studios
During my Virginia Tech graduate M.Arch studios (2015-2018), I learned not to disregard the seemingly boring, and not to underestimate the complexity of a simple line. Furthermore, I focused my attention on refining form through reiterative craftsmanship and photography. Form to me is the essence of an idea, revealed via careful consideration of light and texture. Since nothing is really finished even after it is built, I constantly edit my work. Through reiterative layering, I strive to reveal dignity.
I also enjoy poetry and find inspiration in structured yet creatively flexible haiku form (#1–#20). Design is similarly flexible but bounded.
During my earlier Middlebury undergraduate BA studios (2009-2013), I actively explored means to integrate surrounding communities into any type and scale of design. For instance, "Coming Together" organic garden community bread oven (#21–#22) is a project that considers three stages of already planned expansion for Middlebury's Organic Garden. I envisioned the community bread oven moving away from the southern car traffic and embracing the more intimate, quiet, and sheltered northern part which coincided with a hiking Trail Around Middlebury. I created four presentation boards: ‘SITE’, ‘ESSENCE’, ‘DESIGN’, ‘DRAWINGS’—using hand-made, scanned, digitally enhanced, and compiled scaled drawings. I proposed a new line of local maple and oak trees, and a half-circle of thick cane. They would border currently used fertile lands on a hill and virtually channel all crops to the proposed community bread oven. The core of the oven—open fire—would respond to a well on the top of the existing hill.
Furthermore, during my first-ever architectural design class (#23–#24), I already conducted on-site visits and as-built site measurements. The project for a new municipal technology center was sited next to a new bridge and my final presentation was attended by town planners and other Middlebury officials. My proposed tower attracts to and gracefully overlooks the historic town center. I explored how engineering could be celebrated architecturally. The final massing model shows options with or without my proposed cable suspension to be used with a new bridge yet to be constructed (opened in 2010) but planned without any vertical element. Interwoven perforated metal sheets create siding of the tower next to a proposed adjacent technology center that embodies technological innovations in fabricated materials and engineering advancements in bridge making, in particular.
I also enjoy poetry and find inspiration in structured yet creatively flexible haiku form (#1–#20). Design is similarly flexible but bounded.
During my earlier Middlebury undergraduate BA studios (2009-2013), I actively explored means to integrate surrounding communities into any type and scale of design. For instance, "Coming Together" organic garden community bread oven (#21–#22) is a project that considers three stages of already planned expansion for Middlebury's Organic Garden. I envisioned the community bread oven moving away from the southern car traffic and embracing the more intimate, quiet, and sheltered northern part which coincided with a hiking Trail Around Middlebury. I created four presentation boards: ‘SITE’, ‘ESSENCE’, ‘DESIGN’, ‘DRAWINGS’—using hand-made, scanned, digitally enhanced, and compiled scaled drawings. I proposed a new line of local maple and oak trees, and a half-circle of thick cane. They would border currently used fertile lands on a hill and virtually channel all crops to the proposed community bread oven. The core of the oven—open fire—would respond to a well on the top of the existing hill.
Furthermore, during my first-ever architectural design class (#23–#24), I already conducted on-site visits and as-built site measurements. The project for a new municipal technology center was sited next to a new bridge and my final presentation was attended by town planners and other Middlebury officials. My proposed tower attracts to and gracefully overlooks the historic town center. I explored how engineering could be celebrated architecturally. The final massing model shows options with or without my proposed cable suspension to be used with a new bridge yet to be constructed (opened in 2010) but planned without any vertical element. Interwoven perforated metal sheets create siding of the tower next to a proposed adjacent technology center that embodies technological innovations in fabricated materials and engineering advancements in bridge making, in particular.
