_3_Gorges_Dam_Urban_Design_Competition_________________________________4_

_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition________________________________14_

_Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center______________________________________26_

_Kangwan_Lu_Shopping_District_Urban_Re-Design_________________________40_

_Restructuring_the_Healthcare_Delivery_System_________________________48_

_Atlanta_Gulch_Design_Competition____________________________________54_

_Atlanta_Library_Plaza_Re-Design_Competition__________________________60_

_Taper_Block____________________________________________________________66_

_Early_Fragments______________________________________________________70_
_3_Gorges_Dam_Urban_Design_Competition______________

Ecosystems Design Studio integrates ecological analysis and interactive landscape systems into
its urban design strategy in china. This competition entry for a marine-based tourism gateway near
the three gorges dam was structurally informed by the local ecological context (viewsheds, renewable
energy avaliability, hydrology, etc.). A dynamic barge island system coheres and then disintegrates
daily in the central bay to activate and complicate the proposed urban nodes’ interrelationships.

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________________________________Yichang,_China_2010_

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_3_Gorges_Dam_Urban_Design_Competition_

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_Yichang,_China_2009_

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_3_Gorges_Dam_Urban_Design_Competition_

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_Yichang,_China_2009_

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_3_Gorges_Dam_Urban_Design_Competition_

Materializing and then

disintegrating in 24-hour
cycles, the barge island
dynamically amalgamates
contextually relevant barges
programmed in thematic
accordance with the project’s
three nodes characters.

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_Yichang,_China_2009_

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_3_Gorges_Dam_Urban_Design_Competition_

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_Yichang,_China_2009_

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_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition_________

Ecosystems Design Studio integrates ecological analysis and interactive landscape systems into
its urban design strategy in China. This competition entry for a marine-based tourism gateway near
the three gorges dam was structurally informed by the local ecological context (viewsheds, renewable
energy avaliability, hydrology, etc.). A dynamic barge island system coheres and then disintegrates
daily in the central bay to activate and complicate the proposed urban nodes’ interrelationships.

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__________________________Shanghai,_China_2010_

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_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition_

_16_
_Shanghai,_China_2009_

_17_
_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition_

_18_
_Shanghai,_China_2009_

_19_
_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition_

_20_
_Shanghai,_China_2009_

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_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition_

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_Shanghai,_China_2009_

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_Hangzhou_Bay_Urban_Design_Competition_

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_Shanghai,_China_2009_

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_Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_______________

This studio project focused on a historic factory town just east of downtown Atlanta. Working with a partner,
I established a form-based code for a prominent stretch of the district. Then, working alone, I developed
this architectural actuation of that code that would house a neighborhood interpretive center and multifamily
housing. my proposal juxtaposes normative/rational architectural strategies (such as the steel frame) with
vernacular forms and site-specific conditions (such as the pitched roof motif and previous building footprints).

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Views East and West

Building

Porch Views North South

Retaining Wall
Views South

Green Fence

Picket Fence

Chain-link Fence

Nothing

Secure Wireless Internet Networks Open Wireless Internet Networks Public Wireless Internet Networks

A
2wire270* L
Dalim* 240Boulevard Open
GoldenPark* bleeblop* 18 1 6.8 0.6
GSnaps* Unkewl* T A
linksys xirtan*
MilltownATL* S
Mudhole*
M
SETUP
2WIRE268*
dickboom*
R
B
AppleNetworkfb2b4d Dynex*
35 33 15 6 10 6 17.4 14.9 4.0 1.7 2.0 1.8
balim* Ether*
gatekeeper*
Q
DABoss*
Happy_Netwrok*
P
6 6.8
PearlSt.Park*
Shiriki Network* rascal*
42 45.9
War Eagle* tudor*
WEST2290* 12
C
O 9.3

N
allison*
Dogpound*
140 savannah*
36912518*
N
fultont*
allmine*
girlhouse
Baby Vomit* 8 4 1 1 5.4 2.6 0.3 0.5
GOALLY*
BBLB*
GUNSHOW*
dan*
hpsetup
linksys
home* B
jackson*
LLLCDH*
jimmypop*
MAJI123*
kaney* 12 9 9.3 6.5
Nirvana*
Licker*
Pearl Street park*
linksys*
PEARL ST
MuffDiver69*
D RachiesNet*
trg346*
fultont*
VeniceTwo* Units per block, 1892 Units per acre, 1892
girlhouse
GUNSHOW* 0
NETGEAR 137network*
superphluf* 140 savannah*
E 2WIRE388*
Delta One* 36912518*
ducklady* home*
eatmyface* kennybisyourmom*
hp setup linksys
M C
Nextran* VeniceTwo*
P 15 8 15 27
F 5.7 4.7 5.8 7.6
2WIRE189*
hpsetup
Nextran*
kennybisyourmom* D
vincentdugaud’snetwork*
West 7917*
withoutcopper*
L
G Q
2WIRE874* 2WIRE189*
Mercury JiuJitsuVoiceYoga*
RedFish* kennybisyourmom*
30 33 49 28 25 19 14.9 14.9 13.2 8.0 5.0 5.6
withoutcopper*
H
airport thru R
bluestone* G-7* 30 32.8
Dawgs ROXXOR* 14 10.9
Megoo* twells
Wilderness* WEST5304*

S
I
K J I
Mi Barrio* 2WIRE488*
linksys
H G F E
Network 10 26 18 10 4 6.7 16.7 7.4 4.0 2.0
unless*
J upperdeckATL*
71473360 WEST9995*
Coldcrush
Mi Barrio* T
Modern* 1635 2204*
2WIRE488* 8 4 2 6.2 2.9 1.5
K AppleNetwork5d9d53
71473360 Belkin_G_Plus_MIMO.085544
chef* TheLip*
coldcrush
Units per block, 2009 Units per acre, 2009

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_Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_

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10’ 50’ 100’

Preserving and building from the specific texture of

Cabbagetown’s southern edge, new developments must include
sites’ original footprints and may only expand orthagonally
from those initial geometries. Additionally, the original
volumes must be preserved using stereotomic construction
and any extensions (be they horizontal or vertical) must be
constructed tectonically.

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_Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_

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Darkened modules with aperture-esque elevator

entries house permanent exhibit showcasing
historic photographs of Cabbagetowners.
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 _Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_

lot’s extents. Buildings’ central

ity framing common normative armature Axonometric detail of photo gallery + staircases
Scale: 1/4” = 1’

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ly Structural and Epidermal

_Options_II_Studio_2009_

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_Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_

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Sections and Elevations
Scale: 1/8” = 1’
_Options_II_Studio_2009_

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_Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_

director reception

lobby

store

Ground Floor
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_Options_II_Studio_2009_

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 _Cabbagetown_Interpretive_Center_

dumpster

terrace

garden natural landscape

director reception mech. director reception

lobby photo exhibit exhibit exhibit exhibit lobby archive exhibit photo exhibit exhibit exhibit exhibit

store office store

Floor Alley Level/Basement Third Floor Second Floor Ground Floor Fourth Floor Third Floor Second Floor

Floor Plans
Scale: 1/8” = 1’

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_Options_II_Studio_2009_

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_Kangwan_Lu_Shopping_District_Urban_Re-Design___

Working at the Guangdong Urban Planning and Design Institute, I was the lead designer for this initiative
to cohere five buildings along Guangzhou’s most important shopping street with a pedestrian shopping
bridge and contextual landscape design. The pattern across the bridge’s facade and plazas’ expanses
is directly informed by the intricate, ancient urban fabric just east of the site. Materials would be
mostly vernacular and, whenever possible, recovered from nearby villages contemporaneously undergoing
demolition. I presented this project to a series of high-ranking government officials and won their approval.

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_Kangwan_Lu_Shopping_District_Urban_Re-Design_

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_Guangzhou,_China_2009_

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_Kangwan_Lu_Shopping_District_Urban_Re-Design_

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_Guangzhou,_China_2009_

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_Kangwan_Lu_Shopping_District_Urban_Re-Design_

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_Guangzhou,_China_2009_

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_Restructuring_the_Healthcare_Delivery_System_____

Using a Revit-based integrated design process, my 4-student team proposed a resturcturing of the healthcare delivery
system both architecturally and systemically. GIS analysis informed a new, state-wide network of flexibly modularized
facilities hierachically sized in proportion with both population density and demographic demand. Replacing
“patient treatment” with the notion of “community wellness”, we added programmatic dimensions such as recreation,
social services, economic development, and town planning to encompass a more holistic definition of “healthcare”.

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_Restructuring_the_Healthcare_Delivery_System_

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_Options_III_Studio_2009_

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_Restructuring_the_Healthcare_Delivery_System_

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 _Options_III_Studio_2009_

UP

UP

UP

DN

UP

UP

DN

DN DN DN

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Copy of Level 3
1
1/16" = 1'-0"
_Atlanta_Gulch_Design_Competition___________

Stationed around the world, from Atlanta to Shanghai, from the Gulf to the Berkshires to the Atlantic, Team Rodeway
transforms the 48-hour competition into an international, round-the-clock game of telephone. Dividing the allotted
time into five shifts, the team spread production responsibility across space and time: each team member was allocated
a drawing type and a position along the temporal chain. The first team member reads the brief and responds,
emailing the resulting drawing to the next worker at the end of the shift. The second worker considers the
first workers image as it responds to the brief and tries to develop any intuited conceptual threads in
his own piece. The third worker only sees the brief and the second workers contribution, nothing more, and
so on. Like a game of telephone, the project takes shape by passing fragments from one player to the next,
presumably losing information along the way but undoubtedly accumulating spontaneity in return. Laid out
beforehand to ensure objectivity, the final presentation board is mechanically assembled and submitted.

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______________________Atlanta,_Georgia_2010_

1. Josh exterior perspective

Atlanta, GA
0:00 - 8:00 _55_
_Atlanta_Gulch_Design_Competition_

3. Brian + Paul diagram, etc.

Shanghai, China
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_Atlanta,_Georgia_2010_

3. Holden plan
Fairhope, AL
23:00 - 35:00 _57_
_Atlanta_Gulch_Design_Competition_

4. Luke interior perspective

St. Simons, GA
_58_ 35:00 - 59:00
_Atlanta,_Georgia_2010_

5. Jeff section
Deerfield, MA
59:00 - 78:59 _59_
_Atlanta_Library_Plaza_Re-Design_Competition_______

Atlanta’s main public library is a controversially brutalist Marcel Breuer monolith downtown. In 2009, a
group of 3 fellow architecture students and I entered this 48-hour design competition to enliven and/or re-
imagine the building’s hard and desolate exterior entrance plaza. We proposed turning the library inside-
out: the plaza would seep into the building and the library’s contents would scatter across the landscape.
The library would transform from a sealed material archive to a pourous, virtual hotspot. WiFi kiosks
would pepper the city, extending municipal internet access to districts otherwise distant from the place.

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_____________________________Atlanta,_Georgia_2009_

PLAZA SERVES NEW MEDIA IN AND OUT OF DOORS. A dynamic amalgamation of internal and external public
confluences, the new media court promotes an off-the-shelf future of wireless interactivity. Animate display
panels populate the interior portico as kiosks, projections, and other multimedia installations stimulate the
exterior. The library becomes a disseminator of information, experience, and social momentum; the conjured
gestalt electrifies the district in ways few Brutalists could handle.

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_Atlanta_Library_Plaza_Re-design_Competition_

YESTERDAY’S MONUMENT DICED INTO ICON-O-LOUNGERS FOR THE PEOPLE. The age of the outsized architectural
monolith has given way to an era of useful public goods. The huge signpost of yore has been segmented and
strewn across the public landscape in bite-sized pieces of monumental democracy.

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LIBRARY SPILLS OUT INTO PLAZA. Even as books fade into obsolescence, libraries remain vibrant social centers.
Though today most information-activity happens wirelessly on private computers, people prefer the company
of others. The library must continue to meet this need by extending its presently internalized sanctuary
out into the sun. The front plaza smoothes into a congregational surface, extends into the building’s first
floor, and pops out the other side. Media panels, projections, and icon-o-loungers populate an enlivened site
that, within an invisible Wi-Fi cloud, provide the plugged-in public a place to meet and gather.

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_Atlanta_Library_Plaza_Re-design_Competition_

BRANCH KIOSKS PEPPER LANDSCAPE. As the library

trades bookshelves for computer terminals, the
institution’s role in society shifts from a
repository of printed information to an access
point to the digital world. The library fragments
into geographically scattered outpost-hotspots that
inject computers and wireless internet directly
into communities at the neighborhood level.

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BENCH SIGNS EMERGE FROM SNAKING

AFPL 24”
TUBULARITY. Indulging Marcel Breuer’s
penchant for bent stainless pipe, the
Af PL 18”
sprawling plaza is embossed inside
and out by a ribbon of metal tubing
that repeatedly breaches the ground
plane to pen the library’s initials
and simultaneously establish an
bench + sign section ergonomically elevated surface upon
2” which to sit - a bench.
3’ - 0”

18”

bench + sign elevation

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_Taper_Block___________________________________

Tasked to rethink the CMU, my team wanted to adjust the conventional concrete block in the simplest way possible
to most dramatically expand its formal capabilities. We generated a family of incrementally tapered blocks that,
when aggregated in various ways, vastly advances the CMU’s architectural possibilities. Importantly, the Taper
Block’s fabrication process is the same as a conventional block - save from requiring a slightly different mold.
Our project won first prize at the National Concrete Masonry Association’s 2009 trade convention in Chicago.

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_________National_CMU_Design_Competition,_2009_

Block
oal of our efforts was to design a
hat requires no alteration to
ufacturing processes, while
de range of possibilities for
uctural configurations. Our CMU
creating an interesting surface
using a basic taper operation
block, our CMU not only acts as
ece between standard block
also generates a rich array of
tial conditions when assembled
ing walls. In addition to
ddressing the corner and the
, the Taper Block allows for an
form-making and
al opening types.

ons presented maintain a

all cavity for vertical and
crete reinforcing. The necessity
gle (which is required for casting
egral to the design on the

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_Early_Fragments_____________________________

A sampling of earlier work from school and elsewhere exhibiting additional skills, talents, and propensities.

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___________________________________Before_2009_
Array of granite monuments designating
granite deposit near Elberton, Georgia.

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_Early_Fragments_

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 _Before_2009_

Graphite on mylar drawings of carpet

housing in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. _73_
_Early_Fragments_

Collages demonstrating four poses by a

structurally flexible model made from uniform
wood blocks systematically threaded with twine.

_74_
_Before_2009_

_75_
_Early_Fragments_

Molecularly scrambled Charles Gwathmey house illustrated with 3D MAX.

_76_
_Before_2009_

_77_
_Early_Fragments_

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Exemplars of two painting styles: mediated flows and sculpted canvas.
_Before_2009_

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