Yoncarr

Yoncarr is an architectural toy designed in my first year of architecture school. The goal was to produce a construction toy with infinite possibilities of configuration for all ages. The toy consists of three pieces: rods, blocks, and hollow blocks. The toy has numerous pieces to help create anything one can fathom. The toy alsoView Article

H-case

The H-case is a prototype phone case design for the iPhone 4 and 5. The design incorporates the protection of a case with the utility of a stand. The case comes apart from the phone to produce a portable phone dock with no moving parts (eliminating much of the wear and tear that would beView Article

Re:Dock

Re:Dock is a simple product with a simple goal — to provide a stand for your phone or tablet anywhere you are. After going through many purchased portable phone stands, I created one that eliminated the wear and tear seen in stands and docks with hinges and locking mechanisms. While Re:Dock is a two-piece product,View Article

Armature Lamp

The Armature Lamp is a prototype study in lighting design. The lamp originated from a light post feature that I had designed for a landscape architecture project while at Rice. The design consists of a two-point adjustable lamp, with the ability to be packed flat and assembled for use. The current prototype utilizes an LEDView Article

Notch Table

The Notch Table is a product in development and seeking manufacturers. The Notch is a table designed to be the table that goes with you. The design is a flat-pack wooden table that can be assembled in a minute and then disassembled just as quickly when not in use. The Notch uses mortises and wedgeView Article

The Corner Hotel

The development of the Corner seeks to produce a new form of user interaction in a much-traversed intersection of Houston. Taking advantage of the location and the activity already present, the articulation of the public space — the development of the corner — is an imposition of a new phenomenon missing in Houstonian urbanism. TheView Article

Workshop Houston – Rice Building Workshop

Workshop Houston is a Houston-based non-profit that provides middle and high school children after-school activities and classes. Originally, Workshop Houston (WH) began as the Third Ward Community Bike Shop in 2003. Today, WH continues as an important Houston outreach, combining hands-on bike repair and youth education programming. In recent years, Workshop Houston programs have extendedView Article

9Square

9-Square is designed as a modulating landscape that functions as a bench while at the same time physically reflecting information pertinent to the Rice student body. As the availability of study rooms change on an hourly basis, 9-Square receives this information from the publicly available online database showing the reservation periods of the 36 studyView Article

Architectural Rendering

As an architect and designer, one of my favorite parts of the job is rendering. While I have skills and techniques in other areas of design, I enjoy the artistic play that can be found in rendering. The development of a building’s conception can be evinced in a rendering — detailing the construction, the aesthetic,View Article

Unicredit Tower Egg

As part of the preceptorship at Pelli Clarke Pelli, the underground lighting feature in the Unicredit tower was to be designed to light a central sculpture in the Garibaldi Porto Nuova complex in Milan, Italy. The feature that was designed is an egg-shaped ceiling soffit and skylight with spotlights along its perimeter. The feature framesView Article