Agua Dulce Farms

Spring 2012; Austin, TX My design group, consisting of two colleagues and me, won a small design competition within our Construction II class to design a small structure of chain-link to build at Agua Dulce Farms in Austin, TX. You can see our design proposal…

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Los Piletones, Buenos Aires

In Summer 2012, I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina with Basic Initiative, led by Sergio Palleroni, to work in Los Piletones with Margarita Barrientos. Los Piletones is one of the villas (informal settlements or slums), in Buenos Aires; and Margarita is famous for her tireless…

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Sunflower Chapel

Spring 2012 — Sunflower Chapel, Agua Dolce Farms, Austin, TX; 1,000 sf, chain-link education space This proposal was created specifically for a new co-op farm in southeast Austin, TX. Seven groups in our Construction class proposed designs, and my group’s Sunflower Chapel design shown here…

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Fluttering Facade

One of my favorite memories of summer is laying in my warm bed, watching rain filter through the forest canopy after a rainstorm outside my window. When we were asked to develop an innovative wall assembly in pairs, my partner and I chose to create…

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