Archive for the ‘Buildings’ Category
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Territory Twister
Summer 2011
Territory Twister is a theoretical project sited within the zoned conditions described in Radical Railbanking. The project is located in the southwest side of Detroit, next to Mexican Town and directly adjacent to the popular Mexican Town Flea Market. Territory Twister attempts to gerrymander a material environment for social interaction within an otherwise lifeless neighborhood. The form of the project is determined through an iterative “relaxed” redrawing of the site boundary. The result is a layered boundary …
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Detroit Shape Scape
Summer 2011
The Detroit Shape-Scape is a theoretical project sited within the zoned conditions described in Radical Railbanking, and aspires to concretize the latent publics implicates in that project. The project is conceived as mini city within the city, housing a programmatic diversity characteristic of a vital metropolis. The program includes interior and exterior public spaces, an expansion of the adjacent Wayne State University, student residences, rentable space for craftsmen and artists, stops for existing and proposed mass transit …
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Hedgehog House
Spring 2009
Hedgehog House is a summer cottage to be built on sloping farm land in south-western Pennsylvania. The region is spotted with aging timber barns that are remnants of dozens of deserted farms. In lieu of their intended function, the barns have become picturesque follies hidden amidst the winding country roads and mountainous terrain of the area. This project exploits the picturesque nature of the region’s barn structures by borrowing the typical building type and distorting it through a …
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Seaport
Fall, 2008
With Thom Moran.
This project was an entry to the 2008 ENYA Competition: South Street Seaport Re-Envisioning the Urban Edge. The competition brief called for the design of a new pier on the East River containing a mixture of community facilities. The authors of the competition hoped that such a structure would help to reconnect the community to their waterfront.
This entry contends that the best way to reconnect the South Street Seaport neighborhood to its waterfront …
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SimCity ShapeScape
2008
This speculative project locates a new high-speed railroad station on the current site of Chicago’s Union Station. The goal of the project is to make the use of high-speed rail a casual part of urban culture. Union Station was precisely the wrong type of building for these goals: it is out of scale to the street-level development in its context, its elevations are blank at the pedestrian level, and its beaux-arts monumentality is prohibitive instead of casual and inviting. …
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Bucktown House
2003
To the northwest of downtown Chicago, sandwiched between the post-industrial landscape of the Chicago River to the east, and largely Hispanic communities to the west, is a neighborhood called “Bucktown”. Originally settled as early as 1833, the most formative onslaught of settlement in community history was the mass immigration of Polish Catholics beginning in the 1870’s, and continuing through the turn of the century. It was during this era that the community experienced its most significant period of development- …
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Core Club
2004-2005
With SPaN.
The Core Club is an exclusive 30,000 sq. ft. lifestyle club in Midtown Manhattan. The project presented the challenge of weaving a cohesive design methodology into a program including a bar, restaurant, movie theatre, complete health club, and library. Since the envelope of a New York City high-rise constricted most formal and spatial notions of architectural cohesion between floors, the design was unified by thematizing and manipulating materials. A series of trademark material were designed (such …
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Dayton Street Residence
2002-2004
With G. Goldberg + Associates.
The Dayton Street Residence is a renovation of a typical Chicago six-flat apartment building, located in Lincoln Park. The entire interior and the back wall of the structure was initially demolished in order to convert the apartment building into a single, 9,000 square foot, residence. The back wall of the stucture was rebuilt to include a series of double-height steel windows that flood the entire residence with natural light throughout the day.
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