A proposal for the reuse of the Torre Latinoamericana – an iconic Modernist building and the first skyscraper in an active seismic zone – as a stack of vertical neighborhoods with public services and social housing, operating within the framework of Mexico City’s UTOPIA community centers. The addition of a supplemental tower – a torrecilla – improves vertical circulation and acts as an oversized water tower, irrigating open-air gardens for both consumption and relaxation. Conceived of as an archaeological artifact, the torrecilla looks to the past of Mexico City, while the transformed Torre embodies its future. 

To support expanding social infrastructure around literature in Barcelona, the project elevates literary residences, work spaces, and archives above a sculptural urban plaza. With its diaphanous facade, the structure partially shades a sunken circular amphitheater that can host book exchanges, readings, and events, for the amplification of language in the public realm.

The medium of air becomes an active agent in the transformation of a Carnegie library outside of New Haven, CT. Questioning the division between interior and exterior air promoted by current industry standards around retrofits, this project embraces openness and porosity through a mass timber structure and adaptable envelope. New sapling nursery and arboretum programs introduce communal activities related to the enhancement of the urban tree canopy and local air quality.

The summer program in Civita di Bagnoregio, a hilltown in the Lazio region of Italy, involved daily sketches, conditions documentation of existing conditions, and technical drawings that describe typical building methods and materials.

The collaborative final project took the form of a manual which brings to light the many layers through which one can read the story of Civita, amplifying how current residents both perceive and value the spaces of the city. Unfolded, the manual reveals a map focused on Piazza San Donato and nearby elements of interest that illuminate the historical and contemporary significance of each detail of the piazza’s built structures. Privileging interpretation over intervention, the project is an attempt to represent and reframe Civita’s heritage in an era of increasingly rampant tourism, which has threatened the infrastructural and geotechnical stability of the hill town. 

Collective living is explored through the lens of social practices related to the production, transformation, and consumption of food. The project reimagines the last undeveloped suburban lot in Fair Haven, CT as a permaculture garden, producing edible plants by emulating the natural ecosystem of a forest’s edge. A continuous table connects through five residential buildings, facilitating a changing material culture as food systems and social rituals evolve.

A publication on the role of the hortus conclusus, or the enclosed garden, as an instrument of negotiation between tradition and modernity in Italian landscape design. Beginning with the Pompeiian peristyle garden, then moving onto Renaissance-era and modern translations, the series of analytic drawings traces the enduring significance of the hortus conclusus throughout disparate temporal and regional contexts within Italy and its role in establishing continuity. Though radically different in their functions, compositions, and locations, the following gardens engage with concepts of enclosure and boundary to explore the theory and design of landscape within the defined space of the garden, both alluding to and questioning the idea of the hortus conclusus.

Concrete panels from Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós’ 1991 Tir amb Arc pavilion currently lie in a state of disassembly and abandonment in Barcelona’s Parc de Vall d’Hebron. This project envisions the reuse of these panels as structural components for a temporary cultural pavilion in Glòries. Using AI to generate visuals describing atmosphere, function, and assembly, the montage of images speculates on how the panels as found objects could be given new contexts and new meanings.