Top-down view of a colorful dollhouse with multiple rooms, including blue, red, beige, and white sections, placed on a white surface with small white accessories nearby.

HYBRID ASSEMBLAGES: Investigations into domesticity, lightness, and architectural translation, progressing from analytical research toward a resolved architectural proposal.

Early work centered on the close study of an existing dwelling, using drawings and models to extract spatial, material, and ritual logics embedded in everyday domestic life. These logics extended through the Baird Prize exercise, which reframed domesticity as an event and foregrounded thresholds, exchange, and the negotiation between public and private space.

My final project of the semester translated these accumulated ideas into a small-scale, community-centered daycare and residence. The project developed a clear organizational framework through a kit of parts, variations in scale, and a layered gradient of privacy that structured movement from public-facing gallery spaces to semi-private childcare zones and a private residence beyond. By emphasizing child-scaled spaces, intimate nooks, and shared community areas, the project articulated domesticity as both a personal and collective condition. Through careful attention to sequence, materiality, and programmatic organization, the final proposal brought together analysis, precedent, and design strategy into a cohesive architectural response that reflected the semester’s broader ambitions while remaining focused on its users and internal logics.

Assigned precedent projects:

  1. THE EAMES HOUSE by Ray + Charles Eames, California

  • 1: Analytical Modeling– Documenting spatial and material aspects of an assigned precedent, focusing on its domestic rituals and practices.

  • 2: House Party – Abstracting and reinterpreting precedents into a party following the architectural and domestic rituals of the original home.

  • 3: Domestic Plusses– Reinterpreting essences of the precedent project, however abstractedly, to imagine a public-private site in Ithaca, NY.

Floor plan of a building labeled 'Part 1: Eames House Preliminary Research,' showing layout for two floors with rooms marked for living, dining, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, storage, studio, and courtyards. Includes color-coded chart indicating spac
A digital poster for 'mosaic,' an art installation or event at the eames office, featuring colorful square graphics, green text, and architectural sketches. It includes descriptions of the theme of a gathering from grid to grove, with images of tiles
Architectural plan and perspective section of a building with multiple rooms and an outdoor area, showing furniture, people, and landscaping.
Three sets of line drawings depicting people in a park or outdoor space, with trees in the background, alongside three photographs of different organized objects or scenes. The first photograph shows a box of small, colorful items, possibly buttons o
Diagram of a modular community daycare with interconnected floating blocks in various shapes and colors, with people playing on and around the structure.
Line drawing of a two-story house floor plan showing rooms, walls, doors, and stairs for both the first and second floors.
Site and roof plans of a residential property showing surrounding landscape, trees, pathways, and a water feature, with detailed layout of the house including outdoor areas and garden beds.
Architectural drawing showing a building with sections and elevations. The drawing includes interior spaces with people engaging in activities at different levels, such as reading and sitting. The background features faint tree outlines.
Architectural blueprint of a multi-level house with perspective and section views, illustrating interior spaces such as a lounge, kitchen, staircase, and individual rooms, with human figures depicted in some areas.
Interior view of a designed art gallery with white walls, arched doorways, wooden accents, and artwork displayed on the walls. Two people, an adult and a child, are walking inside.
Design plan for a semi-private domestic space with a render of a pink interior room featuring kids playing and reading, and architectural elevations.
Interior view of a minimalist home office with built-in white seating, a desk with a gold lamp, and a person walking through a bright space with large window and wooden flooring.
A detailed rendering of a small community daycare space built on a grassy area, with trees in the background, featuring a modern, whimsical architectural style with arches and a small slide, situated near a water feature or canal with a bridge in the
Collection of architectural model images showing colorful miniature buildings and interior spaces with art and arched doorways.
Arrangement of colorful concrete building models, including arches and domes, on a white background.
Interior view of a bright, minimalist room with white walls, wooden flooring, and built-in seating by large windows showing an outdoor garden.
Floor plan of a building labeled 'Part 1: Eames House Preliminary Research,' showing layout for two floors with rooms marked for living, dining, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, storage, studio, and courtyards. Includes color-coded chart indicating spac
A digital poster for 'mosaic,' an art installation or event at the eames office, featuring colorful square graphics, green text, and architectural sketches. It includes descriptions of the theme of a gathering from grid to grove, with images of tiles
Architectural plan and perspective section of a building with multiple rooms and an outdoor area, showing furniture, people, and landscaping.
Three sets of line drawings depicting people in a park or outdoor space, with trees in the background, alongside three photographs of different organized objects or scenes. The first photograph shows a box of small, colorful items, possibly buttons o
Diagram of a modular community daycare with interconnected floating blocks in various shapes and colors, with people playing on and around the structure.
Line drawing of a two-story house floor plan showing rooms, walls, doors, and stairs for both the first and second floors.
Site and roof plans of a residential property showing surrounding landscape, trees, pathways, and a water feature, with detailed layout of the house including outdoor areas and garden beds.
Architectural drawing showing a building with sections and elevations. The drawing includes interior spaces with people engaging in activities at different levels, such as reading and sitting. The background features faint tree outlines.
Architectural blueprint of a multi-level house with perspective and section views, illustrating interior spaces such as a lounge, kitchen, staircase, and individual rooms, with human figures depicted in some areas.
Interior view of a designed art gallery with white walls, arched doorways, wooden accents, and artwork displayed on the walls. Two people, an adult and a child, are walking inside.
Design plan for a semi-private domestic space with a render of a pink interior room featuring kids playing and reading, and architectural elevations.
Interior view of a minimalist home office with built-in white seating, a desk with a gold lamp, and a person walking through a bright space with large window and wooden flooring.
A detailed rendering of a small community daycare space built on a grassy area, with trees in the background, featuring a modern, whimsical architectural style with arches and a small slide, situated near a water feature or canal with a bridge in the
Collection of architectural model images showing colorful miniature buildings and interior spaces with art and arched doorways.
Arrangement of colorful concrete building models, including arches and domes, on a white background.
Interior view of a bright, minimalist room with white walls, wooden flooring, and built-in seating by large windows showing an outdoor garden.