Projection 2. Digital Fabrication Aquaponics Facility
Colorize
Zen Adrift
Projection
Collaborator: Juan Argueta
Arch 302 Spring 2023
Instructor: Pete Goché
Projection is an architectural project about light and shadow, and its relationship with spirituality and meditation.
Projection is a monastery, making it a residential project with a spiritual focus. The monks that would live here would not only need a place to live, but also a place to study, a place to eat, and gather as a community. Above all else, there needs to be a place for meditation and spirituality. Herein lies the greatest challenge of such a project.
Various physical studies related to the site’s relationship with the sun and the shadows it casts were utilized to create what we call the Shadow Garden: A large meditation space that captures the shadows projected by the trees that line the pathway along the site.
The Shadow Garden serves as a canvas for the shadows of the trees to be projected on. This becomes the primary meditative space of which the rest of the building frames.
Shadow Studies
Floor Plan (With Shadows)
Site Section
Library Section
Residence Section
Community Section
Study Area (Community)
Library (View of Shadow Garden)
Shadow Garden
Digital Fabrication Aquaponics Facility
Solo Project
Arch 401
Fall 2023
Instructor:
Shelby Doyle
This project was kickstarted by in depth research on concrete as a material, and the potential for 3D printed concrete as a means of creating architecture. Meanwhile, I was also familiarizing myself with digital fabrication tools such as 3D printers, a CNC Router, and we even got to use a Concrete 3D Printer.
During our field trip in Utah, we got to visit Pikus 3D, and learn more about 3D printed concrete, the way it works and what it can do.
The building itself is an experimental foray into the world of aquaponics, and an outdoor market in which produce could be sold. The goal here was to see if 3D printed concrete could play some kind of role in sustainable agriculture.
All of this then came together in a final model of the proposal that I had created using some of the digital fabrication techniques I have learned throughout the semester.
Pikus 3D “Graveyard”
First Floor
Ammari - Portfolio
Second Floor
Section (Showcasing Daylighting)
Section (Showcasing Levels and Stairwells)
Second Iteration Model (Mid Review Model)
Interior Shot, showcasing the daylighting in the Greenhouse
First Floor
Second Floor
Roof
Additional Digital Fabrication
Collaborator: Juan Argueta
Arch 433 Fall 2024
Instructor: Shelby Doyle
Modular Rockite Casting
3D Printed Mold
Resin 3D Printing (Formlabs)
Intensify
Substance Competition Nominee
Collaborators: Juan Argueta, Kristen Peka, Kristiana Tu
Arch 403
Fall 2024
Instructor: Mitchell Squire
This theoretical project tackles the topic of extraction through the rigorous study of the extractive gaze, and the role that perception plays in extraction. In order to do this, we created an imaginary place in which the canvas has been cleared, and extraction has not yet taken place.
The diagrammatic and methodical way in which the imaginary is protrayed represents the way in which the extractors see and operate upon the site.
The aim of our installation, (the pre-extraction machine) is to protect this vulnerable imaginary by any means necessary. In this case, that means preventing the extractors from being able to form any kind of extractive logic regarding the site and its resources through sheer intensity.
5’x5’ Imaginary
Pre-Extraction Machine (Exterior)
Pre-Extraction Machine: (Interior)
Pre-Extraction Machine: (Opened)
Colorize
Solo Project Arch 202
Spring 2022
Instructor: Rami Mannan
Mediums: Clip Studio Paint, Watercolor
Colorize is a one week project exploring the sensory experience of temperature as it relates to touch in architecture. Various illustrative studies of the Student Innovation Center and Parks Library eventually culminated in a final illustration of the sensory experience of both buildings, functioning as a collage of the various drawings I have done.
Zen Adrift
Collaborators: Juan Argueta, Robert Katseres, Mike Vitha Nolan, Caitlin Wood
DSN S 546-JP (Interdisciplinary Studio)
Spring 2025
Instructors: Raluca Iancu, Emily Morgan
Mediums: Origami, Relief Printmaking
My interpretation of this scene is that of balance, a balance between water and land, and the relationship between them. They are both linked inseparably by the snake that weaves throughout the piece.
My primary role in our group was creating and printing the modules of the snake, a representation of the water yokai, Watatsumi. As a group, we landed on the word “Natural” and decided to focus on water and land. When it comes to this topic, rivers are what come to mind for me, as rivers are wild, forceful, and change over time. They erode the land around them and end up winding and bending more as they do it. In a way, they move the way snakes do.
