"As a child I loved to look up. I would look up at the tall buildings of a downtown core, wondering how the buildings were built. I would look up at an approaching weather system, wondering how and why the clouds were moving the way that they were. Architecture and meteorology became my biggest interests and as I progressed through school, I began to understand how interconnected the two disciplines are. For me, each building can and should take advantage of its surrounding context; drawing upon the built environment to enhance the existing community, and passively and actively interacting with the natural environment to be as sustainable as possible."