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.
Oblique Figures inherits an empty cubic space and inserts a stair as fulcrum, pivoting new spatial and perceptual relationships around a central, curving figure. Connecting three scales and orientations of space, the stair differentiates and domesticates its context by transforming in perspective — appearing as a domestically scaled slim column from the kitchen, a publically scaled grand stair from the entrance axis, and a perspectivally exaggerated dramatic figure from the dining.
Living space
The stair stitches together an entry axis at 0 degrees, a spatial axis at 90 degrees, and a mezzanine level set at an oblique.
View from below
The stair is inscribed within two implicit cylinders. With different vantage points, these two cylinders swap foreshortened relationships, and shift the proportions of the figure.
Perspectival shifts
Perspectival shifts
Perspectival shifts
Perspectival shifts
The stair differentiates and domesticates its oversized cubic context by transforming in perspective — appearing as a domestically scaled slim figure of single radius from the kitchen, and publically scaled grand stair from the entrance axis, and a perspectivally exaggerated receding figure from the dining.
Perceptual Model
Perceptual Model
Perceptual Model
Perceptual Model
Perceptual Model
Stair views from dining room, kitchen, and through entry
Stair views from dining room, kitchen, and through entry
Stair views from dining room, kitchen, and through entry
Stair views from dining room, kitchen, and through entry
