I aspire to create architecture that is both humancentered and environmentally responsible. By blending functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability, I aim to design spaces that enhance daily life while minimizing ecological impact. My approach prioritizes thoughtful material choices, energy efficiency, and a deep connection to nature, ensuring that each project is adaptable, inclusive, and resilient. Through this portfolio, I showcase my commitment to purposeful design—where architecture not only serves its users but also contributes positively to the world around it.
HERSHEY AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER
5TH YEAR STUDIO
Fall 2024 - current 10 Week Project
PROJECT INFORMATION
Location: Milton Hershey School, Hershey, PA
Program: Educational Learning Center
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The proposed design is an Agriculture and Environmental Learning Center, for Milton Hershey School, which will create a central learning area for the Agriculture and Environmental Program already in effect at the school. The concept consists of three separate buildings. One consists of the classrooms, faculty necessities and study rooms. The second building consists of greenhouses and classrooms, and the third building is where the school will house the animals that the school has as pets. All hands-on work that is accomplished in this new area will be an addition to what the students already accomplish at their “Project Market” where they sell all of their produce to the local community. This space will add a classroom setting to the hands-on learning that is already accomplished with this program at the Milton Hershey school.
Level lV: (67A) Northern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys. A lowland characterized by broad, level or undulation, fertile valleys that are extensively farmed.
The growing season in Hershey typically lasts for 6.8 months (207 days), from around April 6th to around October 30th, rarely starting before March 22nd or after april 21st, and rarely ending before October 12th or after November 15th.
Growing Degree Days
Growing degree days are a measure
Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature. Based on growing degree days alone, the first spring blooms in Hershey should appear around April 8th.
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EXISTING AGRICULTURE PROGRAM
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE FARM
In addition to their core academic work, all MHS students, from Pre-K through 12th grade can participate in hands-on learning through our four agriculture education centers:
Day In The Life: Students
From The Classroom To The Farm
Agriculture Education Centers and Programs
In
Animal Center
Agricultural Education Centers and Programs
Hands-on care for beef cattle, milk goats, horses, sheep, and rabbits.
Showmanship instructions
Hands-on care for beef cattle, milk goats, horses, sheep, and rabbits
Showmanship instruction
Environmental Center
Environmental Center
Hands-on care for reptiles and amphibians
Hands-on care for reptiles and amphibians
Trout nursery Exploring campus trails Sugar shack for making maple
Trout nursery Exploring campus trails Sugar Shack for making maple syrup
Bird sanctuary
Bird sanctuary
Horticulture Center
Hydrophonic crop production
Floriculture program with indoor and outdoor growing
Apple orchard and blueberry patch
Vegetable crop production
Student-run MHS Project Market business.
Spartan Ice Cream Center
Hands-on ice cream production
Student-run ice cream center business
2,171
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
BUILDING PROGRAM
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Building
Building
Building
SCALE: 1”=33’
SCALE: 1”=33’
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
SCALE: 1”=33’
SCALE: 1”=33’
SECTION 1 - EAST VIEW
SECTION 2 - EAST VIEW
GLACIER JANE - GIRL SCOUTS
4TH YEAR STUDIO - SOLAR DECATHLON
Fall 2023-Spring 2024
20 Week Project
Group Project - 21 Students
PROJECT INFORMATION
Location: Camp Archbald, Kingsley, PA
Program: Mariners Unit Girl Scout Camp
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Glacier Jane envisions a zero-energy revitalization of Mariners’ Camp at Girl Scouts’ Camp Archbald.
The design creates a living laboratory that improves access, education, and habitat within the aquatic and riparian areas of Ely Lake. It is designed for two target markets – Girl Scouts, and offseason renters. It is built using reclaimed materials and assemblies from the existing structures, while the new materials and systems are consistent with the ethos of Camp Archbald – simple, rustic, gridindependent – and capable of being maintained by the Girl Scouts themselves self-reliant, selflearning and resilient.
With this design, Marywood University won second place in the Retrofit Housing division in the final stage of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2023 Design Challenge.
TROOP HOUSE PLAN
1”=14’
TROOP HOUSE SECTION
1”=9’
6"-2'R
FLOATING CABIN PLAN
FLOATING CABIN SECTION
SCALE: 1”=14’
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SCALE: 1”=9’
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OCCUPANT EXPERIENCE
This contest evaluates how the building design prioritizes the occupant experience, productivity, and quality of life.
Glacier Jane will improve the health and well-being of its inhabitants by immersing in nature, opening to the sights and sounds of the lake and forest, being universally accessible, and providing comfortable indoor and outdoor spaces for observing, exploring, storytelling, kayaking, fishing, cultivating, cooking, and cleaning camp.
DAY IN THE LIFE - GIRL SCOUTS
DAY IN THE LIFE: GIRL SCOUTS
SCALE: 1”=50’
DAY IN THE LIFE - RENTERS
DAY IN THE LIFE: RENTERS
SCALE: 1”=50’
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
DIDACTIC PANELS
Didactic Panels
ROCKER OPPORTUNITIES
Architecture
“Sketch like an architect” Measure/sketch to scale, identify/explain design.
Market Analysis
“Budgeting with Energy Saving” Research and compare average household energy costs and usage vs Glacier Jane’s energy costs and usage.
Occupant Experience
“DIY Rain Garden”
Create a filtration device.
Engineering
“Pontoon Prototype”
Build your own model of the pontoons, test it.
Embodied Environmental Impact “Plant a Tree!”
Help reduce our carbon emission.
Integrated Performance
“Informational Session”
Learn about the types of systems implemented into the camp.
Durability and Resilience “Mechanics Research”
Maintenance/selection, why is it important?
Comfort and Environmental Impact
“Comfort Test”
Test the air quality with all openings closed, retest with windows and doors open.
Energy Performance
“User Interface Activity”
Calculate the amount of energy consumed.
The marketing team was in charge of promoting and informing people about the Glacier Jane project. We accomplished that by creating a website, using social media platforms, finding fundraising opportunities, and creating posters to help advertise.
TheGlacierJaneTeam
Support Our Project
Our group of Bachelors of Archi ecture students is working hand in hand with partners such as Sordoni Construction Services and Delta Engineering Group to ensure our project meets the cri eria of a professional orm of work. As part of this, we’d like to ask for your help in ensuring we are on the right rack! We would appreciate any help you’d be willing to give our project, ncluding:
Social Suppor | Personal Connections | In - Kind Donations ( time, professional experience, produc , ma eriali y e c.) | Donations & more!
We want o thank you for this opportunity, time, and support owards furthering our project and design to help give back o the community and preserving the magic of Camp Archbald for generations to come!
The Glacier Jane project plans to renovate and revitalize the Mariner’s Unit at the Girl Scout’s Camp Archbald, located in Kingsly PA, where urban activist Jane Jacobs first learned the power of observation of the natural world. The site was built in 1938 on the shore of a glacial lake and currently consists of a Troop House as well as three floating pontoon platforms, with two platforms supporting floating cabins. By renovating these structures, the project aims to preserve that history, as well as the experience of Camp Archbald, for generations of Girl Scouts to come. However, the project doesn’t stop there, as it also aims to revitalize the site using onsite renewable energy systems and passive design, such as solar energy and filtration gardens. Not only will these systems enhance the Girl Scout’s experience, but they will also help to teach them about the importance of nature, and how they can preserve it. This knowledge will create a foundation from which they may realize how nature can influence their own lives as well as the world they live in, just as it once did for Jane Jacobs.
THE FOLDED VELODROME
3RD YEAR DESIGN STUDIO
Fall 2022
12 Week Project
Group Project - 2 Students
PROJECT INFORMATION
Location: Cascine Park, Florence, Italy
Program: Cascine Park Velodrome
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Track Cycling is a widely popular sport in the country of Italy. These events take place in a structure called a Velodrome; however, despite Italy having a Track Cycling National Team, Italy does not have a Velodrome suited for hosting the National Team. The athletes have no location in Italy that they practice or compete in, which means that during the season they travel out of country. The objective of this project is to take the pre-existing cycling track at Cascine Park, Florence, Italy and design a structure fit for hosting the Italian National Team practices and possible national competitions. The client asked for an improved track that met the national competition regulations, a residential area for teams to stay during competitions, communal spaces for the residents, and office spaces for the staff.
Existing Site
SCALE: 1”=55’
SOUTH SECTION
NORTH SECTION
SOUTH SECTION NORTH SECTION
SCALE: 1”=250’
SCALE: 1”=75’
SCALE: 1”=75’
SCALE:
WALKING TRACK
VENICE ISLAND
JKRP ARCHITECTS | PHILADELPHIA, PA
Design Intern Summer 2023
12 Week Summer Internship
PROJECT INFORMATION
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Program: Retail and Multi-family Housing
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project’s property consistes of a Main Street plot of land and Venice Island, which is east of the Manayunk Trail Bridge in Philadelphia, PA. The Main Street proposed development includes a two-story building with a commercial space on the ground floor and amenities for the residential building at the second floor. The proposed development from the Venice Island apartment building includes two four-story residential buildings. Combined, they contain 181 units, 43 types. Due to the site location and the floodplain, this proposed plan is a unique shape and contains safety evacuation route with pedestrian bridges, including one that connects Building A and Building B.
O’NEIL CINEMA
JKRP ARCHITECTS | PHILADELPHIA, PA
Design Intern Summer 2023 - current 12 Week Summer Internship
PROJECT INFORMATION
Location: Londonderry, NH
Program: Movie Theater
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This cinema is an existing AMC Theater located in Londonderry, New Hampshire. O’Neil Cinema bought the location and decided to undergo renovations to the exterior, lobby, and the walls of the individual theaters. The lobby redesign consists of the removal of a theater and adding a bar area in its place. As of the end of August 2024, this project is in the CD phase. JKRP is continuing to send the client renders and drawings that showcase their design ideas for the lobby redesign.
SCALE: 1”=15’
SCALE: 1”=15’
THEATER WALL
1505 COLUMBUS BLVD
JKRP ARCHITECTS | PHILADELPHIA, PA
Design Intern
Summer 2024 - current
12 Week Summer Internship
PROJECT INFORMATION
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Program: Retail
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This 39,000 square-foot retail structure, located in Philadelphia, PA is designed to accomodate nine vendors while offering versatility to adapt to evolving client and tenant needs. The layout allows for the adjustment of demisng walls, enabling flexible space configurations.
COLUMBUS BLVD
OWNER/CLIENT
Situated along Columbus Blvd, a prominent main road, the building’s rear facade has been thoughtfully designed to maintain an aesthetic appeal, ensuring a cohesive visual presence from all perspectives.
