Five sand factories dot the coastal beach town of Laguna Beach, California. After noticing a lack of tourists, the homeowners took it upon themselves to replenish the pristine beaches through a bottom-up sand-making initiative. Their single-family home topology made it conducive to occupying the space between, beside, and adjacent to one another. The thesis looks at this proposal in 50-year increments. What does the beach look like in 2025 versus 2175? Rocks are brought in from local home development projects and pulverized into sand. As the years progress, factory workers occupy the homes they share close contact with. The owners grew weary of the constant sound, dust, and work necessary to preserve beaches and fled to other destinations. A dystopian future is produced, all in the act of preservation.

During Emperor Hadrian's reign in Rome, he ordered Apollodorus of Damascus to rebuild the Pantheon. Upon arrival at the Pantheon, you are greeted by a typical Etruscan-style Temple, large overhanging eaves, widely spaced columns, and a deep front porch. It is not until you venture inside the structure that you witness the magic the pantheon reveals. Similarly, the four columns in my proposal for the pier along the entry port of Miami act as an element of deception. They individually highlight a given element: water, wind, rain, and atmosphere. To partake in the magic, you must venture beneath the pier into each individual column.

A simple piece of string acts as a rigid form to constrict the space, creating four distinct chambers. The size of the window dictates the red tarp; as the light begins to flood into the red chamber, it slowly begins to disperse into the other three. Due to the double-curved form of the structure, one can only see a section of the final red chamber without even entering the space, leaving viewers curious about what lies beyond the window. Once you enter the last chamber, a single window pane that is framed by the tarp is your only connection to the exterior.

While using repurposed sailing materials, I hoped to depict a journey between two land masses. I embedded a dwelling along the border of Catalina Island and the mainland, one which may succumb to natural elements. The dwelling is a mere blip along a 27-mile journey.

The What Cheer Flower Farm in Providence, Rhode Island, was looking to expand its organization to grow fully, package, and ship flowers around the nation. We wanted to capture a flower’s growing or “steaming” features with three prominent characteristics: the facade design, the building mass, and the CLT structure.

Tasked to design a multifamily residence in Washington Park, Providence, on a 3,200 SF lot, I prioritized six actions for human inhabitation: a place to sleep, a place to work, a place to wash, a place to eat, and a place to socialize. The two units interlock with each other and create simultaneous moments of presence and absence through transparent mask facades. The units sit diagonally on the site, following a diagonal grain.

Lounge chair made for the ideal sleeping position.

We crave comfort and rational surroundings. In an attempt to design a physical representation of an irrational space, we envisioned a wall. A wall creates comfortable surroundings. But can a wall itself be considered comfortable? By entering a space not designed for human interaction nor the comfort of maintaining prolonged conversation, we uncover a third space. The interior of a wall is a space only thought of in terms of enhancing our pleasure on the exterior. As we enter the in-between, we blur and dissociate the boundary in which the function of a wall is programmed to do.

Secured $25,000 from the institution to organize the inaugural TEDxRISD speaker conference at the Rhode Island School of Design. We were yearning to bring back an experience that resembled the diversity of thought from a Foundation-year studio. Seeing, listening, and being inspired by students, faculty, and staff from across departments was the goal of this event. The event has since brought in over 60,000 YouTube views, helping boost donor engagement and interest prospective students & families. Learn more at: www.tedrisd.com

​​Utilizing the virtual reality program Gravity Sketch, allowed us to mold and virtually create objects with our hands that we have seen in various churches across Europe. We questioned the notion of gravity early in the process. While designing our first columns, organizing them from ground to sky felt absurd without both. We spotlighted three elements: the column, the chain, and the debris. As one progresses through the assortment of features, the columns begin to scatter and dissolve. The chain thus links these elements, acting as an opposing force to the thick columns. Under tension, they keep them in a coherent whole, resisting the entropy of a world under expansion.

This proposal engages climatic elements as a primary agent of architecture, transforming the Storefront for Art and Architecture into a space to observe and experience the relationships between the city and the elements of a swamp. By building out three hyper-humid rooms of varying sizes, this proposal searches for and aims to encapsulate the transitional nature of the swamplands. By utilizing tinted PVC curtains to cover the primary apertures of the space and allowing artificially induced fog to trickle out, the public is invited to physically encapsulate themselves within the swamplands.

Like the swamplands, which are neither totally land nor totally water, these rooms create soft boundaries between the natural and artificial. Blurring the relationship between inside and outside, these rooms provide a platform in which different social encounters may unfold. An interpretation of the ephemeral, this intervention aims to make sense of the foggy, humid, wet, and biodiverse nature of swamplands often hidden from our human experience.

Swamplands act as buffers between human expansion and untamed wilderness, transitional zones rich with contradictions and mystique. Our proposal for Swamplands ties to these ‘misunderstood landscapes’ of Swamplands - creating three unique spaces that act as points for cultural engagement. We did this by simulating climatic factors such as humidity and fog, as equal agents, to evoke natural phenomena through artificially generated means.

Rich in experiential metaphors to what it is like to travel through the coastal areas of the Eastern seaboard, this proposal turns the building inside out, positioning the swamplands as a sensory experience from which to observe the dualities and ambiguities of New York City’s urban fabric. Like an imperfect translation, the ephemeral is evasive, yet it provides an opportunity to soften boundaries and question our relationship to the natural and built world.

Postmarked is a biannual publication showcasing architecture's interdisciplinary qualities through students’ writing and image-making. Each issue has a different theme that crosses physical borders and disciplinary boundaries. The publication consists of a collection of ‘postcards’ written and selected by students engaging with the built environment locally, nationally, or globally. Postmarked namesake encapsulates our international student body population and positions the architectural discipline in different contexts.

Water has the opportunity to take on a variety of volumetric shapes. As an object moves through the water, it displaces its weight by forcing the surroundings to adjust proportionately. This adjustment, therefore, changes the size and shape used to form this library's design. A narrow library is constructed to convey these volumetric masses as if an individual is standing between two waves. The ripple has been applied to both plan and section to allow the exterior walls to dilate, which encloses the program's spaces.

A client who owns an 1800s carriage house in Andes, New York, wanted a substantial addition. Our proposal consisted of a significant 25’-0” x 25’-0” wood-framed sunroom, a screened porch, and a mudroom