Rhumba Rooftop PavilionA Rooftop Pavilion in Morningside hights. Takes the idea of a ballroom social events where there is a main public space to meet and see people with little areas around the main space that are elevated to create more privacy.

Partner: Qi Fu Li

Plans

Solar Studies

Photomontages

North Section South Section

West Section East Section

Privacy Dance Diagram

Infill HousingSituated on Convent Ave and127 St. This Housing project has 9 different apartments that have community spaces outside of their apartments but have a sense of privacy due to the changes in elevations that occur to enter the apartments.

Conceptual Diagrams

Street Views

Section Elevation on Convent Ave.

Site Plan 2nd Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan

DIA / Beaux Arts MashupAn excercise in the understanding of how the interaction of a 2D and 3D art piece can combine to create new rules for space

Spitzer School of Architecture Entrance The entrance to the Spitzer School of Architecture is one that has little celebration especially after the great staircase one climbs to reach the top. We porposed to create a space that calls the entrance to attention while creating many social spaces for the architecture students and students who pass by the building.

Partners: Alvin Niere & Zbigniew Markiewicz

Parti Diagrams

Elevations

Renderings

KNO+T Middle SchoolThe Knowledge Obtained and Transfered School is designed with the mindset that learning is essentially the obtaining of knowledge and having processed it so well that one can sucessfully transfer the information. Thus this school attempts to encourage social interactions including having classrooms with shared spaces where older stu-dents teach younger students

Spactial Renderings

Model

Site Plan

Basement

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4th Floor

South Elevation

North Elevation

West Elevation

Sections