Thinking Outside the Bowl
QUEENS, NY | Spring 2020
Project Type
Sports & Entertainment, Recreation, Cultural, Urban
Design, Urban Planning, Environmental Design
Project Size 3 million ft2 site
This thesis sought to rethink the role of the stadium, not as a singular catalyst, but as an integrated component within larger urban planning frameworks. After completing research to identify issues that often plague stadia, I developed strategies to avoid or mitigate these pitfalls. I concluded the thesis by developing a stadium master plan that applies these strategies while addressing the issues and needs of its site in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
The centerpiece is the Queens Community Stadium, a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium for New York’s two Major League Soccer teams with additional cultural and non-event day use. Adjacent to it are a recreational field house, a community track, a playground, multi-purpose plazas as well as open green space and a constructed wetland. A pedestrian bridge connects the site to the Corona neighborhood.
Underlying causes of issues with stadia and strategies to address them
Example design strategy card
Difficult Physical Accessibility Strategies
• stadia typically feel unapproachable during non-event days
• major roads, canals, and railways—especially those in post-industrial zones — create physical barriers to venues, almost like a border
• surface parking physically isolates the stadium by creating a vast moat around it
• critics have suggested that in some instances, physical connections are deliberately restricted from disadvantaged local areas
Design a Permeable Event Venue with a Face to the Community
Balance Between Security and Approachability •
Reduce/Remove Non-porous Surface Parking and its Negative Impacts
Avoid (or Provide Connections to) Sites with Physical Obstacles to Access
Tap Into Existing Transit Networks
Sketches of sites throughout Flushing Meadows
Early conceptual sketch
Rebuilt Pier 2
New Queens Water Exploration Center
Restored Pier 1 & Ferry Stop
Restored & Repurposed Schladermundt Structures
NORTH CORONA
CORONA
NEW WILLETS POINT DEVELOPMENT
Citi Field
New Convention Center
New Lookout Tower & Gateway Cafe
New Dragon Boat Regatta Course
Buttonbush Grey dogwood
Silky dogwood
Eastern oyster
Monarch butterfly
Western honey bee
stormwater runoff filtration
N-S Section from Wetland to North Supporters Section
N-S Section from Passerelle to Southeast Entry
Blue crab
Brown bullhead
Brook trout
Bluegill Largemouth bass
Swamp milkweed
Duck house
Passerelle Pedestrian Bridge
Long Island Railroad
Nest piling Kayak
7 train
Oyster cage
Floating wetland
Pedal boat
Green arrow arum
Virginia creeper
Indiangrass Cinnamon Trumpet
Indiangrass Beach plum Grey birch
Red maple Sweetgum
Eastern red cedar Boxelder
Common hackberry
Osprey
Red-tailed hawk
Canada goose Great blue heron
Mallard duck
Double-crested cormorant
Cruiser bike Surrey
Deuce Coupe
Switchgrass Inkberry
Cinnamon fern Fringed sedge
Trumpet honeysuckle Lowbush blueberry Eastern teaberry Sheep laurel
NYULBH Cardiac Cath Expansion
Brooklyn, NY | Under construction
Professional Work | Jack L. Gordon Architects
This expansion of NYULH’s Cardiac Cath practice called for the demolition of a portion of their back-of-house spaces on the second level and its replacement with a new Cardiac Cath suite. Two procedure rooms, control rooms, a waiting room, pre/post op bays, and replacement back-of-house spaces were successfully fitted into a limited amount of square footage, complete with a new, designed entry.
Role | Designer (Summer 2023-Present)
• Surveyed and modeled existing conditions in Revit
• Modeled phased demolition and new construction
• Completed substantial portions of drawing sets from SDs to CDs and for DOH & DOB approvals
• Made presentation drawings and renderings for client meetings
• Contributed to interior design and finishes selection
Demolition plan
Render of portal entry
Render of waiting room
Render of pre/post op bays
Del Webb Southern Harmony
MURFREESBORO, TN | Under construction, Sales Center completed in 2024
Professional
Work | LS3P Associates
Southern Harmony is a new active adult community located on a 580-acre site outside Nashville. The major structures in this community are the Sales Center, Amenity Center, and several accessory structures. The architectural language of these buildings is that of a modern farmhouse, with gabled metal roofs and board and batten siding, inspired by the barn vernacular of rural Tennessee.
Role
| Designer and BIM Lead (Winter 2022-Spring 2023)
• Contributed to the design of the major buildings and accessory structures
• Built structures in Revit and managed cloud models
• Produced significant portions of the conceptual and schematic drawing sets
• Made drawing sets and renderings for client meetings
• Led Lumion animation production efforts
Amenity Center floor plan
NS section of Sales Center
Render of Amenity Center entrance
Render of Amenity Center pool
Render of Stage Pavilion at night
Construction details (clockwise from top left: roof subsystem, wall subsystem, stone pier plan detail, side porch roof connection
Completed Sales Center (photo from Trulia)
Sales room (photo from American Constructors)
Sales Center back porch (photo from American Constructors)
Notre Dame Temporary Church and Museum
PARIS, FRANCE | Fall 2019
Project
Academic Project
The approach for this project was to challenge, manipulate, and form circulation flows to respond to the different programmatic elements of the temporary church, permanent museum, plaza, and archaeological crypt. The intent was to expand one’s perception and understanding of Notre Dame, its history, and the recent fire.
Urbanistically, the museum extends the street edge while better defining the plaza and helping frame and organize the circulation of people going into Notre Dame. The plaza is carved away to dramatically reveal the crypt. The museum’s exhibits tell the story of the fire, the significance of what was destroyed, and the restoration efforts.
Conceptual collage
Composite site plan showing circulation of temporary church during and outside of service as well as holiday services
of
Circulation
completed museum, reconstructed plaza, and restored Notre Dame Cathedral
Exhibit on the attic of Notre Dame with a partial reconstruction Exhibit on the beginning of the fire as captured on social media
reconstruction of the “forest”
Exhibit on the history and collapse of the spire
Pier 57 Megastructure
MANHATTAN, NY | Fall 2018
Project Type
Office, Hotel, Cultural, Institutional, Transit, Urban Design, Landscaping, Environmental Design; Mixed Use
Project Size
5.4 million ft2
Academic Team Project
The Pier 76 megastructure is intended to respond to the main crises New York faces that threaten its growth and viability as a top-tier global city. The megastructure’s podium consists of a ferry transit hub and a theater/ arena venue, as well as levels for residential, education, and shared workspaces. The skyscraper rises above it and contains offices, hotel, and residential floors. The constructed berm extends outward along the river’s edge.
Role
• Contributed to development of the conceptual basis for the project, design work on the tower and riparian edge portions, digital and physical modeling, and the final drawing set and model
The elevated berm/riparian edge that strings together green spaces along the Hudson to protect the city edge
The public “arts atrium” connecting residences to performing arts and convention halls
rainwater collected by fin channels and guided into cisterns
transparent pv curtain wall
fins shaped to shade against harsh light in atrium gathering spaces
Fin facade/double skin curtain wall study models
water collected by 6” thick extensive green roof collection rate:
vertical axis wind turbine
1 turbine=10,000 kW/hr
384 turbines=3.84 mil kW/hr