A Buzzing Campus Home, Designed to Flow like Honey
Sculpting Rythm to Express Narrative and Inspire Form
Linking Plant & Play in the Modern Home
We are a No-Glue Firm...
A Custom Craft, Tailored to Your Taste
Psychogeographic Maps, Lens of Color in London, UK
It was magical...
ARCH2450: Urban Housing, Fall 2024
Professor: Anthony Averbeck
Programs/Mediums: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Fusion360, Illustrator, Photoshop, Watercolor
As a student dorm complex, Hive fluidly integrates residential, social, and academic spaces to foster engagement amongst undergraduate inhabitants through biomorphic design. In addition to communal kitchens and laundry rooms, the buildings aim to drive forward a spirit of student life through ground-floor commercial spaces, communal gathering areas, as well as academic and studio rooms. The hexangonal modules elegantly fill the triangular site while additionally connecting pedestrian paths and ground-level social spaces.
In Collaboration with Ryan Sarney Role: taxamony categorization, illustrations
1.06 FAR / 152 UNITS
1.18 FAR / 168 UNITS
1.33 FAR / 256 UNITS 1.81 FAR / 258 UNITS
2.22 FAR / 270 UNITS
STEPPED L 1&2
TYPE: WALK-UP 23% & 30% OPEN SPACE
The buildings aim to create a dynamic stepped fashion with terraced spaces for communal function. Continuing the essence and style of surrounding strucures, the L-shape persists with clean, unjulating forms.
TYPE: WALK-UP
28% OPEN SPACE
To create a more private feel within each building, they are set up to face one another, creating private courtyards and spaces. The shape emphasizes that similar to the alphabet city verncular of the site. HALF I
TYPE: DOUBLE- LOADED CORRIDOR 25% OPEN SPACE
Building ideas of interconnectivity in structural techniques, the double-loaded cooridoor and hexagonal shape emphasises this building’s communuallyfocused spaces and corridor. The communal spaces would serve as student common rooms, workspaces, studios, etc.
TYPE: DOUBLE- LOADED CORRIDOR 31% OPEN SPACE With this hexagonal design, this iteration aims to maximize space use within the site as well as interconnect the buildings and corridors like they are a bee hive with honey. Passageways are placed near the included communal spaces. HIVE
Ground/ramp Accessible
Part ial Access with Ground Level Units and Back Doors
St air-only Access
Ramps
Sloped curbs
Tactile Paving Edges
Accessable Parking
TACTILE PAVING & CURB CUTS
SIDEWALK TOPOLOGY
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A variety of units are planned for living accommodations and arrangements amongst students and their peers to provide flexible and affordable living options to upperclassmen.
Located in the the South Fenway Symphony neighborhood of Boston, MA, the undergraduate student complex serves as a hub for Northeastern University students.
ARCH3450: Advanced Architectural Communication: Meaning and Making, Fall 2024
Professor: Patrick Kana
Programs/Mediums: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Fusion360, Illustrator, Watercolor, Sketching
As a collective self-portrait between me and my group members, WAVE explores identity, memory, and cherished moments. With each component carefully bandsawn, sanded, and stained, it reflects the contours and ever-changing moments in our lives, all tied into a unified wave. The intimate composition is opened up; its sculptural landscape generates collective resonance. Beyond the sculptural components of this project, Wave Arboretum, an independent study I created based on process work, generates space abstractly based upon the same forms, ideas, and meanings.
I aimed to tell the story of my family. My father has a belief that if it rains in all of our locations, we are connected and have good luck for that day. The pieces reflect myself, my twin sister, and my dad’s love of rain and its ability to connect us all despite our distance.
In collaboration with Rowan Miller Role: Woodworking, Assembling
I define structure from abstract notions of the my own past, present, and identity in relation to the formal self-portraits. While abstracting physical space throughout the collective piece, I continue the extruded cross forms in a conceptual design of a plant arboretum, inspired by my dad, as proud Hawaii-born plant lover. And as for myslef, a San Francisco and Valley dweller, my lived experience influnces the setting; waves into unjulating forms as well as foggy mountain mornings into circular shapes.
Imagined along the San Fransisco Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park
Fog Harvesting Structure for Water, Self-Sustaining Arboretum Plants during the Summer
ARCH3450: Advanced Architectural Communication: Meaning and Making, Fall 2024
Professor: Patrick Kana
Partners: Ryan Sarney & Sarah Rodriguez
Role: conceptualization, CNC toolpathing, building, renders Programs/Mediums: Autocad, Rhinocerous, Fusion360, Illustrator, Indesign, Woodworking
Through a playful process of design and craftsmanship, the Plantern transcends traditional designs of plant storage and reimagines what it means to display and engage with nature in the modern home. Through a process of fabricating and assembling molded plywood, CNC poplar components, and brass hooks, the whimsical piece brings more than utility; it links play to the space, life, and function of a plant.
DUMMY LAYERS - POPLAR (X3)
EXTERIOR LAYER MAHOGANY (X1)
INTERIOR LAYERS POPLAR (X5)
EXTERIOR LAYER MAHOGANY (X1)
DUMMY LAYERS - POPLAR (X3)
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9 ¼” x 1½” POPLAR DOWELS
1 CNC’ED POPLAR HEXAGON
1 CNC’ED POPLAR HEXAGON WITH CAVED INTERIOR
1 CNC’ED POPLAR CIRCLE WITH CAVED INTERIOR
3 MOLDED PLYWOOD STRIPS
...is more than a long-standing motto of William Rawn Associates Architects; it is a philosophy rooted in respect for traditional modelmaking practices, which is integral to the design process and firm culture. The model shop is primarily defined by a flux of projects, proposals, studies, and mock-ups, each carrying their own unique set of constraints, curiosities, and possibilities. From fabricating 1-1 scale mock-ups out of basswood to hand-crafting cork layers for topography, I worked with every team. I not only used this established method to communicate ideas to clients, but also to create a way of thinking and storytelling custom to each and every client.
Role: Fabrication of Model, Master Planning Ideation In these master-planning and layout studies, I fabricated foam topography and scheme basswood blocks of existing and potential new structures for various performing arts buildings for dance, music, and theather.
Role: Fabrication of Model, Massing Ideation
In a proposal for affordable housing above a train station, I fabricated the basswood blocks and site-layout board, as well as collaborated to stragesize and physically plan out massing options that were possible.
circulation cores made from basswood blocks
Role: Fabrication of Model, Scheme Ideation
In this model prepared for an interview to renovate an existing library’s facade and interior layout, I fabricated the pieces, creating a model capable of showcasing renovation options and scheme studies.
movable foam floor plates with thin wood ribbons along edges
scheme cards to move, plan, and study within the structure
layered foam core topography with street image stair insert for facade study
ARTG4550: Design Degree Project
Professor: Sebastian Ebarb
Programs: Autocad, Rhinocerous, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
The Atelier project forms a cohesive visual identity capable of truly integrating Japanese and French culinary craft with an atmospheric experience and branding. Every aspect, such as typography, online user interaction, identity design, and architectural ambience is tied as one unit. While designing the space to fully function and flow as a restaurant, an authentic experience for customers is ensured throughout the consistent and meaningful whole.
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ARTG1250: Design, Process, Context, and Systems, Fall 2021
Professor: Ben Cain
Programs/Mediums: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Photography
Format: Zine
With various photographs across exhibitions and areas in London, this psychogeographic zine is a culmination of the Tate Modern Museum, Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit, Sea Life Aquarium, and Graffiti Tunnel. With a lens of color, the pages reflect a harmony of how color is constructed and utilized in these spaces while also portraying psychological and interpersonal paths that were discovered through exploring arbitrary patterns in the urban environment.
At the London Aquarium, I observed not just the beauty of marine life but felt the display of brilliance in color, light, and movement, which inspires the immersive flowing forms below.
In the Leake Street Tunnel under Waterloo Station, I observed the dynamic play of type forms merging together while walking, which inspires the illusion of concentric depth.
“It was magical...”
THTR2370: Lighting Design
Professor: Caitlin Smith Rapoport
Programs: EOS Family
Format: Lighting Design to Music, Video from Final Exhibition Show
...said one of my classmates, Alleyna, after experiencing my final project, Cueing Light to Music. Inspired by the movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, I invited my class to sit surrounding the lights, merging boundaries between audience and performance. In this installation, I programmed lights to move within the studio theater while One Republic’s “Secrets” played. Creating an immersive choreography of light, the piece harnesses an imaginative mystical presence, activating nostalgia, space, and embodiment through color, texture, form, movement, timing, and feeling.
Link: https://youtu.be/coIVacxJnMA
(Warning: Contains lights that pulse, flash, and move)
Please note that this piece contains “Secrets” by One Republic.