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TABLE OF CONTENTS To be continued is a developing concepts that curated collection of my integrate into the structural undergraduate studio projects fabric of buildings. While these in reverse chronological order, projects symbolize my current showcasing the evolution of place in my architectural journey, my architectural journey from they are not concluWsions but my most recent completion to rather starting points for future the beginning of my studies. exploration. I am committed to The portfolio features a diverse continuing to explore, learn, range of projects, both in terms and reflect on these endeavors, of programming and concept recognizing that my abilities development. Highlighting and knowledge in the field are not only the variety of my in a constant state of evolution. experiences but also my graphic To be continued encapsulates development. This compilation not just the retrospective serves as a visual testament to nature of this portfolio but also my growth as an architecture the ongoing narrative of my student, emphasizing my architectural education and proficiency in aspirations.

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01 SANCTUARY WITHIN THE TREES Fall 2023 - Professor Sergi Serrat - Architectural Design and Performance....................................................p. 04-09 - ACSA COTE Top 10 Project Site: Mahomet, IL

02 CULTIVATING CONNECTIVITY Spring 2023 - Professor Joseph Altshuler - Designing for Human Well-Being ...................................................p. 10-17 Project Site: Chicago, IL

03 PANTHEON OF LEMONADE Spring 2023 - Professor Joseph Altshuler - Designing for Human Well-Being ...................................................p. 16-17 Project Site: N/A

04 MEANDER Fall 2022 - Professor Isabella Hillman - Architectural Design and Urbanism .................................................. p. 20-21 Project Site: Chicago, IL

05 ENCAPSULATE Fall 2022 - Professor Isabella Hillman - Architectural Design and Urbanism .................................................. p. 24-31 Project Site: Champaign, IL

06 DIFFUSION Spring 2022 - Professor Yun Kyu Yi & Professor Andrea Melgarejo de Berry ................................................... p. 30-33 - Architectural Design and Urbanism Project Site: Chicago, IL

07 SKETCHES Fall 2020-Fall 2023 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 34-35

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SANCTUARY WITHIN THE TREES SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino3D Project Type: Individual ACHIEVEMENTS: Earl Prize Nomination

Sanctuary within the Trees The building itself will act as transcends the traditional a teacher. Generating its own boundaries of what an resources and managing its own elementary school is. Nestled waste, energy, food, and water, within the Lake of the Woods through community gardens, Forest Preserve in Mahomet, compost bins, and water Illinois, it allows students to harvesting receptors located learn while immersed in nature, on the ground floor plane. and evokes a sense of security Sanctuary within the Trees to push their learning further. will be a place where students Through transformable layouts learn not just in the school, but and immersive circulation, from it as well. Students will education will not be confined find going to school will offer within four walls, but it will meld them seclusion and security seamlessly with its surrounding within the tree line and a unique natural phenomena. learning opportunity.

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View of central net

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View within a classroom

CULTIVATING CONNECTIVITY SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino3D Project Type: Group (Project Partner: Robert Lashley) ACHIEVEMENTS: Earl Prize 1st Place

Cultivating Connectivity is a beckoning community members social infrastructure for Albany inside while compartments Park that generates a new arrayed along its perimeter typology of civic space centered provide storage for a loanable on well-being activities such inventory of garden tools, as gardening and fitness. A populating the building’s continuous , helical track wraps facade with a dynamic flux of around a central open-air content. With opportunities to community garden, offereing attract neighbors with different visitors an adventurous interests and motivations. running or walking experience Cultivating Connectivity alongside panoramic views. makes space for building new, The inclinced track reaches out intersectional relationships toward the street,

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Perspective of section A-A’

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CULTIVATING CONNECTIVITY View of shelving facade

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CULTIVATING CONNECTIVITY View from ramp to community garden

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PANTHEON OF LEMONADE SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, SketchUp Project Type: Individual ACHIEVEMENTS: N/A

Pantheon of Lemonade is a lemonade will travel through drinking experience designed pipes and fall onto users who with the intention to bring 100 will have cups provided for strangers closer together. Users catching the lemonade. Through must partake in the creation of this unique experience the goal lemonade by picking lemons is to create a space that invites off the lemon trees enveloping the building’s perimeter. The laughter and child-like joy to shared experience of creating participants of any age, and also the beverage will then filter encourages an environment that participants into the main initiates neighborly comradery open space. With “Cloudy and sparks conversation and with a Chance of Meatballs” relationship between groups of inspiration, strangers.

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Exploded Building Axon

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View of shared experience

MEANDER SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, SketchUp, V-ray Project Type: Individual ACHIEVEMENTS: Earl Prize Nomination

Meander is a Performing Arts through concrete bridges Center which is situated at the that connect the structural crossroads of the West Loop components of the building and Greektown in Chicago, together. This unconventional Illinois. Through an in-depth circulation strategy becomes a exploration of Greek history defining feature, where bridges and visiting the site, the project are integrated as a primary found its inspiration through means of navigating through the the profound symbolism of space. Meander incorporates the Greek meander. The Greek both literal and abstract meander, symbolizing unity, interpretations of the meander, forms the core ethos of Meander, creating purposeful zones for as a space that is meant to performers and attendees bring together Greektown and to actively engage with the the broader Chicago community building, and allows individual within its shared public space. users to interact within the The concept is further developed building and create meaningful by embracing the denotation of experiences within the dynamic “meander”, inviting individuals spaces tucked away within. to follow a winding course,

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View of building’s exterior

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West Elevation

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View from user on bridges

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MEANDER View of dynamic practice rooms

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ENCAPSULATE SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, SketchUp Project Type: Individual ACHIEVEMENTS: N/A

Encapsulate is a vibrant While at its core, Encapsulate bookstore developed in the operates as a bookstore, it heart of downtown Champaign, duals as a space that welcomes Illinois, designed to be a coffee enthusiasts and avid dynamic and user-centric readers during the day, and space. Prioritizing user post-work happy hour and local experience, Encapsulate fills a performers in the evening. A void in the local landscape by central performance pit acts as integrating diverse programs the main attraction, dynamically and optimizing the building’s shifting its role from day to functionality. ,Distinct needs and night. This multifunctional preferences in the surrounding space serves as a catalyst for area are acknowledged, through interaction and excitement, adaptable programming of emphasizing Encapsulate’s daytime and nighttime activities commitment to providing This approach creates a unique a versatile and engaging and inviting experience for its environment for all users. visitors.

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View of building’s exterior

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ENCAPSULATE View of conversation pit to performance pit

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ENCAPSULATE View of upsairs nooks

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DIFFUSION SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino3D Project Type: Individual ACHIEVEMENTS: N/A

Diffusion is a versatile building approach of Diffusion situated in Chicago, Illinois, deliberately contrasts with which blends public with its immediate surroundings. private spaces. Developed Green roofs are strategically with a sustainable design positioned to address rainfall approach, the development’s and serve as a natural cooling key features revolve around mechanism, contributing to the integration of greenery and energy conservation. Despite natural lighting, The exterior its multiple functions-serving fins are strategical;y employed as a restaurant on the first two to disperse light throughout levels and functioning as office the building, creating an space on the upper levels- the atmosphere that avoids harsh design ensures a cohesive lighting. Additionally, a light experience for users. The well with a greenery atrium, continuous design throughout visible from various vantage the interiors fosters a sense of points within the building, unity, allowing occupants of both further enhance the connection spaces to be interconnected. to nature. The architectural

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View of building’s exterior

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OutlinesStructural of fins on facade base of site of the building. Concept development

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Green atrium within light well. Outlines on roof where green Step 4 roofs and light wells will be placed. on facade extruded in Fins on facade extruded inFins descending widths. descending widths.

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Green Roofs

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Second floor plan

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SKETCHES MEDIUM: Pencil and Pen Project Type: Individual ACHIEVEMENTS: N/A

A culmination of sketches focus on the exploration of completed during my shadow and attention to detail undergraduate studies, that in each drawing. These pieces highlight various studio include variety of subjects which observations as well as furthered my understanding personal sketches done outside of scale and proportion in of the classroom. Through drawings, which is knowledge these sketches I was able to that I frequently refer to and explore different techniques utilize it for varying applications with varying mediums, and during my studies.

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