2. I have a Bachelors of Science in Architecture from Portland
State University with a Minor in Native American Studies.
I draw my emphasis on sustainability in Architecture, from
my traditional upbringing as a member of the Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe.
Architecture is a tool that has been used for millennia to
interrupt the landscape and install the dominant culture. I
have nurtured my passion of architecture not through the
Traditional Eurocentric Greco Roman styles which have
prevailed in the New World, but to build in a way that brings
back Traditional values and customs through a context which
has been eliminated for hundreds of years.
My approach is to build in a way that recovers abandoned
values and customs, restoring them in a contemporary
context. Not to copy piece by piece, but apply value by value,
and idea by idea to nurture development, as in my Traditional
Wampanoag Community.
My goal is to shape the spaces that will influence generations
to come, allowing the client to recognize that their own
culture and heritage were not lost, but enhanced by the
continued evolution of technology.
The truth of my expression is in drawings. However math is
my strength and a joy.

4. I worked individually to design a new theater for Teatro
Milagro. By using contextual cues from portland as well as latin
american culture, I was able to design a space that would be
embedded in the portland landscape, yet attract the Mexican
americans of Portland.
In the basement of the building was reserved the behind
the scene, wood shop, costume shop and green room for
the production of performances.In order to connect these
important spaces to the stage it was placed on the basement
floor with a radial seating arrangement stepping up to the
ground floor.
Before one enters the space from the street they are able to
connectwiththeinteriorvisuallythroughlargewindowswhich
display the foyer, caffe, kitchen and even give glimpses of the
gallery on the second floor. At the front doors of the building
there is a box office. Through a set of double doors one enters
the foyer where people are able to congregate and eat before
the show. to the right and left behind the caffe/kitchen is a hall
way with three enters to a theater where one can walk down to
there seat.
On the second floor with direct access and visibility to the
street is a balcony over looking the foyer which acts a gallery
which opens up to a larger exhibit space to the North East
corner. Through three doors there is access to a balcony which
over looks the stage.
If one continues up the stair well from the first floor past the
second floor they will reach the offices and Studio spaces which
flank a zocalo. The studio has a wall of sliding glass doors to
open up to the zocalo as well as a glass floor and glass walls to
allow a level of transparency to the out of doors.
The building with its level of transparency to the public
common spaces from the street as well as to the studio space
provide fore more interaction than the present building. This
has important ties to the Latin American culture due to this
level of community engagement as well as spaces which are
isolated and for gatherings and performances.

6. The most important part of ballet is the feet and how they are able
to move and transform the body. A ballerina is some one who has
mastered the balance and esthetic of the feet in order to form there
body in to something with much deeper meaning than simply flesh
and bone. It is with these movements that the ballerina is able to tell
a story without words. It is that point that they are able to make that
seams unattainable to the untrained individual.
In the curve that the sole of the foot makes as it comes in contact
with the ground is the essence of architect and that connections that
buildings make with there footings. This moment in which the foot
touches the ground became the focus for an arching building with
windows along the base which allow one too look in and only see the
feet of the dancers within. The curved structure up from this point
becomes the shape of that arching foot as it lightly touches the ground,
as if floating from it. Since ballet is structured and regimented, so too
dose the architecture take on an order which emulates the crossing of
the feet which takes place as a fundamental and specific placement of
the feet which can be done specifically.
From the feet there is this desire to see them bound from the earth as if
to defy gravity as they elevate the core and hands too the peak of there
extension. It is in the wall which binds the interstitial space of the old
and the new buildings where this extension and defiance of gravity
is made possible. Through the openings in this wall the expressions
of dance are made clear through an interaction between the human
body and the architecture. The windows are placed at different levels
which implies an interaction with that window in different ways
through dance. The Low windows are placed in such a way that one
must get in to a low position in order to look through them. There are
windows which are placed so that the core of the body is highlighted.
There are also very high windows in which one would feel inclined to
leap to there bodies ability in order to see from it, ore even be tossed
by another. This dance of windows is traced along a high undulating
wall which when fallowed understands the flow and organic nature of
dance.
This architecture focusses the attention of dance toward the feet but at
the same time is able to bound from that in to the elevation of a leap
toward the sky which separates the ordinary from the extraordinary,
the banker from the dancer. The difference between the two can be felt
in the interstitial space as one is pushed and pulled by the dance of one
wall or directed straight along the path of monotony.

8. The Oregon Food Bank School is a place where
students and teachers can come in order to be
educated on the importance of maintaining
self sufficiency. The building is a place to gather
and discuss the basic information about urban
farming. Its radial form brings focus in to the
building and toward a central point. Yet when
inside the building the low inner wall and large
outer wall draws the inhabitants toward the
window and the great out doors where the real
education takes place.
The funnel like roof collects the water and pours
it to a catchment system made up of a network
of bioswales which are cultivated with vegetables.
Further down the slope the land begins to reach
out in two arm like masses which continue into
the water as posts which are driven deep into the
river bead and woven with small branches and
twigs creating a fish trap/sanctuary.

10. From several streets away a tenant would see the
three buildings rising from the block seemingly
connected through patios and sky bridges. The
patios of the building give depth to the facade.
There staggered nature give an irregularity to
these horizontal elements. Through the entrance
at the center of there building one passes through
inset privet doors in order to reach the stair to
there individual rooms, each with a view through
both sides providing well lit spaces within. As
they pass on to there personal patio they take in
the fresh air, watering there tree before they sit
back on there lawn chair

14. The Healing center is more than just a place where
peoplegofortherehealthcareneeds.Itisalsoaplace
which heals the spirit of the indigenous people.
Who have been forced to watch as there home, and
there mother, has been taken from them. It is in
this space that the indigenous people can recognize
there culture in the built environment as well as
in the landscape. The Indigenous Perspective has
been preserved through the definition of space
using curvilinear shapes as well as circular forms to
inform the architecture as well as the Prairie Line
Trail.The linear arrangement of the Red Cedar
trees which flank the path and grow between the
tracks are to symbolize the next 200 years as the
relationship between the rails and the tree become
closer, the rails hidden before by mulch will be
lifted from the ground to expose the history of a
rail. In this way the trees will rip up the cold steel
rails which took the life of mother earth. When
the rails are lifted the trees will create there own
environment one which collects the rain before it
hits the ground. One which slows the wind and
locks in heat.

18. We are the people who sprang up from the snow,
from the icy cliffs that appeared as crystal pal-
aces jutting from the rocks and sand of the Cape.
Melting, leaving boulders off the top of glaciers
crashing on the ground and great ponds in the
places where the glaciers have melted. Holes
which became ponds all across the Wam- panoag
Nation. Carrying with them life. Out from these
melting glacial cliffs grew the tree people. But it
was not until the sea foam came together with
the trees that the first man and woman in the
likeness of you and me were born

20. The Topography Mapper is a device which
measures the topography of the sight with ink
on a paper bowl. First the bowl is placed on the
device and fastened in to pace with metal clips,
then the metal bullet at the top is lifted and a
dowel is pushed in to the slot at the top to suspend
the writing device. Ink can then be added to the
brush and the pin can be pulled to engage the
writing device with the paper. The entire device is
then dragged along the sight, mapping both time
as the lines begin to fade, as well as the angle of
the slope between point a and b.

21. a
b

22. The bird watching platform is located on Ross
Island in Portland Oregon. Gees look to the
stars for guidence when the night is clear, or
as they fly above the clouds. Native Americans
also looked tward the stars, with some of the
most ancient stone recards of stars seen, in how
the stones were carved and placed. Using the
stars above the sight during the spring equinox
the Colems were placed. The larger load bearing
structural elements were attached to the pillers.
Places in the sky with dull stars were reflected
as small wooden posts which divide the space
at specific angles attaching to the beams adding
to support.

24. In the process of designing a bird watching
platform on Ross Island I designed a book
with a contrast between literal and arcetectural
representations of the island.

28. The hunter is trying to track and find the animals
without them finding him first. Awareness is the
hunters main tool, this will help him to find a
target and intercept it. The hunter must be aware
of the sound he is making, as well as small signs
and tracks that the animals leave, and the presence
other hunters. When he comes upon the target,
he must feel the wind and its effect on the arrow,
he will also need to judge the distance.
Length: 2 Miles
Width: 1 Mile
Blue Arrows: Wind
Brown: Meadow
Purple: Moos Line of sight
Green: Moose Hearing distance
Orange: Moose Sense of Smell
Red Arrows: Hunters
Red Circles: Hunters shooting Range

30. The Eye of Sight is a window that was designed to
help archers improve there eye sight during their
studies. The window has three different frames,
square, diamond and circular. The archer is able to
adjust the window in order to change his position
and distance as he looks through the focused
lens of red glass. Through the round frame, the
archers vision is forced to the center where his
eyes focus on a cow just on the other side of the
valley. Through the diamond frame the archers
eyes are forced to the corners where they focus
on the close grain of the window frame. when the
square window is left the archers eyes adjust to
the nearness of the red glass as well as the distance
of the cow simultaneously, strengthening the eye
with each adjustment.

32. The stage set for the play Freda Calo features a
three levels and two parts connected by a bridge.
From the brigdge a ladder exets back stage. form
under the balcony one may also exit back stage.
The two part stage set represents the sepperation
of Frida and Diego at the Casa Asule in mexico.