Mc Dermott Scholarship- Bellevue College Foundation 2020 - 2021
Architectural Photography Departmental Award- Advanced Placement Art 2019
EDUCATION
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Washington Fall 2023 – Present
Expected Graduation: 2026
BACHELOR OF APPLIED ARTS, INTERIOR DESIGN
Bellevue College GPA: 3.99 Fall 2019 – Spring 2023
EXPERIENCE
ARCHITECTURE INTERN
LMN Architects | Seattle, WA | Summer 2024
STUDENT COMMISSIONER - UW ARCHITECTURE COMMISSION
University of Washington College of Built Environments | Seattle, WA | September 2023 - Present
INTERIOR DESIGN INTERN
ZGF Architects | Seattle, WA | Summer 2022 / Spring 2023
DESIGN ASSISTANT/ 3D RENDERER
Ashley Zaworska Architecture | Seattle, WA | Feb. 2022- Present
3-D MODELING TUTOR
Bellevue College Academic Success Center | Bellevue, WA | May 2021 - Aug. 2023
TEACHER’S ASSISTANT
Bellevue College Interior Design Department | Bellevue, WA | Sep. 2021 - June 2023
DESIGN ASSISTANT
Modernous Staging and Interior Design | Bellevue, WA | June 2021 - June 2022
VOLUNTEER
SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR
International Interior Design Association PSCC | Seattle, WA | March 2021 - July 2023
9019 RAINIER
WATER LAB
1 PAGE PROJECT PREVIEWS
WATER LAB
PROJECT:
Water Quality Field Lab in Rainier Beach, Seattle
CONCEPT: DAYLIGHTING MAPES CREEK
The design is inspired by the daylighting of Mapes creek in Rainier Beach, where streams once hidden underground are revealed to rejuvenate both the environment and community.
Just as daylighting fosters the return of life to waterways, this design highlights the research, and community spaces by allowing natural light from above and emphasizing their vital role in collaboration and innovation.
The design invites you to lower your gaze, drawing attention to something unexpected below.
• Connections with place, including climate, history, and people
S HENDERSON ST
LANDSCAPED SEATING
STEEL TRUSS SKIN
9019 RAINIER
9019 Rainier is a mixed-use building designed to serve the needs of the community. Rainier Beach is home to a high percentage of young people, with 25% of its population under the age of 18, significantly higher than the city’s average of 15.5%. The neighborhood also has a notably high proportion of residents using food stamps, at 30.8%, with children representing a large percentage of this demographic.
9019 includes a teen resource center and training kitchen on the ground floor, with 121 residential units above, offering a mix of market-rate family apartments, studios, and shared housing for teens and young adults transitioning from homelessness. The structure has a concrete podium base with Mass Timber on the upper four floors. The design of this building emphasizes community engagement and enhances public spaces, while providing much-needed resources and homes for Rainier Beach residents.
The design of 9019 Rainier responds directly to its surrounding context, relating to the residential scale and character of the southern portion of the site through use of massing porosity, outdoor walkways, wood siding, and gable roofs. Then the teen housing massing resembles a more institutional brick mass with the urban, active intersection to the north. These forms are separated by green spaces and courtyards, which provide opportunities for passive solar heating and enhanced quality of life. The central lobby and amenity spaces create a welcoming entrance, while defensible courtyards help foster a sense of community and connectivity.
UPPER PLANS
SOFTWARE: Revit, Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop
1/16"= 1'-0"
STUDIO 4: Fall 2024
SITE: Rainier Beach
1"= 200'
CONCEPT:
MASSING RELATIONSHIP TO CONTEXT
STREET INTENSITY & PROGRAM
TEEN CENTER
RESIDENT ENTRY
UNIT ARTICULATION & POROSITY
TEEN CENTER
SHENDERSONST
ARTEMIS HOUSE
PROJECT:
Community Project in Capitol Hill, Seattle
NESTING
A sanctuary for women, trans, andnon-binary people seeking safety and empowerment. Spaces of refuge, health, shelter, and the progression of women’s rights. Offering options of different lighting conditions, moveable furniture and different levels of transparency within an informal environment, for people to create their own nesting conditions.
SAFETY
Women from all walks of life found refuge within these walls. Some built nests to protect and heal from life’s dangers. Here, they found not just safety, but a sense of belonging and community. Soft light diffused through textured screens stream through the low windows, illuminating the floor. The roof embraces and darkens the ceiling like a comforting blanket over the space offering protection and peace.
EMPOWERING
The community kitchen brought warmth and laughter. The creative space started flowing out into the lush courtyard as the women shaped their new reality. They shared stories, finding strength in their shared experiences. They found their voices, knowing that within these walls, they were safe and supported. After workshops and community building, they felt in control of their freedom to leave the nest.
• Transparent glass at specific eyeheights depending on the location in the building
Informality: Making communities feel comfortable.
• Moveable furniture
• Wide circulation paths
• No dead ends
• Biophilia and full grown trees
NESTING PODS
INFORMALITY
CHANNELED
SLAT WALLS
TRACK CURTAINS
LEONIA
As the sun rises, the morning glow reflects off the plastic trash bags filling the streets. The ritual has begun, as people wake up, they drink their coffee in a brand new mug, from brand new appliances, in a brand new kitchen. They meditate on the peaceful idea of a fresh start. No more clutter, nothing old, nothing broken. The shiny new city is being reborn every morning when the trash collectors are welcomed like angels to dispose of the past.
Meanwhile, the outskirts of the minimalist city is pushing their mountains of trash outward with everyday, on the edge of avalanche. Every new days waste, has become imperishable, indestructible, and eternal with every new plastic invention. The people are blindly in bliss, as their city destroys ecosystems around them until the world will be covered in their destruction.
PROJECT: Take and create a digitl representaion of one city in the book called “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino
SOFTWARE: Sketchup, Photoshop
REPRESENTATION 2: Winter 2024
LAKE WA RESEARCH STATION
Magnuson Park’s topography has transitioned from natural wetlands and towering trees, to a barren, deforested landscape when the Naval air base blanketed the grass with concrete. Later the site was rejuvenated into its current natural wetlands as seen today. Built up rubble and destruction can be seen protruding from the shoreline. The iconic Kite Hill, born from previous destruction, now stands as a recreational haven for families to enjoy. There’s a familiarity of Mount Rainier clouded in the distance like a beacon shining through Seattle’s great fog that settles over the park as rain begins to sprinkle on the dock.
PROJECT:
These stations will host artists-in-residence and scientists-in-residence to live and work together for 3 to 6-month stays in order to get to know a particular place and its links to the wider waterways of the Puget Sound. The research station provides artists and scientists time, space, and equipment for this purpose. During their stay, the residents will be traveling to and from the site primarily by water.
CONCEPT:
Intersections between the Geologic Timeline and the Anthropocene
Two parallel buildings slice through the site, cutting terraced valleys stepping down towards the water representing the geologic timeline. The stereotomic concrete dwelling spaces are anchored against the Earth, protected and nestled into the land. The Workspace perched towards the water’s edge, create a wild wetland courtyard between the two buildings.
The linear arrangement is interrupted with perpendicular columns and beams spanning the distance of the wild courtyard acting as tectonic elements connecting the two buildings together representing the anthropocene timeline. The sunken buildings have mass walls retaining the earth and it contrasts with the light overhead elements of the beams reaching across the space inbetween.
SOFTWARE: Revit, Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop
STUDIO 2: Winter 2024
SITE: Magnuson Park
CLAY STUDIO
Positioned in the International district in Seattle, WA, this clay studio is a space to craft and gather with the community. This area specifically values multi-generational bonding. This studio offers serenity away from technology, focusing on senses, the smell of the bamboo, pitter-patter of the rainfall, and touch of the clay between your hands.
The building emphasizes movement between the front West street and active East alleyway through exterior pathways and courtyards for community members. The street level offers a glass retail shop with sliding walls to allow indoor and outdoor display. The upper floors are workshop spaces for pottery classes and private studios. Lastly, the basement is a pottery focused art gallery with direct connections to the courtyard and japanese gardens.
Pottery has been a method of passing down traditions and stories throughout history and many pieces have lasted millenia. The crane, or bird of the immortals, is a symbol of longevity and serenity. This endangered species represents both the delicacy and resiliency of the International District. The clay studio will reflect both the physical and innate attributes of the crane, while drawing parallels with the rich history and traditions of the residents of the International district.
GROUP PROJECT
Valerie Lange and Liam Ronan
SOFTWARE: Revit, Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop
STUDIO 1: Fall 2023
SITE: Seattle International District
weight balanced on thin legs
emphasizing transition between spaces
above shallow water on elevated platforms
one ascends through the building, the angle of the stairs transform
CONCEPT MODEL
Visual
Tunnels
Cranes nest
As
TRANSCENDENT FLOW
PROJECT: AERIAL ACROBATICS & PERFORMANCE CENTER
- For training Aerialists and Acrobats looking for personal growth through artistic outlets.
- To Perform with creative expression through body movement and choreography
Transcendent Flow is an aerial acrobatics center for the circus community. I am honored to be a part of this unique circus world and highlight the diverse and equitable spaces that it can offer. This vibrant community celebrates uniqueness in all forms. It embraces individuals, no matter their gender, size, or ability, and helps people grow to find personal acceptance. The circus has a reputation for being outsiders in our society, and are deeply mis-understood. Many people seek this community to express themselves through artistic movement and share their passion for creativity. Through performing, you can tell your story while finding empowerment and safety within your circus partners.
The circus community transcends boundaries and champions inclusivity, diversity, and acceptance that we can all aspire to recreate. Aerialists gain a lot of trust with their partners when developing an act. Intense physical training, overcoming fear, and communication are all elements to becoming a performer. Mental health is extremely important in the community. Throughout my personal journey with aerial acrobatics it has been a key factor in mental strength, dedication, and empowerment.
POV:
I began training in Aerial Acrobatics when I was 10 years old. The circus community embraced me and influenced my upbringing dramatically. I was welcomed into their family and fell in love with the art.
Aerial Acrobatics force you to stay in the present, relax into yourself and trust your body. It allows you to flow in the movement and center your mind. I want to design an environment for people to feel peace and power in themselves and surpass their limits by achieving what they thought was impossible.
