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001: Scalar Thresholds
Context: Bio-ID MArch, 2024-2025
Biocatalysis | Scalable biomaterial engineering |
Multi-materiality | Advanced fabrication
 
Prototype I
Biocatalysed veins
Day 06 | 40cm x 80cm
Dragonfly Wing
Structural optimization
20cm x 10cm


Prototype I 
Ambient membrane curing 
Day 14 | 40cm x 80cm 
Onieric  Realities: speculative pod vision
Houdini/Rhino/Redshift
Exploring tactile material interfaces and visual langauge
Prototype II - 1:1 architectural fragment
Large-scale, non-planar, robotic extrusion 
1m x 2m x 1m 
Prototype II - 1:1 architectural fragment
Final print - 9 layers of material printed over 8 days 
1m x 2m x 1m

002: Bemingle
Context: Bio-ID MArch, 2024
Circular economy, bone waste | Fertilizing material system | 
Lifecycle analysis + weathering
Life-cycle of material in urban application
Degredation occurs overtime, enriching context, supporting urban greening,
bio-receptivity, and community participation
Cattle bone, waste sourced from Hackney butchershop
Crushed and used as aggregate in material
Supplying strength and nutrients
Phosphorus fertilization within planter system
Diagram: relationship between form, material, PSM, and soil
1:4 model (one piece = 30cm)
Material: novel fertilizing bone-concrete
Geometry allows for passive heating and cooling of planter system
Phosphorus solubilizing microorganisms (PSM) cultivation 
10cm petri dish - grown in wet-lab
cultivated for application within material, 
making phosphorus within the bone available for plant uptake.

003: LumA.S.
Context: Bio-ID MArch, 2023
Bioluminescence | Bio-receptivity | 
Carbon sequestration and urban integration

Night: bioluminescent channels 

Day: growth and bioreceptive facade
004: Ambio
Context: Bio-ID MArch, 2023-4
Emergent ecologies | Biodiversity enrichment + mutualism | 
Rewilding | Landscape resilience      

landscape masterplan located on the Lee Navigation in London

In an area of heavy traffic and pollution, Ambio is a vision of resilient mutualism. 
Here, freshwater and meadow habitats thrive and co-exist within a vibrant urban fabric.
 

Floating planter-bed ecosystems filled with reeds, rushes and other large freshwater plants.
Roots below shelter aquatic species and encourage micro-ecosystems, biofilms, and bioremediation.
3m x 2.5m


005: Topography
Context: WashU BA, 2018, revisited in 2022
Strategic Form-Finding | Drafting |
Basswood and Wire Models | Pavilion Design


observatory design - Forest Park, MO
observatory 2
natural pattern - photograph
abstraction - negative spaces
graphite on mylar
24” x 36” 
basswood model
12” x 18” x 12”
basswood and wire
basswood model
undulation
006: Joint
Context: WashU BA, 2019-20
Modular Architecture | Housing | Aggregation |
Vertical Farming and Green Urban Initiatives



preliminary joinery studies
models: 3” x 2” x 3”

Housing complex
Aggregation logic and apartment plans
Section drawing of housing complex
location: downtown St. Louis


007: Rooftop Pavilion
Context: Hisel Flynn Architects
Residential architecture | Modern roof
addition to single family home in a converted industrial building


Urban rooftop addition
Section details - relationship with lower floors
Street View
Interior view
008: Lakeside Home
Context: Hisel Flynn Architects
Modern lakeside new build | Single family residence  
Energy efficient home
Street View
Backyard and rear facade
Enclosed courtyard
ground floor
upper floor
exterior elevations
009: Carriage House
Context: Hisel Flynn Architects
Detached exterior unit | Gut renovation |
Modern loft and carriage house

Primary view from backyard
Ground Floor and patio plan
Elevations
010: Graphic Art