What I noticed about architecture is that all the buildings we design for people are often left unrecognized unless it is distinctively extraordinary.
For many projects, intention or meaning embedded by the designer are not always perceived by those outside the discipline. Even carefully considered concepts can remain unrecognized by the very people they are meant to serve. To me, that is a waste and it raises an important question: how can architecture meaningfully connect with its audience?
I believe that in order to create lasting recognition, design must move beyond the expected. It should be something bold, unexpected, or emotionally engaging that invites even a passerby to pause and appreciate it. That moment of connection is what transforms a building from a structure into an experience.
I think thats what makes architecture “for humans”
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Studio 4
Studio 3
Unbound
Residential Proposal For Plaza De Toros, Segovia, Spain
Ebruli
New Float Lab Proposal, Ottawa, ON
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Studio 2
La Vena
Urban Strategy for the city of Cornwall
01 UNBOUND
Residential Proposal Inside
UNBOUND is an adaptive residential proposal for Plaza de Toros in Segovia that reactivates the forgotten bullring for young people. Designed especially for youth with disabilities, it imagines an inclusive co-living environment where architecture becomes flexible, accessible, and shared between human and non-human life.
Through mapping, recognized the bird species that play a significant role for Segovia and Plaza De Toros. Located their nesting spaces and flight patterns to incoorporate their living within the new residential design proposal.
Analyzed the daily patterns and movements of younsters around Plaza De Toros. Labeled the most visited places and the overall circulation to incoorporate their needs inside the residential project.
Stacking Units Diagram
Units of this residential plan is made to adapt to the user. Each unit consists of a core for wet areas and the rest of the walls are stackable inside the core.
Depending on the need and use of each user the walls can be opened or stacked, creating rooms and areas of closure. This creates the concept of architecture adapting to humans instead of humans adapting to architecture.
Exploded Axo
Sustainability Diagram
1 Rainwater - green pockets
2 Sun Path - light exposure
3 Wood Pavilion - nesting space
The complexities of an architectural strategy. Covering the multifaceted dimensions including program and activity, displaying elements to show functions. Structural logics, showing components and materials. Highlighting sustainability decisions, to make the building a living organism.
Strategy Structure Detail
West Elevation - Existing Wall Hidden
North Elevation - Existing Wall Hidden
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New Float Lab Proposal, Ottawa, ON
A creative and innovative design for the Ottawa Riverkeepers that proposes an expansion of the NCC Riverhouse, Ottawa, for a new research (Float) lab. Focusing on the reciprocal approaches of the site and thoughtful research on the environment shapes the human and non-human spaces within the building and promises a design that projects the fluidty of natural forms.
“We
find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the pattern of shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates...”
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
12x44 cm lazer cut model of double facade pattern
Design Process
Ebruli is based on the patterns of fluidity and impermanence.
My concept derives from this idea of the inconsistency and fluidity of the shapes that embodies the transience of nature and the dynamic concept of water.
Plan Sketch Site Plan Sketch
Site Perspective
Interior Render of the gallery; showcasing the pattern reflection
Double Facade Detail
Footing Structure Detail
Double Facade Exploded Axo Detail
Building Perspective Diagram Floating Ecosystem Exploded Axo Detail
Glass Panel Mullions
White Stone Columns
Glass Panels
Aquatic plants and floating islands of water parks
Transverse Section
Exterior render of the east elevation vignette
Floating ecosystems of outside courtyard render
Interior render of the lobby space
03 LA VENA
Urban Strategy for the city of Cornwall
Team Members:
Kimya Kose - Navnoor Bahia - Carmelle Liao Park - Eshum Mateen
La Vena is a team project focusing on the design of an urban plan that reflects on the city’s waterfront, history, and site analysis; taking an organic and fluid approach to reconnect with the landscape and society within the city of Cornwall.
An urban development approach that focuses on affordable housing while providing ways of designing abstract and fluid architecture using affordable and sustainable materials.
Inspired by veins and forms of grid systems that Cornwall shaped, resonated the idea of circulation within a system and a vibrant sense of community.
[Green Spaces]
Featuring free-flowing, organic-shaped pockets of parks within the site of Cornwall. Pushing towards a recreational space for the environment and society.
[Housing]
Affordable apartments placed on major intersections like Brookdale Ave., leading to easy transportation for the residents and accessibility to the city’s other amenities
[Shopping Plaza]
Placing shopping and restaurant-like services near Benson Centre and its existing parking, creating a 15-minute walk city space within Cornwall.
[Amenities]
Wellness centres, clinics, and galleries that would serve all age groups for better community engagement and senior care.
Masterplan Section
Plaza Section
Wellness Centre
Senior Care
Physical and Mental health care services
Special dishes for conditions such as diabetes, cholesterol, and gout
Tour groups intended for elders to engage with physical activities
Entertainment spaces including video game arenas and board game rooms
Free outreach efforts of medical care including pediatrics, dental and vision, gynecology, chiropractic, acupuncture, and mental health services
Recreational Park
Green Space
Multi-use central park that is intended to bring all ages together.
Four seasonal market that supports the local and engages the community.
Conservation of the pre-existing water, designed to create a smooth flow form.
Seasonal bonfire pit by the market streets; a gathering hub during the winter nights
Regional plants like Crab Apple trees with pink blossoms in the spring and apple picking activities in the fall.
Social Housing
Affordable Residence
Living affordibly with a vibrant sense of gathering community.
Inspired by the European neightborhood arrangements like Amsterdam houses.
The close form arrangement allows residence to create community ties.
Compliments Cornwall’s simplistic design of existing homes.
Natural forest paths following with the native flowers of cornwall.
