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A space for four people

A space for four people Providence RI, 2011 Collaboration with Richard Watson Our approach was to cronstruct a space that borders on the sublime and the phenomenological, which challenges notions of space, scale, and occupancy. This is achieved through the use of Home Depot’s material pallete and construction logic of standardized dimensional lumber and sheathing.

Door Hacking

Making Monsters – Home Depot Hacking We assume a door is a passage, a portal – through which we pass with ease, quickly, and move on to the next space. This project challenges the preconceived notions of doors. We do not typically think of the door as a place for pause, a place for interaction. [...]
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Beyond the Panopticon

Beyond the Panopticon Providence RI, Boston MA, New York NY. 2011 Collaboration with Ian Gonsher Spatial Networking The new Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, much like Jeremy Bentham’s design for the Panopticon, is a space organized by a system of gazes. Bentham’s prison is described by Michel Foucault as “so many small theatres, in [...]
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Community Music Works

Community Music Works Rhode Island School of Design, 2010 Instructor: Hansy Better The site in Roger Williams Park presents varying dialogue lines, illustrating vision, movement, and the feeling of time. These dialogue lines act as events – creating folds in the ground which mold our experience of space and time. Time is what allows us [...]
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Urban Organism

Urban Organism Rhode Island School of Design, 2010 Instructor: Jim Barnes This project explores the conditions of our contemporary urban systems, specifically social, infrastructural and building systems – as they relate to their social context. Our society has become increasingly disjointed – across demographics, neighborhoods, and cities. My argument is for a new kind of [...]
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Urban Agriculture Charette

Urban Agriculture Charette Rhode Island School of Design, 2010 Instructor: Jim Barnes This brief project explores urban analysis and design. The proposal is an urban agriculture center within a dense urban fabric.
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Four-Door

A traveling, temporal installation. Currently living out its days at the RISD tillinghast farm.
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Marionette Theater

Design Principles – Marionette Theater Rhode Island School of Design, 2009 Instructor: Tulay Atak This core studio introduces foundational concepts of architecture through process — material exploration, spatial analysis, and drawing methods. The studio started with a knot tied from rope – the bowline. The knot was abstracted into a module, which was aggregated into [...]
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Community Garden Design Build

Southside Community Land Trust – Community Garden Design Build Rhode Island School of Design, 2010 Instructor: Hansy Better Collaborative project Our project was to develop a proposal for a community garden in Elmwood, Rhode Island. Six groups approached the project on the same site, resulting in a design build exhibit with full scale 40′x10′ mockups [...]

tech lounge design build

college of technology student lounge – design build competition Bowling Green State University,TECH 480, 2009 Design build competition – design selected for building Collaborative effort – acted as lead designer Instructor: Jon Stevens The technology lounge approaches a static environment with a continuous, fluid surface. The surface engages the existing elements, morphing from ceiling to [...]
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Chicago Futurist Arts Center

Marinetti Futurist Arts Institute Bowling Green State University ARCH 322, 2007 Instructors: Stan Guidera, Jon Stevens Futurist movements promoted social interaction – fusing connections between humans and unifying society. Their methodology for conveying their agenda was through performance, communication, and gathering. The site of the Marinetti Futurist institute exists on the boundary of the urban [...]
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Symbiosis – Nature Center

 Bass Island Nature and Interpretive Center – senior thesis Bowling Green State University, ARCH 422, 2009 Degree project competition – 2nd place Instructors: Scot Macpherson, Andreas Luescher The natural qualities of the site present a rich ecosystem – a diverse habitat of flora and fauna – specific to the region and in harmony with the [...]