Utilizing an extensive background in performance and music, I aim to highlight interdisciplinary crossovers between the arts and architecture. Passion bred with intent and knowledge assembles a formula for positive change and a rectification of harmful practice.
LONDON DESIGN SUMMITHonorable Mention
FLEX & ADAPT - REHOUSING SYRACUSE
WORKING REMNANTSADAPTIVE REUSE IN TORONTO
SHIMOKITAZAWA FASHION SCHOOL
LONDON DESIGN
SUMMIT - Honorable Mention
International Design Competition : High Tech Challenge 2024 Husk/Block“AGRI-TECTURE”
The High Tech Challenge 2024 challenged both professionals and students in architecture/design related fields to conceptualize and illustrate the implementation of a design that would effectively address the UN’s Global Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030. Judge panel consisted of designers from firms such as MVRDV, Zaha Hadid Architects, BIAD, and BIG.
In collaboration with Mehak Srivastava (B.Architecture 2027), our competition entry focused on finding a High Tech solution to Goal 12 : “Responsible Production and Consumption” by creating positive feedback loops between waste management and green materials.
main mediums - twinmotion (unreal engine), photoshop, illustrator, indesign,
Using agricultural practices in China as a case study, HUSK/BLOCK addresses the challenge of agricultural waste management by transforming waste from rice, tea, and coffee plantations into new building materials using mycelium technology.
This project aims to create a network of collection sheds and a central processing facility to efficiently gather, process, and repurpose agricultural byproducts, thereby promoting responsible consumption and production practices. This submission aims to create not just an architectural language of reuse, but a truly flexible system that contains a variety of applications to other waste producing practices.
120 Million
Tons of waste, extensive labor, and crossglobal distribution and markets. Rice farming, a practice that feeds more than half of the world’s population, continues to be an active contributor to one of the largest, yet least discussed agricultural waste generating systems that exist today. HUSK/BLOCK is not just an architectural proposal, but rather an innovative and replicable system that makes use of preexisting agro infrastructures to reduce and repurpose bi-product into an enduring, biodegradable, and affordable building material.
PHASE 1
SHED PHASE 2
With its first development being proposed in Dali, Yunnan, China, this process would start with the collection of waste in wooden MODULAR.COLLECTION.
SHEDS placed along the edges of the fields [PHASE 1] After initial processing and grinding is completed, the pre existing vehicular infrastructure and nearby Erhai Lake would allow for easy transporting of waste via both land and water, cutting excessive shipping and transportation distance.
PROCESSING FACILITY
[PHASE 2] begins as the compacted rice husk arrives at the PROCESSING.FACILITY
A streamlined linear production center, the rice husk undergoes cleaning of impurities, a drying stage, and shredding to then be used as a base, mixing with binding agents and poured into molds. After the curing stage, the blocks are ready to use, given new life as heat and sound insulative, recyclable, biodegradable, paneling systems.
LANDSCAPE WATER HUMAN USAGE
DENSE URBAN
AGRO LAND VEGETATED COAST FORESTED
25°57'19"N 100°09'21"E
XIACUN, DALI, YUNNAN, CHINA
PROCESSINGFACILITY
SHED LOCATIONS
Sustainability goes beyond being an environmental goal; it’s about developing systems and structures that stand the test of time. By considering social, economic, and cultural aspects, and learning from current waste management practices, we can refine and enhance our urban environments.
In China, rapid urbanization has driven significant advancements in waste management, illustrating how cities can address both the scale and complexity of modern urban challenges. These developments offer insights into how systems can evolve to meet future needs. The key lies in adapting these lessons to local contexts, ensuring that our systems remain relevant and effective as cities continue to grow.
FRAME/FRAME UTILIZING STRUCTURE IN A WAY THAT GUIDES DESIGN AND FRAMES NEW POSSIBILITIES.
FRAMING FLEXIBILITY
FLEX & ADAPT REHOUSING SYRACUSE
ARC 307 Ins. Brian Lonsway frame|frame|frame
The I-81 highway in Syracuse has existed as a highly contentious landmark since its construction in 1959. While the highway connected the city outwards, the structure cemented itself as a threshold and physical division between opportunity and equality for displaced Black, Jewish, and various other minority communities.
Today, three important factors have become the catalysts for growth, reform, and healing for Syracuse communities.
1. I-81 demolition scheduled for 2026
2. ReZone Syr - revisions of Syracuse Zoning
3. New Micron Factory set to be built 10 min away from Syracuse - Job Growth
main mediums - twinmotion (unreal engine), photoshop, illustrator, indesign, rhino, modelmaking (wood, museum board, paper)
With the city undergoing such drastic changes,“FRAME|FRAME|FRAME” proposes an accessible low-mixed income housing design that fulfills environmental, structural, and social needs.
Different scales of structural frames allow users and residents to adjust their dwellings based on their changing needs. Wooden elements establish a rigid frame system that can be infilled with lighter frames that can act as boundaries between units, between spaces within the unit, and even within the room scale. Affordable, flexible, and adjustable, the frame system provides a vision for a system that acknowledges and addresses the needs of the community.
RENDINGS
GROUND FLOOR
UNDERGROUND PARKING DWELLING UNITS
WORKING REMNANTS
- ADAPTIVE REUSE IN TORONTO
ARC 208 - Ins. Mahsa Malek
Re: Dundas Square
The addition to the Dundas Square building was conceptualized as a programmatic corridor that would allow for the unique division of spaces on the site spatially, programmatically, and acoustically through the structure’s tectonic elements and formal language.
With the overall form resembling an extra appendage onto the horizontally focused original structure, the language of offsetting facades and surfaces by slight angles becomes the main logic and thus creates the form. In focus, the outside facade and form mirror the original building’s language, however the internal facade is contrasted with the existing facade through shifting angles expressed in the facades overall form as well as slightly angled mirrored cement/ fiberglass panels that diffuse sound.
main mediums - photoshop, illustrator, rhino, modelmaking (casting, lasercut wood, museum board, paper, foam board)
With the revitalized program referencing Yonge’s Streets historic music scene, studio spaces and rehearsal spaces - considered as professional/work spaces - would be housed in the new addition as an offshoot to the recreational and commercial program (music retail + performance areas) that would develop within the pre-existing structure. This move separates the various users of the space by proposing two different paths of circulation that lead to entirely different experiences, catered to the individual.
ACOUSTICALLY TREATED WOODEN PANELS
4' 8' 16'
FIBERGLASS PANEL WALL
FURRING STRIPS
WALL PANELING
WOOD FRAMING WALL
SOUNDPROOF DRYWALL
1. BUILT UP COLUMN (WOODEN COLUMN)
2. CRIPPLES 3. SILL PLATE
RIM JOIST
SOLE PLATE
SHIMOKITAZAWA FASHION SCHOOL
ARC 208 - Ins. Mahsa Malek L System
Examining the tectonic languages of both architectural precedents and fashion design, the studio was tasked with designing a structural system that would be used in the main design of a Fashion Design campus in Shimokitazawa Japan.
By taking inspiration from the Cyclopean House’s prefabricated tectonic system, as well as the flexibility of the Craig Green Men’s Look, the construction of the Fashion School is based upon one prefabricated element (L) that can combine with itself. In doing so, this seemingly unassuming L rail system becomes something much more, a structural element in which through its combination with itself realizes new space, divides space, and even creates it. In this way, the L system becomes the buildings main structural, tectonic, and visual language as it creates an unpredictable array of spaces, differentiated by height, size, and utility.
main mediums - photoshop, illustrator, indesign, rhino, modelmaking (wood, museum board, paper )
The conceptual design of the fashion school is based around two structures that create a variety of spaces through the space within and between. The interstitial space between the structures can be multipurpose and undefined, while the L rail system that is the main tectonic and visual element of the structures themselves can be adjusted and changed. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is defined. Everything can move, and nothing restricted.
The System desires change.
Cyclopean House - Ensamble Studio
Detail of Prefab I Beam
Section of Prefab I Beam
Artificial Grass Surfacing
AirDrain Geocell
Filtration/Moisture Layer
Steel/Metal Roofing
Detail Section of Roof Meeting Prefab Elements
Cement & Fiber Tiles (Fireproofing)
Steel Framing Beam (Vertical Bracing System)
Rigid Foam Insulation (98% Air)
Rigid Foam Insulation
Fastening Bolt
Steel Clad Brace Adhesive
Anchor Bolt
Waterproofing
Fastening Block Corrugated Metal Roofing Sheet
Cement+Fiber Fireproofing panel
Anchoring Bolt
Steel Cladding (Framing System)
Section Cut Worm’s
Double Layer Fabric (Seams)
Meeting Points (Sew)
Matching Fold
Overlap
Cut Material (Preexisting)
Circular Grid Lines
Connection Guide Lines
Fold Lines
Rectangular Grid Guides
Rope Connections (Weave)
BACK 1
SLEEVE2
SLEEVE 1
FRONT CHEST 2
UPPERCOLLAR
UNDER COLLAR
CHEST 1
COLLAR STAND 1
COLLAR STAND 2
BRIM
CROWN
FRONT
BUCKET HAT
TOP/LID
Module Formation
Type 2 Joining (Lock)
Creates divisions of space and introduces possibility for loft spaces.
Creates opportunities for doorways and increased height of spaces.
LONDON DESIGN
SUMMIT - Partner Mehak Srivastava
fig 2. perspective of shed module, twinmotion rendering + photoshop
