Logos Antiquus
Mons Klint, Denmark
Geological Research and Education Center
UPenn | ARCH 704 | Spring 2023
Studio Critics: Winka Dubbeldam, Richard Garber & Merrick Castilo
Partner with Kewei Lin
Situated on the island of Møn in Denmark, the awe-inspiring natural marvel of Mons Klint captivates visitors with its stunning white chalk composition. Towering at an impressive 128 meters above the Baltic Sea, these cliffs extend across a six-kilometer stretch of the shoreline. The rich biodiversity of Mons Klint encompasses uncommon orchids and bird species, while the region is also renowned for its plentiful fossil deposits.
Stone Stage & Stay
Cappadocia, Turkey
Quarry Theater and Hotel
UPenn | ARCH 701 | Fall 2022
Studio Critics: Ferda Kolatan & Caleb Ehly
Partner with Hanyan Chen
The quarry wall's textures, patterns, and hues evoke architectural characteristics reminiscent of a facade. The mountain's texture, combined with the machinery lines and remnants on the wall, tells a unique story. The interplay between the machine and nature, as displayed on the quarry facade, inspired us to integrate an amphitheater as a complementary feature to the hotel. The stone quarry facade serves as a symbolic backdrop for the theater stage.
Bath of Many Vaults
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Public Bathhouse Facility
UPenn | ARCH 601 | Spring 2022
Studio Critics: Daniel Markiewics | Graduate Assistant: Umar Mahmood
Partner with Qixian Zhang
The Bath of Many Vaults aims to blur the binary of bathing experiences and create more opportunities for a spectrum of cultural and bathing activities.
Time Forest
University City, Philadelphia
Virtual Reality Pavilion
UPenn | ARCH 501 | Fall 2020
Studio Critics: Vanessa Keith | Graduate Assistant: Nicholas Houser
Collaboration with Andy Hu, Susie Dole & Zihua Mo
“There lies at the end of the world, at the edge of the Big water, a cave. In this cave sits an old woman who holds the tide line across her lap. This controls the ebb and flow or rising and falling of the water. She holds this line very strongly. If perhaps you can get her to let it go of the line, the water will fall…”
-Raven and how the tides began,
A Tlingit Legend, First People
Outlaw
West Philadelphia
Juneteenth Festival Float
UPenn | ARCH 502 | Spring 2021
Schenck - Woddman Competition - Honorable Mention
Collaboration with Yuexin Ma, Monte Reed & Joao de Paula Freitas
“As opposed to the official feast, one might say that carnival celebrated temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order; it marked the suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms, and prohibitions. Carnival was the true feast of time, the feast of becoming, change, and renewal. It was hostile to all that was immortalized and completed.”
-Mikhail M. Bakhtin,
Rabelais and His World