1. EcoTectonics Hudson River, New York
Component Combinations
Component + Combinations

3. Schematic Cross Sections
The Hudson River Estuarium provides facilities
within the building and walking paths with
native species upon the building offering
multiple routes and experiences on, over
and through. Aggregated components are
refined into inhabitable spaces. Relying upon an
interconnected structural web the building spans
between the West Side Highway shore and the
Lincoln Tunnel exhaust pier.
Entry Plaza

4. Building and Site Plan
Longitudinal Section

5. Bypass Urbanism Hackney Wick, London
Routes of movement for pedestrians and bicycles
from sidewalks move spatially through space to
the local train hub bypassing vehicular traffic.
These routes become structural beams supported
by porous shear walls and tensile surfaces.
Inhabitable volumes within the system serve
neighborhood and transit users. In collaboration
with Difeng Zhou.

6. Structural Circulation
Tensile and Shear Surfaces
Center of Building Cross Section

7. Surface Effects
Tectonic and visual affects are employed in the creation of a surface effect that can be incorporated to
an existing building or become part of new constructions. Wrapping an exterior balcony from ceiling to
wall to flooring to exterior and back to ceiling sequentially creates a cool, moist and restful environment
directly adjacent to a residential or office spaces.
The porous exterior surface pockets provide shading niches for the moss protecting it from direct
solar contact which would dry the moss. Undulating floor and ceiling surfaces of the balcony create
differentiated spaces for sitting, standing or only viewing the moss environment.
Construction and fabrication techniques and methods were developed to realize the design including a
physical prototype of a moss mound in the balcony space. In collaboration with Dan Affleck.

8. Foam Base, Soil Base
Sectional Alternative
Geotextile Wrap
Construction Details
Railing Detail Balcony Ceiling Detail Flooring Moss to Grating Connection Physical Prototype

9. Generative Exhibition Armory, Philadelphia

10. Cutaway Section

11. Iteratively designed spatial units are algorithmically arranged through space creating an immersive
exhibition. Spatial units serve variously as ceiling, walls and flooring varying in scale and orientation to
fully engage visitors as they journey from the ground entry to the upper exhibition hall.
Component Folding Technique

12. Longitudinal Section
Cross Section

13. Branching Tower
Elevations Plans

14. Southeast Aerial
How to secure and promote the growth of a living
wall system upon a mid-rise mixed-use tower
addressing wind speeds and pressure resulting from
the greater height. Intermediary fins subdivide the
green surface into smaller pockets sheltered from the
wind which is diverted from the buildings following
thermodynamic principles. Fins are slightly porous
allowing some airflow across the building surface
preventing dangerous vortexes forming behind the
fins resulting from pressure differentials.
Condo units have exterior balcony space as well
as the interior surface of the living wall is also a
living wall providing indoor air quality and thermal
benefits. A modest extensive green roof provides
additional outdoor space for building occupants.

15. STEM Complex Media, Pennsylvania Professional Work
A signature science, technology, engineering, and mathematics complex for a
community college outside Philadelphia integrating classrooms, lecture halls,
laboratories, and a student union. The design team balanced complex mechanical
systems, a green roof, and sustainable features. A staggered aperture system
within the panelized exterior provides visual variation.
As a designer and Revit modeler I assisted in modeling, construction documents,
a physical model of the campus integrating the new complex and provided the
interior rendering shown at right (exterior renderings by others).

16. Moray Effect Double Skin Ahmedabad, India Professional Work
Performative and aesthetic double skin curtain wall incorporating vertical fins at the
front face and rear surfaces of glass. These vertical fins provide passive shading,
privacy screening and by their offset and spacing in plan they create a Moray effect
of visual flickering to those approaching or passing the building. Iterative studies
of the relationship between the two sets of vertical fins studying the possibilities of
increasing the Moray effect as well as how the spacing improves passive shading to
the interior.

17. Jebel Ali Dubai Villa Competition Professional Work
Led as Project Manager team members in designing several multi-million dollar villa configurations for a
Master Plan in Dubai. Managing the design and production teams, coordinating with the client in Dubai
and working with a rendering consultant in China.
An underlying landscape scheme of lines of fluidity interconnect through out the masterplan
transforming from a wide berm into focused sheltered landscape stream between the ‘blocks’ of the
villas.
Villas are modular allowing for components of the villas such as bathrooms and bedrooms to be
prefabricated and rapidly installed on-site. Deep balconies and overhangs shelter glazed surfaces and
outdoor spaces increasing comfort and reducing energy costs.

18. Five Bedroom Villa Ground Floor Five Bedroom Villa First Floor Five Bedroom Villa Second Floor

19. Enclose
glass encasing
bringing landscape
within the villa
Envelope
wrapping itself
around a piece of
landscape
Extend
Villa engages
reaching out into
landscape
Vignettes
Seven Bedroom Villa Ground Floor Plan and View from Street
Landscape Concept
Obstacles in waterways redirect currents and
create pockets of calm and areas of intense
activity. Similarly the villas within the landscape
modify ‘flows’ of landscaping.

20. Fluid Landscaping
Plantings, berms, ditches
serve as expressions of
the fluid interconnection
of villas within the
masterplan.
Masterplan (provided by client)
Landscape Concept of Villa Plot
Landscape berms and
troughs channel between
sections of the villas,
reemerging to their full
size on the opposite side
Landscape berms serve
as speed bumps within
the streets connecting
across to adjacent villa
plots

21. Dubai Bonds Competition Winner Professio
Professional Work
Professional Wor
ofes ork
In collaboration with three
other team members. My
contribution in design and
renderings.