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REVERSIBLE SYSTEMS DISSASSEMBLY FACTORY
01 REVERSIBLE SYSTEMS DISSASSEMBLY FACTORY
Syracuse, New York
4th Year
This project explores architecture as a reversible system rather than a permanent object. The building is conceived as a modular assembly of prefabricated components that can be easily separated, reused, or reconfigured over time. Rather than relying on irreversible construction methods, the design prioritizes dry connections, standardized parts, and layered systems that allow individual elements to be removed without compromising the whole. By treating the building as a collection of parts with extended lifecycles, the project challenges conventional ideas of permanence and promotes adaptability, material longevity, and reduced waste. The result is a flexible architectural framework that can evolve alongside changing programmatic and environmental needs.
02 CARVED PLATFORMS AND RETAINING WALLS
Elba, Italy
3rd Year
Using an existing abandoned, in Elba, Italy, retaining wall and dock I am restablishing this as a community center for active engagement. By carving into the wall we are able to make closed and opened spaced and connect the two different heights of the top of the retaining wall and the shoreline. The program being a place where you can catch your food using our floating docks that extend from the main building sequence. The building sequence is taken from the remake of a piece of a rubble box. The main sequence all the rooms are different in every dimension but the width making the connection between all of them and then other sequences expanding off of that one so the whole site is brought together through shape and layout. Then grill your catch inside the open grilled spaces and even sell it in our designated market space. Then the picnic spaces creating aresturant style building but done by you for you, without the business aspect.
SOLID AND VOID BY PROGRAM
03 MIGRATING TOWERS
Zanzibar, Tanzania
2nd Year
The steel modular grid towers follow the floor of the African topography allowing the building to hug the shapes and easily step up and down. Placed specifically in areas accomodating the migration path of site specific birds.
As all the birds are migratory they only come at certain times of the year. The net is what makes the actual architecture follow the need and use of the program. This net also changes a very geometric form to a more organic through the stretching of the net around the sharp corners. During the months the birds are there the net covers the steel structure and becomes a rehabilitation center. When its time for the birds to leave the net is removed and the steel structure stands alone and acts as a shelter for any of the native animals. Due to the differences in needs of the different birds not every tower is always in use and makes for buidings that come and go. The path connects them all allowing the specialists needed to get there.
Eureka, California 2nd Year
The Eureka Timber Research Center reimagines an old wood yard as a hub for innovation, conservation, and historical continuity, using timber construction to honor the site’s legacy while advancing sustainable forestry practices. Designed as an X-shaped structure, the building’s two intersecting wooden frames guide visitors into the site and create a dynamic connection to the surrounding water. The structure employs nested framing, where smaller wooden elements form a walkway with slatted viewing platforms, allowing visitors to observe timber fabrication processes below. The two arms of the X vary in height, accommodating different programs and interlocking in a central atrium space, reinforcing interaction between public and private functions, one side dedicated to public engagement and education, the other to research and production
Syracuse, New York
3rd Year
Housing units are built up and connected through the use of a larger floor type then disconnect and become columns. This spatial make allows for the courtyards to be inbetween the housing columns. The whole building is one unit in width to accomadate the cityscape and fram the Mohawk we are redefining as the center for Downtown Syracuse, the units only face towards this building and match the height of it on one side. Matching the height of the top of the Mohawk highlights the stepped top of the perpendicular building through the space made between the two. The larger floor type turns into a bridge and then lowers in height to match the height of theshopping mall infront of the Mohawk. The bridge creates an entrance to the new center of the city and the contuniuation of the wall of housing units facing in makes a boarder for the new defined city campus.
ROAD WAY BASED GRID
DOWNTOWN SYRACUSE DENSITY MAP WITH ADDITION
SITE CAMPUS
CITY CAMPUS LAYOUT
CIRCULATION OF HALWAYS AND EGGRESS
06 REPRODUCTIVE RECESS
No Location
4th Year
This project is a critique on this system of “tolerated slavery.” In the 1960s, capitalists attempted to sell more efficient ways of performing domestic tasks to us, and presented them as paradise. This project parodies the capitalist mentality, by providing a dystopian living space where all the amenities for performing a domestic task are in the same room. Pushing the capitalist notion of “working and living in the same building”, the people (non-gender specific) living in this space perform these service tasks as a means of making a living, and service everyone else in the building.
