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SANTA MONICA ARBORETEUM

SANTA MONICA, CA
This arboretum serves as an urban sanctuary, seamlessly integrating nature into the built environment through a system of modular planters elevated by colonnades. The site is excavated to create a distinct, immersive space, separating visitors from the surrounding dense cityscape and enhancing a sense of retreat.

The ground level forms a forest-like atmosphere, where a central clearing allows larger trees to extend across both levels, reinforcing the vertical connection of nature. The column grid supports a variety of plant life, with shaded exterior planting areas beneath the structure providing optimal conditions for low-light vegetation, while the rooftop accommodates fully open-air gardens that maximize sun exposure. A central circulation core connects all levels, ensuring accessibility, while an integrated café provides a space for visitors to gather and engage with the landscape.

ELIAVA BAZAAR

TBILISI, GEORGIA
To elevate the Eliava Bazaar into a more dynamic and community-driven space, we propose a redesign that reimagines the market’s structure through a series of interconnected courtyards and open marketplaces. By shifting from a dense, enclosed layout to a series of open-air, interconnected zones, we can create a more inviting environment that fosters interaction, connection, and a sense of belonging.

The courtyards will serve as hubs for local vendors, providing flexible spaces for both commercial and social activities, while also offering areas for relaxation, cultural events, and shared experiences. This redesign will prioritize pedestrian flow and green spaces, ensuring that the bazaar is not just a marketplace, but a network of economic and social spaces.

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

BOSTON, MA
Boston Public Library explores a new public library in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood. The library will act as a home for the vibrant Chinatown community, symbolizing its resilience in the face of numerous historically disruptive urban changes.

Focused on being a center for community, my library opens below grade intended for social interaction through the uplifting of the library core program. These exterior living room spaces, Library+ Program, are connected to the main library spaces through connecting views and circulation.

The proposed design enables the Chinatown community to inhabit this public space in a way that uplifts culture, education, and recreation for its residents and members

2 HARBOR LIFE-SCIENCES CENTER

BOSTON, MA
HANDEL ARCHITECTS

“Situated on 4-acres in the South Boston waterfront, 2 Harbor is a new 500,000 sq. ft. life sciences building, designed to reflect the character of the surrounding marine industrial buildings. The façade is composed of corrugated metal paneling with torqued copper-color horizontal and vertical metal bands.” - HA

My role at Handel Architects on the 2 Habor Life-Sciences Center included construction administration and documentation of Phase I (completed in 2024) and design development of Phase II. During Phase I, I contributed to FFE layout drawings and updated construction documents. I supported Phase II through design studies both in plan and in massing while also contributing to glazing calculations and wind studies.

(Rendering by Neoscape)

UPHAM’S PRESERVATION TRADE SCHOOL

UPHAM’S CORNER, MA
The bank building is renovated and expanded into the parking lot, creating a new public courtyard. A section of the bank hall becomes an outdoor space, blurring the line between public and private areas. The courtyard, featuring large windows and sliding glass doors, encourages interaction with trade school programs. Three arched mass timber pavilions connect old and new sections, offering a semi-conditioned roof area. Additionally, a green roof integrates with the landscape, facilitating access between the adjacent sites. My role in this project was focused on representation and communicating our project narrative and program.

The proposed design leverages adaptive reuse to repurpose an existing bank building into a historic preservation trade school and a hub for collecting recycled materials, contributing to a more sustainable and adaptable future.

In collaboration with Michael Rahtz

PACIFIC GROVE SPIRITUAL CENTER

LOS ANGELES, CA
Situated along the Los Angeles coastline, the project offers users a profound spiritual journey through a sequence of gardens and contemplative spaces. The design explores thresholds between interior and exterior, enclosed and open, as well as above and below, shaping the movement and experience within the building.

The spaces are structured around the geometries of the roof, with these forms percolating downward into the building and seamlessly integrating with the site’s topography. These connections anchor the project within a larger circulation network, seamlessly connecting it to the surrounding environment.

The Spiritual Center examines how spatial relationships can evoke particular feelings in people through natural lighting, openness, and other qualities.

TRIANGLE HISTORIC DISTRICT

MISSION HILL, MA
Our site has remained a void that has continually separated communities, neighborhoods, and a culturally rich part of Boston. The existing site of vast parking and MBTA infrastructure disconnects people. Pedestrians move through the space rather than to. The lack of neighborhood anchors creates a void in the fabric of Mission Hill. A community-centered design that focuses on the adjacency of our site to the existing programmatic anchors of Mission Hill should be pursued. Not only the immediate residents but the greater surrounding community is prioritized in this approach for the site.

The proposed design mends the site into the system of neighborhood anchors to stitch together the existing void in Mission Hill while replenishing affordable housing needs.

URBAN WALK-UP HOUSING

BOSTON, MA
Urban Walk-Up Housing is a proposal for 96 housing units to be designed as part of a new Fenway housing community between Hemenway St. and St. Stephens St.

The housing module has a shared stair core that spans from the ground floor lobby to the third floor. From a negative space created in the volume of the module, the center of the building can be accessed directly from the exterior. This setback allows for shared public space and terrace, additional exposure for the front-facing units when aggregated, and visibility to the circulation from the outside.

The unit composition is a majority of duplexes with the inclusion of some flats. All units have private terrace spaces and the duplexes interlock with each other to have access to the front and back facades of the building.

The proposed housing reimagines this Fenway neighborhood as an urban center characterized by health-focused living conditions and deeper levels of habitation in the diverse resident community.

LOWER NEPONSET PARKS

DORCHESTER, MA
Set within the boundaries of the Neponset River Estuary is a mixture of existing communities, parks, and ecology. With the inevitable nature of sea level

rise, the existing natural and man-made structures within 6 ft in elevation will be submerged.

To adapt, a redesigned park system will integrate with the changing climate, ensuring unity, resilience, and ecological harmony across the estuary. Elevated park areas and walkways will enable the preservation of wetlands and their biodiversity while fostering a place for community. To safeguard existing infrastructure, the design will incorporate paths and berms. On an ecological level, the park's green infrastructure will filter stormwater before it re-enters the estuary, undergoing a natural cleansing cycle in the marshes before returning to the ocean.

Lower Neponset Park adapts to rising sea levels to preserve ecology and provide a resilient urban landscape to the region.

580 CHELSEA

EAST BOSTON, MA
HANDEL ARCHITECTS

Located in East Boston along Chelsea Creek, 580 Chelsea is an existing industrial building with dedicated office and warehouse space.

My role on this project was primarily the production of graphics and materials for project presentations. This included all exterior and interior renderings as well as SD and DD set drawings. All imagery and drawings presented as part of this portfolio were produced through my work.

580 Chelsea proposes a redefinition of industrial architecture through an emphasis on elevating the daily experience in creating spaces that are more conducive to human use.

THE CLIMATE INITIATIVE

KENNEBUNKPORT, ME
WILLIAM RAWN ASSOCIATES

TCI is a non-profit organization located in Kennebunkport, Maine. With the belief that youth voices are the key to solving the climate challenge, TCI looked to expand into a new headquarters to further their mission.

My role on this project included the design development of the barn scheme utilizing both a physical model as well as through the production of drawings and renderings presented to the client.

Our proposal of the TCI headquarters embodied their mission to educate the youth on the climate challenge as well as support their programmatic needs.

CENTENNIAL PAVILION

BOSTON, MA

Our pavilion aims to bridge across the living circulation of centennial common while creating spaces for student learning and living. This opens space is representative of the college of arts, media, and design.

Inspired by traditional Japanese wood joinery, our concept explores structural triangular members that are joined through interlocking connections. ‘Lines of structure’ are offset and connected through a set of beams from peak to peak to create shading and to accommodate for overhead equipment. The habitable scale invites the Northeastern community to engage with the structure.

Centennial Pavilion offers a transformative shift in the open space that promotes artfulness and play while instilling identity and contributing to the enrichment of the community space.

In collaboration with Michael Rahtz

STRUCTURAL DISTORTION

LOS ANGELES, CA

Structural Distortion is the transformation of otherwise typical architectural form in the interplay between interior exposure and form work.

Physical models of the traditional 'house shape’ are constructed with white museum board lined with vibrant orange paper on the interior. In the distortion of these forms, dynamic openings between folds of form exposed the inner color - commonly seen in one sided color Origami folding paper.

Architectural form has the capacity to illuminate life and the inner function of which it houses within its structure.

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