Project Engineering Intern; Metal panel system design + fabrication, Panel nesting automation for shipping
Method Architecture, Houston, TX
Architecture Intern; Interior tenant space planning + CD’s
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON EXPERIENCE
Spring 2025
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
Gerald D. Hines CoAD
Teaching Assistant; Interior Architecture 4051 Studio Supervisor; Sheryl Tucker de Vasquez
UH@QRO; Study Abroad [Querétaro, MX] Faculty; Rafael Longoria [UH], Alfonso “Poncho” Garduño [Arquitectos G3]
Gerald D. Hines CoAD
Graduate Assistant; Digital and physical assembly of movable pedestal for use with ABB GoFa robot and WASP Ceramic Extruder
TEXAS A&M EXPERIENCE
Fall 2021
Fall 2020 - Spring 2020
Barcelona Architecture Center; Study Abroad Faculty; Miguel Roldán & Zana Bosnic | Roldán + Berengué, arqts.
TAMU College of Architecture Woodshop
Woodshop Assistant; Translated/ executed laser-cut files with Universal Laser Systems, Designed/ fabricated a variety of projects with traditional and digital tools
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Summer 2025
Ziegler Travel Fellowship Award
One of two students selected based on recommendation/ application; awarded scholarship to travel abroad
The Bayou in Houston is drastically transformed following rainfall, and after extreme amounts of precipitation, different regions of the city are connected via flood plains. In this sense, it is through water depth that the bayou and city are transformed through scale and capacity. The design of the “Houston
Flood Museum” takes after this dynamic transformation which gains its power through activation in depth (the Z-axis). Although orthogonal in plan, in section, spaces are compressed and released in relation to the meandering roof form which dips and lifts at an exponential
waving pattern throughout the length of the structure. The Museum connects street level with Bayou level with a stair topology derived from The Couch by MVRDV which also initiates a grand release or “peel away” at the Bayou (East) end of the structure.
100 YEARFLOOD PLAIN
500 YEARFLOOD PLAIN
Victims of the Galveston Flood, 1904
Artist: Pompeo Coppini
1: HOUSTON FLOOD MUSEUM
2: WILLOW STREET PUMP STATION
3: UHD ACADEMIC BUILDING
4: UH DOWNTOWN METRO STOP
5: HARRIS COUNTY JAIL
6: ALLEN’S LANDING PARK
7: BUFFALO BAYOU
8: WHITE OAK BAYOU
BAYOU OVERLOOK
WATER & LIGHT
FLOOR PLAN(S)
STREET LEVEL (LEFT)
BAYOU LEVEL (RIGHT)
PRECEDENT MASSING
PRECEDENT MASSING
DERIVED MASSING
The Houston Flood Museum is influenced by the stair massing typology present in “The Couch” by MVRDV. This project connects three visual heights- above street level, street level, and bayou level - and is transformed at opposing corners, while “The Couch” offers a similar
combination of heights, but is transformed at the mid-point of its short axis. Materially present in the Houston Flood Museum is a transition from more water resistant properties of a concrete base and steel structure, into a warmer, softer, and more absorptive timber lattice system, and ultimately
into an aluminum and element resisting canopy. The Museum is seated at a very unique and steeply inclined position adjacent to the bifurcation of the Buffalo Bayou & White Oak Bayou. The intense topography of the site is very unique, and much more severe than that typically seen in the city.
MODEL ASSEMBLY IMAGE (TOP), MODEL ELEVATION (BOTTOM), BAYOU LEVEL APPROACH (RIGHT)
professor _ Poncho Gardu ñ o [G3], Rafael Longoria [UH] partner(s) _ Angela Altamirano, Emmanuel Taylor location _ Querétaro, Mexico tools _ Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe
The site of La Sombra Viva is rich in tradition, vegetation, and spirit. It’s rugged terrain is uninhabitable from a distance, yet those who know it well are aware of its many moments of both prospect and refuge. With also the maintenance of Don Fidel and others, the site has transformed over the years to its still evolving state of well defined walking paths, landscaping, and gathering areas.
Our group has taken on the task of complementing the existing site conditions with a structure of minimal intervention yet significant permanence and function.
La Sombra Viva is fine and thin in its appearance, although proposed to b constructed of rugged and lasting materials such as rebar and concrete. The structure aims to transform over time like the earth
around it. It does not impose itself or attempt to transform the siteinstead it is responsive to pre-existing vegetation, terrain, and the community that have already been there. It is rooted firmly in the ground and on the traditions of its context, yet creates a delicate and fragile transition from outside to inside, never entirely existing in one of the other. La Sombra Viva provides newfound space and
shading and enhances and emphasizes the incredible views the site has to offer. Here is a space to disconnect - to not be preoccupied - and to connect more empathetically with the earth under your feet and the sky and valley ahead of you.
The complex housing living studio is an exaggerated opposition between form, material, and behavior. Emerging from the south-east corner of Hagerman Street and Harrisburg Boulevard, the ground level includes two dynamic and sound volumes that encourage attraction and movement along and through the site. This multi-family construction is organized to minimize its
footprint and make the most of the space the site has to offer. It’s paths wonders without compromising a shortest path, suggesting opportunity to meander or save time as a pedestrian.
The transition from public to private is one of obvious contrast from smooth and dynamic form with a solid and grounded concrete material into that of a warmer and lighter
material with a uniform and static organization. The garage level acts as a mediator between the two, in a transition from public and commercial to private and residential. At the individual scale, there is a unique combination of unit typologies that includes one level layouts as well as an interlocking of two-level units, utilizing a double corridor organization.
Located adjacent to Moody Park in Northside Village, Houston, Intracenter is a study of program and typology. A sustainable and permanent site that includes ‘mural moments’ allowing local artists to express and highlight Houston culture.
REVISIT: Upon revisiting the Intracenter project nearly two years after it was originally finished, a new sense of materiality has been provided and the mural moments have been populated with existing works from various Houston artists in to better contextualize the project.
a W Abuelos
Artist: @joybrush.signs
1503 Chartres St.
Artist: @anatronen1971
2102 Leeland St.
Llama
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
South America’s Pantanal #HOUZOO100
Artist: @UsagiWasabi 2011 Dallas St.
Brewston Mural
Artist: @DonkeeBoy
8th Wonder Brewery
Artist: @gonzo247 1503 Chartres Street
KENDRICK LAMAR
Artist: @anatronen1971
Miss Carousel - 1201 St Emanuel St
Houston Mural
TypologyOblique
Houston Mural Artist: @gonzo247 1503 Chartres Street
#McDHoustonWall Artist: @gonzo247 1538 St. Emanuel Street
UNIVERSAL CONTEXT
PROCEDURAL PLANTER SYSTEM 05
course _ ARCH 406 SPRING 2023
professor _ Sora Key, PhD sponsor/ mentor _ Ahmed Ali, PhD partner(s) _ Samantha Garza, Emma Dowd, Kaitlyn Senelick location _ Universal tools _ Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape
The Procedural Planter System is a scripted whole made of unique parts. The use of organically derived algorithms gives way to the inspiration for form, while parametric modeling provides endless iterations of the system with inputs in mind such as material and plant matter to be served. It is also through a procedural approach that fabrication is optimized and executed.
30"
42"
Voronoi Population Sampling
Metal Module Assembly
PLA Module Assembly
Elevation/ Section
Grasshopper Script
UNIVERSAL CONTEXT
DIAGRID + PANELING 06
course _ ARCH 317 (Digital Fabrication) Fall 2022
professor _ Michael Gayk tools _ Grasshopper*, Rhino, Illustrator, Laser Cutter, Waterjet, SLS 3D Printer *plugins _ Lunchbox, Pufferfish, Parakeet, OpenNest
ARCH 317 included an exploration for potential tiling/ paneling systems to be used in a building facade.
Emphasis was placed on algorithmic process in iteration generation as well as the fabrication and assembly of the chosen design.
A tabbed connection assembly was chosen that avoided the use of welding. When translated into the built environment, this infers snap connections over welded connections. Less labor, less installation time, less hazard
