Philadelphia based architectural designer with experience working on institutional, residential, and healthcare projects at a variety of scales
Education
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, 2021
Skills
• AutoCAD
• Revit
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Rhino
• Vray
• Model Building / Fabrication Shop Experience
Work Experience
• CICADA Architecture
- Temporary Architectural Designer
• Bloomfield & Associates Architects Inc.
- Architectural Designer,
• Constance Lezenby Architects LLC
- Internship
PROFESSIONAL WORK
FRANKFORD FEASIBILITY STUDY
STUDENT WORK
SOUTH TROY ART GALLERY
WATERFRONT HOUSING PROJECT
PROFESSIONAL WORK
FTC MASTER PLANNING
FRANKFORD FEASIBILITY STUDY
Philadelphia, PA
This project was a feasibility study and proposal to the city of Philadelphia for a mixed use site adjacent to the Frankford Transportation Center. The client for the project, the Frankford Community Development Corporation, tasked Bloomfield and Associates with creating a series of schemes showing the viability of a new municipal health center, a midsized grocery store, and an affordable housing development on the site of an existing vacant grocery store that had recently lost its historic status. Our team approached the site with the goal of not only meeting the minimum requirements, but also demonstrating that the problem could be solved while maintaining the historic grocery store and utilizing the adjacent transportation center; the second busiest in the city, to lower the required on-site parking. The proposal was ultimately successful and the city health department selected our site for the location of their new health center.
This project was a complete renovation of a 27,00 sf 1960’s office building with a 1,200 sf addition to the rear. The client for this project, PATH, is a mental health services provider in northeast Philly, and the program was a mix of adult day-care activity rooms on the 1st and 2nd floors, with office space on the 3rd and 4th. Because of it’s age, the building was not designed with significant mechanical equipment, and the 10’ floor-to-floor height posed a significant design challenge to fit the new mechanical system while maximizing ceiling height in the activity rooms and conference rooms. Additionally the building’s windows needed to be replaced, which provided a design opportunity to create a new system of alternating vision and colored spandrel glass which was used to generate a spacing module for the new interior partitions.
As part of the renovation, the entry sequence was changed to enter from the rear garden which was more accessible from the parking lot and provided shelter from the noise of Castor Avenue. This informed the site design to provide new plantings to de-emphasize the former entrance while creating a pathway connecting the sidewalk and parking lot to the garden. The activity rooms on the 1st and 2nd floors were oriented to maximize window area facing the garden, with direct access on the 1st floor rooms. The additions, which protrude 12’ from the existing structure are differentiated using a distinct material palette of glazed brick along the east and west facades and wood planks above the storefront system on the north facade.
COURTYARD
8220 Castor Ave Renovation
Review of Finishes
2022
Courtyard Entry from Parking
Castor Ave Renovation
New Reception Area
STUDENT WORK
SOUTH TROY ART GALLERY
SOUTH TROY ART GALLERY
Troy, NY
Partners: Adam Seres, Janaki Dave, & Dan Corridan
For this project, a team of three architecture students and one structural engineering student worked to develop a schematic design from a previous studio through the design development phase. The project that our team worked with was a riverfront art gallery located in South Troy. The primary focus of the project was on taking an architectural expression and resolving the structure, façade, detailing, and building code requirements. The project consists of four translucent vertical cores, which suspend the main gallery space 25’ above the site. The gallery itself is provided with natural light from the cores and two large courtyards which penetrate the space and provide vertical continuity with the site.
Gallery & Parking Section
Main Gallery Isometric
Hudson River
Poesten
LOBBY
WATERFRONT HOUSING PROJECT
WATERFRONT HOUSING PROJECT
Cohoes, NY
Partner: Leo Lai
In this studio, my partner and I worked in pairs to develop an 80-unit housing complex on a riverside site in Cohoes NY. The goal of this project was to interrogate the nature of unitized housing, and how to create a sense of community between residents. To accomplish this, my partner and I developed a system of interlocking multi-story units that connect to form the overall structure of the building. The units create a varied exterior facade condition, and sit atop the lower level shopping center, parking, and indoor public spaces. The appartments utilize a skip-stop scheme to minimize the overall circulation space within the building while creating dynamic interior spaces which emphasize the interconnectedness of the units.
