Studio work — University of Miami B.Arch
Everything else on this site is built on what happens here: semesters of drawing, modeling, and defending design decisions at review. Click any project to open it.
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A working fish market on the Miami River. A stone arcade opens the waterfront back to the public, with the market floor at the water and terraces above the arches. Sited against the downtown skyline and designed from the river inward.
Arcade Concourse
Market Floor
Rooftop Dining Terrace
Aquarium Entrance
First Floor Plan in Context
River Elevation in Context
A drawn analysis of the Uffizi. Reconstructing the gallery's spatial logic in line: perspective, proportion, and the procession of rooms, then testing how the same section reads at three different times of day.
Ground Floor Plan
Sun Study · the same section at three times of day
10:30 AM
1:30 PM
3:30 PM
A 48-unit mixed-use apartment building: studios, one-beds, and two-beds stacked over ground-floor retail, organized around a street-level arcade. Massing, unit aggregation, and the space between buildings, worked through isometric modeling.
Ground-Floor Arcade Circulation
Plans & Elevations Sheet
After Buckminster Fuller. Building the geometry of the icosahedron, then the Fly's Eye Dome it generates, one construction step at a time. I told the whole thing as a five-volume manga rather than a standard board, because the geometry deserved better than a bullet list. Read it in order below.
Project Poster
A case study of the Side Yard House, a residential dwelling type organized around a garden run down one side of the lot rather than a rear yard. Site plan, roof plan, elevations, and massing, drawn to be read side by side.
Roof Plan, Elevations & Axonometric
Site & Floor Plans
A close reading of the Richard Moore Kemp House at 601 Caroline Street, Key West: built in 1888 in the Key West/Bahamas style after the original Kemp home burned down. Documenting and redrawing a built work, down to the front door and the porch railing, to understand its decisions from the inside.
Door, Window & Railing Details
"Controlled Irregularities": a fluid roof built from a field of panels deformed by a single attractor point in Grasshopper, testing how one parametric rule generates variation across an entire surface without losing control of it.
Two projects on one idea: division. First a park, the kind of space expected to feel open and seamless, split into separate sections so the boundaries decide how people move and meet. Then a meditation space on the most enclosed site by the architecture buildings: an L-shaped cluster of pavilions with paths wound around the existing trees. Each pavilion has its own level of privacy, and one has walls that move, so you decide how divided the space really is.
Meditation Space · from above
Divided Space · park model
Meditation Space · plan
The precedent was Palmanova, Scamozzi's nine-pointed fortress city from 1593. From it, a partner and I designed Section 7, a utopian city built to survive Miami's changing climate, with density tightening along the canals toward a central plaza and fountain. Then the city became an abstraction model: red, yellow and blue only, after the Bauhaus, set on a base drawn from the buildings' own isometric views, with mylar and LED lights run along the paths and inside the buildings.
Abstraction Model
Lit · mylar and LEDs
Building Detail
Building Detail · lit
Section 7 · isometric view
The work doesn't stop at the screen. Every model below was cut, printed and glued by hand: a full river site in laser-cut wood, structural frames, pavilion and housing studies, and a 3D-printed city block. The shop is where a drawing finds out whether it was right.
Precision cutting & etching
Rapid prototyping & components
Milled parts & molds
Saws, sanders & hand tools
River Site Model · laser-cut wood
From Above
Colonnade · eye level
Structural Frame Study
Divided Space · ARC 102
Uffizi Precedent · 3D-printed context
Divided Meditation Space · ARC 102