Coding the Storm
Small Footprints: The Architecture of Clinics
Between Self and World Radical Envrionments as (Public) Interfaces
From Modernist Ruins to Advanced Naturalized Neighborhoods
Infrastructuring Assemblies
Building Metabolism + Microbiomes
Layered Urbanism
RE_USE New York
Makergraph: Matters of Identity
After the End
VITAL | Designing Open Systems for Buildings, Carbon, and Equity
Shakygrounds
Civic-Sacred: Life, Death, Liminality
Moments to Cross: The Architecture of Overcoming and Coming Together
Hotspots: Architectures of Cultural Geology
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Coding the Storm

Soft Pink, Deep Blue: Restoring Balance Between Land and Sea

Soft Pink, Deep Blue is a design proposal set in the salt flats of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, a land…

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Small Footprints: The Architecture of Clinics

Same Space, Different Body

A pediatric clinic is a quiet kind of architecture. Short visits, a waiting room, then home again…

Hamilton Cooling Center

The Hamilton Cooling Center is an adaptive reuse proposal of the now-vacant 1913 Hamilton RKO The…

Housing for Visiting Nurses and Community Health Center

A historic corner row house on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, originally constructed in 1885, is being t…

Storefront-osis: A Spatialized Façade for Preventive Diabetes Care

Sited at 2296 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard in Harlem, Storefrontosis transforms a building on…

Thresholds

A Health Center. A Public Urgent Care. Open 24 hours. Offering Primary and Urgent Care (not ER)….

Everyday Crisis

We live in perpetual crisis, continually arising and concluding. Known as the term poly crisis, a…

The Call

Three vacant storefronts and a courtyard in the East Village are turned into a blood donor center…

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Between Self and World Radical Envrionments as (Public) Interfaces

Cultural Mosaics

Cultural Mosaics is an exploration of challenging thresholds as traditional demarcations of space…

Countryside - A dweller’s guide to future

This project explores the countryside as a frontier for political and societal reenactments, ex…

Pegoste

Parque Pegoste Summary

Pegoste draws its name and spirit from the ingenuity and resilience fou…

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From Modernist Ruins to Advanced Naturalized Neighborhoods

Pollinized Ministerios

Nuevos Ministerios, a massive government complex at the heart of Madrid, was originally designed …

Pollinized Ministerio

Nuevos Ministerios, a massive government complex at the heart of Madrid, was originally designed …

Parque Recultivo

Perch and Dwell

“Perch & Dwell” is an ecological and social intervention at the Crystal Pavilion in Madrid, desig…

OPEN HOUSING:WILD EDITION

Stability is not ownership. Architecture is not enclosure. Cities are not only for humans. In Sa…

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Infrastructuring Assemblies

Crafting Space

Communication — and representation, for that matter — is a mainstay in architecture curriculums. …

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Building Metabolism + Microbiomes

MUTUAL MICROBIOME CARE

This project proposes an architectural paradigm rooted in microbiome care, mutualism, and regener…

Cake Dusting

Arlit [Niger] is no longer a site but a slow-moving corpse, carrying within its crust the tremors…

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Layered Urbanism

TRACEY PLINTH HOUSING “Reviving the Unbuilt Ground of Tracey Towers”

Completed in 1972, Paul Rudolph’s Tracey Towers stand as monumental expressions of late modernist…

Last Oasis

The Last Oasis is an architectural thesis that critiques New York City’s exploitative urban devel…

Learning Greenhouses

Food is part of what keeps us alive. But access to fresh foods and the knowledge of how to cook i…

Urban Threads: Weaving Community Through Layered Infrastructure

Urban Threads is a proposal rooted in the reimagination of Tracey Towers not as an isolated housi…

Rewoven Layers

This project explores architecture as a layered, living system that integrates ecological process…

From Monument to Mediator: Rethinking Tracey Towers

This project reimagines the Tracey Towers site in the Bronx—originally designed by Paul Rudolph u…

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RE_USE New York

Inside Out Library

The Red Hook Grain Terminal served as a grain storage space in the last century. Nowadays, the st…

Liquid Oasis

This project reimagines the Red Hook Grain Terminal as a vertical algae farming and research faci…

SiloScape

Red Hook has long been defined by its industrial waterfront identity, marked by massive infrastr…

Red Hook Condenser: Rest, Reuse, Repair

This project proposes the adaptive reuse of the Red Hook Grain Terminal as a mesocosmic civic inf…

DETOX

This project proposes the adaptive reuse of the Red Hook Grain Terminal into a combined program o…

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Makergraph: Matters of Identity

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After the End

(Re)grounding the Line

The Line is a line of entanglement. It is not straight, and though its site has been framed as “v…

Museu Nacional: Revealing Presence Through Absence

The National Museum of Brazil has experienced several “ends of the world”, through colonialism, e…

Clay & Shadow Veil

In response to the pervasive surveillance embedded in Addis Ababa’s new Corridor Development Proj…

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VITAL | Designing Open Systems for Buildings, Carbon, and Equity

(In)Grain Collectives: Material Bank for Carbon Storage

This is a people-centered story grounded in existing landscapes: In Punjab, India, rice straw is …

MycoBag: Low-Tech, High Impact, System for a Regenerative Future

MycoBag is a material exploration project that proposes a new construction system based on biopla…

Waste Not, Build With

The Center: Waste Not, Build With tackles Indonesia’s waste management challenges in low-income v…

The sugarcane industry is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, driven by inten…

The Straw Transition

Since the Green Revolution in the 1960s, India has been immensely dependent on their monoculture …

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Shakygrounds

Cover to Cover

Situated in mercado de san cosme, mexico city, “cover to cover” reimagines hybrid housing as infr…

Dwelling in Motion

Dwelling in Motion reimagines an underutilized spaces in San Rafael, Mexico City, as supportive h…

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Civic-Sacred: Life, Death, Liminality

Impermanent Archive

50,000 New Yorkers die each year. About 2% of those who die annually are buried in collective gra…

Remnant(s’) Intra-action

Burial rituals are practices performed by and for the living. Matter is transformed: bodies are b…

[UN]BELONGING INHERITANCES

As New Yorkers, We are handed down all the layers of physical infrastructure Built by previous …

In the Flesh

Neither wholly water nor land, the intractable wetland manifests the thinnest boundary between ma…

Cemeterial Porosities: Terramation Terracing

Green-Wood Cemetery is a host of transient multitudes that are responsive to its ecological seaso…

What Remain Visible

We studied what is typically unseen and exists in the depths below surfaces. Hart Island’s land…

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Moments to Cross: The Architecture of Overcoming and Coming Together

Carried in the Fibers

Inside the concrete walls of my family’s home in Kuwait, I began to notice what was missing. Buil…

Ghosts of Traces Past, Memories of Futures Stranger

Through my work I’ve been exploring traces of memory as a mode of construction.

How these trac…

Routes of Return

This project is a personal and architectural exploration of identity, inheritance, and transforma…

When the Tree Speaks and When My Family Told Me to Listen to the Soil

“When the Tree Speaks and When My Family Told Me to Listen to the Soil” is my exploration of lang…

“Am I Being Selfish ?”

Why do we assume gender with roles? This question became the starting point of my architectural/a…

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Hotspots: Architectures of Cultural Geology

Archive of Rock Consciousness

Rock Consciousness is the focused awareness of geological forces affecting you now. Myths are a p…

Habitat On Lava

VINEYEAR AND FACTORY ON LAVA

Waiting for Geology: Staging Hydro-geothermal Spectacle on Geyser Hill

Yellowstone National Park functions as a vast machine of encounters with the national landscape…

Alpine Assembly

The Matterhorn / Cervino - the iconic, immutable, and cinematic—is a crucible of “the alpine”: a …

Geothermal Wasteland

This project extends the Blue Lagoon into the original power plant site, combining its infrastruc…