Felipe E. Harker — Portfolio

Work

Hark Urbanism

A city-building game for the browser, simulated the way planners model a city — trip generation, congestion, retail markets, walksheds and land value — so streets, housing, transit and parks shape who moves in and what the city earns.

JavaScript Canvas Urban Planning

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Parametric Studies

Design studies run with the Alexandria Phoenix components — Voronoi grids, attractor modifiers — each putting a set of components through every variation worth comparing, in one Grasshopper definition.

Rhino 8 Grasshopper Alexandria Phoenix

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Alexandria Phoenix Documentation

Grasshopper components for the logic every project repeats — grids, attractor fields, transforms, culls and fabrication — and a Rhino toolbar that sets up, dimensions and renders a model to one standard, built from plain Python scripts.

Rhino 8 Grasshopper Python

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Living Outside the Box

Caixa Social: a hillside housing community in Rio built up from one pre-fabricated concrete box — a box makes a room, two make a house, five houses make a cluster.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Residential Urban Planning

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Dead Mall Fall

An urban design proposal for the neighborhood around Greenspoint Mall, reworking its streets, trails and greenspaces around transit, walkability and flood mitigation.

Houston, TX Urban Planning

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Collingsworth Marketplace

A walkable mixed-use marketplace for Near Northside, adapting an existing two-block warehouse with passive cooling, ventilation and stormwater strategies.

Houston, TX Adaptive Reuse Urban Planning

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Harker Ornithology Report

A record of field observations, checklists and media, built from eBird exports at compile time and published as a static site with a map of every location visited.

Next.js TypeScript eBird

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Dove Habitat

A modular system of 3D-printed mounts and accessories for a wire corner cage, built on one shared interface so any accessory fits on any mount.

Rhino 3D Printing PETG

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Charmera

Four new effects patched into the Kodak Charmera keychain camera’s stock firmware: three color looks and a pixel text stamp set up with the camera’s own buttons.

ARM7 C Python Firmware

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About

I graduated from the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture and Design in 2024 with a Bachelor of Architecture. Since then I have worked in commercial signage and architectural products — custom perforated panel systems, facades, exterior cladding — across the design, fabrication and installation pipeline, and led the effort to bring parametric and computational practice into that work.

Most of what I build is infrastructure for other people’s work: Grasshopper definitions and Python scripts that keep a model in step with a scope that keeps moving, plug-ins that standardise a process somebody was doing by hand, and reference documents that make any of it findable a year later. The ornithology report is that same instinct applied to my own material, and so is my CV, kept as a page of static HTML rather than an attachment.

Before that I spent three years as a staff photographer for the McGovern College of the Arts, covering performances, exhibitions and concerts, and edited UH: Close Up, an architecture and documentary photography page. Outside work I run, follow college football, and go birding — which is where the ornithology report came from.

Elsewhere

Resume Education, experience and skills, on one printable page.
GitHub Source for the software on this page, and for this site.
LinkedIn Professional history, in the format that expects it.
fehark@gmail.com The best way to reach me.