Spring 2026
ADV IV STUDIO
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In The Name of GOD
It Takes a Village
Staten Island is home to approximately 170,000 households, only 3% of which are intergenerational…
School for Qira'at
This project responds to a history of institutional violence. Willowbrook State School confined, …
The McMyler Crossing
Set along the Arthur Kill corridor, this waqf-based healing facility reclaims the McMyler Coal Du…
Right of Way
The studio identifies a “ruined” site in Staten Island: Hoffman Island and Swinburne Island, arti…
Research as Reacclimation at Hoffman and Swinburne Islands
Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, built from landfill for quarantine purposes, exist now as heron ne…
Eunho Kim: The Living Ruin
This project reclaims the NYC Farm Colony, transforming a site defined by legal abandonment into …
Sound Tank
The Rossville LNG tanks constitute a contemporary industrial ruin: fully constructed yet never op…
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A Mindfulness and Mind-Body Retreat Center
Louis Fisher: Arrived, Home
Arrived, Home is a Zen Buddhist mindfulness and retreat center in the Catskills. The project re…
Monastery Dining Hall
This project explores how architecture can support mindfulness through everyday bodily actions: w…
The Interconnectedness
The Buddhist idea “no mud, no lotus,” oftern associated with Thich Nhat Hanh, means that sufferin…
Monastery Extension
For my Studio IV project, I designed a Mindfulness Center in Catskill, NY, that bridges the histo…
Tiep Hien House + Masterplan
This project is a masterplan and expansion proposal for Blue Cliff Monastery in New York’s Catski…
Living in Interbeing
This project proposes a mindfulness retreat where humans, animals, and the environment coexist th…
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Liquid Asset: From Land Dispossession to Mutual Care
Metabolic Resistance
This project introduces a “Metabolic Resistance” strategy within the Ashokan Reservoir watershed,…
Waters Rising
Filling a bowl of soup, drawing a bath, sharing stories over coffee - community forms through act…
Bathing the Commons
Wei Li
Bathing the Commons reimagines bathing not as a private, interior act, but as a shared …
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(NOK) Next-of-Kin
The Shore Between
After the First Thunder proposes an eldercare and memorial landscape along the shore of Oneida La…
Omega Island | End-of-Life Retreat
Omega Island proposes the transformation of a dismantled former Navy base on Iona Island along th…
Rest Destination - A New Alternative for Amsterdam Downtown8
New York City’s reliance on the Catskill/Delaware watershed has long depended on strict land-use …
Amsterdam Rewoven
When we recall the first moment of memory, what will it be? Perhaps, the touch of the blankets wr…
A Space for Altered States
As psychedelic-assisted therapy re-emerges and demonstrates promising outcomes in PTSD, treatment…
From Cargo to Care
This project reimagines the Erie Canal as a network of care infrastructure. Instead of serving th…
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Contested Territories and Landscape of Deeds
Prototype for Affordable Migrant Housing in Southampton NY
Prototype for Affordable Housing in Southampton exposes how zoning, infrastructure, and landscape…
Spectacular Flying Machines
Spectacular Flying Machines examines the conflicting aesthetic dynamics between skyscape and land…
Point Monument: Ritualizing Wind Data
Offshore wind farms create a schism between different interpretations of wind—wind as power; wind…
Pine Barrens Liturgical Mesh Network
The Pine Barrens Liturgical Mesh Network challenges a centuries-long project of land dispossessio…
Disseminating Water Infrastructure
The rural spread of Suffolk County and geomorphological presence of aquifers creates a unique phe…
The Interspecies Neighborhood Watch
Nora Kelly Manicured rurality in the East End of Long Island evokes images of green lawns, trim…
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Urban Cool 500
AMUSEMENT // RESILIENCE at Coney Island: Between the Space Station and the Fuselage
Aidan Galloway Beyond famously calling Coney Island a “laboratory” where ideas and strategies ar…
Canopy as Social Infrastructure: A Community Resiliency Center at Coney Island
Michael Kan, Julia Qian
This project proposes a next-generation Community Resiliency Center fo…
Eaton’s Fireguards and Corridors
The Eaton’s Fireguards and Corridors project is an ecological and fire management initiative that…
Detoxing Ecology
Sumi Kim, Yeon Lee This project reframes flooding in Coney Island Creek not as a simple rise in …
Learning From Coney Island: Resilient Park
Coney Island’s seaside amusement district faces dual threats from climate change: rising sea leve…
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Art Vessel: The Life Work of Victor and Mabel D'Amico
Prototype for Affordable Migrant Housing in Southampton NY
Prototype for Affordable Housing in Southampton exposes how zoning, infrastructure, and landscape…
Anchored Canopy
This project explores the reuse of existing site infrastructure by treating a tower as both struc…
Art Barge Live-Work Residences
This project positions restraint as a generative principle. Drawing from the Art Barge a structur…
A Field for Living Signals
This project reimagines an abandoned radio station in the East Hampton marshland by transforming …
ART COVE
Art Cove is a sand collecting device on Napeague Harbor. Used as an informal lodging space for th…
EXPAND/RETRACT
EXPAND/RETRACT reimagines the abandoned WSL Amagansett radio station as dynamic collective housin…
Tidal Grounds
The project is grounded in two temporally (and sensorially) distinct readings of the Art Barge lo…
Dialectics
This project explores the tension between entangled pairings. Sail and hull, sea and sky, statics…
Field of Masts
Located at Napeague Harbor on Long Island, this project proposes an elevated space for artists an…
Framing Explorations & Living in the Vessel
Living in the Vessel is an artists’ summer residency which uses explorations of basic framing pri…
The Outer Dock
This project is conceived as an artist residency structured as a dry dock around a stranded barge…
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Fields of Play
Fast Water, Slow Water A Lakewide Water-Edge Strategy and Two Shoreline Prototypes for Lake Ronkonkoma
Hu Tong
Fast Water, Slow Water begins with a 1A black-box experiment on particle diffusion, w…
Drifting Ecologies
The proposal uses game theory to incentivize community participation in removing excess nitrogen …
Algae Cycles: A Seasonal Architecture for Ecological Production and Public Learning
This project understands the lake as an ecological–social field shaped by interactions among peop…
Repair Garden
Serena Hsieh
This project aim to focus on the relationship between Architectural and seasonali…
Field of Soil
Lake Ronkonkoma faces ecological pressures from shoreline erosion, nutrient-rich runoff, algae bl…
Perch
Yiran Li
Perch proposes a distributed hotel system within the woodland at the northwest edge …
Lake Ronkonkoma Filtration Park
Daniel Oberman
My architectural intervention is designed to improve water quality and reduce a…
WATER, PLAY, AND REPAIR
Yufei Li
This proposal is grounded in the premise that restoring Lake Ronkonkoma must operate …