● ● ● Selected Work

01 Vinyl Archive Library

ARCH4510, Fall 2024
Professor Ross Wienert
Houston, Texas

The Vinyl Archive explores the relationship between material, time, and preservation through the design of a vinyl record library adjacent to the historic El Dorado Ballroom in Third Ward.

The project positions the archive as a central atrium core, organizing structure, circulation, and environmental systems around the preservation of delicate vinyl artifacts. The core acts as both a public spatial anchor and a controlled storage environment, balancing community engagement with archival protection.

A motorized louver façade, calibrated perpendicular to the sun path, modulates daylight throughout the day to reduce UV exposure and protect the collection. The mechanical skin integrates with structural and HVAC systems to maintain stable thermal and lighting conditions required for long-term preservation.

The result is a climate-responsive cultural archive that reinforces the historic legacy of the El Dorado Ballroom while functioning as a fully integrated performance-driven building system.

Interior Perspective

Site Isometric

Site Isometric Structure

Ground Plan

Model Elevation

Detail Elevation

Detail Section

Detail Plan

Longitudinal Section

Construction Axonometric

Cross Section

Model

02 The 4th Wall Performing Arts Center

ARCH5508, Fall 2025
Professor Geoffrey Brune
Houston, Texas

The Performing Arts Center is organized as a public threshold that transitions visitors into three distinct performance environments: a Black Box Theatre, a Thrust Theatre, and an open Garden stage.

Located along Summer Street adjacent to the historic Tejas Brewery and facing Sawyer Yards across the rail corridor, the building responds to its industrial context through a grounded massing strategy and a defined civic edge. The performance volumes are consolidated along the western edge of the site to strengthen the relationship with the brewery, while parking and service are positioned to minimize disruption to surrounding residential streets.

A central experiential lobby and garden act as the spatial and social core of the project. This open transition zone filters light, frames movement, and connects audience and performer before entry into each theatre. Sectionally, the three stages are expressed as distinct volumes, unified through circulation and shared back-of-house systems.

Thrust Theater Render

Front Render

Black Box Theater Render

Process 1

Process 2

Ground Floor Plan

Construction Axonometric

Longitudinal Section

Building Section 1

Building Section 2

Building Section 3

Site Isometric

Lobby Render

Lobby Render 2

03 Carbon Edges

ARCH5500, Spring 2026
Professor Mélanie Louterbach
Port Arthur, Texas

Through historical zoning and infrastructural arrangements that organized the city around the movement, processing, and production of oil, Port Arthur has become much more than an industrial city. It has become a petroleumscape.

Carbon Edges responds to the conditions of Port Arthur in the form of a post-oil public landscape that transforms transferred industrial land into a protective interface between refinery infrastructure and nearby communities. Through atmospheric buffer zones, carbon-sequestering vegetation, wetland expansion, and selective infrastructural retrofits, the project increases the territory’s capacity to absorb carbon, filter co-pollutants, and mitigate heat while replacing extraction-oriented land uses with ecological and public infrastructure.

Carbon Edges is organized through a catalogue of landscape-based spatial strategies: wind-directing tall buffer zones that shape the flow of lower-atmospheric prevailing winds, sensory mid buffer zones that strictly separates the existing industrial boundaries and our public landscape, community low buffer zones that loosely gradates existing fence-line communities to our public landscape, shaded canopies, ecotone transitions, wetland and lowland territorial extensions, urbanite trails and low-carbon hardscape, reused Gabon retaining systems, and select infrastructural retrofits such as carbon capture towers.

Air Quality Risk & Vulnerability Map

Urban Heat Risk & Vulnerability Map

“Petroleumscape” Metabolic Section

“Red-Air Protocol” speculative survival manifesto for Port Arthur’s future conditions

“Unbuilding Petroleumscapes” speculative design manifesto for Port Arthur’s future conditions

Spatial Strategies Catalog

Territorial Site Plan : 2080

Zoomed Site Plan : Woodway Fields

Zoomed Site Sections

Zoomed Site Plan : Main Grounds

Metabolic Section of Carbon Edges

Short Film (Phase 1+2)

Short Film (Phase 3)

04 Snail Hub&House

ARCH3501, Spring 2024
Professor José Roldán Caballero
Houston, Texas

The Hub&House project explores food production as urban architecture, a mixed-use housing hub integrating vertical snail farming, culinary production, and residential life in Third Ward, Houston.

This project organizes housing floors around shared agricultural terraces and visible vertical cultivation tubes that connect rooftop farms to ground-level processing. Program responds to site adjacencies, with public culinary spaces facing TSU and service oriented toward the parking structure.

Units foreground food production through outward-facing kitchens and balcony gardens, while shading devices and recessed façades mitigate solar exposure. A post-tensioned concrete structural system enables open housing floors and integrated agricultural infrastructure.

Street Render

Interior Render

Pre-Design Diagram

Single Bedroom Unit

Double Bedroom Unit

Chunk Model

Ground Floor Plan

Typical Floor Plan

Cross Section

Environmental Longitudinal Section

Construction Axonometric

Model Isometric

Model Elevation