Master planning for a 3.9M-sf detention campus -- the largest single-site facility of its kind in the United States. The work organizes general population housing, intake and release, medical, mental health and acute care across three towers and two ancillary buildings, replacing aging punitive infrastructure with a programmatic logic built around direct supervision, daylit common areas and vertical adjacency between housing and treatment.

Programmatic stacking and floor-by-floor space allocations across five facility components -- three housing towers, the Residential Treatment Unit and the Cermak medical acute building. Coordinated with corrections, mental health and medical operators to reconcile design intent with treatment standards and security requirements. Project span 2018 through 2024.

Designing the interior environment for a consolidated family court within a renovated 150,000-sf circa-1920 landmark. The courtroom interiors balance judicial gravity with warmth -- walnut millwork, a multicolor wood-slat feature wall behind the bench and integrated linear lighting that softens the institutional ceiling plane.

Collaborating with the design architect on bridging documents. Developing test-fit options and blocking diagrams for each department, participating in steering committee presentations and contributing to the conceptual report for cost estimation. Joint venture with a New York-based architecture firm.

The built environment either reinforces confinement or enables healing. This work operates at the intersection of clinical rigor, policy reform and architectural intention -- replacing punitive infrastructure with environments built around treatment, dignity and recovery. Warm cladding materials, generous daylight and considered landscape integrate therapeutic principles into the architecture itself.

Coordinated consultants and managed fee structures for a trauma-informed treatment campus. Developed design options that satisfied both security requirements and the emerging standards for behavioral health environments. Integrated BIM workflows with prefabrication sequencing for a 306-bed secure facility.

Transforming Rand Hall, a century-old brick industrial building on Cornell's campus, into a LEED Gold vertical library for the School of Architecture, Art and Planning. Three dense stack levels are suspended from a new roof structure -- shelving 125,000 volumes while keeping the main floor open for research and study. The project navigates the tension between historic fabric and contemporary performance, finding a language where old and new reinforce each other.

Contributed to design and construction document production. Coordinated high-performance building systems tailored to the library's unique open-stack configuration. Early-career project that established foundational experience in historic renovation, sustainable design and cross-discipline coordination.

Intimate-scale interior and retail projects where material choices and spatial proportion carry the design. A corner bakery with a warm storefront presence. An auditorium renovation balancing acoustics and atmosphere. Residential and commercial spaces developed through close collaboration with clients and craftspeople.

Design coordination for a 50-acre mixed-use entertainment and hospitality complex adjacent to Citi Field. The program weaves a hotel and casino, a 5,650-seat performance venue, food hall and 25 acres of public park into a cohesive urban district -- navigating the intersection of civic ambition, private development and public space.

Led cross-discipline coordination between architecture, landscape, civil and structural teams. Managed bridging documents across multiple structured garages and integrated public realm design with the entertainment program.

Pilot program for platform screen doors at three active subway stations. The challenge: integrating a new safety and environmental control system into stations that were never designed for it -- navigating existing column grids, ventilation systems and passenger flow patterns while maintaining uninterrupted service.

Led integration of screen door concepts with existing station elements. Coordinated interdisciplinary equipment room design and produced design-build bridging documents.

Mixed-use development at the corner of Ludlow and Grand — eight residential units stacked over a commercial lobby on a 1,648-sf R7-2 lot. Independent ground-up development study assembled at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. Architectural concept, zoning analysis, market segmentation, residential mix, sustainability strategy and full pro forma underwriting authored end-to-end. The artifact reads as both architectural project and capital asset.

Solo authorship across all components — site analysis, demographic study, project concept, residential mix, financial structure, sustainability targets and SWOT. Concluding capstone for the M.S. Real Estate Development with a concentration in Sustainable Development. Underwriting headlines: $1.43M maximum year-one revenue, $745K NOI, 5.1% cap rate, FAR 6 zoning envelope at maximum allowable height.

Interior renovation and strategic programming of a 5-story commercial office for an architecture and engineering firm. Developed the spatial strategy for collaboration zones, private offices and client-facing presentation areas -- balancing operational efficiency with the firm's creative identity.

An editorial platform examining justice architecture and the built environments of confinement, treatment and reform. Writing at the intersection of design practice and policy critique — where architecture either reinforces punitive logic or enables recovery. Direct engagement with a category of work the discipline largely refuses to look at.

Inaugural issue assembling typological, material and technological reports on innovations in justice and treatment infrastructure. Sections in development: trauma-informed planning, post-supervision typologies, materials of care, technology and surveillance. Drawing on first-hand work across $1.5B+ of detention, court and behavioral health programs.