Staging Grounds creates a dynamic 20,000sf public space that offers the city of Toronto a new type of public infrastructure that is a space for active learning, an urban stage, and a site for environmental regeneration. Bringing attention to an otherwise vacant space underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Staging Grounds is a multidimensional infrastructure that is a living laboratory for urban ecology, with experimental gardens that use rainwater run-off from the highway above to support the growth of native plant species, while passive water filtration and retention help to reduce the risk of local flooding. The design introduces a network of ramps and elevated walkways that allow visitors to travel into the space by using a customized scaffolding system. Winner of a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) National Urban Design Award for Urban Fragments.

Staging Grounds creates a dynamic 20,000sf public space that offers the city of Toronto a new type of public infrastructure that is a space for active learning, an urban stage, and a site for environmental regeneration. Bringing attention to an otherwise vacant space underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Staging Grounds is a multidimensional infrastructure that is a living laboratory for urban ecology, with experimental gardens that use rainwater run-off from the highway above to support the growth of native plant species, while passive water filtration and retention help to reduce the risk of local flooding. The design introduces a network of ramps and elevated walkways that allow visitors to travel into the space by using a customized scaffolding system. Winner of a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) National Urban Design Award for Urban Fragments.

Staging Grounds creates a dynamic 20,000sf public space that offers the city of Toronto a new type of public infrastructure that is a space for active learning, an urban stage, and a site for environmental regeneration. Bringing attention to an otherwise vacant space underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Staging Grounds is a multidimensional infrastructure that is a living laboratory for urban ecology, with experimental gardens that use rainwater run-off from the highway above to support the growth of native plant species, while passive water filtration and retention help to reduce the risk of local flooding. The design introduces a network of ramps and elevated walkways that allow visitors to travel into the space by using a customized scaffolding system. Winner of a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) National Urban Design Award for Urban Fragments.

Staging Grounds creates a dynamic 20,000sf public space that offers the city of Toronto a new type of public infrastructure that is a space for active learning, an urban stage, and a site for environmental regeneration. Bringing attention to an otherwise vacant space underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Staging Grounds is a multidimensional infrastructure that is a living laboratory for urban ecology, with experimental gardens that use rainwater run-off from the highway above to support the growth of native plant species, while passive water filtration and retention help to reduce the risk of local flooding. The design introduces a network of ramps and elevated walkways that allow visitors to travel into the space by using a customized scaffolding system. Winner of a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) National Urban Design Award for Urban Fragments.

The exhibition design for the 58th Carnegie International includes an identity, spatial design, and custom furniture and casework across diverse gallery spaces at the Carnegie Museum of Art. It is guided by the curatorial concept of solidarity and creates a polyphonic viewing experience to build relationships between works across multiple geographies, time frames and perspectives. Rather than adding walls to define space, the design divides spaces without visual boundaries, featuring a hanging curtain system of metal mesh chainmail and iridescent sheer curtains. It is a flexible and modular display system that produces a sense of immersiveness and softness for viewers, creating framed backdrops, doorways, and volumetric chambers that can either work together as a sequence or stand alone.

The exhibition design for the 58th Carnegie International includes an identity, spatial design, and custom furniture and casework across diverse gallery spaces at the Carnegie Museum of Art. It is guided by the curatorial concept of solidarity and creates a polyphonic viewing experience to build relationships between works across multiple geographies, time frames and perspectives. Rather than adding walls to define space, the design divides spaces without visual boundaries, featuring a hanging curtain system of metal mesh chainmail and iridescent sheer curtains. It is a flexible and modular display system that produces a sense of immersiveness and softness for viewers, creating framed backdrops, doorways, and volumetric chambers that can either work together as a sequence or stand alone.

The exhibition design for the 58th Carnegie International includes an identity, spatial design, and custom furniture and casework across diverse gallery spaces at the Carnegie Museum of Art. It is guided by the curatorial concept of solidarity and creates a polyphonic viewing experience to build relationships between works across multiple geographies, time frames and perspectives. Rather than adding walls to define space, the design divides spaces without visual boundaries, featuring a hanging curtain system of metal mesh chainmail and iridescent sheer curtains. It is a flexible and modular display system that produces a sense of immersiveness and softness for viewers, creating framed backdrops, doorways, and volumetric chambers that can either work together as a sequence or stand alone.

For the West Coast locations of SHRINE and Sargent’s Daughters galleries, a partial wall is introduced so that the space can function as both two separate galleries and also be combined into a single larger space. A brushed aluminum panel at each end of the wall visually dissolves the division upon entry into the space. A shared viewing room, kitchen, WC, and handling area is located in the back of the gallery. The glass facade is significantly enlarged to create 11’ tall doors and exterior glass facades, while the linear lighting fixtures carefully integrate with the existing exposed ceiling structure.

For the West Coast locations of SHRINE and Sargent’s Daughters galleries, a partial wall is introduced so that the space can function as both two separate galleries and also be combined into a single larger space. A brushed aluminum panel at each end of the wall visually dissolves the division upon entry into the space. A shared viewing room, kitchen, WC, and handling area is located in the back of the gallery. The glass facade is significantly enlarged to create 11’ tall doors and exterior glass facades, while the linear lighting fixtures carefully integrate with the existing exposed ceiling structure.

For the West Coast locations of SHRINE and Sargent’s Daughters galleries, a partial wall is introduced so that the space can function as both two separate galleries and also be combined into a single larger space. A brushed aluminum panel at each end of the wall visually dissolves the division upon entry into the space. A shared viewing room, kitchen, WC, and handling area is located in the back of the gallery. The glass facade is significantly enlarged to create 11’ tall doors and exterior glass facades, while the linear lighting fixtures carefully integrate with the existing exposed ceiling structure.

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, the Sensory Salon workshop and design project redefines queer youth homeless care through the design of an identity-affirming salon and sensory therapy room as permanent installations at the Ali Forney Center’s new headquarters and drop-in center in Times Square. Initiated through a hands-on, participatory design workshop with AFC youth and staff, the designs directly reflect the needs and imaginations of the people who will use the spaces. The salon is a space for empowering diverse ideas of beauty, centering of queer expression, and a community resource for learning. It is designed with a flexible mirrored slatwall system and an integrated LED strip that wraps the room with custom affirmation text directly input by AFC clients and staff. The sensory therapy room is a space for calm, reset and multi-sensorial stimulation with special attention to neurodivergent clients. A circle of three tactile hanging curtains featuring metal ball chain, a sheer curtain, and an earthy dense fabric are sensorial and visual devices that encircle a custom inflatable daybed and seating for therapy and stimulation.

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, the Sensory Salon workshop and design project redefines queer youth homeless care through the design of an identity-affirming salon and sensory therapy room as permanent installations at the Ali Forney Center’s new headquarters and drop-in center in Times Square. Initiated through a hands-on, participatory design workshop with AFC youth and staff, the designs directly reflect the needs and imaginations of the people who will use the spaces. The salon is a space for empowering diverse ideas of beauty, centering of queer expression, and a community resource for learning. It is designed with a flexible mirrored slatwall system and an integrated LED strip that wraps the room with custom affirmation text directly input by AFC clients and staff. The sensory therapy room is a space for calm, reset and multi-sensorial stimulation with special attention to neurodivergent clients. A circle of three tactile hanging curtains featuring metal ball chain, a sheer curtain, and an earthy dense fabric are sensorial and visual devices that encircle a custom inflatable daybed and seating for therapy and stimulation.

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, the Sensory Salon workshop and design project redefines queer youth homeless care through the design of an identity-affirming salon and sensory therapy room as permanent installations at the Ali Forney Center’s new headquarters and drop-in center in Times Square. Initiated through a hands-on, participatory design workshop with AFC youth and staff, the designs directly reflect the needs and imaginations of the people who will use the spaces. The salon is a space for empowering diverse ideas of beauty, centering of queer expression, and a community resource for learning. It is designed with a flexible mirrored slatwall system and an integrated LED strip that wraps the room with custom affirmation text directly input by AFC clients and staff. The sensory therapy room is a space for calm, reset and multi-sensorial stimulation with special attention to neurodivergent clients. A circle of three tactile hanging curtains featuring metal ball chain, a sheer curtain, and an earthy dense fabric are sensorial and visual devices that encircle a custom inflatable daybed and seating for therapy and stimulation.

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, the Sensory Salon workshop and design project redefines queer youth homeless care through the design of an identity-affirming salon and sensory therapy room as permanent installations at the Ali Forney Center’s new headquarters and drop-in center in Times Square. Initiated through a hands-on, participatory design workshop with AFC youth and staff, the designs directly reflect the needs and imaginations of the people who will use the spaces. The salon is a space for empowering diverse ideas of beauty, centering of queer expression, and a community resource for learning. It is designed with a flexible mirrored slatwall system and an integrated LED strip that wraps the room with custom affirmation text directly input by AFC clients and staff. The sensory therapy room is a space for calm, reset and multi-sensorial stimulation with special attention to neurodivergent clients. A circle of three tactile hanging curtains featuring metal ball chain, a sheer curtain, and an earthy dense fabric are sensorial and visual devices that encircle a custom inflatable daybed and seating for therapy and stimulation.

City Lighthouse hosts a community library centered around music, outdoor reading rooms, a gallery for rotating exhibitions on local heritage, and communal workspaces. The project is organized around three main supercores that elevate the library into the air and into the surrounding tree canopy, integrating light shaft, structure, circulation, and community services such as restrooms, kitchen, and community library lending shelves. The trees themselves become both the facade and a shading device for the library on the top floor. A covered outdoor performance space sits underneath the elevated library. Designed with natural materials including wood and bamboo, the building integrates a green roof above a glass facade on the top floor with ample shading which creates a lighthouse for the community during the day and night.

City Lighthouse hosts a community library centered around music, outdoor reading rooms, a gallery for rotating exhibitions on local heritage, and communal workspaces. The project is organized around three main supercores that elevate the library into the air and into the surrounding tree canopy, integrating light shaft, structure, circulation, and community services such as restrooms, kitchen, and community library lending shelves. The trees themselves become both the facade and a shading device for the library on the top floor. A covered outdoor performance space sits underneath the elevated library. Designed with natural materials including wood and bamboo, the building integrates a green roof above a glass facade on the top floor with ample shading which creates a lighthouse for the community during the day and night.

City Lighthouse hosts a community library centered around music, outdoor reading rooms, a gallery for rotating exhibitions on local heritage, and communal workspaces. The project is organized around three main supercores that elevate the library into the air and into the surrounding tree canopy, integrating light shaft, structure, circulation, and community services such as restrooms, kitchen, and community library lending shelves. The trees themselves become both the facade and a shading device for the library on the top floor. A covered outdoor performance space sits underneath the elevated library. Designed with natural materials including wood and bamboo, the building integrates a green roof above a glass facade on the top floor with ample shading which creates a lighthouse for the community during the day and night.

New Public Hydrant engages with the fire hydrant as a small-scale water infrastructure in New York City to inspire surprising new forms of public interactions surrounding our emergency infrastructure and the city’s high quality drinking water supply. The installation includes three “hydrant hacks”: Hydrants for All is a multi-species fountain, Hydrant on Tap is a bottle fill station and Hydration Space is an immersive microclimate sprinkler. The “Water Is...” Workshop with the Youth Design Center extended this project with youth collaborators to design two more prototypes including “Solar Tea Station,” a solar hot water heater and “Sprinkler Boom Box,” a sprinkler that can make music using hydropower. The project was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture Now: New York New Publics exhibition.

New Public Hydrant engages with the fire hydrant as a small-scale water infrastructure in New York City to inspire surprising new forms of public interactions surrounding our emergency infrastructure and the city’s high quality drinking water supply. The installation includes three “hydrant hacks”: Hydrants for All is a multi-species fountain, Hydrant on Tap is a bottle fill station and Hydration Space is an immersive microclimate sprinkler. The “Water Is...” Workshop with the Youth Design Center extended this project with youth collaborators to design two more prototypes including “Solar Tea Station,” a solar hot water heater and “Sprinkler Boom Box,” a sprinkler that can make music using hydropower. The project was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture Now: New York New Publics exhibition.

New Public Hydrant engages with the fire hydrant as a small-scale water infrastructure in New York City to inspire surprising new forms of public interactions surrounding our emergency infrastructure and the city’s high quality drinking water supply. The installation includes three “hydrant hacks”: Hydrants for All is a multi-species fountain, Hydrant on Tap is a bottle fill station and Hydration Space is an immersive microclimate sprinkler. The “Water Is...” Workshop with the Youth Design Center extended this project with youth collaborators to design two more prototypes including “Solar Tea Station,” a solar hot water heater and “Sprinkler Boom Box,” a sprinkler that can make music using hydropower. The project was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture Now: New York New Publics exhibition.

New Public Hydrant engages with the fire hydrant as a small-scale water infrastructure in New York City to inspire surprising new forms of public interactions surrounding our emergency infrastructure and the city’s high quality drinking water supply. The installation includes three “hydrant hacks”: Hydrants for All is a multi-species fountain, Hydrant on Tap is a bottle fill station and Hydration Space is an immersive microclimate sprinkler. The “Water Is...” Workshop with the Youth Design Center extended this project with youth collaborators to design two more prototypes including “Solar Tea Station,” a solar hot water heater and “Sprinkler Boom Box,” a sprinkler that can make music using hydropower. The project was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture Now: New York New Publics exhibition.

A gut renovation of a 1927 home that combines an existing outdoor terrace with a dining area to create a gracious 550 sf kitchen filled with light. A full height custom millwork wall integrates shelving with a picture window and window seat looking out to the forest beyond. The kitchen includes a custom wood furniture element for seating and storage that extends into a utility room with open shelving.

A gut renovation of a 1927 home that combines an existing outdoor terrace with a dining area to create a gracious 550 sf kitchen filled with light. A full height custom millwork wall integrates shelving with a picture window and window seat looking out to the forest beyond. The kitchen includes a custom wood furniture element for seating and storage that extends into a utility room with open shelving.

Model Projections investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. It explores the ephemeral registers of architectural production, revealing the model itself as a site of collaboration, negotiation, and speculation—not unlike the full-scale building that it anticipated. The exhibition design is an immersive installation and display system that uses off-the-shelf materials—drywall fragments, exposed metal studs—to evoke an architectural work-in-progress. Embracing the artifice and provisional nature of models, the exhibition design oscillates between multiple scales, intertwining the materials and methods of model making and architectural construction. Editor’s Pick for Exhibition Design from the Architects’ Newspaper 2019 Best of Design Awards.

Model Projections investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. It explores the ephemeral registers of architectural production, revealing the model itself as a site of collaboration, negotiation, and speculation—not unlike the full-scale building that it anticipated. The exhibition design is an immersive installation and display system that uses off-the-shelf materials—drywall fragments, exposed metal studs—to evoke an architectural work-in-progress. Embracing the artifice and provisional nature of models, the exhibition design oscillates between multiple scales, intertwining the materials and methods of model making and architectural construction. Editor’s Pick for Exhibition Design from the Architects’ Newspaper 2019 Best of Design Awards.

Model Projections investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. It explores the ephemeral registers of architectural production, revealing the model itself as a site of collaboration, negotiation, and speculation—not unlike the full-scale building that it anticipated. The exhibition design is an immersive installation and display system that uses off-the-shelf materials—drywall fragments, exposed metal studs—to evoke an architectural work-in-progress. Embracing the artifice and provisional nature of models, the exhibition design oscillates between multiple scales, intertwining the materials and methods of model making and architectural construction. Editor’s Pick for Exhibition Design from the Architects’ Newspaper 2019 Best of Design Awards.

Crown House is a mixed use project that is organized with a vertical concealed thick wall that incorporates a transformable millwork system that can be activated throughout the day and night. Its exterior is designed with a perforated and pleated facade with reflective penthouse crown at the top which dissolves into the sky. It is conceived through a series of “spatial clock” drawings that establish how the residents (here, a working parent) spend time over the course of a day. In these drawings, time is tied to space in a 24-hour clock to re-evaluate how the domestic sphere has fundamentally shifted during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crown House is a mixed use project that is organized with a vertical concealed thick wall that incorporates a transformable millwork system that can be activated throughout the day and night. Its exterior is designed with a perforated and pleated facade with reflective penthouse crown at the top which dissolves into the sky. It is conceived through a series of “spatial clock” drawings that establish how the residents (here, a working parent) spend time over the course of a day. In these drawings, time is tied to space in a 24-hour clock to re-evaluate how the domestic sphere has fundamentally shifted during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crown House is a mixed use project that is organized with a vertical concealed thick wall that incorporates a transformable millwork system that can be activated throughout the day and night. Its exterior is designed with a perforated and pleated facade with reflective penthouse crown at the top which dissolves into the sky. It is conceived through a series of “spatial clock” drawings that establish how the residents (here, a working parent) spend time over the course of a day. In these drawings, time is tied to space in a 24-hour clock to re-evaluate how the domestic sphere has fundamentally shifted during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

An addition and banya with sauna and outdoor plunge pool designed to connect the residents directly to the wilderness, working with existing topography and vernacular building elements. More information and photographs coming soon.

Hamilton Gears Covered Park intervenes in an existing vacant industrial building to propose a covered park typology that revalues construction and demolition waste. Parts of the building are designed to be intentionally subtracted and recycled while new elements are reclaimed regionally to offer new, public consciousness to waste materials and offer a year round public space.

Hamilton Gears Covered Park intervenes in an existing vacant industrial building to propose a covered park typology that revalues construction and demolition waste. Parts of the building are designed to be intentionally subtracted and recycled while new elements are reclaimed regionally to offer new, public consciousness to waste materials and offer a year round public space.

Hamilton Gears Covered Park intervenes in an existing vacant industrial building to propose a covered park typology that revalues construction and demolition waste. Parts of the building are designed to be intentionally subtracted and recycled while new elements are reclaimed regionally to offer new, public consciousness to waste materials and offer a year round public space.

Commissioned for the League Prize 2021 installation by the Architectural League of New York, Street Remodel collects eight of the studio’s recent projects in order to explore and bring forth latent potentials of everyday infrastructure and daily life to reimagine the civic capacity of the street. It explores often-overlooked infrastructures as opportunities to imbue the street with pluralistic capacities, not by building anew but rather by remodeling the familiar. The installation features New Public Hydrant, Open Barriers, Crown House and Balcony Retrofits. For more information on the project check out the website here.

Commissioned for the League Prize 2021 installation by the Architectural League of New York, Street Remodel collects eight of the studio’s recent projects in order to explore and bring forth latent potentials of everyday infrastructure and daily life to reimagine the civic capacity of the street. It explores often-overlooked infrastructures as opportunities to imbue the street with pluralistic capacities, not by building anew but rather by remodeling the familiar. The installation features New Public Hydrant, Open Barriers, Crown House and Balcony Retrofits. For more information on the project check out the website here.

Commissioned for the League Prize 2021 installation by the Architectural League of New York, Street Remodel collects eight of the studio’s recent projects in order to explore and bring forth latent potentials of everyday infrastructure and daily life to reimagine the civic capacity of the street. It explores often-overlooked infrastructures as opportunities to imbue the street with pluralistic capacities, not by building anew but rather by remodeling the familiar. The installation features New Public Hydrant, Open Barriers, Crown House and Balcony Retrofits. For more information on the project check out the website here.

Balcony Retrofits is an ongoing research project into the space in between the building exterior and the street. It reflects on the New York State Tenement House Act when fire escapes were retrofitted onto buildings due to poor ventilation to consider new ways to democratically provide outdoor space to more people. “Green Escapes” is a series of mesh panels that produce a layer of privacy for prolonged occupation and a support for a vertical garden across the building facade. “Operable Thresholds” are building retrofits that offer operable panels for user customization of ventilation, privacy and sun infiltration.

Balcony Retrofits is an ongoing research project into the space in between the building exterior and the street. It reflects on the New York State Tenement House Act when fire escapes were retrofitted onto buildings due to poor ventilation to consider new ways to democratically provide outdoor space to more people. “Green Escapes” is a series of mesh panels that produce a layer of privacy for prolonged occupation and a support for a vertical garden across the building facade. “Operable Thresholds” are building retrofits that offer operable panels for user customization of ventilation, privacy and sun infiltration.

Balcony Retrofits is an ongoing research project into the space in between the building exterior and the street. It reflects on the New York State Tenement House Act when fire escapes were retrofitted onto buildings due to poor ventilation to consider new ways to democratically provide outdoor space to more people. “Green Escapes” is a series of mesh panels that produce a layer of privacy for prolonged occupation and a support for a vertical garden across the building facade. “Operable Thresholds” are building retrofits that offer operable panels for user customization of ventilation, privacy and sun infiltration.

The Intentional Estates Agency [IEA] adopts and modifies the mechanisms of desire and commodity logic of a real estate agency to engage issues of degrowth. Designed as an interactive questionnaire, the brochure prompts participants to discover a portfolio of degrowth options that draw from a range of global historical, contemporary and speculative social experiments. These portfolios foreground communal metrics, platforms for collective sharing, and resource management. The IEA supports the need to locate alternative pathways out of a paradigm of limitless growth and expand an empirical understanding of how design can support new forms of society and value systems. It is available at Printed Matter.

The Intentional Estates Agency [IEA] adopts and modifies the mechanisms of desire and commodity logic of a real estate agency to engage issues of degrowth. Designed as an interactive questionnaire, the brochure prompts participants to discover a portfolio of degrowth options that draw from a range of global historical, contemporary and speculative social experiments. These portfolios foreground communal metrics, platforms for collective sharing, and resource management. The IEA supports the need to locate alternative pathways out of a paradigm of limitless growth and expand an empirical understanding of how design can support new forms of society and value systems. It is available at Printed Matter.

The Intentional Estates Agency [IEA] adopts and modifies the mechanisms of desire and commodity logic of a real estate agency to engage issues of degrowth. Designed as an interactive questionnaire, the brochure prompts participants to discover a portfolio of degrowth options that draw from a range of global historical, contemporary and speculative social experiments. These portfolios foreground communal metrics, platforms for collective sharing, and resource management. The IEA supports the need to locate alternative pathways out of a paradigm of limitless growth and expand an empirical understanding of how design can support new forms of society and value systems. It is available at Printed Matter.

A finalist for a holiday installation in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, Flatiron Crossings re-forms New York City’s language of small-scale traffic management infrastructure—crosswalks, delineators, speed bumps, and channelizers—to create an immersive, animated and luminous field that encourages congestion and public interaction. As a literal “crossing” that engages the public as a space of rest, discovery and interaction, the project takes a cue from the site’s iconic intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway. A grid of internally illuminated, gently flexing poles are finished with retroreflective paint to produce a glowing, glittering experience with the interplay of people, headlights and phone flashes.

A finalist for a holiday installation in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, Flatiron Crossings re-forms New York City’s language of small-scale traffic management infrastructure—crosswalks, delineators, speed bumps, and channelizers—to create an immersive, animated and luminous field that encourages congestion and public interaction. As a literal “crossing” that engages the public as a space of rest, discovery and interaction, the project takes a cue from the site’s iconic intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway. A grid of internally illuminated, gently flexing poles are finished with retroreflective paint to produce a glowing, glittering experience with the interplay of people, headlights and phone flashes.

A finalist for a holiday installation in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, Flatiron Crossings re-forms New York City’s language of small-scale traffic management infrastructure—crosswalks, delineators, speed bumps, and channelizers—to create an immersive, animated and luminous field that encourages congestion and public interaction. As a literal “crossing” that engages the public as a space of rest, discovery and interaction, the project takes a cue from the site’s iconic intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway. A grid of internally illuminated, gently flexing poles are finished with retroreflective paint to produce a glowing, glittering experience with the interplay of people, headlights and phone flashes.