Casita City showcases a type of communal living that centers around the residents of El Barrio, a predominantly Puerto Rican community in East Harlem New York. We are bringing the El Barrios' food culture and vibriant living into the housing solution. This project presents a form of alternative ownership, collaborative households, and inviting fun and playfulness to the community.

The form consists of a predominant Puerto Rican architecture style known as the "Casita", in which the West-facing elevation depicts a Lil Casita and a Big Casita. With entryways to an open-air ground floor garden in the back of the project, a free standing round kitchen work-shop sits at the base of the building. The project will consist of varying materials, of ultra-high performance concrete, light cladding on the Lil Casita, corrugated polycarbonate for the winter garden (Big Casita) and CLT structural elements.

This project builds a modular, data-driven facade system that translates environmental analysis directly into panel behavior. Rather than treating performance as a separate layer, daylight and view become active forces in shaping the facade's expression. The system responds gradually across the building, recognizing shifts in orientation, height, and experience.

The moveable panel system translates these patterns into subtle shifts in openness while maintaining a simple and repeatable construction logic. Standardized panel dimensions and consistent connection details support efficient fabrication and on-site assembly.

The Grasshopper definition is organized into four main sections: Input, Panelization, Analysis, and Facade Design Modeling. Floor level indicators divide the building into horizontal strips. Daylight hours serve as the primary driver of the facade logic, while high-quality views are prioritized through a user-defined threshold that triggers wider panel openings.

The mixed-use building contains commercial, office, hotel spaces and sustainable transitions between indoor and outdoor environments. A terracotta-to-glass facade, landscaped terraces connecting hotel floors, double-height lobbies, vibrant commercial spaces, and rooftop gardens shape the design.

Used Rhino and Grasshopper for massing studies, target view optimization, and facade design, transitioning effortlessly into Revit with Rhino.Inside.Revit. The project reinforces interdisciplinary workflows and demonstrates advanced BIM integration for precise, innovative execution.

Bento is an experimental project that explores how urban data can inform the design of future retail environments. Using open datasets from New York City, raw information such as CSV and GeoJSON files were processed through Python scripts, cleaned, and transformed into matrix formats for mapping and visualization. This pipeline made visible the spatial and social patterns embedded in consumer behaviors, mobility flows, and neighborhood dynamics.

By translating these insights into design strategies, Bento proposes an adaptive retail model that goes beyond static floor plans. The project demonstrates how data can be repurposed as design intelligence, supporting flexible layouts, personalized services, and new forms of community engagement.

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BETWEEN THE MOUNDS is an experiential project to create a calm environment that is immersed in nature. The rough look of the concrete and the insertion of architecture with the soft mounds formulate a strong comparison. Different techniques of pouring create different scales of mounds. The mounds look random but are designed and poured with accuracy. The project contains mainly programs of water observation, bird watching, mound playground, and hotel cells. Moreover, To differentiate the ground type, using earth, vegetation, concrete, and colored concrete.

LPC Headquarters reimagines 315 Broadway, a landmarked site in New York City, as a more welcoming and accessible home for the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The design preserves the historic lot as much as possible while inviting the community in through a new corner plaza. This open public space not only connects citizens to the Commission, but also transforms the LPC into a visible, approachable civic institution.

To create a better visitor experience, the project establishes visual connections between the hearing hall and the street, as well as between the hall, gallery, office, and archive. A large Jumbotron broadcasts ongoing hearings directly to the plaza, extending transparency and participation beyond the building walls. Inside, open offices occupy the 7th to 14th floors, interwoven with archive spaces to emphasize both accessibility and preservation.

As part of the design process, I conducted case studies of significant New York City landmarks to understand the complex relationship between heritage preservation, public engagement, and institutional presence.

Recycle Sphere is envisioned as both a material recycling hub and a community center. Upon entering the lobby, visitors can immediately see every program within the project, as the overlapping of simple geometries creates a dynamic and inviting central space. The design encourages community members to walk in freely and explore in any direction.

Workshops open toward the CNY Regional Market, while the library faces the Walsh Regional Transportation Center—strategic placements that create strong visual and physical connections with the surrounding context.

As part of the design process, I visited a local wood recycling center and conducted research on its circulation patterns and operational workflows. These observations informed the spatial strategies of Recycle Sphere.

A gallery and archival space in New York that choreographs movement, display, and preservation. The design balances controlled environmental zones for storage with fluid public circulation for exhibitions and events.

The overall look of the project challenges the context of the city. Other buildings are rectangular and formalized in contrast to this curvy form. The main idea of the project is about the rational dynamic curvy form.

The facade for the project is a screen diamond system that can allow enough light for the upper ground part of the project. It also brings the whole mass feeling for the project. Furthermore, the facade plays more with the light with the diamond system.

The Southside Community Arts Center is a community-focused arts center that serves as a cultural hub for the neighborhood. The design prioritizes accessibility and community engagement through flexible programming spaces. This project intend to create a community space which fits into the neighborhood. The form of different parts of the art community center is similar to the house in the neighborhood. Taken the pitched roof form and picked up the rhymes of the roofs around it.

A comprehensive residential development project focusing on adaptive reuse and renovation strategies. The project transforms existing structures while maintaining their historical character.

The Urban Scale section presents projects that examine design at the metropolitan level through both master planning and digital workflows.

The first four images show a comprehensive master plan for Philadelphia, including the renovation of a central train station to enhance urban connectivity.

The last two images highlight research with ArcGIS CityEngine, where I contributed to developing a workflow for organizing and visualizing 3D city-scale data using the CGA programming language.

Together, these projects demonstrate an integrated approach to urban design, balancing large-scale planning with innovative computational methods.

The mixed-use collection includes three projects, each exploring different scales and contexts of design.

The first is a gallery project sited along the river, where the green roof doubles as an extension of the landscape, blending architecture with nature.

The second is a small pavilion integrated within a hotel development, serving as both a gathering node and an architectural accent within the larger plan.

The third highlights a detailed eave design, incorporating traditional floral motifs and window patterns to connect contemporary form with cultural heritage.

When Text Meets Map explores the intersection of literature and geography by transforming narrative texts into spatial journeys. The project extracts locations from books such as Walden, On the Road, and Into the Wild, and reimagines them as interactive maps where readers can trace the paths of characters, ideas, and emotions. By aligning narrative structures with geographic data, the project reveals how stories are deeply rooted in place and how landscapes shape the experience of reading.

Through computational text analysis and geospatial visualization, When Text Meets Map turns literary works into dynamic terrains that audiences can navigate. The project reframes storytelling as a spatial experience, inviting users to see texts not only as words on a page, but as lived geographies that unfold across time and space.

The project was exhibited with Spatial Intelligence Association in East Village, NYC.

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Memory Tides is an interactive data-driven installation that maps memories as if they were shifting landscapes. Instead of treating recollections as fixed points in time, the project visualizes them as tidal movements that ebb, overlap, and resurface. By combining computational design with spatial visualization, the work transforms intangible narratives into an immersive environment where memory behaves like water—fluid, layered, and constantly in motion.

Through this dynamic mapping, Memory Tides reframes memory as a living geography rather than a static archive. The project invites audiences to experience how personal and collective histories flow together, revealing the fragile yet enduring nature of remembrance.

The installation was also exhibited at e-flux, presented within Marina Otero Verzier: When Pixels Wash Ashore.

This project builds a modular, data-driven facade system that translates environmental analysis directly into panel behavior. Rather than treating performance as a separate layer, daylight and view become active forces in shaping the facade's expression.

The moveable panel system translates these patterns into subtle shifts in openness while maintaining a simple and repeatable construction logic. Standardized panel dimensions and consistent connection details support efficient fabrication and on-site assembly.

The Grasshopper definition is organized into four main sections: Input, Panelization, Analysis, and Facade Design Modeling. Daylight hours serve as the primary driver of the facade logic, while high-quality views are prioritized through a user-defined threshold that triggers wider panel openings.

Bento is an experimental project that explores how urban data can inform the design of future retail environments. Using open datasets from New York City, raw information such as CSV and GeoJSON files were processed through Python scripts, cleaned, and transformed into matrix formats for mapping and visualization.

By translating these insights into design strategies, Bento proposes an adaptive retail model that goes beyond static floor plans. The project demonstrates how data can be repurposed as design intelligence, supporting flexible layouts, personalized services, and new forms of community engagement.

Read more on the Medium article

The mixed-use building contains commercial, office, hotel spaces and sustainable transitions between indoor and outdoor environments. A terracotta-to-glass facade, landscaped terraces connecting hotel floors, double-height lobbies, vibrant commercial spaces, and rooftop gardens shape the design.

Used Rhino and Grasshopper for massing studies, target view optimization, and facade design, transitioning effortlessly into Revit with Rhino.Inside.Revit. The project reinforces interdisciplinary workflows and demonstrates advanced BIM integration for precise, innovative execution.

All Data Are Spatial explores how datasets that seem abstract or purely numerical can be reinterpreted through a geographic lens. The project begins from the premise that every dataset contains a spatial dimension, whether explicit, hidden, or implied—and seeks to uncover these connections by transforming public data into mappable forms. In doing so, it challenges conventional approaches to open data presentation and proposes new ways of perceiving relationships across scales and contexts.

Through computational workflows and interactive mapping, the project translates diverse datasets into geospatial formats, unifying them for greater accessibility and usability.

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Information is Power investigates how information asymmetry shapes housing accessibility. The project focuses on the housing search process, where unequal access to listings, pricing, and availability data determines who secures stable housing and who is excluded. By visualizing patterns in housing market dynamics, it reveals how hidden "information walls" reinforce inequality across urban life.

"Information is power. Access to information enhances one's power." — Jo Freeman. This project takes Freeman's words as a starting point, showing how the uneven distribution of information creates imbalance in opportunity.

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City Glitch reimagines everyday urban passages through data driven analysis and simulation. Centered on Columbus Avenue between 97th and 100th Streets in Manhattan's Upper West Side, the project frames the street as a dynamic economy of opportunity where static infrastructure meets the fluid interactions of pedestrians, vehicles, cyclists, and vendors.

The project asks whether informal uses of space can reveal overlooked gaps or hidden potential in city design. By mapping entities and their attributes, simulating actions, and creating an interactive pipeline from data ingestion to web deployment, City Glitch visualizes how formal rules and informal activities converge to expose glitches and opportunities in urban space.

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