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Portfolio 2024

Before anyone had hired me, this book had to talk for me. So it argues one habit across four buildings: a bamboo-roofed lodge above a lake, a research centre behind a carved screen, a civic hall under one sweeping roof, a hotel whose rooms pivot toward the water. In each, the sun, the breeze and the shade make the first decisions, and the form follows. Together they show a way of designing, not a list of projects. The work is mine, the lodge with my team, and so is the book.

Industry: Architecture & interiors
Type: Printed portfolio
Role: Architect & designer

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Bishan Guracha Eco-Lodge

Round bungalows follow the hillside down to the lake, each under a wide bamboo roof that shades its walls and lets the lake breeze through. Local materials, rainwater kept, and nothing mechanical where the climate can do the work. My team's entry won first place in Hawassa University's eco-lodge competition in June 2024.

Loret Research Center

A centre for medical and life-science research, wrapped in a carved screen generated in Grasshopper that softens the sun for the labs and gives the building its face. Inside, the floors gather around a planted atrium under a glass dome, and the section is drawn for air: cool air comes in low, warm air leaves through the roof.

Millennium Hall

A civic hall under one sweeping roof, its Y-shaped plan reaching out into the square around it. Inside, a lattice drawn from Ethiopian craft and built up parametrically breaks the daylight into patterns that move through the day, and a ribbed passage, the path of light, carries people through.

Progress Hotel & Resort

A lakeside hotel built on one move: each floor pivots on the one below, so every room turns toward the light and the view, and the balconies step in and out down the facade. Curved timber slats shade the rooms, and two wings open around the gardens and pools.

Interiors and extras

Living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and a study in warm timber, stone and linen, lit to feel lived in. At the back of the book, the extras: generative studies, a kiosk and a few concept images.

Closing thoughts

I made this book to get hired. Turning it now, I see someone working out what a building owes its climate, and I'm still working that out.

Services: ArchitectureInterior designVisualizationEditorial design
Tools: RevitRhino + GrasshopperLumionD53ds MaxCoronaInDesign
Date: 2024

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