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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.