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Graduate Thesis ProjectSelf Storage Intervention:Wind Farm HybridNortheastern UniversitySpring 2010

Wind power generation can be enhanced by hybridizing the wind farm form with strategically shaped and placed buildings.

These buildings act to catch, direct and accelerate wind currents. The self storage program is one that is adaptable to any footprint and apolitical enough to be placed within almost any context. Additionally, self storage makes for a cheap yet profitable placeholder-tenant. This allows construction to begin prior to locking in serious tenants.

The intervention as a whole acts to invigorate the industrial banks of the Mystic River with a waterfront park and boardwalk peppered with amenities. This park will compliment the upcoming Assembly Square shopping development and T Stop across the river.

summer and winter wind patterns

master plan | buildings, urban park, boardwalk,

structure | unifying truss system built into architecture

section | six floor plates bookended by turbine supporting cores; wind sculpting parapet

roof plan | rendered with 11am shadow

uppper floor plan | self storage units shown

sculpted wind

turbine diagridturbine totems

sculpted wind | compressed by berm and truss

current pier boston | rendering

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Undergraduate Degree ProjectNew BSA HeadquartersNortheastern UniversitySpring 2009

This is the final project of my undergraduate educa-tion. Working in teams of two, most aspects of real-life architectural design and building construction were touched upon and resolved.

The project considered site impact, material choice, user needs and relationships, the user and public experience, structure and loads, circu-lation, ventilation, heating and cooling, fire protection, accessibility, local sun and wind patterns and the con-struction sequence.

Our responsibility as the designers was to utilize in-telligent integrated design as much as possible. This included hydronic coils within the floor slabs, geo-thermal wells imbedded in the ground piles, an external shading system on the fa-cade, natural ventilation, and strategically placed thermal masses and reflective sur-faces.

The design promotes col-legiality among a variety of user groups including the public. The large atrium and open floor plans create a web of visual connections that will foster a sense of unity for the BSA.

The building becomes a vital element for the surround-ing site with its grand public stair and urban balcony, con-necting the upper Summer Street to the lower devel-oping Seaport District.

in situ rendering

facade + slab section

atrium rendering

daylighting study

bay model at 1/2” scale

evening southeast elevation

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Sugar PavilionFirst Hand ProjectsSummer 2010

Project was part of an intensive studio. It was designed and built entirely by high school students under the guidance of Daniel Hewett and myself.Exploded AxonSection & ElevationInterior Photo

Framing DeckFraming WallsFraming Roof

Detailing Experience*Northeastern UniversitySpring 2008

Detailing of a wood frame and masonry residence.*extensive detailing work done at SPEC, Inc. not shown due to contract limitations

Sketching AbilityAmerican Institute for Roman CultureSpring 2007

Personal Exercises:Trevi Fountain ElevationRoman AqueductsCampenile at Pisa

Rendering ExperiencePayne/Bouchier, Inc.Fall 2008

Preconstruction renderingsfor a residential project on Boston’s Comm Ave. Modeled in Sketchup.