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KNOWLEDGE-SCAPES
Spring 2026

Award: Department Thesis Award Nominee

Type: Architecture


Duration: One Year
Advisor: Stephanie Choi

School: Rhode Island School of Design

The project imagines a new pilgrimage through Glen Canyon as a living landscape of entanglement where infrastructure, ecology, and human responsibility become inseparable. Inhabited by field scientists and accessible to river tourists, field stations act as infrastructural characters that connect ecological research with embodied experience.
ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS
2025

Type: Architecture

Role: Research Assistant
Duration: Year
Team: 

Led by Debbie Chen, Team with Team Members Samuel Choi and Yang Tian

School: Rhode Island School of Design, with the Somerson Sustainability Innovation Fund 


Energy Transformations is an on-going project that considers infrastructural systems as critical cultural technologies in addressing climate change. The design argues for an alternative type of infrastructural apparatus. This research was focused on the intersection of bathing culture and passive solar systems.
MAKING DISCOURSE 
Fall 2024

Featured: RISD Architecture Triennale, SCALED Magazine, RISD Social Media

Type: Architecture, Built, Drawn 


Duration: Semester
Professor: Mae Dessauvage

School: Rhode Island School of Design

This project analyzes construction at the Federal Building in downtown Providence, highlighting its facade covered in scaffolding and blue mesh that both disrupt pedestrian flow and add a new layer to the building.  
SCHOOL-HOUSE
Spring 2025

Featured: Lisbon Architecture Triennale, RISD Architecture Triennale

Type: Architecture


Duration: Semester
Professor: Stephanie Lloyd

School: Rhode Island School of Design

School–House is a response to the lack of urban spaces designed for teenagers. This project responds with a new typology: the School–House—a hybrid between the one-room schoolhouse and the public house, a space for teens to gather, build, question, collaborate, and invite the city in. 
DRAWINGS FROM JAPAN
Summer 2024
Award: Clemson Architecture Foundation Travel Grant 

Type: Architecture, Drawn, Treks 


Duration: 2 months
Type: Self-Published
School: Awarded from Clemson University, Further Developed at Rhode Island School of Design

This travelogue is made from drawings I did  following a bikepacking trip I was able to do through winning an essay and portfolio competition for a 5,000 dollar travel grant. 

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