Window to the Ocean

An AIA Competition for a Cliffside Guest House

The competition focused on creating an accessory dwelling unit to pair with an existing house without detracting from the existing house’s views. My design was a multi-tiered house called Window to the Ocean

 

The Gardens on Olive

Multiphase Design for an Expanding Downtown

The project imagines the lifespan of an existing fourplex and the plot of land it resides on in the middle of an ever growing downtown landscape

 

East A Apartments

Dense Housing and Support in New York

Catering to a multitude of living arrangements East A Apartments combines fourty four flexible apartments, several shared workspaces, outdoor social areas, and a ground floor grocery store for an ever changing New York environment

 

Los Dos Apartments

Adaptive Reuse Housing for a Busy Downtown

Los Dos Apartments was a group project that imagined replacing an old shopping center with three floors of housing atop a shopping plynth to inject downtown Santa Barbara with housing, energy, and new life

 

Digital Media

Different Ways to Communicate the Same Idea

A look at how various forms of digital media can be used to portray the Case Study House #12 designed by Whitney Smith