Precedent Study
Gellért Thermal Bath Study, 2020
This thermal bath was being constructed in Budapest, Hungary as World War I was beginning, and was finished despite the stresses resulting from the war. It contains an abundance of late Art Nouveau imagery, and serves as a testament to a style that largely wanned after the onset of the war. The aquatic symbolism informs both the form of features such as the chairs and stairs, but also the sculptures adoring the fountains that depicting mermaids and cupids. The thermal bath is heated naturally within the earth and the mineral dense water possesses healing properties.
360° Panorama Video
This project was completed for A4023-1 Architectural Drawing & Representation I, taught by Farzin Lotfi-Jam at Columbia University, GSAPP.
Architecture, Interior Design, Precedent Study
This thermal bath was being constructed in Budapest, Hungary as World War I was beginning, and was finished despite the stresses resulting from the war. It contains an abundance of late Art Nouveau imagery, and serves as a testament to a style that largely wanned after the onset of the war. The aquatic symbolism informs both the form of features such as the chairs and stairs, but also the sculptures adoring the fountains that depicting mermaids and cupids. The thermal bath is heated naturally within the earth and the mineral dense water possesses healing properties.
360° Panorama Video
This project was completed for A4023-1 Architectural Drawing & Representation I, taught by Farzin Lotfi-Jam at Columbia University, GSAPP.
Architecture, Interior Design, Precedent Study
Wall Panel Study, 2019
This polychrome marble mosaic adorned a presently unknown building in Cairo, Egypt during the Mamluk period. It was gifted to the MET through the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, but earlier provenance is unknown. Curious about the 5-sided tesselating geometries that underpin this mosaic, I found a video demonstrating how to construct a similar pattern and then iterated on that method until I was able to recreate the entire mosaic with only a compass and straightedge. The use of unit based measurement is intentionally omitted from this process in order to explore the idealized mathematical relationships that the tools (compass and straightedge) afford.
This precedent study was self-initiated.
Interior Design, Precedent Study
This polychrome marble mosaic adorned a presently unknown building in Cairo, Egypt during the Mamluk period. It was gifted to the MET through the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, but earlier provenance is unknown. Curious about the 5-sided tesselating geometries that underpin this mosaic, I found a video demonstrating how to construct a similar pattern and then iterated on that method until I was able to recreate the entire mosaic with only a compass and straightedge. The use of unit based measurement is intentionally omitted from this process in order to explore the idealized mathematical relationships that the tools (compass and straightedge) afford.
This precedent study was self-initiated.
Interior Design, Precedent Study
