Living on a bridge over the hill
Partner : Matthew Peña /Instructor : Jeanne Gang + Eric Zuckerman / Spring 26’
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Living on the Bridge over the Hill examines new modes of artist housing in Queens, New York. The building operates as a means of reconciling the disparate rehearsing and performance spaces of the neighborhood while addressing needs at the scale of the neighborhood. The building sites at the intersection of Vernon and Broadway, A bar seemingly floats over an elevated ground, ascending from an existing warehouse on site. The residential bar span along the north and south axis, aligning with street and promoting interaction with Socrates Park. The hilly landscape below the bar houses theatre, childcare, education, and grocery spaces to accomodate the density that the residential parts of this project get. The residential bar is composed of a glulam timber structure that yields 300 units ranging from studio to three-bedroom apartments. In the contemporary art scene of Astoria New York, the building asks what the needs of the artist in New York and how can performance, living, and production coexist in this hybridized community.
London Crescents
Instructor : Preston Scott Cohen + Panagiotis Michalatos / Spring 25’
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This project explores the materiality of stacked paper as an architectural driver, translating its layered, folded, and compressed qualities into a mixed-use residential building in London. The proposal reinterprets the tradition of crescent housing and the central communal park, a long-desirable model of living in London, through a contemporary lens. Rather than only framing nature as an escape from the city, the project negotiates between urban density and collective green space. Folded and stratified volumes create moments of openness, public engagement, and layered privacy, allowing the building to address both the intimacy of the park and the energy of the surrounding city simultaneously.
Covenant House
Instructor : Meriem Chabani / Fall 25’
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Covenant House Tailoring Shop: Fitting the Unfitted transforms a youth shelter at the edge of Louis Armstrong Park into a protective, porous space of repair. Responding to the park’s history of urban renewal and displacement in Tremé, the project uses tailoring as both program and metaphor: a way to re-stitch cultural memory, personal identity, and community life. By turning the hostile fence into an inhabited edge of workshops, kitchens, courtyards, and gathering spaces, the architecture negotiates safety and visibility. It proposes queer space as an adaptive condition where craft, care, and survival are continuously sustained.
Flip’
Instructor : Ron Witte / GSD Fall 24’
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FLIP’ examines the possibility of turning a conventional bar residential building inside out, questioning how housing can be reorganized through shifts in view, circulation, and domestic experience. Set in Taipei, the project responds to the city’s dual urban condition: the coexistence of large-scale metropolitan density and intimate, small-scale neighborhood life. By flipping the typical residential bar, the building creates new relationships between interior and exterior, public and private, tower and street. Circulation becomes more than access, becoming a spatial experience that moves residents between different scales of Taipei, from compressed alley-like moments to open urban views.
Bent Pairs
Partner : Rita (HaoNan) Duan Instructor : Ramiro Diaz-Granados / SCI-Arc Fall 21’
_Housing_MixedUse_Cultural_Commercial
The proposed apartment project is situated in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Our focus aims to explore the characteristics of materials when subjected to identical bending movements. We pair up these bent objects to offer structural support to each other, situating them strategically on-site. These bent pairs also server as a paper weight to anchor down the curvy elevated ground that accommodate commercial spaces and parking below, with the amphitheater and social landscapes on top of it. Furthermore, we’ve leveraged the natural rippling effect of the elevated ground to create boundaries, distinguishing private exterior spaces from public.
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In the Rough and Wobbly Gutter
Instructor : David Eskenazi / SCI-Arc Spring 23’
_QueerSpace_Bathhouse
The project seeks to establish a modern gay bathhouse adapting a new form of modular architectural components. Started with creating a project specific version of Le Corbusier’s maison dom-ino using scouring pads, accentuated by vibrant yellow pins and 3D-printed modular columns, this design introduces a woobly and rough space. Utilizing these modules to expand both spatial and ground treatment, the project reclaims underground space in the heart of Hollywood, making it into an explorative and vibrant hub for pleasure-seeking experiences.
Heartbreak Hotel
Instructor : Anna Neimark / SCI-Arc Fall 23’
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Heartbreak Hotel transforms Fort Scammel from a monument of defense into a sanctuary for emotional repair. Set on House Island near Portland, Maine, the project reimagines the lonely, unfinished military fort as a temporary place of refuge for those recovering from heartbreak. By deconstructing and reconstructing the fort’s existing elements, the proposal turns materials of conflict into spaces of comfort, care, and reorientation. Rather than overcoming the past, the project reconciles with it, allowing failure, isolation, and not-becoming to become the foundation for healing.
The Playhouse that Plays *thesis
Advisor : Mira Henry / SCI-Arc Spring 24’_Theater_Prototype
The Playhouse That Plays imagines theater not as a fixed container, but as an active performer. The thesis studies how autonomy, labor, and intimacy shape performance, from the Taiwanese Folk Opera mobile stage to the 99-seat equity waiver theater culture of West Hollywood. In both contexts, performers do more than act: they build, sell, cook, promote, direct, and sustain the theater itself. Through this expanded labor, the theater becomes a place of places, carrying the energies and relationships of its makers. The project proposes a flexible playhouse and its mobile twin, where construction, performance, and demolition become one continuous act.
Ramp it up
Instructor : Michael Rotondi / SCI-Arc Fall 23’
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Repurposing the parking structure right next to the LAX airport, we extended the car circulation route to create new spaces and massing for the mobility research center. The mobility research center focuses on the future commuting strategy and the culture of mobility. The new car track is designed to flow through each program to connect all program with the research results. The new loop extended from praking straucture created new expereince of working on the slope and incorporating laboratory research into the spatial qualities.