2024 Architecture Portfolio

01

Trail of Gardens

Studio Project

Menil Campus Houston, TX ARCH 2501 Spring 2021

02

Waves of Brady

Studio Project

Brady Island Houston, TX ARCH 3500 Fall 2022

03

Bellaire Music Center

Studio Project

Bellaire Houston, TX ARCH 4510 Fall 2023

04

Spiral Evolution

Selected Works

ARCH 2331 Fall 2022

05

Boolean Forms

Selected Works

ARCH 1500 Fall 2020

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Trail of Gardens

Menil Campus Houston, TX

Public Center that joins a coffee shop, a bookstore, a dormitory, tennis courts and a locker room in one location.

Trail of Gardens is Located across from the Menil Drawing Institute. This center houses indoor tennis courts, a dormitory, a bookstore, and a coffee shop. The programs are in separate buildings, but are connected by a path that runs in between the buildings that also connects Loretto Street and Colquitt Street. There is also a ramp that weaves through all the buildings rooftops. The ramp provides a path to utilize the top of the buildings without ever needing to enter them.

ARCH 2501

Spring 2021

Programs used: Rhino 3D, Adobe illustrator

At the top of the buildings there are public garden spaces that create a nice landscape to walk through, and infront of the tennis courts, on top of the locker rooms there is a sitting area for people who want to watch the tennis matches. The building was placed around the trees at the front of the site to conserve them. The ramp is used to create a path to connect W Main Street and Colquitt Street

Bookstore

Coffeeshop Locker

Viewers

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 1

SITE PLAN

Waves of Brady

Brady Island

Houston, TX

A Self recycling island that combines a plant based restaurant and a composting center with community centers placed in between buildings all connected by a waving roof

I divided the Island into 2 different parts, the top portion is dedicated to the building itself so that the restaurant and community spaces get a view of the waterfront, and the bottom portion is dedicated to the composting rows. The separate pedestrian bridge was added for acces to the restaurant, and the visitors area for the compost center and the plaza areas. All the composting trucks and materials would go through the original cypress street to keep traffic separated.

ARCH 3500

Fall 2022

Programs used:

Rhino 3D, Adobe illustrator, D5

Design Breakdown

The Final Design... uses a hybrid system of Cross Laminated Timber and Cold Form Steel. The building has some rooms that the walls and columns extend to the cuved roof to create lighting inside. The curved roof is made up of glulam beams and has solar panel glass to collect sunlight to power the island.

Step 1: Volume located on top part of the island

Step 2: Volume broken up into 3 major program spaces; restaurant, composting center, and bagging area, all separated with the plaza spaces, and raised on stilts to prevent flooding

Step 3: Final touch of adding the curved roof that connects all the spaces together as well as creating shading

NORTHEAST ELEVATION

ISOMETRIC + EXPLODED ROOF

RESTAURANT PHYSICAL MODEL

03

Bellaire Music Center

Bellaire Houston, TX

Repurposing an abandonded Randalls on the busy street of Bellaire for the community.

Our project is based on the idea to create a community music center for this neighborhood of Bellaire. We wanted to create a place for people to be able to go to learn about music and watch performances to cater to this community.

Our Site is located in Bellaire City’s downtown district and is situated at an abandonded supermarket, and we are to tear down the old building, while keeping the bordering wall in tact.

ARCH 4510

Fall 2023

Programs used:

Rhino 3D, Adobe illustrator, V-Ray Group Project with: Jaslyn Tran

3 MASSES CONNECTION FROM BISSONET ST TO BELLAIRE BLVD

ROTATION BASED ON CORE

CONCEPT DIAGRAM

DESIGNING BRICK WALL

FACADE RELATION TO BRICK WALL

Our design of stacking and double skin facade was inspired from The New Art Museum by SANAA in New York. When stacking our building we decided to rotate the 3rd floor along the core so that it could create a cantilever, which would intern also create a terrace space for the 3rd floor.

SITE

The first floor of our building is dedicated to our Lobby so that it lifts up the rest of our building since this site is so susceptible to flooding. Our second floor houses more of our music lessons area as well as a coffee shop and a music store. Our third level is a more open area which houses our exhibition area, as well as our theater space.

STRUCTURE

The Structure Utilizes a steel framing system, as well as concrete cores for the elevator and stair case to help support the canteliever, and a shear wall at the base

BUILDING OBLIQUE

CHUNK MODEL 1/2” SCALE

04

Spiral Evolution

Project starts with a spirograph then evolves three dimensionally.

Using grasshopper I generated a spirograph then made a model with string. Next the spirograph is transformed to create a surface. For the last part, One rotation from the spirograph is altered to form a string model with layers to connect them

ARCH 2331

Fall 2022

Programs used: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, RhinoCam, Adobe illustrator

BASE FORM

LOFT

RIBS

CONTOURS

STRING

Boolean Form

Form made by using voronoi points, and then exploring different materials for final model

After having the original form, I explored different techniques for how to show this form. I combined the layering , wireframe and removed walls technique to explore a different way to show this artifact.

ARCH 1500

Fall 2020

Programs used: Rhino 3D, Adobe illustrator

Iteration 1: layered planes

Iteration 1: Removed walls

Iteration 3: layers + wireframe

Hierarchy