Thank you for taking the time to check out my portfolio! I am currently a student at Northeastern University, and I will graduate with my Bachelor of Science in Architecture in May 2025. This document is an accumulation of work from my academic, professional, and personal experience. I hope you enjoy, and please feel free to reach out with questions!
Urban Institutions Studio
Professor Tim Love Spring 2022
Aimed at providing new housing for Northeastern graduate students, North Village is designed on an existing parking lot adjacent to Stetson Hall. A walk-up apartment module is repeated along both sides of the newly-created Jarvis Street. There are twelve units per module, four units per floor. These conditions permit a single stair according to a loophole in Boston building code. Units are arranged at half level increments to meet the existing conditions of the site.
Typical Housing Module Repeating Along Jarvis Street
Second Floor Spaces Community Rooms Unit Interiors
Overlooking Balconies
Second Floor Access Public
Public, Semi-Private Private, Semi-Public Private
North Village is designed to encourage residents to congregate and spend time together. Units are arranged around a circulation core that doubles as a band of community space. This band includes a series of glazed winter gardens in addition to shared living, dining, and coworking spaces. Interactions continue in the Jarvis Backyard on the south site.
Type 1
Four per module, two accessible 880 SF
2 Bed, 1.5 Bath
Type 2 Street-Facing
Two per module
850 SF
2 Bed, 1.5 Bath
Type 2 Backyard-Facing
Two per module
845 SF
2 Bed, 1.5 Bath
Program Key
Living/Kitchen/Dining
Bedroom
Bathroom
Closet
Type 3 Street-Facing
Two per module
1,240 SF
3 Bed, 2 Bath
Type 3 Backyard-Facing
Two per module
1,000 SF
3 Bed, 2 Bath
In adhering with the single-stair module guidelines, units can only be accessible by the public stair up to the third floor. As a result, units at the third floor are duplexes with private staircases to the fourth floor.
Design Studio Abroad
Professor Romina Marta Canna
Fall 2022
Segovia, Spain traces its roots to the Roman Empire. This studio got students immersed in the history of the walled city alongside the techniques of wood construction. A series of group assignments began with a case study of a wood pavilion, followed by the site analysis of a plaza in Old Segovia, and finally the adaptation of the original case study. The final design made of use the original materials to create a new pavilion intervention that could fit the chosen plaza with a new, relevant program.
In collaboration with Paul Kwon, Cassian Otfinowski, and Stephanie Vojvodich
The Forum Pavilion was designed by Giona Bierens de Haan for the Visions du Réel film festival. It was a temporary installation in Nyon, Switzerland in 2019. The pavilion was built from repeated wooden frames covered in polycarbonate. A series of doors are the entries that also aerate the lecture space. A 1:32 complete model and a 1:4 sectional model display the original construction of the pavilion. 1:32 Complete Model
Plaza de Guevara is centrally located in Old Segovia. The Plaza is divided into two parts, one that is stone-paved and one that is grassed over. The area is surrounded by quiet commercial space and homes. Despite its prime location and available open space, it is not a place where people spend much time.
The interesting aspect of this site remains a secret. Below the Plaza lie ruins of the ancient Roman Forum of Segovia. These ruins were excavated in the 1990s but have since been covered up. Chains on site indicate the extents of the original archaeological digs.
Vehicular Circulation
Pedestrian Circulation
With this newfound knowledge, the pavilion intervention at Plaza de Guevara would introduce a program meant to reveal the ruins below.
SPLITTING The Pavilion Between Two Sites
TRANSFORMING To Create Viewports 3 ORIENTING To Align with Old Segovia and the Roman Grid
The Fourm Pavilion intervention operates at both the ground and underground levels. At the ground level, visitors are able to operate viewports that provide glimpses of the ruins below. Viewports are organized to maximize views to ruins below while retaining desire paths across the site. The larger structure serves as the information center. Visitors may proceed down the staircase to learn about Segvoia’s history and then follow pathways that traverse ruins and column footings.
Sustainable Design x Community Studio
Professor Alpha Arsano Fall 2024
The Boston Ethiopian Evangelical Church resides on busy Washington Street in Roxbury. The community currently worships in a one-story building that was previously an auto-body shop. From the street, the building is an unsuspecting house of worship save a cross above the door. An initial community engagement workshop held at the church brought to light the issues members have with their current space, as well as ideas about how they see their building changing and growing to accommodate future activities. Based on community feedback, this design proposal aims to enhance the sacred nature of the church while maintaining a majority of the existing structure and building systems.
In collaboration with Madelyn Mackey
Double height spaces and access to natural light add a level of grandeur to existing spaces such as the santuary and the fellowship room. The bones of the facade are maintained and enhanced with the addition of large windows and a steeple.
The sanctuary features a mezzanine level and a choir. A gym supports childrens’ recreation.
The chapel is upstairs to address an existing acoustical issue. Added classrooms support a growing childrens’ constituecy.
Illustrated Emotions in Terezín’s
Secret Synagogue
Gideon Klein Project May 2022 - March 2023
Artur Berlinger was incarcerated in the Terezín ghetto from 1941-1943. During this time he combined his experience as a religious leader and an artist to transform an old storage room into a secret prayer room for his fellow Jewish inmates. This space provided inmates some consolation through prayer during this dark time. The emotions of the space’s users are visible in the words of scripture that Berlinger encapsulated in his murals. Severe flooding at the turn of the century served as the inspiration to display this space in its original condition digitally, therefore restoring it and preserving it for generatons to come.
Research assisted by Elena Mercurio Project funded by the Holocaust Legacy Foundation/ Northeastern Jewish Studies
1941
Terezín, a fortress town in the Czech Republic is converted into a Ghetto by the Germans.
1989
At the end of the Cold War, František Bubák, the owner of the property, began charging admission to visit the Secret Synagoue behind his house.
The Secret Synagogue is virtually entirely unknown by the public.
1942-1944
Artur Berlinger is sent to Terezín and creates the Secret Synagogue. He serves as its religious leader for two years until he is sent to and perishes in Auschwitz.
May
Berlinger’s Baum, visits and ties the style
The Secret Synagogue suffers significant damage as a result of severe flooding across Central Europe.
Documentation involves taking measurments and photographs for the creation of a digital walkthrough presentation.
The Secret Synagogue is part of the Terezín Memorial tour.
Berlinger’s daughter, Rosie visits the Synagogue the mural calligraphy style to her father.
A restoration project is led by the US Commission for the Preservation of Amerca’s Heritage Abroad.
The illustrated floor plan was created following the visit to the site. It demonstrates the space’s simple geometry with a regular series of columns and bays. Sketch produced by EM.
A view of the west wall, in front of the entrance. The words of these texts are a plea from the divine for help and to be saved.
A view of the north wall. It is the focal point when entering the space. It is bearing a message of hope for the return to Zion.
“KNOW BEFORE WHOM
The research findings for this project were featured during Northeastern findings have been published in University news and student journals.
Northeastern University’s Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week 2023. Project journals. Intricate painting inside the physical model was completed by EM.
