• Assisting lead architects with architectural projects from design to execution
Archival Research Assistant L.E.A.P. Université de Montréal
• Archiving work for the CCC digital library
Architecture Festival Installations Intern Festival Jardins de Métis | Grand-Métis
Extracurricular
Exhibition Design McGill Master’s Architecture
CCA Museum Design Charette
Exhibition Design Feminism+Architecture=?
Cecobois Design Competition, 2nd place winners
Strong intetest in fine arts, industrial design, graphic design, and architecture and art history
‘‘ Restezsimple.- Patrick Berger ’’ Pablo
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From Home to City Thesis, 2025
McGill University | Master’s Thesis, ongoing
A Feminist Manifesto for Manhattan
The home is the basic unit of the city: changing our homes therefore transforms our cities, reshaping the social relationships that define them. Building on queer and feminist spatial practices, how can we design domestic spaces that renegotiate the boundaries between private and collective spheres, at the intersection of labor, care, and pleasure? This research positions Manhattan as a pivotal site for exploring these questions, both by analyzing its history and envisioning its future. Drawing inspiration from Manhattanismand the city’s innovation in feminist housing, the proposal culminates in a design for the reuse of the city’s modern skyscrapers. The project provides new frameworks for the collective distribution of labor, care, and leisure in the home for metropolitan life.
Prototipo Gimenells Academic, 2022
ETSAB | 2022 | Matricula de honor
Prototipo Gimenells is a housing project in the rural area of Gimenells, set on two plots at the edge of fields with views over the Catalan countryside. The project responds to two issues specific to rural communities in Spain: the lack of housing for temporary workers, and the low density of inhabitants following the exodus to the cities known as España Vacia. The programmatic flexibility of the housing typologies makes it possible to densify the area while adapting to the changing number of residents throughout the seasons. Based on a system of solids and voids in an orthogonal grid, the houses are laid out to enable a connection with the neighborhood and views to the countryside. Load-bearing compacted earth walls and lightweight wooden partitions are sourced locally and inspired by vernacular Spanish construction techniques.
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At the edge of the fields
In the lower right-hand corner of Gimenells, houses face the fields in a grid of built volumes and green patios.
Solids and Voids
Complimentary solids and voids define exterior spaces while roofs follow a continuous slope.
Protecting the tiers paysage
Load-bearing walls project into the public space, both framing and protecting the tierspaysage.
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Constructive Section
Compacted earth wall 600 mm
Reinforced concrete lintel
Sealing membrane
Steel angle
Metalic flashing
Wooden window frame
Pine louvers
Pine boards
Wooden blocks
Wooden window frame
Wooden blocks
Metalic flashing
Ventilation of foundations
Interior Detailing
Centre 9e Vie Academic, 2023
McGill | 2023 | Team: D. Gawel, T. Wasserman
Centre 9e Vie explores how architecture can foster a new consumer mentality by redefining the traditional mall. Like a city within a building, semi-exterior open space is structured around 3 masses, breaking down the centre to a human scale. With seasonality in mind, modular wall pannels around the ground floor’s perimiter rotate up in warmer seasons, allowing for continuity between the market and open air plaza. Spaces are organized around sensory experiences in response to site analysis, integrating visual, auditory, thermal, and scent properties throughout. The building showcases the upcycling processes integrated in the center encouraging responsible consumption. In line with the centre’s values, recycled building components are integrated and detailing is done with dissasembly in mind to further extend the building’s lifecycle.
3 Buildings + 1 Structure
The centre is composed of three ‘‘buildings’’ surrounded by open space, linked on the second level through a floor to ceiling truss with minimal decending columns.
Recycled Iterative Interiors
1.1 Exhibition Centre
1.2 Conference Hall
1.3 Pop-Up Market
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Design for Dissasembly
To reduce the carbon footprint, assemblies are designed for dissasembly and reused.
45 viviendas del Besòs Academic, 2023
ETSAB | 2023 | Team: Florence Roy
45 viviendas del Besòs is a reuse project which explores how individuals connect with their communities through the infrastructure of social housing. Located in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, the project transforms an abandoned cardboard factory into a 45-unit housing project. A series of interventions take shape at different scales - neighborhood, block, building, unit. Existing architectural elements such as the brick latice are preserved to create a dialogue between the building’s past life and its contemporary program. Residential units are linked by a system of appropriable circulation and open-plan common spaces around a central patio. The flexibility of the interiors blurs the boundaries between private and public spaces, between the individual and his or her community.
Sant Adrià de Besòs
The abandoned Fàbrica de Cartrò, is now a symbol of the industrial heritage of the district of Sant Adria.
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Sant Adrià de Besòs
La Fàbrica de Cartrò
Río Besós
El Bloque
Programmatic interventions echo the linearity of Río Besòs through alternating built and open spaces.
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La Fàbrica
Four massings are linked through transversal walkways providing shared spaces on every floor.
La Vivienda
Equal rooms are formed around a service core, which can open onto the communal life of the patio.
The addition of balconies create a visual and phyisical link between residents and the heritage facade.
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La Celosía
Carte Blanche Academic, 2022
Université de Montréal | 2021
Carte Blanche is a townhouse offering versatile spaces for life, work and performance. Inspired by artist residency programs, the project temporarily houses two groups of textile artists during the creation and exhibition of a collection. Textile art and fashion were chosen as a themes to explore for their ability to create parallels with architecture through tectonics and materiality. The façade unfolds in a light, floating manner, with a degree of transparency akin to fabric. The outer mesh wall rises and falls at two points to engage in a dialogue with its surroundings. Two architectural promenades unfold through the house. During the exhibition events, the house opens onto itself and the performance unfolds within the building’s two volumes and patio, creating a dynamic experience in parallax.
L1
L2 | Communal
L3 | Performance
Carte Blanche| 2022
Diurnal | Nocturnal
Architectural Promenade
Performance through the house takes place at different levels, creating an experience in parallax.
The Facade ‘‘Pop-Up’’
The lowered central segment of mesh allows the show to ‘‘pop-up’’ from the façade and engage with public space.
