Located in the southwest corner of Massachusetts, this ground up house was designed for a family looking to expand life out of New York City. It’a inspiration pulls from a Feng Shui coordinated floor plan, minimal design aesthetic and a low tech construction techniques. The project is still in development and in the process of permitting.
A series of abstract paintings experimenting with time, layering and discovery. Unsatisfying experiments on canvas and/or found objects are often the starting point for these paintings creating an opportunity to react to imagery and color on the layers below.
The 1Haus project includes the design of a modern addition adjacent to a 100 year old Colonial house in the Berkshires. The addition creates new modern living spaces and re-centers the house on the property creating an inviting front yard and an expansive backyard for outdoor living and playing.
1. Existing porch 2. Existing living room 3. Stair to cellar 4. Stair to 2nd floor 5. Existing reading nook 6. Rebuilt bathroom 7. Kitchen 8. Dining area 9. Living room 11. Closet 12. Deck 13. Mud room 14. Laundry 15. Master bedroom
1. Existing porch 2. Existing living room 3. Existing bathroom 4. Existing kitchen 5. Existing master bedroom 6. Closet 7. Entry
Existing house 2. Addition 3. Driveway 4. Backyard 5. Future pool 6. Front yard
A series of mixed media drawings influenced by architecture, graffiti, surrealism and graphic design.
Located in the Berkshire Mountains, this house was originally conceived as a modern cabin. The house design evolved into a modern house that expressed natural materials to connect it back to the environment. Scaled to fit within the trees while perched on a hill, the roof line and datum lines unify the house and orient to the mountain view. As the project progressed, the cladding changed from being natural cedar to a pine tar finish.
Breezeway 2. Uninsulated storage 3. Kitchen 4. Living room 5. Powder room 6. Utility closet 7. Stair to 2nd floor 8. Storage below stair 9. Master bedroom 10. Bathroom 11. Outdoor shower
11. Outdoor shower 12. Loft/flex space 13. Laundry 14. Low height chase 15. Bedroom 2 16. Bedroom 3 17. Bedroom 4 18. Shared terrace
Located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, the existing colonial house features a clean roofline, wide plank pine flooring inside and is surrounded by the forest. The addition is designed for the wood siding to weather, blend with the surrounding forest and allow the original impression of the house to remain. Another goal was to connect with the environment using skylights, Passive House design techniques, natural materials and solar collection.
Driveway 2. Mud room 3. Bathroom 4. Kitchen 5. Living/dining room 6. Bay window 7. Porch 8. Living room 9. Addition 10. Paved patio to be re-installed
Driveway 2. Mud room 3. Bathroom 4. Remodeled kitchen 5. Dining room 7. Porch 8. Reading room 9. Patio 10. Covered deck 11. Living room 12. Private deck 13. Guest room 14. Bathroom 15. Window seat
HB:BX is competition proposal to build a cultural center among industrial rail lines at the base of one of the High Bridge piers, allowing patrons to enter from the bridge. Programming and the aesthetic reaches back to hip hop history. The center includes lecture halls, an auditorium for musical performances, lectures and presentations, visual artist studios, a gallery, large terrace and cafe.
Compositions of expressive washes of color layered with graphic line techniques create openings, depth and form.
This house in the Bahamas creates 3 modern structures that maximize views of the ocean. The vertical building has 3 bedrooms, large family room and communal dining spaces. Three rental apartments are located on the upper floor of the second, elongated building with a fully screened home gym, game room and entertainment room below. The third, more modest building is for employee apartments.
When most historically black neighborhoods in the United States face redevelopment, the all too common solution is to build middle class housing that prices the community to move elsewhere. This project from my graduate studies focused on ways to highlight the local history to reinforce and support the community by supplementing the neighborhood with historically significant landmarks, a historic path creating a zone of increased visibility and cultural infrastructure to catapult the neighborhood from it’s desolate aftermath from the 1968 riots into the future with pride. I wouldn’t typically include student work, however the issues and concept involved were important then and continue to be important now. I would definitely design things differently as my aesthetic taste evolved since then, but it can serve as a form of a time capsule.
Submitted as an entry into an open competition around 2010, my proposal created an iconic structure in the East River, added cultural puzzle pieces that draw people from public transportation toward the center. The overall proposal included the event venue, park under the FDR, a large multi-media sculpture in the middle of a plaza, an outdoor restaurant/office building and a large parking structure/office tower. Some structures provide function to empty lots and fill in social spaces to give the proper architectural framework for a new vibrant outdoor experience and the main feature was an event center. The event center formally plays off highway off ramps adjacent to the site, piers, view from the Brooklyn Bridge and flowing spaces that create a dynamic urban waterfront.