Selected work samples

Miami Beach Dance Academy

During the 20’s Miami Beach hosted outdoor dance parties as a spectacle. Located at the shift of the orthogonal gird, the Academy mirrors the blank façade of the adjacent building. Outdoor practice areas utilize breezes from the nearby ocean and allow dancers to rehearse in less conventional surroundings.

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Miami Beach Recreation Center Architecture Sited along Collins Canal, the recreation center serves the community of Miami Beach through both its function and form. The design integrates a public walkway to facilitate foot traffic along the canal’s edge and into the flooded courtyard. Undulating panels create a curtain wall that allows for natural ventilation while offering a glimpse of the rowboats to passers-by. Visitors look out onto a shallow canal used for boat launching and training sessions.

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Mobile PermaKitchen Design + Build

Conceived as a mobile processing kitchen and permaculture education facility for local farmers, the studio designed and constructed a new trailer on the chassis of an existing 5th wheel. The kitchen provides a means for farmers to independently process crops onsite. Unlike conventional food trucks, the mobile kitchen features two drop down panels that create a platform for standing during educational demonstrations.

Urban Campus : Brooklyn Collaborative Project

The Brooklyn educational campus creates a new urban center by linking an inter-modal transportation hub with educational programming. The site occupies air-rights above the subway line, allowing it to serve as a bridge to the surrounding neighborhoods. A series of pedestrian promenades frame the campus, and a shifted urban grid permits automobile passage through the site.

Pedestrian street passing above public square outside transit station

Existing site conditions

Consolidation of blocks

Establishment of new paths

Extrusion of new blocks

Integration with pedestrian

Envelope treatment establishes

networks

public realm

PublicCONNECTIVITY Transit REGIONAL

the site is well connected to western Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island

Pedestrian/Bike REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY

dedicated bicycle lanes in the north connect with the site

Automobile REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY

a major subway line passes through the site

intermediate centrality

drainage & circulation

Cooperativa Carioca

In response to recent development initiatives by the Brazillian government, the Cooperativa Carioca and Escoal Nova Brasilia seek to provide education and upward mobility to residents within the favela of Complexo do Alem達o.

The 700 student school was developed with programatic requirements of the Rio 2030 education initiative. The COOP provides an intermediate centrality between the newly constructed Teleferico system, and existing nodes located on the edge of the Complexo.The site features a water management system that reduces neighborhood flooding during monsoon season. path design

Itinerant Architecture

The decisions made following a natural disaster should consider immediate needs and future demands. Using traditional techniques employed by bamboo craftsmen in Kyoto, Japan, the entire structure can be constructed by hand. From a very modest size, the ribbed structure can expand over time. The construction process introduces the fundamentals of bamboo as a building material, so innovation occurs in both the design and craft. The proportional dimensioning system provides member lengths for the structural member categories (S,M,L).

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HudsonYards | Phasing and Programming

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The design of Hudson Yards is based on the concept of creating two distinct yet interconnected communities centered about a pair of signature public spaces: the plaza and the park. With over 60 percent of the development characterized by open public space, their design was critical and helped inform the character of the buildings that surround them.

On the Eastern Rail Yard, the Hudson Plaza was envisioned as an active center of commerce and civic engagement.

Its position as a connector between the Hudson Boulevard from the north and the High Line from the south afford it a privileged opportunity to act as a nexus of activity between these two vital urban amenities. The Hudson Park in the Western Rail Yard assumes a different character entirely. A vast, pastoral lawn creates a landscape of leisure.

Obsidian House / 93 Reade St. / WORKac 2014 - Present / Jr. Project Architect CA / The second oldest cast iron building in New York, the project includes a complete renovation of interior spaces and rooftop penthouse addition. Custom glass reinforced concrete column capitals designed by artist Michael Hansmeyer will be installed as part of the facade renovation. The pleated roof shape is a derivative of the view shadow generated by the surrounding buildings. A small portion of the addition is visible from the street, but it is otherwise invisble. /Daily project management with client’s development and construction teams /Coordination with MEP, Structural, Restoration consultants /Shop Drawing review, Building Code Research

glass reinforced concrete column capital design by michael hansmeyer, LPC approved

93 Reade Street

WORKac 2014 - Present

December 2014 HSS 6X6X3/8

HSS 10X6X3/8

HSS 6X6X3/8

March 2015

a mosaic tiled wall forms the backdrop of the shower. The pattern was derived from an image of birch tree forests and digitized to create a custom pattern.

Kew Gardens Hills Library WORKac 2014 - Present / Jr. Project Architect CA / Located in Kew Gardens Hills Queens, the project involves the complete renovation and 3,000 SF adition to the existing library facility. The design of the new addition includes a glass and concrete structure that wraps the public areas of the building. The concrete exterior is clad in custom glass reinforced concrete panels and topped with a green roof. The interior is finish exposed concrete. The project is part of the DDC Design Excellence program and slated for completion in late 2015.

GFRC WAVE PANEL

CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE GREEN ROOF

CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE WALL

INTERIOR ELEVATIONS

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FORMTIE SHE-BOLT TYPE (SEE LAYOUT DRAWING)

FORMWORK PANEL STOREFRONT GLAZING ASSEMBLY

FORMWORK LINER (SEE LAYOUT DRAWING)

Interior Elevation - South

Interior Elevation - West

Interior Elevation - North

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Proposed Construction Joint

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Proposed Construction Joint

30’-0” Proposed Construction Joint

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Proposed Construction Joint

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Proposed Construction Joint

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Proposed Construction Joint

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B x55 C x31 58 A x 55 B x 31 C = 57 FULL PANELS (size 4’ x 12’)

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Interior Elevation - East

*NOTE: ALL DIMENSIONS MEASURED FROM INTERIOR FACE OF ARCHITECTURAL

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WORKAC 2014

EDGEUCATION BOATHOUSE PAVILION

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EDGEucation Boathouse

Shortlisted competition entry / WORKac 2014 / Design Team

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Bike Racks

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Drop-off Loop

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Boat Launch

/Located along the harlem river, the EDGEucation Boathouse serves as a recreation and education facility to the surrounding community. Environmental resiliency was a key component of

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the design as the site received nearly

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Sandy. Because of the ecologically rich history of the site, transparecy and

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ods to better integrate the building into the site.

program

Site Plan

Rain Water

Openings in the roof and ground surface allow rain water to pass through the building.

Trees Sunlight

Openings in the ground surface and roof allow existing trees to grow through the pavilion.

Skylights provide natural daylight to the education and boathouse programs.

surface

Flood/Tide Waters Wind

Vision

Glass and steel grate walls allow views through the building in all directions.

Porous steel grate walls provide security while allowing natural breezes to pass through the pavilion.

Sitting 2 feet above the 100 year flood line, the pavilion allows tide and flood waters to pass underneath it.

Should flood waters surpass the 100 year mark, the porous steel grate ground surface allows water to run through the building without causing any violent damage.

nature is the focus of the outdoor classroom experience

the boathouse establishes resiliency by allowing nature to permeate its envelope

Lab Within the Terrapin Shell we have included a number of hanging elements within the shared lab space. We have begun to suggest the types of program that could be contained within these spaces but these are options that could be changed or customized to the curriculum in the education spaces.

Hanging Garden Periscope

Aquaponic Fish Farm Butterfly Garden Water Bladder Observation Hive

Storage

Water Table Storage

New Tree

Tables and Benches Worm Farm