PORTFOLIO
ARCHITECTURE
PROMENADE
ACADEMIA | GRADUATE STUDIO I
NON-PROFIT HEADQUARTERS
MARINA CITY, CHICAGO IL
SYNOPSIS
The Friends of the Chicago River, is looking to relocate their headquarters to Marina City by utilizing the space currently occupied by the restaurant, Smith and Wollensky. By transforming the private-public space hornizontally and vertically, the public can enjoy the new space on street level while activating the levels below and opening light and views into the new office space.
GROUND FLOOR ENTRY
INDOOR
OUTDOOR EVENT SPACE
EVENT KITCHEN
EVENT AND TECHNOLOGY STORAGE
NON-GENDERED PUBLIC RESTROOM
EMPLOYEE
LEGEND
OPEN OFFICE WORKSPACE
HOTELING STATIONS
CONFERENCE ROOM
MARINA
EMPLOYEE KITCHEN/BREAKROOM
EMPLOYEE BATHROOM
EMPLOYEE PRINTER ROOM
ELEVATOR 7
PHYSICAL MODEL
AFTERNOON
PHYSICAL MODEL
EVENING
RECONSTRUCTION
ACADEMIA | GRADUATE STUDIO IV
SUSTAINABLE GREEN MILE WOODLAWN, CHICAGO IL
COLLABORATION WITH NICHOLAS ROSENTHAL
SYNOPSIS
Blacks in Green is a non-profit organization looking to create a green, sustainale design proposal focusing on a neglected neighborhood block to further benefit and provide growth to the community. Focusing on building development along South Cottage Grove, the introduction of a multi-purpose technical and educational hub while providing places of rest and leisure throughout the site will create new methods of engagement to the community, altering the historical narrative to fit the community’s needs.
PROVOCATION
The presence of the past is shown through spatial ambiguities in Woodlawn, leading to questions of prior occupancy, and referencing historic details existing elsewhere can cue potential strategies towards the future.
SPECULATIVE DESIGN STUDIES
The presence of the past is shown through spatial ambiguities in Woodlawn, leading to questions of prior occupancy, and referencing historic details existing elsewhere can cue potential strategies towards the future.
SITE PLAN & FIRST FLOOR
EAST -WEST SECTION
NORTH - SOUTH SECTION
SPECULATIVE SECTIONAL DESIGN
DORMS
ACADEMIA | COMPREHENSIVE GRADUATE STUDIO V
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO DORMITORY
THE LOOP, CHICAGO IL
SYNOPSIS
The Century Building is part of the Loop Reatil Historic District in Chicago facing the risk of demolition.This proposal aims to reuse the existing structure and the adjacent vacant lot to design a dormitory for the Art Institute. Buidling codes, specifications, zoning, egress, and ADA compliancy were considered in this comprehensive design to understanding rules and regulations within the structures envelope and surrounding context
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
MASSING
DORMITORY AXONOMETRTIC
GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
DORMITORY FLOORS
SIXTEENTH FLOOR
LIFT
ACADEMIA | GRADUATE STUDIO III
FIELD KITCHEN
ILLINOIS BEACH STATE PARK, ZION IL
SYNOPSIS
The project studies the field kitchen, a space lost in time and history, always connected to the geofluidic landscape of the park. Creating a tool to measure the wind on site, a terracotta-tile pavilion is situated along the shoreline among unknown concrete structures. The structure is comprised of a foraging plinth and gathering space, shifting with the sands as the shoreline builds up and erodes. Overtime, the pavilion will take on new forms to be reinterpreted with the landscape, changing its purpose to new users.
DEVICE | MANIFESTATION OF WIND
WIND STABILIZER
1/8” DOWEL ROD
UV SHIELD
UMBRELLA BASE
PERFORMANCE
LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE EXTENION
These devices work together to capture wind movement. Fabric is soaked in UV curing resin with a shading device to protect the intital application of resin on-site. Once draped over the wind the stabilizer, the shield is removed to expose UV rays on the fabric, morphing with the wind’s movement and harden into a manifested shape.
1/32” BRASS SPRING SUSPENSION SYSTEM 1/8” ALUMINUM ROD WIRE ROD STABILIZATIONPOINT CLOUD WIND CAPTURES
PRECAST TERRACOTTA SHINGLE STEEL PIN CONNECTION, EMBEDDED
STEEL ROUND HSS MEMBER
PRECAST CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT
3
CONCEPTUAL MODEL & AXONOMETRIC
MODS
ACADEMIA | DESIGNING DISTANT STUDIO
MODULAR BUILDING PROPOSAL HIGH DENISTY LOCATIONS
SYNOPSIS
This course involed a fast-paced proposal of selecting a future design solution to address a modern day design solution of adaptive reuse of high rises and buildings after working from home became more popular. This proposal introduces a new methodology on how we repurpose and design buildings, where modular units can be attached to exsting buildings for additional space, or can be connected to one another to create a new structure entirely. These pre-fabricated spaces can be added, removed, or adjusted within the structure based on its current programing, and the building can evolve with the needs of the surrouding community
PROCESS SKETCHING
PREFABRICATED EX TERIOR
CORT EN STEEL STAINLESS STEEL MASS TIMBER
PRECAST CONCRETE PANELS
MODS CONNECTOR
GYPSUM CEILING FINISH & RIGID INSULATION
RECESSED LIGHTING
PLUMBING
COOLING: CENTRAL AIR
PRECAST FLOORING
CONCRETE TERRAZZO STONE TILE
HEATING: RAIDATED FLOORS
AXONOMETRIC UTILITIES