I have contributed to numerous international projects across various scales, including master planning for new developments, designing public spaces, and streetscape design. My responsibilities on these projects have included site design and analysis, creating drawings and renderings, 3D modeling, design documentation, and BIM modeling / coordination.
SUCCESS ACADEMY
SITE: Bronx, NY
YEAR: 2023 - 2025, projected completion in 2026
FIRM: SWA/Balsley
PROJECT ROLE: Landscape Designer, BIM Coordinator
Images taken from Hatfield Group website: https://www.hatfieldgrp.com/success-acedemy
Images taken from Hatfield Group website: https://www.hatfieldgrp.com/success-acedemy
The project includes many site furniture elements and paving details that require coordination across multiple trades, including architecture, civil, structural, and lighting. I was responsible for modeling and detailing these elements in revit for our construction set.
I worked with the project’s lead technical director throughout the construction documentation phase. I assisted model, plan view sheets, elevations, section details, and schedules.
The project included many casework and interior architecture elements that I assisted in modeling in
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HAVANA RAIL
SITE: Havana, Cuba
YEAR: Urban Design Grad - 2019, Semester 2
UNIVERSITY: CUNY Spitzer School of Architecture
PROJECT: Individual
Havana had a complete disinvestment in roads, rail, and marine transport due to the U.S. isolating the county and the collapse of the Soviet Union throughout the mid-twentieth century. The effects of this disinvestment has caused the majority of Havana residents to not own cars, the city having a high road density with a wide range of typologies that require differing modes of transportation, and no viable mass public transportation option.
Population: 2.1 million
Population Density
2907 person/sq. km
29,820 km
Paved Roads: Automobile Ownership: Bus passengers
37 (est.) per 1000 individuals
Road Density
Data sources from ONEI (2014), DPPF (2014), EIU (2014), WHO (2013).
Existing Havana Harbor Rail Line
Dispersion of local transit based off neighborhood street typology
Seven stations are proposed along the reused harbor rail line. The stations placements are based off the surrounding neighborhoods of Havana’s harbor and population density. There will be inevitable gaps within the proposed transportation network due to the constraints of reusing existing infrastructure. The future developments of this plan would have to look deeper into added bus routes, ferry routes, and smaller, intermediate rail stations along the Harbor Rail Line.
CASABLANCA STATION
Existing Havana Harbor Rail Line Added
DIEZ DE OCTUBRE STATION
SAN MIGUEL DEL PADRON STATION
OIL REFINERY STATION
This proposal began by emulating and learning different ways of constructing from the organisms that surround Jamaica Bay. Humans, in areas like the Rockaways, can learn from other species on how to create non-carbon structures that will be able to transform itself depending on current environmental and communal circumstances. The research of alternative construction methods and design thinking led to a community engagement event which focused on what local residents would like to see built on their vacant lots around Edgemere, Queens.
DIAMONDBACK TERRAPIN
PIPING PLOVER SAND CRABS SQUAT RETREAT BURROW
This study was done in collaboration with the Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity (RISE), a local non-profit that provides civic engagement and youth development programs that advance social equity and the physical well-being of the coastal neighborhoods in Queens, New York.
The events done with RISE and Edgemere residents started a discourse around architecture that is kinetic. My proposal begins to consider structural modules that will be built with a framework that allows Edgemere residents to transform the walls, floors, and roofs of the architecture.
GROUND FLOOR STRUCTURE MODULES
PROTOCOLS
The Kinetic Hub is designed to be assembled in a multitude of different ways. The architecture can transform itself by unfolding, sliding, and connecting between one another depending on community needs. Protocol A spaces lends itself to outdoor, sunny day activities while the other protocols transform the architecture to allow for more interior spaces.
PROTOCOL A
SLIDING
UNFOLDING
SECTION - PROTOCOL A
SECTION - PROTOCOL C
PROTOCOL B
HIGHTIDE2050-HIGH:30”
The materials used for the Kinetic Hubs are vital in creating an intervention that can seamlessly transform between protocols depending on the current ecological and cultural state of the neighborhood.
The Center for Technology and Innovation (CTI) rejuvenates the cultural district of Pittsburgh by bringing in new technologies to showcase to the public while also activating the site with an open plaza, commercial spaces, and public terraces. The building’s form, facade, and rainwater collection system set an example for the innovation that can happen within the city of Pittsburgh.
3 FORMS
SITE ACTIVATION
GREEN SPACES
PUSH TOWARDS RIVER DIAGRID
Facade Connection Piece
Facade Screen
Diagrid
Spandrel Glass
STRUCTURE AND FACADE RAINWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM
Pittsburgh has 155 wet days (42%) throughout the year and gets around 3.16 ft. of rain per year. Our design uses this to our advantage by implementing a rainwater catchment system on our East and West facades. The water will be collected by our catchment mullions that will direct the water through a pipe system in our floor structure and down our building core. This system will dispense the water into our 1st-floor cistern. This facade water collection system is projected to collect 654,831 gallons of water per year.
