ARCHITECTURE | MATERIAL | COMPUTATION |EXPERIENCE
Architecture
[ ZEPHYR ]
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Public Transportation | Cultural Civic
Chicago, IL, United States / 2023
Concept Design [Architecture]
A transportation center vital to Chicago’s connectivity, grapples with congestion and capacity challenges, rejuvenating the surrounding landscape to foster growth and offer a seamless and pleasant travel experience, seamlessly blending the city’s charm with functionality.
[ COLDSPRINGS CIDERY ]
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Community Cidery Business | Cultural Civic
Buffalo, NY, United States / 2023
Concept Design [Architecture | Experience]
A community-focused cidery project in Buffalo’s Coldsprings District seeks to revitalize Jefferson Avenue by repurposing neglected spaces, incorporating symbolic elements, and promoting economic growth and community involvement, positioning the cidery as a symbol of the district’s renewal.
[ LUGAR DE ANHELO ]
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Innovative Social Housing
Santa Clara, United States / 2022
Concept Design [Architecture & Landscape]
A Desirable Place, Lugar de Anhelo, is a social housing design that proposes an example of versatile living systems that can adapt to future urbanization. It can provide a community-based solution with care of details to the imminent city capacity problems.
[WELCOME CENTER OF
ITHCA LEARNING FARM ]
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Welcome Center of a Learning Farm
Ithaca, NY, United States / 2024
Concept Design [Architecture | Experience]
The Learning Farm in Ithaca is a 16-acre agricultural education center featuring eco-friendly facilities and innovative design, aimed at promoting sustainability and engaging families and children in food production. The project seeks to transform the site into a tech-forward learning organization, emphasizing sustainability and future potential. The design merges architectural principles with sustainability practices, using eco-friendly materials and passive strategies.
[WOODSTACK ]
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Architecture Installation with 2 x 4 Lumbers
Bethel Wood, NY, United States / 2024
Design & Build Competition [Architecture | Material]
WoodStack draws formal and structural inspiration from the wood stacks ubiquitous to lumber yards around the world in order to achieve a vertical profile using no steel fasteners or screws. Instead, the project utilizes custom, digitally fabricated elements to align, tighten, and stabilize the structure. Furthermore, all of the wood stacked in the pavilion was collected from student projects at the Illinois Institute of Technology—providing a second use for material slated as waste and shedding light on the unseen abundance of free resources that exist all around us.
[ CHOHCHAT ]
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Floating Refugee Shelter
Cambodia / 2020.03 - 2021
Concept Design [Architecture]
Chohchat is a cooperative living space proposed as assistance for floating refugee communities located in Cambodia and Thailand. Chohchat encourages the sharing of activities and infrastructure to help build up community relationships and provide the space and storage for activities and shared belongings.
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[BAMBOO TACTIC ]
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Research & Build, MR + Bamboo Fabrication
Ithaca, NY, United States / 2024
Research With Leslie Lok, RUBI Lab, Cornell
[Architecture | Computation | MR | Material]
Exploration of the intersection of technology, novel material methods, and urbanization. Research and build a platform with mixed reality to help construct non-standard building materials.
[INFLATABLE FORMWORK]
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Research & Build, Computation + Fabrication
Ithaca, NY, United States / 2024
Research With Kim, II Hwan, Cornell
[Architecture | Computation | Fabrication | Material]
Exploration of dynamic formwork using inflatable fabric in concrete construction. Research and develop a method to create temporary and recyclable support for concrete through controlled air pressure, allowing for programmed patterns and shapes that vanish once the material has cured.
Spatial Experience
[ASTERISMOS]
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Thematic Fine Dinning
Los Angeles, United States/ 2020.09 - 2021
Concept Design [Architecture | Experience]
Asterism’s is a sensory-based, unconventional fine dining restaurant, founded in partnership with chef Grant Achatz. The goal is to reintroduce the tasting experience through a sense of wonder and adventure through an immersive paradigm-shifting journey enhanced with multimedia stimulation so curious guests can relish and explore the scintillations of an extraordinary fine dining experience.
[ESTACION COLIBRI]
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Educational Exhibition
Los Angeles, United States/ 2020.03 - 09
Concept Design [Architecture | Experience]
Estación Colibrí is a multi-location exhibition [sponsored by LA Metro + Bird] to encourage more people to take public transportation. We propose a rapid transit system between the bus/metro station and people’s destinations. This would result in a shared open space within separated neighborhoods, a gathering place that would enhance people’s participation in communities.
[GROUNDED.]
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Rammed Earth Sculpted Tiles
China / 2020.03 - 09
Concept Design & Material Experiment
[Material | Experience]
Grounded tiles are a line of earthen products that bring grounded environment, connected to nature and culture, into living space and develop character overtime. Grounded expresses the timeless connection humans have to land, and emphasizes the inherent truth of natural materials, and the beauty of earth's form.
[CARE]
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Mobile Vaccination Clinic
Los Angeles, United States / 2021.09-2020.03
Concept Design [Experience]
CARE is a mobile vaccination clinic to serves communities by building trust through a welcoming and friendly environment.CARE cooperate with partners to holds pop-up event to bring vaccine resources to understand communities. We are devoted to assisting communities in the Greater Los Angeles Area that have yet to develop trustworthy relationships with their healthcare providers.
[HEY.]
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Residential Office Seating
Los Angeles, United States / 2020.03 - 09
Concept Design [Furniture | Experience]
What would be the new form of comfort for “working at home”？ Taking the mid-century shell furniture design, redesign the curve & form to provide a more intimate, warm, and relaxing feeling. Trying to remember the feeling of being touched and connected - the feeling of caress and hug from your significant other.
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