Clementine is an exploration of the limits of acoustic efficiency. Designed with portability, comfort, and responsiveness as a guide, I searched for ways to give Clementine the voice, stature, and feel of a full-sized Archtop with a footprint that is easier to travel with. The hand graduated Spruce top and Walnut back gives a clementine a punchy and warm tone with ample bass response and volume that would have been otherwise been lost with the smaller body.
- Balkan Spruce - Walnut - Mahogany - Brass -
The inception of Sylva to save a lonely log destined to burn, to give it a new life more impactful than it would have been, and to give the material a voice to show what it could be. Constraints and ideas about the material guided its form and inspired the process along the way.
- Maple - Walnut - Wenge - Aluminum -
Spire is the product of a conversation between material and myself. Through exploration and play, I developed a sensitivity to what the material wanted to be and I listened as it guided me through its own formal inspiration towards its intended end.
- Walnut - Steel - Oak -
The Nest is an exploration of Biodesign Research and symbiotic design and manufacturing using bamboo. Through using photogrammetry, 3d scanning, generative design, and reciprocal frames, we can use a standardless, fast-growing, strong, and sustainable material in architectural settings. Pulling from a vast library of material, the specific bamboo poles can be picked by a sorting algorithm to be used in the precise locations of a structure. Developing upon previous research, The Nest works to fully automate the manufacturing process with 4-axis CNC machining.
Through a series of intertwining gates, the entrance to the Lion-Stone Reservoir is framed, appearing to reach out to greet visitors upon arrival. Here, the rich ecological identity of Anji County manifests through a reciprocal structure in an architecture that reflects the essence of its natural surroundings.
- Walnut - Brass - Oak - Steel -
- Maple - Walnut - Ebony -
-Brass-
-Woodblock - Intaglio - Screenprint - Monoprint - Reductive - Book Art-
The Way We Write is an exhibit designed to celebrate and memorialize our self-expression and the infant ideas that lead to greater understanding. A keyboard designed with no visual feedback and without the possibility to edit is the tool used to create this monument of thought. The haptic and audio sense of the mechanical keyboard implies permanence, so often lost in our digital world, that is being celebrated. It allows us to focus on the flow of our ideas while celebrating those infant thoughts that lead to our understanding.
