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Single Family HomeAtlanta, Georgia

5064 sq ft

Working with Hedgewood Homes, a block development proposal accommodates a park, condominiums with mixed retail, townhouses, and single-family houses in Mechanicsville, Atlanta to attract and stimulate growth and to dilute the concentration of poverty in the neigh-borhood. Taking advantage of Atlanta’s temper-ate climate of extended springs and autumns, the proposal integrates livable green space into

the individual homes and community.

The park becomes the public gathering space to service impoverished neighborhood. Driveways typically in front of houses are moved to the back to privilege a pedestrian-friendly front with wide sidewalks lined with green space. Views from the houses are directed toward the central green for a commu-

nity security watch.

The single-family house is composed of a formal shear to provide maximum defined lot usage of interlocking covered and uncovered spaces. The shear creates a public front yard and private back yard that are treated like exterior green open-air living rooms- bound by built elevations to create a sense of courtyard-like enclosure. Transparent floor-to-ceiling windows visually connect the interior to these exterior green rooms, pushing the architectural “wall” to the end of the lot as a trimmed hedge.

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EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology / Atlanta, Georgia / 2009 Bachelors of Science in Architecture with International Plan with highest honors Program to build competence in global econom ics, language, and culture

Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette / Paris, France / 9.08-5.09 Graduate level urban and architectural design with diverse group of international students

LEADERSHIP Viva Studio / 07-08 Represented student leadership during NAAB college accreditation Designed and coordinated Georgia Tech presentation at Echo Music Festival

AIA Georgia / 07-08 Representation of Georgia Tech at Regional Conference and Legacy Charrette

RECOGNITION 08-09 Franco-American Studio Prize, 08-09 Vernon McCoy Shipley, Jr. & William J. Shipley Memorial Scholarship 05-09 H.O.P.E. Scholarr 08 1st Place, AIA 2008 Legacy Charrette 08 Studio work selected for NABB college accreditation and archiving 07-08 Invited Student Design Critic, 06-08 Studio work showcased in school publications

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EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology / Atlanta, Georgia / 2009 Bachelors of Science in Architecture with International Plan with highest honors Program to build competence in global econom ics, language, and culture

Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette / Paris, France / 9.08-5.09 Graduate level urban and architectural design with diverse group of international students

LEADERSHIP Viva Studio / 07-08 Represented student leadership during NAAB college accreditation Designed and coordinated Georgia Tech presentation at Echo Music Festival

AIA Georgia / 07-08 Representation of Georgia Tech at Regional Conference and Legacy Charrette

RECOGNITION 08-09 Franco-American Studio Prize, 08-09 Vernon McCoy Shipley, Jr. & William J. Shipley Memorial Scholarship 05-09 H.O.P.E. Scholarr 08 1st Place, AIA 2008 Legacy Charrette 08 Studio work selected for NABB college accreditation and archiving 07-08 Invited Student Design Critic, 06-08 Studio work showcased in school publications

Chattahoochee Kayaking CenterRoswell, Georgia

12000 sq ft

Jutting out on a lush green slope, the kayak nature center bridges the Roswell Town Center down to the Chattahoochee River, acting like a long thin layered viewing screen that frames the human figure in nature. From the river, the chamfered edge is cut away from approaching kayakers floating downstream to give the illusion of an impossibly paper-thin edge. On foot, the existing dirt path cuts through the center of the

building, connecting visitors with the lobby.

The building anchors into the dramatic slope of the site to carve cave-like spaces in the earth that then extends out into long thin cantilevered viewing decks over the water, like shards of concrete slabs and glass cut into the hill. A continuous circuiting plane of water ties the building with the river- starting as a shallow reflecting pool at the top entrance of the building, folding through as a temperature-regulating water wall, dropping into a testing pool, through another cooling water wall and finally returns to the Chattahoochee via the inset wooden dock.

The building juxtaposes the human figure and objects against the extraordinary site. One foot wide lightshelves shade the building on the exterior and extend into the interior for storage. Thus, visitors are suspended in a palimpsest of kayaking paraphernalia, veils of flowing water, and kayaks gliding in the suspended testing pool, all against the verdant kudzu-covered hills.

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Public Smoking Spacela Petite Ceinture, Paris

2640 sq meters

The ritual of smoking has sparked and fulfilled the eternal need for lingering conversation and intoxication with the self or with others. This urban reuse project proposes a public smoking space that is formed and characterized by its visitors. The petite ceinture along rue Ernest Roche in the 17ème arrondissement is lined by residential buildings and terminates over and under busy intersections from the bridge to the tunnel. The smoking space is a new gathering place to reclaim a banned tradition on the

remnants of another, the former railroad.

The space resolves changing ground levels. The tracks are held at the current 4.5 meters from below the bridge as a direct and regular path, wrapped by a series of ramps that spirals around it- accommodating two different types of smok-ers, the undulating dérive for the lingering sensualist and the direct route for those who

needs the quickest fix.

Ramped paths are perforated to fit modular lamps bought from tabacs. The lamps can be stacked to form totem poles that create an indexical map of clusters of social interactions, recording the natural paths that result from the flow of visitors. Without them, the space is a monumental relic to a disappearing ritual. When inhabited, the light, smoke, and company of its

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la Prison Prêt-à-PorterParis, France

50 euros

Architecture and costume both serve to protect and envelop the body. This design/ build investi-gates the overlap of tectonics and function

between costume and architecture.

The wearable tent is to be inhabited in a public space by a dissenter against the privatization of detention centers in the United States. A $65 million complex in Raymondville, Texas, built by the Management and Training Corporation, is rented by the state at $78/bed/night to imprison immigrants waiting deportation on the U.S.- Mexican border. Private companies are making enormous profits from post 9/11 xenophobia, rejecting the foundations of American history- working-class immigrants, raided from their lives and families. The imprisonment of people’s lives should be the very last obligation of a demo-

cratic society, never an economic incentive.

The costume exposes the simultaneous and paradoxical evils of these corporate tensile windowless prisons- masked yet omnipresent, anonymous yet official, authoritative yet banal, temporary yet impervious, the nonhuman wrapped in human costume, teetering nauseat-ingly between dominance and submission, between power and helplessness. The costume ultimately investigates the boundary between two types of shelter- a house, which locks from the inside and a prison, which locks from the outside. The construction would be both- one

that protects and one that imprisons.

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