TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 IL PONTE Fall 2023 - Professors Isabella Hillman and Marco Trevisani Architecture and Urban Design Studio Project Site: Verona, Italy
02 GEOGRAPHIC REFLECTION Spring 2024 - Professor Botond Bognar - Architecture and Urban Design Studio Project Site: Kyoto, Japan
03 FLUIDITY Fall 2022 - Professor Sara Bartumeus Ferré - Designing Hinges Project Site: Barcelona, Spain
04 GROUNDED NICHE Spring 2022 - Professor Erik Hemingway - Architectural Design and Making Project Site: Honolulu, HI
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VENN DIAGRAM
THE WAVE
PARALLELS
Fall 2021 - Dr. Niloufar Emami - Architectural Design and Performance Project Site: Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2021 - Professor Drew Nuding - Designing for Human Wellbeing Project Site: Champaign, IL
Fall 2020 - Professor Sara Bartumeus Ferré - Architectural Design and Urbansim Project Site: Champaign, IL
01 IL PONTE Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Revit, Enscape Project Type: Partner (Project Partner Olivia Rueter) The Il Ponte high speed train station in Verona, Italy, is an adaptive reuse and addition to the current station, designed to accomodate the new high-speed railway and to connect the station to the southern portion of Verona and the neighborhoood located to the south of the site. This design creates two building forms, one to the north of the tracks and one to the south, connected by an overhead walkway that acts as both a connection from south to north Verona and as access to the train platforms for station users. The steel structure of this building adapts the unused tracks that sit on the railyard of the site to the south and uses them as both the mullions along the curtain walls and as the secondary roof shading device to shade both the train platforms and the entry spaces. A final noteable feature of this project is the wayfinding system for station users to find their train platform, using a combination of color coded lights and numbers, screens. and a phone app.
TRANSIT HUB
STATION - ORIGINAL FACADE LOCATION
BIKE PARKING STATION - NEW PARKSIDE ENTRANCE RE-ADAPTED SITE BUILDING
SPORTS FIELDS
EVENT SPACE
1. CONCRETE FOOTING 2. BASE PLATE 3. BRANCH CONNECTION 4. WOOD LOUVERS 5. ORIGINAL LIMESTONE FACADE IMAGE OF EXISTING LIMESTONE FACADE
02 GEOGRAPHIC REFLECTION Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Lumion, Revit Project Type: Partner (Project Partner Yashaswini Karagaiah) This project, titled Geographic Reflection, is a musuem and art gallery located in Kyoto, Japan along the Kamo River. This designs creates a center for visitors to understand the history and architecture of Kyoto as a city, both through its program and the design of the project itself. The building’s form creates a U shape, mirroring the mountains that wrap around the city to the north, east, and west, and the heights of the buildings shift, further reflecting the mountains around Kyoto. The landscape in this project is a grid, acting as the city’s grid within the mountains, with the grid forms altered and modified to accomodate seating, water, and vegetation features. As the site moves south, it disperses into a more organic topography, as does the city of Kyoto. Overall this design uses the built to act as nature and nature to act as the built, creating a design that allows vistors to understand the city in a new and unqiue way.
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03 FLUIDITY Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Lumion, Revit Project Type: Group (Project Partners Krystal Levitske and Rui Xiao) The municipality of Moncada I Reixac has strong ties to water, due to its location next to the Ripoli River and its history of flooding. Through analysis of the site and its surrounding context, it was decided that this project should focus on connecting the community both to each other, and to its history with water. This project features a series of topography shifts thoughout the various program spaces in order to direct water throughout the site and prevent the flooding of surrounding buldings, a musuem that illustrates the history of the site, a path of greenery that marks the floodplane and directs users through the site, as well as the removal of a potion of the floodwalls surrounding the river in order to connect the riverfront to the community and provide a directed and expanded path for water to flow.
RIVERFRONT RENDERING
PERSONAL CARTOGRAPHY
KEY FOREST SHRUBS MEADOW WETLAND LOW PROBABILITY OF FLOODING MEDIUM PROBABILITY OF FLOODING HIGH PROBABILITY OF FLOODING
CONCEPT DIAGRAMS
MASTER PLAN WITH DETAIL AXONS 4 3 5 1
RECESSED PARK AXON
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RECESSED GARDENS AXON 7
Legend
RECESSED WATER FEATURE AXON
1 - Water Feature 2 - Gathering Space 3 - Gardens 4 - Dog Park 5 - Skate Park 6 - Memory Center 7 - Playground
PARK ENTRANCE RENDERING
MUSUEM FACADE RENDERING
Inundacions a Montcada i Reixac Situada a la confluència del riu Ripoll i el riu Besòs, la ciutat de Montcada i Reixac té una llarga trajectòria d’inundacions al llarg dels anys, i diverses evolucions en els mètodes utilitzats per controlar-les.
BUILDING AXON
04 GROUNDED NICHE Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, SketchUp Project Type: Individual While the neighborhood of Kaka’ako in downtown Honolulu was designed as a “community development district,” its surge of luxury housing as opposed to affordable housing has not had the positive effect on the housing crisis in Oahu that was initially intended. This project, as part of the Cimate Positive Concrete Housing Habitat Competition, aims to recenter the neighborhood of Kaka’ako in its original goal of affordable housing through the use of interlocking concrete blocks that reduce the need for additional building materials, allow for simple modulated design and construction, double as interior furniture and design elements, allow for organic and unqiue interiors, and create the possibility of easy renovations, additions, and adaptations.
AALII CONDO TOWER
Apartments for purchase starting at 500,000
VICTORIA PLACE
Apartments for purchase starting at 1.000,000
KOULA CONDO TOWER
Apartments for purchase starting at 500,000
THE PARK AT WARD VILLAGE
Apartments for purchase starting at 600,000
ANAHA
Apartments for purchase starting at 707,000
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN KAKA’AKO LUXURY HAS BEEN PRIORITIZED OVER AFFORDABLE
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 19TH CENTURY INDUSTRIALIZATION
RECONNECTION TO THE LANDSCAPE
HISTORIC FISHPONDS AND AQUACULTURE
05 VENN DIAGRAM Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Project Type: Individual Venn Diagram is a community center located in downtown Los Angeles, with the main objective of providing an amenity to local residents and visitors while encompassing ideas of sustainability. The design’s primary concept is interlocking volumes that encourage interaction between different building programs and occupants, while using the orientation of the buidling to create unqiue interior and exterior opportunities.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN W PICO BLVD
FLOWER ST
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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FLOWER ST
W PICO BLVD
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
S HOPE ST
FLOWER ST
W PICO BLVD
S HOPE ST
FLOWER ST
W PICO BLVD
NORTH ELEVATION
EAST-WEST SECTION PERSPECTIVE
FRITTED GLASS PANELS CREATE SUNSHADING
PATTERN DENSITY BASED ON SUN ORIENTATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PERSPECTIVE
ALUMINUM FACADE
WALL SECTION DETAIL
SITE AXON DIAGRAM
STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM AND INTERIOR GYM PERSPECTIVE
06 THE WAVE Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Enscape, Rhino3D, SketchUp Project Type: Individual The Wave is a mixed-use housing development located in Champaign, Illinois, between downtown and the center of UIUC’s campus, that centers around providing optimal wellbeing for both visitors and residents, as well as creating a connection between downtown and the university. It’s main concept is to provide opportunities for connection and interaction, both within the residents of the building and between residents and community members.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR STRUCTURAL PLAN
SECOND LEVEL PLAN
UPPER APARTMENT LEVELS
APARTMENT PLANS Apartment layouts are stacked on each level to provide maximum building efficiency, with each level having one double loaded corridor on the western wing of the buidling and a single loaded corridor on the eastern wing in order to maximize both views and sunlight for each unit.
07 PARALLELS Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino3D Project Type: Individual Awards: Earl Prize Recipient Parallels is a community center located in the downtown area of Champaign, IL, where community members are able to come together for discussion and connection through the context of urban food gardens, which aim to create public awareness and education. The primary concept of this design is angles that direct and orient people within the building, providing clear paths of movement and activity. As one moves up the building, the program space has a gradual transition from public to private, allowing the private spaces of the building to have the least pedestrian movement. In regard to materiality, the core spaces of the building contrast the primary program spaces both on the interior and exterior, with corten steel, chosen for its durability and its relation to the cities origins of the railroad, lining the exterior core elements in the facade. The path of greenery that passes from the public space up to the rooftop garden creates a connection between the building and public space as well as benefits the environment, with this design overall creating a welcoming and functional space that can help engage and improve the Champaign-Urbana community.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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PUBLIC GATHERING SPACE N
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JANITORIAL ROOM
JANITORIAL ROOM
CLASSROOM
STORAGE
LIBRARY
CLASSROOM
MECHANICAL SPACE
MECHANICAL SPACE STORAGE
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FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
ROOF PLAN
CLASSROOM
STAFF WORK AREA
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GREENHOUSE
ACCOUNTING
JANITORIAL ROOM
PUBLIC OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT
WALKWAY
OUTDOOR GROWING AREA
MECHANICAL SPACE STORAGE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
OUTDOOR GROWING AREA
KITCHENETTE BREAKROOM
DIRECTOR
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CONFERENCE ROOM
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EAST-WEST SECTION
BATHROOMS
STAIRWELL
GREENHOUSE
ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
PUBLIC OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT
CLASSROOM
LIBRARY
CLASSROOM
PUBLIC GATHERING SPACE
SEED EXCHANGE STORAGE
EXHIBITION SPACE
NORTH-SOUTH SECTION
GREENHOUSE
ELEVATORS
STAIRWELL
CONFERENCE ROOM
STAFF WORK AREA
CLASSROOM LIBRARY
PUBLIC GATHERING SPACE
CLASSROOM
DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN EXHIBITION SPACE
ELEVATORS
STAIRWELL