Masking Futures
My Thesis at the Rhode Island School or Design, nominated for a RISD Thesis Award, focused on how civil planning and typologies have affected the Chinese Adopted Girl. It culminated in the production of a new civic typology catering in the legal and emotional aid of the greater immigrant community.
West End Compost Hub
During my time as an Architectural Intern at BriggsKnowles Architecture + Design, I contributed to a research initiative examining Providence, Rhode Island’s existing organic waste infrastructure and opportunities to divert residential food waste from landfills.
My work involved mapping the city's existing composting networks, analyzing estimated food waste generation across census block groups, and identifying potential collection opportunities within municipal waste pickup zones. Through data visualization and geographic analysis, this research explored how Providence's existing infrastructure could support a more accessible and decentralized composting system.
The research was in conjunction with the construction of the West End Compost Hub, a community-scale composting facility designed to expand local organics processing capacity. I contributed architectural renderings and an axonometric drawing to communicate the facility's spatial organization, operational infrastructure, and relationship to the surrounding neighborhood.
ZeroWaste Providence
While working as an Contractor at ZeroWaste Providence I produced the first ever digitized maps of the recycling and trash routes for the city of Providence.
Meditating Compost
Food waste makes up around 30% of the waste in the Johnston landfill. This project proposes a hybrid program meditation park and in-vessil composting system within the Swan Point Cemetery to radically push compost into the public realm. In normalizing compost with a quonset hut design meant to be viewed as beauitful, education around our waste and how to properly discard of it will encourage more diversion from the already close to capacity landfill.
Breathing Berms
Within a heavily urbanized landscape the Quebrada Josefina has become heavily constrained to the built environment. With the channel isolated between concrete walls, it has lost its connection to the land and the people who inhabit it, posing a constant threat of flood damage to those who live closest to it. Our goal is to soften the connection between land and water, create more space for ecological growth, predict and control flooding, and create new relationships between locals and the water they live beside. Stilt and Berm housing units feature a gradient from private to public, inviting residents to look towards the Quebrada instead of away. These two new housing typologies are strategically deployed to respond to FEMA flood zones, minimizing flood damage in the surrounding neighborhoods through the creation of a controlled flood plane.
This was a group project with Olivia Messimer (RISD B.arch 2026). The shown drawings are my part of the project.