Selected Work
Software, hardware, science,
architecture.
A selection of projects spanning the last two decades — from graduate architecture studios to published geoscience research to the engineering systems running in tens of thousands of homes.
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Rheia Design Engine & Field Data Telemetry Platform
Architected the calculation engines, automated damper control algorithms, and field data pipelines powering Rheia Manage and Rheia Verify across 25,000+ homes.
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Rheia Component Architecture & Twist-Lock Fittings
Led product design and mechanical development for Rheia's patented twist-and-lock duct fittings, central distribution manifolds, and self-sealing component architecture.
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CFD Junction Box & Airflow Dynamics Research
Conducted 3D CFD airflow simulations under Rich Lange to model pressure drop, turbulence, and velocity fields in flex duct junction boxes—establishing the fluid dynamics foundation for Rheia.
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Generative Space-Filling Structures & Modular Furniture
An ongoing personal R&D passion project exploring generative algorithms in Python to calculate non-intersecting 3D space-filling cylindrical tube networks, guaranteed physical assemblability, integrated structural cross-bracing, custom nodal joints, and physical prototyping workflows.
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Automated Vivarium & Hardware Controller
Designed and built an automated environmental controller using a Raspberry Pi, LabJack DAQ sensors, and custom Python software—built specifically to manage microclimate conditions for our pet gecko here in Phoenix.
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The Shope Residence
Custom architectural schematic design for a family home in Indiana, preserving the original chimney footprint and adapting during COVID lumber price spikes to an ICF build finished with extraordinary owner craftsmanship.
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Black Oak Pierced Slab Shelving System
Designed, CNC-milled, and hand-fabricated a massive 6-slab black oak media unit featuring inverted pyramid pockets pierced by compound-angle steel legs, finished with raw tung oil and custom welded footings.
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Parametric Wood Texture Panels
Designed and CNC-milled a series of parametric wood wall panels to explore algorithmic surface texturing, toolpath dynamics, and physical material depth.
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Alyson Shotz: Transitional Objects
Created Rhino and Grasshopper parametric 3D models to turn complex curved surfaces into buildable dichroic acrylic sculpture panels and structural rib systems for artist Alyson Shotz.
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3D Fossil Reconstruction (Nature Geoscience)
Reconstructed 3D digital models of 650-million-year-old fossils from serial rock slice images, co-authoring a paper in Nature Geoscience.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
Executed 3D digital reconstructions, micro 3D-printed building models, custom milled foam landscape elements, and animated projection mapping for the 50th-anniversary Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Computational Landscape: Psagot & Ungrounding
Developed generative Processing algorithms, terrain textures, and physical topography models for Situ Studio's 'Ungrounding' and Psagot territorial analysis projects.
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Surface Texture & 3D Computational Modeling
Developed algorithmic workflows in Rhino, Processing, and custom code to translate 2D image gradients, Perlin noise fields, and agent-based sphere-packing simulations into physical 3D CNC-milled surface textures.
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Venetian Vagabond: Aquatic Agent Swarms
Engineered custom 3D agent-based swarm algorithms in Processing (Java) and RhinoScript (with partner Jason McGee) under studio professor Alisa Andrasek, with scripting instruction from Gil Akos and Ezio Blasetti.
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CitySol Festival Pavilion
Fabricated modular stage pavilions and solar canopy structures for CitySol, a solar-powered summer arts and music festival on the East River.
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Cinematic Spatial Analysis
Filmic spatial analysis and video studies produced for a Pratt seminar under Maria Sierra, capturing spatial camera movement and temporal sequence edits.
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Pratt Studio: Form & Scripting
Explored algorithmic script generation, complex spatial form-finding, and detailed architectural drawings during graduate studies at Pratt under Maria Sierra.
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Calibration Channel (Mounds State Park)
A labor of love: CNC-milled and fabricated an ambitious timber and limestone viewing pavilion at Mounds State Park as a Virginia B. Ball Center Fellow under Prof. Kevin Klinger. Served as lead fabricator alongside lead designer Rob Horner, spending long hours on-site along the White River.