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Courtyard Facade Concept Floor Lounge Concept

University of La Verne, Student Housing & Dining Design-build with Steinberg and Bernards | 6.2015 - current

Client La Verne University Location La Verne, CA Program area 112,000 SF | 384 Beds Construction V-A over I-A Const. Cost $40 M Status Active | Design Development Role Project Designer

Designing an environment for freshman students that creates a strong community, centers around a warm and welcoming community. It stitches social oppor tunities in both the living “neighborhoods” and the building “market”. The preserved open cour tyard brings the hear t of student life to the university’s center, creates a bridge between the existing student housing and the campus center, through to the academic core beyond, hence suppor ting an active hub for the school community.




Library Concept Case Study Classroom Concept

Programming with Steinberg | 1.2016 - 5.2016

Client University of California, Irvine Location Irvine, CA Program area 221,700 SF Const. Cost $136.7 M Status Complete Role Programmer

UC Irvine, School of Law

The School of Law envisions an optimum 21st century home to bring a sense of identity, beauty, and innovative functionality to their physical environments, in suppor t of the quality education it brings to its growing student population. The new facility will consolidate all the school’s functions within one building, and proposes modern, state-of-the-ar t spaces for teaching, learning, and socializing, where a student-centric hands-on experience is valued and prioritized.




Renovation with Steinberg | 4.2015 - current

Client Long Beach City College Location Long Beach, CA Program area 16,000 SF Construction Type V-B Const. Cost $5.5 M Status Active | Bidding Role Project Designer & Project Architect

Finish Floor Plan Corridor Portal Elevation

Long Beach City College, Liberal Arts Building

The 1930’s cour tyard building faces a prominent city street, making it a prominent face of the College. The design vision bridges the preserved historic architecture exterior with modern technological advancements on the interior. Classrooms and offices house the English depar tment and the College’s newspaper. The building will undergo upgrades to all building systems, seismic strengthening, interior finishes, and access compliance, and the cour tyard will be upgraded to suppor t multiple types of teaching and gathering.




Site Plan

St. Mary’s, Master Plan Master Plan with Steinberg | 2.2016 - 5.2016

Client St. Mary’s Elementary School Location Aliso Viejo, CA Program area 127,800 SF Const. Cost $27.9 M Status Complete Role Programmer, Master Planner, & Designer

Interior Courtyard Concept

The Plan reinforces St. Mary’s vision of shaping young minds into word citizens, through spaces that suppor t a robust International Baccalaureate curriculum. It focuses on providing a new 30,500 SF STE(A)M building, a future 26,700 Academic building, and 70,600 SF of upgraded existing spaces. Its goal is to enhance and reinforce the academic, pedagogical, curriculum, and cultural aspirations over the next fif teen years.




Design-build with Steinberg, IPD (AOR), and Bomel Construction | 6.2014 - 5.2015

Client California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Location Pomona, CA Program area 586,000 SF | 1,800 Cars Construction Type I-B Status Built, August 2015 Role Designer

Approach from Cal Poly Pomona Supergraphics beneath the I-Poly Walkway

The structure provides multiple prominent vehicle entries along University Drive and Collins Street, with safe and intimate pedestrian pathways traversing it to reinforce the connection between the University and I-Poly high school to the south. The “I-Poly walkway” creates a unique environment of skylights and landscaped oasis. Strategic branding and design features of vehicle entries, elevator cores, shade canopies, and environmental graphics weave throughout the structure to create wayfinding and a visible presence.

Cal Poly Pomona, Parking Structure 2




CSU San Marcos, Student Health & Counseling Services Design-build with HMC Architects and C.W. Driver Builders | 4.2012 - 8.2013

Client California State University San Marcos Location San Marcos, CA Program area 19,000 SF Construction II-B Const. Cost $7.5 M Status Built, January 2015 Role Programmer & Designer

Vignette: Main Waiting Room Vignette: Passageway to Parking Structure

Located on a 60,000 SF site along the nor thern side of campus, the facility responds to active and passive student users who traverse along the existing pedestrian spine, linking the parking structure to the main campus. The three major programmatic functions include; a health clinic with ten clinical exam rooms, a wellness center, and a counseling center. The program also includes a relaxation station, pharmacy, lab, and administrative suppor t spaces.




Brooklyn College, Master Plan Master Plan with Pfeiffer Partners Architects | 12.2011 - 7.2011

Client City University of New York Location Brooklyn, NY Program area 37.6 Acres Status Complete Role Planner

College Context Laguardia Library Bell Tower xxxxxxx Hall

The Plan aligns with the College’s strategic plan and provides recommendations for new and renovated 1930’s infrastructure that suppor t the academic community composed of 17,000 students representing 100 nations and speaking 95 different languages. The goals of the plan are to; emphasize students as the focus; bring image, identity and visibility to each School, in suppor t of their academic mission; foster social interaction among students and faculty; promote collaboration between depar tments; and activate the two major landscape quadrangles of the campus.

ocean avenue

bedford avenue

flatbush avenue




LA County High School for the Arts Design with HMC Architects | 5.2006 - 5.2007

Client Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Location Los Angeles, CA Program area 47,000 SF Status Built Role Designer

idea-gram Black Box Roof Terrace Entry

Located on the ar tistically enlightened Cal State LA campus, the new high school takes hints from its neighboring buildings through its brick “wallpaper” and its scale. The floor plan is inspired by Warhol’s repetitive modulated pattern, a through double loaded corridor based on the modulated panel system at the sough facade. A Black Box beams above, showcasing the possibilities of the activities of expression that can take place inside; visual per formances, dance, theater, and music through the framed billboard.

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