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SCHOOL-HOUSE 
Spring 2025

Featured: Lisbon 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.



INTERMEDIARY SOFTNESS
 2025
 Type: Architecture Grant through the  Somerson Sustainability Innovation Fund
Role: Research Assistant
Duration: Year
Team: Led by Debbie Chen, with Team Members Samuel Choi and Yang Tian
School: Rhode Island School of Design
Intermediary Softness 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.

AIR: A SHARED RESOURCE
Fall 2025

Type: Architecture


Duration: Semester
Professor:
Emily Ezquerro

School: Rhode Island School of Design

Air: A Shared Resource is a speculative co-housing project in Lincoln, Massachusett, developed through a non-optimized methodology to material efficiency. My contribution  explores permanence not as fixity, but as endurance, where thermal delight, maintenance, and shared atmosphere become the foundation for communal living and a storytelling approach to architectural longevity.


BIO-ENCLOSURE
Spring 2025

Featured: Rhode Island School of Design Architecture Triennale

Type: Architecture, Built


Duration: Semester
Professor: Stephanie Choi
School: Rhode Island School of Design

Group Partners:  Lancelot Li, Michel Song, Jenny Stageberg
This design for a four story office building in Providence, Rhode Island integrates bio-materials with heavy timber construction. The façade is clad in corrugated hemp panels, giving the building a textured, renewable envelope that balances durability with low-carbon impact.



MAKING DISCOURSE
Fall 2024

Featured: 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 disrupted pedestrian flow and added a new layer to the building. 



DWELLING STUDY
Fall 2024

Type: Architecture

Duration: Semester
Professor: Debbie Chen

School: Rhode Island School of Design

These projects seek to provide dwelling units that engage with how we can connect to one another through using the articulation of a wall.


THREE RIVERS
Spring 2020

Award: Undergraduate Prize in Design, Tied for Second Place

Type: Architecture

Duration: Semester
Professor: Julie Wilkerson

School: Clemson University

The Three Rivers Engagement Center creates a blend between the ecosystem of the Congaree River and its urban context. The project leverages design strategies that preserve the natural elements on site.

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THE VEIN
Spring 2019

Type: Architecture

Duration: Semester
Professor: Miquel Rodriguez

School: Barcelona Architecture Center

The Vein, a museum to accompany the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, balances the monumentality of the Sagrada Familia and connects with the green spaces of Barcelona.




ENSTON HOME FARM STAND
Fall 2019

Type: Architecture, Built

Duration: Semester
Professor: David Pastre

School: Charleston Design Center

This studio build project located in Charleston, South Carolina, is a Farm Manager’s Station for a local nonprofit in a historical affordable housing community.  

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UNEARTHED
Fall 2018

Award: Rudolph E. Lee Professional Promise Award Nominee

Type: Architecture

Duration: Semester
Professor: Julie Wilkerson

School: Clemson University

UnEarthed is an office building in Manhattan that makes a strong connection to its context by elevating an open terrace to the raised park of the High Line.

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DIGITIZING ARCOLOGIES
Fall 2019

Type: Architecture, Travels

Duration: 3 Months

Office: Arcosanti Planning Department

Digital models made and 3D printed of the 30 city “Arcology” designs by architect Paolo Soleri, published in 1969 in the seminal book Arcology: City in the Image of Man. This work was completed at a summer internship in Arcosanti, Arizona.

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DRAWINGS FROM JAPAN
Summer 2024
Award: Clemson Architecture Foundation Travel Grant

Type: Architecture, Print, Travel

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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