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1. 'Tidelands- Synthetic Teritorries, LA, 2024 2. Laboratory School, NYC, 2019 3. High Density Low Rise Housing, London ,2017 4. Nepal Housing Studio, Kathmandu, 2016 5. Columbia University Boathouse, NYC, 2016 6. Pratt Institute Dormitory, NYC, 2015 7. Wave Hill Academy, NYC, 2015 8. Library for the Performing Arts, NYC, 2014 9. 'Boundary Home', Tel-Aviv, 2013 10. Zhoushan Rise Lane, Shanghai, 2013 11. 'The Countryside' Exhibition, OMA, 2020 12. Multiple Projects, FMA, 2018-2019 13. 'Under Magnitude', THEVERYMANYâ„¢, 2015 14. Reiser & Umemoto
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Tidelands / LA2024 Los Angeles, US
Thesis Project 2017 Prof. Dragana Zoric Prof. Evan Tribus Pratt Institute Team Work
Tidelands offers a new organizing tool for the City of Los Angeles. Tidelands is a synthetic device to implement the spatial attributes of “nature� in an urban environment. The project offers a new water typology which will synthetically recreate multiple modes of occupation and enable fluctuation between users and scales. The project offers to invert the public edge (from the beach to the River) to reconnect the city and create a network of public spaces, using the Los Angeles river. To do so,it uses the beach as a model, understanding the edge configuration at the beach, where edges are soft, adjacent, and fluctuating, and how different it is from that of the river. The goal of the project was to transform the rigid edge configuration of the river into a fluid one, that enables endless spatial conditions.
The project offers a new water typology by synthetically controlling the water. Creating a system of reservoirs and dams to allow the synthetic retaining and flooding of different segments. The water shifts from conditions of drought, to that of a flood, and offers a variation of modes of occupation, for dry or wet, day and night scenarios. The variation of modes is created by the intertwining of three architectural systems. The first, a continuous man made topographical system, that navigates the water, enabling endless changing spatial conditions (Dry/Wet, High/Low, Flat/ Sloped). The other two navigate people throughout the project. The first, an elevated bridge system, which begins in a commercial community center inside the neighborhood, carrying people from both banks of the river, flooding people in and out of the project. The second, adjacent to the water edge, routing people across the river, from north to south, allows a slower and more integrated experience with the water. Merging of these two systems, create crisp moments of enclosed and semi-enclosed spatial conditions, places of gathering.
SUNKEN - WET MODE
CLIFF - WET MODE
ENCLOSED - WET MODE
CAVE - WET MODE
CLIFF - DRY MODE
ENCLOSED - DRY MODE
CAVE - DRY MODE
STREAM EDGE - DRY MODE
ENDLESS HORIZON
ENDLESS HORIZON
FLOOD
BRIDGES
CAVE
ENCLOSED
CLIFF
WATER EDGE SYSTEM
STREAM
STREAM EDGE
SUNKEN
DROUGHT
In a dry, drought like condition, the topographical system will lead and provide dry activities such as tanning, hiking, and climbing. While the Sunken Pool, using both the topographical and the water edge system, will offer a specific wet location of gathering and play. In a stream condition, water related activities and spaces will take charge, activating the stream edge surface, for swimming, kayaking and in water experience. The enclosed space will be used for restrooms and dressing, the cliff point, overlooking the water, will hold dancing and music activities. And the cave condition will provide an intimate and naked location. In an extreme condition of flooding, the bridge system will take charge and enforce the endless horizon moments, suspended above the rushing water. This condition will enable deep water activities such as sailing. And redefine the use of previous spaces, putting emphasis on using their exterior skin.
Tidelands is as an opportunity to create a new public identity for LA. One that is driven by water. A place which chooses to sit on the fence between landscape and urbanity, the synthetic public space will offer an endless variation of activities, in scale, use and time.
Laboratory School Harlem,NYC
Fall 2019 Prof. Hilary Sample Harvard University
Laboratory School, Stacking & Pragmatism Urbanite children need a school that connects them to nature. A school that uses the natural environment as a therapeutic instrument. A pedagogy that explains the history of the previous eco-system and terrain once inhabiting their site. One that enriches them with the knowledge and skills of restoring and producing nature, food and water. And furthermore, educates them about the meaning of a sustainable future living. Where in a single story building, an emphasis is put on constructing an enclosure or an interior, stacking enables an attempt to construct an extensive exterior- a particular experience or sensation of being outside. From stacking to collapsing, through the shifting and rotating of spaces, the project creates a system of codependent spaces. The void between the stacked bodies becomes a vertical ecosystem, activating a variety of enclosed classrooms, exterior terraces and semi enclosed green houses.
clockwise: 1. Interior Views from classrooms, greenhouses and terraces 2. Corner street view 3. Ground level plan
John Dewey rejected the duality of epistemology and metaphysics of modern philosophy and believed in the naturalistic approach that viewed knowledge as arising from an active adaptation of the human organism to its environment. On this view, learning is a process which initiates human action, proceeds to active manipulation of the environment to test hypotheses, and issues in a re-adaptation of organism to environment that allows once again for human action to proceed. A school of nature, a garden school will teach its students real things that have a concrete value in life. Students will constantly adapt to their seasonally changing environment. Every floor will initiate a different type of human interaction with the natural surroundings.
Left: Section through soil core Top: Section through tilted greenhouses
Enclosed Space Exterior Terrace Semi-Enclosed Space Landscape
Right: All floors plan configuration Top: Typical Floor Plan
High Density Low Rise Housing London, UK
Fall 2017 Prof. Farshid Moussavi Harvard University Individual Work
The degree of change in the way Londoners cohabit the city today compared to the last century is an opportunity for a radically different approach to the architecture of the multistory residential building. This studio draws inspiration from an earlier high-density ‘continental’ model developed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, as well as architecture’s potential to embody diversity, inclusivity, and social mobility.
My project offers a direct contact between its residents and the exterior environmentboth urban and natural. Using the large footprint of the site, as an excuse to maximize the relationship between people and the outside. As shown here, the site strategy, entails maximizing the area of the city block, dividing it to max width segments, shifting heights in relation to points of interest, pulling down mass to maximize view, and finally creating courtyards in between the linear massing. A direct relationship to the outside, will minimize the ‘tiresome’ moments of ‘in-between’, as seen in projects similar in scale and typology, built in London post -WWII housing crisis. By allowing each unit direct contact to the exterior, the project will empower the residents’ sense of individuality
Right: 1. axon and relation to park and existing project Left Clockwise: 2. street view, in-between housing bars 3. site plan 4. typical level plan
Nepal Housing Studio Kathmandu, Nepal
Fall 2016 Prof. Enrique Limon Pratt Institute Individual Work
Within Nepal there is an immanent, growing, and deep rooted problem of deforestation. The average annual deforestation rate has amounted to 1.9% in total between 1990 and 2005, thus, Nepal has lost approximately 24.5% of it’s forest cover (1,181,000 hectares). Deforestation and land degradation appear to affect an impressive, and substantial proportion of the population and have the worst consequences for economic growth and individuals’ livelihood. By restoring the spent terrain, the occupant becomes integrated and conscious of the forest around them. The city becomes a hybrid of landscape and home. By rethinking the implications a city has on the valued forestscape of Nepal, the green space becomes the urban fabric and the community space for the occupant. The site for this studio investigation will be a test site, chosen by the Prime Minister and Nepal’s Department of Planning. It is a site in Tohka, just north of Kathmandu, while still within the city boundaries, yet remote from Katmandu’s city center. The site is approx. 35 acres and will accommodate 300 homes, a kindergarten, primary school, community center, clinic, and parks. A testing ground for the new housing typologies, axillary programs, landscape and master planning.
EDUCATION ACADEMY
Proposing a Rhododendron necklace of public spaces in different scales. A pedestrian forest experience. Living inside the woods.
PUBLIC/ PRIVATE DIVISION
PLAZA MARKET PARKING
BIO DIVERSITY CENTER
RESIDENTIAL PRIVATE ACCESS MAIN PEDESTRIAN PATHS GATHERING INTERSECTIONS BIKE PATH
CIRCULATION
ENCLOSED PUBLIC SPACE SHARED COURTYARD MAIN GATHERING GATES
'NECKLACE' HIERARACHY OF PUBLIC
SEAMS & GREENSPACE SUBDIVISION
TERRACED SITE
SCHIMA OAK PINE RHODODENDRON
SITE APPROACH
SITE PLAN
TREES IDENTIFICATION
OCCUPATION LEISURE AGRICULTURE AESTHETIC
STRIPE PROGRAMMING
UNIT TYPOLOGY
DETACHED UNIT FLAT CONDITION
DETACHED UNIT SLOPE CONDITION
ATTACHED UNIT SLOPE CONDITION
APARTMENT BUILDING FLAT CONDITION
APARTMENT BUILDING SLOPE CONDITION
ATTACHED UNIT FLAT CONDITION
MULTI FAMILY UNIT FLAT CONDITION
MULTI FAMILY UNIT SLOPE CONDITION
UNIT FLOOR PLANS
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Columbia University Boat House New York, NY
Spring 2016 Prof. Gonzalo Carbajo Pratt Institute Team Work
The University wants to continue to grow its neighborhood outreach, dedicated to the belief that the sport of rowing provides unique abilities to promote personal and community growth through teamwork, discipline & physical fitness.
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The site, owned by Columbia University, is a parcel at 555 West 218th Street on the shore of the Harlem River. It is bordered by Columbia’s Baker Field sports complex to the south and Inwood Hill Park to the west.
The ground floor consisting of the boat storage, an entrance space and a private circulation for Columbia's rowers. On the 1st Floor, the private 'incubators' merge out of the skin, creating 'inbetween' spaces for the use of the public rowers.
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1. Site Plan 2. Ground Level Plan 3. 1st Level Plan
Columbia Neighborhood Park Columbia
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Analysis of circulation and its different users: Columbia rowers, Community rowers & General Public. Concept: Leading the public's movement from the Cliff and to the park. While creating an elevated plaza and ramp which, in return, "frees" the ground for Columbia's needs. Hybrid Landscape: Extending the park to the site and pulling in the people from the street and the neighborhood.
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'Incubator' Typology- Closed Vertical elements containing the 'Private' spaces for Columbia's Users. Extending from roof to ground, the incubators act as usable spaces, circulation and main structural elements. Left: Incubator study
Top: A long section depicting the public ramp and plaza connecting the cliff and park. Right: A view from the water and boat dock. Bottom: A Short section emphasizing the structural and spatial significance of the 'Incubators'.
Detailed Section
Top-Down: Incubators & InBetween Spaces Diagram. Roof Activation Diagram, Water and Drainage Diagram
"I love being on the water because the oars spoke. Listen: they spun poetry out of equations drawn from fluid dynamics. They summoned the ghosts of other rowers, from nineteenth-century collegians to Nile boatman. Mostly, though, they asked tough questions about who I am and what I am made of" - Barry Strauss, 'Rowing Against The Current'.
1/16 Model & Site
1/2 Scale Sectional Model
Pratt Graduate Dormitory Brooklyn, NY
Fall 2015 Prof. Beth O'Neill Pratt Institute Team Work
The design of a medium density dormitory housing is an opportunity to investigate three problems: 1. What it means to dwell within an urban area: Internally – the apartment typology, the nature of its household composition, an articulation of the live/study arrangement and the promise of shared communal spaces. Externally – the visual and physical relationship to outdoor space and surrounding context. 2. An investigation of form as a response to multiple limitations: Formulating a building project from the opportunities presented by the safeguards and restrictions that governmental authorities prescribed for multiple dwellings. 3. The idea of an architectural identity expressed through façade: Understanding the external skin as a unique overlaid system of relationships – environmental, social, organizational, tectonic.
PUBLIC
Concept-Macro
PRESENTING
INTERACTING
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Exchange of ideas, creativity and space given by contribution of light, air and movement.
CIRCULATING
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WORKING COOKING EATING
Contribution A continous act played by a person or a thing in bringing about a result or helping something to advance. A communal space that contributes natural light, partitions, air, and circulation. Donation The single act of giving to a cause. 1 out of 3 units donates 1/2 of its SQFT to benefit the mutual complex.
ACTING
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SLEEPING BATHING PRIVATE
NTING
NG G E
CONCEPTS ARTIST SPACE
PRIVATE
LATING
NG NG
ENRICHING
REFRESH
OFFERING
INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGING
CIRCULATING
COMTEMPLATING COLLECTING
TRANSITIONING
PRIVATE
INTERACTING
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
REPLENISH
COLLECTING INTERNAL EXCHANGE
PRIVATE
PROJECTING
IDEAS
UNDERSTANDING
OFFERING
INTERACTING
COLLECTING
CREATING
REFRESH
REPLENISH
INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGING
DISCOVERING
REPLENISH
REFRESH
COLLECTING
PRIVATE
REPLENISH
COLLECTING
PRIVATE
SCULPTURE INSTALLATION
On the Macro level, an exchange of space and ideas between a central public player and two side private players. The central element holds the most public collective activities while the two adjecent private elements contain the most private and intimate activities.
Top: Ground Level Plan & Activity Mapping Diagram Right: 1. Circulation Diagram 2. Programmatic Diagram 3. Public VS. Private Diagram
PRIVATE
REPLENISH
COLLECTING
INTERACTING
EXCHANGING OFFERING
PRIVATE
REALIZING INTERNAL EXCHANGE
MOVING
CIRCULATING
ENRICHING
COMTEMPLATING
UNDERSTANDING
REFRESH
EMBODIMENT
OFFERING
INTERPERSONAL FILM
PRIVATE
CREATING
VISITING
OUTREACHING
REALIZING
WORKING COOKING EATING
REFRESH
SLEEPING BATHING PRIVATE
COMMERCE
DISPLAYING
EXHIBITION
COMMUNITY EXCHANGE
PLAZA TRAVELING
PLAZA
PUBLIC
PRIVATE REPLENISH
IMAGINING
PRESENTING CIRCULATING
REFRESH
EXCHANGING
COMTEMPLATING
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
INTERACTING
INTERNAL EXCHANGE
CREATING
PUBLIC INTERACTING
COLLECTING
COLLECTING
PRIVATE
INTERPERSONAL
REFRESH
IMAGINING
CONNECTING
IMAGINING ARTIST SPACE
PLAZA PUBLIC
EXTERIOR
REPLENISH
PRIVATE
REFRESH ENRICHING
DISCOVERING
COMMERCE CONNECTING
Concept-Micro CONCEPT - MICRO EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, CREATIVITY, AND SPACE GIVEN BY THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIGHT, AIR, AND MOVEMENT. CONTRIBUTION A CONTINUOUS ACT PLAYED BY A PERSON OR THING IN BRINGING ABOUT A RESULT OR HELPING SOMETHING TO ADVANCE. A COMMUNAL SPACE THAT CONTRIBUTES NATURAL LIGHT, PARTITIONS, AIR AND CIRCULATION.
DONATION THE SINGLE ACT OF GIVING TO A CAUSE. 1 OUT OF 3 UNITS DONATES 1/2 OF ITS SQFT TO BENEFIT THE MUTUAL COMPLEX. SECTION AA 1/2"=1'-0"
TYPICAL COMMUNAL UNIT PLAN 1/2"=1'-0"
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SECTION BB 1/2"=1'-0"
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SECTION CC 1/2"=1'-0"
Typical Private Floor Plan
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CIRCULATION DD
Unit Sections: Both transverse and longitudinal, showing the communal mid level serving the six tenants for eating and cooking. And the top and lower private spaces, each serving three tenants for sleeping and showering.
TYPICAL PRIVATE UNIT PLAN 1/2"=1'-0"
Right: Unit Plans- Private Level & Communal Level
SHOWER SLEEP COOK & EAT WORK & MEET
PUBLIC PRIVATE
EXTERIOR SECTION DD 1/2"=1'-0"
Contribution A continous act played by a person or a thing in bringing about a result or helping something to advance. A communal space that contributes natural light, partitions, air, and circulation. Donation The single act of giving to a cause. 1 out of 3 units donates 1/2 of its SQFT to benefit the mutual complex.
Top Down: Unit Diagrams: Unit Skin & Materiality Donation of SQFT Circulation Public VS. Private
Typical Communal Floor Plan
A series of work models studying the relationship between the three elements and the street condition.
Left: A Section representing the shifting of voids and spaces between the public building and the two residential buildings. The excluded private levels and the more open communal levels, which also connect by a system of inner bridges. Right: Longitudinal Section through the residential building showing the six tenant units. Each unit consists of an open communal floor, in it are the kitchen and a dinning space. Above and bellow the communal floors, are the private floors of each unit. In the private levels are the sleeping and shower spaces. Connceting the levels in each unit is the internal circulation sytems that serves also as light and air wells. Down: Eastern and Southern Facades. 1/8 Scale Model
Wave Hill Academy Bronx, NY
Spring 2015 Prof. Ran Oron Pratt Institute Individual Work
Visiting our site at Wave Hill, one must immediately notice the impact of the trees surrounding him. In a forest filled with trees, and only a number of scattered built structures, it was clear that the trees were in control of the space, and that their impact on visitors is greater than any other element that exists on site.
In the making of the 'site analysis' model the mapping was translated into a repetitive world of rectangles emphasizing even more the spatial voids created between the trees on site.
To understand the relationship between the trees and the site, I produced a series of sections covering large portions of the site. Examining different conditions of figure ground, built and unbuilt, solids and voids. Creating a 'bark-like' mapping of the trees on site, according to their location, size and intensity.
A joint model, representing a structural idea of making the site, which later became a representation of not only structure, but also of light, skin, and space.
"These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased." (Gaston Bachelard, 'The Poetics of Space').
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GROUND PLAN 1/4''=1'0''
As a response to the strong verticality of the trees I had created an endless horizontal element dominating its surroundings. The building is divided into three parts by two clear and open entrances. Entering from the south entrance is the private residence, separated from the semi public work spaces. On the other end is the communal auditorium space.
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Below: Site Plan
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GROUND PLAN 1/4''=1'0''
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SECTION AA 1/4''=1'0''
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Using the railed joint system I created an outer skin shell, semi open to the outside. Within it are the sealed spaces, arranged in different positions, creating a constantly changing relationship to the skin and to the outside. In a way, the structural skin became Bachelard's forest, with the inner spaces as the rooted trees, and between them were the moving spaces for the visitor to explore.
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SECTION AA 1/4''=1'0''
An Archive for the Performing Arts Chinatown, NY
Fall 2014 Prof. Eva Perez De Vega Pratt Institute Individual Work
We live in a world of information technology, where the collection and distribution of information is itself the dominant component of economic and cultural discourse. Information is often transmitted in a packet, whether it be a book, a piece of artwork or as a digital bit. The storage, maintenance and administering of access to these bundles of information is as important as it has ever been. The proposed archive is concieved as not only satisfying these functions but also as an operative architectural response, enhancing these issues.
What would be the nature of a contemporary archive? How can it facilitate and augment the relationships between users and the archived materials within? How can it facilitate and augment the relationships between users and the field of information beyond the physical confines of the facility and the site? What challenges to public and private, local and global exist in this context?
Left: Site Plan & Site Section
A Series of sections examining the relationship between the two folding systems. The inner system reacting to the visitors' needs and the external system folding in relevance to the street experience.
An archive for the performing arts, located in the center of high densed Chinatown, in New York City. An area known for it's growing level of traffic, noise and pollution. An Area that is in need of a new architectural gesture. The Idea was to create an archive who serves as a gesture to the human and to the urban scales.
The archive acts as two unfolding systems. The first, an articulated 'striated' surface, that relates to the scale of the body and the collection, creating different gathering and media spaces. The second, a 'smooth' envelope surface, shielding the building and creating exterior urban gestures, such as outdoor street view points. The relationship between the two systems creates changing exterior & interior conditions and moments, which vary in levels of privateness and publicness.
Right: Typical building section representing the dynamic relationship between the two folding systems, and the changing spatial conditions of the spaces inbetween.
Non Formal Performance Space
Offices
Lavoratories
Open Stacks Study Space
Conference Space
Reception
Private Stacks
Video Space
Auditorium
Ground Level Plan
1st Level Plan
2nd Level Plan
3rd Level Plan
Audio Space
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1. 1/4 Scale Sectional Model 2. Grid Shell Facade Model 3. 1/8 Scale Model 4. 1/16 Scale Model & Site
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'Boundary Home' Housing Studio Tel-Aviv, Israel
Spring 2014 Prof. Dafna Matok & Leonardo Kalichman Tel-Aviv University Team Work
Examining the behavior and living of the homeless as a case study and a unique type of living situation. Working with sections, understading how the homless person reads the urban enviornment and uses it for his needs and way of living. Understanding how the homless spreads his activities within the given urban field-like system, and how he sets new borders to create his own living space and enviornment.
Macro - Concept
3D Organization
Residential Complex Units
Main Movement Walls
Street Sections
Housing is one of the major topics in Architecture and represents a significant portion of the professional activity and construction in the country and around the world. The Studio will deal with these issues, studying, considering and comprehending the Housing issue in both Israeli and World architecture history. The Studio will work on the documentation, study and analysis of both national and international examples throughout the years by examination of professional literature and study tours to existing sites.
Walls Sub-System
Walls Structural System
Ground Level Plan
Emphasis is given to the continuation of the crossing streets and bringing the street life inside the project. The six residential complexes are touching ground, having the communal office spaces face the street and interact with the pedestrian public. Furthermore, on the communal level of each complex are the collective cooking, eating and meeting spaces with a semi-open green space and an interior patio, shared by the tenants.
Micro - Concept
Unit Complex Plans: 1st & 2nd Level PlansEach Complex serves 5-6 families. On each lower level are the eating and meeting areas with inner patios and exterior public spaces. On each higher level are the sleeping private sections for each family. Northern & Eastern Facades
Top & Left: Views emphasizing the continuation of the streets, first on the ground level and then the elevated street leading to the top complexs.
Right- Bottom Up: Unit TypologyStructural System Mass Organization Setting New Boundry Formation of New Space Interior Division Skin
Zhoushan 舟山 路 Rise-Lane, Shanghai, China
Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication: Designing and fabricating an installation within the school's perimeter. A surface made of a diamondlike pattern openings- reacting to the activities and points of interests occurring within the inner patio.
Fall 2013 Prof. Dr. Eran Neuman Tel-Aviv University Team Work
Proposed Relation Public Private Values Studying Tilanqiao's private and public relations. offering a new balance of collective and private zones.
A project held in the unique neighborhood of Tilanqiao, Shanghai, China. One of the only traditional, low rise residentials, remaining in the very fast developing city of Shanghai. A very poor neighborhood, with high density, and lack of public and green spaces.
Private Activities Public Activities 1
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Top: Roof Plan Right: Pattern Diagram
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1. Openings diagram 2. Greenary and Stay Spaces diagram 3. Circulation Diagram
Creating a Collective Roof top. A layer above existing Shikumen's rooftops. A system that provides circulation and gathering spaces, and behaves as a topographic system. An alternative to the existing street and community life that enhances the collective and individual essence.
OMA AMO Rotterdam
Countryside, The Future, Exhibition Guggenheim NYC
Spring 2018- Spring 2020 Rem Koolhaas OMA_AMO & GSD
Countryside, The Future, is an exhibition addressing urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum, Countryside, The Future will explore radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the earth’s surface not occupied by cities, with a full rotunda installation premised on original research
The degree of change in the way Londoners cohabit the city today compared to the last century is an opportunity for a radically different approach to the architecture of the multistory residential building. This studio draws inspiration from an earlier high-density ‘continental’ model developed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, as well as architecture’s potential to embody diversity, inclusivity, and social mobility.
Farshid Moussavi Architecture London
Farshid Moussavi Architecture London, UK
Spring 2018- Summer 2019 Farshid Moussavi
Working for Harvard University GSD Professor, Farshid Moussavi, on multiple international projects.
National Portrait Gallery London, UK
Ismaili Center, Houston, Texas Victoria & Albert Museum Fashion Gallery London,UK
Reiser + Umemoto NYC
Reiser & Umemoto Summer 2016 New-York, NY
As part of my internship at Reiser + Umemoto, I was working on the publication of book covering 30 years of the firm's work. In addition I took part in an ongoing competition in the city of Osaka, Japan. Shown here is a re-drawing of the Water Garden project done in 1997 for the Jeffrey Kipnis residence.
THEVERYMANY NYC
Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY SU 15' Internship Brooklyn, NY
Under the leadership of Marc Fornes, I have led the design of a short list submission which we was ultimately awarded and which is now built. The project is entitled ‘Under Magnitude,’ and is situated in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The computationallydesigned and digitally fabricated installation is 23’ high, 31’ wide and 44’ deep, and hangs in a large exhibition hallway. Read as one element from far, the piece is in fact the sum of many sub-elements- a network of bulbous and bone-like branches unified by a single smooth white. Composed of an intricately curvilinear singular surface, the piece itself is not a surface, but a three-dimensional subspace, triangular in plan and reaching upwards into a funnel-like shape element.
An internship at Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY™, a New York based studio engaging Art and Architecture through the filter of systematic research and development into applied Computer Science and Digital Fabrication.