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Projects & investigations

Work.

From the scale of a brick to the conditions of a habitat. Explore the briefs, experiments and design decisions behind the work.

16 projects
Built shelving installation01 / InteriorsRead the project
Classroom & fabrication

Harbor Waves

An adaptable classroom shaped by the meeting of an ordered grid and the movement of a wave.

Section model — axonometric view02 / ArchitectureRead the project
Degree project

Orbital Habitation

A landscape untied from reality: living, moving and keeping time without a stable ground.

Exterior rendering03 / ArchitectureRead the project
Civic space & building systems

Rockaway Community Center

A shared canopy brings making, learning and community life around a stepped courtyard in Arverne.

Interior — light through the screen04 / InteriorsRead the project
Vibrant Blocks

The View Funnel

One repeated block, two different faces, and a view that changes as you move.

Textile-block surface — hybrid image05 / ArchitectureRead the project
Millard House · Detail to whole

La Miniatura

A textile block becomes a way to study the construction, light and spatial character of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House.

Physical model — contoured ground06 / ArchitectureRead the project
Landscape, water & public space

Prospect Wetland Center

Civic rooms beneath a new groundline, connected to four ponds and the working landscape of Prospect Park.

Exterior in the wooded landscape07 / Visual studiesRead the project
Immersive narrative & visualization

Escape

An architectural reconstruction becomes the setting for a cinematic escape.

The collected installation08 / Objects & participationRead the project
Social Justice Praxis Lab

Pick N’ Place

Reused containers become a collective portrait of student life, one ordinary object at a time.

Digital interior study09 / Visual studiesRead the project
St. John the Divine · Digital study

Cathedral

Scanned surfaces and reconstructed geometry offer two ways of reading an unfinished cathedral.

Building systems axonometric10 / ArchitectureRead the project
Collective housing · Gowanus

Fractal Stripes

An apartment proposal that explores how shared space can operate from a domestic cluster to the city block.

Section through the proposal11 / ArchitectureRead the project
Japan Society · Civic film center

Matryoshka Box

Nested volumes and a slanted atrium connect a proposed film center with an existing cultural institution.

Aerial view of the urban proposal12 / ArchitectureRead the project
Urban space & circulation

Communication Park

A continuous route connects a sequence of planted and built spaces within a dense urban setting.

Model — landscape and intervention13 / Visual studiesRead the project
Grading & hydrology studies

Topography Studies

Contour models test how a path, bridge or enclosure can meet a changing ground.

Continuous stair assembly14 / Visual studiesRead the project
Staircase transformations

Metabolist Change

A study of crossing stairs develops into an independent system of flights, landings and continuous movement.

Intersecting planes15 / Visual studiesRead the project
Systems hybridization

Form & Light

Wrapping Ribbons and Shrinking Voids meet in an early investigation of enclosure, circulation and light.

Architectural drawing16 / Visual studiesRead the project
Line, color & observation

Architectural Drawings

Two approaches to representing architecture: an extended courtyard sequence and a close encounter between building and landscape.