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Healing through nature was the primary aim of this studio and so I took inspiration from the Sacred Groves of India where I did research for four months in 2011. Here, I am translating the qualities of the grove, both physically and conceptually into this design. Physically there stands a grove of trees at the heart of the building over an interior sacred space. Conceptually, the units are organized around the grove with the idea that the occupants can form a support network from which to heal and grow. The building itself acts as a grove, with a water catchment system retaining water and harvesting heat from the sewer system, similar to root systems, and the roof top farm acts as a seed bank preserving biodiversity for the district.
Concept Diagram
Sustainable Strategies
Diagram
Concept Model
The Healing GroveThe Healing Grove was my thesis project: a transitional housing project aimed to heal not only the occupants who inhabit the building, but also the Lloyd Eco-district of Portland, in which it is set.
Entry
Dining Room
Exterior of Entry
View from MLK and Multnomah
ScalesSustainable
Strategies
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Permanent User
Staff
Dining Room
Kitchen
Lobby
Healing Center
Career Center
Grove
Lobby
Non Profit Retail
Wetland Water Filtration
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Multnomah
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apy
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Building ProgramGround
Floor Plan
Existing Urban Context Urban Design
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These are examples of my work for the Healing Grove to show my ability to design at different scales and by using multiple mediums.
Here I’ve used hand drawings, Autodesk Revit, Google Sketchup, and Adobe Illustrator to communicate design concepts and information.
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The Second Street Corridor was a project completed for a class titled City Growth and Design. It was part of the second Sustainable Cities Year in Salem, Oregon. In a group of four students, two Architecture majors and two Planning majors, we worked to redesign the Second Street Corridor. We used strategies such as landmarks for orientation and neighborhood distinction, alleyways to create shortened more walkable blocks, a commercial corridor on Second Street, a mixed-use zoning code to promote variety, and bicycle boulevards to encourage bicycle commuters. These images were hand drawn. Illustrator was used to add color and Photoshop was used to add trees.
The Second Street CorridorSalem, Oregon
Commercial
UtilityStrip
Sidewalk Parallel Parking
TravelLane
Bioswale TravelLane
Parallel Parking
SidewalkUtilityStrip
SetbackArcade
Residential
Residential
Alley Additions to Shorten Blocks
Potential Commercial Corridors
Proposed Mixed Use Zoning
Second Street Cross Section
Landmark Second St.
This was the first successful project on which I used Revit. The renderings from Revit were combined with Photoshop to create the images on this page. This work was produced by myself alone Portland’s Urban Incubator is designed to blend into its’ social and environmental context. An open framework mimicking the classical forms found in Old Town Portland would provide the basic unit between which food carts can vend. A green roof on the second floor would provide a more private place for the residents who live and work in the building. A trellis of vertical green would provide shade in the lush summer months and omit light in the dryer winter months. A light slot down the center of the building would leave no part of the building more than forty feet away from access to natural light.
Light Slot Social Environmental OverlapConference Business
Live WorkCommercial
Building Uses
Portland’s Urban Incubator
Urban Context Perspective of Light Slot
Urban Incubator
Train Station
Concept Diagram
Arriving on the MAX
Bioswale
Community Park
Rockwood Boulevard
Rockwood Boulevard is a project that was part of the pilot studio for the first Sus-tainable Cities Year where the University of Oregon collaborates with one city to improve sustainability through planning, architecture, ecology, and business among many other areas of study. Our studio worked in collaboration with Gresham city officials, local business owners and citizens to transform a currently isolated and distressed site. In a group of three we designed a vibrant neighborhood. At the heart of the six-acre site is a street lined with local business creating an atmosphere bursting with activity and unique flavor. The street is small in scale, with numerous opportunities for shop owners to customize their storefront, creating a sense of ownership. Rockwood Boulevard facilitates a growing sense of pride among the residents in something as simple as a place to call their own.
Site Plan
StreetPlan
Whiteaker Station Shipping Container Lofts Cisterns for Water CatchmentAbove they are living wall art and below they are booths for PRI
Urban Farm for Pizza Research InstituteNever out of Season
Electrically-Run Mass TransitSustainable transportation
A Public VenueFor the Community
Covered Bicycle Parking
Electric Charging Stations
5th Street Bicycle Boulevard
Plus Bioswales for Parking lot Runoff
Solar panels on the roof take them off the grid
Because it Rains
Cars and Bicycles Can Get Along
An independent project with a local entrepeneur and business owner where he asked for a vision of what a block in the whiteaker district of Eugene could be in twenty years. This plan and perspective demonstrate how Whiteaker Station, as the owner calls it, can rejoin a sustainable cycle. Most importantly, this proposal seeks to accomplish such a development through a celebration of both the ecologically and socially rich environment in which it is set.
Whiteaker Station
Electric Charging StationsPlus Bioswales for Parking lot runoff
5th Street Bicycle BoulevardCars and Bicycles Can Get Along
Covered Bicycle ParkingBecause it Rains
A Public VenueFor the Community
Electrically-Run Mass TransitSustainable transportation
An Independent project with a local entrepreneur and business owner where he asked for a vision of what a block in the Whiteaker district of Eugene could be in twenty years. This plan and perspective demon-strate how Whiteaker Station, as the owner calls it, can rejoin a sustainable cycle. Most importantly, this proposal seeks to accomplish such a develop-ment through a celebration of both the ecologically and socially rich environment in which it is set.
Urban Farm for Pizza Research InstituteNever out of Season
Cisterns for Water CatchmentAbove they are Living Walls, Below they are Booths for Dining
Shipping Container LoftsSolar Panels on the Roof take them off the Grid
Willamette
Pede
strian
Bicyc
le
Open
Gree
nway
Comm
ercial
Outdo
or Co
mmerc
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Naito
Sidew
alk
Car L
ane
MAX/
Turni
ng La
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Mixed-Use Residential/Commercial
Urban DesignPortland Waterfront
Existing Street
3D Arial over Morrison Bridgeof Propsed Den-
sity
Section through Waterfront
Concept SketchExisting Urban Context
FigureGround
This is proposal was developed by myself and one other student for a Principles of Urban Design Class.
The project aims to improve the usability of the Portland Water-front through five main moves:
1) Create a business core at the Morrison bridgehead
2) Bring residents with a variety of incomes, as well as the imper-manent vacationers.
3) Extend the existing bar and restaurant activity on Second Avenue
4) Extend Cultural and Historic fabric from Skidmore fountain to Second Avenue
5) Extend life of down-town onto waterfront with small commercial spaces for breweries, bars, restaurants coffee shops...etc. We think that bringing the northbound Max line onto Naito would help this effort.
= Commercial= Residential = Office= Greenspace
Construction A Students Instillation
The Finished Project
Before
Perspective of Proposed Improvements
The Garden Canvas Project is a community design build project that was initiated, designed and built by a group of eight students of which I was chosen to be project leader. First, this project seeks to improve safety through employing principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Second, the project seeks to create a community space within an abandoned and underutilized courtyard. The project creates primarily of an open framework of steel vertical elements that acts as a blank canvas upon which art can be displayed. Each material was carefully chosen for its locality, embodied energy, and aesthetic beauty.
Broken Strap Chair
This chair was designed and built by myself. I was inspired by an object of nostalgia: my mothers’ purse. To me, this broken purse is a symbol of the once broken link between my mom and I through my adolescence and the now strengthened bond between us. Mimicking breaking and reformed bonds, I chose to steam bend the wood piece connecting the seat to the back of the chair, the process of which is quite similar. Mimicking the seams of the purse, the connections appear to stitch the chair together. Mimicking the curvature of the leather, the profile flows in a rounded form.
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These drawings are from my sketchbook from Europe (right page) and India (left page). The drawings seen on the left were done in just the last few weeks in Nuremburg, Germany, Dijon, France and Paris, France. Those on the right were done in the spring of 2011 to document temples in the southern state of Karnataka as part of my independent research on Sacred Groves and Temples. They were done with pens and paper and then scanned into Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to be cleaned up.