SQ V L is a vancouver-based studio with a mission to make architecture, research, and the planning process more accessible to communities who need them the most by providing technical and engagement services.

planning, architecture + design

pre-design: planning, programming + design guidelines

• accessibility assets design guidelines for the whitney museum of american art in New York, NY

• accessibility design guidelines for yale university in New Haven, CT

• accessible and inclusive design guidelines for classroom buildings at washington university in St. Louis, MO

• design guidelines and distribution framework for inclusive restrooms at MIT in Cambridge, MA

• space program planning for an autism-friendly recreation complex

• strategic plan for the urban dove school

interior design + building

• family commons at st. jude children’s hospital in Memphis, TN

• the first chase sapphire airport lounge in Hong Kong

• warming shelters for the TED2016 conference in Vancouver, BC

• a multifamily housing complex powered by its own wastewater in the Bronx, NY

• a library for emergency management in New York, NY

engagement + facilitation

cultural institutions

• common civics workshops at the museum of modern art (MoMA)

• intergenerational hub and welcome desk for the queens museum

• staff + visitor workshops for the san diego museum of art

• making the inclusive museum symposium workshop with the architectural league

educational + healthcare facitilies

• inclusive restroom workshop for washington university

• stakeholder workshops and interviews for the university of miami new cancer research center

non-profits + community organizations

• workshops and focus groups with the els for autism foundation

• annual team retreat for the catskills agrarian alliance

• a community solarium for mujeres de islas in Culebra, Puerto Rico

• resilient palma workshop with the world wildlife federation + center for resilient cities and landscapes

• public engagement for addressing pollution in the bogota river

research + writing

energy, climate, disaster

• responsibly powering the philippine islands with geothermal energy (thesis)

• heat transects for nyc housing authority developments

• the gendered chains of disaster: stories from hurricane katrina

• missing migrants in 2017

philippine islands

• covid-19 and the filipinx diaspora of care

• teaching filipinized or philippine architecture

• kaniya (podcast)

design process

• designing equitable and inclusive virtual spaces of engagement

drawings + Data visualization

• star route farm (commissioned, 2022)

• ina (drawing-collage series, ongoing)

• kapwa quaranzine by sari sari studio (art contributor, 2020)

• sketching berlin (2013)