My design process emulates an obsession with miniature models and geometric manipulation that derives from my longing desire to recreate the joy I found in the architectural forms of each environment I grew up in. Legoland mini-cities, Wuhan’s future city model, Berlin’s comprehensive city model, the Audi factory in Stuttgart, and the Martin House complex are the memories of these places that built a foundational familiarity with scaled design. Studying architecture and design at HWS gave purpose to that excitement. The studio environment presented me with an agency over my own process that altered my attitude towards my work and helped me realize that design work and self-growth are parallel processes.

            As my design process transitions to different mediums, the parallel labels of academics and self are mere placeholders for drawing and modeling, craft and concept, acknowledgment and criticism, happiness and success. Design gives meaning to my adaptable learning process. It is a platform upon which I can build a design vocabulary that is unique to my story, yet compatible with those who design for the betterment of our built environment. A heightened ability to share my passion with others foreshadows collaboration as paramount in a life-long project of designing a world where earth and its inhabitants exist harmoniously. I look for new fields of opportunity that will generate new iterations of my creative process and promote solutions that operate at intimate and global scales to simultaneously improve the well-being of the collective and the natural environment.