hi y’all
I’m an Austin-based architectural designer and sustainability advocate. I am an enthusiast of many disciplines, but I especially thrive when working as a designer, researcher, and part of a team!
In school and beyond, I’ve made sustainability a focus of my studies, approaching contemporary issues from many angles. At UT Austin I worked with Intelligent Environments Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that explores smart building technology across all scales. Working with them, I authored two conference papers exploring the relationship between urban form, energy, and climate change.
I recently graduated with a professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin. My body of studio work is highly speculative, frequently exploring multifamily housing and mixed-use prompts with an imaginative lens. While at UT, I also spent seven months in a full-time professional residency at Page, a well known architecture firm in Austin, where I was involved with a number of projects with a concentration in urban mixed-use. I have since returned to Page as a designer to continue my work.
Though creativity is at the heart of what I do, my approach to problem solving has been characterized as technical, exhaustive, and research-oriented. In my free time, you can find me reading about anthropology, history, and building science. I also like to do lots of hobby concept art and drawing (some of which can be seen on the site), mainly for imaginative world-building projects, when time permits.
Publications & contributions
Urban Densification and Housing Typology for Climate Change Mitigation
IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series, CISBAT 2019 Special Issue
presented at CISBAT 2019 Climate Resilient Cities, Lausanne, Switzerland
This paper investigates different urban growth and densification scenarios and their energy performance under climate change conditions using urban energy simulation. We developed an abstract urban growth model based on the West Campus neighborhood in downtown Austin, Texas. Four different scenarios were applied to an abstract population growth model, which were then tested from the current year to 2100 under both climate change and control (TMY) conditions. Our results show that all urban growth models perform similarly in terms of operational energy but differ radically in terms of carrying capacity and embodied energy.
Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale: Art and Ore
Presented at 12th Annual Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale, Brazil, 2019
Led by Prof. Fernando Lara at UT Austin. The project – which took seven University of Texas architecture students to Minas Gerais, Brazil in October 2018 – addresses the relationship between architecture and the resource extraction economy, and presents design ideas to memorialize an environmental tragedy that struck the area in November 2015. As part of the project, students thoroughly researched the production of building materials to quantify the amount of raw material needed to create each square foot of Brazil’s most iconic buildings.
The Impact of Climate Change and Envelope Retrofit on Urban Energy Consumption, Comfort, and Overheating in Austin, Texas
Submitted to PLEA 2020
We describe the energy simulation of an urban neighborhood in Austin, Texas, consisting of about 650 buildings for multiple building refurbishment cases from the present to the year 2100, with consideration of climate change in that timeframe. The simulation considers not only building energy performance, but also building overheating in an ongoing blackout scenario.
Work Experience
designer
Page, Austin TX
December 2020 - present
diligently training to become an architect while contributing to a
number of projects based in Austin
Professional Residency Intern
Page, Austin TX
June 2019 - January 2020
drawing, modeling, and development at all stages of design process
participated in regular design meetings with clients and consultants
emphasis on SD and DD stages of large mixed-use projects
IELab Research Assistant
UT Intelligent Environments Lab
August 2018 - June 2019
performed urban-scale building energy simulations
processed and visualized data using python and adobe creative suite
created imaginative urban growth models using rhino/grasshopper
Research Assistant and Data Entry
Prof. Fernando Lara, UT Austin
January - February 2019, March 2020 - present
collected, analyzed, and visualized data for use in presentations
organized and digitally collected a library of academic research
foodservice industry
Frank, Shake Shack
June 2015 - June 2018
three years of food prep, line cooking and customer service experience
weekly kitchen inventory and special projects