Fable
Dinnerware
Completed September 2023
WAO
Revit, Rhino, Vray
Fable dinnerware is a Vancouver-based brand most well known for its sustainably sourced and timelessly designed tableware. For their first permanent location situated in the heart of South Granville, WAO sought to create a framework for the brand’s future retail spaces. The design intent is that the space would reflect the brand’s sense of comfort as well as the materiality of their product.
The showroom features oversized cabinets and shelving to display the products and to anticipate future product ventures that may require more space. There are also several areas within the space that replicate the interior of someone’s house or apartment; this includes a living room space near the back of the store, a dining table complete with twelve placements, and a smaller table setting that can be read as a breakfast nook. Artwork and feature lighting is also present throughout the store, providing organic shapes and adding novelty to the space.
Photographs courtesy of Fable.
Sweaty Acts
Fall 2019
Professor: Thena Tak Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
The Sweaty Acts studio sets out to highlight and celebrate the agents that are otherwise considered destructive to buildings. Such agents include dust, moss, water damage or UV discoloration.
Having salt to guide the approach of the design, this project considers the duality of the element; vital to our survival, but destructive in contexts such as the built environment. The final proposal considers the permanence and preservation of artifacts and buildings and the extent of which humans seek to protect and to perfect. The final design, which takes the form of a sculpture park, aims to disrupt the idea of a single ideal state.
Below: 3D
Left and Above: Collage demonstrating concept. While in turn destructing the original image, a new composite is created, lending itself to ideas of permanence, preservation and subjective value.
scans of concrete casts being subjected to salinity and numerous freeze-thaw cycles.
The design process was guided by the assembly of the self-adhesive membrane. While insubstancial in its material, it plays the crucial role of preventing erosion. In a way, it has the final say on what stays and what goes.
The park is comprised of ten concrete pavilions, each of which house a sculpture of the past. The self-adhesive membrane is deployed to dictate the eventual circulation of the park. Initially, some entrances may allow for the visitor to enter a certain part of the lot, while other entries are walled off, demarcated only by the outline of the membrane. Eventually, through decades of freeze-thaw cycles, the concrete will give way and give unprecedented viewpoints to the housed sculptures. The changes un circulation and viewpoint eventually alter the relationship between the artwork and the viewer. Additionally, by the time a lot has developed to its final stage, it is uncertain what the condition of the sculpture may be.
Above: 1:5 Model of a concrete foundation. Done in partnership with Ellen Harper.
Below: Study Model manipulating the membrane.
1:100 Model
The topography of the site is crucial; it guides both the visitors of the park and creates channels in which the salt water collected from the streets can be introduced to the pavilions.
LaSalle College Mug Tree
Winter 2020 TOAD inc.
Photographs Courtesy of TOAD Rhino • Grasshopper • Illustrator
With proposals for a new building underway, LaSalle College looked to update their current space to better suit the needs of its students. Rather than invest in materials that would later be disposed of, the studio opted to use materials that would eventually be transferred to the new facility.
Among the transferable pieces is the mug tree. In the spirit of preserving and celebrating the modest customs of the school, the studio decided to create a fixture in which students can display their mugs. The mug tree also serves as a space for students to gather, socialize, or study together. This installation was designed for easy assembly and disassembly, ensuring that it can be moved the its future location.
Tasked with the execution of the design, Grasshopper was used to parameticize each component in order to ajust to the ideal dimensions. The final piece was manufactured and assembled by MakerLabs.
Assembly diagram
Miion Coffee
To be Completed September 2024
WAO
Revit, Rhino, Vray
Situated across from the Richmond-Brighouse skytrain station, Miion Coffee is a 750 square foot cafe that takes advantage of every corner of the small retail unit. The space includes a state of the art coffee bar, custom seating and retail space, as well as a back of house kitchen and accessible washroom. The warm, neutral colour palette of the oak and tile, as well as the soft curves throughout the space offer a contrast to the elements of stainless steel, the cove lighting, and the techical nature of the coffee equipment. The result is a space that is balanced, contemporary and welcoming.
MATERIAL SCHEDULE
Venetian Plaster
Vancouver Maritime Museum
Winter 2020
Professor: Chris Maconald
Partner: Yekta Tehrani
Rhino, Illustrator, Vray
The site of the Vancouver Maritime Museum is liminally positioned between the residential streets of Kitsilano and the shores of Kits Beach and Vanier Park. The aim of this design proposal extends beyond addressing the role of exhibition spaces, with its primary focus on creating a bridge between the public park and the suburban streets. As such, the museum serves as a focal point for the community, encouraging public gatherings and interactions with its coveted landscape.
Context Section
Consisting of three overlapping volumes, the formal layout of the museum offers a generous public space in between the extruded spaces. The intent behind the plaza is to serve as an opportunity to give back to the community, encouraging public events and serving as a lookout point to the city and mountains. The plaza also serves as a mediation point between the urban setting and the natural landscape by allowing beach interact within it, the role of the museum within the context of the city can be reestablished.
Flanking both sides of the plaza are the administrative and the exhibition spaces of the museum, allowing for a differentiation between public and interior space. While the volumes are low in profile, they remain visually related in appearance though their corten steel cladding, which has a strong visual impact while simultaneously blending into the natural landscape.
Museum Entrance Cafe
Roof Roof pavers on pedestals on EPDM roofing membrane on 5X2” Rockwool insulation(R=40) on vapour barrier on plywood sheathing on drywall on 286mm deep timber joists spanning between 608mm glue-laminated timber.
External Wall
ROOF
roof pavers on pedestals on EPDM roofing membrane of 5x2” Rockwool insulation (R=40) on vapour barrier on plywood sheathing on drywall on 286mm deep timber joists spanning between 608mm glue-laminated timber.
15mm Corten steel panels bolted to stainless steel railing system bolted back to timber structure with tolerance for differential movement between panels, on 3X2” Rockwool insulation (R=24) on vapour barrier on plywood sheathing on 191mm timber columns or 10in cast in place concrete
Floor
EXTERNAL WALL
15mm corten steel panels bolted to stainless steel railing system bolted to timber structure with tolerance for differential movements between panels on 3x2” Rockwool insulation (R=24) on vapour barrier on plywood sheathing on 191mm timber columns or 10in cast in place concrete.
Hardwood flooring on steel structural grid on pedestals raised 200mm service area for displacement ventilation system on 100mm concrete with inlaid radiant heat tubing on 2” Rockwool Insulsation (R=8) on concrete structural slab
Foundation grille and concrete pavers over loose gravel sediment over surface water drainage system over foundation with capillary break
FLOOR
hardwood flooring on steel structural grid on pedestals raised 200mm service area for displacement ventilation system on 100mm concrete with inlaid radiant heat tubing on 2” Rockwool insulation (R=8) on concrete structural slab.
FOUNDATION
grille and concrete pavers over loose gravel sediment over surface water drainage system over foundation with capillary break.
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Invisible Cities
Winter 2019 Design Media II
Professor: Thena Tak Rhino, TextEdit , Lightroom
This class was a study of exploration within architectural representation. Each student was given an entry from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities. From this text, a series of drawings, collages, models and sections were to be interpreted from the text.
Assigned the city of Zirma, this passage was interpreted as a series of glitches: repetitious in nature, yet altered from the normal. In the end, it becomes impossible to discern the original from the glitch.
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The representation of the glitch was explored through the making of a physical model. This begins with the original form; a series of extruded rectangles that resemble a skyscraper. The g-code was then extracted in order to prepare for a 3D print.
The print was executed multiple times, and with every print the g-code was manually altered: lines of code deleted, added, or moved to a different part of the script.
The files were once again sent off to the printer. However, there is no longer an expected outcome for the print, only hints of what the original form once was.
Dinner Party
Fall 2022
Graduate Project Chair: Sara Stevens
Committee: Dana Salama, Blair Satterfield
Tableware and serveware designed by students and professors for the Dinner Party
Dinner Party is a thesis that explores alternative practices in architecture, addressing the profession’s limitations and proposing new methods of communication and co-creation. The project likens architectural design to dining in a high-end restaurant—an exclusive experience with diminishing margins, paralleling the precarious state of architectural practice.
While dining appears in many forms—home-cooked meals, fast food, or potlucks—the architectural process remains rigid. This thesis reimagines professional practice as a dinner party, where the host prepares a meal, guests bring wine or dessert, and all contribute to the event.
The thesis culminated in a series of activities, open to both students and faculty, where participants collectively created elements like tables, chairs, and serveware. Each activity redefined the balance between control and contribution, offering opportunities for reflection on the process’s successes and shortcomings. Through this lens, Dinner Party seeks to challenge the rigidity of architectural practice, promoting more inclusive and collaborative approaches to design.
Drinking vessel created by students for the Dinner Party
The Exquisite Chair activity aimed to shift agency from the host to the participants. It began with one participant writing a description of their ideal dinner chair. The next participant used this description to sketch a rough design, which was then passed to another person to assign materials and construction details. The chair was built as closely as possible to the final drawing. This process was repeated three times, with each iteration having its own constraints, allowing participants to collaborate in the design and creation of the chair.
Top row left to right: Description of the chair by Jacob Darowski, Initial formalization of the chair by Katie Hunks, material design by Ranveer Singh, Redevelopment of material design by Ranveer Sign and Tyler Dellebuur.
Bottom Row: Construction sketches by Rob Turiff, Modeled version by author, Instructions for sewing the cover by author.
The Dinner Party serves as a marker of special occasion, much like a graduate project. It doesn’t suggest that every meal should be this way but offers an alternative in a range of possibilities for how we might dine.
Final Chair
Do Well North Vancouver
Issued for Tender Sept 2024
WAO
Revit, Rhino, Vray
Located in a new build in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver, the interior fitout for Do Well Therapy was largely informed by the branding package, which laid out key values that the clinic emodies. Terms such as confidence, joy, empathy, and energy were translated into the design of the space through the use of soft curves, well-lit spaces, greenery, and bold colours and textures in the material palette.
The space primarilty consists of the reception area, seven treatment rooms, and the gym. At the entrance, the reception space guides patients into a greenery filled room with a dynamic seating and retail area. The accentuated curve in the retail millwork also serves to demarkate a transition into the treatment area.
Primary Palette Secondary Palette
Banding Keywords - Provided by Client
Storage
Hand Wash Station