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Contents

Design Studios

Design Development

Thesis

Material Explorations //Fall 06

Variable Commitment Housing //Fall 07

Integrated Lifestlye Housing //Fall 07

Designing Oppositions //Fall 08

Making as a Way of Thinking //Fall 08

Performative Indexes //Spring 09

Urban Hiatus //Spring 10

The Folded Boulevard //Fall 09

Borderline University //Spring 11

Material Explorations Professor: Michael Oatman

Later the surface was asked to span a frame. The modules were then layered for added strength and lighting effects.

Studio 1

Material

Explorations

Material Explorations

Using a single found material, surfaces were constructed from modules. Each surface was asked to serve different performance criteria, such as having no top or bottom, no inside or outside, be self supporting, and have dramatic effects when under light.

To accomplish these criteria a flexible cardboard module was used and joined by pin connections. The resulting surface was then folded into a Klein bottle.

VariableCommitment Housing

BOSTON, MA

Studio 2

Variable Commitment Housing

This project was designed to house three different families. The house is designed to allow each member of the families to contribute to the housing community, or retreat into their own private space as they choose. To allow this, the ground floor and roof terraces were used as gathering spaces while each individual and family were provided with their own space.

Variable Commitment Housing: Professor: David Bell 0

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Integrated Lifestyle Housing

Located next to the business center and athletic facilities on Harvard’s campus, this housing complex strove to bring together students, residents, and citizens of the city. This project was integrated into a larger organization of fourteen housing complexes designed by our peers. To achieve our goal of integration, we organized the residences around a central courtyard which is opened up through a large cantilever to provide communal space for residents and visitors. On the interior, open spaces are placed around the main circulation to create com-munal spaces. A double skin loovered facade provides thermal comfort and privacy.

Integrated Lifestyle Housing: Professor: David Bell Collaborators: Christine Lois, Andrew Leung, Elvin Garcia, Charity Saunders

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Communal Space Under Cantilever

Concept of Combining Housing Typologies Structure to support cantilever

Physical Model

Integrated Lifestyle Housing

Studio 2

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Site plan relative to other complexes

View of internal courtyard

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Designing Oppositions Inspired by the physics and symbolic properties of light and gravity, this project for a library and recreation center negotiates between the dualities of body/mind, quantum/cosmic, city/river, and above/below. The programs are divided along these lines, but also contain spaces where these dualities overlap. The recreation center is located under the landscape in the form of a folded plate structure based on a manipulated grid. The library maintains the street front. At the center of the project a bridge is formed, opening the city to the recreation center and river. The bridge also unites the two sides of the library, one containing childrens’ collections and the other adults’.

View From Inside Library Bridge

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OppositionsTROY, NY

Designing Oppositions

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Designing Oppositions: Professor: David Bell Collaborator: Yarden Elhanan

Transverse Section showing library bridge and fitness center underground

Longitudinal Section sloping down toward river

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View of public space abouve fitness center and below library

Making as a Way of Thinking This project for a blacksmithing studio for the Penland School in North Carolina seeks to embrace making as a way of thinking through the use of computational modeling. The project incorporates craft and construction logic through parametic systems and flexible, performative component design. The parametric relationship between the program, structure, and component creates an adapt-able system where each element serves multiple purposes.

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PENLAND, NC

Making as a Way of Thinking

Making as a Way of Thinking: Professor: David Riebie

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The structure is modeled as an outcome to the arrangement of program. Arches form a line of support, creating the fabrication area, while lintels and secondary supports sprout up from program boundaries providing structure for the component (a stressed panel). Inspired by blacksmith form-making , the panel is contorted to provide ventilation, lighting, shading, and enclosure.

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Making as a Way of Thinking

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View of fabrication area

Surface Color Studies

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Performative Indexes

This studio sought to examine how indexical relationships can be established within the creative process to achieve various perfor-mance critera. My field of investigation was color. The project is for a repository based on the work of artist Tony Cragg. Color indexes the location of books.

Re-examining the Index: Professor: Andrew Saunders

Plan of repository

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SARATOGA, NY

Perfomative Indexes

Vertical Studio

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Surface study models

Urban Hiatus: Professor: Gustavo Crembil Collaborator: Wang Jiaqi

REINTEGRATING THE URBAN FABRICSupport - Mend - Integrate - Weave

Duolun Lu Block, North Hongkou, Shanghai

The historical street of Duolun Lu has recently under-gone a restoration, preserving many famous writers’ houses. The restoration of the site was successful in restoring and preserving the houses, but it also caused a rift between the street and its residents.Duolun Lu contains a rich, dense urban fabric, but it is not integrated with its context.. The surrounding context brings many different types of people into the site -the shopper from Sichuan Road, the tourist, the passer-by, and the resident or visitor from the rail stop-. Due to the variety of people and activities, the site remains active but lacks a concrete identity.The site falls short of becoming the cultural center it desires to be. Instead it caters to the passer-by. The typical user does not spend a large amount of time in the site, choosing to stop quickly for a meal or to visit an antique shop. There are no communal areas where programs and people can mix to generate new cultural value.Within the block the various functions compete for a street-front presence along Duolun Lu and the housing becomes the largest casualty. Relegated to dense lilong blocks, or sandwiched against the loud elevated railway, the residents are not allowed to participate in the rich street-front experience. Duolun Lu’s cultural value was generated by its residents. Now there exists a hiatus between the resident and Duolun Lu. We propose that the resident should play an active role in reshaping Duolun Lu as a cultural center.The use of platforms and terraced housing would generate a semi-private relationship between the visitor and the resident, allowing interaction in areas while also providing privacy. If given the chance the resident could change Duolun Lu from a cultural relic to a model of integration.Our strategy proposes the establishment of a pedes-trian connection between the north and south ends of the site and pedestrian access to areas behind the street. The street becomes a pedestrian zone open to both residents and tourists. The strategy also proposes the preservation and renovation of historically signifi-cant buildings and lilong housing

Urban

HiatusSHANGHAI, CHINA

Vertical StudioUrban

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Single-Loaded Type Rotate Block Rotate Units Manipulate Block Connect to Platform

Use Support Spaces and Hall as Bu�er from Rail

Open Up Living Spacesto South and Open Viewsto the East

Create Southern Slope forCommunal ActivitesRaise North to Replace Units

Connect to Platform Creatinga Semi-Private Space for Residents

Site In�uencesGrain Program CirculationBoundary Conditions Private/Public Relationship

StrategyGrain ProgramBoundary Conditions Private/Public Relationship

Hospital

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Gathering Place

Tourist Green

The massing responds to the harsh boundary condition in the West by sloping up. This generates a closer connection to the softer boundary in the East and opens up views to Duolun Lu.

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Level 1:The �rst level consists of public paths (vehicular and pedestrian) and public green space. The vehicle road seperates the two residence types.

Level 2:At the second level the two resi-dence types are joined by a com-

munal platform, linking the eastern housing units with the commercial and relaxation spaces to the west.

Level 3:Here the residents are given a

semi private platform con-necting to the communal center of the site.

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The blocks connect down

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Layering strategy

Site plan showingintegration with neighboring project

Longitudinal N/S section

Transverse E/W section

Level 1:The �rst level consists of public paths (vehicular and pedestrian) and public green space. The vehicle road seperates the two residence types.

Level 2:At the second level the two resi-dence types are joined by a com-

munal platform, linking the eastern housing units with the commercial and relaxation spaces to the west.

Level 3:Here the residents are given a

semi private platform con-necting to the communal center of the site.

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The blocks connect down

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Hospital

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Layering strategy

Site plan showingintegration with neighboring project

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Views from public platform

THE FOLDED BOULEVARDSchematic design by Diller Scofidio and Renfro

Working off the drawings and images on the right, the goal of this studio was to take a project through the design development phase.Located on the bustling Av. Atlantica, Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Image and Sound aims to expose the world of Brazilian art to tourists and residents alike. The project focuses on the open movement and patterns as a means of developing the structural and organizational schemes. Inspired by the Copacabana beach promenade, the parti describes a folded bouldevard. Typically, the beachfront is reserved for the tourist and the area behind for the Brazilian. The folded continuous surface, however, inverts the typical heirarchial relationship established by the boulevard, and carries the visiors thourgh the city and its history.The idea of “image and sound” is used as a special effects machine. The various facade conditions allow the sights and sounds of Rio to selectively permeate the interior. The folded boulevard takes the form of an external stair, on which people can hang out or meet. The stair leads to a roof garden that contains a public cinema.

Copacabana Inside Out

Inverting the Brazilian/Tourist Relationship

DesignDevelopment

RIO DE JANEIRO

The Folded Boulevard

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The Folded BoulevardStair 1 Angle: 25.34 degrees

Rise: 9 mNumber of landings required: 3

Run: 19 mSpan: 21m from 1A to 1B

Effective depth required: 1.6 mStart width: 3.4 mEnd width: 2.7 m

Notes: Starts and ends in external communal space

Depth of stair support: .3 mAllowable stair height: 1.6 - .3 = 1.3 m

Allowable landing: 3.38 m

Stair 2Angle: 21.7 degrees

Rise: 7.28 mNumber of landings required: 2

Run: 18.26 mSpan: 19.65 m from 2A to 2B

Effective depth required: 1.53 mMaximum landing: m

Start width: 2.7 mEnd width: 1.94 m

Notes: starts in external communal space








Notes starts in external communal space:


Allowable landing: 8 m

Angle: 20.96 degreesRise: 10.12 m

Number of landings required: 3 Run: 26.41 m

Span: 28.28 5A to 5BEffective depth required: 2.2 m

Maximum landing: mStart width: 2.56 mEnd width: 6.74 m

Notes: transitory

Stair 5

Depth of stair support: .55 mAllowable stair height: 2.2 - .55 - 1.65 m


Group Seating Seating

length: 1.3 m - 2.2 mwidth: 2 m +depth: .72 m / 1.08 mangle: 10.7 - 31 degrees

L-Configuration

U-Configuration

Group Lounge

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length: 1.2 m - 2.5 mwidth: 2 m +depth: .72 m / 1.08 mangle: 16.7 - 21.8 degrees

length: 1.8 mwidth: 3 m +depth: .78 m - .54 mangle: 21.8 degrees

length: .9 m - 1.8 mwidth: 3 m +depth: .72 m / 1.08 mangle: 16.7 - 31 degrees

Stairslength: .3 m / .6 mwidth: 1 m +depth: .18 m / .36 mangle: 31 degrees

Stadium Seatinglength: .9 mwidth: 1 m +depth: .36 mangle: 16.7 - 21.8 degrees

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The folded boulevard contains different types of stair/lounge arrangements according to interior program and views to the ocean.

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FinalProject

Borderline University

TRANSVERCITY::::the CLOUD Institution

The CLOUD Thesis explores the architectural, social, and ecological opportunities afforded by advanced material sensitivity, future methods of information extraction and archiving, and local and global sensitivities offered by networked protocols within the context of the year 2048. The program of investigation is the archive/library and education/learning. This studio asks how architects can engage and structure the triad of material sensitivity, archiving, and networked protocols to structure the design of education and archiving institutions using the model of the CLOUD; an entity that shifts, adapts, stores and distributes with local sensitivity within a global context.As new materials become available, it has become possible to push the limits of the perfor-mance of buildings. As the everyday objects which we interface with become more intelligent, it is necessary for architectural objects to become more intelligent. In the article Shaping Things, science-fiction author, Bruce Sterling, proposed the creation of the Spime: intelligent objects with the ability of self-awareness, communication, self-assembly, self-disassembly, and self-recycling. As these objects become reality they are changing how we engage the architec-tural environment (whether through virtual or augmented reality) one to one interaction, or new communication channels. The potential for these materials and objects to gather, archive, and distribute information has radically shifted the ways in which humanity educates and archives. These two programs have become increasingly interconnected.

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Darwin’s Origin of Species is published

US Department of Education is created

John Dewey’s Democracy and Education is published

Gestalt TheorySAT is �rst administered

GI Bill

BF Skinner’s Science and Human Behavior is published - operant conditioning

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

E-Book is invented

University of Phoenix establishes the �rst online campus

Massachusetts Education Reform Act - common curriculum and statewide tests

No Child Left Behind is passed

Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentStock Market Crash

Thorndike’s Law of E�ect

Rise of McCarthyism

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is passed

First standardized tests of intelligence

Racial Integration

Deployment State: Campus

Final Project

Borderline

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Final Project: Professor: Carla Leitao

POINT OF INSERTION :::: the borderline university

The Borderline University is a new type of bi-national university that operates within a fractured border condition. This university acts as a mediator between border entities by tackling spatial and socioeconomic issues through the use of distributed educational protocols and a merger of the university’s educational archives with local commercial interests. Within a bi-national educational context, the project will incorporate local and global commerce as a means to stimulate growth and education along the border. The borderline of investigation is the United States and Mexico border. The Borderline University attempts to re-qualify the current divisive and isolationist policies along this border by creating a bi-national attitude promoting investment and growth, leading to reform. The project envisions a widening of the border to achieve these goals. The installation of a university, within the widened border, will test the abilities of university incubator programs to promote continuous education, distributed learning, and informa-tion exchange. Installed within the Sister Cities along the US-Mexico border, the Border-line University bridges the rigid landscapes of national security, immigration, and employment/education. The Borderline University will distribute itself, and grow through the use of flexible material specifications which allow the university to adopt multiple forms according to local conditions by tapping into educational needs along the border.

PEOPLE AS CO-OCCURRENCES WITH SPACE: The architecture will not only engage space, but instead space-time. Architecture will not only engage with the life-cycle of the building, but also with the life-cycle and patterns of its users.

MOBILE SENSE OF PLACE: Decentralization and mobility are vital to the spread of information and knowledge. Within the border condition an architec-ture that can engage multiple places at different scales is vital to create informa-tion exchange and social overlap.

CONTINUITY OF TRANSFORMATION: The fluid transition of information to knowledge, campus to city, extraction to absorption of information, and landscape to architecture will be encouraged to occur continuously and simultaneously according to users needs. This will require the architecture to fragment, dissolve, grow, cultivate, and consume.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT:Through pattern recognition and an engagement in the hertzian space of the campus and city architecture and materials have begun to be able to adapt and modify according to the information flows of public space. This project will look towards the scenario of 2048 to project how architecture may be able to respond further.

OVERLAP: Information does not become intelligent until it is overlapped and combined. This project will look to create contact zones within a border condition to facilitate information exchange and social overlap.

Political/Cultural Territories (Borderlines)

Alternate Education Models

Virtual Space

Archi-Music

Information Exchange

Information Visualization

Extraction Absorption

Distribution/Non-centralization

DESIGN CRITERIA

OUR GOVERNMENTS TREAT US LIKE A THIRD COUNTRY, SO WE MAY AS WELL ACT LIKE ONE.

Borderline Alterations1. Static Border

2. Association/Dissociation

3. New Zone

WE DON’T NEED A BORDER FENCE. WE NEED A BORDER PRESENCE TO DETER ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.

DID YOU HEAR THAT EXPLOSION IN MATAMOROS LAST NIGHT?

Condition: Typical, Relaxed, Divisive, PackedProgram: Border WallStimuli: Authorized/Unauthorized Presence Action: Scanning

Condition: Atypical, Alert, Divisive, PackedProgram: Border Patrol, Port, BufferStimuli: Strong Authorized/Unauthorized Presence, Strong Affiliations Action: Shift Location, Deploy Buffer, Deploy Folds

Condition: Atypical, Alert, Connective, UnpackedProgram: Educational, Manufacturing/DistributionStimuli: Authorized/Unauthorized Presence, University Presence Action: Unfolding

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Borderline

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Established University

Maquila Industry

Avoidance Points

Addition of incubator program to university

Deployment at midpoints between university and industry

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Deployment based on programmatic needsENCLOSURE

UNPACKING

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Classroom

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When an appropriateprogram or a threat is sensed, the project opens and deploysitself to create either a safety buffer or a usable space.

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Deployment State: Wall

Deployment State: Buffer

The project deploys uncoiling itself and stretchingto enclose space. The structure consists ofsix strands which contain material to formenclosure. These enclosures could be used astemporary shelter for border patrol ordeployed permanently on a university campus.Once the six individual strands are recoiled thestructure forms a wall. This wall is capable ofmanoeuvring itself, like a snake, towards anydesirable location, away from a dangerous one,or between to provide protection.The amount of tension of the structure indexesthe conditions along the border.

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Relevant Coursework:

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street Troy NY 12180Bachelors of ArchitectureGPA: 3.49 (4.0 Index)Standing: Dean’s List

Tongji University 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, P.R. China

2011 Spring Semester Study Abroad

Structures I, IIConstruction SystemsEnvironmental and Ecological SystemsHuman Factors in DesignMaterials and EnclosuresBuilding Systems and EnvironmentSustainable Building Design Metrics (Overview of LEED)

Introduction to Computer ProgrammingDesign DevelopmentProfessional PracticeApplied PsychoacousticsChinese Language and CultureUrban NarrativesLatin American ArchitectureDesign Philosophies

RPI Lighting Research Center, Troy, New YorkResearch Assistant/Clerical (2009) -Drawing and retouching lighting plans -Performing lighting analysis in eQuest -Filing and data entry -Clerical

Camp Lavi, Lakewood, PennsylvaniaLaborer and Maintenance (2006-) -Carpentry -Painting, building repair, cleaning, etc -Building construction

Downton Construction, Starrucca, PennsylvaniaLaborer (2008-2010) -Timber frame construction -Remodeling

3846 State Route 1001 Thompson PA 18465 (570) 396-1813 [email protected]

3846 State Route 1001 Thompson PA 18465 (570) 396-1813 [email protected]

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Key Skills

- Physical Modeling - Laser Cutter - 3D Printing - Milling - Woodworking

- Computer Modeling - 3D Modeling - Rhinoceros 3D - Bently Microstation - Scripting/Parametric Modeling - RhinoScript (Visual Basic) - Grasshopper - Generative Components - Processing -BIM Modeling - Ecotect - eQuest - RISA 3D - Bently Microstation - Rendering - VRay - Bentley

- Drafting - Hand - ACAD - Bently Architecture

- Graphic Design - Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign - Flash

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