institution: harvard graduate school of design time: spring 2016 project: circular network diagram of studio instructors and students during a three year period at the GSD
At the conclusion of my sixth and final studio at the GSD, I wanted to make something for my classmates in memory of the formative three years of studio that we shared. This circular, animated graphic lists the name of every student from our program and all of their studio instructors over this period. Each instructor, listed in gray, is connected to the students in their studios, and those students to each other. The result is a colorful burst of lines which, for me, becomes an emblem representing the bonds that we created and the shared experience of studio culture.
institution: harvard graduate school of design advisor: john aslanian time: summer 2015 project: text editing and graphic design
The Harvard GSD Student Guidebook is the main reference book for academic policies, department information, facilities, resources, extracurricular activities, etc. It is sent to all accepted students, as well as distributed to prospective students throughout the year. My job was to co-edit the existing book, update the content, illustrate the chapter divisions, and populate the book with doodles. The existing template was designed with informative text and an unseen personality of a GSD student in a font simulating handwriting making comments in the margins. To continue this unseen personality, the illustrations were traced by hand to look as if a student had doodled scenes from the GSD in his or her notebook.
institution: harvard graduate school of design instructors: danielle etzler / mark mulligan team members: ruth chang, justin gallagher, emily margulies, patrick mckinley, and myself time: 1st semester / fall 2013 project: casting a unit module and aggregation representation
With a team of six, we were charged with casting a unit module and to represent its aggregated form. Our assigned material was rubber. Considering the structural and material properties of rubber, we decided to cast ball-and-socket units that could fit into one another like a puzzle piece. This module takes full advantage of rubber’s defining characteristic of elasticity, and more rigid materials such as concrete or rockite cannot utilize a removable ball-and-socket joint. The balls of each unit must be squeezed into their reciprocal shape, but can then return to their original form. The aggregation is flexible but is also solidly held together.
institution: harvard graduate school of design instructor: max kuo time: 3rd semester core / fall 2014 project: hotel / gym / thermal bath location: miami, florida
Our third semester core project was a challenge in absorbing the climate, culture, and character of an assigned city. Miami, a city of heat, humidity, and indulgence, has a distinct architectural character directly influenced by its climate. The beachside vernacular, outdoor lifestyles, skyscraper typologies, and weather patterns were utilised to consolidate a hotel, gym, and a thermal bath on a downtown site. Blurring of interior and exterior spaces and dispersed micro-climates in a vertical building became the two generative concepts.
provocation diagrams (credit to multiple team members)
The massing is an aggregate tower of two story villa units, posed above a podium of exterior pools and gym program. The villa typology was chosen because of its privacy, fewer shared walls, semi-self sufficiency, but also shared circulation and communal programs with other villas. The rooms are larger than the typical hotel room and have access to more exterior space. The hotel arranges the modules such that each unit has two shared exterior spaces as well as a smaller, private balcony. Each floor of the hotel’s staggered module units is arranged in sequence of three: roof terrace, first floor of a unit, and second floor of another unit on the same hotel floor. This sequence of three is repeated around the perimeter of the hotel, though altered depending on the facade to deflect direct sun exposure and maximize views (east and north facades angle north east, south facade angles southeast, and west facade angles northwest).
