FEATURED WORK
The Errant Ash Benders* (Bethel Woods - BuildFest Competition Entry, May 2025)
This pavilion is an interactive "intelligent lens" structure that physically transforms when people gather within it - demonstrating how collective human intention can redirect powerful technologies toward peace rather than destruction.
*Not Awarded
Navigating Digital Space (Medium, March 2025)
By understanding how humans naturally navigate physical space (looking down at nearby objects, up at distant ones), designers can craft digital environments that feel effortlessly navigable.
Resilience Training Rooms (Medium, February 2025)
This article proposes "resilience training rooms"—phenomenological spaces designed to help people develop psychological balance by physically engaging internal conflicts from empowered perspectives.
Play as Practice (Medium, February 2025)
Play isn't just recreation—it's a powerful training ground for real-life challenges, from therapeutic practices like theater and dance therapy to complex video games that present moral dilemmas.
Patterns of Spatial Ecstasy (Medium, January 2025)
This article challenges the current trend of "trauma-informed design" that prioritizes soothing environments, arguing instead for architecture that builds resilience through controlled challenge.
Firefly Village: Bio-inspired Architecture for Healing (JSTOR, Fall 2020)
The Firefly Village is an adaptive reuse and new development academic project replacing the most frequented visitor center in the National Parks System (NPS). It seeks to learn from nature and promote healing for people, plants, animals, and the land, who together make up the nature to which we all belong and are responsible for protecting.
Movements: Body and Performance (Room One Thousand, Issue 10, 2021)
The tenth issue of UC Berkeley's Room One Thousand, “Body + Performance,” seeks for performance to expand and challenge our understanding of architecture and its impact.