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Honolulu, HI. For Advanced Studio, Spring 2019 with Brigitte Shim and Andrei Harwell. This mixed-use housing proposal examines past and present colonization of Hawaii and privileges Native Hawaiian intelligence. Through semi-public courtyards, flexible unit modules, and shared patterns of living, this project treats all spaces as a pool of common resources. Subverting the given brief into affordable housing plus a center for living and healing arts, the project stands as a small but important step towards a material recovery of Hawaiian sovereignty.
Partial Model, 1/8” = 1’-0”. Honolulu, HI. For Advanced Studio, Spring 2019 with Brigitte Shim and Andrei Harwell. This mixed-use housing proposal examines past and present colonization of Hawaii and privileges Native Hawaiian intelligence. Through semi-public courtyards, flexible unit modules, and shared patterns of living, this project treats all spaces as a pool of common resources. Subverting the given brief into affordable housing plus a center for living and healing arts, the project stands as a small but important step towards a material recovery of Hawaiian sovereignty.
Section through 2 Units. Reykjavík, Iceland. For Advanced Studio, Spring 2018 with Hildigunnur Sverrisdóttir and Kyle Dugdale. The project investigates the cultivation of one’s interior self through the act of conscious dwelling as well as participation in the larger process of her community, neighborhood, and city.
Site Section at Low Tide. Rockaway, Queens, NYC. Fall 2017 with Joel Sanders and Leslie Gill. Studio Partner: Varoon Kelekar M.Arch II’19. The Jamaica Bay Coastal Research Station and Ferry Terminal responds to sea-level rise and recommended managed retreat. Designed as stone jetties along Jamaica Bay’s edge, the proposal facilitates the return of a saltmarsh ecosystem. As the population retreats the project is partially dismantled. Only the stone jetties will remain in 100 years’ time. Here, architecture becomes a catalyst for ecosystems management, coastal resilience, and collaboration among humans and nonhumans.
Inner Harbor, Baltimore Healthy Harbor. Baltimore, MD. Summer 2019 with Biohabitats. The Baltimore Healthy Harbor is a visioning project developed with Biohabitats through the Hixon Fellowship. This plan emphasizes creation of meaningful connections between people and the water as well as Baltimore City and the water by cultivating a rich urban life for both humans and nonhumans. It also seeks to adapt to and prepare for climate change and sea-level rise. Finally, the plan introduces diverse programs beyond tourism and recreation to help strengthen these social ecological and urban ecological processes.
Spread from Baltimore School of Urban Ecology. Independent Study with USDA Forest Service and Morgan Grove through the Hixon Fellowship. The project is a document that synthesizes research, analysis, and design in urban and social ecology within Baltimore. Consolidating knowledge across ecology, engineering, community organizing, and design fields, this resource makes urban ecology accessible and meaningful to designers, ecologists, and educators alike.
Model in Rockite, ½” = 1’-0”. For Ornament Theory and Design, Spring 2018 with Kent Bloomer. The project distills the dandelion into three essential geometries – ground, leaf, seed – from which a grammatical unit system emerges. The ornament design endeavors to capture the rootedness of the dandelion in the ground, the texture of its flowers, and eventually, its transformation and union with the air.
Detail of composite drawing in pen and watercolor. Original 22x26. Rome, Summer 2018. The drawing captures the urban vitality of piazze and piazzette formed from vestigial fragments of Rome. Captured here: Piazza del Biscione.
Aerial Perspective. Jamaica, Queens, NYC. For Advanced Studio, Spring 2020 with Stella Betts. By allowing for all components of civic life to happen under one free space, this proposal for the Queens Central Library simply provides the setting for deep participation in public life. It is at once monumental and ordinary. Its approachability allows the library to bestow nobility upon each patron as they pursue growth and personal development, intrinsically augmenting the unfolding democratic project that is the Queens Public Library.
Section Perspective. Jamaica, Queens, NYC. For Advanced Studio, Spring 2020 with Stella Betts. Queens Central Library. To the class of 2020: we won’t get to celebrate the momentous occasion of our graduation in person, but I am so proud to be a member of this talented class. This image is for us! Congratulations!
Sketches from Rome, the best summer ever!
It has been a profound privilege to be a student at Yale these past three years. Having the time and space to explore, examine, and wonder is a luxury I will always treasure. But above all, I am so deeply grateful to so many with whom I have shared this journey: to my teachers and mentors who continuously challenge me; to all of my classmates and dear friends from whom I’ve had the privilege to learn perseverance, humility, and tenderness; to my family and friends who have instilled hope and belief in me – thank you. You all make this journey meaningful.
Until we meet again –