I love your ringtone, but let’s keep the vibes focused.
Open your camera or QR code scanner. (If your phone’s from 1997...good luck, I believe in you.)
Point at any QR code you spot. Treat it like a mini treasure hunt.
Each QR code leads you to different projects, drawings, videos, and probably a little too much — a blend of coffee, milkshakes, and pure design energy.
Other members: Kipel, D. [3d, Sanding, Composition, Photography| Videography, Body Copy]
Yeh, H. [3d, Sanding, Material Exploration Videography, Video Editing]
Slip Stream
Studio Work
Project Brief
Slipstream is a residential project located adjacent to the Stahl House, designed by Pierre Koenig. The design responds to the site’s context by referencing the Stahl House’s height as a Building Height Limit (BHL), ensuring that the new structure maintains a respectful scale and does not overpower its iconic neighbor.
Inlays are used as directional cues for carving out interior spaces, playing a key role in shaping the project’s sectional experience. The infinity pool’s glass bottom fosters a visual dialogue between the Stahl House and Slipstream, emphasizing transparency and spatial tension.
The “third house” acts as a conceptual third space—an architectural offspring of the two primary residences. It fosters connection, a quality often overlooked in contemporary residential design, where corridors divide units and architectural solutions lean toward individualism.
Section Model - Assemblies Base Rollers
Three section cuts are shown in this project. These representations illustrate how the circulation and carving of the puzzle take place. Moreover, the depth of the project is emphasized through the sliding and rotation of the entire model, as demonstrated in the QR code.
The assembly diagrams below show how complex geometries are attached using as little glue as possible, creating spaces for users that go beyond simply shelling the puzzle.
Site Model
The natural topography informs the project’s geometry, generating forms inspired by earlier puzzle studies (as seen on page 7). These cascading elements create a series of cantilevered volumes that respond directly to the terrain.
Material Studies
The materiality was developed through multiple rounds of experimentation over several days. Ammonia was used to chemically treat the bronze, resulting in a blue patina that introduces visual contrast and emphasizes select architectural elements through surface transformation.
Translation
This process involves multiple iterations of orienting, scaling, and rotating the geometries. The puzzle is composed of 15 components that helped shape the project. A series of 3D sections and floor plans were also developed to study the relationships in terms of scale, site context, and proximity to the road, topography, and the Stahl House.
Puzzle | Base
Site Model
Material Test
Puzzle Assembly
Video (Horizontal)
Puzzle Assembly Video (Vertical)
Puzzle | Base - Assemblies
Slipstream aims to explore form, assembly movement, and material potentials that create a dialogue and tension between geometries. The form originates from a primitive, regular brick, which is later subdivided into different components, iterated, and modeled with hinges, sliders, keys, locks, and pins. The materiality further enhances the tension between components, highlighting the distinction between the Main Volume, Secondary Face, and Interlocks. Additionally, it demonstrates the concept of texture transformation, adding depth and weight to the overall project. Top View
Other members: Leon, K. [3d, Electroplate, Sanding and Composition]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper, Bambu Studio]
Visualization: [C4D, Photoshop, After Effects] Documentation: [Notion]
Evolution of Forms
Project Brief
The site at Tom Bradley is a complex location influenced by many programs with a set of essential connections. Some key considerations for selecting the site were the need for movement: Access points from the APM, the sidewalk, and the airbridge. The project spent much time considering those existing and proposed connections. Moreoever, it evolved from the 3d models of the marble runs, masses and volume and site model.
Masses | Volumes
Marble Runs
the Cut in Top View
Studio Work: Film | Skyscraper
Professor: Damjan Jovanovic
Date Finished: April 2024
Type: High-Rise
Co - Z Hospitality
Project Role: [3d of the Building, Ramp, eVTOL, Renders, and Diagrams]
Location: 550S S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA
Other members:
Kyung Bai, Y. [3d, Section, Floor plan, Interior and Renders]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d, Blender and Grasshopper]
Co-Z is an oasis where communities are formed, and having alternatives or tailored experiences makes potential customers stay longer and make sustainable decisions. Each node, landing, or hotel allows users to immerse in nature, be in an open space, or prefer to stay beside a collaborative space. When users pass by a node, they are subject to stopping to use the space or moving on to the next community. This reimagines how the “Gruen Effect or Transfer” works, where it always applies to a commercial space.
Co-Z
Evolution of Forms
Glee - Co - Z
Civic Cabins Interior Perspective 1
Jazzy Co-Z Basement Level Perspective
Civic Cabins T&B Interior Perspective
Jazzy - Co-Z Floor Plan
Carving Path
Adaptive Reuse
Studio Work: ZBrush
Professor: William Virgil
Date Finished: December 2023
Type: Conceptual | Intervention
Location: LAX, CA
Project Role: [3d, Renders, Diagrams, Floor Plans, Site Dev Plan]
Other members: Ellison, S. [3d, Sanding and Section]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper, Bambu Studio]
Visualization: [C4D, Photoshop, Z Brush] Documentation: [Notion]
Project Brief
The project is at Lincoln Heights Jail, Los Angeles, CA. The primary stakeholder, Homeboy Industries, “is the world’s largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program, welcoming thousands through their doors each year.” The project aims to use the idea of adaptive reuse, which is formed from various study models. It deviates from the surrounding concrete structures, enhancing green spaces and creating new programs that juxtapose the existing spaces.
Fourth Floor Plan
3 Major Moves
Peaking Void - The culinary lab allows the users to have a vista point facing the installation. This shows a subconscious cycle of how the dishes will be made and reproduce.
Sculpted Ramp - Guest are welcomed with a ramp that allows them to meander through the building with different vantage points.
Carving Path - This is the most significant move of the project. The pathway that reaches to both sides of the building. It creates a connection between the site context and the spaces within the structure.
Section
Peaking Void
Sculpted Ramp
Carving Path
Front Elevation
333 Tower Design Development
DD Work: Collaboration
Professor: Herwig Baumgartner | Zach Burns
Consultants: Sophie Pennetier | Jamey Lyzun
Date Finished: December 2024
Type: High-rise
Location: Downtown, LA, CA
Spectacle Studio Award
Chunk 2 - Section
ACRYLIC TUBE DIVISION
ACRYLIC TUBE
AQUARIUM
AQUARIUM DECK
STEEL REINFORCEMENT
6’ X 10’ ACRYLIC SHEETS
CONCRETE SLAB ON METAL DECK I-BEAM
STRUCTURAL GLASS J BEAM FLOOR FINISHING
DETAIL CHUNK 2
Project Role: [Animation | Details | Label]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper, Bambu Studio]
Visualization: [C4D, Photoshop, Z Brush]
Documentation: [Notion]
Other members: Agustin, C. Yamchomsuan, P. Alonso, A. Tan, W Yeh, H. Kipel, D. Bai, Y. Yi, C. Vecchio, G.
Course Description: The course focuses on developing interactive models to produce cinematic work that highlights material qualities and atmospheric effects at various scales. Using Blender, students explore a range of tools and add-ons—such as By-Gen, Random Flow, Boxcutter, HardOps, KitOps, and Cablerator—to create hard surface models in multiple scales. These models become part of each student’s collection of aesthetic objects, which can later populate a world built in Unreal Engine
Swarming Through the Triad Link
Waterfall | Technoplant | Hydro Electric Composer
Tech Tops Blending with Nature
Film
Floral Gravity MetamorphoSeat
Project Brief
Visual Studies: Animaion
Professor: Rachel McCall
Date Finished: November 2023
Type: Floral Armature
Project Role: [3d and Animation]
Other members: Yeh, H. [3d and Animation]
Software: Design: [ZBrush]
Visualization: [After Effects]
Documentation: [Notion]
Project Brief
The armature is presented in animation format, creating movements and angles that form new art forms. This is because of the manipulation of invasive flowers, colors, and images projected by Midjourney. Materials were also curated to create enigmatic sculptures, which entice viewers to wonder.
Visual Studies: 1:1 Scale
Professor: William Virgil
Date Finished: December 2023
Type: Formalist Development | Chair
Location: LA, CA
Project Role: [3d, Fabrication and Sanding]
Other members: Yeh, H. [3d, Fabrication and Sanding]
The stool is made from various insect and flower amalgamation alphas. These were modeled in ZBrush, and the references were curated properly to ensure that the synergy between various forms and the existing IKEA chair would find a common language. Overlaps of materials between the PLA and the CNC wood create captivating shapes, which makes the overall project intriguing.
Project Role: [3d, floor plan and interior render of the Hostel and Coworking, post-process of the aerial perspective, landscape, project brief diagrams, body copy, layout and scheduling]
Other members: Aranda, K. [Facade, form exploration, structural and volumetric compositions, site arches axonometric diagram and design framework]
Lopez, A. [3d, floor plan and render of the Workshop and Artist Residence interior, post-process, site diagrams and render of the main perspective]
Joson, G. [Body copy, consultation and ideas generation]
Software: Design [Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper]
Visualization: [Lumion, Vray, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator] Documentation: [Notion, Google Docs, and Sheets]
Gaudí
Project Brief
Artestructura aims to spearhead a sustainable complex for artists and enthusiasts encompassing the ideals and principles envisioned by Antoni Gaudí A community of integration and collaboration where the cultural and social activities of La Puebla de Fantova shall seamlessly integrate with the complex. Visitors will be able to explore freely and exchange ideas with artists and the townfolk within the intriguing built-form nestled gently on the slopes and lush vegetation of the site.
The skeletal structural framework explores arches in tension. This system is used in spaces like the workshop and coworking hub to free up the interior volume by placing the arches on the exterior. Compressive catenary arches are used on semipublic and private spaces to create a more intimate and immersive experience. This strategy exposes users to the proposed dynamic architectural tectonics reminiscent of Gaudí’s playful works.
Huesca, Spain (Site)
(c) Buildner, Competition Organizer
Mapping Path
Exploration and discovery as the driver for navigational mapping, paths, and nodes seamlessly negotiate the existing topography and vegetation. This strategy influences one to meander different pathways that may lead to spontaneous encounters of new building volumetrics, activities, or user interactions.
Roof Morphology
The manipulation of surfaces carves and creates slices to provide necessary light and ventilation.
Structural Typologies
The sizes of the arches vary from one another to mimic the dynamic archways of the town. They act as portals that move users from one location to another seamlessly.
La Puebla de Fantova
La Puebla de Fantova, Spain (Town)
(c) Buildner, Competition Organizer
Design Evolution
1. Defining Points - from site parameters to create axes of interconnections.
Main Vista Points
Secondary View Points
Tertiary View Points
2. Radial Divisions - Radii offsets are created from main points to measure overlaps for site circulation.
3. Path ExplorationsUndulating paths that circulate, intersect, and navigate the whole site.
4. Space ActivationActivity space footprints with respect to existing natural ground cover.
5. Topography Emulation - Proper fitting of volumes on site topography that optimizes positioning with minimal disturbance.
Hostel Workshop Artists’ Residences Meditation and Yoga Mesh Drape on Existing Building
Coworking
6. Views LayeringView optimization both from the complex and La Puebla (town)
Project Role: [3d, and render of the site development plan and Volcabin, body copy, layout, scheduling and host of Zoom meetings]
Other members: Dy, K. [3d, interior render and post-process of Volcabin, ideas generation, and layout critique]
Bantugan, A. [3d and 2d of the site development plan, 3d and section of Volcabin]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d and Sketch Up]
Visualization: [Lumion, Enscape, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator]
Documentation: [Google Docs]
World Architecture Community Student Award, 30th Cycle
Class Representative (Finalist)
Aquaponics Sustaining, Developing and Engaging Humans
Academic Term: Architecture Design 7 (4th Year Studio)
Date Finished: January 2019
Instructor: Ar. Maria Lourdes Rigunay
Type: Recreational, Agriculture, Urban Planning
Location: Kamuning, EDSA, Philippines
Lot Area: 4.393 ha
Software:
Design: [Rhino and SketchUp]
Visualization: [Lumion, Vray, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop]
Documentation: [Google Docs, Sheets, and Microsoft Word]
Project Role: [3d of building, render of floor plan, scale model ground renders, axonometric diagram, post-process and aerial shot]
Other members:
Magno, K. [3d and render of the site, architecture details, scale model, body copy and layout]
Lapeña, B. [Site data, 3d and render of the design features and EDSA bridge, scale model, ground, interior renders and post-process]
Sulit, L. [Site data and scale model]
Yap, C. [Site data, 3d and render of the design features and EDSA bridge, scale model, ground, interior renders and post-process]
Project Brief
Epifanio de Los Santos Avenue in the Philippines, more commonly known by its acronym EDSA, is a major thoroughfare of Manila. Millions of people pass by the major highway, slowly transforming the image and function of the adjacent spaces along EDSA. People using the significant highway experience severe traffic congestion daily, with massive carbon dioxide emissions and street chaos having varying levels and informal street vendors. It created a conflict within the framework of the place where EDSA does not support the areas around it.
ASDEH seeks to change the future of the EDSA Kamuning area in the coming 2030. It reconnects the relationship between the local area and EDSA to support livelihood and inspire the people.
Site Dev Plan
Garden Flyover
Glass Villa
Vacation Rental
Office Work: Mongrel
Date Started: March 2022
Mentor: Ar. Ge Joson
Type: Project Proposal: Hospitality
Location: Indang, Cavite, Philippines
Lot Area: 2050 sqm
Project Role: [3d, render of floor plan, door and window schedule, interior elevation, and supplier coordination]
Other members: Amado, L. [3d of the roof, site render, architecture details, gutter, and client coordination]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d and Grasshopper]
Visualization: [Lumion, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator]
Documentation: [Google Sheets]
Glass Villa
Skeletal Roofing
This effect features how the structural elements can be consistent with the purlins of the roof. Moreover, since the project has a limited budget, the space is utilized by incorporating light and ventilation to avoid letting the guest feel constricted. On top of that, the sliding doors and window frames are similar to the Glass Villa’s overall character.
M2 Panels
The M2 panels use a mesh system where the pipes and other electrical utilities may be integrated. After that, it is applied with shotcrete to form the appearance of a smooth finish.
House
Office Work: Mongrel
Date Finished (Contract Documents): January 2022
Type: Residential
Site Location: Quezon City, Philippines
Lot Area: 962 sqm
Project Role: [Door and window schedule, elevation, area tabulation, render, post-process and specs writing]
Other members: Arzadon, N. [Schematics, floor plan, facade details, specification writing and supplier coordination]
Lopez, A. [Schematics, floor plan, 3d of exterior, render, post-process and electrical layout]
Software: Design [Rhinoceros 3d]
Visualization: [Vray, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator] Documentation: [Notion, Google Docs, and Sheets]
Living with Nature (Courtyard)
The name of the structure comes from the shape of the floating wood facade, and the splayed roof overhang projecting on the front elevation. As the owners enter their home, they are welcomed with a space that allows light and vegetation to let the users forget about the things that they worry in life.
Along with the mixture of materials (solid wood cladding flutted on the concrete wall, adobe natural stone and cast-in- place concrete in beton brut finish), this renders an interior of natural beauty.
Details
Floating Facade
Courtyard
Window Schedule
2 5 0M 10
32 windows and 14 transom windows, with a total of 46 windows are designed to adapt to the varying forms of the facade, at the same time provide adequate light and ventilation.
C House
The Hyrbrid Center
De La Salle Lipa Expansion
Office Work: Mongrel + Joey Yupangco and Associates
Date Presented: September 2022
Mentor: Ar. Gerard Joson and Dean Emeritus Joey Yupangco
Type: Project Proposal: Education and Recreation
Location: Lipa, Batangas, Philippines
Lot Area: 6010 sqm
Project Role: [Exterior render, 3d of the hybrid classrooms, area zoning, toilet floor plan, area tabulation, plumbing code compliance and presentation layout]
Other members:
Amado, L. [3d of the interior Hybrid Classrooms, site and interior diagrams, and macro animation]
Orui, A. [2d of the Hybrid Center, micro animation, area tabulation and site development plan]
Purcil, L. [3d of the Hybrid Center and Ovale- 2nd Proposal, area tabulation and site development plan]
Software: Design: [Rhinoceros 3d and Sketch Up]
Visualization: [Lumion, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator]
Documentation: [Notion, Google Docs, and Sheets]
The Spine
The corridor shows porous external skins combined into programmable wall panels that allow engagements within its perimeter. Thus, it makes the space a whole architectural unit and an exterior space in itself. Furthermore, the porous corridor provides natural ventilation that prevents the virus from accumulating.
Auditorium
This assembly space caters to learners for hosting events and social gatherings. Furthermore, the space around it (Centen- Sports Facility) blends with the function of this area, thus making the proposed project adaptable.
The Hybrid Center
Italpinas
B+ Arch.
(c)
Archi Projects
Photography
When I visit a foreign country, I notice the differences in architecture and people, which creates a snowball effect on how I design, from the intent, sociology, and tiny details. It molded how I perceive and understand the creativity around me.
Travel
Traveling, taking pictures, exploring film techniques relax my mind and empathize with others. It also helps me gain creative confidence and bring a different idea to the table.
Supertree
The Sphere
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Sydney
Marina
Passion Timeline
These individual IG Carousels helps me test ideas in a short duration. At the same time, posting it gives me a sense of accomplishment, even if the concept is not used in the final export file. Furthermore, adding animation to my carousel enables me to explain and connect ideas from point A to point B. Whenever I have time, I write articles on LinkedIn to help me flow my ideas and express them appropriately.
