Boat House & Sailing Center
3rd Year / Fall 2024 13 Weeks
Nature Observatory Guest Retreat
2nd Year / Spring 2024 11 Weeks
Cambria Passenger Station Competition
3rd Year / Fall 2024 1 Week
Documentation of 1908 Quaker Cabin
Post-2nd Year / Summer 2024 7 Weeks 14-19 20-23 24-27
King St. Restrooms AIA Competition
3rd Year / Spring 2025 3 Days 28-29
2nd Year / Fall 2023
3 Weeks
Horticulture Garden Shed
2nd Year / Fall 2023 3 Weeks
Pin-Up Pavilion
2nd Year / Fall 2023 1 Week
Collection
2nd Year / Fall 2023 1 Week
Selected Artworks
2023 & 2024
Both buildings are positioned in relation to the shore, creating an intermediary space for outdoor instruction.
Claytor Lake, VA
3rd Year / Fall 2024
13 Weeks
4,950 sq ft
This sailing facility complex accommodates the Virginia Tech Sailing Club and their boats. The program is split between a conditioned center located inland and a partially-covered boat house and dock network situated on the shore.
1/16” scale site axonometric 24” x 36” tagboard
Six large, sail-like fabrics hang from cables attached to the beams and foundation. They shade the boat house’s interior from the south-eastern sun and provide a delicate layer of enclosure.
optical tapestry
Arrival at the sailing pavilion’s delta via boat assumes the viewer to have their perspective blurred by water, sunscreen, bright rays, and reflections. The architecture and environment are distilled to figures of line, form, and color.
docking, storage, & instruction
The boat house’s interior can host eight sailboats: four harbored and four hung from a cable pulley system. Ampitheatre style seating allows for outdoor teaching on the water.
Interior spaces include a conference room, office, small library, kitchenette, open storage foyer, and restrooms with showers. Covered storage to the left is for sailboats with their masts down.
3/16” scale strucutral axonometric, layered 24” x 36” tagboard & trace paper
procession
The covered pathway permeates the building, concealing the entrances and framing a view of the lake. The large front windows and column arcade open the facade.
The gift of site requires delicate reciprocation. The plan is treated as a series of embedded rooms connected by a system of pathways rather than one dwelling unit.
Heritage Park, VA
2nd Year / Spring 2024
11 Weeks
4,490 sq ft
This guest house is designed to accommodate nine friends visiting for weekend excursions to explore local natural areas.
earth to dwelling to sky
The retreat is partially embedded; thick stone walls taper and culminate in perimeter cleretories. Defined floor to ceiling windows pair with carved landscape channels. The roof structure prioritizes natural light.
reflection
The observation tower above a meditation chamber allows guests to reflect on their natural surroundings. The qualifications of a “tower” are redefined regarding vertical height and visibility. The light shaft illuminates the underground alcove below.
*Second Place
Cambria Yard, VA
3rd Year / Fall 2024
1 Week
3,150 sq ft
This proposed train station for the New River Valley is designed to accommodate varying levels of transportation and movement. Fluid exterior to interior transitions welcome passengers into the station and allow people to move efficiently.
*All work shown was completed within the competition’s given six days.
The roof above the interior waiting space opens up into a glass atrium, where passengers can see both the arrival of trains and vehicles for pick-up.
circulation
The southern entrance welcomes quick pick-ups and drop-offs from the back road. The bridge invites pedestrain entry and culminates in an overlook facing the train tracks.
The wood conditions of the cabin exhibit histories of repair, layers of staining, natural weathering, and structural decay over the past century.
Pocono, PA
Post-2nd Year / Summer 2024
7 Weeks
2,640 sq ft
This dwelling garners an essence of place through its history, local values, and natural surroundings. Built in 1908, my family’s cabin in a secluded Quaker community has served as the architectural heart for annual summer festivities of many generations. This cabin is clad with memory, ancestry, and natural bliss. Between uninsulated walls and eaves, sublime new growth seeps through, including ferns, spiders, moths, dragonflies, and bats (as well as the occasional bear break-in). This is the marrow that defines familial and religious Quaker values of simplicity, natural connection, peace, and community.
In anticipatory memoriam of the cabin’s demolition in October 2024 (due to structural decay), I spent my weekends of that summer documenting its existing structure and architectural conditions. For these handdrafted drawings, I referenced an architect’s baseline dimensions of the cabin, although I took the majority of measurements by hand while spending weekends there to draw and document.
The structural beam & eave plan serves as a reflected ceiling plan. Exposed framework, lack of insulation, and the material promenance of wood have structural candor.
drawings drafted at 1/4” scale 18” x
*School-Level Finalist
Alexandria, VA
3rd Year / Spring 2025 3 days
2,200 sq ft
The proposed architecture revitalizes the existing covered metro station space. In addition to necessary ADA-compliant utilites, the side spaces include private childcare & nursing rooms as well as seating. The ‘carved’ outside space provides a gathering destination for large school groups, children who may have lost their parents, friends meeting at the station, or people searching for directions.
*All work shown was completed within the competition’s given three days.
eddy & illumination
Masoned partitions of glass block and brick create a free plan of efficient pedestrian flow. Sunlight is captured by the curved glass block walls and diffused into the space.
Forest Grove Clearing
2nd Year / Fall 2023
3 Weeks
1,840 sq ft
The pavilion’s modulation and spatial sequencing provide its title of ‘Cadence.’ This architecture encourages a type of methodical procession, varying based on the time of day.
The pavilion’s diagrammatic floorplan is iterated to create the patterns of the 34 sliding doors.
module & structure
A modular structural & track system allows the pavilion’s 34 sliding doors to move. Different interior spaces are created throughout the day to emphasize various architectural patterns and pedestrian flows based on the sun path.
The morning sun highlights the east, open entrance of the pavilion. By dusk, the configuration of doors creates further enclosure and emphasizes the sunken west room.
Hahn Horticulture Garden, VA
2nd Year / Fall 2023
3 Weeks
66 sq ft
This shed humbly serves the care of its local landscape by storing necessary equipment for Virginia Tech’s Hahn Horticulture Garden. Its design is subservient to the landscape’s natural beauty. In this manner, the shed is not a statement of its own, but regarded by its modest purpose to sustain the garden.
utility & order
Division of the plan into primary, secondary, and tertiary use spaces increases accessibility and efficiency by utilizing compartmentalization.
The shed’s embedded gutter system releases water at two points on its back-facing side. Landscaped drainage allows rain to flow down the natural slope of the topography.
roof to column to floor
Elevations and sections display the shed’s exposed beam to column relationships. The partitions’ apertures create a sense of transparency.
*Competition Finalist
Burchard Hall, Blacksburg, VA
2nd Year / Spring 2024
1 Week
400 sq ft
Contemplation, critique, and revision are at the core of an architectural education, although many students grow numb to their projects while rooted to their desks. This sequestered space encourages students to pin-up in-progress work, reflect, practice for reviews, and discuss ideas with peers.
*All work shown was completed within the competition’s given six days.
A thin curtain along the perimeter allows for flexible levels of privacy within the space.
Collection
2nd Year / Fall 2023
1 Week
18” x 24” posters
The merit of craft and analog means of creation often becomes lost within an increasingly digitized society. Although technology allows for greater applied precision, there is an equal value placed on the precision of idea, method, technique, process, and act of making.
This work was created with an oil-based printmkaing ink and a metal paint palette knife.
Process in relation to “product” and the idea of finality.
Ode to the iterative process & the design principle of repetition and pattern.
Underlying structure & reasoning beneath the drawn construction of a design.
My approach to painting and drawing is fundamental to how I design architecture. The process of layering is a way of thinking that is paralleled between various creative methods. The practice of pause and observation is crucial to an artist and designer in order to both discern and construct detail.
