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design projectsABSTRACT
mass / void
Working with plaster, this project explores the relationship between mass and void. Plaster is infi nitely malleable and will take almost any form, making it a useful tool for understanding the juxtaposition of mass and void.
panel / frame
Drawing from and extrapolating the previous plaster project, this was a study in the defi nition of spaces using a basswood frame and panels. From a single module, the basic form was refi ned and repeated to create another frame of interconnected modules, fi nally enclosing areas with paper panels.
light / shadow
This project explores the role light plays as an interactive material. Using plaster, basswood and opaque museum board to create a space for a light source, the design is meant to demonstrate the potential of light as a design element.
body / shade
This project is a personal shading device that fi ts the body and is deployed by a movement of the wearer’s arm. Made of wood, cord and paper, it consists of fi xed louvers behind the wearer’s head and panels that fall beside the face with a movement of his arm.
passage to JUBILANCE
With this group project, the aim was to express a certain feeling through design. This passageway was meant to convey a feeling of jubilance to the user as the elements direct his eye upward.
design projectsSTUDIO
la vida local MoMoSA
The Museum of Music of San Antonio (MoMoSA) was an effort fo design a music musuem located facing the San Antonio Musuem of Art in the hopes of initiat-ing a museum district for the city
Second fl oor: offi ces and storage
Site plan: gallery space and outdoor theater
South (river) elevationSite analysis
Design development
lende contest MOSAIC LOFTS
North elevation
This is a further addition to San Antonio’s potential museum district. Located facing the San Antonio Museum of Art, it is a multi-use complex constructed around a new public plaza.
Floors 4, 5, 6: residential units
Floor 3:residential units and garden
Floor 2:offi ce space
Site plan:gallery space and public plaza
Section
centro de la SALUD PREVENTIVA
This center, located in the Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico, is meant to educate people about preventive health. It contains a medical screening cen-ter, educational galleries and a test kitchen and cafe with an adjoining gar-den. The garden contains both edible plants and plants with medicinal prop-erties, particularly those native to the region around Monterrey. This garden is intended to provide ingredients for the dishes cooked in the test kitchen and cafe in order to educate people about healthy eating and lifestyle.
Floor -1: gallery and mobile clinic
Floor 0: test kitchen and cactus garden
Floor 1: health screening center Longitudinal section
military COUNSELING CENTER
The goal of this studio was for each student to choose a site in a certain area in order to redevelop and reinvigorate a neighborhood soon to be divided by a planned highway into an army base. The chosen area, along N. Walters St, leads into Fort Sam Houston. The buildings shown here are focused on provid-ing transitional services for returning veterans at a site much closer to the army base than the city’s Veteran Affairs Hospital. The buildings are small in scale and meant to integrate with the surrounding neighborhood.career counseling
private / group counselingcommunity centerexterior courtyard
broadway CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT
This group project was produced for the Galveston Historical Foundation in May 2010. It involved three phases: (a) historical research, (b) a survey of thirty-fi ve blocks, and fi nally (c) a design proposal to revitalize this historic thoroughfare in the wake of Hurrican Ike, while beautifying it and making it more accessible.
c | Phased Design Proposalb | Survey of Broadwaya | Research
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san antonio DANCE CENTER
An increasing interest in local art and the growing arts community in San Anto-nio combined with a renewed focus on revitalizing the downtown area have given this city a unique opportunity to designate and develop cultural corridors and districts.
North Elevation
Section
Second Floor Plan
View of north facade
View of public theatre entrance
Ground Floor Plan
Cultural landmarks in the vicinity of the site selected for the San Antonio Dance Center
projectsARTISTIC
Interior court at Tadao Ando’s Chichu Art Museum and Art House Project in Naoshima, Kagawa (colored pencil on Bristol board)
pencil on paper
colored pencil on paper
Tadao Ando’s Meditation Space at UNESCO in Paris, France (watercolor on paper)
Left: furniture in Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque; Sendai, JapanCenter: vermilion screen in Tadao Ando’s Water Temple Hompuku-ji; Tsuna, JapanRight: stairs at an apartment block; Kumamoto, Japan
Left: stairs at Grimshaw Architects’ Museo del Acero Horno3; Monterrey, MexicoRight: lobby in Ricardo Legorreta’s Museo del Arte Contemporaneo (MARCO); Monterrey, Mexico
Left: beach; Calvi, CorsicaRight: orchids at the New York Botanical Garden; Bronx, New York
Working from a photograph, this layered image was created using several computer programs including Sketchup, Illustrator, Photoshop and AutoCAD.