Archi-Sculpture

 Through architectural design, my singular meditation space promotes higher thinking about a spatial environment and the idea of spirituality as an individual experience.  

Contemplation is a practice that cultivates mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion. It is an intellectual practice that can manifest solutions for life’s challenges.

The extreme cantilevered, cellular structure of many insect wings were my inspiration for this pavilion.

 I designed an abstract form to represent the circular upward gust of wind.  It will be made of a steel truss structure for longevity and will allow the wind from the lake to pass through it uncompromised. 

Using biomimicry, this pavilion and landscape design is an abstract form of a system made of organs that create life.  Like the uterus, this design has a function. 

As a tree memorial, the columns represent all the trees lost through storms, deforestation.  The water being represented by steel has a double meaning.  It represents water in reference to storms, and also metal in reference to urban development; both are responsible for deforestation.

This public sculpture/landscape design is meant for multi-persons’ meditation and contemplation.

This abstract stingray is a pavilion to bring awareness of unethical commercial fishing practices and the effects it has on stingrays. 

This structure is an open ceremonial space for a green burial site.  The roof is constructed with stretched canvas so to reverberate the drumming sounds of the rain, while catching, and distributing the rate to reflective pools.

A large contributor to the destruction of our natural resource comes from "Urban Sprawl".  This  project is using "New Urbanism to create a place that will allure future residents back to the city central core.

This structure was a conceptual design for a Marine Research Center in Amelia Island, Florida.  While being designed for a highly efficient research center, it also would be an educational, public exhibition for visitors.

This concept was to create a space with multilevel, private reading nooks within one larger space.

These are loose sketches of conceptual ideas for public pavilions.

This conceptual design was part of an architectural think tank for the new engineering building on UF campus.