This role is responsible for planning, designing, representing, and documenting highly-specialized medical facilities for zoos and hospitals. Additionally, in this role I coordinate with clients and consultants, design workflows which leverage technology to accelerate project schedules, and use data-driven design principles that help us deliver state-of-the-art buildings that feel good to work in.

This course set the tone for Cornell’s M.Arch 1 program while accommodating students with diverse architectural and non-architectural backgrounds. I gave administrative support to faculty, conceptual and technical advice to students, and introduced foundational design and visualization tools by creating tutorials related to studio deliverables.

Our lab investigated how to process standard architectural materials in innovative ways to leverage unique mechanical properties of fabrication tools. Finished elements are imbued with a sense of ornamentation intrinsic to the fabrication process itself. The bulk of my work was in sub-additive concrete 3D printing, a process invented in our lab which uses a removable support aggregate for non-planar printing in the z-axis. Concrete was printed with a lab-built 8'x16' 3D printer and a robot arm with a concrete-pump end effector to create full-scale architectural pieces. Work from RCL has been consistently recognized for its aesthetic and technical merit; in 2018, work developed and manufactured by RCL won the Architectural League of New York’s Form/Folly competition and Cornell’s Council for the Arts Biennial competition. Additionally, our research was awarded two presentation slots at ACADIA 2018 and two workshop presentations at Rob|Arch 2018, in which the presentation team received special commendation for the educational merit of our research.

In addition to general support work with schedules, technical drawings, and modeling in Revit, I participated in conceptual design of several projects; conducted primary research, site documentation, and client-facing analytical graphics of a historic district; made models, renderings, and diagrams for clients and proposals; and wrote studio-specific tutorials for Lumion and MakerBot.

This class emphasized drawing as an exploratory tool to drive the design process in a powerful way. I helped students understand computational thinking through the lens of constructed drawing by creating a series of tutorials, eventually culminating in script-driven renderings and animations with atmospheric qualities to emphasize their projects’ design elements.

I independently planned and implemented complex programs that blended education, leisure, and life skills into fun experiences for children with special needs aged four to twenty-two, while also giving college students valuable experience working in the field of behavior analysis. I created and ran both an activities-oriented summer camp for 100+ students across the ASD spectrum and an after-school activities program with diverse course offerings which challenged students to develop leisure skills and new interests. Programs relied heavily on behavioral analysis and data-directed decision making. Additional duties included coaching a OHSAA bowling team, training swim instructors and lifeguards in adapted lessons, maintaining Red Cross certification for all HLC staff (100+), directly supervising and training a seasonal staff of 12 to 35, event planning, and designing official marketing and correspondence materials.