16-28 Bright Street | Critic: Stella Betts
16-28 Bright Street is a proposal for a mixed-use wellness center rooted in its place. The new building, continuing the rhythm of its gable-roofed residential neighbors, introduces critically-needed public amenities like a meeting hall, theater, daycare, and streetlevel green space. Above, vaulted therapy rooms, offices, and outdoor therapy terraces constitute a strategically-lit outpatient clinic for the specialized treatment of early-onset psychosis (STEP).
The project inspired my winning research proposal for the 2022 Hart Howerton Travel Fellowship for Healthy Living. As a fellow, I critically explored architecture’s relationship to wellness and the ability of buildings to heal by visiting, documenting, and analyzing sixteen Maggie’s Cancer Support Centres in the United Kingdom.
Secondhand materials in New Haven flow through a decentralized sharing economy consisting of donation centers, flea markets, small local shops, and online marketplaces. There is an urgent need to bolster the city’s sharing economy by centralizing it within a singular environment—a base for a city-wide operation of locating and diverting objects from the waste stream that invites consumers to participate in securing the afterlives of materials and generating new reuse streams.
The proposal, a prototype for a material afterlife center, encourages a coalescence of consumer and material. Located within a renovated 700’-long former industrial shed, the center integrates a sorting facility with related community functions like flea markets and makerspaces that maximize the potential for ‘waste’ material reuse.
Food Cart Commissary | Critic: Nikole Bouchard
A proposal for a new commissary reconsiders the question, “where do food carts go at night?”. A parking lot is transformed into a continuously-occupied public destination designed to centralize the food cart industry in Washington Heights and increase access to fresh produce. Investigations of circuit drawings informed the spatial adjacencies of pavilions used for storage, play, and shelter.
The Stage (Image-Volume) | Critic: Nikole Bouchard
Coded instructions for surface deformation were abstracted from the elaborate cryptic site collage drawings produced by Perry Kulper to create an aggregation of etched and creased surfaces. The form is an object, an inhabitable volume, and a sequence of elevated stages. A scenographic model was constructed as a tool to capture and evaluate how the volume transforms by light and shadow.
