ABOUT

My interest in thermodynamics began with my fourth semester core studio project, and urban housing project. Renata Sentkiewicz, our instructor, encouraged the studio to explore the natural resources and environmental conditions of the infamously polluted industrial site of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY as the catalyst for an urban design scheme. Coupled with housing, the approach of the studio engendered a critical lens through which to analyze, critique, and propose new modes of habitation that integrates the flows through a site - people, goods, and energy - into a more cohesive and symbiotic system.

Since that semester, I've explored the various types of energies that influence the performance of a project, from financial forces that enable the composition of certain building types validated by a dollar sign or thermodynamic strategies that introduce natural thermally active surfaces imbedded in the material culture of the site.