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PRACTICE
w. FIRMAH

Waco Surf Desperado
Visulization
This set of imagery explores storytelling as a form of design: using images to make a future community feel tangible. For Waco Surf, the challenge was not simply visulize a project, but to communicate the atmosphere of a central Texas surf community — its energy, landscape, textures, daily rituals, and sense of belonging. What is it like to be a part of the community? Let’s take you for a tour...

REFLECTION

The Audience Is Not Outside: Joan Jonas
by Xi Jin

How can a medium change where we stand? Through Joan Jonas’s use of mirrors, screens, and projection, this essay explores how media reshape the relationship between audience, performer, and space—and what this might reveal about architecture.

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Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece (2010), Guggenheim Museum

PRACTICE

Shanghai Infrastructure Design Competition
1st Place & 2nd Place

What if infrastructure could belong to the city, rather than simply serve it?

In a megacity like Shanghai, infrastructure is everywhere—necessary, immense, and often indifferent to its surroundings. Too important to ignore, yet too utilitarian to be considered architecture. In this series of bridge, electric substation, water processing station design, we explored how infrastructure can become more grounded in its context, transforming systems of movement and utility into places with spatial, civic, and human value.

RESEARCH

Strange Sound Lab
Installation, In-progress

This project is an attempt to explore the sonic world of unconventional acoustics—spaces where sound behaves unpredictably, revealing its materiality, texture, and emotional depth. As a sound installation, it engages both natural and manmade sounds, integrating spatial ideas that intentionally subvert traditional acoustic logic. These moments are not just heard, but felt—inviting a heightened awareness of one's surroundings and the temporal qualities of sound.

PRACTICE
w. Eric Sutherland

House 1350
Residential, In-progress

This 1,350 square foot home is a compact yet spatially rich dwelling designed around the simplicity of form and the complexity of spatial experience. At the heart of the design is a folded, ridged roof with a carefully shifted gabled profile. This single geometric gesture creates a play of varying ceiling heights, clerestory light entries, and dynamic interior volumes that enhance the perception of living spaces.

This project explores how small footprints can be reimagined through thoughtful sectional manipulation and material clarity, providing both intimacy and openness within a modest domestic scale.

RESEARCH

Fake Arts

An uncertain space where images dream of becoming architecture.

This project begins with images that contain no architecture—only color, rhythm, distortion, and fragments of visual memory. Through machine learning, these abstract fields are slowly translated into inhabitable geometries. Rooms emerge from noise, boundaries gather from traces, and the familiar language of the apartment appears as if recalled from somewhere between image and space.

Alongside these plans, a continuous sequence of abstract images drifts from one state into another. Forms dissolve, overlap, and return altered, revealing a latent world where no image is fixed and no transformation has a clear beginning or end.

PRACTICE
w. FIRMAH

Austin Ave Station
Mixed Use, Adaptive Reuse, In-progress

This adaptive reuse project transforms a 25-by-160-foot historic building into a vibrant, flexible space while preserving its original character. Embracing the building’s long, narrow footprint, the design retains the existing brick façade and a distinctive wall mural, highlighting the layered history of the site. Within this preserved shell, a new mass timber frame is carefully inserted, creating a structural rhythm that supports a range of future uses. This timber intervention not only introduces warmth and material contrast but also enables spatial adaptability—allowing the building to evolve with changing needs while celebrating its past.

RESEARCH

Painterly Architectonics
Research

This project seek for bridges between Russian constructivist architecture by Iakov Chernikhov and Cubo-futurism paintings by Lyubov Popova.

The process of analysis attempt to answer these questions: How are volumes constructed? What are the parts of the whole? What could be the logic behind volumetric construction?

IDEATION

The Ribbon
Community, Concept

How can movement in nature be translated into architectural form?

A Kayak Center located in Bald Eagle State Park, Pennsylvania. An exploration of how movement can generate architectural form. Circulation and fluid trajectories are translated into a continuous ribbon that extends from the hillside toward the lake, blurring architecture and landscape.

IDEATION

Finding Duality
Cutural, Concept

A visitor’s center designed for a historical stone dolmen. The design is, as the opposite of the existing, a linear and modularized space. Divided by a single surface, the side facing the monument is for public use; the other side is for administrative and research uses. This design discusses the co-existing condition of the old and the new, halves and one.

lab stack / research • practice • reflection • ideation

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