CompostNYC
2024
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Intermediary Architecture
2024
2024
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SANAA Exhibit
2024
Tactile glass rods emerge from lush grass to form a canopy in a public park in Providence, Rhode Island. Passerbys push rods apart to reach plates of information. At night, the exhibit is lit from below, illuminating the SANAA forest.
Envisioning Resilience - New Bedford
2023
Featured in Designs for Living with Rising Seas (2024)
New Bedford Art Museum - New Bedford, MA
Collaborator - Olivia Boucher
A re-marshing strategy provides climate resilience in a mixed-use residential and commercial site. Phased planning allows for a new living machine and path network, making a connection with nature and remediation inevitable. This site strategy supports all scales of life in a dignified and respectful manner.
Economic and affordable marsh housing, composed of recycled concrete and lightweight wood, provides a private and comfortable means of retreat. Type A is a 780 square foot two bedroom, two bathroom dwelling. Type B is two units. Unit One is 450 square feet and has one bedroom and one bathroom. Unit Two is 330 square feet and has one bedroom and one bathroom. Strategic path cutouts provide private outdoor spaces, shielded by the growth of marsh vegetation.
Drawings by Olivia Boucher
The Nest
2023
Work in progress
Can architecture support both humans and animals equally?
This project started with an exploration of the pigeon as it relates to the urban landscape. Through research, it was discovered that feral pigeons are a problem created by humans. Therefore, this structure seeks to be an intermediary between the two, a link that has long been forgotten.
Human programs occur at street level with community spaces, a cafe, and public bathrooms. The structure that provides rest and refuge for humans does so for pigeons using the same structural members. In this building, the structure that provides interior and exterior shading and comfort for humans curves up and around to provide resting and nesting places for pigeons. Foliage is strategically placed to grow through this structure, therefore making the built environment part of a larger established green network. This building is meant to blur the lines between humans and nature, while meeting the needs of both.
Read the full paper here
