A shortlisted memorial proposal for the Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871, centered upon a garden and formed in support of diasporic cultures and memory
A residential addition inspired by cloud watching as a strategy for both privacy and openness, through choreographed gradients of light, shadow, and translucency.
Adapting the visual and geometric language of Basquiat’s crown to generate a new inclusive housing typology.
A house looks to the undulations of a hairpin turning mountain road as navigational and spatial device within a constrained 19th century domestic interior.
Walls are shifted, drawn, and parted as a series of veils to calibrate light and access.
Facilitating growing density in suburban America through choreographed turns and displacements of circulation and views.
Pivoting domestic choreographic and perceptual relationships around a curving stair.
A rapidly reconfigurable gallery space which looks to theatrical fly rigging systems, motivated by an architectural envy for the stage and its ease of transformation.
Built between three distinct landscapes, a series of faces and frames centered on a trefoil circulation loop allows for unbroken yet differentiated views and access for a wheelchair using client.
Weaving seating and lounging into a deck surface for simultaneous repose and programmatic density.
Cloud pavilion inserts living space onto the rooftop of a single family brownstone in Manhattan. Surrounded by skyscrapers, the living space looks to cloud-watching as a strategy to both create privacy and intensify the experience of being outdoors by treating the roof as a cloud-like volume which produces plays of light and transparency while producing privacy from surrounding taller neighbors.
Thin louvers wrapping a glass envelope produce privacy from oblique neighbors but an open view which follows the interior occupant as they move
Invisibility Envelope: the addition is required by code to be completely invisible from the street
Sectional Details
Sectional Details
Sectional Details
Sectional Details
Perimeter plantings provide a sense of both enclosure and connection to the exterior
Spiral Staircase connection to living spaces below
The perforated metal mesh stair continues the architectural translation of natural lighting effects to bring dappled light into the living spaces below
