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A collection of works Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, + Preservation Master of Architecture I 2016 - 2019 University of California, Berkeley Bachelor of Arts, Architecture 2011 - 2015
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Leftovers + Sudoku Wanderer In Under On Above The Uncanny Greenpoint Knowledge City
Columbia GSAPP, ADV V Instructed by Tatiana von Preussen + Catherine Pease
Process and temporality. Unlike places like Williamsburg, Mott Haven is tucked within a series of natural boundaries. Often called ‘the last frontier’ for artists, creatives are motivated to move into the nooks and crannies of the city. With the advancement of Frieze Art Fair in the Bronx, Leftovers + reimagines the identity of warehouse living and the idealized artist loft as a formalization of a new type of living and production through the packing of flexible residential units, businesses, production, and exhibation spaces for Mott Haven’s creative community.
Leftovers +
Co-Work Space
Frieze Art Fair
Residential Balcony
Co-Work Space
Ground Floor Market
Co-Living Space
Temporary Artist Housing
Children’s Art Museum
Private Residence
Ground Floor Frieze Plan
SINGLE UNIT ARTIST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
Single Unit Artist Housing
SINGLE UNIT ARTIST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
DOUBLE UNIT ARTIST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
Double Unit Artist Housing
DOUBLE UNIT ARTIST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
Multi-Height Artist Housing
DOUBLE HEIGHT ARTIST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
Mott Haven Catalog
Artist Co-Work Plan
Columbia GSAPP, ADV IV Instructed by Jinhee Park Partnered with Wenjing Zhang
New York City’s housing market is no longer the traditional residential home. The need for a new micro-urbanism newly defines the combination of activities and residential purposes. The contraction and expansion of space and domestic program reconfigures the density and diversity of the Bronx community. A reconfiguration of adjacent surfaces and services combine and multiply uses, transitions, and experiences. The combination of a series of modular ‘programvolumes’ allows for an infinite flexibility as units aggregate to accommodate new types of residents and numbers of members within a residential unit. The architectural necessity for micro-housing repositions the role of basic amenities as adjacency allows for a multitude of users and uses. Sudoku looks to minimize the unused space by contracting public and private circulation with the presence of the unit.
Sudoku
Private Terrace
Private Circulation
Public Circulation
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Unit T-1 Unit T-1 Aggregation Core + Amenity Aggregation Core Circulation
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Unit F1-A Unit F1-B Unit F2 Aggregation of Horizontal Units Vertical Aggregation Core Circulation
Columbia GSAPP, Core 03 Instructed by Stella Betts
The dĂŠrive is a strategy described as a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. The Brooklyn library frames dictated the structure and placement of program. The quality of space led to a proto-building that was based on the act of meandering, where the perception of space is distorted based on a number of intersections, and the ability to wander. The interstitial spaces that are placed in between larger, more open ones. The library is structured by a jagged portion of light that inspired the weaving of a series of inhabitable and programmed bridges that act as the in between space between the sides of the street, as well as a nest between the central program of the library. This breaks up the geometry/grid of the site. The library takes these material studies into an inhabitable scale, and incorporates the changes in perception from the possibilities of moving in around and on top of these bridged structures.
Wanderer
Columbia GSAPP, Core 0I Instructed by Erica Goetz
A study of 14th Street. A series of explorations investigating the nuances of the site. A pier connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, a hinging circulation system at the corner of 14th St. and 7th Avenue, and a proposal for a new L Train station that sculpts light from the subway. Each exploration uncovers a new vision for downtown Manhattan, and makes its user appreciate its quirky qualities just a bit more.
In Under On Above
UC Berkeley, ARCH 100C Instructed by Lisa Iwamoto
Potrero Hill is a bustling San Francisco community located on a hilly site surrounded by narrow family homes. The site stood as an urban landmark that could be integrate the landscaped qualities of the neighborhood. A tri-layering system emerged through analyzing the relationships between the uneven ground, the roofs of houses, and the offset of telephone lines. The library serves as an information hub and place of collaboration, forming a large open public space that is open and lit around the clock. The library contains three distinctly different experiential qualities of space including: a floating reading center, a central open courtyard that connects the front street to the adjacent backyard, and an underground research area.
Trifecta Experiement
Columbia GSAPP, Adv. Technology Instructed by Robert Marino Partnered with Monica Wojnowiak, Cynthia Wang, + Elizabeth Daddazio
The Uncanny
Columbia GSAPP, Architectural Technology IV Partnered with Emily Po, Sun Lee, + Cynthia Wang
Greenpoint Theater
Columbia GSAPP, ADV IV Instructed by Nahyun Hwang Partnered with Kevin Pham
Architecture of education plays an important role in sites of indeterminacy of environmental and social precarity as drivers for a new Knowledge City. The research challenges ideals of interior urbanism as it relates to new values of collectivity and knowledge production for the sake of education today. The studio engages rising sea levels, political unrest, and sites of inventive agendas as a way to address the need for a new type of campus and reprogramming for the collective of New York City as a whole.
Knowledge City
Assembly Hall + Law School
Primary Education + Co-Work / Co-Live
Public Library + Archives
Conference Building + Journalism School