Sereolipi Produced for Limon Lab link to Project Developed for the Sereolipi Primary School project by Limon Lab, the exercise was to create a simple rhinoscript which could conceptually represent a structural grid system which would house a modular stretched fabric canopy. The canopy needed to be designed to have set states between semi open and [...]

Canopy Produced for ROY link to Roy Design Developed for Roy Design, the charge was to develop a signature paneling system for a flagship store in NYC.  The concept began with an interest in capturing the depth and richness of the tree canopy visual experience from beneath in a relatively planar panel system.  The goal being [...]

A concept for a social front end to a virtual marketplace

A lone tower on the edge of Brooklyn

     An Exploration of an Editorial Relationship Between Design and Fabrication Fiber placement technology opens the opportunity to address structure and skin as a synthetic and synonymous system who’s aesthetics can be directly tied into a structural methodology.  The architectural factors of light and translucency, stress and structure, material and effect, and function must [...]

FLUX, a landscape developed for the back yard of a typical Brooklyn Brownstone, attempts to collapse dense program requirements into a unique architectural event which is able to spread the existing planted landscape into an active section. As simple assembly system consisting of only 7 unique pieces, it explores the common contemporary building typology of [...]

Face Lift Produced at form-ula Text via form-ula.com link to project page Proposed as a Face-Lift to one of New York City’s high rises, F.A.T. (Fluent Adipose Tectonic) re-evaluates how a façade can be understood and manifest itself within today’s given current technological and cultural landscape. The project is an opportunity to program a multi-purpose [...]

Choice Bakery Produced at Evan Douglis Studio Choice presented a unique opportunity to synthesize the baroque and rococo typologies with a contemporary digital practice. Using contemporary digital production methods and current fabrication technologies with classical techniques of mass production the design consistently demanded a consistent balance between the contemporary and the classical. The program, a [...]

   Proposal to Address Change in NYC Subway System In evaluating the current state of the MTA transit system the growing divide between the infrastructural system and the end user interactivity raises serious concern about the efficiency of the functionality of the Subways.  (i) station is proposed as an informational interface and economic engine which [...]

   Programmatic Integration Installation for the Japanese Shinkansen System   Aurora: A brilliant display of bands or folds of variously colored light in the sky Aura: A distinctive but intangible quality that seems to surround a person or thing; atmosphere Aura is a response to the highly saturated culture of Japan and the speed of [...]

   An Analogous Building System for an age of Digital Design Para_Mech is a reflexive assembly mechanism, developed as a structural scaffold and skinning system for a multifaceted look at the transition of the architectural body.  By working through Rhino Script and Grasshopper, reality/ fabrication based constraints are pre-programmed into a tool set which allows [...]

   An Agricultural/ Environmental Enabler for the Banaue Rice Terraces: World Heritage Organization Produced in Collaboration with Takuma Kakehi   Acting as an environmental mediator for the fields dual function as an active agricultural region and World Heritage site with a large scale economy of Tourism, Terra Firma proposes a minimal body of architecture densly [...]

   Winner: What If NYC Competition Produced with Otto Ruano and Robert Wrazen Text adapted from text authored by Otto Ruano Outside the realm of typical architectural practice, SCALE uses the car manufacturing industry as a solution to create lightweight, reusable, flexible, and adaptive structures. The strength and weatherproofing of a manufactured car door is [...]

   Synthetic Nature Produced for Coggan Crawford Schaut   The concept as established by CCS was to develop a topiary of light and shadow for the contributors to the Celebrate Brooklyn performance series. The installation was to freeze the sky scape of the park through the night maintaining a contextual sensibility in the absence of [...]

   An Architectural Response to an Impending Environmental Crisis Through Agricultural Sustainment and Economic Diversification China is the world’s largest growing agriculture producer per population, with over 60 percent of its population classified as rural. Yet, recent rapid urban migration has increased demand on these regions while reducing supply producers, the effects of which have [...]

   A Reflexive Redefinition of the Formal Elements of Architecture Through Materiality Between the ever changing plain of earth on which the house finds itself and the predictable and filterable light of the sky there exists a Reciprocity of Horizon. The house, a moment between two systems, a covariant derivative between light and ground. Within [...]

   An Urban Synthesis of Transit, Commerce, and Global Competition The Interference Plexus, an Olympic aquatic center and community space, is an architecture composed of disruption and mediation of a highly varied range of speeds of transit, located across from the PS1 in queens. It is a place of arrival, interchange, and ultimately synthesis. Sited [...]

   A Hybrid Biological Park/ Ecological Lab Facility Populous is an urban park, educational complex, and aquatic nature reservoir for indigenous life forms on the Hudson river along the west side of Manhattan.  Grappling on the resident typology of the pier as a collection of pylons, Populous creates an aggregated of programatically diverse units within [...]

   An Open Archive of Knowledge A library for the memory of knowledge, sited at the edge of an ocean adja cent to a graveyard evokes an ever growing critical question about the life and death and rebirth of objects and information. The architecture of this place will capture the essence of detach ment and [...]

   Capturing a Performance in Material description coming soon program: Performance Space location: Undefined date: 2004

     Passively Sustainable Low Income Housing The program breaks away from its context revealing a facade as a shell, split by light opening spaces for a Community within. The ground between now exposed the contextual private and public now fl ow through this chasm. Draped over this concrete scaffold a skin of ivy binds [...]

   An Education in Light A body enters a defined space. Before it is a datum array of light and shadow.  As the body moves through the field the juxtaposition of light and dark pass over the contours of the body heading cooling, illuminating and concealing.  Light as a force, as entity, as unique from [...]