Design Services & Skills
I provide an in-office resource for all sustainability requirements and goals for projects. This includes:
- cross-disciplinary coordination with stakeholders
- facilitating eco-charrettes
- coordinating documentation required for green rating systems
- research and coordination of regional incentive programs for high efficiency designs
- tracking and recording the firm's progress regarding the AIA 2030 Commitment.
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Apart from sustainability matters I also provide a deep understanding of Revit model development, organization and project delivery from concept through permitting. I fully believe that a standardized and organized modeling process is critical for consistent quality of work across projects. My software and project delivery skills include:
Software Experience:
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Current Revit model of an active project
Early stage energy model set up for a Revit model
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Bio
I entered the architectural industry to utilize my passion for environmental stewardship and the relation between climate change and the built environment. It has been a constant goal to improve my design capabilities and understanding of high performance buildings to assist in improving the industry standard for what a successful building truly is. Apart from aesthetics and surface level functionality, I am most interested in the building's impact on the surrounding ecology and environment. I hope to dedicate my career to placing as much emphasis and attention to detail in a buildings energy performance, embodied carbon and resiliency as typical designers put into material compositions, form and circulation. All of these aspects are important but it takes a diverse team of experts to execute a truly successful building. In my mind, a successful building is one which fulfills its purpose for the users, educates, inspires and also passively repairs and replaces what it has taken from the environment in order to be built.
During my academic career I minored in the Geography of Food and Agriculture and it is a passion of mine to merge agriculture and the built environment to create a more harmonious human presence in the world. The challenges the future holds for human civilization will require for designers to not only take account of our building's ecological impacts such as energy and water consumption, but also replacing and optimizing the land which has been occupied for the building to exist. Urban agriculture, living building systems such as green roofs and living walls and the integration of pollinator corridors into project sites are a field I have spent significant time researching and hoping to more liberally apply to projects. As I grow my understanding of performance metrics related to carbon, energy and water, I simultaneously am constantly looking for ways to promote biophilic design and resiliency in the urban fabric.
During my academic career I minored in the Geography of Food and Agriculture and it is a passion of mine to merge agriculture and the built environment to create a more harmonious human presence in the world. The challenges the future holds for human civilization will require for designers to not only take account of our building's ecological impacts such as energy and water consumption, but also replacing and optimizing the land which has been occupied for the building to exist. Urban agriculture, living building systems such as green roofs and living walls and the integration of pollinator corridors into project sites are a field I have spent significant time researching and hoping to more liberally apply to projects. As I grow my understanding of performance metrics related to carbon, energy and water, I simultaneously am constantly looking for ways to promote biophilic design and resiliency in the urban fabric.
Graphic from my conceptual design project named 'The Grange' which served as an exercise in merging a grow facility with a retail grocery store.
Work Experience
August 2015 - March 2016 - Design Consulting
Denver, CO.
Projects included:
June 2016 - Present - Otak Architecture
Portland, OR/Denver, CO.
Title: Designer | Sustainability Coordinator
Duties: Duties with the firm have including being the architecture team's primary resource for sustainability coordination on all projects. In addition to tracking and facilitating green design best practices I also am a versatile resource for project and set development. My project experience ranges from small to large multifamily residential (both affordable and market rate), Mixed-Use, Federal agency projects and Commercial buildings primarily in the banking and credit union industry.
Denver, CO.
Projects included:
- Biotecture with The University of Colorado Denver
- An experimental research and development project with the colleges of landscape architecture and engineering to design a two-sided living wall system. The goal of the project was to improve both exterior environment and interior environment with a single modular assembly.
- Concept Design of Steppingstones Assisted Living Facility
- I offered design and drafting services for a local church that wished to construct an assisted living facility for community members with developmental disabilities. Services included concept modeling, drafting and initial code and zoning research to establish feasibility prior to the client contracting with a larger firm for construction.
June 2016 - Present - Otak Architecture
Portland, OR/Denver, CO.
Title: Designer | Sustainability Coordinator
Duties: Duties with the firm have including being the architecture team's primary resource for sustainability coordination on all projects. In addition to tracking and facilitating green design best practices I also am a versatile resource for project and set development. My project experience ranges from small to large multifamily residential (both affordable and market rate), Mixed-Use, Federal agency projects and Commercial buildings primarily in the banking and credit union industry.
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