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 [...]

   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 [...]