The Subway Station Skylight creates a world-class transit hall to celebrate the arrival in the heart of the new Central Business District (CBD) of a top tier city in central China. The skylight will be a dramatic focal point sitting below the five super-tall towers of the new CBD at the base of the great meadow in the Ribbon Park.
Role - Lead Digital Designer
Team - In collaboration with Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) San Francisco + Shanghai Architecture, Digital Design, Structural Engineering, Open Space, High Performance Design, and Interiors groups.
2018 - 2019
This China Office Tower was originally designed by SOM San Francisco in 2015. The project went on hold for 3 years and in 2018 a completely new project team jumped on. For 7 months, I rebuilt the computational pipeline between multiple software platforms, led the development of the parametric geometry creation, and managed the team’s digital BIM models.
Role - Lead Digital Designer
Team - In collaboration with Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) San Francisco + Shanghai + Chicago Architecture, Digital Design, Structural Engineering, MEP, High Performance Design, and Interiors groups.
2015 - 2019
SFO is redeveloping Terminal 1 (T1), one of its oldest terminals, to meet the needs of modern travelers and revolutionize the guest experience. T1 was built in the early 1960s and over time has become less able to accommodate the millions of passengers that it handles each year. When fully completed in 2022, the $2.4 billion project will elevate SFO’s standard of providing a world-class, environmentally friendly travel experience.
I worked between the Superspace Design computation group and the project design team for these studies.
Role - Computational Designer / Project Designer
Team - In collaboration with Woods Bagot's SuperSpace Design Computation Group, Gensler, HKS, and the SFO International Airport
2016
The city of Changsha is located in China’s Hunan province and is historically divided by the Xiangjiang River.
By establishing the first supertall tower complex alongside the West riverbank, this design proposal aims to construct a recognizable civic symbol signifying strength and prosperity for the city’s future river-West Central Business District.
Role - Lead Computational Designer / Project Designer
Team - In collaboration with Woods Bagot San Francisco + Bejing Studios
Groundbreaking ceremony - Spring 2016
Canda College’s new Kinesiology and Wellness Center is an 85,000 SF fitness and aquatic facility for San Mateo Community College District.
Prominently located at the campus’ main entrance and quad, this LEED Gold design-build project will serve as the college’s gateway and replace an obsolete athletics building. This new two-story facility includes a basketball gymnasium, recreational and competition pools, fitness floor, and a rooftop running track.
I led the coordination efforts with the civil engineers as well as landscape architects. I also maintained the BIM model and managed weekly model exchanges with the construction team and consultants.
Role - Lead Computational Designer / BIM Specialist / Project Designer
Team - In collaboration with ELS Architecture + Urban Design and Blach Construction
Groundbreaking ceremony - December 2017
Mesa Central is a contemporary park that blends civic landscape appropriate for the seat of government with a variety of experiences and amenities for all ages. Through a program of landscape features, varied pathways, new structures, strategiec renovations, and parking options. Mesa Central's plan offers the city the option of phased implementation to achieve this vision for a new civic public space within the project budget.
Role - Lead Digital Designer
Team - In collaboration with Woods Bagot + Surface Design
2014
Smartgeometry is a yearly workshop and conference that brings together a global community of innovators and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.
Location - Gothenburg, Sweden
Award - attendance based upon selection in global firm-wide competition
Role - Computational Designer
Spring 2016
This workplace interiors design proposal aimed to create a guest experience that connects visitors to the people, place, and product of this social media company, through a deeper understanding of their global story. Data-driven story patterns translated actual social media data visualizations into material patterns, which were then applied to the interior spaces.
Role - Lead Digital Designer
Team - In collaboration with Woods Bagot San Francisco
2015
This competition entry focuses on the current border crossing that separates the cities of Nogales, Mexico and the USA. Our proposal calls for a non-aggressive and socially inclusive border crossing that eliminates the current wall, and creates public spaces.
Awards - Unbuilding the Wall International Competition, Finalist
Role - Lead Computational Designer / User Research / Visual Design
Team - Kelly Elmore, Niknaz Afthanj, Luke Ivers
Summer 2017
The Tilt-Up Concrete Association sponsors a yearly student design competition every fall to raise the awareness of Tilt-Up's inherent benefits. This proposal aimed to glorify and embed the processes of tilt - up concrete within an open pavilion design. Each panel lifts consecutively further off of the ground-- between 5 and 20 degrees-- and is supported by its counterparts. Together, the panels come together in an ephemeral moment punctuated by a scripted pattern that references star charts and nautical mappings.
Awards - Second Place, Tilt - Up Concrete Association Design Competition 2014
Role - Lead Computational Designer
Team - In collaboration with Irma Acosta and Setareh Taghvaei
Spring 2014
Though it once functioned as a major pedestrian destination, San Francisco’s Market Street has been reduced to a dysfunctional transportation corridor, rife with disgruntled drivers, apathetic residents, and fearful pedestrians. In many cases, bus users are lacking basic transportation information, detached from local shops and eateries, disengaged from their surroundings, and disconnected from one another. This project aims to activate these under-performing social spaces as a means of reestablishing Market Street as a center of public life.
Role - User Researcher / Interaction Designer
Spring 2013
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes takes as its starting point the 1969 exhibition Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form presented at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland. This exhibition brought together new tendencies in the art of its time, known today as post-Minimalism, Arte Povera, Land art and Conceptual art. This show signified a shifting relationship between the artist and artwork, one in which the activity and process of the artist was now prioritized above that of the medium. These scaled models (1”=1’) function as the centerpiece of the modern-day exhibition and represent the two floors of the Kunsthalle Bern. The models are viewed from the top, and built without roofs so that visitors can see into the interior of the building. A model maker constructed scaled versions of the artworks included in the exhibition to include in the model after its completion.
Exhibitions - Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), the Museum of Modern Art Detroit, and purchased by the permanent collection of the Getty Museum
Role - Lead Digital Designer
Team - In collaboration with Rena Montero
2013
From 1910 to 1940, men, women, and children from 90 countries came to Angel Island, California as part of the American Immigration process. Their writings are embedded within the walls of the barracks in which they lived and their histories have become part of a global multi-cultural story. This project proposes a museum to share their stories.
Role - Conceptual and Technical Designer
Team - In collaboration with Danny Le
Fall 2013
Shikata Ga Nai translated literally means “it cannot be helped” or, “nothing can be done about it.” The structure that evolved out of this phrase and our mutual histories is a response to seen and unseen connections, fixed and flexible culture, and physical and emotional ritual. Through these mechanisms, the house speaks to a shared past that is fraught with persecution and isolation, but also with a richly layered culture and deeply connected community.
Role - Conceptual and Technical Designer
Team - In collaboration with Danny Le
Fall 2013
