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2025 BArch -> The Cooper Union
2024 Intern -> OMA
2023 Intern -> Diller Scofidio + Renfro
2024 KPF Travelling Fellowship
2024 Arthur Thomson AR'64 Thesis Fellowship
2024 AIA New York Allwork Scholarship
2023 US D.O.E Solar Decathlon Grand Prize
2020 Swift Student Challenge Winner
Exquisite Corpse
Design II / Fall 2022
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Astor Place, New York City
Professor Nima Javidi
This concept at Astor Place in the heart of the East Village proposes a volumetric boolean between a public promenade and private short-stay rooms. The promenade seamlessly attaches the subway entrance, Astor Place Plaza, an ascending public staircase, a bathhouse and an exhibition hall into a malleable figure inside a rigid shell, only revealing its hinted peculiarities at moments on the facade. Beginning with a collage-montage of public voids within the building envelope mass, the design evolved through sculpting the connected voids as a figure absorbing the roles of entrance, circulation, communal space skylight. Rooms acting as infilled poche are discretized by a vertical seam, resulting in public amenities and a private hotel, programmatically separated yet spatially interlocked. The seam also confines a circulation ramp of the promenade to produce folds, intersections and unique connection moments. A curved facade creates visual connection to Cooper Square, and accentuates the entrance condition sloping into the building.