Portfolio

I believe in human-centered design. Architecture should be flexible and responsive to the needs of the future.In the design process, I prefer using study models to inform the process rather than reserving them for the final translation. I am interested in social sustainability and creating buildings integrated into the urban fabric. I don’t believe in ‘green-washing’ to satisfy the status quo. Nor should it just appear as conspicuous environmentalism. The carbon impact embodied in designs should be poetically considered in a more organic approach.

EDUCATION

2021- 2024

Savannah College of Art & Design

Master of Architecture

2002 - 2006

Ontario College of Art & Design

Bachelor of Interior Design

DESIGN SKILLS

Concept Development

Schematic Design

Design Development

Graphic Design

Fabrication - metal, wood, plastic

Analog Modelmaking

Digital Modeling

BIM

Space Planning

Presentation Layouts

Hand Sketching

COMPUTER SKILLS

Revit - advanced 12+yrs

AutoCAD - advanced

Rhino - advanced

Photoshop - advanced

Illustrator - intermediate

INDesign - intermediate

Bluebeam - advanced

Microsoft Office - intermediate

V-Ray - intermediate

Endscape - intermediate

3D Max - basic

Vectorworks - basic

Solidworks - basic

Sketchup - basic (I hate sketchup)

EMPLOYMENT

January 2020 - January 2021

Paul Davis Architects

Architectural Designer/Project Manager

PROJECT LIST

Kelvin Residence, Los Angeles - built

Designer/Project Manager

Schematic Design

Wallace Residence Los Angeles - built

Designer/Project Manager

September 2018 - December 2019

BRC Imagination Arts

Facility Designer/Project Manager

PROJECT LIST

Glenkinche Distillery Museum - Lowland, Scotland - built

Facility Designer/Project Manager

Coordination and DD package

Johnny Walker Distillery Museum - Edinburgh, Scotland - built

Facility Designer

Coordination and DD package

August 2018 - September 2018

ThemeSpace

Concept Designer - contract

PROJECT LIST

5 Cities - Dubai - unbuilt

Concept Architectural designer

Lionsgate - NYC - building

3D Modeling

October 2017 - October 2018

Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI)

Facility Designer

PROJECT LIST

Shanghai Disney - Zootopia - Shanghai, China - building

Senior Digital Designer with oversight by creative and concept

architect

October 2012 - May 2017

Gensler

Architectural Designer

PROJECT LIST

Cotai Central - Macau, China - built

Job Captain & Senior designer oversight by design director

Development of modular façade and porte cocheres

UCLA Anderson School of Business - Los Angeles - built

Senior designer oversight by design director

Theatre design with coordination with Acoustical engineer

Hardrock Cancun Riviera Cancun, Mexico - building

Senior designer oversight by design director

Coordination, design development, exterior detailing

Façade Design – design of precast modular system/window assembly

Motiongate – Dubai, UE - built

Job Captain & Senior Designer for Smurf Village with oversight from IP

Schematic to construction documentation

Parisian Interior - Macau, China - built

BIM & Senior designer oversight by design director

EMPLOYMENT cont’d

October 2012 - May 2017

Gensler

Architectural Designer

PROJECT LIST

Eko Atlantic - Lagos, Nigeria - progress unknown

Senior Designer - Hotel Lobby and Bar

The Londoner Macau, China - built

Job Captain & Senior designer oversight by director

Development of interior retail spaces

The Edison - Disney Springs - Orlando, Fl - built

Senior designer oversight by design director

Design of Entry Lobby & Stairs

Kids’ Space - Union Rescue Mission - LA - built

Design Director and Project Coodinator

Metropolis Hotel & Residence - LA - built

BIM support & DD package

May 2013 - September 2013

HOK

BIM Consultant

April 2010 - October 2012

San Marino Gallery

Creative Director / Curator / Exhibit Designer

exhibition design / graphic design / product design curatorial statements

event coordination and logisticals

October 2006 - March 2010

Abrahams + Eyster Architecture Inc

Associate

PROJECT LIST

Mt Olympus Re-development - Hollywood, CA - unbuilt

Junior designer, BIM, SD to DD

Kitson Retail - Malibu, CA - built

Junior designer, BIM, SD to CD

Allenwood Residence - Hollywood, CA - built

Junior designer, BIM, SD to DD

Max Azira Residence - Hollywood, CA - unbuilt

Junior designer, BIM, SD to DD

April 2006 - October 2006

Troy Adams Design

Designer / Project Manager

Kitchen / Bath / Wardrobe design

CAD drawings & 3D modeling presentation / construction / material research concept renderings / presentations

EXHIBITS | TRADESHOWS

Art Basel Miami Satellite

San Marino Gallery

South Beach, Miami

2010

Salone Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair

Milan, Italy

2005

Designer’s Block

London, UK

2004

Design Downtown

Chelsea Hotel, NYC

2004

Aftertaste

Toronto, Canada

2004

Taipei Design Center

Taipei, Taiwan

2004

Inspired by Cologne

Cologne, Germany

2004

PUBLICATIONS

Form

Octagon

Trend

Interior Design

Moco Loco

Core 77

Design Sponge

Timeout London

Metro Source

Designboom

Elle Decor Germany

AWARDS

IDA Design GOLD Award - Hotels & Resorts

IDA Design SILVER Award - Mixed-Use

Kartel Museum Competition - 2nd Place

IMM Cologne Young Designers - Shortlist & Exhibition

Best Exhibit Design - Salone Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair

Honorable Mention - Public Seating Competition

Honorable Mention - Urban Landscapes Competition

Excellence in Art Award

Art Merit Award

CERTIFICATIONS

LEED Green Associate

Role: Sole Designer

Software: Revit

Rendering: Endscape

Status: Concept

Year - 2022

URBAN Park Center

Hotel / Residence / Community Center

Atlanta, GA

Two driving factors steered the design. First, there is the issue of bridging the gap between the different socio-economic groups that inhabit the city of Atlanta. This is accomplished by vibrant programmatic elements and an indoor space spilling into an open natural space. Second, is to design a carbon-neutral structure using mass timber that would be free of any columns. It is comprised of an External Truss System with a reinforcing web. There is an Interior Trusses that is anchored to the elevator cores. Beams attach to the bottom chord and span to perimeter gird that attach to the exterior trusses.

CONCEPTUAL Diagram

CONCEPTUAL Diagrams

STEP 2: Escavate and build underground loop with parking

STEP 3: Construct new concrete pad and Greenway

STEP 4: New Mixed-use Structures

STEP 1: Existing Station to be demolished and moved subterranean

MATERIAL - Basswood / Birch Ply

SCALE Model - 1/4”=1’-0”

Role: Lead Designer

Software: Revit

Rendering: Max

Status: Concept

Year - 2019

The new museum for famous Italian furniture manufacturer needed to be a statement. Not only architectural but an iconic building that would replace the past, present and future innovations of the company. The angled projection of form places the structural design center stage. The enclosure system is Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) is a fluorine-based plastic which is inflated within trianular aluminum frame. The curvalinear form dramatically pierces through the two adjacent buildings that are connected from within to provided adminstrative areas. I was fornuate to place 2nd in the competition and awarded a scholarship to mus Academy in Milano.

museo

Kartell Museum Competition

2ND Place Award

Los Angeles, CA

Role: Sole Designer

Software: Revit

Rendering: Max

Status: Concept

Year - 2020

I M O V

Iceland Museum of Volcanology

Museum / Cultural Center

Fagradalsfjall, Iceland

The new Iceland Museum of Volcanology (IMOV) will comprise two separate buildings; the first will house administrative services such as reception area, offices, conference rooms and visitor center. There will also be an upper and lower café for guests and an employee kitchen. The second building will feature upper and lower exhibition halls with an archival floor located in the basement. These structures will be connected by two fully-enclosed glass catwalks The structural system and the most striking feature of the building, will be the undulating glass façade. This frameless structural wall of glass will put the sky at center stage. It will provide a showcase to views of the Hverfjall volcano and of course the aurora borealis in all its full majesty. This glass edifice will not utilize any conventional framed-stick systems or point-fixed systems, or even any spider glazing systems. Instead, laminated tempered glass fins, laminated glass beams and structural silicone will bear the load of the enormous curtain walls of glass. IMOV will be a destination and cultural hub in the region and Iceland as a whole.

FRAMELESS STRUCTURAL GLASS

Utilizing Only Structural Glass Fins, Laminated Glass Beams And Structural Silicone

Church of Reconciliation

Role: Sole Designer

Software: Revit

Rendering: Max / V-Ray

Status Concept

Year - 2021

CHURCH of Reconciliation

Community Chapel

Savannah, GA

This project is an expression of faith as well as an expression of structural form. This is yet again another competition, this for a community worship center for SCAD. The driving force to create a building that showed the transparency of reglion and faith in the purest form. The Joshua tree is the esthestic that bceomes the structural column grid for this building. The beauty of steel is on display and is powdercoated in a champagne color to create tranquil contemplative quality of being under a canopy of Joshua tree in the desert.

Role - FACADE Designer

Software - Revit

Rendering - V-Studio / Max

Status - building in progress

Year - 2024

Hardrock Riviera Cancun, Mexico

Almost 1km long this was the most ambitious hotel &resort ever attempted by the Hardrock brand. This will certainly cement their feet into the world of luxury travel and accomodations. As a senior architectural designer in Gensler’s hospitality studio I was tasked the creating a facade that overlooked the vast mangroves as the visitor approahes the massive structure. To take advantage of the views the hotel is single-loaded and the heat gain would be profound. To midegate this I designed a precast panel to resemble heat-sinks on an hi-fi stereo. The continuous curve surfaced is punctiated by openings that feature fritted triple glazed glass with a abstract graphic.

DETAILS - Rain Screen

Riviera Cancun

HARDROCK CANCUN RIVIERA FACADE DETAILS CANCUN, MEXICO created in Revit

A PERMANECER LIBRE PARA FIRMAS DE DRO Y AUTORIZACIONES

MOTIONGATE - Theme Park

Role - Senior Designer

Software - Revit

Status - built

Year - 2014

MOTIONGATE - Smurf Village

Location - Dubai, UE

Role - Facility Designer

Software - Revit

Acrylic Aluminum

2005 Photo Credit Chris Wadsworth

Acrylic and MDF 2005

Photo Credit Chris Wadsworth

SCHOOL of Fish

Center - Sole Designer

Master Plan - Collaborative

Software: Revit

Rendering: Endscape

Status: Concept

Year - 2022

BEAUFORT Visitor Center

Beaufort, SC

2022

Welcome to the scenic Beaufort Visitor Center. This project began as a masterplan for the city of Beaufort, Scouth Carolina. This is small town with beautiful nature features such as the adjcent marsh lands. The masterplan was a collabirative effort that would reduce vehical traffic and encourage tourist. The is a manmanmade canal that flows from the marsh through the center of the development. It will be naturally filtered using native funva and carefullly controlled PH balance that will encourage habiitation and native wildlife species and promote biodiversity. The actual visitor center is alighned aling a centeral axis to connects the visitor directly to the baordwalk which concludes at overlook nodes for visitors the sit, relax and take in the views of the marsh and wildlife up close.

Project - EKO Atlantic

Role - Lobby Designer

Software - Revit

Rendering - V-Studio, 3ds, V Ray

Status - unbuilt

Year - 2015

EKO ATLANTIC Lobby

Lagos, Nigeria

My vision for this lobby was to create a magical light installation that would captivate the visitor’s imagaintion. But it also needed to reflect the transformation of the city of Lagos as a new national center for commerce. The faceted structure would span two floors using bronze glass, structural silicon and structural glass bracing. The lighting source would utilize conventional flourescent tubes enclosed within the form.

Project: Kids’ Space

Role: Design Director

Status: built

Year: 2018

Kids’ Space at URM

Union Rescue Mission

Los Angeles, CA

Photo Credit - Ryan Gobuty

This project is close to my heart. During my employment at Genser, I helped lead the volunteer group called G-Serve. It dawned on me one day that I could leverage the vast reach of the firm to do a pro-bono design project. I proposed to the team an idea I had been thinking about for years. It was to redesign the kids’ space at the Union Rescue Mission. There was a great need at the local shelter for a update this room to accomodate the increased number of childrent hat now called the shelter their home. The design process was also a key component to this project, where we would get the kids to hlpe design their ideal recreational space.The charette took place at Gensler where we gave them a presentation and lunnch.The challenge was how to make durable enough to last through the years and accomodate new activites, books and be flexible enough to hold meetings.

we should aspire to create spaces that improve the lives of their users and simply make people smile....