INVERSIONS
Inspired by the layered history of Rome,this restaurant propsal inverts the dinning experience by taking the user through a room-by-course dining experince of traitional Roman cusine. Each room holds qualities from their respective plate and enhances the social experience by encouranging interaction with strangers through a variation in seating arrangements. The pocessional and transitory qualities of the restaurant are further developed in the arch typology that encompasses the restaurant and hints at each space’s use.
Location: Rome, Italy
WATERSCAPES
This office to residential conversion at the heart of New York’s Financial District aims to use water as an element of change and rethink how we should inhabit skyscrapers. The ground floor embraces the flood as a resiliency tactic by creating a public space for water collection and a park when the flood is not present. Community activities are dispersed in the terraces and invite the public to explore the city vertically. The public housing units are subsidized through an aquaculture system that utilizes the building’s plumbing and waste to generate fish. The redesign respects the iconography of the existing building and uses voids to suggest a possible future for skyscrapers.
Location: New York, NY
reclaiming albina’s legacy
In order to heal Albina’s fractured history, this mixed use block weaves a new tapestry into the landscape Five healing pillars: Medical care, Healthy living, community spaces, Home, and Water. The block focuses on amplifying the existing activities of Portland’s black community and providing a space for establishing new relationships with the nearby hospital complex, housing units, and retail space.
National Organization of Minority Architecture Students[NOMAS]
1st Place Winner
Location: Portland, Oregon
LIBERTY CITY RE-IMAGINED
This public housing proposal focuses on the duality of domestic life in Liberty City, Miami by emphasizing the existing rituals of black and bohemian culture within the neighborhood and those activities held in the porch. Through the re-imagining and reconfiguration of existing housing units and the iron work that accompanies them, the design aims to re appropriate what is overlooked such as iron work and utilize it as a bridge between the body and the activities embedded in the community.
Location: Miami, Florida
Collaborator: Alejandra Siguenza
QUEEN OF THE SWAMP
This exhibit explores the aesthetics of impropriety as a solution within the context of South Florida’s swampland. In many ways, Miami’s Black and Indigenous communities are the instigators of Miami’s original architecture, infrastructure, and present culture. The architectural vernacular of Miami is analyzed through the history of Bahamian labor and construction of its infrastructure.
Collaboration: Sydney Maubert
Location: Miami, Florida
HOME HERE AND THERE
By using food as the threshold for transition, this community center holds kitchen spaces available to both the residents within and the public who wanders through. The interconnectivity through pathways holds true to the idea that home can exist between two places. Learning about the different stories of the San Juan Hill neighborhood, the spaces that existed prior to the construction of Lincoln Center from different vantage points and interconnecting them with personal immigrant experiences of movement across scales.
Location: New York, New york
UNDULATING COLLECTIONS
This library located in Auburn, New York mirrors the materials of its downtown surroundings and respects the neighborhoods history through subtle moves of curvature and slippage. The design aims to bridge the education gap in this predominantly black neighborhood by providing a location for community engagement and learning. By respecting the current park’s essence of trees and history, the library molds itself onto the site and therefore respects its inhabitants in minimal interference.
Location: Auburn, New York
THE TOTE
The structural model study consists of an elaborate steel-truss structural system that adopts the shapes and elements of the tree branches. The structure’s intricate use of branches elegantly disperses the loads on the structure while simultaneously serving as an open and spatial program.
Architect: Serie Architects
Location: Mumbai, India
THREADED DWELLING
A piece of fabric constrained by its surroundings. This house follows the rules of the workplace and eradicates the boundaries of a traditional home. A linear circulation follows the client in the same way a piece of fabric flows on the body. The translucency of material blends outdoor and indoor spaces through the manipulation of light. A thread intersects the home through the form of a runway.
Location: Ithaca, New York
ALUMINUM FUSION
The bus stop design aims to fuse with the ground through the immersion of the materials it presents and returning them back to the ground. The bus stop library uses curves to fuse with the ground, its client through seating and tables, and with the books through even smaller undulations in the walls. The design takes advantage of the recyclable qualities of aluminum by having sheeting that after bent, can be unrolled again and re-purposed.
Location: Ithaca, New York
PUSH AND PULL
Sleeping, playing, and doing homework in the same area for many years forced me to explore in my head, where I could think alone. The work explores the unexplained aspects of our emotions through the creation of ambiguous spaces. By implementing a monochromatic color scheme, I create a tranquil facade which strays the viewer from the chaotic compositions. These scenes are represented in the abstract, emphasizing movement of the forms through a warped perspective.
CULTURAL EXPLORATION WITH AND WITHIN
A sustained investigation looking further into the people and the place who held a larger part of childhood as an immigrant. The uncertainty and imbalance is explored further through fragility.
SYNTHESIS
This parklet serves as an outdoor recreational and dinning space for residents of Miami beach. The wooden structure stems from the ground and holds a bench, table, and chairs. The overarching protection curves itself inward inviting citizens to enter and decompress.
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
EARLY WORK
Past work Includes a temporary home for a ranger in the Everglades, an architectural building toy, and a shipping container cultural complex in Miami’s Design District.