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.
Within an overstuffed single-family residential neighborhood, Periscope House takes the periscope as its motivating force, choreographing turns and displacements of circulation and views within a tightly packed cubic volume. Curved walls and precise apertures gently reorient the body and the gaze to produce both extroverted views and introverted privacies, between exterior neighbors and interior occupants. The contradictory acts of turning within and looking afar, born of contradictory domestic desires, become linked ends of the periscope.
Illustration of a periscope from “Histoire de la Nation Francaise,” Sciences, Volumes I and II, by Gabriel Hanotaux
An exterior periscope shelters the main entrance while increasing square footage and providing expansive views over the Boston skyline.
Interior periscopes turn the body and the gaze, softening corners and channeling private views.
A periscope over the main entrance softens circulation and channels a private view.
Worm’s-eye view diagram
Worm’s-eye view diagram
Worm’s-eye view diagram
Worm’s-eye view diagram
