SPRING 2025  /  PROF. PABLO CASTILLO LUNA

How can climate change, and specifically its effects to the water system in usptate New York be archived? This project answers this question in two ways-through an experiental component of living quarters and through a scientific infrastructure for studying and shared climate change's impacts. The project calls for a series of satellite buidlings where sediment cores are taken, studied, and exhibited. This process creates a continous archive of how increased precipitation and flooding changes soil structure, conditions, and brings in new pollution and effluent. Over time, these changes can be visualized through the static sediment cores taken. In the living quarters, residents are put in contact with the water as it moves through the landscape. Grated floors, pipes, and holes in the walls visualize water's temperment and movement through this unique environment, archiving climate change as the water changes in relation to the stable infrastructure of the building. Through a system of cantilevers supported by cables, the building barely grazes the ground, allowing for maximum independence of water and soil movement. In years to come, this building core can be removed, barely leaving more than a small trough of what existed of this building.

FALL 2024  /  PROF. MUSTAFA ALI FARUKI

This housing proposal for the village of Trumansburg in Upstate New York focused on creating commercial and residential opportunities for prospective residents of Trumansburg to combat the increased dependancy of Trumansburg upon other larger cities, in particular, Ithaca, NY. 
In essence, we designed a future for Trumansburg that emphasizes self-sufficiency through communal design of living, working, and growing spaces, so as to bring back the character of Trumansbrug that residents expressed feeling very fond of and connected to. This was done with residential avenues with residential and commerical units that patchwork to create a larger hierarchical framework for developmen, protecing private space and creating exciting public areas for residents and visitors.
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This was a group project in conjunction with Saniah Adams (B.Arch ‘27)

SPRING 2023  /  PROF. EKIN ERAR

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FALL 2023  /  PROF. MAGGIE KIRK

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AN INFRATRUCTURE FOR ARCHIVING CLIMATE CHANGE

SPRING 2025  /  PROF. PABLO CASTILLO LUNA

How can climate change, and specifically its effects to the water system in usptate New York be archived? This project answers this question in two ways-through an experiental component of living quarters and through a scientific infrastructure for studying and shared climate change's impacts. The project calls for a series of satellite buidlings where sediment cores are taken, studied, and exhibited. This process creates a continous archive of how increased precipitation and flooding changes soil structure, conditions, and brings in new pollution and effluent. Over time, these changes can be visualized through the static sediment cores taken. In the living quarters, residents are put in contact with the water as it moves through the landscape. Grated floors, pipes, and holes in the walls visualize water's temperment and movement through this unique environment, archiving climate change as the water changes in relation to the stable infrastructure of the building. Through a system of cantilevers supported by cables, the building barely grazes the ground, allowing for maximum independence of water and soil movement. In years to come, this building core can be removed, barely leaving more than a small trough of what existed of this building.

FERMENTATION LAB

SPRING 2023 //  ARCH 1102: Prof. Ekin Erar

This project was for a lab for fermenting vegetables. This developed from an exploration of transparent layers. I was interested in the diffusion and dispersino of light, which I related to the process of fermentation, which uses varying amounts of light and darkness to ferment different foods. 
I also extrapolated a system of curves from my study models of light diffusion, which forme the structural basis of the design. 
The placement of curved walls and windows mediated which areas of the building would recieve the most light depending upon their need for darkness or light, which also related to the public and private programmatic considerations of the building. 

WESTERN PAVILION

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LIVE+WORK+GROW

HOUSE WITH A VIEW

FALL 2023 // PROF. MAGGIE KIRK  

This design for a home was on a site located in Ithaca on a hill over a waterfall on the location of an adbandonded gun factory. I chose to work with the existing structures on the site, an old factory building and the smokestack, creating a building that directs the inhabitant towards specific views of its setting.
I seperated the building into 3 portions that contanied specific programs and coordinated their views of the environment in accordnace to privacy and comfort.

In essence--this project was eplored manipulating how inhabits view a specific landscape, drawing attention towards specific viewpoints and hiding others, creating a strong sense of hierarchy that is experienced as one circulates the space in the manner directed by the design.

ITHACA BRANCH LIBRARY

SPRING 2024 // PROF. MARTA WISNIEWSKA  

The task for this project was to design a secondary library in Ithaca, given a specific site. I designed a library that responds to the extremely steep geography of the site, connecting the important road as well as the creek area into one cohesive building. 
This project also focused heavily on the logistics of municipal building with a broad range. This included the structural design, environmental anaylsis, acessbility, zoning and ode considerations, HVAC system design and analysis as well as material, formal, environmental, and experiential considerations.

This project expanded my understanding of the scope of architectural design, and gave me a greater deal of experience in the engineering, environmntal, and structural design aspects of architecture. The final model was constructed at a 1/2”=1’ scale to showcase the actual structural system, which in this case was cast concrete and system of steel beams. 

LIVE+WORK+GROW

FALL 2024 // PROF. MUSTAFA ALI FARUKI

This housing proposal for the village of Trumansburg in Upstate New York focused on creating commercial and residential opportunities for prospective residents of Trumansburg to combat the increased dependancy of Trumansburg upon other larger cities, in particular, Ithaca, NY. 
In essence, we designed a future for Trumansburg that emphasizes self-sufficiency through communal design of living, working, and growing spaces, so as to bring back the character of Trumansbrug that residents expressed feeling very fond of and connected to. This was done with residential avenues with residential and commerical units that patchwork to create a larger hierarchical framework for developmen, protecing private space and creating exciting public areas for residents and visitors.
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This was a group project in conjunction with Saniah Adams (B.Arch ‘27)