A look at the work our students build.

An exposition on the untamed sprawl of my hometown, Parasite explores the monstrous spread of urbanity and its impact on the community and environment through contrasting elements — underlying map, geometric structures, and venous branches. Through it, I hope to reveal sprawl's prevalence in both the city and everyday life.

As a project for the Ithaca Youth Bureau, I envisioned a multi-functional structure to foster communal growth. I designed the structure with winding terraces and staircases to mimic a playground where physical exploration encourages intellectual and artistic discovery.

As an exploration of how the intersection of one, two, and three dimensional elements form spatial hierarchies, I experimented with various aggregations to emphasize each dimension and their interrelated natures while balancing delicate lightness and grounded stability. The hand-drafted elevations illustrate the model's intersectional shape and structure.

Analyzing and abstracting the Menil Drawing Institute, I created a work that highlighted the structure's various architectural elements — from the inverse structural perspective to the aggregated geometries to the dramatic lighting conditions — and emphasized nature's contributions to the experience as a disruption to the artificial, rigid forms.

A series of architectural drawings and diagrams.

A plan for the revitalization of an unused urban void into a vibrant community space. Divided into two main sections, play and stay, the space seeks to develop the act of hopscotch where visitors move freely between different cultural activities, increasing cultural exchange and diffusion.

An illustration of my grandmother and I as a child growing up in China.

A mixed media piece inspired by Christina's World.

A monk holds a ceremonial object in his hand as he prepares to perform a thousand year old ritual.