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[ Intro ] Biography

BIOGRAPHY

[ School ] Univ. of Oregon [ Degree ] B.Arch I am a recent architecture graduate whose design perspective has been strongly shaped by studying in the Pacific Northwest. The culture here has taught me to think about architecture as something deeply connected to place, landscape, material, and community. Surrounded by dense forests, rain, rivers, mountains, and cities that value craft and environmental awareness, I approach design with a grounded, place-based mindset. I am drawn to spaces that feel grounded in their surroundings and responsive to the people who use them. My work is centered on architecturally expressive structural systems, where structure becomes more than a means of support. I am interested in how structural rhythm, material choices, and construction details can shape

a space’s atmosphere and become part of a project’s identity. My passion for materiality plays a large role in this interest, especially through the materials themselves. Each carries its own weight, texture, logic, and presence, and I am drawn to how these qualities can shape the way a building is experienced. Rather than treating structure as something hidden, I see it as a design tool that can frame views, guide movement, create texture, and reveal how a building is made. Across my portfolio, I explore architecture that is grounded, responsive, and human-centered, with an interest in creating spaces that feel connected to their context and meaningful to the people who inhabit them.

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[ Studio ] Lowell Community Hall & Pavilion

Lowell Community Hall & Pavilion

[ Site ] Lowell, OR [ Term ] Fall 2023 *comended pass [ Professor ] Jim Givens

Located along Dexter Reservoir in Lowell State Park, the community hall and pavilion are designed to serve two primary user groups equally: everyday park users and the local community, and the national regatta crowd that gathers at the reservoir each spring. The design responds to these contrasting patterns of use by creating spaces that feel comfortable at a daily, community

scale while remaining flexible enough to support the larger crowds and activity of regatta season. Constructed from mass timber, each of the two buildings on site explores a distinct strategy for expressive structure and environmental response, reinforcing the project’s connection to the Pacific Northwest while creating a year-round gathering place shaped by both community life and seasonal events.

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[ View ] Community Hall, Auditorium

[ View ] Pavilion, SW site edge facing NE

[ Studio ] Lowell Community Hall & Pavilion

[ Level ] Mezzanine

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PDX Hybrid District

[ Site ] Pearl District, Portland, OR [ Term ] Fall 2024 [ Professor ] Sebastian Guivernau

The rise of remote and hybrid work has fundamentally altered daily life in American cities. As fewer people commute to centralized offices, downtown districts—once defined by workday intensity—now struggle to support everyday life. In Portland, this shift has left commercial space underutilized while demand for neighborhoods that prioritize access, proximity, and community continues to increase. Walkable, mixed-use environments offer a critical response. Pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods reduce car dependency, support local economies, and foster social interaction by bringing daily necessities within a short walk. For families, walkability is especially vital, transforming streets into safe, active public spaces that support routine life beyond the home.

This project responds by proposing a hybrid mixed-use building that combines a street-level grocery store with family residential units above. By anchoring daily necessities within walking distance, the project strengthens pedestrian activity, supports local economies, and reimagines downtown as a place to live, not just work. In the short term, the building activates the street and increases foot traffic. In the long term, it serves as a model for adaptive urban redevelopment, repositioning downtown Portland as a resilient, livable, and community-centered environment.

[ Studio ] PDX Hybrid District

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[ Studio ] PDX Hybrid District

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[ Interrior Perspective ] Standard KItchen/Living space

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Where Ideas Wait

[ Site ] Location Unknown [ Term ] Spring 2025 [ Professor ] William Smith

[ 1. ] Amid the confusion, a distant light calls you closer.

ARCH 432: Media Design Development explored architectural representation as both a design tool and a storytelling medium. Through a series of digital studies, the course focused on developing atmosphere, composition, material expression, and narrative through rendering and image-making, emphasizing how visual media can communicate architectural ideas beyond conventional documentation.

[ 2. ] Everything has its place here, though you cannot shake the feeling that you were never meant to enter.

[ Media Class ] Media Design Development

[ 3. ] The rigid matrix shifts and fractures, revealing dwellings hidden within.

[ 4. ] A pocket of life hides within the structure, while something more begins to surface above.

[ 5. ] Walls and other surfaces hold the history of who came before, the delegate for urban expression.

[ 6. ] Another is added to the endless catalog; the cycle begins again, each idea waits quietly for its turn to surface.

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Harbor Espresso House Museum Academy & Cafe

[ Site ] Terry Pettus Park, Seattle, WA [ Term ] Summer 2025 [ Professor ] Stephen Duff

Museum Academy Cafe & Retail Entry

Located on the southern edge of Terry Pettus Park in Seattle, Harbor Espresso House brings together cafe culture, education, and exhibition within a single public destination. Home to one of North America’s most extensive collections of antique Italian espresso machines, the project operates as both a working cafe and a cultural center dedicated to the history, craft, and continued evolution of espresso. The program is organized into three primary elements: Museum, Cafe, and Academy. The e Academy sits above the cafe and retail space, e, forming a two-story volume that connects to a visually contrasting three-story museum. Their eir intersection establishes the primary street-level vel entrance, while the stepped massing creates an active outdoor deck above the cafe and retail tail spaces.

Together, these spaces support exhibition, training, research, retail, and gathering, allowing visitors to engage with the full coffee value chain while experiencing the project as both an educational institution and a social destination.

[ Studio ] Harbor Espresso House

17 [ Elevation ] North Longitudinal

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[ Window Detail ] Head

[ Window Detail ] Jambs

[ Window Detail ] Sill

[ Studio ] Harbor Espresso House

[ Elevation ] South Longitudinal

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[ Perspective ] Harbor View Exhibit

[ Studio ] Harbor Espresso House

[ Perspective ] Gran Bar and Academy

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Timber Tectonics in the Digital Age

[ Site ] Tualatin Riverfront Park, Tualatin, OR [ Term ] Fall 2025 [ Professor ] Nancy Cheng, UO [ Professor ] Mariapaola Riggio, OSU

Developed as a studio-wide collaborative design-build project, the proposal for Tualatin Riverfront Park explores a reusable kit-of-parts system constructed entirely from plywood reclaimed from the 2024 Timber Tectonics studio. Working exclusively with this limited material supply added a design constraint, requiring the system to maximize efficiency, adaptability, and reuse.

The system was developed at multiple scales, beginning with a series of small portal structures intended to mark entrances and exits throughout the park. The team built one portal at full scale. The full proposal expands that structural language into two larger sibling structures, providing about 2,000 square feet of gathering space near the Juanita Pohl Center and the future boat launch.

Students were also restricted to wooden connections, with metal fasteners prohibited. This pushed the design to rely on material behavior, joinery, and repeatable structural components as both a construction method and an architectural expression. My primary role within the larger collaboration was on the connection design team, where I helped develop the joinery that made the kit-of-parts system possible.

Shaped by community input, the proposal draws on the nearby trestle bridge’s structure and the natural character of the Tualatin River landscape. Together, the structures establish a consistent architectural language for wayfinding, gathering, recreation, and future park development while strengthening connections between the riverfront and surrounding community spaces.

[ Studio ] Timber Tectonics

[ Perspective ] Park Entrance Portal

[ Photo ] Built Park Entrance Portal Module

[ Sketch ] Site plan incorporating community input

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The team developed the final connection system through several iterations, balancing design intent with fabrication, structural performance, and ease of assembly. Early studies focused on developing a universal connection that could accommodate a wide range of enclosure conditions and applications. As the system developed, this approach proved overly complex and was replaced by a family of more specialized connections that could be fabricated and assembled more efficiently.

[ Studio ] Timber Tectonics

[ Built Solution ] Dowel Connection

[ Built Solution ] Slat-Column with T-Pin Connection

[ Scale 1:1 ] Connection Detail Model

[ Built Solution ] Rafter-Purlin Slot Connection

The final system consists of slats with T-pin connections, purlin slots, dowel joints, and plywood angle brackets. Together, these components provided the best balance between structural clarity, ease of fabrication, efficient assembly, and the project’s goal of making wood-to-wood joinery a visible part of the architectural expression.

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[ Scale 1:1 ] Connection Detail Column

[ Scale 1:1 ] Connection Detail Column to Rafter Connection

During the first four weeks of the studio, students worked in small teams to research precedent projects and develop independent proposals for Tualatin Riverfront Park. The University of Oregon studio and collaborating Oregon State University students later presented and voted on these proposals, establishing the direction for the greater design-build effort. With my first teammate, I developed the Bridle Pavilion as an early proposal for both the park structure and its construction system. The Veneer House informed the design, serving as a case study in plywood construction, structural expression, and wood joinery. Drawing on this precedent, the pavilion explored how repeated plywood components could create a lightweight structural system that was efficient to fabricate, visually expressive, and adaptable to the park’s needs. 26

[ Studio ] Timber Tectonics

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[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere

Tending the Forest

Foraging Farmers Coop & Steward Center

[ Site ] North Fork Trail Head, Westfir, OR [ Term ] Winter/Spring 2026 [ Professor ] Erin Moore

Wildfire is not an anomaly, but a defining condition of contemporary forest landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. Rather than treating fire as a problem to be suppressed, wildfire is part of a larger eco-social system shaped by climate change, extraction, and long-term forest management practices. Within this framework, the project challenges the tendency to separate architecture from the landscapes it occupies, arguing instead that buildings must actively engage with the cycles of risk, carbon storage, and ecological change that define their context. Focusing on the Willamette National Forest, the project frames a critical comparison between futures of depletion and futures of stewardship. It asks how practices of selective harvesting and active tending might sustain the forest’s role as a carbon sink, rather than extractive approaches that diminish its long-term capacity.

At the scale of the building, these ideas are translated into a program that supports local forest economies and knowledge sharing, alongside an enclosure system designed for wildfire resilience. Operable shutters and defensible design strategies allow the building to shift between openness and protection, aligning its performance with the changing conditions of the forest it inhabits.

[ Conceptual Image ] Much of the forest’s carbon is stored beneath the surface, in quantities equal to or greater than what is held above ground. These parallel systems sustain the forest as a living organism.

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Pacific temperate rainforests, particularly in western Oregon, are among Earth’s most carbon-dense ecosystems, yet they face growing pressure from wildfire, biodiversity loss, and climate instability. Often overlooked as food-producing landscapes, these forests also support non-timber forest products such as chanterelles, morels, huckleberries, medicinal plants, and floral greens. These products depend on healthy, diverse forests, the same conditions that support carbon storage and biodiversity. In Oregon, foraged product economies sustain Indigenous traditions, rural livelihoods, and seasonal labor while offering an economic model that keeps forests intact and reinforces long-term ecological resilience.

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[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere

People commonly understand forests through the language of management, where value is tied to yield, efficiency, and rotation cycles. In this model, time is compressed into predictable intervals, and ecological systems are organized around extraction. Carbon storage exists within this framework only incidentally, as a secondary effect of growth often interrupted before it can fully accumulate. The forest becomes a system to optimize, rather than one to sustain. This way of seeing produces a particular kind of landscape. Stands are kept young, cycles are shortened, and continuity is broken into discrete periods of use. While productive in the short term, this approach limits the forest’s long-term capacity to store carbon, develop structural complexity, and maintain ecological resilience.

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This shift in perspective produces measurable ecological outcomes. As forests age, they accumulate more biomass, develop more complex canopy layers, and store more carbon across trees, understory vegetation, and soils. Shortened harvest rotations interrupt this process, repeatedly releasing carbon before forests reach their full storage potential. The diagrams below comparing 70-, 100-, and 150+ year stands should therefore be read not simply as measures of growth, but as evidence of how different management and care practices shape the amount, stability, and longevity of carbon stored across the landscape.

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Trees continue to grow, but the rate of carbon accumulation begins to slow.

Trees keep adding biomass above and below ground, increasing total CO2 /hectare.

Large trees, deep roots, and abundant deadwood store vast amounts of carbon above and below ground.

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TAKEAWAY Growth is prioritized over longevity.

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Diverse habitats, natural disturbance cycles, and multi-layered forests create resilient systems that sustain life.

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TAKEAWAY When forests are tended and allowed to age, they become irreplaceable carbon reservoirs and sources of life for generations to come.

[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere

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[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere Ground Floor 1. Lobby 2. Retail 3. Cafe 4. Business Suite 1 5. Business Suite 2 6. Processing Kitchen 7. Wood & Tool Shop Storage Facility 8. Garage 9. Refrigerated Storage 10. Dry Ambient Storage 11. Cool Storage 12. Frozen Storage

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Tending the Forests Foraging Farmers Coop & Steward Center The longer a forest lives, the more it holds. This pamphlet explores how care, not extraction, builds climate capacity.

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ARCH 486 Future Climate Atmosphere

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The Ethical Tending Travelers Informational Pamphlet is intended for visitors, recreational users, and travelers moving through forest landscapes. It serves as a tool for sharing knowledge and reintroducing a different relationship between people and nature, one rooted in reciprocity, stewardship, and active care rather than extraction. ESTABLISHING A STORAGE BASELINE

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CARB CARB BON BENEFIT T More carbon stored stored in trees, soil, and a d deadwood deadwood over the long term. t rm.

[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere

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The calculations frame the Willamette National Forest as both a material source and a dynamic carbon sink, storing carbon across trees, soils, and interconnected ecological systems. Because this storage changes over time in response to harvest, wildfire, regeneration, and climate pressure, the project establishes a present-day carbon baseline and uses it to compare future intervention scenarios. One projects continued extraction and the gradual depletion of the forest’s carbon storage capacity, while the other explores selective harvest and tending as a strategy for balancing use with regeneration. By translating these scenarios into calculations and visualizations, the project positions carbon storage as a design issue and connects architectural decisions to broader questions of stewardship, resilience, and long-term forest health.

[ Sketch ] Development of the Robust Enclosure to Combat Wildfire Events

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The enclosure system is designed with wildfire resilience as a primary driver while also supporting everyday environmental performance. Noncombustible and ignition-resistant materials, including metal cladding and tempered glazing, reduce vulnerability to ember intrusion and radiant heat, while detailing strategies seal gaps, protect vents, and minimize areas where debris can collect. Operable shutters provide an additional layer of protection across large storefront openings, closing during wildfire conditions to shield glazing from heat and embers and opening in daily use to function as passive shading devices and create covered waterfront space. The design also incorporates defensible space through low-fuel planting and strategic setbacks, reinforcing a broader approach to adaptability in which enclosure elements serve multiple roles and support both long-term resilience and everyday occupant comfort.

[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere

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[ Comprehensive Studio ] Future Climate Atmosphere

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