Portfolio 2018

Effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the polymer matrix of fibre-reinforced composites is challenging due to the reagglomeration and filtration of CNTs that occur during the processing of composite materials. In this study, resin film infusion (RFI) process is used for manufacturing

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Effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the polymer matrix of fibrereinforced composites is challenging due to the re-agglomeration and filtration of CNTs that occur during the processing of composite materials. In this study, resin film infusion (RFI) process is used for manufacturing composite laminates and investigating the degradation of CNT dispersion during high-temperature processing of a thermoset fibre-reinforced composite. Dispersion stability is investigated by studying the re-agglomeration of CNTs in the resin caused by variations in resin physiochemical properties. Filtration of CNTs by fibre tows is studied by investigating two layup strategies. The effect of CNT dispersion on the mechanical and electrical properties of composites is evaluated by performing compression-after-impact experiments and electrical conductivity measurements.

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B ARCHITECTURE.JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY YEAR FOUR.2014-2019 Architecture gives us the ability to creatively bring positive change in this world through the built environment.

The experience and knowledge I have gained throughout my schooling serves as a foundation of techniques and skills which actively contribute to the designs which have been presented in this portfolio.

The projects within showcase a range of scales, programs, and audiences, all set on an existing site allowing me to work with a real context and environment. Due to this, each project began with a thorough site analysis allowing for the development of the projects to be sensitive to social, cultural, and economic characteristics of the areas.

Some interests and activities I participate in outside of architecture are: TEACHING ASSISTANT.JEFFERSON OFFICE ASSISTANT.COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ADMISSIONS AMBASSADOR.JEFFERSON RESIDENCE ASSISTANT.JEFFERSON PUBLICITY CHAIR.ACTIVE MINDS NATIONAL SOCIETY OF LEADERSHIP AND SUCCESS HONORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER.JEFFERSON

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FALL 2016 | 1936 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA

Effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the polymer matrix of fibre-reinforced composites is challenging due to the reagglomeration and filtration of CNTs that occur during the processing of composite materials. In this study, resin film infusion (RFI) process is used for manufacturing

HA0 RD 1 I. ST H I TAL HE

PROGRAM Site

Effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the polymer matrix of fibrereinforced composites is challenging due to the re-agglomeration and filtration of CNTs that occur during the processing of composite materials. In this study, resin film infusion (RFI) process is used for manufacturing composite laminates and investigating the degradation of CNT dispersion during high-temperature processing of a thermoset fibre-reinforced composite. Dispersion stability is investigated by studying the re-agglomeration of CNTs in the resin caused by variations in resin physiochemical properties. Filtration of CNTs by fibre tows is studied by investigating two layup strategies. The effect of CNT dispersion on the mechanical and electrical properties of composites is evaluated by performing compression-after-impact experiments and electrical conductivity measurements.

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SPRING2017.THE WILLIAMSBURG VILLAGE

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CENTER FALL 2016 | 1936 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA

Effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the polymer matrix of fibre-reinforced composites is challenging due to the reagglomeration and filtration of CNTs that occur during the processing of composite materials. In this study, resin film infusion (RFI) process is used for manufacturing

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Effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the polymer matrix of fibrereinforced composites is challenging due to the re-agglomeration and filtration of CNTs that occur during the processing of composite materials. In this study, resin film infusion (RFI) process is used for manufacturing composite laminates and investigating the degradation of CNT dispersion during high-temperature processing of a thermoset fibre-reinforced composite. Dispersion stability is investigated by studying the re-agglomeration of CNTs in the resin caused by variations in resin physiochemical properties. Filtration of CNTs by fibre tows is studied by investigating two layup strategies. The effect of CNT dispersion on the mechanical and electrical properties of composites is evaluated by performing compression-after-impact experiments and electrical conductivity measurements.

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SPRING 2017 | 70- 102 Quay Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

01.THE WILLIAMSBURG VILLAGE

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Much of Williamsburg’s culture rests within streets such as Bedford and Manhattan Avenue through the small family businesses and shops. These families also utilize the Bushwick Inlet Park as a form of recreation. Recognizing the importance of this park’s presence, the city has prepared plans to enlarge it.

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Working alongside the city’s plans to extend the existing Bushwick Inlet Park within the next 30 years, this building would become a crucial addition. The Williamsburg Village would strive to preserve the culture of the residents, encourage retail, provide a much needed mode of futuristic transport, as well as integrate itself with the park as an extension and concluding point. cadmapper.com file 14a74fe4-28af-4e5b-bfbd-2cc111b5e39c

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70- 102 Quay Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Williamsburg’s future is predictably advanced with the rise in land value and repurposing of the existing buildings currently nurturing the small family owned businesses and retail. As these smaller businesses begin to dwindle in number due to the introduction of larger commercial chains and high rises due to the rise in land value, the neighborhood will go through a cultural reform and gentrification as it has done so in the past. Providing an affordable hub for these intimate family businesses to grow and recreate the culture of Williamsburg allows the area to preserve a piece of the past within the future development of the area.

In the future of 2050, due to the rise in water level, transport via water taxi will become prominent and so providing an area in the complex for people to arrive and experience the culture of Williamsburg as it was years ago becomes another goal for this project. This nexus will combine the future of Williamsburg’s needs for transport, residence, and cultural preservation as well as facilitate its continuous evolution.

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Visitors can access the retail area easily via the park, the street, or the transit corridor allowing for ample revenue opportunity for the shops.

As visitors wait for the transit to arrive and dock, they can opt to store their luggage and explore the retail and recreation offered by the Williamsburg Village or freshen up and wait in the lounges.

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The families that reside in the Village are given the opportunity to rebuild the intimacy of their small businesses in the retail space. Each owner would bring their unique touch to the space recreating the beauty that lines the streets today, in the future.

SPRING 2017 | 70- 102 Quay Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Residents are encouraged to express themselves and bring diversity to the residential blocks as well.

The design allows for a dynamic interaction between the four core aspects of the program: retail, residential, recreational, and transit. As the section depicts, the retail connects the street level on the northern side of the Village to the park on the south, ultimately connecting it to the Bushwick Inlet Park.

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As visitors walk through the retail space, they would be walking through a preserved piece of Williamsburg’s past.

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The transit flows between the retail and park until it arrives at the atrium where residents can access the private residences via a carded elevator. Circulation within the width of the retail space allows for the permeability of the strong length of the Village.

As the arrows describe, the audience may flow through these adjacent programs with ease allowing for a constant flux of visitors and travelers whether they arrived from the transit, street level, or park.

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SPRING 2017 | 70- 102 Quay Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

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FALL 2017 | The Wissahickon Gateway, Philadelphia, PA

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The three- laned bus station serves to organize the incoming bus traffic. The three lanes correspond to three different waiting times: “drive- through”s, buses which need up to 30 minutes of waiting time, and buses which require 30+ minutes of parked waiting time. This is made to accomodate for the predicted increase in density of buses at this station.

02.THE WISSAHICKON C A N O P Y WA L K SEPTA TRANSIT CENTER The Wissahickon Gateway Philadelphia, PA

This dynamic transit center connects residents and commuters from surrounding communities to public recreational areas along the Schylkill River such as the Canoe Club and more to develop in the future. It improves the transit conditions on the site by reducing congestion and organizing the different modes of transport into different layers. The reduction of black top and introduction of permeable surfaces improve environment quality with sustainable design.

The form of the “Pods” mimick the trees on the cliff and surrounding landscape bridging the fracture caused by the roadway in the site.It creates an extension of the dense foliage present on the cliff towards the dense foliage at the edge of the river.

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The experience that the center provides will increase value of the site by providing more public amenities. This results in an activation of the area by the users which would encourage future residential and commercial development It will also improve the ecology of the rivers by preserving, protecting, and celebrating the waterfront by providing public community spaces with a wealth of views.

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FALL 2017 | The Wissahickon Gateway, Philadelphia, PA

Translucent Roof Paneling Placed in between the voronoi structural steel members

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Voronoi Patterns Utilized Three different patterns were utilized in the roof structure to provide the randomized effect as one walks through or under the bridge. The diagram depicts the abstraction of a tree canopy into the voronoi patterned roof structure.

Steel Members Arranged in a tree-like load bearing system

Spider Clip Glass Fittings Assembled with tension cables and aluminum mullions

Floor Assembly Steel plated concrete slab floor with channel to grasp glass

Steel Members Arranged in a voronoi structural pattern

Steel Members Arranged in a tree-like load bearing system

Steel Column A 5’ diameter steel column to assist in transferring loads to the ground

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Restaurant Pop- up shops Buffer & Trenches for Stormwater Mgmt Waiting Area (for train passengers) Drop Off Zone (Cars & Buses) Pharmacy/ Grocery Smaller Cafes Waiting Area (for bus passengers) Library

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FALL 2017 | The Wissahickon Gateway, Philadelphia, PA

Perspective 1 As one approaches the station from the direction of the road, users can choose to walk to any of the three lanes of buses via the crosswalks between them underneath the canopy walk bridge. As they traverse through the circulation underneath, they are able to experience the height, the large structural “branches”, the 5’ wide columns holding up the structure, and the randomized voronoi structure underneath each of the pods

Perspective 2 As users walk towards the buses from the bus stop, they can see the voronoi structure that allows the pods to be elevated and to mimick the random nature and structure of trees. Due to the glazing in the structure, users can also see the tree-like structure within the pod from the ground plane.

The structure is modeled after the form and load transfering characteristics of a tree.

Perspective 3 As one walks through the bridge, views through the pods can be achieved through the usage of clear glazing. The perforations in the thin roof structure mimick the filtration of light through leaves due to the randomization of the voronoi patterns. Trees populate the area around the structure allowing visitors to peer through the leaves towards the rest of the site.

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FALL 2016 | 1936 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA

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Individuals with mental developmental disorders experience spaces in a literal way due to their heightented stimulus.

To soften their experience, there is a combination of natural materials and light with a flexibility of spatial choices as well as a direct circulation path softened by the addition of curves to create a gentle transition from their literal perception to a tempered experience.

Tower- like structures were placed in a pattern which would give way to the winding pathway which characterizes the gentleness of the circulation within this facility in the bustling city.

The slim, rectangular outline of the site gives way to the formation of these ‘safe zones’ by ‘cutting through the columnar structures as depicted in the parti above.

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03.GENTLE MEANDERINGS ART THERAPY CENTER 1936 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA

The goal of this design is to allow the city of Philadelphia to gain and spread awareness of the increasing number of city children struggling with mental developmental disorders through the introduction of art therapy.

The aspirations for this center are to reach a helping hand out to the families of the diagnosed children through the successful collaboration of professional therapeutic, artistic, and educational organizations.

Many existing organizations which dedicate their time and resources to help these children do not have a physical presence in the city of Philadelphia. Given the size and prominence of the city, this center will aid these entities by serving as a hub for their activities and seminars.

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This configuration hence serves to create both protected and warm circulation as well as private, enclosed spaces.

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SPRING 2016 | Blue Bell Park, 842 W Walnut Lane, Philadelphia, PA

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The topography and current drainage pattern gave rise to the inspiration for the form of the center and provided some form of organization while designing such a free and limitless site and concept.

The pieces of the program were then arranged along this line structure keeping in mind program adjacencies and sequence.

04.GLACIAL FRACTURE ZONE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER

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The site’s specific geological form resembled the aftermath of glacial movement. Due to this, the topic of envIronmental education that was chosen was erosion through the medium of ice.

Children would be taught about the erosion of land via not rain, but glacial movement. To add depth to the program and purpose of the center, awareness of climate change was also included as a major topic in the derivation of form as well as function. Visitors would be able to browse through the exhibition spaces and explore the effects of global climate change on our glaciers.

The ‘fracture zone’ is the home to the effects of glacial movement such as crevasses, seracs, and ice caves which are cracks and peaks in the mass of the glacier. This facility itself was designed to embody this form of glacial ice breaking apart at this zone.

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Crevasses and ice caves are created within this man-made glacier by creating voids in the floors and ceilings sealed with glass giving the impression of a split in the building.

The purpose of the blue- green polycarbonate panels and glass is to filter a cool, blue colored light to mimic the same lighting phenomena within a glacier.

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SPRING 2015 | Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA

By incorporating the core concepts of the unique elliptical circulation as well as the intricate woodwork or the Berkowitz- Odgis house within the visitors center, an experiential connection was created between the two buildings.

Visual connections were formed through the utilization of balconies and picture windows to bridge the physical distance.

05.BERKOWITZ ODGIS RESIDENCE CASE STUDY & VISITORS CENTER Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts, USA

As an introduction to architecture in the built form, we were guided through a case study of an existing residence, in this case the Berkowitz- Odgis house by Steven Holl. The study involved drafting base drawings and constructing an 1/8th scale bass- wood model. Thereafter, we conducted an analysis of the concepts and materials utilized in the original house to design an appropriate visitor’s center.

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We began by analyzing the transportation flux, acoustics, building heights and types, type of public (residential or commercial), and noticeable billboards and signs we noticed as we walked through our transect.

Once we did this, we noticed that we had two different experiences: physical and visual.

One is governed by the determined path and the other by the path our mind is taken on due to the stimuli present in the environment.

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EW Transect - Cherry & Arch St Philadelphia, PA

While roaming through the site, we came to the realization that our eyes were drawn to visual attention shifted across specific buildings, signs, and objects more than others. Therefore, we decided to document study the city based on our sightlines with a focus and what stood out the most in our visual perception, to us as opposed to more comprehensively examine all physical factors.

From our observations, we established a hierarchy of these entities and formed for a series of “nodes� across the site based on their height, distance, and the side of the street on which they were located. Further exploration into our topic of study led us to discover that there were certain interruptions in our sightline that caused us to shift our focus from far to near or from high to low.

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The goal of this exercise was to be able to distinguish between a physical journey through the city and a visual, experiential journey through the same.

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Facilities which provide rehabilitation services such as M-Line Recovery are sparse in this neighborhood. The stroke victims are treated by the only hospital in Bushwick but are recommended to go elsewhere to seek out physical therapy for recovery. Having easy access within the neighborhood is vital for stroke victims as loss of muscular control is a common after effect.

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With the physical therapy treatments, stroke survivors will have the chance to improve the motor and sensory impairments through exercises programs and strategies. With this outpatient focused facility, patients are motivated to come back because of the high tech equipment that can accelerate the recovery process by 10 times.

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07.M-LINE RECOVERY PHYSICAL THERAPY CENTER 1480 Myrtle Avenue Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

The unique character and location of this site allows us to create a physical therapy center for stroke survivors amidst a high profile, industrial neighborhood with an angled circulation mimicking the prominent geometry of the site.

Lifting the volume of the embedded circulation and main therapy space allows us to incorporate a clerestory along the Southeast direction of the building, creating a passive solar heating and daylighting strategy.

Incorporting horizontal louvers allow us to regulate privacy and daylight as the respective program specifies.

Industrial materials were chosen for this building due to the industrial characteristic of the distinguishable M- line subway.

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Main Program Space - featuring futuristic physical therapy equipment

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A stroke can cause five types of disabilities such as; paralysis or problems controlling movement, sensory disturbances including pain, problems using or understanding language, problems with thinking and memory, and emotional disturbances.

Futuristic equipment such as zero gravity treadmills that hold the patient comfortaly over a moving surface to practice moving muscles without too much pain are all incorporated in the center. Virtual Reality systems that allow the survivor to move in a number of ways with different scenes and scenarios around them are another revolutionary step towards advancement of physical therapy. All of these methods coupled with traditional methods such as resistance band training and light weights 39

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FALL 2016 | 1936 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA