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About Me
I am a fourth-year student of architecture studying at Northeastern University who is deeply passionate about architectural history, particularly how its reinterpretation through design can facilitate preservation of the beauty and craftsmanship inherent in the architecture of yesteryear. The possibilities that arise through the application of classical design principles and traditional construction methods in our contemporary work fascinate me. I enjoy problem solving through collaboration and using hand-drawing to express my design ideas efficiently. In addition, I am also familiar with using software to demonstrate my designs. Self-study is a significant passion of mine, and I enjoy reading literature on architecture to supplement my education. I am thrilled by the future opportunities, projects, and experiences afforded to me by additional work experience in the future. .
Academic Work
Emerald Nexus Urban Development Project fall 2024
Creative Campus Design Sketches - IE University spring 2024
Chinatown Library Proposal fall 2022
Double House spring 2022
Personal Work
Ionic Arches Park
winter 2024-25
Palazzo Di Bianchi summer 2024-Fall 2025
Assorted Drawings 2019-present
COMPLETED WITH
EMERALD NEXUS
FOR AN URBAN DEVELOPMENT STUDIO, WE WERE TASKED WITH REVITALIZING A SITE CURRENTLY UNDEVELOPED IN BOSTON’S MISSION HILL NEIGBORHOOD. THE PROJECT DEMANDED DIVERSE PROGRAMS, FROM COMMUNITY SPACES AND STORES TO HOUSING FOR STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND SINGLE WORKING PEOPLE. WE RESPONDED WITH A DESIGN THAT UTILIZES CIRCULATION AXES TO DRAW PEDESTRIANS TO A CENTER WITH THREE MIXED-USE TOWERS TO MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY OF DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SIMULTANEOUSLY. FOR ADDITIONAL HOUSING ON THE OUTER EDGE OF THE SITE, WE RE-INTERPRETED THE TOWNHOUSE DESIGN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO FACILIATE INTERNAL CIRCULATION BETWEEN RESIDENCES. PERMEATING ALL OUTDOOR AREAS ON THE SITE ARE LUSH GREENSPACES, INCLUDING A SOCCER FIELD. IN ANOTHER MOVE TO MAXIMIZE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, THE OPPOSING CORNERS OF THE SITE FEATURE A LIBRARY AND STORES RESPECTIVELY.
SITE PLAN. WE AIMED TO INCORPORATE AN ABUNDANCE OF GREEN SPACES TO ENCOURAGE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND AN IMPROVED CONNECTION BETWEEN RESIDENTS AND NATURE IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
AXONOMETRIC VIEW SHOWING PROGRAM. MIXED USE TOWERS IN THE CENTER WITH COMMUNITY AREAS CONCENTRATED IN THE CORNER CLOSEST TO ROXBURY TRAIN STATION.
DESIGN GUIDELINES
TRANSECT SITE STUDY
CONNECTION:
DESIGN GUIDELINES
PROVIDE THRESHOLDS BETWEEN SPACES TO FACILITATE OR INHIBIT MOVEMENT, DEPENDING ON INTENDED USE AND USERS OF THE SPACE. THRESHOLDS CAN BE MADE USEFUL WITH CAFES OR STORES.
CONNECTION
PROVIDE THRESHOLDS BETWEEN SPACES TO ADD INTEREST
RECREATION:
SPORTS FIELD AND OPEN PARK LAND FOR EVERYONE ENCOURAGES MOVEMENT AND ACTIVITIES.
RECREATION
THE STOOP:
SPORTS FIELD AND OPEN PARK LAND PROVIDE OUTDOOR SPACE THE STOOP
PLACE OF GATHERING AND SEPARATION FROM STREET LEVEL
A PLACE OF GATHERING AND SOCIALIZING, USED BY RESIDENTS AND PASSERBY ALIKE. HEIGHT DIFFERENCE ALSO REMOVES ROWHOUSES FROM BUSY STREET BELOW.
THRESHOLD PUBLIC PARK THE STOOP
THRESHOLD PUBLIC PARK THE STOOP
VIEW OF THE CENTRAL STREET, OPEN TO PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS, AND CARS. STREET TREES AND STOOPS AIM TO IMPROVE STREETSCAPE CONDITION WHILE THE TOWERS BECKON PEDESTRIANS TO HEAD TOWARDS THE CENTRAL NEXUS.
VIEW AS YOU ENTER THE SITE FROM ROXBURY TRAIN STATION, FACING THE LIBRARY REFLECTING POOL.
VIEW OF THE PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL COURTYARD, SHOWING INTERIOR BALCONIES AND ABUNDANT GREENERY.
IE CREATIVE CAMPUS
WHILE STUDYING ABROAD AT IE UNIVERSITY IN SEGOVIA, SPAIN, I WAS TASKED WITH DESIGNING AN ADDITION TO THEIR CAMPUS FOR DESIGN STUDENTS. SINCE WE WERE OFFERED A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY AND WERE ENCOURAGED TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, MY CAMPUS DESIGN INVOLVED CLASSROOMS DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THE RIVER RUNNING THROUGH SEGOVIA. HISTORICALLY, NUMEROUS INDUSTRIES IN THE TOWN RELIED ON THE RIVER, SO I CHOSE TO ADD CLASSROOM SPACES THAT FOCUSED ON THESE CRAFTS. SINCE THE RIVER VALLEY IS PRONE TO FLOODING, CERTAIN SPACES OF THE SCHOOL I DESIGNED TO BE INUNDATED SEASONALLY IN AN EFFORT TO FURTHER INGRAIN THE PRESENCE OF THE RIVER IN THE STUDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE. THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS I MADE USE OF DIAGRAMMATIC SKETCHES - NOT ONLY TO WORK THROUGH IDEAS FOR MY DESIGN, BUT ALSO FOR MY FINAL PRESENTATION. MY STUDIO PROFESSOR WAS THOROUGHLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ENDEAVOUR.
CHINATOWN LIBRARY
THE CITY OF BOSTON MAINTAINS MULTIPLE BRANCHES OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY THROUGHOUT THE CITY, BUT NOT IN CHINATOWN. IN THE SPIRIT OF ENRICHING THIS COMMUNITY, MY STUDIO WAS ENGAGED TO DESIGN A MUCH-NEEDED BRANCH LOCATION. FOR MY DESIGN, I UTILIZED A ROUGH STONE PLINTH ON THE GROUND FLOOR, HOLDING UP A RECTILINEAR FORM OF GLASS AND STEEL THAT CONTAINS THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOORS. ON THE GROUND FLOOR, THREE-FOOT-THICK STONE WALLS ILLICIT A CAVE-LIKE FEELING IN THE PATRONS, SUBLIMINALLY URGING THEM TO ASCEND THE GRAND STAIRCASE TO THE BRIGHTLY SUNLIT READING ROOM AND ADDITIONAL PROGRAM UPSTAIRS.
MODEL PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING PRIMARY APPROACH ELEVATION
RIGHT: EXPLODED AXON VIEW SHOWING ROUGH BASE AND SLEEK SUPERSTRUCTURE. CIRCULATION PATHS OPEN UP AS THE LEVELS INCREASE.
VIEW OF MAIN STAIRWAY ATRIUM FROM ABOVE
MODEL PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING THE ROUGH STONE PLINTH AND SLEEK GLASS SUPERSTRUCTURE OF THE LIBRARY.
SECTION. ATRIA BATHE THE INTERIOR WITH LIGHT FROM ABOVE, CONNECTING THE GROUND FLOOR SPACES TO FLOORS ABOVE.
HARVARD STREET
DOUBLE HOUSE
FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, EACH STUDENT WAS ASSIGNED A FICTIONAL SITE ON A STREET WITH ITS OWN UNIQUE TOPOGRAPHY. THERE WERE TWO “CLIENTS,” SISTERS WHO WERE AN ARTIST AND A WRITER RESPECTIVELY. WRITER SISTER REQUESTED ROOM FOR HER FAMILY AND A LIBRARY, WHILE ARTIST SISTER REQUESTED A STUDIO AND AMPLE ENTERTAINING SPACE. GIVEN THE SITE’S DRAMATICALLY SLOPING TOPOGRAPHY, I MADE USE OF RETAINING WALLS AND GRADE CHANGES TO DEFINE A HIERARCHY OF THE HOMES, WITH THE LARGER OF THE TWO BEING HIGHER UP ON THE HILL. WE WERE GIVEN A DETAILED PROGRAM WITH EVERY ROOM’S SQUARE FOOTAGE LAID OUT, WHICH MADE ORGANIZING THE FLOOR PLAN WITHIN A TRADITIONAL SHELL AN ENJOYABLE PUZZLE TO SOLVE.
WRITER’S HOUSE ELEVATIONS
ARTIST’S HOUSE ELEVATIONS
APPROACH, SHOWING GARAGE AND GRADE DIFFERENCE
SECTION
ORIGINAL SITE TOPOGRAPHY
MODIFIED TOPOGRAPHY
IONIC ARCHES PARK
THIS DESIGN FOR A COMBINED PARK PAVILLION AND GATEWAY BEGAN AS A CAPRICCIO OF SORTS, MAKING USE OF THE IONIC ORDER. SOON AFTER BEGINNING, I FOUND IT TO BE A GREAT EXERCISE IN MODELING COMPLEX FORMS IN RHINOCEROS. THE COFFERED ARCHES, CURVED TRIM PIECES AND DENTILS THROUGHOUT THE DESIGN WERE A FUN CHALLENGE.
GATEWAY PLAN. THE PIERS FEATURE OUTWARDLY FACING DETACHED COLUMNS AND ROUNDED PILASTERS ON THE SIDES. ABOVE THE EIGHT INNER PIERS IS AN ORNAMENTAL RECESSED MEDALLION THAT SERVES AS DECORATION BEHIND STATUARY. ON EITHER SIDE OF THE GATEWAY SIT A TERRACE AND A REFLECTING POOL RINGED BY CLIPPED TREES AND A WALKING PATH.
VIEW OF DOME, COFFERED ARCHES, ENTABLATURE AND COLUMN CAPITALS. THE ENTABLATURE HAS ACORNS ON THE CORNERS BETWEEN THE OUTERMOST DENTILS.
PALAZZO DI BIANCHI
PALAZZO DI BIANCHI - THE WHITE PALACE - BEGAN AS A FREE TIME PROJECT. I SEEKED TO BUILD A GRAND ITALIANATE MANSION. IT QUICKLY DEVELOPED INTO THE MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT I HAD ATTEMPTED IN MINECRAFT YET. THE HOUSE REFERENCES NUMEROUS HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FRICK MANSION BY CARRERE AND HASTINGS, THE WATER GARDENS AT OHEKA CASTLE BY THE OLMSTEAD BROTHERS, AND VILLA LEOPOLDA BY OGDEN CODMAN.
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: FRONT ELEVATION OF THE HOUSE WITH BALL ROOM WING ON LEFT SIDE, STABLE FOR TWELVE HORSES WITH HORSE PADDOCKS, SEMICIRCULAR TEA ROOM AS SEEN FROM THE SUNKEN AMPHITHEATER, WINERY AND SURROUNDING VINEYARD, AND GARDEN AS SEEN FROM REAR TERRACE, SHOWING ALLEES OF MASSIVE CYPRESS, FLOWER BEDS, THE WATER GARDEN, AND THE DOMED GARDEN PAVILION.
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: AERIAL VIEW OF THE ESTATE, SERVICE RESIDENCE, CYPRESS-LINED SUNKEN AMPHITHEATER WITH BANDSTAND, ONE OF TWO MONUMENT GARDENS WITH RUINED GREEK COLONNADE, AND FOUNTAIN ALONG THE HORSE PATH THAT ENCIRCLES THE ESTATE.
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: UNDERGROUND POOL, DARK-OAK LIBRARY, GRAND BALLROOM, ART GALLERY WING, FORMAL DINING ROOM.
PERSONAL DRAWINGS
ABOVE: RENDERING OF A HOUSE LOCATED IN SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK DESIGNED BY FLEETWOOD MCMULLAN ARCHITECTS.
RIGHT: FRONT FACADE DESIGN FOR A SMALL THEATER.
