Sacred Turn: Investing in architecture’s unstable, yet persistent, notion of the sacred
New Programs, New Technologies + Topologies
How to live in Paris in 2100
Unsettling Architecture and the Instabilities of Modernity
Scaled: Carbon Removal Architecture
Animist Algorithm: Harlem After Property
Building on Buildings: Archive for Architecture on Governors Island
Superconducting Super Collider: A Thought Experiment
Enacting our Material Entanglements: Venice’s Galeazze dell’Arsenale as a Site of Production / Site of Exchange
Melting Archives: Preserving, Registering and Reimagining the Arctic’s Future
Homing Studio Brief
Wet Land
Migrating Climates in the Immigrant City
Food-First Typology: Biologycal Cycle in the City
Reverse Logistics: Dealing with the Unwanted Stuff of our Digital World
Oral (Infra)structures
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Sacred Turn: Investing in architecture’s unstable, yet persistent, notion of the sacred

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Text, Textile, and Social Texture - Reimagining Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market

Facilitating the communal reorganization of Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market and its surrounding ...

The People’s Bathhouse and Plumbers’ Liberation School

The People’s Bathhouse and Plumbers’ Liberation School transforms the historic IRT Powerhouse ...

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New Programs, New Technologies + Topologies

From Berlin Free University to Homeless Shelter Design

Constructed Forms of Subjectvity

Capturing Light, Liberating Lives: New Façade System Using New Material for Energy and Housing Equity

The connector

A Living Epithet

The Whitehouse Hotel Renovation Project

Housing as an uncertain practice

Salvation Army Clinic

New Typology For Housing

From Planimetric to Holographic

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How to live in Paris in 2100

Domestic Atmospheres

This architectural project addresses Paris’s climate challenges in 2100 by focusing on thermal...

Cool Greens: A Growing Culinary School

In 2100 Paris, where temperatures are projected to rise by 4°C, this cooling culinary house of...

Free Cooling Hammock Tower

Inspired by vertically stacked hammocks, the building scaffolds (rather than encloses) discret...

Climatic recomposition of a building in Paris

In near future, new techniques of heat protection, dispersal and cooling will have to be imple...

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Unsettling Architecture and the Instabilities of Modernity

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Scaled: Carbon Removal Architecture

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Animist Algorithm: Harlem After Property

Housing After Property

Housing is a human right. What does it take socially, economically, and architecturally to mak...

(IN)BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE

After its closure in 1979, Harlem’s Renaissance Ballroom remained abandoned for over 30 years....

Memory & Matter: Harlem African Burial Grounds

In 2016, archaeological excavations at the 126th Street MTA Bus Depot uncovered over 100 fragm...

The Record

Lenox Lounge is a refuge, a space that people return to repeatedly for its comforting familiar...

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Building on Buildings: Archive for Architecture on Governors Island

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Superconducting Super Collider: A Thought Experiment

Sown with the Wind, Live as a Rock

This project reimagines living in the existing Shaft Area ‘N40’ of the Superconducting Super C...

Superconducting Super Collider

Our general strategy is to take advantage of all shafts and the underground tunnel to create a...

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Enacting our Material Entanglements: Venice’s Galeazze dell’Arsenale as a Site of Production / Site of Exchange

Il Pescario di Venezia: The Fishing Aquarium of Venice

To honor the historical significance of fishing in the Venetian Lagoon, I developed a museum a...

VENICE CENTER FOR NAUTICAL ARCHEOLOGY | CENTRO DI ARCHEOLOGIA NAUTICA DI VENEZIA

The history of Venice is rooted in the maritime. How do we know about this history when few if...

Dual Fissure

The Arsenale is the earliest large-scale industrial area in history. Galeazze, as the shipyard...

“Deep Eye” - Venice Boat Museum

Intensifying the conflict between the new and the old, the new design both repels and intertwi...

Tales on Puppet Truss

Tales on Puppet Truss explores the entanglement of history and modernity, chaos and control. T...

Unearthing the Galeazze

The proposal aims to preserve the Galeazze at the Venetian Arsenale by unveiling the wooden pi...

Experimental Preservation of the Galeazze at the Arsenale di Venezia

This experimental preservation project aims to preserve and revitalize the vacant Galeazze—a m...

Understanding Through Preserving, Study on Materials: Cocciopesto & Marmorino

The aging of materials and the evocation of nature’s effect on the masonry is prevalent at the...

Workshop/Museum for Traditional Venetian Building Craft

The workshop and museum are dedicated to preserving the traditional crafts of Venetian archite...

The World (Still) Needs Water

Set within the historic Galeazze in Venice’s Arsenale complex, this experimental preserv...

Venice Center for Maritime Training

The Venice Center for Maritime Training pays homage to the history of the Arsenale and the ric...

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Melting Archives: Preserving, Registering and Reimagining the Arctic’s Future

Coral Bank in the Artic: Cold-Water Corals as Architects of Marine Biodiversity

Cold-water corals are important ecosystem engineers, creating biodiversity hotspots in the dee...

Arctic Plastic Archive: Severity and Potential

This project aims to design a plastic research and archive center in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, to ...

The Distant Past

Erratics are rocks transported and deposited by glaciers, distinct from their surrounding bedr...

Arctic is not silent

This project explores the changing soundscape of the Arctic. Unlike visual materials, sound of...

Botanical Archive in the Arctic: Tundra Plants and Pollinators, from Temporal Outposts to Botanical Corridors

The project explores the relationships between Arctic tundra plants and their pollinators: fli...

A Small Element with Profound Impact

Salt, often seen as a modest material, plays a pivotal role in shaping ecosystems, cultures, a...

Tracking Dust

This project focuses on designing a research facility in Greenland that archives atmospheric d...

Archiving Tundra Landscape: From the Small Leaves to Horizon

This is a tundra landscape archiving project. Ten researchers gather during the summer, under ...

Archiving the Invisible

“Archiving the Invisible” is a multistep architectural project that reflects on th...

Words are Slipping through the Cracks

The Inuit of Igloolik have an intimate knowledge of the territory that surrounds them. Moving ...

A Thawing Landscape

As climate change is becoming increasingly harmful, the Arctic is facing drastic changes. The ...

The Live Archive of the Arctic

Experiment 1.0: From the microalgae to the bowhead whale.

Ice algae and snow algae are p...

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Homing Studio Brief

PermaNest

Chelsea is one of the most dynamically evolving neighborhoods in New York City, located at the...

Folium & Familia

The confrontation between the Fulton community tenants and NYCHA’s demolition plan has reached...

Anchoring Chelsea

Anchoring Chelsea dives into the socio-political ties and motivations of developers, politicia...

A Place Called Home - Community Identity and Sense of Belonging through Placefulness

As the tides of gentrification sweep through Chelsea, the long-standing residents of NYCHA hou...

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Wet Land

NYC as a Vernal Pool: Re-thinking Nuisance Flooding

“NYC as a Vernal Pool: Re-thinking Nuisance Flooding” explores the potential of nu...

Entangled Shorelines: Braiding Found Materials to Protect the Saltmarsh

Entangled Shorelines: Braiding Found Materials to Protect the Saltmarsh proposes a living shor...

The Mussel at the End of the World

Although designated a Superfund site in 2010 and restricted as a site of contamination, the Go...

Terrapin Bay

This project reimagines the lands through the perspective of the diamondback terrapin, a keyst...

Little Wetland

Our project is a re-imagination of Little Island, which examines the existence of urban ecolog...

Archipelago New York City

In the Wet-like: NYC’s Nightlife Ecstasy Reimagined after Floods

Since the rise of New York’s concrete jungles, embodying mainstream masculinity with their rig...

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Migrating Climates in the Immigrant City

Migrating Books and Bodies

In architecture, typology traditionally organizes spaces into distinct categories—residential,...

Transformations of Row Houses

Situated within the residential grid blocks of Sunset Park, the project spans across five site...

Part-time Farmers

In response to severe overcrowding and inadequate living spaces in Sunset Park, a densely popu...

Farming the Fragmented

“Farming the Fragmented” envisions new agro-ecological imaginaries that empower al...

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Food-First Typology: Biologycal Cycle in the City

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Reverse Logistics: Dealing with the Unwanted Stuff of our Digital World

ACID TRACKS

In the electronic music scene, DIY events have long found their home in unconventional spaces ...

Urban Energy Hub

Reverse logistics has unintentionally harmed the environment and land in modern society. While...

ATLANTIC ARCADE

Level 1: What Is Reverse Logistics?

Imagine buying something online, realizing it’s not ...

Reverse Logistics Diagramming

Harvest Beyond

Regenerative Center

The low recycling rates for clothing and electronic products can be attributed to the followin...

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Oral (Infra)structures

Loopholes of Power: Reclaiming the Contracted City

In a city dominated by skyscrapers, hidden deals, and corridors of power, public land is too o...

Cutie-o’s as Spaces of Conversation

Cutie-o is a gesture of care that directly engages people by creating a space that gathers and...

Override (Park for App-Based Couriers)

Most people would like to be recognized for the work that they do, and rightfully so because i...

DARK_UNDERBELLY

DARK_UNDERBELLY speculates four possible cultural uses for the underbelly of the BQE in Brookl...

Beyond Non-Places, Reimagining Healthcare waiting areas

This project began as a deeply personal journey, rooted in the memories of my grandfather, Abu...

Pleasure

In response to a critical analysis of Manhattan’s nightlife, “Pleasure” prov...

Skyscraper of Stories

The Skyscraper of Stories is an architectural rebellion, rising in stark contrast to the hollo...