| heat recovery sauna | 2025 | system diagram |
| plan and section case study for an exterior sauna that recovers the heat of a market's refrigerators. | in collaboration with Kelvin Lee |
| six mile clay | 2024 | ceramics |
| documentation from the local clay to jar process. | in collaboration with Joanne Yau |
| g301 | 2024 | adaptive reuse |
| design for the renovation of an old school building into office space. |
| wood diagram | 2023 | graphic design |
| a diagram illustrating the harvest of north american old-growth forest and its relocation to the built environment. |
| n45 lobby | 2023 | multifamily residential |
| design for a lobby in a multifamily residential project. |
| c287 facade & kitchen | 2022 | residential |
| design for a townhouse extension and kitchen. |
| cybernetics house | 2022 | adaptive reuse |
| a service block design concept that could transform the function of a space while maintaining program flexibility. |
| deconstruction poster | 2022 | graphic design |
| a diagram illustrating how the process of deconstruction can direct the flow of building material into the circular economy. | deconstruction |
| circular industry center | 2022 | bachelor thesis |
| a thesis proposal for the redevelopment of the vacant ENMASA factory in Barcelona into a cooperatively owned center that empowers the local community to address the housing crisis through mutual aid construction and circular material reuse. | assembly thesis book arcgis clay map resources & precedents |
| interrobang magazine | 2022 | publication |
| the 21-22 publication from inter punct - an ongoing publication run by cmu student, is a magazine series of student writings and images. | inter punct |
| descriptive geometry | 2022 | geometry |
| homework assignments for descriptive geometry. an exercise in transforming geometry in space pre computer modeling. | all geometries by Sam Losi |
| fucvam casestudy poster | 2021 | case study |
| a case study poster examining the FUCVAM housing cooperative model in Uruguay based on mutual aid construction and limited equity ownership. |
| new granada theater | 2021 | adaptive reuse |
| an adaptive reuse proposal for the New Granada Theater, transforming the vacant Pittsburgh theater into a cultural center and performance space. |
| m194 | 2021 | office concept |
| an office design concept for an urban infill lot with a laminated timber structure and glazed terracotta facade. two rooftop greenhouses elevate solar PV's and draw natural light down into the offices. the rear facade terraces are shaded by mesh on which vegetation would grow during the summer. |
| helsinki design museum | 2020 | museum |
| a proposal for the Helsinki Design Museum that directly embeds into the urban fabric through a central topographic surface that brings public outdoor space to the interior of the building. The building's structure is composed of glulam timber ribs, utilizing locally sourced and regenerative wood. |
| breath eco lab | 2020 | moving lab |
| a design entry for a competition sponsored by a metals company. the proposal uses the flexible nature of corrugated sheet metal to create a curved interior space that peels away to create gill openings to house filters and sensors. The large display on the exterior visualizes the live air quality data. | project in collaboration with Ammar Hassonjee |
| black box collages | 2020 | narrative collage |
| Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. |
| garfield environmental center | 2020 | school |
| the environmental learning center acts as a center for community gathering and public education in the neighborhood of Garfield. the building itself is sited in a block of currently vacant parcels and terracing the sloped terrain to create an outdoor amphitheater like seating space against the building's west exterior facing facade. the building design makes use of natural materials, a well insulated continuous building envelope, strategic solar shading, and a sawtooth roof geometry that houses southern facing PV's and collects greywater for direct use in the exterior landscaping. |
| spring valley youth hostel | 2019 | adaptive reuse |
| a design for a youth hostel that integrates into a vacant industrial building in spring garden, pgh. The parabolic roof channels rainwater down to a central courtyard reflecting the site's location at the base of a sharp valley topography. |
| museum of weather | 2019 | museum |
| six mile island, a 1,000 foot island in the Allegheny river north of Pittsburgh, is the site for the weather museum. the project looks to create a space that reveals environmental patterns and systems to its visitors, specifically, water purification and flooding. during the early stages of the project, research about stormwater management and sewage outfalls into Pittsburgh rivers led to the use of wetland and bioswale design principles becoming integral part of the design. rather than being placed on the existing island, the museum emerges from the terraformed landscape of the island, integrating waterways and larger wetlands into the terrain. As a result, the tranformed island is able to intake polluted river and rain water, naturally filtering it as it passes through the soil and roots embedded in the earthen retaining walls. |
| city as form | 2019 | case study |
| a brief zine studying the density of urbanization surrounding one of the houses I grew up in. |
| saco lake bathhouse | 2019 | bathhouse |
| a bath house located deep in the rocky white mountains of New Hampshire, the main intention of the design is was to embed the space into the natural granite just below the surface. to do so, the structure carves a space into the mountain while allowing rock to protrude into the interior blurring the lines between human intervention and the natural environment, drawing inspiration from nearby granite quarries. to redirect natural light into the space, three cantilevered arms extend out to the landscape, framing scenic views of the landscape while providing contrast to the cavernous interior. |
| furniture | 2019 | design build |
| furniture design project making use of scrap steel and digital fabrication tools. | in collaboration with Davis Dunaway |
| hoop house | 2018 | design build |
| the hoop house was designed to be a small scale greenhouse for a 4’ x 8’ planter bed at the Phipps Conservatory edible garden exhibit. the concept behind the design was to create a system that could offer flexible access to all regions of the planter bed while remaining simple and easy to use. the final design was a telescoping, three module nesting system that would slide along 3 outer rails fixed to the planter bed. | project in collaboration with Isabella Giammatteo, Lukas Hermann, Carly Sacco, Maya Greenholt |
| urban agriculture center | 2018 | cultural space |
| situated in Garland Park in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, the initial idea for this project was to create a courtyard garden experience within the existing park. the program is centered around the two enclosed green-spaces that support a local public farmers market and community greenhouse. the street facing mass houses the lobby, office spaces, classrooms and a lecture space while the side adjacent to the park consists of the greenhouse and covered market space. the secondary driver of the form was the roof which directly relates to the environment by collecting rainwater and shading the interior spaces based on the sun's position. the sloping forms of the roofs create two opposing points of greywater runoff collection in which planter beds might be located |
