domestic museum

section crawler explores the space between drawings, exploring the project as it is drawn rather than a built representation

play section crawler

a study of how domestic roof-lines can impact volume and section, creating a sort of excess of circulation necessary for a museum

housing

this projects attempts a playful solution to housing, with shifting the building as a way to create complex interior conditions and layers of space

an esports arena

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egress madness : a playful way to interact with the building in the buidling

play egress madness

an e-sports arena which
mirrors the experience of video games
spatially

people play the building in virtual space — their charectars get projected onto the screens; the building in plan is designed to facilitate and collapse the divide between these physical and digital occupants

video by Zane Mechem & Chengyu Zhang with sound by Nicholas Bangle & Zane Mechem

the (un)folded office

an (un)folded attempt at the office

This project dealt with the result of using an existing building in a nontraditional way, by unfolding, and refolding it to reach a new result, which might have the same kind of aesthetic and material use as the original, yet because of the symbiosis the building experiences as part of the folding, it changes into something else

Is it the same building?

Can a building be changed and remain the same. What links the old to the new, material, effect, knowledge, or is it something more intangible? This project proposes the building exists not in drawings or physically, but in a more immaterial state, and that the building might be accessed by it’s properties as a way to link the new to the past object.

tree @ the excalibur

Tree made with 3/4" plywood in Las Vegas Casino, The Excalibur

I designed this tree and fabricated it with Custom Cabinet Design
This specific design saved money on materials while still maintaining maximum shelf space for retail.
I programmed a CNC to cut out the parts from plywood

New_Tree_2017-Apr-10_05-44-51PM-000_CustomizedView28000008846-Recovered.jpg — I designed each part and how it would be manufactured; each hexagonal shelf was separately built and later put together

this is my first design project and is the inspiration for my new series free architecture

grid studies (a pavilion)

collapse

architectural collapse as a result of folding the grid from horizontal to vertical in two folds

Modular Shelving System

This modular system utilizes a singular modular system to show the flexibility of the ground plane in a figural grid. It is primarily based off of grids physically projected onto amazon boxes. The below animation shows this in full, all of the possible combinations of the system.

combination model

This model combines my white
low-res imitation models with the
broken and fractured nature of the
foam models I created.

It is designed with 9 pieces which
interlock into one larger tectonic model.