Plaster casting of hyperbolic forms using a hand formed mold made of laser cut cardboard and clear tape and a CNC made mold from foam board. It aimed to compare the two methods, their material usage, thickness, accessibility, price variance, and product result. Both methods produced successful plaster forms but the cardboard mold did not survive after two rounds of pouring.
Plaster forms immediately following cast removal
Hyperbolic plaster forms on gallery display
CNC and Hand-Formed molds on display
Parametric Chair
Parametric chair, Collaborative Design
XY lattice support designed using Rhino. Completed collaborative design includes a secondary seat component formed in the opposing direction so each users legs are in the opposing direction, but their gaze would be directed towards eachother. Aligned to promote dialogue and attentive conversation.
Digital concept model
In- Progress model
Final model in exhibit
Scale to Fit
2022
Exhibition Design team
Installation Description: “At first, we learn to construct worlds, as they are and might be, through carefully calibrated forms of representation- drawings and models, built to scale- that, we imagine, translate to close replicas of themselves at actual size....Scale to Fit engages with the approximate, the fictional, and the vague as they are necessary in the making of architecture. The generally-to-scale and the nearly life size- a photograph of a model at its original dimensions, a rendered image that feels almost large enough to inhabit- are juxtaposed with more typical forms of architectural representations constructed to scale... Uselessness may be useful yet.”
Thesis/ “Norteada. En Busca de un Nuevo Norte”
2023
Performance, sculpture, collage, letter
An ongoing project in conversation with Gloria Anzaldua’s concept of “ni de aqui, ni de alla,” exploring the themes of my ongoing research; imagination and the embodiment of existing in liminal spaces. I continue to explore this work in my personal practice and through course themes, readings, assignments, and interdisciplinary conversation.
Mixed Media Collage
Fabricated Plaster Sculpture
Final Exhibition Installation
Post-Presentation
Installation Diagram
Embrace the Pathway
2021. Block Island, Rhode Island
Rhino3D modeled, Lumion rendered
An art school designed with a winding pathway that celebrates the Indigenous history of the site. The path provides access to each area of the school and ultimately leads one to the water’s edge. The angled rooftops and the building orientation strategically take advantage of the sun and wind.
Charcoal light conceptual sketches
Final renderings
Site plan
Digital model massing
In the Gap
2023. Lisbon, Portugal
Rhino modeled, Lumion rendered
A modular housing design with staggering heights that aims to bridge the gap between the existing historic 3 story structure and a 6 story brutalist new development. The housing towers are elevated so that the ground level becomes a public walkway connecting the site to the rest of the neighborhood. The construction was designed as modular, off-site prefabricated units stacked on concrete plinths and floor slabs.
Excavated ground level final renderings
Section cut highlight the new design between existing structures
Site study charcoal sketch
Detailed wall section across new and renovated structures
