Malcolm Rondell Galang Architecture Portfolio

Malcolm Rondell B. Galang Architecture Portfolio

2016 - 2020 Selected Works

01. 2019 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project

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02. Floating Community

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03. Familiar-Unfamiliar Immigration Center

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04. Suspended City

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05. ShopHouse

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06. Microhome 2019

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07. Paradigm City

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01. 2019 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project New Haven, CT Advisor: Alan Organschi and Adam Hopfner Teammates: Louis Koushouris, April Liu, Lousia Nolte and Leyi Zhang

The house is the third in a series designed and built in collaboration with Columbus House, a New Havenbased homelessness services provider. Each of the three units will be a new home for an area family formerly experiencing homelessness.

This year’s project takes inspiration from New Haven’s traditional housing stock. In particular, the triple-decker—a type of house divided into three stacked units—provides the DNA of the design and allows it to fit in harmoniously with its neighbors by matching their silhouette and setback from the street.

The large porch spaces provide generous views out over the backyard and street but are screened with wooden slats to protect residents from being overly visible, a primary concern discovered during student interviews with New Haveners dealing with homelessness.

The roof of the house was specially designed with the optimum slope and orientation to take advantage of solar radiation. A photovoltaic array provided by New Haven Community Solar generates low-cost and sustainable power.

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Front Facade

Photograph by Zelig Fok and Iain Gomez

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Exploded Model

Site Model

Triple Decker Our proposal re-imagines the New Haven typology of the triple decker. We have adopted principles of the triple-decker apartment building, which typically use the same floor plans for all units and gives each resident an outdoor place.

The apartments each have the same floor plan, including a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and porch/balcony, but are rotated to allow entrance from a common entry staircase as it moves up through the structure. The rotation of the stacked units also allows for acoustic separation for rooms that might be in use at certain parts of the day.

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entry stair 13'-7"x3'-3"

nook 9'-10"x4'-9" storage 2'-0"x9'-6" ceiling height 8'-6"

kitchen 7'-4"x7'-6"

living room 16'-7"x9'-6"

ceiling height 8'-0" to 10'-6" storage 2'-0"x4'-8"

bathroom 7'-0"x5'-0"

ceiling height 8'-6"

ceiling height 7'-0" to 9'-6"

garden 15'-7"x11'-8"

bedroom 10'-4"x8'-6"

Third Floor Plan nook 3'-6"x3'-11"

closet 5'-0"x2'-0"

bathroom 5'-0"x7'-0" bedroom 8'-6"x10'-4"

kitchen 7'-6"x7'-4"

ceiling height 8'-6" typ.

living room 10'-4"x14'-8"

garden 11'-8"x11'-8"

Second Floor Plan

nook 3'-11"x6'-9"

exterior closet 4'-10"x2'-0" nook 4'-10"x3'-10"

closet 5'-6"x2'-0"

bedroom 10'-4"x8'-6"

garden 11'-8"x11'-8"

bathroom 7'-0"x5'-0"

storage 1'-6"x10'-4" ceiling height 8'-6" typ. living room 14'-8"x10'-4"

kitchen 7'-4"x7'-6" entry 3'-11"x8'-0"

Organizational Diagram

First Floor Plan

3'-11"

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Photograph by Zelig Fok and Iain Gomez

Third Floor Unit Entrance

Borrowed Space A gap between two structural parts

First Floor Nook + Exterior Closet

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Third Floor Stair + Second Floor Nook with Closet Third floor interior stair + Third second floor floor interiorThird stair + floor second interior floor stair + second floor nook with closet nook with closet nook with closet

Living Room

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02. Floating Community New York, NY Advisor: Sunil Bald

The project is a direct response to the impacts of rapid urbanization, housing shortage, and significant increase in sea level, rainfall and flooding caused by climate change in coastal areas. With the accelerating rate of rising sea level (estimated to be 0.25 mm per year from 1993–2005, and 0.42 mm per year from 2005 to 2015), coastal areas require urgent adaptation and innovative building strategy. By focusing on developing floating architecture, the project eliminated the need for grading, foundation construction or any site specific preparations. With its disconnect to a specific site, the project is able to be rapidly deployed, expand and adapt to any coastal areas.

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Multi-Unit Aerial

Render

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Dual Micro-Community Section

Single Unit

8 Units with Shared Courtyard

Though the project was meant to be able to expand indefinitely, the initial design was to provide dwellings for 32 individuals. Within this community of 32, it consists of several micro-communities, and each micro-community consists of eight individual units.

Each unit in each micro-community interlock together to form a shared green space in its core. Two microcommunities can then be interlocked together to create a larger green space and a shared enclosed amenity space. Finally, four or more micro-communities can be interlocked together to create a continuous green walkway and shared amenities throughout the entire floating community. The community was designed in a way that it can interlock and continue to grow independently from the existing land.

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14 Units with Shared Amenities and Green Space

56 Units with Shared Amenities and Green Space

Single Micro-Community Section

Single Unit Section and Plan

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03. Familiar-Unfamiliar Immigration Center New Haven, CT Advisor: Iñaqui Carnicero

The project is an attempt to produce a space that evokes a sense of belonging, familiarity and freedom to express one’s self, heritage and culture. It is an immigration center meant to provide a platform free from discrimination for sharing, learning and mixing of different cultures. Through a series of intense site analysis, fragments of familiar urban spaces are extracted and abstracted from different parts of the world, and are brought and used to create space and domesticate the site. By using abstracted familiar spaces around the world any group of people can be represented and feel at home at any given time. To further dismantle any hierarchy or cultural privileges over another, some of these familiar spaces are combined forming new flexible spaces that can accommodate different programs prescribed by the users, producing unfamiliar yet familiar spaces.

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View from Second Floor Courtyard

Render

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Site Analysis

The attempt to replicate the sense of “Home” is done through a series of studies of what is “home” in the present and the past for immigrants. A “home” in the present is where people reside now and the past is where people immigrated from. A series of intense analysis of New Haven was done (“home” in the present) from the New Haven Green to the site’s adjacencies. Then multiple urban spaces around the world are studied, extracted, abstracted and categorized in different possible programs. Together, familiar spaces are produced by emulating the existing urban spaces around the world, and adapting them within New Haven.

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Physical Model

Third Floor Courtyards

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Longitudinal Section

The building is programmatically divided into three levels. The ground floor operates as an open flexible space for events that has varying forms that mimics urban spaces from around the world. The second floor is for the services provided for immigrants such as ESL classes, citizenship classes, economic advising, legal clinics, legal counseling, and job placement assistance. The last level is used for office spaces for employees. Each office space is located on top of a service room below with staircases connecting both spaces allowing easy access between workers and immigrants.

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Transverse Section

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04. Suspended City The Bronx, NY Advisor: Aniket Shahane Teammate: Hiuki Lam

We see the Harlem River as an opportunity to provide much needed housing for the city.

Site is situated in between 2 districts of the Bronx.

Fordham and University Heights, and Inwood, Manhattan. It is dominated by 5- 6-story apartment buildings, with some detached and semi-detached houses nestled between apartment buildings, and taller apartments on the Grand Concourse. Although Bronx renters have the lowest average housing costs in the city at an annual average of $13,000, housing affordability is a challenge even for Bronx families living above the poverty level. 56 percent of households qualify as “rent burdened” - paying more than 30% of their income on housing expenses. The availability of housing and quality of living conditions is also low. It has the highest rates of overcrowding with 14.3%. With high rates of poverty - combined with overcrowding, rent burdens, and low vacancy levels - families are pushed out of stable housing and into homelessness.

But what if we can find another way to provide housing? What if the river itself became a new ground for housing?

We’re proposing to create and utilize bridges and the space on top of the river to create new housings that will bridge the existing neighborhoods, and at the same time, alleviate the need for affordable housing in the Bronx.

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Suspended City Aerial

Render

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Proposal

5 Types of Housing To address the needs or issues building on a river, we created 5 types of housing driven by different parameters. Housing at the edge of the river, housing in the middle of the river, and small single-family house, low-rise, and low density housing.

This new housing can be reached by boats, cars, bike or by foot with access to green space in multiple levels and amenities below

Longitudinal Section

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High Density Housing In the Middle of the River

Small House

Low-Rise

High Density Housing At the Edge of the River

Low Density Low-Rise

Proposal

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High-density Housing Apartments

Communal Green Space in Every Level

Apartments

Outdoor circulation

Outdoor circulation

Park Double Height Multi-Purpose Space

Boat Docks

Main Bridge: Pedestrian on Top Cars at the Bottom

Type 1: High Density at the Edge of the River

Type 1: Housing at the edge of the river

Type 1: High Density atthe Edge of the River

Being farther from main roads, and more connected to the water, it is important that we address the possibility of residents favoring water transportation over land. So at the bottom level of every type 1, are boating docks reserved for privately owned boats by the residents. Also being only partly connected to land, level has access to green space through exterior stairs and terraces. Type 1 can accommodate 140 apt. units that includes a 2 bedroom, 1 bedroom and a studio. It also has 2 levels of commercial and amenities.

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Communal Green Space in Every Level

Apartments

Apartments

Outdoor circulation Park

Main Bridge: Pedestrian on Top Cars at the Bottom

Outdoor circulation Boat Docks Passage for Larger Boats

Double Height Multi-Purpose Space

Boat Docks

Type 2: High Density in the Middle of the River

Type 2: Housing in the middle of the river The upper levels of type 2 is similar to type 1. It has exterior circulation, communal green space, and 2 levels of commercial and amenity spaces. However, aside from boating docks, on the bottom level, type 2 High Density in the Middle of the River requires enough space for large boatsType to 2:pass under.

So a 100’ wide and 60’ high space is left voided on the bottom for larger boats.

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Low-density Housing

Type 3: Small House Type 3 is the small house which has a water courtyard and skylight. This type gives a more infinite and personal scale. It has the living room and kitchen on the first floor, and 3 bedrooms on the second floor.

The private stair connects the bridge to the house and to the river.

Small House Small House Small House

Type 4: Low-rise Type 4 is the low-rise with the first floor open as an extension of the bridge. The exterior stairs connect to the greenway underneath the building. There are two 1 bedroom unit on each floor, providing a total of 6 units with a shared double height space on the first floor.

Low-Rise Low-Rise Low-Rise

Type 5: Low-density low-rise

Low Density Low-Rise Low Density Low-Rise Low Density Low-Rise

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The last type is a low-density low-rise building. The shops on the ground floor act as an extension of the commercial programs on both University Heights and Inwood side. Each floor has a 2 bedroom unit with an outdoor terrace. This type provides more void and cross-level courtyard.

Proposal

All of these individual housings are connected together by a network of bridges. The juxtaposition of these buildings – each vary in sizes, programs and material – creates a lively city on the river. Together, these housings also form a continuous green space from one building to another. It provides more ways of water transportation, and are bridged together by pedestrian and bike paths. By occupying the space on top of the river, we can provide more affordable housing, and alternative cleaner transportation.

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05. ShopHouse Tokyo, Japan Advisors: Hitoshi Abe and Nicholas McDermott

ShopHouse is a unique coworking, coliving, and colearning space created as a response to the decline in Master Artisans in Japan. It preserves hundreds of years of generational knowledge, knowledge that could be lost if not protected. It integrates craftmaking with the contemporary urban context.

Spaces of working, learning, and living overlap to establish connections between master artisans, international brands, local residents, and tourists.

Shophouse provides a platform that promotes collaboration, generational knowledge sharing, and the creation of meaningful relationships.

It recognizes the value of knowledge exchange whether that be between master and apprentice, local and international, or traditional and contemporary.

It seeks to restore relevance to traditional Japanese craft-making by increasing its accessibility to both local and global markets.

It is an attempt to bring together two of almost contradictory worlds, the traditional with the contemporary, and rural with urban. As result, it creates a space that retains elements of traditional workshops for visiting artisans, and at the same time, allows collaboration with the contemporary to produce something innovative. The project is meant to produce a somewhat familiar space for local artisans, and an attraction for tourists and prospective students and consumers to learn about the culture.

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ShopHouse Exterior

Render

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Ecology ShopHouse not only accommodates local artisans, but also provides benefits to its adjacent programs As Hotels provide lodging for our temporary users, ShopHouse will attract more tourists in Nihonbashi giving local Hotels more business.

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Local residents provide financial support to ShopHouse, and in return we provide locals the opportunity to learn traditional culture through various classes.

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Local businesses purchase products from ShopHouse, while ShopHouse draws in a new customer base for local business Residential

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Local Hotels will provide short-term accommodation for these temporary international office workers, and again, giving them more business.

Local Business Owners

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Tourists

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With the cultural programs that ShopHouse provide to Nihonbashi, We are helping to foster a community that values traditional culture and locally made products.

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Close proximity to Office spaces of large international firms give ShopHouse artisans the opportunity to network and collaborate with international brands to innovate their craft and reach out to a wider market.

More international firms will also rent office spaces in Nihonbashi to work with ShopHouse.

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Collaboration Local + International

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Increase Tourism = More Hotel Guest

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Program ShopHouse is looking to invite both master artisans and prospective apprentices, and provide them with living spaces with shared amenities that fosters networking and creating meaningful relationships with fellow artisans.

Ceramic Workshop

Each ShopHouse Live-Work Unit is connected to their respected Shared or Private Studios which gives our tenants the convenience of living closer to work.

We value the idea of learning by making. With our Open and Shared Studios, prospective apprentices learn from a pool of other artisans. Based on their personal interest, they can develop or customize their own curriculum and goals. They can either Continue a traditional craft or innovate.

Both Masters and Apprentices have access to the same workshops. Our Shared workshops not only provide one with the tools and machinery to accommodate production of ceramic, wood and metal crafts, but also allow collaboration between fellow artisans.

We see huge economic value in traditional craftsmanship. For the shokunin ethos to continue to thrive, some products themselves may have to change.

We are giving our artisans the choice to combine shokunin craft with products that are more in demand.

ShopHouse is designating spaces for collaborations between international brands and traditional Japanese crafts to give the traditional a modern twist.

We also seek to share these valuable traditional knowledge to the local community and tourist. We are offering classes that gives anyone the opportunity to learn and make with our artisans.

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Finally, Once a product is finished, they are packed and sold in our own storefronts, or showcased in our exhibition spaces

Office

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Unrolled Elevation

Fabric Workshop

Restaurant

Exhibition Space

Metal Workshop

Apartments

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Shophouse stem from the idea that in order to resolve the issue of declining shokunin, these local artisans need to collaborate with international companies to create new ways for their traditional products to be more relevant in the contemporary market.

Correspondingly, this project is a proposal for a new type of space that aims to be the platform that bridges the traditional with the contemporary, and rural with urban We understand the importance of traditional workshops and its rural environments to a shokunin’s creative process. The workshop’s exposure to open air, exterior gathering spaces, the long hikes, and equipments that require a specific type of landscape.

However, these vast open spaces does not fit into the compact vertical spaces of Tokyo. To bring the rural to the urban context, a new type of space is created by borrowing elements from traditional workshop and conditions in rural japan and reconfiguring them into a compact vertically organized high rise typology that is prominent in Tokyo Similar to many traditional workshops nestled on hills and mountains. Shophouse is nestled onto the perimeter of what is a normal building type in Nihonbashi. Of which houses a hotel on top, the office and commercial at the bottom. With shophouse, it creates a continuous programmed exterior space that spirals down connecting the hotel, offices, commercial, and the streets.

ShopHouse is a new understanding of the masterapprentice dynamic. one that allows for greater flexibility and creative innovation. It restores the relevance of traditional Japanese craft-making by increasing its accessibility to both local and global audiences. By bringing craft-making to the urban setting not only are we preserving Shokunin culture by making it easier to pass down knowledge, we are also reducing the distance between craft-makers and consumers. We are creating a platform for local artisans and international companies to collaborate.

Bridging the traditional with the contemporary.

Aerial Render

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06. Microhome 2019 Jakarta, Indonesia Teammates: Xeufung Du, Kevin Gao, Kaiwen Zhao

Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia with a population exceeding 10 million individuals, is currently the fastest-sinking city in the world anticipated to be completely submerged by the year 2050. After years of speculation and debate, Indonesia officially announced on August 26, 2019, the shift from Jakarta to East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo as the new capital. The government proposes to commence the migration at the start of 2024 and expects to be completed by 2034. This shift will require dedication from countless workers, builders, and technicians. To accommodate for these people, our Micro home will provide a suitable temporary home in the new capital.

Dissimilar to Jakarta, currently experiencing overcrowdedness, pollution, and congestion, East Kalimantan has a balance of both the natural and the constructed. To maintain the lush natural landscape, our proposal will minimize its impact on the environment while simultaneously providing a home for the city builders. The unit itself will be pre-fabricated and assembled onsite to license the temporality and reduce its carbon footprint.

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Exterior

Render

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Our Micro home is an off-grid dwelling unit that can be located both in the rainforest and near the new capital construction site. Given the tropical climate, our project collects rainwater and redistributes it throughout the house. Electricity is sourced from the photovoltaic panels where solar energy provides a sustainable living environment. The form is inspired by the ventilation strategies of traditional Indonesian homes, where the architecture promotes passive cooling through natural ventilation to cool the building.

The envelope is translucent fiberglass shell, which is easy for mass production. The shell is both structure and the envelope. It can be stackable and transfer to the site.

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Lighting and Energy System: Large curtain wall on the facades and glass fiber skin contribute to an optimal daylighting in the interior. On the other hand, solar panels are mounted on a slightly sloped roof to capture a sufficient amount of solar energy.

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Landscape: The dwelling is lofted above a sloped ground, which is typical in the mountain areas of Indonesia. An external deck could be introduced in the future for maximum outdoor comfort.

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Circulation/ Pathways: The smallscale dwelling is utilizing the relationship between the core (Bathroom/Kitchen/Mechanical) with the living areas to create a loop circulation. This loop guides the users to experience the first floor and direct them to the upper level.

Cityscape and Urban Relationship: A potential community of microhomes could be visualized as teams of professionals gathered for a larger project in the mountain area.

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07. Paradigm City Los Angeles, CA Advisors: Ramiro Diaz-Granados

Cities are hyperobjects. In other words, they are things that are massively distributed in space and time relative to humans (and non-humans it turns out).

They are messy things that resist totalizing schemes of order.

For this project Los Angeles was divided into multiple plots. The boundary of these plots were open for negotiation among neighboring ones, and each student was tasked to define their plot and propose a city grid based on field or figure/ground studies and strategies. These newly proposed city grids are then populated with generated volumes and shapes by compiling a catalogue of vernacular 2D shapes and intersecting their extrusions to create distinct 3D volumes through boolean operations. These volumes are then assigned programs fitting of their shapes and depending on the site’s existing zoning ordinance.

In the spirit of Rowe and Koetter’s Collage City, the Surrealist parlor game of Exquisite Corpse and collaging (as a technique, sensibility, or both) was employed to offer an expedient way to generate the things we love about cities: chance, randomness, variety, mystery, and the unexpectedness. Designed to extend ad infinitum in all directions, the game of Exquisite Corpse was used on the boundary of the city to blend it with the neighboring edge conditions and create a seamless transition between inside and outside of the city. Collaging is then used to absorb and combine all the existing conditions of the site including streets, buildings, grounds, and even its communities’ cultural and social aspects to generate the city’s unique quality based on its location and neighboring cities. As result, the project became a paradigm city. An adaptive city composed of a collection of multiple urban qualities fitting of its location that produces an extreme urban condition. A city within a city.

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Downtown Aerial View

Photograph of Los Angeles by Daniel Ramirez

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Malcolm Rondell B. Galang Experience

2020-2021 9 Months

malcolmgalang@gmail.com 818.434.9350

Yale School of Architecture Graduate Teaching Fellow: Jan 2021 - Present Architectural Design Core 2 Studio

Graduate Teaching Fellow: Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 Architectural Design Core 3 Studio

Building Organization Assistant: Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 2019 6 Months

2019 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project

2018 2 Months

Steven Christensen Architecture, Inc. - Intern

New Haven, CT

Responsibilities: Worked in a team of 5 for a 4-month-long multi-family residential design competition. After winning, worked with the rest of the students during Design Development phase to partial Construction.

Venice, CA

Projects: Hotel Competition in Thailand Responsibilities: Worked in a team of 4 for a hotel design competition in Thailand. Responsible for site analysis, massing strategies, master plan iterations and facade studies. Produced final renderings and diagrams.

2016-17 1 Year

BIG - Bjarke Ingles Group - Design Assistant New York, NY

Projects: Audemars Piguet Hotel, Competition for Resort in Hawaii, LEGO House, and BIG U Responsibilities: Developed concept models and diagrams for a resort competition in Hawaii. Built the physical model of the new Lego House in Denmark. Worked 3 months in Design Development phase of AP Hotel in Switzerland, and produced all current renders and other creative deliverables. Worked 8 months in Schematic Design phase of New York’s BIG U. Designed multiple iterations of the park’s bridges, gates and walls. Produced all of the latest renders and physical models. Assisted on occasional city meetings.

2015-16 6 Months

Platform for Architecture + Research - Intern Los Angeles, CA

Projects: Berenice & Round House, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 Infinity Installation, and Guggenheim Museum Helsinki Responsibilities: Lead designer in several projects, including an installation for Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, and several prefab single-family residential projects. Worked closely with the Principal Architect during Concept and Schematic Design phase. Worked in a team of 4 to produce drawing packages, built 1:1 scale prototypes for installation, and produced renderings and other creative deliverables for client presentation.

Education

Awards

Publications

Skills

2021

Yale School of Architecture

2015

University of California, Los Angeles

2020

The Paul Kats/KPF Fellowship

2019

2019 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project

2019

International Architecture Competition - Microhome 2019

2015

UCLA Faculty Selected Student Work

2020

Retrospecta 43: Yale School of Architecture Selected Student Work

2019

Retrospecta 42: Yale School of Architecture Selected Student Work

Master of Architecture I

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Environmental Systems and Society Minor Magna Cum Laude

Nominee

First Place

Shortlisted

Technology 2 Project

Core 3 Studio Project

Selected Works: Core 1 Studio Project, Core 2 Studio Project, Visualization 1 Project, Visualization and Computation Project

Proficient in Rhino, Revit, Grasshopper, V-Ray for Rhino, Enscape, Maya, AutoCad, GIS, Adobe Creative Suite. Knowledge in digital fabrication methods (CNC, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, AI and Robotic Fabrication). Fluent in English and Tagalog.

2018 - 2020