Like the travel sketchbook we made for Cailen, this sketchbook was a farewell gift for Basia as she left her internship at Olson Kundig Architects. Basia is Polish and heading back to Europe, so we wanted to commemorate her time in Seattle with a…
The assignment here was to create a film production studio near downtown Austin. It had to have a variety of soundstages, green room suites, editing rooms, offices, and support spaces, ample construction and loading zones. Concept Filming is very private, very intense, and very internally…
While working at Olson Kundig Architects as an intern, we presented each departing intern with a handmade gift. For Cailen, our Canadian intern who was about to depart to Berlin for a year, we made a sketchbook. The cover is made of teak, with…
Each year, a group of student Editors publishes a design-review of student work from from the previous year at UT Austin’s School of Architecture. I was chosen, by the previous year’s Editors, to be one of four Editors in charge. I spearheaded fundraising efforts, garnering…
Spring 2013 — Austin, TX; 35,000 sf; music-based community center Austin is a music-obsessed city. You can easily find a resident to brag about its reputation as the Live Music Capitol of the world. While it’s true that there are plenty of venues in which…
We started off our semester with a short two-week project doing parametric design in an analog, rather than digital way. After creating many iterations of various 2-dimension diagrams, it was then transferred into a 3-dimensional model. This was a study of creating shifting planes to…
Fall 2012— Treehouse, Austin, TX; live/work community for writers and others who want to work in seclusion The Treehouse live-work community is designed for those who want to get away and focus on their work. Living here, you are able to work in your own…
Tradition & Discovery in South America by Loren Muirhead and Sunny Schneberger Loren and I initially ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund this project. We were heading to Argentina with Basic Initiative to work in Los Piletones. However, we also wanted to do some…
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…
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…