WHY ARCHITECTURE ?
I am an architecture student in Stanford's Sustainable Architecture + Engineering program.
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I am attracted to architecture because of its dominating and enveloping nature. It is an inescapable art form. It has an immense power to shape and influence lives, for better and for worse. I have felt both, and am immensely motivated to create architecture that aids, heals, and empowers.
MY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Cinema has always captured my mind. I am inspired by the actors who can so completely become their characters that we forget they exist. As McConaughey always says “who is my man, how can I become my man?”.
Design is no different in my mind. Whether I'm designing for myself, a doctor, or an entire demographic, it is my job to shift my mindset into theirs. I must imagine myself as though I am them. Only once I understand the user can I begin to design for them.
Combining the needs of the user/s with the external parameters (site, materials, weather, code, budget, etc) will result in a perfect solution. It is my job to find it.
I trust an iterative design full of communication. I trust logic and theory. Nothing is unintentional, every aspect, every element is there for a reason.
PROJECTS
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FRENCHMANS RESIDENCE
Frenchmans Residence is a one bedroom villa designed for a visiting scholar. The final project of my first studio course, this residence was an opportunity for me to collide all the skills I had spent the year accumulating into a single project.
Visually it is expressed through bold horizontal elements and thin verticals. It is grounded by the integrated stone foundation. It is built to a human scale, with slightly varying roof heights depending on the program.
Functionally the residence is split into three rooms. The living room welcomes the user from the entrance, providing warm wooden hues, and natural light from the west and north. The offset conversation pit allows for a slightly more personal living room experience. Rising up the steps the studio / workspace provides a plentiful amount of ambient north light, while opening up the roof at an angle, prompting the user to observe and imagine. Down and around the corner, the bedroom is secluded and built into the slope. This provides a sense of calm, and security.
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This project won the Stanford Sustainable Architecture + Engineering programs 2025 Spring quarter Design award.
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PAVILION AND SPACE GENERATOR
Second in complexity to the frenchmans residence, is the pavilion project. This project allowed me to take my newly developed drafting and model making skills, and apply them to the real world. The prompt was to design a shade structure. I took that as, “what type of multi use shade structure would I enjoy to use if it was built on my campus?” This simple structure combines 3 floor heights – lower, ground, upper – into one cohesive structure. Under the ground it creates a space for congregation and performance, from above a zone for observation.
The spatial generator was one of the most difficult projects conceptually for me. The task was to create a space, not a shape, that represented a selected verb. I chose to represent “twisting” and achieving the result through the rotation of repeating elements.
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FROM THE SKETCHBOOK
A back log of select sketches and ideas. All are rough and quick, drawn with the intention of getting the idea quickly out of my head and onto paper. Most are from my mind, some of the trees and views are examples of me trying to capture a sight I find interesting for future reference. It is a constant practice of editorial view, what do I include and what do I leave out, what is the most outstanding, what is capturing my eye the most.