THE BLOCK / 2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Place
with Kyle Ryan and Daniel Garcia / 2020 Allston / USA
'The Block' is a mixed-use, transit-oriented development proposal of a 10 acre shopping center in Allston, MA. Located at the new Boston Landing MBTA rail stop, this project envisions diverse spaces for living, working, and retail in the form of a new elevated urban square, forming the foundation for a 15-min city. Learn more.
OVERWHELMED BY YOUR CITY?
The Personal Price You Pay for Poorly Organized Urban Settings / 2023 Harvard Alumni Entreprenuer Thought Leadership Program, First Prize
“Different type of places stimulates us in specific ways; such as flower shops, café, lively streets, parks, offices, bodegas, and even our very own home. They are the collective building blocks of our lives. Each building block creates certain feelings and memories that will be embedded in us for a long-time. Memories and experiences are never devoid of its context or location. However, the qualities of these locations are more potent than you think. How we experience and react to our surroundings can promote creativity and positivity in our attitude. At the same time, neglected environments often have the contrary effect.”
GEARING REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT TOWARD A POSITIVE IMPACT IN EMERGING MARKETS
2018 Bangkok / THAILAND
The accomplishment of the Chinese development does not lie alone in the physical manifestation of its built environment but in the strategic maneuvering of related systems that allow Chinese cities to competitively thrive in the 21st century. As a leader in an emerging market, China has overcome countless challenges which have never been witnessed before; it has been constantly reinventing itself, its regulation, and its planning alongside the economy both at a macro and micro scales. The real estate development mechanism that coupled the economic upraise of China has no precedence and make for a beneficial case study for other developing study. Strength in the robust operation of the Chinese real estate mechanism as well as its downfall will be use as reference to hypothesize a positive development approach in Thailand’s developing economy. Short-coming in neglecting the nuances and uniqueness of each countries will be pointed out while possible solution that found in Chinese development methods will be encouraged in the development of a much smaller country of Thailand.
CARTOGRAPHIES OF TASTE
with Anna Goga and Edgar Rodriguez / 2019 Massachusetts / USA
This experiment questions the conventional modes in which cartographic information is represented. By expanding beyond the visual attributes of maps, can one still perceive factual information through other senses? Rather than mapping the concentration of activities on to a spatial location, the element of time is instead used to ground these activities. In our project we propose taste as the main channel of perception, where the 24-hour-clock is used to regulate the intervals in which data is collected. Different intensities of taste depict different concentrations of activity at that specific time of the day.
POTENTIAL FUNCTION OF AI FOR MIGRANT WORKER AUTHORIZATIONS
2019 / ASEAN
Period of recent large migration labor to Thailand occurs from 1987, coinciding with a decade-long economic boom based upon increased exports and a major foreign direct investment. Thai economy has an increased need in labor demand which was quickly filled by the neighboring region. As a result, temporary amnesty was issued for violation of Thailand’s immigration and labor laws to irregular migrant works already employed in Thailand. Migrants were granted short-term exemption from deportation based upon the request of their employer without the right to change employment or leave the province in which they had registered. The ad-hoc approach to migration policy eventually became the foundation of Thailand’s labor migration policy framework. (UN Thailand Migration Report 2019) While agreement for highly skilled occupations such as doctors, lawyers, engineers and architect to work freely across ASEAN, they are the minority of the workforce that migrate across the region. Prohibition for low skilled worker still apply even when they out-numbered the former in many scales.
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EVAPORATIVE COOLING USING PURIFIED CREEK WATER
with Fatma Al-Alawi / 2020 Poughkeepsie / USA
Using manual testing methods on a variety of materials, capillary action and extent of evaporative cooling for each material per material area has been determined. The results have been coupled with a Computational Fluid Dynamics model to assist in a better understanding of the nature of heat flux as an urban intervention.
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FACADE AS RAIN WATER RETENTION AND FILTRATION: SLOW EVAPORATION AS PASSIVE COOLING SYSTEM
2021 Bangkok / THAILAND
Bangkok is situated in the tropic, seasonal monsoon overflow the city with rain water. Global warming prolonged the drought period while concentrating the rainfall in a more extreme cycles. As with most rapidly growing urban area, the capital lacks a long-term water management strategy. Ground are paved with concrete, green space in the metropolitan area currently stands at 5.46 square metres per capita, well below the EIU’s regional average of 39sqm. Instead of working to make the ground porous, my proj-ect aim to develop a facade unit which attaches to itself to existing building stocks. Its material property absorbs the rain, reducing water load to the city’s ground plane. Over time, the filtration process rids the rainwater of its toxicity while passively cooling its immediate environments.
2019 / ASEAN
Period of recent large migration labor to Thailand occurs from 1987, coinciding with a decade-long economic boom based upon increased exports and a major foreign direct investment. Thai economy has an increased need in labor demand which was quickly filled by the neighboring region. As a result, temporary amnesty was issued for violation of Thailand’s immigration and labor laws to irregular migrant works already employed in Thailand. Migrants were granted short-term exemption from deportation based upon the request of their employer without the right to change employment or leave the province in which they had registered. The ad-hoc approach to migration policy eventually became the foundation of Thailand’s labor migration policy framework. (UN Thailand Migration Report 2019) While agreement for highly skilled occupations such as doctors, lawyers, engineers and architect to work freely across ASEAN, they are the minority of the workforce that migrate across the region. Prohibition for low skilled worker still apply even when they out-numbered the former in many scales.
EVAPORATIVE COOLING USING PURIFIED CREEK WATER
with Fatma Al-Alawi / 2020 Poughkeepsie / USA
Using manual testing methods on a variety of materials, capillary action and extent of evaporative cooling for each material per material area has been determined. The results have been coupled with a Computational Fluid Dynamics model to assist in a better understanding of the nature of heat flux as an urban intervention.
FACADE AS RAIN WATER RETENTION AND FILTRATION: SLOW EVAPORATION AS PASSIVE COOLING SYSTEM
2021 Bangkok / THAILAND
Bangkok is situated in the tropic, seasonal monsoon overflow the city with rain water. Global warming prolonged the drought period while concentrating the rainfall in a more extreme cycles. As with most rapidly growing urban area, the capital lacks a long-term water management strategy. Ground are paved with concrete, green space in the metropolitan area currently stands at 5.46 square metres per capita, well below the EIU’s regional average of 39sqm. Instead of working to make the ground porous, my proj-ect aim to develop a facade unit which attaches to itself to existing building stocks. Its material property absorbs the rain, reducing water load to the city’s ground plane. Over time, the filtration process rids the rainwater of its toxicity while passively cooling its immediate environments.
24th GENERATION OF BLUE SKY
with Victor Lutenco, Ander Caballero, and Valentin Sierra Arias / 2019 Ulaanbaata / MONGOLIA
According to UNICEF respiratory infections in Ulaanbaatar have increased at a rate of 270% over the last 10 years and children living in the city have a 40% lower lung function than those living in rural areas. Our intervention consists of dying the compressed (processed) coal in a way that when 5 users burn it the result is a distinct blue smoke, different from the white-grey smoke produced as a result of combusting rough coal. Our central idea here is to send a message that the Mongolians who are using compressed coal, thus producing a blue smoke, are visibly contributing to maintaining Mongolia as a “Land of the Eternal Blue Sky.”
Our campaign relates to Mongolian identity, pride, and the responsibility of the “true Mongolian” to contribute to the “Eternal Blue Sky” establishing the connection between the greatness of the glorious Mongolian past with the present, to inform the behaviour that will benefit the Mongolian people today.
EMERAL NECKLACE BY PIXELS
2013 Massachusetts / USA
Landscape features of the Emeral Necklace were picked and hilighted using based on the colored pixel from a high resolution satellite imagery.
AT WHICH SCALE DO WE RELATE TO OUR ENVIRONMENT?
2021 Bangkok / THAILAND