My research examines how architects think, design, and make decisions within immersive environments. Using Virtual Reality and EEG, I explore how different levels of visual fidelity shape attention, problem–solution reasoning, and creativity during early-stage architectural design. A central focus of my work is contextualism: how designers interpret and respond to contextual cues such as form, culture, movement, and site constraints, and how these cues can be simulated with varying levels of abstraction in virtual spaces.

Complementing this empirical work is a sustained engagement with art and creative practice. I work across digital painting, illustration, and concept art, using tools such as digital drawing tablets and software-based painting workflows to explore atmosphere, light, materiality, and spatial mood. This practice-based work is integral to my research: the act of making—sketching, rendering, and visually iterating—informs how I think about representation, abstraction, and fidelity in design. I treat digital painting not merely as illustration but as a mode of inquiry, a way of testing how visual information is composed, perceived, and interpreted, which loops directly back into my questions about how environments are simulated and experienced in VR.

Alongside this, I maintain broader interests in urban design, urban planning and theory, walkability, and environmental analysis, particularly how built form and street-level conditions influence perception, behaviour, and spatial experience. Methodologically, my research contributes new approaches for integrating neural and protocol-based data to study design cognition, with the goal of advancing architectural and urban research beyond self-report and static evaluation frameworks. Across both the empirical and creative dimensions of my work, I am interested in how making and analysis can inform one another, bridging artistic practice, design cognition, and the built environment.