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. 


INTERMEDIARY SOFTNESS
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 


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.


MAKING DISCOURSE 
Fall 2024

Featured: RISD Architecture Triennale, 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.  


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. My contribution  explores permanence not as fixity, but as endurance, where thermal delight, maintenance, and shared atmosphere become the foundation for a storytelling approach to architectural longevity.


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

Type: Architecture, Drawn, 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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