| Oversaw a team of five, strategizing and curating content with consistent weekly posts to elevate the visibility of Dimensions, Taubman College’s architectural journal.
| Directed a targeted marketing campaign for the 2025 Dimensions calendar, crafted from student-collaged studio remnants and sold as a key fundraising initiative for the journal’s publication.
| Curated a thoughtfully designed Instagram feed featuring educational content for architecture students, including monthly readings, process-driven visuals, and educational resources about topics such as typography or color theory.
June 2024 - August 2024 New York, NY
Architecture Intern
| Produced detailed drawing sets and construction documents for residential projects, including townhouses, apartments, and standalone homes.
| Developed visually compelling design presentations in InDesign, showcasing color palettes, material selections, and furniture layouts tailored to clients’ aesthetic and functional needs.
| Designed and 3D-modeled custom casework for client projects, ensuring precision and alignment with project specifications using Revit.
June 2023 - August 2023 Bloomfield
Project Management Intern
| Coordinated the construction phase of a large-scale residential construction project, including scheduling, site tours, and deliveries to ensure timely completion.
| Gained in-depth knowledge of building codes, zoning regulations, and permitting requirements, ensuring strict compliance throughout all project stages.
| Reviewed and prepared comprehensive building permit applications, successfully securing approvals from the Bloomfield Hills City Office.
Social Media Leader
Social Media Chair
December 2022 - January 2023
Architecture Intern
| Organized and alphabetized the CSI 16 divisions of samples and books in the office, improving productivity and accessibility.
| Collaborated with senior architects and designers to gather project requirements, research materials, and select appropriate building materials and finishes.
| Visited construction sites to monitor and review progress, ensuring alignment with project goals.
There’s a unique kind of fear that comes with pressing “Send to Print.”
It’s the moment of no return—the point where every decision, every detail, every sleepless night solidifies into something real. Will the line weights be right? Did I double-check the margins? Is that one rogue annotation still hiding in the corner? It’s a split second of doubt, followed by the quiet acceptance that what’s done is done.
But design is never really finished; it’s an ongoing process of iteration, adjustment, and discovery. What’s on the page is just a moment in that constant evolution—a snapshot of thinking in progress. This portfolio captures that journey, not as a collection of final answers, but as a record of exploration, refinement, and the inevitability of change.
So if you’re reading this… I took a deep breath and pressed the button.
UNBOXED
The USPS has historically played a vital role in shaping American society, fostering an inclusive space that encourages social interaction among diverse groups. However, perhaps your prevailing associations with the Postal Service are limited to junk mail, long lines, cheap construction, and disgruntled employees. In recent decades, the USPS has faced declining relevance due to digital communication, e-commerce competition, and systemic inefficiencies, leading to questions about its future.
This USPS project addresses these challenges by reimagining the USPS to incorporate a commissary kitchen and market, designed to amplify its social benefits. This additive program not only enriches the social aspects of the post office but also creates a shared marketplace where customers and workers alike can connect. The community kitchen provides affordable, rentable space for locals to grow their food-based businesses while utilizing the USPS network to distribute their goods, bridging commerce, community, and infrastructure in a meaningful way.
The USPS consists of a vast network of interconnected parts that work to make up a whole, although these parts can often become isolated or go unnoticed. The design emphasizes transparency and interconnectedness, creating visual opportunities for users to engage with USPS’s back-of-house operations and the local food economy. The part diagram above outlines the three-dimensional structural grid that emphasizes uniformity and efficiency, reflective of the USPS’s functional systems. This grid is disrupted by an additive geometry, revealing and distorting hidden elements to increase transparency. The intervention occurs on the second level acting as a ramp above the lower-level back-of-house programs. Centered around a circular geometry, the ramp features rectangular extrusions with distinct functions. One forms an entrance wing that extends beyond the building, exposing internal disruptions externally. Another extends downward, creating an inaccessible void that redirects circulation into a programmatic loop between the lower and ground levels. The final, smaller extrusion at the back creates an overlook, offering customers a moment of immersion within an otherwise hidden area.
Research on a local buisness was conducted to better understand the site in Yspilanti. Bird Dog Baking, a local bakery, focuses on sustainability and community support through its commitment to sourcing from local farms and businesses. This interconnected network strengthens the local economy and fosters shared growth among small businesses. This in turn involves them in a chain of mutual sourcing and distribution of goods. This system is displayed on the animated board with the local farms and mills supplying their ingredients to the left and the local businesses that sell their pastries on the right. The bakery’s owners shared how they began by baking bread in their kitchen but eventually opened a storefront to get that sense of community engagement. Reflecting on the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor area, many small business owners lack the resources to lease commercial kitchen space or establish a storefront. This insight led to the idea of incorporating a commissary kitchen and market within the USPS facility. This addition would offer local food entrepreneurs a space to sell their goods within the USPS community while utilizing the postal system to expand their reach and distribution capabilities
The plan integrates the building’s geometry to create a physical loop for users connecting the market in the northeast corner to the retail space in the center. This is achieved through two circulation routes positioned on opposite sides of the inaccessible commissary kitchen. A rectangular form on the upper level highlighted in green extends downward, linking the commissary kitchen with the USPS system. Back-of-house operations are located on the lower level, with the primary intersection of the two programs situated in the packaging and loading area, where goods produced in the kitchen are prepared for shipping.
ANIMATED ISOMETRIC
The previous slide is an animated isometric which takes you through the story of a daughter and her mother going to the USPS to ship a package During their time in space, they explore the market and buy some goods which they send off to the grandmother alongside the original package. Throughout their experience, they circulate within the space experiencing the different vignettes looking into the USPS system whether that be the sorting
The colors and material change act to differentiate characters within the building. The structural grid is constructed from glulam timber, encased in a mesh polycarbonate facade that wraps around the building. The retail space ramp and rectangular extrusions are enclosed by a ribbed aluminum shell, which, when intersected or cut, reveals accents of green stone. This green stone is also integrated into the site and strategically placed cuts that facilitate the circulation of people and vehicles in and out of the building. The flooring throughout the structure is crafted from recycled paper, repurposing materials such as junk mail and USPS paper waste.
GLULAM TIMBER GREEN STONE RIBBED ALUMINIUM
RECYCLED PAPER SALMON STONE
CONTOUR COURT
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO II
YOJAIRO LOMELI
3 DAYS SOLO
The design reimagines a site’s topography in Ypsilanti, MI to accommodate a half basketball court by carefully manipulating the landform. Through the use of two offset circles, the court is carved into the terrain, immersing it within the existing contours of the landscape. This excercise explores fundamental principles of topography in preparation for the proceeding project. By embedding the court into the land, the intervention emphasizes the interplay between visibility and concealment, revealing the court only from specific perspectives. The design highlights how topographical modifications can transform functional spaces into hidden, dynamic features that amplify the site’s relationship to its surrounding environment.
PERIMETER PLAY
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO II
YOJAIRO LOMELI
15 WEEKS
SOLO
In basketball and many other sports boundaries such as lines on a field are used to define a user’s position within space. Yet, their power extends beyond separation; boundaries also enable relationships. This field house explores the concept of boundaries and how they can be used to position players within a game when off the field. Sited on the border of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and adjacent to the Huron River, the expansive plot of land provides a serene environment, ideal for a field house. The site sits at a unique intersection where residential and commercial developments converge, creating a dynamic boundary. The nearby highway enhances this division, acting as both a physical and functional separator between the bustling commercial areas and the quieter residential neighborhoods surrounding the site. This blend of contrasting contexts offers opportunities for the field house to serve as a connective hub for the community.
PROGRAM
This field house presents itself to be very enclosed on the outside with its convex and concave curves pushing away from one another at the focal points of the building. This enclosed building opens up when you enter the space and reveals its boundaries to expand with the field at its centerThe basketball court lines extend beyond its boundaries, transforming into structural elements that both divide and connect the surrounding programs Horizontally, these lines reach the building’s outer edges, forming programmatic zones for locker rooms and viewing or recreational spaces. During designated hours, users can cross the court, breaking its boundaries, while during games, circulation is redirected around the court’s perimeter. On the lower level of the first floor, an open-concept locker room with minimal partitions is designed to reflect the sequence of a player’s preparation before entering a game. The space is organized into programmatic lanes, dividing the locker room into two distinct sections for opposing teams. These lanes guide players through a seamless progression of pre-game rituals, translating the flow of preparation into an architectural experience that emphasizes movement and readiness.
Vertically, court lines extend to form alternative court configurations. This includes a half court and shooting hoops providing spaces for training and preparation before transitioning to the full court.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
SHORT SECTION
The facade of the building consists of a ribbed steel shell which at moments meets and diverges. These moments occur when the convex and concave curves invert from the first to the second floor.
LOCKER ROOM ILLUSTRATION
CORED
The Infill House reinterprets the concept of spatial separation and unity by employing two central cores as organizing elements. Drawing inspiration from the original precedent, this design leverages these cores to shape the relationship between public and private spaces. The first core functions as a dividing element, creating a sense of isolation around the surrounding spaces, while the second core intersects with adjacent volumes, generating a collection of dynamic, independent spaces. Together, these cores orchestrate a balance between individual privacy and shared interaction, creating a cohesive spatial narrative.
The spatial study and analysis of the precedent House in Sakuradai by Go Hasegawa, focusing on its core elements and spatial dynamics. Abstract models explore the interplay between solid and void, specifically concentrating on the overlapping geometries within the house and its core. These dynamic spaces unveil the varying thickness and thinning of volumes, serving as a prominent feature in the form. of the house. Abstraction elemets then implemented into the creation of a new home.
CORE DIAGRAMS
WINDOW
SCRAPS CALENDAR
DIMENSIONS JOURNAL CHRISTIAN UNVERZAGT 5 WEEKS GROUP
As part of Dimensions Journal, the social media team and I noticed the abundance of unused scrap materials in studio projects and saw an opportunity to repurpose them creatively. This inspired us to host an event where students could bring in their scraps and turn them into unique collages.
Working alongside four peers we scanned the collages and designed a 2025 calendar, featuring parts of student collages for each month. The project focused on sustainability and celebrating process, with fundraising for the journal as an additive benefit.
As a leader of the social media team, I managed promotions to engage the community, showcasing the event’s purpose and the students’ work. The initiative brought peers together, turning discarded materials into something meaningful and collaborative.
TEAM MEMBERS:
LARISSA MCCOY RYAN KARCZEWSKI, JOSEPHIEN AMAKYE, & SHREYA SAMPATH
INTERNSHIP
NEW YORK, NY 10 WEEKS
Produced detailed drawing sets and construction documents for residential projects, including townhouses, apartments, and standalone homes. Specialized in custom casework design and 3D modeling in Revit for kitchens, pantries, closets, and bars. Additionally, resolved design challenges and drafted plans for elevator shaft wall reconstructions.
THE BAKER
THE KITCHEN MY MOTHER 21 YEARS COLLABORATIVE
Baking, much like architecture, requires a keen attention to detail. It was in the kitchen that I first discovered my passion for things that are both creative and measurable—a perfect recipe for an architect, someone who is both logical and imaginative. When I’m not in the studio, this is where I love to channel my energy.
(P.S. I also have a food blog on Instagram called @bon.appe.tempt, where I document my journey and love for food.)
