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10-year strategic master plan for the largest single-site detention campus of its kind in the United States. The work consolidated 67 buildings across 96 acres into three new mid-rise towers plus selective reuse of high-value existing structures, reducing the jail footprint while expanding mental health, medical and intake capacity. The new buildings organize general population housing, intake and release, medical and acute care around direct supervision, daylit common areas and vertical adjacency between housing and treatment.
Programmatic stacking and floor-by-floor space allocations across the three towers, the Residential Treatment Unit and the Cermak medical acute building. Coordinated with the Sheriff's Office, Office of the Chief Judge, Illinois Department of Corrections and US Department of Justice to reconcile design intent with treatment standards and security requirements. Implementation of the plan is projected to save Cook County $765M over 30 years and $2.9B over 40 years versus status-quo operating costs.
Consolidating three existing civic buildings, 100 Richmond Terrace, 10 Hamilton Avenue and 55 Stuyvesant Place, into a unified family courthouse complex on a single campus. The courtroom interiors balance judicial gravity with warm walnut millwork, a multicolor wood-slat feature wall behind the bench and integrated linear lighting that softens the institutional ceiling plane.
Collaborating with the design architect on bridging documents. Developing test-fit options and blocking diagrams for each department, participating in steering committee presentations and contributing to the conceptual report for cost estimation. Joint venture with Mitchell Giurgola Architects for DASNY.
Exploded axonometric study of an intake and holdings facility. Floors stacked to expose programmatic adjacency between intake, housing, medical and treatment components within a secure perimeter. The drawing tests how vertical organization can separate population, control sightlines and integrate clinical functions without compromising safety.
CAD documentation and exploded-axonometric authorship for an early-stage programmatic study. Output included floor-level diagrams that informed downstream planning conversations.
The built environment either reinforces confinement or enables healing. This work operates at the intersection of clinical rigor, policy reform and architectural intention replacing punitive infrastructure with environments built around treatment, dignity and recovery. Warm cladding materials, generous daylight and considered landscape integrate therapeutic principles into the architecture itself.
Coordinated consultants and managed fee structures for a trauma-informed treatment campus. Developed design options that satisfied both security requirements and the emerging standards for behavioral health environments. Integrated BIM workflows with prefabrication sequencing for a 306-bed secure facility.
Transforming Rand Hall, a century-old brick industrial building, into a LEED Gold vertical library for a School of Architecture, Art and Planning. Three dense stack levels are suspended from a new roof structure shelving 125,000 volumes while keeping the main floor open for research and study. The project navigates the tension between historic fabric and contemporary performance, finding a language where old and new reinforce each other.
Contributed to design and construction document production. Coordinated high-performance building systems tailored to the library's unique open-stack configuration. Early-career project that established foundational experience in historic renovation, sustainable design and cross-discipline coordination.
Intimate-scale interior and retail projects where material choices and spatial proportion carry the design. A corner bakery with a warm storefront presence. An auditorium renovation balancing acoustics and atmosphere. Residential and commercial spaces developed through close collaboration with clients and craftspeople.
Full project lifecycles from survey through construction documents. Material specification, finish schedules and millwork detailing coordinated with contractors and fabricators.
Design coordination for a 50-acre mixed-use entertainment and hospitality complex adjacent to Citi Field. The program weaves a hotel and casino, a 5,650-seat performance venue, food hall and 25 acres of public park into a cohesive urban district navigating the intersection of civic ambition, private development and public space.
Led cross-discipline coordination between architecture, landscape, civil and structural teams. Managed bridging documents across multiple structured garages and integrated public realm design with the entertainment program.
Pilot program for platform screen doors at three active subway stations. The challenge: integrating a new safety and environmental control system into stations that were never designed for it navigating existing column grids, ventilation systems and passenger flow patterns while maintaining uninterrupted service.
Led integration of screen door concepts with existing station elements. Coordinated interdisciplinary equipment room design and produced design-build bridging documents.
Mixed-use development at the corner of Ludlow and Grand eight residential units stacked over a commercial lobby on a 1,648-sf R7-2 lot. Independent ground-up development study assembled at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. Architectural concept, zoning analysis, market segmentation, residential mix, sustainability strategy and full pro forma underwriting authored end-to-end. The artifact reads as both architectural project and capital asset.
Solo authorship across all components site analysis, demographic study, project concept, residential mix, financial structure, sustainability targets and SWOT. Concluding capstone for the M.S. Real Estate Development with a concentration in Sustainable Development. Underwriting headlines: $1.43M maximum year-one revenue, $745K NOI, 5.1% cap rate, FAR 6 zoning envelope at maximum allowable height.
Interior renovation and strategic programming of a 5-story commercial office for an architecture and engineering firm. Developed the spatial strategy for collaboration zones, private offices and client-facing presentation areas balancing operational efficiency with the firm's creative identity.
Space planning, construction documentation and material specification. Coordinated MEP and furniture systems integration across five floors of occupied renovation.
Storefront concept for Rodarte at the southern edge of the High Line. The proposal treats the elevated park's path as the primary approach, organizing the facade and entry sequence around the slow procession of pedestrians passing above. Material restraint and a single sculptural gesture carry the brand identity at street scale.
Concept and visualization for a luxury fashion storefront. Frontage strategy keyed to the rhythm of High Line foot traffic; interior layered to read as a sequence of rooms rather than a single retail volume.
An editorial practice across justice architecture, sustainable real estate and transportation infrastructure. Writing at the intersection of design practice, policy critique and capital markets. Three current threads: a forthcoming platform on justice typologies, an authored summary of the 2026 NYU Schack conference on sustainable real estate and an authored summary of the PwC Transportation and Infrastructure Forum.
Inaugural issue assembling typological, material and technological reports on innovations in justice and treatment infrastructure. Sections in development: trauma-informed planning, post-supervision typologies, materials of care, technology and surveillance. Drawing on first-hand work across $1.5B+ of detention, court and behavioral health programs.
Executive summary and conference notes for the 9th Annual NYU Schack Conference on Sustainable Real Estate. The summary distills panel sessions across energy infrastructure and grid transformation, adaptive reuse, climate risk management, workforce development, capital markets innovation and critical challenges facing the sector. The accompanying notes document moderator-led conversations between investors, developers, public agencies and academic researchers.
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Executive summary of the PwC Transportation and Infrastructure Forum. Documents the moderator perspective and regional context, then synthesizes program updates across NYC DOT bridges, MTA capital program and systemwide modernization, NYSDOT Region 11 delivery and procurement flexibility and NYCEDC capital program with community-centered infrastructure. Closes on cross-cutting themes and emerging directions for the sector.
Building presentation for an 8-story residential redevelopment. Architectural massing, site and zoning analysis, unit-mix studies and material approach. Archived from a prior firm portfolio.
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Combined academic archive of first- and second-year studio work. Fall 2011 (ARCH 201): The Pavilion at Central Park, a small-scale design intervention near the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, exploring site, section and the organization of space. Spring 2012: precedent analyses of Palazzo Massimo Alle Colonne in Rome and the CaixaForum facade in Madrid.
Architecture as the baseline discipline, development as the business outcome, the work in between is how value is created. Fourteen years delivering complex regulated programs across courthouses, behavioral health, transit infrastructure and hospitality, paired with graduate-level fluency in real estate finance. Active practitioner of generative design and AI-assisted workflows: prompt engineering, computational tools and Revit / Dynamo automation to compress iteration cycles, test more options earlier and ship product on tighter timelines. Treats architecture, delivery and capital as one engineered system.
Co-lead designer on institutional building programs valued at $50M-$450M for public and private clients. Primary client liaison through design phases, presenting options to steering committees and translating stakeholder feedback into built form. Promoted to Associate based on delivery across 5M+ sf spanning courthouses, psychiatric facilities, transit stations and schools.
Managed full project lifecycles for educational and commercial renovations valued at $1M-$65M. Led client presentations and construction document production. Delivered 780K sf of completed work across concurrent capital projects including a 115K sf school and a 600K sf facade restoration.
Built foundation in technical production and cross-discipline coordination on large-scale public education projects at a legacy New York practice founded in 1936. Early immersion in the standards of civic and institutional design Grand Central Subway Station, NYC Police Headquarters, Columbia University campus buildings.