UC Berkeley, Spring 2024 / Instructor: Morgane Copp / Design Process Award Winner
02 ALMOST THERE
ARCHIVAL LIBRARY IN SAN FRANCISCO SELECTED WORKS | 2023-2025
UC Berkeley, Fall 2024 / Instructor: Raveevarn Choksombatchai / Design Award Nominee 04 EL CALLEJON “ALLEYWAY”
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MUSEUM IN SAN FRANCISCO
UC Berkeley, Spring 2025 / Instructor: Ryan Keerns
URBAN WORK CENTER IN LOS ANGELES
UC Berkeley, Fall 2023 / Instructor: Adam Miller
Recreation Center 2340 Durant and 2362 Bancroft | Berkeley, CA
Spring 2024/ Instructor: Morgane Copp/ CED Desgin Process Award
Challenging the rigidity of the square began with a single fold, cutting and reassembling to test how its form could be transformed. A film photograph followed, then a UC Berkeley tree leaf, reworked into a translucent pattern and applied to strips of folded squares black for opacity, film for translucency that defined the roof of a pavillion and the ground as six stripes of slope, step, hardscape, and softscape. Stacking then transformed roof into façade and structure, where diagrid, truss, and wall reemerged relentlessly at every scale, shifting from span to enclosure. The result is a Recreation Center where landscape folds into façade and exterior blurs with interior, creating active courts, fitness spaces, and gathering areas within a system that redefines the square as open and dynamic.
Evolution Diagram Stack Form
ALMOST THERE
Referencing Guillaume Amat’s Open Fields, where mirrors on scaffolding reconstruct territory and create double interpretations, a translation model was formed as a rectilinear mass cut by sloping planes that converged on a reflective center, its surfaces extending outward as channels. From this, a pavilion at Pier 70’s Irish Hill emerged, where ramps and mirrored scaffolding projected outward, pulling visitors into shifting perspectives. The approach became the greyscape an in-between condition, always almost there, never absolute with mirrors multiplying that ambiguity. The language then extended into an archive library, organized by an offset grid of the pavilion’s geometry, where ramps unfolded as multifunctional staircases and mirrored thresholds deepened the greyscape, binding movement, memory, and shifting perceptions of knowledge and history.
Syntax Model
Guillaume Amat, Open Fields 01
Fall 2024/ Instructor: Raveevarn Choksombatchai/ CED Desgin Award Nominee
Transverese Section Pavilion
Iterative Conceptual Studies
SERPENTINE
Serpentine began with a sawtooth roof study, where the sharp aperture inspired a diagonal slit module that revealed light as both precise and delicate. Multiplied within a grid, the module became an infill system tested in a single gallery, then expanded into three where the slits extended as linework, generating patterns refined by daylighting studies to shape atmosphere and a circulation that cinched and released. As a complete museum, the slit extends from roof to wall, producing a serpentine form split by a central corridor offset at the middle, layering walls like scales and merging light, landscape, and exhibition into one continuous experience.
Concept Models
Spring 2025/ Instructor: Ryan Keerns
Museum Fort Mason Center | San Francisco, CA
Conceptual Diagram
EL CALLEJON “ALLEYWAY”
Community Work Center | South Hope St and W 12th St Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2023 / Instructor: Adam Miller
El Callejón is situated at the threshold between the privatized spectacle of the Crypto Arena and the Santee Alleyways of the Fashion District, a vibrant hub of informal Latinx commerce and culture whose energy contrasts sharply with the no-vendor zones that surround the arena. This condition shaped a strategy of subtraction, where a rectilinear mass was carved with voids scaled and oriented from Tony Smith’s Free Ride to produce a porous form. These voids multiply entry, structure circulation, and create spaces for gathering and light, aligning form with program. The result is a de-privatized architecture where void bridges social disruption and urban division, operating like an alleyway to restore access, connection, and community.
