ARCHITECTURAL WORK
With a passion for community-focused design and experience in architectural design environments, my portfolio represents experiments in representation styles and multidisciplinary applications.
Feel free to browse my collection of work
The Woolverton
SvN Architects + Planners, Summer 2021
The Woolverton is historical preservation and affordable housing addition project in Grimsby, Ontario. The task was to preserve two brick historical landmark buildings while wrapping a new residential structure that would provide affordable housing, public space and community programs to the residents.
I was the lead draftperson on the project, and was tasked with developing the architectural drawing set and coordinating the traffic, mechanical and landscape strategies within the design.
The Shell
Fall 2021 | Instructed by Vanessa Keith In collaboration with Xinan Tan
Climate change has already begun to impact the livelihood of Jamaicans in coastal regions, with an increased amount of rainfall and more extreme weather forecasted in the years to come. In the FMJ Estates in the East End, the flooding caused by an overflowed Plantain Garden River will also impact crops and homes in the area.
As part of our Advanced V Studio, Xinan and I designed two devices that take advantage of flood conditions and provide electricity and irrigation for the area. We then each designed two separate structures - The Shell, an Oceanographic Research Center, and The Waterostel, a coastal hostel for said researchers.
Featured here is The Shell, a structure that will house various labs and research spaces for visitors to the coastal research site. The skin structure is a gridshell composed of three layers - a hexagonal aluminum grid featuring inoperable glazing and solar panels, a secondary fabric layer to defuse sunlight, and a third structural layer connecting the roof to the large support columns.
GEORGINA MODULAR
SvN Architects + Planners, Spring 2021
In York Region, Ontario, an additional 577,000 residents, 234,000 households, 318,000 jobs, and over 180 million square feet of employment floor space will be anticipated by 2031. Given this future expansion, thoughtful sustainable that employs green building technologies will be required.
Georgina Modular is a design for four modular, single-storey homes that employs a ventilation chimney, rainwater collection though roof-top run-off, an innovative structural stud layer and leading dense-pack cellulose insulation to create an environmentally neutral habitat. In addition, helical piles are used to create the horizontal support structures as opposed to concrete.
My main role was to complete the drawing set that would be used for coordination with the external structural team, develop diagrams for the design approach, and work with the internal landscape team to develop a presentation rendering. The images below are of Buildings 1 & 2, the two accessible buildings.
The project is set to begin construction in June of 2021.
COMMONSPACE
Finalist - The Non-Architecture Competition, Future Public Space, Winter 2021
Covid-19 has affected not only physical distancing between bodies, but access to reliable food networks and shelters around the world, and the frequency of viruses will only increase as the climate warms. Designs for spaces that address these concerns are needed today and will be needed more in the future.
Commonspace is a design for a modular and eco-friendly gathering space. Each module is made of a woven wicker screen attached to a recycled aluminum frame, allowing it to be rigid yet light and permitting partial sunlight but abundant rain protection. Housed within the structure are two planters that provide edible vegetation local to the site and are watered automatically due to the structure’s funnel-like design. Finally, each module is wrapped in a chick-style curtain that runs horizontally along the aluminum frame, allowing visitors to make the module as private or as public as they desire.
The shape of each triangular module allows up to six modules to join together in a hexagonal cluster, and more clusters joining adjacently to suit varying occupant sizes. Being a modular structure and made of organic materials, the gathering space can be deployed in any flat and open area while using local materials.
New Mimico Master Plan
SvN Architects + Planners, Winter 2021
The New Mimico Master Plan is a design for three separate residential complexes comprised of 327 Royal York Road, 39 Newcastle Street, 23 Buckingham Street, in Etobicoke, an area West of Toronto. Together, the complexes create a collection of residences and a pedestrian focused community that incorporates the "Greenway" (walking and cycling path) and the Mimico GO train station.
My role in this project was to aid in developing the 2D drawing set and renderings for the 327 Royal York ZBA (Zoning By-law Amendment) submission, as well as updating the diagrams for the Master Plan.
ECOLOGICAL TRANSECTS
Spring 2020 | Instructed by Ziad Jamaleddine | In collaboration with Ashley Reeb Esparza & Reem Yassin
Working in a team of 3 and tasked with defining a problem in the context of the Muslim hamlet known as Islamberg in Upstate New York, my team examined the impact of a local quarry on water quality in the area.
Our design operates at three scales as an evolution of architecture and landscape over 30 years. Bioswale campsites, filtration pavilions and aqueduct tree harvesting transform the landscape through the phasing of pathways and infrastructure capacity for temporal and permanent tactile learning environments, facilitating practices of religiosity and cross-cultural stewardship
ANENOME INNOVATION CAMPUS
Spring 2020 | Instructed by Scott Demel | In collaboration with Abhinav Gupta, Lu Liu & Skylar Royal
Considering the long-term climatic hazards facing Sunset Park, current air and water quality hazards, and socio-economic considerations of the neighborhood, anemone proposes a living laboratory campus for the coastal site. Elevated 30 feet above sea level (above the 80-year flood level) the campus anticipates activity within its programs and at ground level as the sea continually rises.
The campus offers educational and community workshops for the community, and work training with off-site laboratory opportunities. A re-designed coastal environment, the addition of aquatic plant species, a re-greening of the BQE, and the integration of a reef ball structure serves to improve the air and water quality of the borough with even as the climate becomes more extreme.
The site is made more accessible to the community with expanded and new bus routes, bike lanes along the waterfront, and a gondola system from Sunset Park that anticipates the sea rise that would prevent access by land.
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SARA D. ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Spring 2019 | Instructed by Gordon Kipping
Substantial evidence suggests that the bodies of forgotten freed slaves remain on the site of Sara D. Roosevelt Park, a site where the only reference to this history is in the name of a community garden, M’finda Kalunga. This design for a public library strives to literally unearth this history. On the lowest level, visitors are face-to-face with earth that, in 1853, would have been street level. As they stand merely feet away from these forgotten slaves, visitors are meant to reflect on this ignored history
ROOM/NOT ROOM
Fall 2019 | Instructed by Eric Bunge | In collaboration with Jared Payne
Prompted with the concept of “room/not room”, my partner and I were to come up with a housing scheme for affordable apartments adjacent to NYCHA housing in the Bronx. Our take on the concept was to design open floor plans devoid of walls that would typically signify a “room”. These rooms were designed as two sizes, both containing one or two wet walls that were both supportive and also ran as chases through the whole building. The building form was derived from the desire to optimize light entering the interior courtyard and courtyard apartments, as well as facilitating pedestrian flow diagonally across the site.
MARACAS OASIS
Summer 2018
My grandfather, originally from Trinidad, wanted to build a small home near the beautiful Maracas beach for his children and grandchildren, and asked me to develop a design and plans that his contractor could build from. I designed a small two bedroom home organized in a similar fashion as many Trinidadian homes; the toilet and sink located outside the shower room, and the entire home built on concrete stilts in case of flooding. The result was a wonderful and cozy retreat not far from the beach. Photos were taking by my grandfather over a 8 month period.
NOCTURNE ELEMENTAL
Summer 2017 | Instructed by William Haskas & Matei Denes | Class Design-Build
During a two week intensive summer course, the two plusFARM founders led a design-build workshop with our class. We were tasked to design an outdoor viewing facility and build it in the second week of our course. My roles were to create representational drawings that communicates our concept, then be involved in the hands-on building of the structure.
HYDE PARK LIBRARY COMPETITION
Summer 2016
For this design project, my group and I wanted to create an illuminated path that drew visitors from the water edge towards our library. Patrons are given a scenic view of the natural environment through panoramic glazing and the central courtyard. Outdoor interaction is facilitated through our reading pods which can seat between 6-12 people each.
BLOCK MAZE
Spring 2016 | Instructed by Fiona Lim Tung
For the final assignment of the “How to Design Almost Nothing” course, I developed a design for an observatory structure made of 1m3 ambiguous blocks where visitor interaction begin as a panoramic view at the top section, and increasingly became more intimate as they descended. Each subsequent floor evolves from two translations and one rotation of the previous form, the final completed form being created from 6 sets of moves.
