Inter-generational community building through food.
Proposing the co-habitation of seniors and chefs in residence, the program aims to catalyze the dissemination of old recipes to new chefs. Formally, the project creates a mid-block alley lined with resident chef operated micro-restaurants.
Dene Nahjo First Nation Community Center
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
Queering Cannabis is an installation-based project informed by the queer roots of legal cannabis architecture. Functionally, the project posits that the queering of architecture (or space at large) offers an actionable design attitude, which works in opposition to the erasure that has taken place through the typification of the cannabis dispensary over time and current policies that stigmatize the consumption of cannabis.
Sitting somewhere between performance, tagging, and protest, Queering Cannabis initiates a sequence of enactment, loss, and construction informed by the symbolic queerness of smoke, ash, and residue.
Re-imagining the grocery store as public infrastructure
Exploring what it means to inhabit the banks of the Salmon River
A machine for coffee, magazine, and laptop holding.
In collaboration with Brit Naylor.
This furniture study began with an exploration of (1) furniture’s relation to the body and (2) furniture as an instigator for spatial identity and thus its relation to the mind. These notions along with the constraints of our site, a Vancouver garden-suite, influenced the size and shape of the piece. The design mediates the materials; intentional gaps prevent the wood from expanding into the rigid concrete. Walnut keys on either end hold the structure in place, and can be removed for transport. Hands-on material explorations ultimately produced the table’s wedge-shaped elements, which are both aesthetic and structural.
SALON 2019 was the first student initiated and designed exhibition to showcase a curated set of Master of Architecture thesis projects. SALON originally ran from May 31- June 2, at the Vancouver Dudoc Space. As the Construction Committee Coordinator I managed the collective design and construction of the exhibition’s 45 wood frame displays that were used to showcase thesis drawings.
I lead construction volunteers to facilitate design development and fabrication of exhibition displays, generated material cost estimates, and procured materials.
The frame displays were designed to allow expeditious installation, which was achieved through a lightweight design without the need of power-tools for assembly. Specifically, this was achieved through dovetail joint connectors, and friction-fit footings.
Competition submission for William & Marys’ Memorial to the Enslaved
The central east-west axis of William and Mary’s Historic Campus tethers the institution and its community to their past, present, and future. Not only has the university physically grown along this axis, but it also orients the rituals that define one’s induction into William and Mary’s ceremonial life.
The proposed memorial straddles this axis. In doing so, it becomes part of the axial rituals of the university and unequivocally recognizes and asserts William and Mary’s history of active involvement with the enslavement of African Americans, from its inception until the end of the Civil War, to be as central to its identity as the Wren Building.
SCATE-SCAPE is about celebrating the skateboard. Skateboard cross sections inspired the form making; by studying different types of edge profiles a form was derived that benefits from the resulting undulating surface.
In collaboration with Erin Saucier
