Designer | Gruen Associates | Built 2023
Challenge
Develop a specialty custom ceiling with a double-grid design bridged by vertical panels for Balenciaga flagship retail experience located in Costa Mesa, California.
Approach
With felixbility in mind, we lean on parametric model to accomodate changes quickly, and developed open communication channels to ensure that the brand identity was successfully imprinted in our project.
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Designer | Seneca College | Built 2023
Challenge
Enhance the student exprience at the Seneca College by introducing comfort with visually pleasing product that mimic cloud comfort and acoustic performance.
Approach
Lean on paramteric scripts to quickly incorporate feedback and rapidly generate BOMs, nestings and cutfiles.
Development
Visual script helped processing this project quickly and present iterations to stakeholders in a dynamic manner.
Outcome
York University
Lead Designer | 2023
Concealed as an organic form that spans throughout 7 stories, this project provides the students with a comfort cloud of quietness.
Intense coordination with other trades and stakeholders was vital to ensure precision and accuracy in the creation of layouts, hardware location and component labeling.
Tools for fast CNC programming, assembly and installation were developed around different users who are involved in the project at different stages.
Visual scripts are a key element in the development of highly-complex projects that demand accuracy in the delivery of hundreds of unique parts.
901 KING
Lead Designer | 2024
Located in the heart of Toronto, this project involves custom façade elements, millwork and unique panels for interior finish.
Challenge
Deliver a design solution aimed at rebranding a Toronto landmark. Maintaining consistency throughout exterior and interior elements while balancing design specifications for in-house manufacture.
Approach
Close involvement with architects, project managers, GC and production helped us iterate fast and create a great product within a demanding timeline.
Outcome
A set of products that will ensure the satisfaction of all parts involved, is only achieved with the team effort. It reflects the input and feedback gathered across teams.
Structural engineer reviewed and stamped facade elements to ensure codes are satisfied. Crucial visual aspects, ratios, finishes and air flow coefficient informed the final product.
Detail-oriented documents drives the quality of the product, it reduced friction across teams and helped in a highly efficient process.
Millwork spacing is controlled with grasshopper visual scripts.
Designer | GENSLER | Under Construction 2024
Challenge
Deliver a specialty ceiling product for the latest headquarters of Bank of America, located in the iconic Hudson Yards.
Approach
Rapid iteration with an obsession for details and tolerances fast-tracked prototyping and rendered our response times short and accurate.
This project involves extrusions, elegant finishes and invisible seams. Developing prototypes helped refining the elements for improved features for users. Manufacturing involved a 5-Axis CNC, running precise parts consistently.
Parametric Feature
Designer | GM Capital | 2017
Custom ceiling feature for Distrito Armida's showroom in Monterrey, Mexico. Armida is a mixed-use development in the luxury area of San Pedro. Using parametric tools, we developed the project from start to finish; with a solution that enhances interior features.
