DANCING IN SILENCE; A CENTER FOR DEAF ART AND CUTURE

Dancing in Silence is a thesis project that explores the idea of bridging the gap between hearing and Deaf worlds, normalizing the Deaf Culture, and introducing Deaf Gain to the design to enrich spatial experience. The thesis aims to design a space that facilitates the communication between people with different sensitivities. Language is often used as a tool for communication, but architecture can also serve as a platform for creating a space for people interactions. The proposed site is part of the Gallaudet University development projects next to the 6th street in Washington DC. It involves a Deaf Art & Culture Center which welcomes hearing individuals. The design relays on Deafspace and multisensory principles to stitch the boundary of the Gallaudet along 6th street to union market neighborhood

Envisioning the Future at Prince George's Plaza, MD

Final project for ARCH 407: Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Studio IV (Spring 2021). University of Maryland, College Park.The semester was divided in 3 projects. For project 3, the studio worked with Prince George's Planning Department on creating urban design schemes for the Prince George's Plaza Transit District including analyzing relvevant case studies, site visit to Prince George's Plaza, site documentation/analysis, and design proposals rooted from historical research while responding to complex contemporary issues (social inequality, safety, climate change, urban ecology, public health, local/global economies) in order to produce urban design master plans, street sections, perspectives vignettes for near-term and long-term 2035 year plans.Prince George's County Planning Department (PGPD