This project explores how to integrate mosquito-borne disease prevention into the design, landscape, and routines of four district hospitals in Zanzibar, co-creating contextual interventions with hospital users to reduce mosquito populations and bites
AIA’s Framework informs progress toward an equitable, healthy, resilient, and zero-carbon built environment. It aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, demonstrating a common urgent call for climate action and equity.
Transforming an underused classroom into a climate education hub, this project equips students with practical Passive House skills (Insulation, Airtightness, Windows, Ventilation, Modeling , supports workforce pathways, and models scalable, climate-responsive training through sustained partnerships.
The project is a community-controlled, culturally grounded health facility placing wellness at the centre of community, enabling Martu / Niabali people access high-quality care on Country while strengthening culture, dignity and connection.
“Balikbayan” housing celebrates cultural identity in Toronto’s Little Manila. Addressing unaffordable, inflexible housing for Filipino immigrants, it reimagines accessible homes, adapting the traditional compound into a mid-rise fostering belonging and community resilience.
No Time to Waste reimagines NYC’s food waste system by transforming a former oil-tank site into an experiential compost park, linking waste diversion, urban farming, research, and education to reduce methane emissions.
This project examined the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through a community engagement and sustainability lens, emphasizing the importance of incorporating resident-led visions into large-scale infrastructure planning.
Design Process Studio integrated UNSDGs into second-semester interior design education, positioning sustainability as foundational rather than supplementary. Students addressed real-world challenges, examining how design decisions intersect with environmental, social, and economic systems.
Designing civic architecture for Wilcannia, NSW, this project centres Country, community, and culture, engaging with Barkindji knowledge to create contextually responsive, inclusive spaces through collaborative, research-led design.
RISE transforms human and environmental health in informal settlements through water-sensitive, naturebased infrastructure. Working with communities and governments in Fiji and Indonesia, it delivers sanitation upgrades and evidence to scale resilient, equitable urban futures.