STORYTELLING / VISUAL
Visualization
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...
CONTEXT / PUBLIC SERVICE
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.
OPEN LIVING
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.
REUSE / PRESERVATION
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.