ACADEMIC WORK

2024
PLANNING

PLAYSCAPES


A proposal that leverages forgotten underpinnings to connect the population clusters emerging on Secaucus’s periphery through park and greenway interspersed with multi-generational housing,

2023
CIVIC

FAIR HAVEN INTERCHANGE


Here, transport spaces transform into an interchange for goods, for books, for foods, for ideas — for languages and cultures alike.
2023
RESIDENTIAL

ST JOHNS HOUSING 


Re-envisioning an unused church school and vacant convent lot into 75 units of affordable housing; to be developed under 9% LIHTC guidelines.  
2023
RESIDENTIAL

JIM VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT 


A house for two families wherein the layout creates balance - balance between privacy and community; between individual autonomy and collaboration.
2023
BUILDING TECH

ROBOTIC EXPRESSIONS


Structural and form-making experiments conducted with RobotStudio and ABB IRB arms, exploring the limits of dry stacked doubly curved surfaces and merging tapered forms for stability. 
2023
VISUALIZATION

ARCHITECTURE OF THE IMAGE


Experiments in creating a space that transforms and contorts with changing focuses, utilizing the toolsets of 3DS Max, Corona, and tyFlow.  
2023
RESIDENTIAL

GABION CANOPIES


The blasted remnants of the site’s prior quarry usage to fill a series of counterbalanced gabion structures that expand and merge as one ascends.
2022

CULTURAL

INSTITUTE FOR SACRED MUSIC


Inspired by sacred caveswherein the geometry of the cavern causes sound to echo in phase; we create a natural space for the amplification and proliferation of sound.
2022
CULTURAL

CLIFFSIDE EYRIE


Patterned after the industrial artifact of a saw set and situated on the underside of an exposed cliff face, this structure serves as a doomed overlook over ever-rising waters.
2019
CULTURAL

LIVING MEMORIALS


An arrangement of concrete funerary stelae - each unique and containing different affordances for a variety of lifeforms, from anchors for acropora to roosts for seabirds.
2018

CIVIC

Y2Y YOUTH SHELTER


Rooms are arranged amidst a topographic staircase in order to provide a view outwards toward the sunken garden behind the shelter, so that each room has its own unobstructed view.  
2018

RESIDENTIAL

WEAVER’S STUDIO


A studio designed for alternating between an artist and a scholar in-residence. Perched like a bridgehouse above a lake, twisting louvers frame an ever-changing series of views.
2018
PLANNING

MILL RIVER RESILIENCE PLAN


Using an economic model co-developed with the Yale School of Forestry, we developed a proposal for retreat and resilience on the industrial coast between New Haven and Fair Haven.