1. Competition Entry: Tiny Kiwi Meditation Cabin
2. Visualizing Information: Fountain Feature
3. Planning a Conference: HOPES[24]
4. Furniture, Collages, and Model Making
5. Working Drawings Studio contents
Location: New Zealand
June 2021
Working with my teammates, Gianna Prather and Nathan Leigh, we submitted this proposal to a BeeBreeders competition that called for a meditation cabin design at a wellness center in New Zealand. Our design offers multiple spaces for meditation, each with its own atmosphere: in the room, on the roof, or outside in a sacred space surrounded by trees. Meditation is about connecting to the energies within you and relaxing into a state of absolute comfort. Our proposal emphasizes a transition from movement to stillness.
Path leading from main residence to the meditation cabin.
Site map 1:500
Location: Santa Ana, CA
Project Type: Residential
Part of a major renovation to a home in Orange County, my task for this residential project was to organize information regarding a fountain in the front yard. The clients had the materials and roughly knew the size. I helped by producing graphics that synthesized this information and explored the fountain’s detailing.
Opposite:
(1) The inspiration for this project, the clients wanted to replicate this fountain for their front yard.
(2) The material palette AKA the pieces of the puzzle. Selected materials included Arto Artillo bricks and custom-colored tiles from Malibu Ceramic Works.
(3) A Photoshop sketch of the entry to the home.
(4) A full-scale mock-up of the fountain I built using cardboard and duct tape with the tile pattern printed on paper. I brought this model to a meeting with the client and contractors. It was amazing to watch how they interacted with the model and discuss how to actually build the fountain. Transforming 2D drawings into a 3D object quickly clarified to the construction crew what the client and architect envisioned for the space and, consequently, streamlined the building process.
Location: Eugene, OR University of Oregon
The HOPES Conference (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability) is an annual design conference at the University of Oregon established by students and ran by students. Each year, we invite professionals, leaders, and activists to discuss sustainable solutions for contemporary issues.
For its 24th year, I was part of the leadership team in which I collaborated with my peers to plan, budget, and facilitate a four-day conference.
I created these posters advertising the guest speakers’ talks. Lecture topics included the intersection of science and graphic design, contemporary Native American architecture in the Midwest, and sustainable funerary architecture.
Top: a banner expressing our theme, “Unbuilt.”
Bottom: the four-day schedule of lectures, workshops, and panel discussions.
Moments from the HOPES[24] conference.
Building pieces of furniture and modeling objects are ways I study how something exists in space.
These projects taught me how a part shapes the whole system and, simultaneously, how the system shapes the individual parts.
Grocery Store Valley-like aisles, socially isolating
An Imagined Landscape What is the ideal grocery shopping experience?
Collages studying the architecture of grocery stores.
Santa Ana, California
Opposite:
(1) The fantastic result of a group charrette where we built a piece of furniture out of miscellaneous scrap parts in an hour.
(2) Me relieved to discover that our DIY chair is structurally sound.
(3) In the woodshop working on the ash wood bench project.
(4) Sanding down pieces to my bench.
(5) Laser-cut models of Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 at a scale of 3:1.
SUPERFICIAL RECESSED PRONOUNCED
Initial 3D models of a backyard fountain feature.
Refined design ready for client’s review. TOP VIEW
Location: Springfield, OR University of Oregon
In this interior architecture studio, I learned the language for describing how to remove existing structures, build new ones, detail connections, and specify furniture and finishes.
The brief for the project was to transform a retail space in Springfield, Oregon into a restaurant specializing in fermented foods. I designed the restaurant as a shrub bar and sandwich shop and included a teaching kitchen for cooking classes. The following are sheets from my drawing set.
L-2 COOPER, L808 TRACK LIGHTING
L-3 COOPER, P532ICAT DIRCTIONAL
L-4 COOPER, PS519143EN LAMP
SCHOOLHOUSE
/ # DESCRIPTION DIMENSION FL-1 DINESEN, LNATURAL OIL TREATMENT TREATMENT FOR (E) DOUGLAS FIR WOOD FLOORS -
FL-2 DALTILE, QH63 3 X 3 SQUARE FIELD TILE 3" X 3"
WB-1 JOHNSONITE, TSB-XXXX-4 RUBBER WALL BASE 4" HEIGHT
WT-1 FIRECLAY TILE SQUARE TILE APPLIED TO FRONT OF CSWK 3" X 3"
CT-1 CAESARSTONE, 1141 COUNTERTOP FOR CSWK THICKNESS: 3/4"
CT-2 MOTT, 304 STAINLESS STEEL COUNTERTOP THICKNESS: 3/4"
PL-1 FORMICA, 204 PLASTIC LAMINATE FOR CSWK AND BANQUET -
PL-2 FORMICA, 459 PLASTIC LAMINATE FOR CSWK -
PAN-1 3FORM, CHROMA G15 DECORATIVE PANEL BEHIND CSWK 1/2" GAUGES
WDCLNG-1 PLYBOO, LS12F LINEAR SOUND PANEL 3/4" X 47-3/4" X 95-3/4"
PT-1 DUNN EDWARDS WALL COLOR -
PT-2 DUNN EDWARDS ACCENT COLOR -
MT-1 FASTENAL METAL FOR CSWK 1" X "1 SQUARE TUBE
FB-1 KVADRAT, 982 BANQUET UPHOLSTERY -
FINISH LYE & NATURAL OIL PERAL WHITE HARBOUR WHITE WASH, GYPSUM, ST. ALBAN BLUE PURE WHITE STAINLESS STEEL BUTCHERBLOCK MAPLE, MATTE 58 BRITE WHITE ALOE FOG DEW380, SEMI-GLOS BLACK TIE, DE6357 POWDER COATED WHITE BALDER 3
MANUFACTURER / # DESCRIPTION DIMENSION (IN.) FINISH QTY.
FIX-1 KOHLER, K-20060-3 TOP-MOUNT KITCHEN SINK 33" X 22" X 14-11/16" STAINLESS STEEL 3
FIX-2 KOHLER, K-77515-CP KITCHEN SINK FAUCET 4-7/8" X 24-9/16" X 10" POLISHED CHROME 3
FIX-3 WS BATH COLLECTIONS, SIMPLE 60.50A WALL-MOUNT SINK, ADA COMPLIANT 23.6" X 19.7" X 6.3" WHITE CERAMIC 2
FIX-4 AMERICAN STANDARD, 775B.303 RESTROOM SINK FAUCET 5-3/4" X 1-7/8" POLISHED CHROME 2
FIX-5 TOTO, CT705ELN(G) ADA RESTROOM TOILET 30-3/4" X 28-3/4" X 17-5/8" CERAMIC, CeFiONtect GLAZE 2
FIX-6 ULINE, H-1131SM 8" MANUAL PAPER TOWEL DISPENSER 13" X 14" X 10" - 2
FIX-7 BOBRICK, B-2888 SURFACE-MOUNTED TOILET TISSUE DISPENSAR 6-1/16" X 11" X 5-15/16" SATIN-FINISH STAINLESS STEEL 2
FIX-8 BOBRICK, B-270 SUFRACE-MOUNTED SANITARY NAPKIN DISPOSAL 10" X 7-1/2" X 3-13/16" SATIN-FINISH STAINLESS STEEL 2
FIX-9 KOHLER, K-14562 GRAB BAR 36", 1.5" DIAMETER BRUSHED STAINLESS 4
FIX-10 KOHLER, K-14561 GRAB BAR 18", 1.5" DIAMETER BRUSHED STAINLESS 2 ROOM
SHRUB BAR 105, KITCHEN 111
SHRUB BAR 105, KITCHEN 111 ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110
ADA RR'S 109 & 110