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Commercial

Commercial work, current and past.

studio c takes commercial tenant improvement from $150,000 to $5 million: restaurants, clinics, retail, and office. Recent clients include U-Haul, Moxy, and Zimmer Biomet.

The rest of this page is the earlier record, from twenty years at firms in San Francisco, Shanghai, and Cleveland. The firm of record and my role are under every project.
U-Haul Fremont caretaker quarters conversion, framing axon
U-HAUL

Fremont, California, 2026
Retail and self-storage. studio c as the Architect of Record. Corporate-account work under U-Haul's national program. Convert a portion of the retail area into a caretaker quarter (R-2 and B), with accessibility and egress modifications. 2,350 sq-ft.

	Zimmer Biomet office TI in Santa Clara, axon drawing
Zimmer Biomet

Santa Clara, California, 2025
Office and medical device, studio c as the Architect of Record. Tenant improvement at 1725 De La Cruz Blvd for a medical-device company, carried through two permit revisions, including a design change during plan check. 4,200 sq-ft built out.

m0xy fabrication hub Oakland, egress and accessibility axon
m0xy

Oakland, California, 2025
Artist & fabricator hub. studio c as the permit consultant for the light industrial facility's (F-1 and S-1) egress and accessibility compliance work. Permitted. Facility: 29,550 sq-ft, Lot: 40,000 sq-ft

Sacred Soul body art studio Union City, axon drawing
sacred soul

Union City, California, 2024
Body art studio, commercial TI. studio c as the Architect of Record for the art studio space design, egress, accessibility, and county health department compliance work. Permitted. Unit area: 8,400 sq-ft, Lot: 57,000 sq-ft

Ember Ridge condo building, panelized framing model
Ozark Ember Ridge

Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri · Multifamily
A resort community on a 10-acre lakefront. The condo buildings were designed for panelized construction, and our part was turning the architect's design into a full framing model and panel drawings for off-site fabrication.
Panelization, contracted to ICS · Design architect: Clockwork Architecture

Chick-fil-A restaurant in Texas, exterior drawing
Chick-fil-A, multiple locations

Texas · 3,000 to 6,000 sq ft · 2022
QSR Restaurant
Full-service stores with a multi-lane drive-thru. Senior Architect. Contract work for ICS. 

Chick-fil-A four-lane drive-thru prototype
Chick-fil-A, drive-thru prototype

​Atlanta · 5,500 sq ft · 2021
Quick-service restaurant The drive-thru line had outgrown the dining room, so this prototype deleted the dining room. Four drive-thru lanes, four delivery conveyors, and the kitchen moved upstairs. Every piece was componentized for prefabrication; the pilot launched in Texas. Project Manager, Project Frog

Jollibee prefabricated drive-thru prototype
Jollibee Prototypes

North America · Quick-service restaurant Jollibee's first North American drive-thru had to go up fast and still read as Jollibee. We built their prefabrication program: the brand's architectural features designed into components made for rapid installation. Project Manager, Project Frog

Walgreens prefabricated retail store prototype
Walgreens Prototyps

North America · 9,761 and 2,500 sq ft · Retail Walgreens wanted stores it could roll out quickly, in two sizes. The kit: non-combustible light-gauge steel walls, steel joists, and roof cassettes, engineered so a store goes together the same way every time. Project Manager, Kit-of-part Designer, Project Frog

NVIDIA Voyager headquarters exterior, Santa Clara
NVIDIA Headquarter

Santa Clara, California · 2019

250,000 sq ft · Corporate headquarters Nvidia's second headquarters building. I carried out construction documentation and administration for the full 250,000 sq ft. Senior Architect, Gensler

200 Park Avenue office tower, San Jose
200 PARK AVENUE

San Jose, California · 2019

1,352,000 sq ft · Office tower Seven levels of outdoor terraces stacked over fourteen floors, in downtown San Jose. I ran schematic design and the coordination between multiple municipal jurisdictions, the traffic consultant, and the landscape team; 840,000 sq ft of it is leasable office. Senior Architect, Gensler

LuCheng Incubator office tower, competition perspective
LuCheng Incubator

LuCheng, ZheJiang, 2015

Office

Lead Design and Architect

Concept competition

Anting Autotown R&D Harbour courtyard and louver screen facade, Shanghai
Anting Autotown

Jiading District, Shanghai · 506,980 sq ft · Commercial and R&D · Completed 2015
A research campus for Shanghai's auto industry, laid out around small landscaped courtyards in the Jiangnan tradition: three office and hotel towers, with four lower blocks holding clubhouse, dining, retail, and R&D offices. A central gas power plant in the podium and basement supplies clean energy to more than 228,000 sq ft of R&D space.
I carried the project from design development through construction documentation, 2010 to 2011. Project Architect, Atelier Liu Yuyang

1600 Owens Street laboratory building facade, Mission Bay, San Francisco.
1600 OWENS

Mission Bay, San Francisco · 220,000 sq ft · Lab-ready office · LEED Platinum
Built speculative and lab-ready for whichever biotech tenant came first. Kaiser Permanente liked the building and its position next to UCSF's Mission Bay campus enough to acquire the whole project for a new medical office. Nine stories, LEED Platinum NC. My part ran from concept development and schematic design through the bid set.
Job Captain, Studios Architecture

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