadium bowl, with a long, elegant double pronged arch holding up an almond tension ring-shaped roof membrane with radial tension cables. The bowl has diagonal columns supporting it, creating a airy space as it appears transparent. The structural model studies the balance between tension and compression of the overall stadium structure, as well as capturing the different hierocratic layers of this project.
STRUCTURAL DATA
Covered area: 42,000 sqm
Arch span: 350m
Arch: 2,700 tons of steel
Compression Ring: 2,800 tons of steel
Compression Ring perimeter: 830m
Cable Structure: 18,000 m cables, 150 tons of castings
06 opus
incertvm
various studies on the urban fabric of Rome, IT
In Fall 2024, I studied abroad in Rome, Italy with the Department of Architecture at Cornell University.
The experience was very enriching as I had the opportunity to observe the sophistication and craftsmanship of Roman architecture, from iconic monuments to enduring archaeological ruins.
The following work showcases selected documentation from my travels.
