Through exploration of the Knoxville community's vintage marketplaces, we were tasked with choosing an object that spoke to us, an object that we simply could not live without. This "object of arresting novelty" was then intended to be gently taken apart, allowing the intricate gears of the object to be stumbled upon rather than excavated. From that point, 3-D documentation of construction and development of this novelty were created, and an emphasis on the heart of the inner workings of the object were digitized to prove its worth.
Spring 2021
Within the everyday rituals we put ourselves through, purposefully or not, individually or culturally, there are hidden nuances and details that go unnoticed when they become repetitive. By exploring the deeper meaning and intricate moments behind my own personal rituals, I developed a "spatial mapping" of the routines. To an extremely detailed extent, then, I checked every corner, every niche, every nook of the area of progression, making a perspective-based plan that shows the level of thought involved with these rituals far after exploring them.
Fall 2021
Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy has stuck in my mind as a city that is intensely integrated with its landscape and rich cultural history. When asked to reconstruct a city based on its main lines (infrastructure, natural, and hybrid), it felt necessary for me to study this area I had been obsessed with since I visited. The two maps keep only important details of the area, or only highlight them, leaving out the areas of the region of unused hilltop; they still hold the deeply-rooted culture of Italy, including terraces of vineyards, heavily-inclined roads and walkways, and the long railway that connects all of the cinque terres (five towns) that sit next to the Mediterranean shore. What resulted was an intentional design that developed from the altitudes of color ranging in the five towns that I was once able to explore. This project was chosen to be presented to the cohort of interior architecture and architecture students as an outstanding piece of representation.
Fall 2021
