2022
FloodLeaf
A flood-response bollard that filters drinking water and deploys emergency liferafts — inspired by springtails, salps, earwigs, and lily pads.
Academic Exploration
Industrial Design
Biomimicry
Intro
Libraries are often defined by stillness. This project challenges that assumption.
My role in the project
Interior designer · concept, design, and 3D visualization.
Problem
Original Brooklyn Library
Sketch
Re-design floor plans
First Floor — The ground level balances arrival and activity
Entry and reception sit at the front; café, dining, and restrooms to the left; elevator, staff facilities, and offices to the right; a gallery corridor runs along the rear. Both the entry sequence and the corridor lead inward to a raised central platform — flanked by bookshelves on either side — that serves simultaneously as reading zone, passage, and the departure point for the staircases above.
Second Floor — A landscape for dwelling
Bookshelves define the floor without enclosing it. Soft seating, reading areas, and a large display screen are distributed across an open field — each zone distinct, yet uninterrupted. The second floor is where visitors settle in.
Section — The section reveals the spatial logic of the design
Learnings
Ask nature. Be inspired by nature. Design to translate.
Biomimicry taught me that nature has already solved most of the problems we face — we just haven't been looking closely enough. Every organism I studied had spent millions of years perfecting a single survival strategy. My job wasn't to invent, it was to translate.
2022
FloodLeaf
A flood-response bollard that filters drinking water and deploys emergency liferafts — inspired by springtails, salps, earwigs, and lily pads.
Academic Exploration
Industrial Design
Biomimicry
Intro
Libraries are often defined by stillness. This project challenges that assumption.
My role in the project
Interior designer · concept, design, and 3D visualization.
Problem
Original Brooklyn Library
Sketch
Re-design floor plans
First Floor — The ground level balances arrival and activity
Entry and reception sit at the front; café, dining, and restrooms to the left; elevator, staff facilities, and offices to the right; a gallery corridor runs along the rear. Both the entry sequence and the corridor lead inward to a raised central platform — flanked by bookshelves on either side — that serves simultaneously as reading zone, passage, and the departure point for the staircases above.
Second Floor — A landscape for dwelling
Bookshelves define the floor without enclosing it. Soft seating, reading areas, and a large display screen are distributed across an open field — each zone distinct, yet uninterrupted. The second floor is where visitors settle in.
Section — The section reveals the spatial logic of the design
Learnings
Ask nature. Be inspired by nature. Design to translate.
Biomimicry taught me that nature has already solved most of the problems we face — we just haven't been looking closely enough. Every organism I studied had spent millions of years perfecting a single survival strategy. My job wasn't to invent, it was to translate.
2022
FloodLeaf
A flood-response bollard that filters drinking water and deploys emergency liferafts — inspired by springtails, salps, earwigs, and lily pads.
Academic Exploration
Industrial Design
Biomimicry
Intro
Libraries are often defined by stillness. This project challenges that assumption.
My role in the project
Interior designer · concept, design, and 3D visualization.
Problem
Original Brooklyn Library
Sketch
Re-design floor plans
First Floor — The ground level balances arrival and activity
Entry and reception sit at the front; café, dining, and restrooms to the left; elevator, staff facilities, and offices to the right; a gallery corridor runs along the rear. Both the entry sequence and the corridor lead inward to a raised central platform — flanked by bookshelves on either side — that serves simultaneously as reading zone, passage, and the departure point for the staircases above.
Second Floor — A landscape for dwelling
Bookshelves define the floor without enclosing it. Soft seating, reading areas, and a large display screen are distributed across an open field — each zone distinct, yet uninterrupted. The second floor is where visitors settle in.
Section — The section reveals the spatial logic of the design
Learnings
Ask nature. Be inspired by nature. Design to translate.
Biomimicry taught me that nature has already solved most of the problems we face — we just haven't been looking closely enough. Every organism I studied had spent millions of years perfecting a single survival strategy. My job wasn't to invent, it was to translate.