Wild / Willed
Designing with/for Uncertainty: Towards Adaptation
Sanctuaries Territories
Liquid Asset: From Land Dispossession to Mutual Care
Harnessing Light: an Illumination of the Work of Philip Pavia and Natalie Edgar
In the Name of GOD
Assembly – the transitional architecture of emergencies and daily life
Boundary Issues: Establishing Common Spaces
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Wild / Willed

Salt Weave

Our project proposes a public health infrastructure, supported by the New Jersey Department o...

Fill Green, Stop Blue

The project addresses the paradox of inviting people into a flood-prone site while protecting ...

The Perch

At the edge of Liberty State Park, a new vision for architectural reuse takes flight: a bird r...

The Living Shed: A Regenerative Ecological Hub for Liberty State Park

This project reimagines the historic train shed at Liberty State Park as a regenerative botani...

Wild/Willed: Children Learning Through Risk and Play

The study began with Friedrich Froebel’s play theory and his idea of “gifts.” Since the archit...

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Designing with/for Uncertainty: Towards Adaptation

Pollination Stack

Bridgeport, Connecticut, has a deep industrial history. During World War II, it housed major a...

Pleasure Beach Birdscape Project

This project proposes a series of ecologically sensitive educational spaces on Pleasure Beach—...

COEXISTENCE: REIMAGINING FOOD NETWORKS

In Bridgeport’s East End,a long standing food desert for residents exists alongside an abundan...

INHABITING UNCERTAINTY: ELEVATING BRIDGEPORT’S FUTURE

This project reimagines overlooked spaces in Bridgeport’s flood-prone East End—vacant lots, ro...

Rewilding Terminal

The project reimagines a ferry terminal structure at 567 Seaview Avenue, Bridgeport, as a medi...

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Sanctuaries Territories

DETERRITORIALIZED SANCTUARY

Camps as a typology touches on the contradictory relationship of sanctuary- one about care and...

li/ch/en

li/ch/en is an ecological design experiment that responds to the engineered landscape of Mohon...

“Sweet Hope”

Dulce Esperanza, which translates to “Sweet Hope,” The program provides children of farmworker...

Fantasy Landfill

This project investigates the complex legacy of capped landfills in the Hudson Valley, focusin...

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Liquid Asset: From Land Dispossession to Mutual Care

Clean / Soapy / Dirty

Nestled between the Bush Kill and Dry Creek just west of the Ashokan Reservoir, climate projec...

The Garden of Bodily Fluids

Waste water is filtered by the community garden into fresh water, to be consumed by people, pl...

Toward a Living Commons

This project responds to the long-term effects of tax manipulation and land dispossession in t...

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Harnessing Light: an Illumination of the Work of Philip Pavia and Natalie Edgar

East Hampton Art Center

This project reimagines a site in Springs, East Hampton, into an art center honoring Philip Pa...

Pavilla Edgar Art Center

We were asked to design a space to house the works of sculptor Philip Pavilla and abstract exp...

A place to house the work of Philip Pavia and Natalie Edgar

The long, cheap, light, wooden bar placed against a property line becomes a canvas for the si...

Art House: In Light + Form

Sculptor and painter Philip Pavia and wife Natalie Edgar were abstract expressionists who live...

The Pavia & Edgar Residence

The Pavia and Edgar Residence is a workshop space in East Hamptons created to house the late P...

EAST END ART CENTER

Ambient

An “art center” served in the memory and legacy of both Philip Pavia and Natalie Edgar—two hig...

ArtARama

An affordable artist residence and exhibition space showcasing the work of sculptor Philip Pav...

The East End Gallery

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In the Name of GOD

4O1’

By order of a proposed Islamic legal endowment, the highest naturally occurring elevation on t...

stones also die

“We make Waqf the 1876 blocks of granite, brick, and sandstone, which constitute Fort Tompkins...

Disarming Defenses: Uncovering Faith

Starting as a study to identify “ruined sites” in Staten Island, areas that have been neglecte...

Disarming Defenses: Tower For One

In an initial site investigation done collaboratively, we identified the Miller Field WWII Obs...

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Assembly – the transitional architecture of emergencies and daily life

Rolling Relief: A Fixed and Mobile Relief Network

The project addresses the urgent need for adaptable emergency infrastructure in New York City ...

ASSEMBLY—the transitional architecture of emergencies and daily life

The Living Network Proposes interconnected adaptive cooling centers in NYC that function as bo...

Brownfield Model for Environmental Justice

For over a century, industrial development has shaped Bridgeport through patterns of environme...

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Boundary Issues: Establishing Common Spaces

Resiliency at the Edge

This proposal reimagines Star Island—a six-acre nature preserve in a zone VE floodplain—as a r...

Sammy’s Island: The Non-human Public

The Non-human Public is a speculative design project that reimagines land use and public space...

Star Island Commons

This proposal reimagines Star Island—a six-acre nature preserve in a zone VE floodplain—as a r...