Design

CORE

Collaborator: Nicholas Muraglia This project reinvigorates the residential hotel model for a new generation of precarious workers by reclaiming an object of housing infrastructure lost in the evolution of domestic space: the core. All domestic activities such as sleeping, cooking, eating and cleaning are consolidated within the core, liberating the periphery as a non-typological space…

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Vauxhall Transit Hub

Vauxhall train station, located across the iconic MI6 building in south east London, is the intersection point of multiple transit nodes. The design thus proposes to organize and make legible these disorganized nodes of transportation. In addition, generous public spaces and commercial corridors are embedded within the organizing scheme. The specific language used to articulate…

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The Yale Building Project

Designed by the first year class at Yale in 2013, I was selected as one of the interns to construct the house over a period of two months. It is a 1500 sqft. space with three bedrooms and two and half bathrooms. The design uses the idea of the hearth as the organizing principle of…

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Narrow House II

The design adopts a diagonal organization in order to gradate the interior from a compressed space at the entry to a double height space of the living room at the back. The diagonal is expressed and packed with a series of functional equipment like the kitchen counter, powder room, closets and stairway. As such, the…

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Narrow House I

The city of New Haven is burdened with numerous narrow lots that don’t conform to the new zoning codes and so are abandoned as gaping holes in the urban fabric. The design proposes two interlocking volumes that shift in axis within the allotted zoning boundary in order to create opportunistic spaces inside and outside. The…

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Opportunistic Urbanism:Fermilab

The future of Fermilab, a national particle accelerator laboratory, located just outside of Chicago, is at a critical juncture following the shutdown of its main accelerator, which once was the biggest particle accelerator in the world. Using that juncture as a launching pad, the project envisions the future of Fermilab beyond the scope of its…

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Queensboro Theater

Underneath the Queensboro Bridge, there exists a heterotopic space created by a confluence of multiple infrastructures including the bridge, FDR highway and an abandoned garbage processing plant. This project operates at the disjunctions created by these infrastructures and proposes to pragmatically connect the city to the water over the highway as well as the bridge…

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Boston 2024

Collaborator: Sungwoo Choi The project reimagines the expansion of Boston convention center as an opportunity to create a new type of urban center in post- Olympics Boston. Instead of expanding the convention center by merely enlarging its current footprint as the existing proposal intends to do, we propose to strategically extend the convention center in…

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Morven Research Landscape

Located just outside of Charlottesville, Morven farms is a vast and mostly unoccupied landscape. It’s owner, the University of Virginia has no concrete plans on how to put this valuable resource to use. This project envisions Morven farms as an integral extension of UVa’s academic grounds. Morven farms would house research facilities that extend the…

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Dancing Machine

Situated adjacent to the Highline, the design proposes to extend the Highline’s pedestrian platform into the interior of the main volume. This extension creates an access to the highline from 13th st. and programmatically organizes the main space into rehearsal and performance spaces. The walkway fuses the intended dance studio users with the unexpected passerby…

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Science Hill

The Science Hill complex, a collection of buildings serving the science department at Yale, is organized around an expansive courtyard that abruptly stops as it meets a hilly landscape. The design proposes a strategic incision of the hard edge of science hill to allow the courtyard to subtlety fuse with the landscape. This incision on…

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Culinary Institute

A Culinary Institute requires an active environment for the exploration and preparation of food. In order to do that, Culinary schools employ a process known as T.A.A.T, which stands for taste, analyze, adjust and taste again. The design proposal adopts and fosters this procedural practice by mirroring the building’s dynamic context, in which the gridded…

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CASIS Headquarters

CASIS manages the International Space Station (ISS) and serves as a liaison between NASA and the public. However, the ISS is planned to be decommissioned in 2030. Thus the future of CASIS as an institution is uncertain. Recognizing this temporal condition the design introduces a public space into the program in order to sustain function…

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