These materials are representative of some of my work done thus far while a graduate student at the University of Texas.

1. p4 After Foster Care Center
p12 SOCOmpact Studios
p22 Photo Cube
p26 Reel Studio
p32 Componant and Shade Structure
p38 Urban Raptor Rescue Center
p42 MoDFilm
p50 Artwork
p60 Professional Resume

2. OSTER CARE GRADUATE
Austin Foster Care
Graduate Center
Studio project - Spring 2009
This project is designed to be a
place of comfortable acclimation
for recent graduates of the central
Texas foster care system. Located
in park space along a major state
highway and adjacent Lady Bird
After Foster Care Center
Lake in Austin, this facility consists
of various living quarters conceived
Micro Program Diagram - Rhino
specifically to accommodate the
East Elevation - SketchUp
actions of inhabitation. Specifically,
the concept of the building’s
programmatic arrangement is
derived from the specific spatial
needs of their occupants. Overall
architectural form is taken from the
language of the nearby highways.
Road-like roof forms initially draw
from this inspiration, ultimately
bending to accept ground circulation
and elevated occupation or decks.
20 feet
These structures, when integrated
with solar towers and arrays of
glazing, also serve a vital role in
S2
realizing sustainability strategies of
solar and rainwater collection, green
roofing and additionally shading the
building.
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p4

3. Micro Program Icons - Rhino
Micro Program Diagram - Rhino
Section View S1 - SketchUp and Photoshop
p6

4. 20 feet
Section View S2 - SketchUp and Photoshop
West Elevation - SketchUp
Interior Perspective - SketchUp and Photoshop
S2
p8

5. Exterior Perspective - SketchUp and Photoshop
Daylighting and Ventilation Strategies - SketchUp and Illustrator
Exterior Perspective - SketchUp and Photoshop
Building Perspective - SketchUp
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6. SOCOmpact Studios
Studio project - Fall 2009
The objective of the project is to confront
under-utilized urban remnant space through
a minimal architectural intervention, while
simultaneously exploring the parametric ability
of building systems and form through Building
Information Modeling (BIM) software. The
site is located in South Austin along South
Congress Avenue in a small lot, which is
used predominately for parking and often
transformed due to the presence of art vendors
and street performers. In an attempt to increase
SOCOmpact Studios
the site’s occasional pedestrian density, the
Parametric System Diagram - REVIT
Parametric Building Model - REVIT
insertion of a small building containing artist
studios serves to enrich and make permanent
this existing creative community. The structural
organization of the building emanates from
a two story circulatory core running east to
west in its long dimension. Studio spaces
with generous apertures protrude from that
central element to the north, peeking over
adjacent buildings and aligning with views of
the city. A lounge and shared restroom jut
out to the south. A unifying element of the
building, its facade employs a varying polygal
and opaque rigid panel curtain wall system.
The nature of this exterior allows access to
both abundant natural light and areas of solid
wall for interior placement of artwork. Multiple
building iterations were initially derived from an
exploration through BIM which tested various
formal decisions against several parameters
of site. Ultimately the building responds to
its limiting surroundings, a minimization of
building footprint and an acknowledgement
of both the pedestrian and view towards
downtown Austin.
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7. Parametric Study - REVIT
Elevation Facing East - REVIT and Photoshop
Site Diagram - GIS and Illustrator
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8. 5
g plans 1/8” = 1’
ding plans 1/8” = 1’
Roof Level
S1
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4
Third Level
4 Studio Two, 5 Roof Terrace - REVIT and Photoshop
1 Common Area, 2 Studio One, 3 Restroom
Second Level
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Entrance Level
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9. Physical Model Facing East
Physical Model Facing South
Interior Perspective - REVIT and Photoshop
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10. Interior Perspective -REVIT and Photoshop
Exterior Perspective Facing North East - REVIT and Photoshop
Section View S1 - REVIT
Exploded Structural Diagram - REVIT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT PRODUCT
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11. Photo Cube
Studio project - Spring 2010
Places and experiences are collected
over a lifetime. They are filed as
memories and tucked on shelves in
corners as souvenirs and memorabilia.
The photo box project addresses the
idea of collecting and understanding
Function Diagram - Pencil, Gesso and Collage
memories through physical objects;
specifically the conveying of experience
in a photograph. A simple wooden body is
cast in translucent wax, smoothing sharp
Photo Cube
edges and lending a weighty, hand-worn
quality to the boxes. The heft and tactility
of the photo boxes gives a property of
physical mass to the collections that
they hold. These containers are also
meant as devices to re-contextualize
their contents, allowing new meanings to
arise within the photos’ isolated subjects.
Photos slide into the device through a
thin slot along its top edge. A series of
masks remove image from a conceived
environment, allowing the collection of
memories to considered from an altered
perspective.
p22

12. Construction and Function Drawing - REVIT, Pencil, Gesso and Collage
p24

13. Reel Studio
Studio project - Spring 2010
After extensive travel and a career as a
documentary film maker, the proposed
client of this project sought additional
studio space in his now overcrowded
south Austin bungalow. The resulting
structure serves as a place for editing
and digitizing, archiving and viewing an
Physical Model Facing South West
extensive volume of reel film. Taking
cue from its collection, the building
Reel Studio
becomes a series of winding movements
Process Sketch
up and around an existing concrete wall.
Controlled and filtered connections from
inside to outside frame an inhabitant’s
experience of surroundings. The
wrapping of the structure is continued as
the studio is enveloped with translucent
material acting both as solar shading
and film screen. The studio becomes
a device through which film is viewed
from within and from the adjacent yard.
Additional formal articulation is derived
by mimicking adjacent rooflines and
impeding tree growth, tying the studio
contextually to the site. Reel Studio is a
manifestation of collection and archive as
well an object through which an occupant
views and examines their surroundings
and the moving image.
p26

14. Elevation Facing South - REVIT and Photoshop
Sketch Models
Elevation Facing North - REVIT and Photoshop
p28

15. Process Sketch
Experiential Section - REVIT and Photoshop
Physical Model Facing North East
p30

16. Component and Shade Structure
Studio project - Fall 2009
This studio project was developed through
the iteration of two exercises; one to create
a modular component and another to apply
that element in mass to a small street-side
Component and Shade Structure
shade structure. The concept behind the
component specifically is one of adjustment
Elevation Facing Wesr - REVIT and Photoshop
and collapsibility. By studying how a tubular
structure could be adapted to varying lengths,
the concept was further developed into a wall
system that could actively change thickness
and porosity. This variability of the system
Process Sketch
allowed the components to be arranged in
numerous configurations, suitable for various
applications. The project culminated in the
design of a shade structure to be sited along
a particularly sunny street side in downtown
Austin, TX. The components that composed
the shade structure were elongated overhead,
to shade from direct sunlight according to
observed sun angles, and shortened and
open along the base to maximize porosity and
ventilation.
p32

17. Sketch Model - Photoshop
Shade Structure Sections - REVIT
Shade Structure Plan - REVIT
p34

18. Sketch Model
Shade Structure Model
Sketch Model - Photoshop
Elevation Facing North - REVIT and Photoshop
p36

19. Austin Urban Raptor Rescue Center
Studio project - Spring 2009
Situated just north of Austin Texas’ Lady Bird
Lake within a park space tucked along and under
Texas Loop 1, this proposed center is designed
to serve injured urban birds of prey. Project
challenges were addressed by encapsulating
an environment of natural rehabilitation while
Urban Raptor Rescue Center
creating a sophisticated place for urban
interface of public and raptor. Rehabilitating
Section View S1 - Pencil and Photoshop
flight cages and facility buildings draw form
from the structure of existing highways. The
Site Diagram - Photoshop
concrete and lumber buildings interact with the
elevated roadway, protruding horizontally to
collect occupants in entrance and protruding
vertically to serve as solar towers, highway
sound barrier and support for the flight cages.
The challenges of directly engaging a highway,
by constructing under one, ultimately allowed
for the creation of relatively sheltered inter-
building courtyard spaces and an opportunity
to reduce building cooling loads.
p38

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1 Intensive Care 2 Food Storage and Prep 3 Administration 4 Conference Area 5 Restrooms 6 Vetrinary Offices 7 Aviary 8 Water Collection Towers
Section View S3 - Pencil and Photoshop
Section View S2 - Pencil and Photoshop
p40

21. MoDFilm
Studio project - Spring 2010
The MoD Film project is a museum dedicated
to the viewing, preservation and research
of documentary film. Located in downtown
Austin, the building ties into the cites cultural
traffic as it is within walking distance to the
Austin Museum of Modern Art and the newly
renovated Art House. Central to MoD Film’s
collection are the thousands of raw footage,
stored in protective tins, that are showcased
within a translucent central core. Museum
visitors enter into a minor gallery before moving
through this film core along a set of stairs
Gallery Display Study
Process Sketches
ascending to a second floor image gallery.
MoDFilm
Multiple screens arranged throughout this area
are projected upon expressing the overlapping
quality of visual information commonly seen in
documentary and the media. Adjacent to this
space a formal screening theater faces the
city’s core, screen visible from the street as
a beacon to the museum. The overall formal
considerations of the design are derived as
image displaying theater spaces wrap the
central core of film reels.
p42

22. Interior Study Models
Exterior Study Models
Section View S1 - Ink, Pencil, Pastel and Collage
p44

23. 6 7
Basement Level
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Entrance Level
1 Entrance and Security Desk 2 Restrooms 3 Minor Gallery 4 Courtyard 5 Perminant Collection 6 Delivery and Storage 7 Mechanical
8 Research and Conservation 9 Film Editiing and Digitizing 10 Image Gallery 11 Terrace 12 Theater 13 Research Library
Research Mezzanine
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Theater Level
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S1
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Interior Perspective - REVIT and Photoshop
Sequential Building Perspectivs - REVIT and Photoshop
Interior Perspective - REVIT and Photoshop
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25. Architects of Ruin, 48” x 60” Gesso, Guache and Pencil on Paper
p50 Artwork

26. Horizon, 72” x 72” Oil and Pencil on Canvas
Concretes, 72” x 72” Oil and Pencil on Canvas
p52

27. Field I, 16” x 20” Pencil on Paper
Field II, 16” x 20” Pencil on Paper
p54

28. Tracks I, 32” x 32” Oil on Fabric
Tracks II, 32” x 32” Oil on Fabric
p56

29. Field Study I and II, 11” x 14” Ink on Mylar and Photography
Coal Fired Study, 18” x 24” Charcoal on Paper
p58