Saint Louis, United State | Bruce Lindsey + Ryan Abendroth
Washington University in Saint Louis | 22’ Fall
PRACTICE & STUDY +
PATTERN: MACHINE LEARNING IN ARCHITECTURE 58
Sharvari Mhatre
Washington University in Saint Louis | 23’ Fall
SYSTEM STUDY OF SAINT ANDREW BEACH HOUSE 62
Eric Shripak
Washington University in Saint Louis | 23’ Fall
WATER PARK WORKSHOP 66
Tainan, Taiwan | Herve Capart + Shih-Hong Yang
National Taiwan University | 19’ Summer
LIGHT FESTIVAL EXHIBITION 68
Taipei, Taiwan | Chung-Han Yao + Herve Capart
National Taiwan University | 19’ Spring
Uncozy Island
A Provakitive Food Production Venue Speaking for an Endangering Farming Industry
Seaweed farming, a charming agricultural industry that has left its beautiful footprints along the coastline of Nusa Lembongan, is losing ground to the booming tourism industry. Enticed by the promise of high profits, islanders have shifted to this risky business, transforming the shores into resorts and playgrounds for water activities. Preservation efforts are urgently needed. The project Uncozy Island is envisioned as both a farming school and a daycare center for aging farmers. Since seaweed farming requires heavy labor and follows an irregular schedule, the project is located off the coast, serving as a transition zone between the seaweed farms and the farmers’ home.
The project is composed of a series of floor slabs, minimizing vertical elements to create an open and fluid spatial arrangement above the water. By subtly manipulating the floor lines, the design introduces varied spatial conditions that accommodate different activities—open platforms for gatherings, stepped down for performance, and sheltered zones for farmingrelated tasks. These platforms are equipped with rotatable panels, water, and electrical outlets, allowing the space to adapt easily to the unpredictable farming schedule and evolving needs. The goal is to create a flexible structure that supports the seaweed farming community while responding to the pressures of tourism.
Through studio practice, the project integrates detailed studies and architectural systems, represented through drawings and diagrams.
Comprehensive Optional Studio Professor: Jose Ahedo Washington University in St. Louis 2024 Fall
Tension Between Tourism and Seaweed Farming along the Cosast Line
The coastline has become a place where tourism and seaweed farming coexist in tension. After the pandemic, seaweed farming has started to reclaim some of its territory. However, these farms remain at risk. On the north and east sides of the islands, seaweed farming has yet to recover.
A New Base for the Farmers
The coastline has become a place where tourism and seaweed farming coexist in tension. After the pandemic, seaweed farming has started to reclaim some of its territory. However, these farms remain at risk. On the north and east sides of the islands, seaweed farming has yet to recover.
Plug Activities into the Platform
The form of the platforms echoes the aggregation patterns of seaweed farms, breaking down into distinct zones assigned to the farming school, daycare center, and post-production area. Utilities run drastically through every corner of the platforms, with floor-level outlets providing access to water, electricity, and essential resources. This adjacency to resources encourages various activity within the venue, bringing together different user groups to collaborate on seaweed production—a practice deeply rooted in the island’s memory and culture.
In a place like Nusa Lembongan, where resources and infrastructure are scarce, a structure that is both durable and adaptable is crucial. The form’s modular design and the idea of “plugged-in activity” seem ambitious, but it speaks directly to the urgency of preserving a vanishing culture while addressing the community’s evolving needs.
When the project became the carrier of farming activities, generation would be able to united together through the language of seaweed.
Fun Palace in Indonesia
Architecture as Resource Provider
To support activity blossoming throughout the project, the architecture serves as a resource provider—delivering electricity, water, and air ducts across the plan.
Architecture will Do the Rest
The project provides alternative scenerio to living on the water, the horizontal transparency maximize the access to the beautiful bay.
Nourish North Ground
Urban Food Production and Pantry
This project addresses food insecurity in North St. Louis by transforming a vacant, disinvested parcel—an emblem of urban degrowth—into a productive and shared landscape. The design introduces a multi-functional complex that acts as a commons, serving as both a food production hub and community anchor. The program is organized into three parts: a commercial hydroponic greenhouse, a grocery store-style food bank, and a wellness center focused on hunger-related issues.
The architecture operates as a layered system. A lifted, box-like structure houses the hydroponic farms, while the food bank is embedded into the earth, forming a “mount” above it. This mount acts as a public terrace—an open space for community gathering, shaded by greenery cascading from the greenhouse. It becomes a threshold: one can ascend into the wellness center suspended within the greenhouse or descend into the food bank. Together, these elements form an integrated “super machine” that addresses food insecurity through architecture, spatial agency, and environmental transformation.
The architectural intervention—a floating box overlooking North St. Louis—serves as both a symbolic and functional response to urban degrowth. Elevated above the mount, it asserts a presence that is infrastructural and aspirational, offering a vision for a more equitable future. As landmark and living system, the project invites a fragmented neighborhood into a shared manifesto—reclaiming vacant land not only for food, but for civic renewal, and anchoring hope in a landscape shaped by absence.
Degree Project
Professor: Chandler Ahrens
Washington University in St. Louis
2025 Spring
DENSER GRAPHIC, STRONGER ECONOMIC BENEFIT
Urban Condition: An Economic Perspective
In the context of citywide decline and disinvestment, the city has initiated programs and strategies aimed at creating business incentives. However, the northern part of the city rarely shares in these benefits.
STAKEHOLDERS + INFLUENCERS IN RANGE
Urban Condition: A Community Anchor Perspective
Not only are NGOs absent from the northern region, but residents there also generally face low incomes and more limited access to healthy, sustainable food.
Prescription
This program proposes a self-sustaining model combining food production, a wellness center, and a grocery-style food bank. It aims to support North St. Louis by improving nutrition, creating jobs, and promoting community well-being.
Adjancy Diagram
The project organizes three distinct programs on separate elevations, shaped by user engagement and activity. Most importantly, it preserves uninterrupted ground-level access for the community.
The ultimate solution of Food Insecurity
The architecture, as a machinary prototype, dedicating itself to the food insecurity. It serving as a food production center, a community anchor, and a hurbor for those in need of healthier food.
Commercial Greenhouse with a Wellness Center inside
Common Ground assending to greenhosue and desending to Food Bank
Grocery style Food bank with Produce post processing
The Voice of Unheard
A Third Space Incubating The Unheard Story
The studio explores themes of community development, cultural complexity, displacement, and the interplay between place and identity. Its programs and designs are informed by a deep acknowledgment of history and context.
In the 1800s, the Muscogee Indians faced increasing pressure to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia. A century later, Brownsfield (now known as “South Atlanta”) was established as a settlement for formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War. However, the area soon became a target during the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906. Over the years, systemic oppression persisted—Jim Crow laws and the construction of I-85 severely disrupted the community’s growth and cohesion. Today, Brownsfield, home to predominantly lower-income residents, faces intense gentrification, causing displacement and erasing the community’s cultural identity.
To address the history of infrastructural violence and loss, reclaiming the “land memory” becomes a means of restoring identity and facilitating healing. This program aims to provide a “Third Space” where residents can reclaim their voices and express their identities through art. Experiments were conducted to explore how spaces could foster creation and interaction while encouraging community dialogue. The design derives from sectional studies that emphasize the importance of interconnected spaces, reflecting the fluid exchange of thoughts and ideas within a vibrant community.
Optional Studio
Professor: Cory Henry Washington University in St. Louis 2024 Fall
The Land Memory
This project begins with the idea of “land memory,” rooted in the site’s history where a Black life was taken by gun violence. The trauma, still felt by the community, becomes a starting point for design. Influenced by the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition’s efforts to mark sites of racial terror, the architecture acknowledges this past through spaces of reflection and healing. In doing so, it transforms the land into a place of remembrance and care for the present-day neighborhood.
Program
The stakeholder analysis examines how the project can engage with key participants throughout each phase of the art production lifecycle. By mapping these intricate relationships, the program is shaped by the findings, creating a potential network of partners that strengthens community engagement.
The analysis informs spatial adjacency, aligning spaces with the progression of art production— from conceptualization and creation to exhibition and community engagement. Public circulation moves from displaying early ideas to spaces for iterative work, culminating in curated exhibitions that spark dialogue and inspire collective action.
Signed Artist Life Cycle of Art Production
Artist Intern
Management Office
Exchanged Artist
Georgia State University
Kennesaw State University
Carver High School
UPS
Coca-Cola
Delta Airlines
MARTA Atlanta
Local Black-owned Institute
Black Art In America
Day and Night Projects
ABV Gallery
ZuCot Gallery
Neighborhood
South Atlanta
Pittsburg
Peoplestown
Highpoint
City of Atlanta
Fulton County Remembrance Coalition
Project South
Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger
The Atlanta Voice
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Dialogue with the Past / Dialogue with the Present
The project seeks to engage in dialogue with its neighborhood and give voice to the “unheard.” Spatial arrangements in section cast layered images within the interior, addressing both the visitor—positioned between zones of production— and the immediate surroundings.
MAKER SPACE
DISPLAY AREA
DISPLAY PLAZA
DISPLAY PLAZA
DISPLAY AREA
DISPLAY AREA STUDIO-2FL
Floor Plan - Bumping into Art and Dialogue
The circulation allows visitors to occasionally pass through zones of active art-making and display. These spontaneous encounters reveal local voices and spark artistic inspiration. From open displays on the ground floor to curated exhibitions above, the journey offers a glimpse into the full lifecycle of art.
INIATIVE STUDIO
ART DIALOGUE
INIATIVE INCUBATOR
AUDITORIUM
STUDIO
STUDIO
PHOTOGRAPHY
FABRICATION-GL
STUDIO-2FL
EXHIBITION
OFFICE
CAMPAIGN
EXHIBITION
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International Housing
A Multi-family Housing in Barceloneta that carries its collective memory
Abstract:
The project of International Housing aims to customize a vehicular apartment after navigating the various cities across the board. The project takes two-week long cultural, context, and climate surveys in New Orleans and Barcelona. The city surveys in performed as the Threshold Image and the Cultural Drawings. The idea of the threshold image shows the transition from the dwelling space to either the communal space or the city reflects the modern way of living in the urban and environmental context.
In a meditation climate, passive strategy plays a significant role in determining seasonal comfort significantly. Ensanche, a traditional housing in Barcelona, has developed its passive strategy to adapt its environment since the mid-17th century. Galleria, the sunroom in both facades, captures heat and brings lights and fresh air into its linear and sequence rooms. The idea of dwelling with seasonal comfort implies the importance of flexibility and non-hierarchical room in the vernacular dwelling experience.
The project is composed of rooms on rammed earth and surrounded by galleria spaces where activity could happen. The vision is to allow the “unlabeled” dwelling units to embrace the change of family structure and its various uses. As the Galleria space expanded and bridged to other units, the space in between would be the secondary communal space. A sequence from public to private and from public to communal is established. The threshold model demonstrates the condition within units and the context shows the projects situated in the urban context of Barceloneta.
Core Studio III
Professor: Emiliano Lopez
Washington University in St. Louis 2023 Fall
Threshold and
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Threshold and Cultural Image in Barcelona
Adaptable Apartment Unit
Drawing inspiration from the concept of Ensanche, the project begins with housing units featuring equally sized rooms that offer flexibility of use and adaptability to changing family sizes. These rooms are arranged around “gallerias” designed to capture sunlight, fresh air, and views of the surrounding cityscape. Activities can naturally extend from the rooms to the galleria, depending on scenarios or seasonal comfort. Furthermore, the galleria continues to neighbors, forming shared venue.
The project offers three types of housing units to accommodate residents from diverse financial and backgrounds.
Unit A : Multi-generational Unit 2B1B
Unit A : Multi-generational Unit 4B2B
Unit B : Multi-generational Unit 2B2B
Unit B : Rental Unit 1B1B
Unit B : Office
Unit B : Rental Unit 2B2B
Aggregation Plan
The housing units are clustered together, leaving spaces in between to form courtyards that allow for the ventilation of exhaust from nearby domestic areas while also integrating sunlight and fresh air. The Galleria space extends outward as an outdoor communal area, connecting the neighboring units.
The design incorporates three layers of Galleria spaces, illustrating the transition from the urban environment to the private realm and from exterior to interior spaces. Between these layers lie rooms and courtyards, creating a dynamic interplay between public and private domains.
Dwelling to City / City to Dwelling
Adapting to the Mediterranean climate of Barcelona, our design prioritizes heat retention and proper shading to ensure comfort. We’ve employed rammed earth for room and floor enclosures, complemented by Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) covered with tiles, which serve as thermal mass to retain heat. The facade features panoramic glazed sliding doors within a galleria space, along with horizontal operable louvers, aimed at moderating direct sunlight and breezes. Inspired by the classical Ensanche apartment’s emphasis on facade functionality, our design integrates shading and ventilation elements into its facade strategy.
Inspired by Giambattista Nolli’s concept of open public plazas and gated communal spaces, our ground plan caters specifically to the fashion industries. Central to this layout is a plaza that doubles as a potential fashion show venue, encouraging community engagement. Additionally, the uneven roof is adorned with planted trees, serving as a nod to Barcelona’s scarce natural paving and contributing to the city’s greenery.
Threshold: Dwelling to City
A shot taken from the Galleria into a private bedroom looking into the city. Lighting and privacy are fading through thresholds while the spaces are connected.
Threshold: City to Dwelling
A mid-rise apartment located in the residential neighborhood of Barceloneta. The extended galleria, framed by rollable louvers, stands in contrast to the rammed earth brick façade—expressing the project’s core values of adaptability, material honesty, and contextual response.
Green House
An inspirational Botanical Venue in Saint Louis Forest Park
Abstract:
The Green House project in St. Louis Forest Park aims to provide an immersive and educational experience for visitors. Designed to blend seamlessly into its surroundings, the structure mimics the pattern of tree canopies, serving as a shelter for various plant exhibitions. Shadows, channels, flora, and timber structures are intricately woven together on the site, with four separate exhibition rooms positioned along a central axis bordered by a flowing channel. Both ground-level routes and elevated walkways facilitate circulation, offering visitors unique perspectives of the curated spatial sequences that seamlessly blend interior and exterior experiences. Through this unconventional botanical journey, the project endeavors to enhance the Forest Park experience in a memorable and distinctive manner.
Core Studio I
Professor: Bruce Lindsey + Ryan Abendroth
Washington University in St. Louis 2023 Fall
Site Plan in the Forest
The conservatory is carefully sited to preserve all existing trees. A canal runs through it, connecting retention ponds at both ends and linking to surrounding community gardens. The design aims to create a living environment deeply integrated with nature.
Ground Plan and the River
The conservatory is composed of four rooms connected by an elevated pathway. The circulation weaves between conditioned indoor spaces and open natural environments, creating a seamless blend of both. This fusion of natural and controlled climates defines the core botanical experience of the design.
Pattern: Machine Learning in Architecture
Abstract:
The project delves into the intersection of machine learning and architectural visual narrative, exploring two distinct avenues: defamiliarization studies and reimagining the facade of Graham Chapel. In the first thread, works by Alvaro Siza and Thomas Heatherwick serve as training resources for Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), which manipulate images based on content and style inputs fed into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). This process aims to understand iteration dynamics and intervenes spatially in the CNN output. The second thread involves reinterpreting the 3D scan of Graham Chapel’s facade, informed by insights from the previous process. Through compression, rewriting, and reformatting of data, the project stimulates fragments atop foundational elements found on the chapel, fostering a dynamic exploration of visual narrative.
Professor: Shavari Mhatre
Washington University in St. Louis 2023 Fall
- Background and Blending Facade
Selected Siza’s Work
Background Image generated by CNN
CNN Generated Chapel
Facade Variation generated by CNN
Spatial Output
System Study of Saint Andrew Beach House
Abstract:
Located within a 90-minute drive from Melbourne, the Saint Andrew Beach House offers a minimalist escape designed by architect Sean Godsell. Situated along the beach, the harsh, dry, and salty environment inspired the use of preoxidized steel panels for the building facade. Oriented 15 degrees east-west to withstand strong winds, the architectural focus lies on structural analysis and wall assembly. Detailed studies emphasize how overhangs are supported and anchored to the ground, while wall sections highlight meticulously organized layers essential to the modern simplicity of the design.
Advisor: Eric Shripak
Washington University in St. Louis 2023 Fall
Water Park Workshop
Abstract:
The Water Park Workshop is an innovative installation and buoyancy experiment designed to maximize passenger capacity within the constraints of limited floating barrels. The lowtech fabricated installations double as a playful playground on the water, enhancing the sensation of buoyancy. Participants navigate the platform’s obstacles while maintaining balance, utilizing both body movements and the lake’s waves to elicit diverse buoyancy feedback. The interactive experience encourages collaboration as participants work together to stabilize the platform or relocate it around the lake by adjusting the anchor.
Professor: Shih-hong Yang + Herve Capart
National Taiwan University
2019 Summer
Light Festival Exhibition Installation
Abstract:
Perched on a cliff adorned with ancient ruins, an enigmatic creature extends its tentacles tentatively, its movements robotic, conveying a sense of tension. The backdrop of Taipei’s immigration history, nearly erased, leaves behind only the remnants of illegally built houses on the cliffside.
This installation, showcased at the Treasure Hill Light Festival Exhibition 2019, is a collaborative effort aimed at reflecting on the past and the lingering spirit within history’s chapters. The device’s form serves as a symbolic representation of this narrative. Powered by two motors, the tentacles exhibit biomimetic movements at varying speeds, creating dynamic patterns. Marble balls within the tentacles follow their motion, determining the number of lasers emitted from holes in the tentacles’ lower branches. The exhibition venue, enveloped in darkness, lends an ambient atmosphere, allowing the installation to breathe life into its surroundings.
