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1/4” = 1.0’ scale basswood and plexi tower model.
2020. Design 4. Critic Mark McGlothlin
01/ urban trellis
Cohousing + Sustainability
Academic Site: Atlanta, Georgia
Fall 2024 - Critic Amy Stone
The urban eco-village cohousing is built on the concepts of ecological regeneration, achieving sustainability through a commitment to environmental stewardship and resource renewal.
As a collaborative hub for large-scale urban farming, composting, recycling, and hands-on upcycling + exploration workshops, this community embodies a regenerative lifestyle that enriches its residents and the surrounding community.
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Axonometric section exploring connections between public, semipublic, semiprivate, and private spaces
Top Entrance from Broad Street, the pedestrian street
Intial sketches responding to two-street facing conditions
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sustainability as a driver
Sustainability shapes every element of the project, constructed with Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) to reduce its environmental impact.
A materials exploration workshop empowers residents to innovate, fostering creativity and reuse.
The vertical recycling axis integrates composting on the roof, a recycling center on unit floors, and service connections on the ground, creating a closed-loop system for waste. This axis supports large-scale urban farming tied to the compost facilities, ensuring organic renewal.
By blending regenerative materials, responsible waste systems, and urban agriculture, the project creates a living model of sustainable innovation and stewardship.
Algae tiles are carbon-negative, harnessing photosynthesis to absorb CO2 and release O2 as a byproduct.
Sunflower insulation foam innovatively repurposes sunflower stalks, giving new life to what would otherwise be agricultural waste.
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circulation: sitting porch vs walking porch
each cohousing unit is divided into two smaller groups, creating layers of privacy
Left Physical model exploring unit to facade connection
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The unit volume recedes to create a private porch, distinct from the circulation space, offering residents a place to gather and claim as their own
The roof armature extends upward, forming a trellis that echoes the columned forest below. This elevated structure fosters interaction, with the spaces between columns offering pockets for gathering and movement.
Urban Trellis
L-shaped planters on the roof further define the space, shaping pathways and moments of pause, seamlessly blending structure and landscape.
L-shaped planters on the roof further define the space, shaping pathways and moments of pause, seamlessly blending structure and landscape.
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02 / SC³+
Cultural Center + Density
Academic Site: Chinatown, Singapore
Summer 2023 - Critic Lee Su Huang
Co-op Work, Partnership with: Angela Ciullo
SC³+ is a proposal for an extension of the Singapore Chinese Culture Center. Located in Singapore’s Chinatown district, SC³+ integrates principles of feng shui to honor the Chinese influence on the diverse city. The design of the multi-use complex adeptly captures the essence of the mountains, trees, and rivers, essential components of feng shui’s positive energy flow, with the qualities of carved, branching, and flow, respectively.
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Aerial render of spatial connections between the hotel and retail tower (Tiffany L.)
Section perspective of spatial programs (Angela C.)
1. Hotel Lobby
2. Cultural Gallery
3. Cultural Classrooms
4. Hotel Tower
5. Hawker Center
in context (Tiffany L.)
6. Retail Center
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Top Site plan with overlaid sun path chart (Tiffany L.)
Middle Assortment of diagrams (Tiffany L.)
Initial sketch of podium volume (Tiffany L.)
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Horizontal + longitudinal sections (Angela C.)
The flow of the form allows for the addition of a hidden underground plaza to aid in everyday circulation of occupants within the Hawker/ Retail tower. The hidden nature of the car loop aid in movement of feng shui. (Tiffany L.)
The Cultural center is broken up within the program consisting of the store within the lobby, the gallery, and the classrooms. The intertwining of programs allow for occupants of SC3+ to be immersed whether permanent or temporary. (Tiffany L.)
Intial sketch of stacked hotel lobby space (Tiffany L.)
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Interior render of the hotel lobby space (Tiffany L.)
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Initial sketch of ground floor (Tiffany L.)
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03 / Roots
Library + Garden
Academic Site: Winter Park, Florida
Spring 2023 - Critic Judi Monk
Individual Work
Nestled in Winter Park’s bustling Park Avenue, Roots aims to foster connections through overlapping boundaries and edges.
The library’s garden design draws inspiration from the gentle ebb and flow of photosynthesis, where curved walls and open spaces intertwine seamlessly, inviting visitors to explore the harmonious relationship between nature and knowledge.
With a panoramic view of Alderman Square park, Roots becomes a sanctuary where the lines between indoor and outdoor blur, encouraging patrons to reconnect with the natural world.
Interior render of library space and the exterior screen system
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Top Site Plan of library + adjacent public park
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Process sketches of overlapping spaces; In order to create a sense of community, promote physical wellbeing, and nurture sustainability, Roots encompasses spiritual, active (exercise), environmental, intellectual, vocational, and social components.
The screen system utilizes the material of black zinc to manipulate with the penetration of light. The screen plays with moments of opacity, translucency, and transparency as it filters light and frames views.
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Ground floor plan, second floor plan, and third floor plan
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Interior render of the children’s library space looking out to the Founder’s Square, an urban beach
Heights Housing + Healthcare Complex
Third Age Housing Academic
Site: Harlem Heights, Fort Myers, Florida
Spring 2024 - Critic Jeff Carney
The concept of community is an intersection of many axes: its people, its built environment, and its assets. Those looking to protect and bolster vulnerable communities often look to managing certain markers or indicators, however, this approach critically misses the most critical aspect of community: its ability to continue through time.
The Heights Housing + Healthcare Complex, a component of the Re(generate) framework, seeks to address a crucial need with healthcare and elder care facilities to allow current and future generations to age with dignity.
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Exterior render of the center courtyard between the Memory Care, Assisted and Independent Living buildings
Top Location of site within larger scope
Bottom Left Timeline of Re(generate) p
Bottom Right 2075 Sea Level Rise in Harlem Heights
Top Distance to Closest Healthcare + Elder Care Centers
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Circulation diagram mapping movement throughout the site
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Process diagram exploring the intersections of living facilities
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Section: Layering of residential space above communal space to combat flood risk
Middle Diagram, using semi-permeable facades as wayfinding
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Facades creating social spaces for visitors and residents alike
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Fluidity: Chronicle
A.I.
+ Game Engines
Academic Site: Crystal River Archaeological State Park, Florida
Fall 2021 - Critic Karla Saldana Ochoa
Co-op Work, Partnership with: Angela Ciullo + Tony Saenngarm
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Crystal River Archaeological Site, ‘Chronicle’ emerges as a symbol of our commitment to the past, present, and future. The intervention, centered on time and collaboration, unites three labs within a structure that holds the past, gathers the present, and teaches the future in chronological harmony.
Chronicle guides both students and researchers through a journey of discovery, fostering a deep connection with the environment.
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Unreal Engine renders of the three Chroncile interventions (Collaboration of group members)
Top (4) Atmospheric perspectives embodying Movement (top left), Adaptation (top right), Sublime (bottom left), and Metamorphosis (bottom right); (Tiffany L., personal work)
Bottom Point cloud scan of Crystal River Archaeological State Park (Tiffany L.)
Right Unreal Engine renders of Chronicle interventions: Past (top), Present (middle), and Future (bottom)
Unreal Engine 5 allowed for the immersion into our project with the inclusion of a VR-option. The ability to interact with these spaces is an amazing design tool.
Sketch documenting the orientation of the interventions as visitors and scientists alike, move through the intervention. As they travel from the past, to the present, and to the future.
Left (2) Site Plan of Crystal River Archaeological State Park present day (left) and with 100 years of sea level rise (right). (Angela C. + Tiffany L.)
Chronicle is built on a platform that can be disassembled and transported elsewhere to accommodate for climate change and subsequent sea level rise. (Tiffany L. & Angela C.)
The interventions within Chronicle (past, present, and future) feature voids to accommodate for nomadic classrooms These adaptable classrooms are able to move freely amongst the three interventions and can travel beyond to different laboratories. (Tiffany L.)
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Looking Glass
Form + Opacity
Academic
Site: Siteless
Spring 2022 - Critic Mark McGlothlin
Individual Work
Reinforcing the ideas presented in the film Brazil and novel 1984, this vertical space plays on concepts of authority through overlapping spaces. The assemblage of a vertical datum instills the idea of hierarchy and power, experimenting with the connections, intersections, and transparencies of spaces to reflect a sense of rigidity.
The differing treatments of the plexiglass allow for varied methods of light diffusion. When scored, the clear plexiglass creates a similar effect to that of frosted plexiglass
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Vessel for Time
Observatory + Archive
Academic Site: Siteless Spring 2022 - Critic Mark McGlothlin
Individual Work
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Crystal River Archaeological Site, ‘Chronicle’ emerges as a symbol of our commitment to the past, present, and future. The intervention, centered on time and collaboration, unites three labs within a structure that holds the past, gathers the present, and teaches the future in chronological harmony.
Chronicle guides both students and researchers through a journey of discovery, fostering a deep connection with the environment.
Right Basswood model in scale 1/32”=1’ on a handcarved chipboard site
Above Interior renders of the corridor (top), library (middle) and observatory (bottom)
Lunar cycles provide inspiration. The interplay of light and shadow to create spaces that balance function and emotion through the strategic manipulation of solids and voids was considered in the design of the Vessel.
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Diagram of site movement, massing, and voids
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Collection of collages studying the lunar cycle
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Process sketches delineating programs
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Light Studies
Liquidity + Dimensionality
Academic Site: Siteless
Spring 2021 - Critic Donna Cohen
Individual Work
An in-depth exploration of the liquidity and dimensionality of light. The medium of watercolor allows us to further understand light due to their common fluid natures and independent personalities. Light, like watercolor, cannot be controlled, only manipulated.
Value between light and shadow presents itself as a density of one condition or the other
The rigidity of the aperture forces light to become liquid. Instead of a more diffused light, the light’s clarity creates space with its form
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The form of light is fluid and manipulable. Light is more than it appears at face value, lighting is a medium.
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Works
Pre-2021 Art + Design
Personal
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Acrylic & color pencils, 2019
Middle Right Oil painting, 2019
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Color pencil & collage, 2020
Left Color pencil, 2020
I’ve always had an enthusiasm for portraiture and I loved playing with the manipulation of lighting and color within my work to invoke emotions. Throughout the years I’ve tried all the mediums and I love to combine them as each have their own quirk and signature!
