SOFTWARE I USED: ATHENA IE4B ETABS, Revit, AutoCAD
In my final year of McMaster I sought an opportunity to further my understanding of responsible environmental design through an independent research project under the mentorship of Dr. Lydell Wiebe. This paper compares the embodied environmental impacts by conducting an LCA of a five-storey building in Toronto if it were designed with reinforced concrete, steel, or mass timber. A life cycle analysis was conducted for each scenario and results were organized by phase as well as structural assembly.
Alongside this thesis, I prepared a conference paper for CSCE 2020 and was accepted to present; however, COVID prevented this.
SOFTWARE USED: SAP2000, Revit, AutoCAD, Idea StatiCa
For the final year civil engineering capstone, our team acted as contractor's in the design of a four-storey vertical farm with a two storey marketplace attached. The structural design party of the team consisted of me and another keen structural engineering student. Together, we conducted hand calculations for the design in accordance with CSA S16-14 with loads applied as per NBCC 2015. To verify hand calculations, we modeled the building in SAP2000 and ensured that all members satisfied serviceability and ultimate limit states.
SOFTWARE I USED: Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop
It has always been a dream of my mother's to develop her beach property in the Philippines into a beach resort. In the summer of 2017 I began to support my mother in her goals through designing a Bahay Kubo (a Filipino Hut) which completed construction in early 2018. Taking into account the villagers' input, the design focused on vernacular architecture and used localy sourced material. Revit was used for the design including interiors and was brought into AutoCAD to produce the construction documents. Other information concerning Berting Resort can be accessed via the Facebook page
SOFTWARE I USED: Revit, 3DS Max, 3DS Max Interactive (Stingray)
Between Architects, Engineers and Contractors there always seems to be a discord when it comes to communication. Modeling and producing renders and plans helps with visualising what Contractors must do but I beleive we can take this a step further.
I designed the following house in Revit, exported to 3DS Max, and finally brought it into Interactive (fka Stingray) in order to produce a game walkthrough of the house.
SOFTWARE I USED Revit, AutoCAD
In my Structural Design course we were required to produce structural design documents for a theoretical 2-storey community centre. Below is my design which is based on cost effectiveness and the given floor plans. Design was done through Revit and then exported into AutoCAD for drafting. Part of my drawings can be seen in the gallery below but you can also download the full document through the button below.
SOFTWARE I USED: Rhino, Vray, Paneling Tools, Photoshop
SUMMIT: the highest point of a mountain; a conference of high level officials.
British Columbia is well known for it's mountain ranges and "Summit", the building which the McMaster University Seismic Design Team has proposed, incorporates the region's terrain into the design. As the leader of the architectural team I brainstormed with members to compose a design emphasing mountains as the parti. After creating preliminary drawings I used Rhino with Vray for rendering and paneling tools for the facade for the basis of my render. Following this, Photoshop was used for post-production render additions and touch-ups.
The assymetry of the building from the bands to the varying levels of the three pillars creates a jagged effect. Having the braces exposed on the outside of the structure emphasizes the structural stability of the design (fitting for a structural competition) and segments the glass into triangular panels with slopes mirroring that of a mountain. Playing with the colour of the panels we emphasized sloped bands of glass as outlined peaks of "Summit". An interesting effect of the design is that these peaks shift as the viewer's perspective shifts.
The Seismic Design Competition is sponsored by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia for the 2019 year. There are multiple facets of the competition, however, the main focus is to create a model out of balsa wood and glue and have it withstand simulated seismic loads in the horizontal plane. Since, the model was made of balsa wood, the architectural design had to have flat surfaces to accomadate the model construction. Another limitation was that the given floor plan in which to construct our building was given; this was the T-shaped plan you can see in our structure. Points are primarily rewarded for the architectural design, seismic resistance of the structure and cost efficiency.
"LEVITATE" The name of our structure focuses on a structural and architectural challenge our group gave ourselves which was to have the jugs suspended at the centre of the water filling station
At Ryerson University's 2018 Timber Fever Competition, our team composed of student architects and engineers created a water filling station. For this structure, an inverted roof captures falling rain and allows it to flow towards a centralized water source. This rainwater harvesting prototype aims to symbolize the importance of water by allowing the water dispensing system to stay afloat in the structure. "Levitate" creates an open floor plan in the center to facilitate the playful flow of water and people though the structure.
