JVDS Architect
Work: Residental
Location: 80 Indian Hill, New York
Date: 2022-2023

80 Indian Hill is located in the forestry hills of Upstate New York. The design prioritizes a central outlook onto the surrounding landscapes. The remaining masses that surround the central outlook operate as double height spaces to enhance the amount of light that reaches into the home. Erica focused on the interior models, renders, and iteration of drawing sets. 

Project supervised by JVDS.

JVDS Architect
Work: Residental
Location: 183 Vanderbilt, New York
Date: 2022-2023

183 Vanderbilt was originally built in the 1920s as a horse stable. In the more recent years, it has been adapted into a home for a family of children.

The 183 Vanderbilt project is a balance of preserving the historical heritage of the site’s facade and materials while offering a accessible space of living. Erica focused on the interior and exterior renders, study models, and iteration of drawing sets.

Project supervised by JVDS

Client:Brooklyn Made x JVDS Architects
Work: Concert Hall Design
Location: 428 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY
Date: 2022-2023

Brooklyn Made is a company that hosts well-known musicians as well as local Artists.

The premise of the ongoing Brooklyn Made Concert Hall is to maintain the existing urban facade of the site and spatially diversify the different levels of light and acoustic experience as you enter the various underground spaces.

Project supervised by JVDS. 

Work: Public Archival Museum Proposal
Location: 26th and Tenessee Street, San Francisco
Date: 2021-2022

Museums publicly display only up to 5% of art. The remaining 95% of art is stored privately in archive. The San Francisco Archival Museum transcends the experience of the public eye by revealing 95% of the unseen archival in contrast to the 5% that is seen.
   
The form of the museum  focuses on a centralized mass as a private archive. The private unit is then surrounded by shifting public galleries. The intersection of the central mass and the surrounding gallery provide moments of visual intimacy between the innerworkings of the archive and the public. The intersection of public and privatized spaces results in a transcending experience of viewing the centralized archival space as a form of art in itself.

Project advised by Jennifer Ly, UC Berkeley Professor

Work: San Francisco Urban Institute
Location: Gough and Market Street, San Francisco
Date: 2020-2021

In the nature of San Francisco’s  grid packed urban design, the San Francisco Urban Institute’s form mimics the infill site’s original boundaries.

The main objective of the project is how to let in light from a site that is bound by the adjacent buildings’ walls. As a result, the building is partitioned with a light filled stair well that filters light from the northeast facade. The partition creates a northeast facade that funnels the direct light to the end of the building with a sliver of light revealing the city’s grid.

Project advised by Roddy Creedon,Head of UC Berkeley’s Architecture Department 

Work: Oakland Affordable Housing
Location: 81st Ave and International Blvd, East Oakland
Date: 2020-2021

The Oakland Affordable Housing project worked closely with the residents, young and old, of East Oakland. Every aspect of the design process was reviewed and consulted with feedback based on the communities’ needs and how the project can reflect the culture of Oakland in a context where the territory is rapidly gentrifying. 

The project prioritizes the need for more green space, cultural public and private space, and individual rest spaces.
The public first two floors introduce three main arteries that distribute public open space for cultural practices. Each housing unit has access to green spaces and identifible rooms of rest between the rotating set of modular window placements.  The form itself steps down to create gardening spaces for the residents while also respond in to the single family zone located behind the site.

Project in Collaboration with Loren Greene

Work: Three Rooms For One 
Location: None
Date: 2019-2020

Three Rooms for One project explores the relationship of how spaces can be experienced as rooms with or without the boundaries of partitioning walls.

The first floor demonstrates three distinct spaces that circulate into each other and are clearly defined by the openings of passageways. In contrast, the second floor identitifies with the same form as the first floor without the distinct partitionings of the wall. Yet, the navigation of the space is experienced as three seperate rooms while also being identified as one large form with sinching passageways.

Project advised by Hans Papke,UC Berkeley Professor 

Work: Freelance
Location: 2975 College Avenue, Berkeley
Date: 2020

Lead drafter and in person measure work for the local small business renovation of 2975 College avenue. Focused on the technical repairs for the opening of the small restaurant on College avenue.