‘07sun study

mid section of school

exploded axon

entrance

YEAR:2007A Head Start school represents the impetus for education in the human spectrum of knowledge. Centrally located within a neighborhood diverse in terms of race, age, and cultural background, the aim of the project was to set the stage for the convergence of neighbors from these differing backgrounds. People that may have nothing to do with the building suddenly become a tertiary user group penetrating the interior, interacting informallyinformally as they pass through the building into the park and across the neighborhood

CLIENT:SYRACUSE UNIV.

ROLL:LEAD DESIGNER

STATUS:UNBUILT

EMPLOYER:STUDENT

COMMUNITY CENTER SYRACUSESYRACUSE, NEW YORK

BEIJING,CHINA

My thesis is a critique of the current architecture of Beijing and its inability to transfer the values, rituals, and social programs of traditional domestic architecture into a rapidly changing contemporary context. Through translating the courtyard house a new model for dense domestic space can be created that maintains the salient qualities of the type and in its communal environment, while responding to the new verticality of Beijing.to the new verticality of Beijing.

VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOOD LOCATION:BEIJING, CHINA

YEAR:2009

CLIENT:SYRACUSE UNIV.

ROLL:LEAD DESIGNER

AWARDS:SUPER JURY THESIS AWARDDEAN’S CITATION- OUTSTANDING THESIS

BEIJING

EMPLOYER:NERI & HUFUZHOU,CHINA

YEAR:2010

5 residential clusters occupy the site, each operate as a porous block with a large central green space. Micro to macro, defining the parameters for the units themselves helped shaped the scale of the building, in turn defined the overall proportions of the blocks and the dimensions of the interstitial space. The clusters help to define long linear strips of public park that are crisscrossed with paths, playgrounds, and hiking trails.

CLIENT:PRIVATE DEVELOPER

ROLL:PROJECT DESIGNER

STATUS:INDEFINITE HOLD

URBAN RETREAT FUZHOU

‘10

sectional model

study models

type a section

interior courtyard

sushi restaurant

interior of market

lounge section

The project consisted of four food and beverage programs dispersed throughout a newly constructed hotel in Beijing. My responsibility was the design of the new Maki Japanese restaurant and its relation to the adjacent lobby space. The concept for the space was based around the idea of a wooden box that expands and contracts to create varying levels of privacy and intimacy. DinersDiners are presented with the warmth of raw wood in a setting that has the feel of an urban Japanese sushi bar.

EAST 1 HOTEL

EMPLOYER:NERI & HU

YEAR:2010

CLIENT:

ROLL:DESIGNER

BUILT

restaurant entry

EAST HOTEL RESTAURANTS BEIJING

‘10

BEIJING,CHINA

EMPLOYER:SURV

YEAR:2011

A simple proposal for pavilions set within a cultural park, whose design harks back to the culture of train travel of a by gone era. Large expanses of glass block set in a subtle curving concrete form, allow light to pour down all the way to the basement level. While subtle hints of the rich history of the site are exposed on the street level, materials that relate to the culture of train travel are expressed in the pavilion and revealed as their occur throughout the site. revealed as their occur throughout the site.

CLIENT:TAIPEI TRANSIT CO.

ROLL:PROJECT DESIGNER

STATUS:DESIGN DEVELOP.

STATION + CULTURAL PARKTAIPEI, TAIWAN TAIPEI

‘10

interior skylight

exit b opening

axon diagrams

sectional model

HO CHI MINH, VIETNAMEMPLOYER:

YEAR:2010

SURV5 residential clusters occupy the site, each operate as a porous block with a large central green space. Micro to macro, defining the parameters for the units themselves helped shaped the scale of the building, in turn defined the overall proportions of the blocks and the dimensions of the interstitial space. The clusters help to define long linear strips of public park that are crisscrossed with paths, playgrounds, and hiking trails.

CLIENT:PHU MY HUNG CORP

ROLL:PROJECT DESIGNER

STATUS:INDEFINITE HOLD

SITE E - MIXED USE DEV.HO CHI MINH

unique clusters

central green spine

site diagrams

site plan ‘10

YEAR:2011The lounge fucused on regularizing an irregular spatial configuartion, while creating a series of rooms that allowed users to be in an individual room yet part of a much larger social scene. A heightened sense of luxury is created by focusing on using high end materials on well placed tactile surfaces. the chairs and select walls were covered in leather AND fine grain wood, while mirrors were used to make other surfaces recede and multiply the scale of the space.and multiply the scale of the space.

CLIENT:DANITOU

ROLL:PROJECT DESIGNER

STATUS:BUILT

EMPLOYER:SURV

EDEN NIGHTCLUB SHANGHAISHANGHAI,CHINA

‘11private table

upper vip seating

vip back room

behind bar

daytime arial

facades by night

site plan

site diagrams

YEAR:

HANOI, VIETNAM

2012EMPLOYER:SURVWith only 7% allowable building area, the main halls, back of

house, parking, and leasing area are all covered by a huge landform. This allows the site to remain open as a park for the general public, while the event space can operate efficiently and out of site. Sunken plazas are used as breakout space for the wedding parties, letting natural light into the wedding halls. Three light boxes appear as objects in the landscape, taking on a glowing hue at night as they draw people into the mainon a glowing hue at night as they draw people into the main hall.

CLIENT:PRIVATE DEVELOPER

ROLL:PROJECT DESIGNER

STATUS:DESIGN DEVELOP.

HANOI WEDDING HALL

‘12

HANOI

LOCATION:ITALY, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN

YEAR:2007-2008

Studying abroad gives anyone an opportunity to dive into a different culture and experience a totally new learning environment. For the architect, it’s a chance to see the buildings that you have studied in great detail in great depth from afar. Sketching is a way of truly studying a building and expressing your perspective on a given space. Most of my sketches express a diagramtic approach or spatial exploration.diagramtic approach or spatial exploration.

ITALYFRANCE

CLIENT:SYRACUSE UNIV

MEDIUM:PENCIL

ITA / FRA / GBSKETCHES

santo spirito

notre dame du haut

santa croce santa maria novella san lorenzo

piazza navola