Professional Work
Center for Social Justice
Spain: Ecological Market & Learning Center
USC Cinematic Arts Extension School
Fuzzy Mind: A Museum of Emotion
Bird Study and Recreational Center Program
Drawing Earth: Los Angeles Fossils
Sevilla City Towers
2023-2025
Principal: Walter Estay
San Jose, CA
Programs:
Revit, Enscape, Photoshop, Rhino - Climate Studio (Energy Modeling), Excel - (CHPS Designed Document)
Briarwood and Bracher Elementary are new one-story buildings on existing campuses, designed utilizing metal stud and plaster construction. These two schools feature highly sustainable design that include solar panels, natural ventilation, overhangs that shade the west and south sides. Both projects have been energy modeled in Climate Studio in Rhino by myself in order to study their energy usage compared to a baseline school in the area.
Floor Plan - PS and TK Classrooms Briarwood and Bracher buildings both achieved greater than 80% pEUI reduction. The designs include all-electric systems utilizing heat
Site Accessibility Plan pumps, solar panels, and low WWR.
Building Elevations
PS & TK Classrooms - Santa Clara USO - Santa Clara, CA
Building Sections
Roof Plan - MPR
Floor Plan - PS and TK Classrooms
These two schools were concurrently designed and shared design details for the new-build elementary school buildings. I worked on them from SD through Construction Documentation Division of the State Architect (DSA) Submittal. The projects are allelectric, surpassing CalGreen Title 24 requirements, and met the goal of Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) Designed. For CHPS, I handled the majority of documentation and coordination with consultants.
PS & TK Classrooms and MPR - Santa Clara USO - Santa Clara, CA Phases Worked: Schematic Design - Construction Documentation (DSA Submittal) 4
2023-2025
Principal: Walter Estay
San Jose, CA
Programs :
Revit, Enscape, Photoshop,
Rhino - Climate Studio (Energy Modeling) ®-
Comal ISO Elementary #23 is a two - story new-build school serving as a prototype for future schools in the Te x as district. It utilizes metal stud and CMU structure with a brick fa ~ade . The school accommodate s 1st - 5th grade and special needs, with each wing dedicated to their respective grade level. Additional program includes Cafeteria with Kitchen, Library, and Gym. Some classrooms have partition walls between them and colab space in the hallways.
Plans
After energy modeling this project, the results showed at least a 60% pEUI
The central plant and chiller yard help create wholebuilding efficiency.
Summer 2022 Programs :
Project Manager: Mathew Kilivris Revit, Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop
Los Angeles, CA
This was a repositioning project for a high-rise office building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, redefining the first and second floors and introducing an intermediary mezzanine level space to allow for much-needed events and social interaction . The scope included the addition of M level, a central stair atrium connecting the floors, secure bike storage room, landscape features, and slatted shading. This was a completed schematic design set sent to the client.
Repositioning Lower Floors - Manulife - Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2022
Professor: Lorean O'Herlihy
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA - Union Station
Programs: Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator
The CLT tall timber building is a social justice center, with program for offices, community gathering, and events. The building promotes social justice through the use of services and the principles instilled into the building. Principles such as promotion of alternative transit, open balconies for gathering, serving the community with a welcoming site, and sustainable practices.
Cross laminated timber floors and walls and glulam columns and beams were left exposed, showcasing the structure to the public as a means of promoting more sustainable and carbon neutral approaches to buildings. The fa~ade has a wave-like effect surrounding the building, providing shading at various angles. The site has transformed into public park ground with reintroduction of native plants back to the area.
This building is located across the street to Union Station in Los Angeles, allowing for a more equitable form of transportation to avoid having to use a car. Each floor has their own purpose and allows social/work aspects to happen in an indoor/ outdoor environment. The project provides cantilevered balconies and open-toair unenclosed floors as a means to provide public respite/event/meeting space.
Spring 2019
Professors: Elisandra Garcia & Angel Martinez Garcia-Posada Texas Tech University - Sevilla, Spain Programs: Rhino, Illustrator
The Ecological Market and Learning Center is built around a central pavilion stair tower. The tower paying homage to the city 's landmarks as they are all taller than the base level apartment buildings. The market and learning center provides opportunity for local vendors and educators to provide their goods and expertise on topics such as cooking, sciences, and craftmaking .
Section Perspective: Showing context of the market and pavilion in relation to the city and water
The purpose of this project was to accommodate the Guadalquivir river site in Sevilla, Spain. This site hosts historic buildings and monuments such as the Torre del Oro and the Monumento a la Tolerencia. The site has a distinct city level and a river level directly underneath. This goal of this project was to transform the ideas of local Spanish food to create a pavilion and market for this site. This site occupies this large amount of space for the ecological market and learning center, while also having social space.
These diagrams show the initial development of the market using the pavilion grid to create the building market grid. Eventually forming the building spaces and shapes designated by their use and relationship to the grid
Fall 2021 Programs:
Professor: Wes Jones Rhino, Illustrator
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
The USC Cinematic Arts Extension School. located at the corner of the USC Village, targets community members to experience vocational-like experience from USC faculty/students in order to gain necessary skills to acquire technical cinema jobs. The building is made from CLT +Glulam structure with exterior wood vertical fins and exterior concrete stair cores.
The building has a large multi-purpose room that will be primarily for used for a sound stage, but can used for other purposes such as banquet space or meeting space. The building has classrooms and a screening room to learn technical production skills. The first floor is not attached but allows for passage between the village and USC campus. In the in-between space, there is a large exterior screen that can be used to play movies or graphic artwork at different times during the day.
Fall 2022
Professor: Jia Zhou Zhu
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Programs: Midjourney Artificial Intelligence, Houdini, Maya, Unreal Engine, Rhino, Illustrator
Taking inspiration from human anatomy, this museum building is composed of four major body parts: Skin, Bones, Tissue, and Flesh. Skin representing the Fa~ade, Bones as Structure, Tissue as Utilities, and Flesh as Space. Transforming the four parts into buildable forms gave allowance to spatially compose them like creating a body. Interventions like floorplates are cut in, making the body into a living building .
This project took the image input of Midjourney Al software, which allowed me to model output through Houdini. The museum is meant to evoke differing emotions based on which floor and space the user is in. Additionally, the exterior 1s lined with hair-like objects that move in the wind.evoking positionalbased shifting feelings.
Spring 2020
Professor: Sarah Hammond
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Programs : Grasshopper, Rhino
Exploration and manipulation of data through the use of grasshopper and OpenStreetMap to take the dense city of Sevilla, Spain and transform the building footprints into a collection of towers using the footprints as the tower form . The DSM extracted data included information about street name, building height, location, etc. After collecting the bulk data, it was then organized into lists that arranged the buildings from smallest to largest. Afterwards the lists were shuffled and grouped forming a "tower" cluster. Putting into perspective that things that feel set in their place are relative and can always transform into something else down the line.
