Projects

Built work and physical prototypes — from professional practice to research pavilions.

Professional Practice

UC Merced 2020 Campus Expansion

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill · 2016–2017

UC Merced 2020 Campus Expansion

Merced, California

Structural design of four buildings on a high-seismicity site, from concept through construction documents — lateral systems, RC slabs, beams, columns, and shallow foundations.

LACMA — New Building (David Geffen Galleries)

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill · 2016–2017

LACMA — New Building (David Geffen Galleries)

Los Angeles, California

Serpentine, cantilevering museum building by Peter Zumthor. Led the deep-foundation concept (1,800 piles in tar-impregnated soil) and the base-isolation system above and below the isolation plane.

Prototypes & Pavilions

Stereodome

University of São Paulo · 2018

Stereodome

São Paulo, Brazil

Design, production, and installation of a funicular, three-legged Styrofoam masonry vault — form-found, fabricated, and built on site.

Building Freeform

École des Ponts et Chaussées · 2017

Building Freeform

Champs-sur-Marne, France

A 50 m² robotically-fabricated timber pavilion of 160 straight beams and 50 planar panels, using a reciprocal geometry to simplify connections.

Argamassa Armada

EPFL — Blue Factory · 2021

Argamassa Armada

Fribourg, Switzerland

Hands-on prototyping of cast concrete shell elements in textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) — from shell-geometry analysis to full-scale built prototypes.

Anti-funicular Balloon Pavilion

PUC Minas · 2018

Anti-funicular Balloon Pavilion

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

A form-found, anti-funicular pavilion designed and built with architecture students using balloons as a physical form-finding device.