Programming and design development for outdoor amphitheatre, including stage, canopy, seating, signage and lighting.
Mark Rakatansky Studio
"Cinematic Remixes and Browsing Systems", Pratt Institute Seminar 2002
Critics: Doug Diaz, Chris Perry
Material scale involved sampling of short films that explore both organizational and spatial properties centered on relational tactics. Final interface of short films and diagrams were housed as a digital archive and short film.
Undergraduate Diploma Project, 1999
Critic: Robert Segrest
“Exchanges”, this project looks at the impact of unification and integration of infrastructural systems on scales ranging from urban to personal space during the “official” governmental move from Bonn to Berlin. Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz serves as the primary site of the proposed stock exchange. This project begins to question the value of architecture in a competitive market where spatial dependencies no longer exist.
Japan Architect
Shinkenchiku-sha Co. Ltd.
2002 Competition
D.O.R.A/Peter Macapia.
Competition Theme: “Dwelling where the Muses are served/spared emptiness”
“Accessory – to”, 1999
Investigation of the window treatment within a faculty office facing an enclosed atrium in the Design College Building at Iowa State University. The design of the window box allowed for visibility and sunlight to be controlled by moveable shelving units. Welded steel frame from 1/2” key stock, boxes made of 9 ply, 1/2” birch plywood, laminated 1/8” Plexiglas with image interlayer.
Collaboration with Wesley Reynolds
Graduate Thesis Project, 2002
The traditional park within the city, as a mode of leisure, is in some ways being replaced by a mix of commercial space, transportation and tourism. The widespread coupling of “Economic Trade Zones” and offshore developments with eco-tourism is no accident. The results of this re-organization are new types of publicly accessible “markets”. Mapping these territorial expansions and programmatic trends, is critical in relation to the speed at which these massive changes are taking place.
Graduate studio, “Jabberwocky: Or, the Grafting of Edges” Critic: Peter Macapia.
"The studio involved intensive research in methodological problems of design, investigating types of relationships between surfaces and edges by generating material and geometrical techniques of “grafting”. Formal operations paralleled investigation of program, defined as a set of events embedded in the geometry of the edge and its performative logic as an instance of the graft. Program: multi-use: theater, conference space and hotel."
Rome project, “Bound”
Critic: Jeffrey Balmer
A cartographic library on the site of the previous library of the Forum of Peace (203-211 AD), which contained the Forma Urbis, a detailed map of the city inscribed on marble panels. The wall that housed the map still exists today, incorporated into the church of St. Cosmas and Damian in 527 AD . The final product being, “Bound”, one volume, a document, a book of the semester’s work, measuring 35 x50 cm.
3/4” - 13 ply laminated birch plywood
Stainless steel legs
Dimensions: 46”(w) x 12”(d) x 16.5”(h)
2005
Located at the corner of Bowery and Grand Street, NYC. Renovation and addition to an existing four-story building, providing seven new floors of hotel space (102 rooms) approximately 35,000 s.f. Project required integration of new and existing structure with phased demolition and installation of new steel structure. Existing limestone façade was retained on lower portion of structure and building remained occupied by ground floor tenants through construction. Scheduled for completion, 2007.
Architecture, Interiors and Furniture.
Staten Island, September 11th Memorial
Short-listed finalist project with D.O.R.A./ Peter Macapia from 177 entries. The proposed location for the memorial was to be along the St. George waterfront esplanade, adjacent to the Ferry Terminal. Budget of $1.5 million. 2003
Ove Arup New York- Engineering Consultant, Brian Stacy- Lighting.
1200 s.f. apartment renovation overlooking Central Park. Designed to maximize exposure to windows from all points including the master bathroom. Open floor plan with flexibility to create separate master bedroom, living space and guest room through full-height sliding panels. Completed 2004.
Interiors and Furniture.
New construction building located on Chrystie Street between Canal and Hester, NYC. Eleven story hotel with 60 guestrooms, parking garage for approximately 32 cars, and private penthouse/duplex with swimming pool and rooftop garden. Scheduled for completion 2007.
Architecture, Interiors and Furniture.
