Urban Farming Manhattan
Project Date | May 1, 2009
This is a proposal for a rethinking of the island of Manhattan, from a re-imagined past of the island with a park network based on the current city plan. After researching large scale utopian/dystopian projects of Constant, Archigram, Archizoom, Yona Friedman, Cedric Price, and others, my project proposes an architectural vision of Manhattan, suggesting juxtapositions [...]
Urban Farming São Paulo
Project Date | December 2, 2008
Brasil’s slum problem is well documented and known across an increasingly networked and informed world in all senses of globalization. Slums exist across the world, often completely disconnected from basic infrastructural services. Working under U-TT, the SLUM Lab is exploring multiple options in supporting the many challenges facing the neighborhood of Grotao, in Paraisopolis, Sao [...]
Performative Housing
Project Date | December 1, 2007
Housing Rituals + Urban ConditionsThe studio begun with studies of household rituals and their performative / experiential qualities. By studying the phenomenological qualities of daily rituals, a deeper understanding of the interface of action and environment can be achieved.
Filmatic studies of urban conditions in New York City complemented the household studies and connections between the [...]
Space Frame Research
Project Date | November 30, 2007
Studies from 2006-2007, of researching variations of irregular frame structures generated by self-organizing algorithms. Specific studies focused on programmatic integration, organizational methods, and structural optimization. Code was developed and models were integrated into programs for structural analysis. The images below were exhibited in Eindhoven, NL for Eindhoven University’s Tectonics 2007.
GSAPP Trusset
Project Date | October 25, 2006
Trusset Installation for GSAPP 125th AnniversaryLow Library, Columbia University
New York, NY
October 2006
with Columbia GSAPP students/faculty
Below is an installation of the Trusset, a space frame system developed by Phillip Anzalone and Cory Clark. Mark Collins and Toru Hasegawa developed a parametric space frame software, which formed the system of nodes, each having up to 8 connecting [...]
Category: Built Projects, Exhibition
Tags: algorithm > aluminum > new york > space frame > structure > system
Tags: algorithm > aluminum > new york > space frame > structure > system
Flexwall Installation
Project Date | November 30, 2005
Installation in Phoenix, AZ, November 2005Prototype for a plastic modular wall / screen system.