DESIGN

3638 SITE DESIGN

A recently closed high school located at 3601 Filbert Street was thoroughly studuied, In response to the analysis work, the site was redesigned to accomodate a mixed use community.

After a master plan was created within groups, each building was individually designed. Here a center for innovation was constructed with commercial, residential, and incubator spaces.

INCUBATOR SPACE AT 3638

Continuing to develop the Winter St Residence, houses were renovated to appropriately blend with the new modern street design.

ROW HOME AND STREET REMODEL

An abandoned lot on the corner of Winter St. was designed with a new rowhome blending the neighboring structure and emphasizing the edge condition of the site.

WINTER ST. RESIDENCE

A dewlling designed to respond to the specified site (31st and Winter St., Philadelphia) and its surroundings, as well as include architectural elements found around Philadelphia, such as threshold, inside v.s. outside, approach, and vantage.

DWELLING

VERTICAL CONSTRUCT

A construct in quarter-scale exploring vertical circulation, light, vantage, and spaces of occupancy v.s. rest based on experiences derived from Skirkanich Hall (University of Pennsylvania). The model was paired with a classmate's and required the design and construction of a shared base site and model dialogue.

An assembly design inspired by a study of Japanese wood joinery and utilizing those methods in material joints as parts of a puzzle box.

PUZZLE BOX

HORIZONTAL CONSTRUCT

A design challenge to fill the site of Philadelphia's Race Street Pier with a personally designed construct. Tectonics and form were derived from motion analyses and translated into an abstract 'pier', for location over water.