SAY IT LOUD - Washington DC Exhibition

140 African American AIA Fellows

Beyond the Built Environment | Pascale Sablan + Researchers | 2022

SAY IT LOUD is an exhibit featuring projects by women and diverse design professionals, as well as interviews about their experiences in the architecture and design professions. This exhibit shares, protects and celebrates the journey of the underrepresented to inspire the next generation. SAY IT LOUD at The Octagon in Washington, DC includes a special component featuring Black architects from The American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows, which highlights an often marginalized group of architects and expounds upon their acheivements despite adverse situations. The exhibit has also been picked up by the National Building Museum. Student researchers from Yale, Harvard, RPI and Cal Poly Tech, as well as myself created profiles for each and every one of the 140 African American AIA Fellows, conducting extensive research that best exemplified these wonderful architects and their impact on the architectural profession.

Each profile highlights key facts and information about the AIA fellow that is being uplifted, including an in depth biography, featured project and project details. These items help to identify the architects’ role in the project as well as showcase their work, something that may not be as well known or spoken about.

‘OVERSKY’ GRAPHICS

Framlab | Bildmuseet

Conceptual Exhibition | Team | New York / Sweden | 2021

Oversky is a response to how households can reduce their emissions within the urban environment. As a total, private households are one of the biggest contributors to the emission of greenhouse gases. These emissions are often related to a city’s infrastructure such as energy and water supply and waste management. Oversky is Framlab’s proposal to a larger transformation by redefining how we look upon and use our residential habitat. Conceived as a multi-story building suspended above the street that connects households in adjacent buildings, Oversky centralizes various functions while using environmentally friendly materials that would be able to reduce combined emissions. The project is focused on sharing resources and targets big cities where its positive impacts could be pooled by entire neighborhoods. If cities will continue to be important hubs for people and the world economy, perhaps we need to change our perception of what it means to live in a city.

- Andreas Tjeldflaat, Founder of Framlab

Framlab Fast Company

01. Cirrocumulus clouds are high-altitude tropospheric clouds that are short-lived, transitional and wispy in nature.

02. Cumulus clouds are detached, individual tufts of that are spotted in fair weater conditions.

03. Stratus clouds are low-level layered tyoes and hold a nebulosus form that is persistent over long periods of time.

AUNTS et. UNCLES x SNIPES JUNETEENTH POP-UP

et al. collaborative

Summer Internship | Team | Brooklyn, New York | 2021

Commisioned by the vegan Caribbean cafe, Aunts et. Uncles, and the sneaker and street wear company, Snipes USA, the Aunts et. Uncles x Snipes Juneteenth Pop-Up aimed to create a sense of gathering and community on the streets of Brooklyn, in honor of Juneteenth. Downtown Brooklyn has always been a central meeting ground for neighborhoods within the borough, and the special installation allowed visitors to immerse themselves in a full on celebration of black history and excellence. The exhibition, displaying words and art in conjunction with the celebration, was curated and designed in honor, celebration and reflection of the black fight for freedom.

Drawing upon the pre-existing sidewalk dimensions, a nine square grid proportion system is created on the site. The idea to place the modules upon the grid (informed by sidewalk joists) is clearly represented in the direct affirmation of the spaces being used. Breaking up the nine square grid into a series of smaller grids allowed the rules to be created, then expanded upon, and broken, creating a dynamic space that dynamically adheres to the site.

There Was So Much Love, Joy and Freedom In The Air. Freedom in a Sense of Having A Clear Mind. @auntsetuncles

Sketching & Renders

Explorations on Modes of Graphic Represenation

Personal | Individual | Misc. | 2020-2023

By exploring modes of graphic representation in a different manner, architectural thinking and design theory can be further developed. Sketching and rendering ideas allows the architect and designer to present their ideas in a completely different manner than the simple ideals of plan, section and elevation.