PROJECTS
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
UPHAM’S PRESERVATION TRADE SCHOOL
PACIFIC GROVE SPIRITUAL CENTER
TRIANGLE HISTORIC DISTRICT
LOWER NEPONSET PARK
URBAN WALK-UP HOUSING
CENTENNIAL PAVILION
STRUCTURAL DISTORTION
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Handel Architects
2 HARBOR LIFE-SCIENCES CENTER
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William Rawn Associates
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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.
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
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.
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 accomodate 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
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.
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
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.
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' were 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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