WORKS
Cultural
Innovation through expression of cultural values.
Public
Spaces designed utilizing societal needs as a program.
Urbanism
Context-driven solutions to cities and neighborhoods
Housing
Adaptive spaces that foster community interaction
PROJECTS
15,000 SF Tennis Facility
The Transition: Transforming a traditional tennis facility into a grounded environment for focused play.
Sensory Strategy: Custom integrated lighting ensuring visual comfort during high intensity movement.
Tactile Palette: A combination of biophilic warmth and organic performance, utilizing HAR-TRU surface for joint friendly impact, cooler playing temperatures, and a glue laminated timber shell to soften the acoustic and aesthetic environment.
The Sanctuary: Mechanical systems are concealed prioritizing the athlete’s psychological focus.
Urban Plan Inclusive of Artist Residences and Studios
The Transition: Reclaiming urban voids to create a porous threshold between historical and the city center.
Sensory Strategy: Utilizing the weaving concept to organize movement, where filtered light through a colorful polycarbonate envelope stimulates creative energy. Indigenous plant biospheres provide natural cooling and acoustic softening.
Tactile Palette: A rich interplay of living ecology and industrial transparency, replacing mechanical shading with a lush, oxygen rich botanical layer that grounds the urban spirit.
The Sanctuary: A communal ecosystem where the act of passing through, becomes a multisensory education. The architecture functions as a “living room”, binding personal wellness with the collective expression of heritage and art.
Community Social and Wellness Center
The Transition: Shifting the maternity experience to a community integrated sanctuary.
Sensory Strategy: Centering the birthing journey around an internal courtyard, providing mothers with a private connection to nature, natural ventilation, and rhythmic shadows filtered through organic screens.
Tactile Palette: A hand crafted envelope using structural bamboo and straw twine, layered with upcycled local polymers to provide high performance waterproofing while maintaining a warm, noninstitutional aesthetic.
The Sanctuary: A low impact, high comfort environment where biophilic materials and open air circulation reduce stress and foster a sense of security for both new life and surrounding community.
Medical Facility - Office Spaces and Exam Rooms
The Transition: Elevating a clinical otolaryngology facility into a high performance healing environment through a protective, modern envelope.
Sensory Strategy: Utilizing custom interior millwork to optimize acoustic clarity, a necessity for ear, nose, and throat care; ensuring a quiet low stimulus environment for patient recovery.
Tactile Palette: A sophisticated dialogue between the precision of a Trespa rainscreen exterior and the organic biophilic warmth of a bespoke interior woodwork to reduce clinical anxiety.
The Sanctuary: A specialized care environment where environmental quality is treated as a clinical tool, fostering a sense of security and refined comfort from the facade to the exam room.
Office to Residential Conversion
The Transition: Adapting deep plate commercial shells into flexible human centric environments that balance the city’s need of productivity with its urgent need for domestic sanctuary.
Sensory Strategy: Prioritizing neurological comfort through acoustic mitigation, ceiling panels, and wood slat screening; work in tandem to dissolve urban noise and regulate solar glare.
Tactile Palette: Softening the industrial scale of an office core with natural wood textures and operable apertures, allowing for a sensory connection to the outdoors and user controlled natural ventilation.
The Sanctuary: A high adaptability environment where infrastructure is a quiet & seamless servant. The strategic consolidation of plumbing and modular systems ensures that whether for work or rest, the inhabitant’s ease and environmental agency remain the priority.
Reinterpretation of Ruins within Florence Workshop
The Transition: Bridging the gap between ancient stone and modern community through a spatial narrative of flow discovery.
Sensory Strategy: Orchestrating rhythmic journey via wooden trails and ramps that guide the body through varying elevations, fostering a physical connection to the landscape.
Tactile Palette: A calibrated mix of grounded concrete, warm timber, and transparent steel that mirrors the site’s historic tones while providing a modern tactile contrast.
The Sanctuary: A mirrored architectural duality where the museum offers subterranean stillness and the roof provides light filtered shelter, creating a protected space for historical reflection and social engagement.
Residential Renovation and Backyard Redesign
The Transition: Reimagining a standard multi-unit residence as a fluid, adaptable sanctuary that prioritizes resident agency and open air connection.
Sensory Strategy: Implementing a granular lighting system, including dimmable layers and integrated fans, to allow residents to personally tune the thermal and visual warmth of their environment.
Tactile Palette: Softening the urban backyard with local timber decking and perimeter greenery, contrasted with interior finishes sourced from neighborhood makers to ground the home in its local context.
The Sanctuary: A multi zoning strategy that expands the living experience beyond the walls offering dedicated nodes for social cooking, lounging, and quiet retreat to solve the scarcity of private communal space.
Brownstone Expansion and Backyard Redesign
The Transition: adapting a singular historic shell into a multi-layered residential community that maximizes every square foot of a Brooklyn Brownstone.
Sensory Strategy: Expanding the living footprint upward and outward to capture natural light and air, mitigating the density of urban living through curated vertical retreats.
Tactile Palette: A cohesive blend of custom timber fencing and integrated planters that replaces overgrown chaos with grounded restorative landscape.
The Sanctuary: A dual level haven featuring an intimate backyard for panoramic tranquility, prioritizing social connection and personal wellness within a multi-unit setting.
Flexibility Exploration within Existing Apartment Layout
The Transition: Decoding an existing residential footprint to unlock diverse modes of living, moving from a static layout to a responsive, market ready framework.
Sensory Strategy: Maximizing spatial versatility to allow for personalized light paths and intuitive movement, ensuring each configuration prioritizes ease of flow and resident autonomy.
Tactile Palette: Highlighting high potential zones through a curated selection of finishes that balance developer efficiency with a warm, inviting residential touch.
The Sanctuary: A framework of choice where technical layout analysis is leveraged to create a high performance home, adaptable to the unique lifestyle and nervous system needs of the modern urban dweller.