Assisted and worked alongside the competition team for Hangzhou Xihu Opera House, Tasks involved site modeling, research, schematic design, and plan & section drawing.
aedas - chengdu office
summer architect & design intern • june 2021 – august 2021 • chengdu, china.
Assisted and worked alongside a team of 6 architects and other interns on 4 large scale commercial architectural proposal projects, one of which was WuLiangYe Group's new economic center located at ChengDu. Tasks performed varied from research, mapping, design, presentation, to 3D modeling.
tianhe interior architects
architect & design intern • october 2020 – feburary 2021 • xi an china
Worked with a team of 8 architects on various interior architecture projects. Tasks included producing renderings, floorplans, furniture design and plans, photography documentation, organizing material selection and measurements, as well as research.
chiyi creatives - startup
co-founder • july 2018 – 2023 • shanghai china
CYC was a start up design studio aiming to create online & international collab opportunities for freelance and student designers. The studio has completed collab projects with student artists, WSJ journal, and BaiYuLan furniture. was involved in the recruiting & startup process , designed the CYC website, and participated in various designs, such as the first article illustration for WSJ China Issue 1, and the branding proposal for Elitoc Enzyme and UNIEE Yoga.
risd teaching assistant & printshop monitor
teaching assistant and printshop monitor • march – december 2022 • providence rhode island usa.
Teaching assistant for professor Hammett Nurosi for Graphic Design studio Class: Design Studio III, Fall 2022, Class of 12. Monitor for RISD print shops 2022 semesters under Hasan Askari.
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GRAPHIC MENTOR 2021 - 2022 CANADA
vANCOUvER LEO'S CLUb
vP OF MARkETING • 2016 - 2017 • CANADA
vANCOUvER HEART 2 HEART yOUTH SOCIETy
CHAIRMAN • 2017 • CANADA
professional
• Digital Fabrication
• Physical Modeling
• Analog & Digital Photography
• Architectural Visulization
• CGI. Motion Media & Animation
• Branding & Book Design
WEITZMAN FRANk MILES DAy MEMORIAL PRIZE ( 2024 ) HOk DESIGN FUTURES 2024 SECOND PLACE WINNER
RISD HONORS DESGINATION ( FIvE SEMESTERS )
bC DOGWOOD SCHOLARSHIP ( 2017 )
ST. GEORGE'S RIGG SCHOLARSHIP ( 2017
RISD INTAR SENIOR SHOW ( 2022)
RISD GD DEGREE PROjECT ( 2022 )
RISD GD TRIENNIAL ( 2021)
• Web Design techinicals
• 3ds Max & Fusion 360
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Revit & AutoCAD
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Vray/Lumion/Enscape
• Microsoft Office
• HTML/CSS/JS
• ArcGIS Pro & Forma
languages
• English (Native)
• Mandarin (Native)
• Spanish (Beginner)
hobbies
• Illustration
• Photography • Bodybuilding
Contents
Apertus Wanamaker Building Renovation
The Nautilaus East Fairmount Park Reservoir Re-Adaptation Bathhouse
Vela ICA Philadelphia Renovation
The Mystery Shack Weitzman Student Team HOK Design Futures Winning Entry
Other Works
Tower Build ARCH 501 & BIM Drawings
Work
In the book Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas, he states that: “Each block is a ‘small city’ within the larger metropolis, a collection of private utopias, an endless experiment in reshaping human reality.” The Wanamaker is that of an outdated private utopia within the center of Philadelphia needing to be re-adapted to fit the pressing housing and climate needs of contemporary society. In this project, The Wanamaker is transformed from an obsolete commercial relic into a shared, mystical, public garden nest.
Growing up in an immigrant family, I always chose the window seat on cramped flights, mesmerized by the
wings and endless sky. This fascination with unknown spaces shaped my approach to architecture, starting with a birdhouse module for a container house, evolving into an adaptive reuse strategy with mobile housing units, and later a skip-stop housing system.
The Wanamaker building, once a retail icon, now feels frozen in time, like the Titanic’s wreck. To revive it, I introduced modular units, roof gardens, and strategic voids, transforming it into a permeable public and residential hub—a vertical garden honoring its past. The units wrap around the atrium, attaching to the column grid, while skip-stop units and a revolving walkway provide vertical circulation without obstructing views.
1/32 Aggregation Study Model
Housing Units Detail
Childhood Memory Concept Sketch
First study model of walk wing container house aggregation to site
Geometrical Generation
Sequence of Borromian geometrical generation applied to site context
Walk Wing Container House Assembly drawing & 1/4 scale model of Container House exercise
1/32 Aggregation Study Model
Public Commons Poster
Atrium View (A)
The atrium perspective shows branching columns that are re-adapted to allow a stronger support system on the housing floors above with a larger contact surface. The atrium is transformed into a public vertical park and the columns now blend in as tree-like forms extending from viewing decks on top of a first level of commercial spaces.
The urban relic narrative poster for studio public commons explores the story telling of the Wanamaker as an obsolete monolith within the city of Philadelphia, much like the sunken Titanic in the deep ocean floor. The Wanamaker is now “lifted up” and opened once again to the community.
Atrium Cut-Away Model 1/8 Scale chunk model from atrium perspective.
Vertical Garden Conceptual Collage Container House Unit Plan
Units
MEP Massing Study Diagrams
1/32 Scale MEP Model
1/32 Scale Site Model Chain Garden Structure Model
Rooftop Study Model
Bamboo Facade View
The interior green facade hold transparency and apertures to the atrium.
The skip - stop loft units allow a more efficient use of space as a corridor is only implemented every other floor, allowing room for communal gym & work spaces. Four types of different residential units are designed to accommodate single, couple, and family housing, as well as handicap access. Each unit have independent balcony garden spaces where the residents retains privacy provided by the interior green facade. The facade apertures allow framed views at the original organ atrium, which plays on holidays, creating communal celebration.
Skip Stop Lofts
Loft Unit Plans
Unit
Cluster Detail
Elevator Lobby View (A) Atrium (B) Unit Balcony (C)
Viewing Deck
The Nautilus
Top level viewing spaces allowing visitors to oversee the trails, bathing pools, courtyard, and the reservoir.
Pool & Mezzanine Space
Double height interior warm pool surrounded by limestone, dolomite, and Wissahickon Schist local to site
The Nautilus surfaces and unfolds itself to the human. Has it always been here? Underneath the earth, buried all this time? The linear journey through different elevations, transitions, activities, and materials leads the visitor to the reservoir, all while experiencing the weathering, growth, and renewal of the Nautilus. The bathhouse serves not only its function, but a long extinct echo of this artificially manipulated landscape. It embraces, frames, and coexists with the terrain and its metabolism.
Has the Nautilus always lingered beneath, cradled by the earth? Emergent, it unfolds its ancient form to the human. Journeying linearly across elevations, through transitions in activities and materials, each visitor is drawn to the reservoir. Along this path, they experience the dance of weathering, growth, and renewal.
This structure transcends the mere function of a bathhouse; it resonates as a faint echo of an ancient, yet now artificially shaped landscape. It embraces, frames, and coexists with the terrain, revolving into its natural rhythm and metabolism.
Concept Development series of drawings from early conceptual objects to site adaptation
Artifact Study Models early concepts developed as objects inserted within the
Chunk Model & Facade Detail grid assembly mounting system for the limestone exterior facade in relation to structure and green roof
resevior site
Schenk Woodman Competition Site Collage
Section Watercolor Sketch
South Section Pencil Sketch
East Section Pencil Sketch
Site Hydro & Flood Plain Map
1:500 Site Study ModelMassing Study Model
Regeneration Pool (A)
1:200 Wood carve Model
Entrance Lobby (B)
Central Courtyard (C) Underground Pool (D)
East Reservoir Pool (E)
2023
Individual Academic Project ARCH 501 | Anthony Gagliardi Studio
Traditionally, monumentality has been associated with the instantaneous, monolithic, and institutional. However, the new monumentality should present a gradual, fragmented, and human-centric experience. A structure’s profundity fades as quickly as it is perceived and understood. The tower should be a multi-faceted structure to be explored slowly by the mind and etched into memory.
From a distance, the tower isn’t a tower. It is instead a glare, a fragment, or perhaps an invitation to the human. Yet, with each step, the distance diminishes, and the structure reveals itself as three twisting forms embedded into the earth. The forms morph and pull apart, generating a series of solids and voids, while offsetting the surrounding plaza with its concealed mass in union.
FALL
Unrolled Choisy
Choisy draft drawing of a climbing continuous gallery within the tower.
The tower presents itself as a riddle to the human, with each level and opening, the mind fills in a gap obscured by the exterior façade. As the floor plates detach from the tower mass, a set of rules are shown where the mass is emphasized on the interior instead of the exterior, and materiality guides the user in circulation. The central courtyard opens up to the sky, offering visitors a first glimpse at the gallery spaces and terraces above. As they explore through the museum spaces and ramps, they glance back at the central void, feeling the raise and verticality of the tower.
The sunken plaza juxtaposes the tower mass and introduces an enclosed public park barricaded by the tower from the streets. On the interior, layers of poché and transformations create specific and ever changing gallery spaces, challenging the traditional white cube gallery. Creating possibilities for more distinct and informing connections between the artworks and the spatial context. All of these elements coalesce into a journey in which the human meets the tower at a closer distance, experiences it gradually, and departs with its secret.
Lobby Level Plan
The facade fins conceal the main tower, creating degrees of anticipation for the viewer. At the same time, these in between spaces become shaded plaza seating spaces and gardens.
Upper Gallery Level Floor Plan
The gallery spaces are designed as a continuous, ascending journey, offering glimpses of the central light well and neighboring gallery rooms at each turn. This layout allows curations and exhibitions to be effectively organized within the branching towers while maintaining connectivity. Simultaneously, the art pieces serve as dynamic backdrops for one another as visitors ascend the tower museum.
Gallery Interior (B)
Exterior Terrace Deck (A)
Axon Slicing Diagrams
Unrolled Ramp Section
The ramps continues across all the branching out towers.
Top Terrace View (C)
As the visitors reach the top of the tower, terraces grant them a view that overlooks all the gallery rooms and the central void. This moment allows them to contemplate upon their journey and experience the tower in whole.
Mystery Shack
SPRING 2024
Weitzman Student Competition Project
two person collaboration on all aspects
HOK Design Futures Second Place
Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia, PA
Portable Camping Unit Illustration
This mobile unit allows the community to setup camp and experience the park space as groups with shelter.
The Mystery Shack emerges as a beacon of exploration within the heart of Cobbs Creek Park, serving as a communal nexus where the local community can delve into the wonders of their natural surroundings. This architectural gem functions dually as a gathering space and an innovative classroom laboratory, fostering a blend of study, observation, and communal interaction.
The Mystery Shack opens its doors to both human and animal visitors, and stands as a warm, welcoming portal to the mysteries of the natural world, inviting all to uncover and engage with the park’s phenomenal secrets.
Inspired by “ Gravity Falls ”, the proposed Mystery Shack eco-center reinterprets Cobbs Creek Park as a space for exploration, education, and community engagement. Rooted in GIS analysis, the site was chosen for its ideal elevation, slope, stream density, and proximity to floodplains. The design blends with the park’s natural landscape, integrating an observation tower, exhibition hall, and research lab. Divided by a central axis, the southern section features a mysterious cabin-like exhibition space and versatile areas, while the northern section focuses on education and research. The slope-integrated layout bridges urban and natural environments, encouraging curiosity and fostering meaningful connections with nature. The two axes allow circulation down the slope from community to park while introducing programs on the horizontal axis.
Portable Camping Unit Illustration
OTHER WORKS
“Un-Clear
is a sculptural tower that explores monumentality through relative perception from different perspectives. The tower consists of five layers: skeleton, mass, voids, projection contours, and layered varnish. As viewers wonder around the sculpture, new compositions of the five layers are formed at distinct view points.
Role: All Drawings and Renders. Team collaboration in Design & Fabrication
Assembly Drawing
Detail Drawing
Five Layers
UN-Clear Cuts
Cuts”
Unrolled
TECHNICAL Drawing
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
Portable Camping Unit Illustration
This mobile unit allows the community to setup camp and experience the park space as groups with shelter.
The Hangzhou Future International Performing Arts Center integrates culture and sustainability, situated in the Yuhang District along Hangzhou’s central axis.
SUMMER 2024
MAD Architects Competition Project Competition Team Internship
Hangzhou Future International Performing Arts Center Competition
The project features a music hall, grand theater, and supporting spaces, harmonizing architecture with the wetland landscape. A sustainable ecological axis incorporates rainwater management, permeable paving, and solar panels, while layered indoor-outdoor spaces evoke floating green islands extending toward the waterfront. Guided by the cultural heritage of the
marshland ecosystem and jade production, the design envisions the center as a local jewel crafted from jade, emerging organically from the marshlands. It emphasizes accessibility, transit connectivity, and innovative urban integration, balancing ecological and cultural priorities in a large-scale architectural endeavor. I collaborated with the competition team on site modeling, research, concept generation, and all drawings shown in this portfolio.
Massing & Program
The Hangzhou Future International Performing Arts Center seamlessly integrates cultural expression, ecological sustainability, and innovative urban design through its environmentally conscious features and harmonious connection to the wetland landscape.
