Schematic sketches to understand materials and mechanical systems of a proposed science + education project.

Conceptual and Schematic sketches to understand what infrastructures can blur the geographical boundary between San Diego and Tijuana for citizens to communicate in alternative ways.

Sketches for a proposal project of a recording studio in the woods.

Free-hand sketching with 3 point perspective.

I was pondering how people live behind screens, who are hoarders, and like their own private space. What would that look like in the next 40 years? What would that look like architecturally?

What if it grew and simulated into a city that symbolized each person’s personality and characteristics? I kept going from mechanical to free flow of thought to paper. And received these results.

Deconstructive sketches of this landmark in La Jolla, San Diego by Louis Khan.

I wanted to analyze the building’s materials, proportions, programs, and interplay with space and light.

Sketching has always helped me and is one of the first steps I use for creating concepts.

Therefore using the human body and its most important anatomy as a parti seems general enough. But how can it be used using salvaged materials and be functional yet aesthetic for any bar or restaurants in Southern California? Do I want this to be literal? A representation of our most important anatomy used a connector to the patron when they sit on it? Do I want the structure to represent the design itself? Was the form going to manacoque or manifold?

I decided to use the vertebrate for the Aromatic Cedar Wood and steel tube for the Intervertebral disk.