The Aria

Kennedy Library Annex

Pavilion

Sacramento Railyards Entry Plaza

Studio for SUB Architects

Museum for Surrealist Art

Chapel at the Abingdon Ruins

Beach House

Art Work

Drawing Machine

SlipCase

List of Projects

Entry for the Bank of America Affordable Housing Challenge.

As part of a 6 person interdisciplinary team, I took the architectural lead to produce a 90 unit affordable housing development.

Designed as a connection between wood and concrete, the Aria provides living spaces for low to extremely low income households. The Aria is part of the greater Sym-phony Towers complex, which includes workforce and luxury apartments, a community center, rooftop gardens, street-level shopping, and resident parking.

Aria Roof level showing gardens

The AriaSan Jose, CA5th Year

Sidewalk Level View

The increasing number of students vying for the limited study space and computers of the Cal Poly library has resulted in constant overcrowding. The annex was designed to address this issue.

The program includes more lounge space, classrooms, offi ces, open studios, and late night restaurants. Color, glass, solar screens, and a dramatic structure were explored in this project.

Kennedy Library AnnexSan Luis Obispo, CA3rd Year

Annex Entry

West Elevation

North East Corner

3rd Floor Plan

South West Corner

This pavilion was inspired by the material palette and physical vocabulary of SUB Architects. The pavilion is sunken into the slope of a bluff and looks out onto a coastal landscape. A white chimney tower anounces the project from every angle.

PavilionNipomo, CA3rd Year

South Elevation

North East Corner

Roof Plan

Section Through Retaining Wall Section Through Bracing

Hand-Drafted Sections

WATERPROOFING

6”X12” CHERRY TIMBERS

12” THREADED ROD

4” PERFORATED PIPEDRAIN TO LIGHT

4” SQUARE H.S.S.

6”X12” CHERRY TIMBERS

STEEL BRACKET

WATERPROOFING

4” CONC. TOPPING

WATERPROOFINGLT. GAUGE STEEL ANGLE

DRAINAGE LAYER

FILTER LAYER

GROWING MEDIUM

Once home to the largest rail industry on the west coast, the Sacramento Railyards are 240 acres of derelict property currently undergoing renovation. The acreage will expand the downtown core with shopping, housing, and business developments.

This plaza is designed as a formal greeting to pedestrians and shoppers. The earth is scooped away to form two inverted hills. This allows a central pathway to become a bridge where one can walk beneath the canopies of massive oaks.

Sacramento Railyards Entry PlazaSacramento, CA5th Year

Plaza Section

Illustrative Handrail & Anchoring Detail Ink & Charcoal on Library Catalogue Cards

Bookshelf ModelOxidized Steel & White Oak Planks

The Plaza was one of the fi nal pieces that developed from numerous pre-design projects, which included: a furniture piece, a detailed section, paintings, poetry, and a nature installation.

Floor Plan Diagram

This project was a development of the Pavilion using the same site with a different program.

Now, two concrete boxes are nestled into the bluff. Theatrical spans of glass provide panaramonic views of the surrounding landscape and an array of screened skylights allow light to penetrate across both masses. A volumetric aluminum screen shades the central courtyard that joins the two masses.

Studio for SUB ArchitectsNipomo, CA3rd Year

North Elevation and Entrance View

Section through Archives and Resource Center

Site Plan

Museum for Surrealist ArtAlexandria, VA4th Year

South ElevationTaking direction from the Surrealists, this museum is internally focused with limited apertures. Floors, ceilings, and walls take part in the distorting experience and the most dramatic elevation is cloaked in a fl oating skin of stone and concrete.

South Elevation

South West Corner

Site Plan

1st Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan 4th Floor Plan

Elevation Axon PlanWall Detail:

Full Scale Wall Section

Full Scale Window Plan Detail

The museum windows are composed from an array of horizontal insulating acrylic tubes which are sandwiched between two glass panes. When viewed from the inside, the outside world becomes distorted and semi-pixelated allowing even the window frames to participate in the experience.

Chapel at the Abingdon RuinsAlexandria, VA4th Year

Site Plan

The ruins of the Abingdon Plantation sit atop a hill overlooking the Reagan National Airport. Below the hill lie canyon-like spaces excavat-ed to form a meditative path. One enters the path from either above or below the hill into semi-darkness. Guided by sensory clues the inhabitant rediscovers the ruins as chapels. The water, the ground, and the light collect at a point between the two chapels, whichcreates a neutral contemplative space.

Floor Plan at 10’ depth of cut

Ruins at the center

Entrance PathBeach House on a CliffPismo Beach, CA3rd Year

Exploration of form and fun. 2.5’x3.5’ model on maple and plywood site at 1/4” scale.

Cantilevered Pool

Courtyard

Beach Level View

An experimental mark-maker. Two universal joints allow pendulums to swing at different arcs. This difference continously changes the contact points between pencil and paper, which creates a new scribble each time.

U-joint Detail

Drawing MachineBlack Walnut and Steel with various accents1st Year

SlipCase ModelSlipCaseHard Cover Book and Basswood Case1st Year

Exploratory incisions into a hard cover book led the development of the slipcase. A vocabulary of cut planes and skewers pull away to loosely define the case.

Spine Piece

Insert Piece

SlipCase Drawing

FrontSide

Top

“Exploded Chop Saw Motor”Pencil, Ink, and Colored Pencil on Paper12”x10”2011

“Still Life with Chop Saw Motor”Colored Pencil on Paper

12”x9”2011

“Meal for One”Acrylic on Canvas Board14”x11”2010

“Microscopic Collage”Colored Pencil on Paper

12”x9”2011