Located in Gowanus, Brooklyn, Community Center 01 aims at bringing private green space to the public. The design was guided by the surrounding environment where brownstones have private front yards and courtyards, even on atypical sites where green space was negotiated into the site, pictured below. The community center brings this to the community through […]
Located in Syracuse, NY the Subterranean Theater resides mostly below ground level. Its structure is dug into the ground and connects to the site’s original landscape, similar to my precedent study on Peter Zumthor’s Zinc Mine Museums. One of my goals in this project was to preserve the site’s usability. Instead of the building being […]
This project studied Peter Zumthor’s Zinc Mine Museum. Zumthor was commissioned to revamp the already existing zinc mines. He developed simplistic buildings “inspired by the mining operation […] and the workers’ strenuous everyday lives” (ArchDaily). Laminated wood holds the main structure. The all-black exterior and interior resemble a gallery and does not take away from […]
The Art Incubator is designed with the goal of creating both a visually stimulating and a physically interactive space for museum-goers in one cohesive structure. The surrounding site and its buildings are on a box-like grid, with typical rectangular buildings built throughout the neighborhood. The Art Incubator juxtaposes the box-like form of its neighbors with […]
This project was designed Fall 2021 after studying the Mesa House in Utah designed by Annabelle Selldorf. The Mesa House is a private resort tucked into a desert, surrounded by Utah’s natural environment, making the structure serve the landscape, rather than vice versa. When looking at it, I felt the landscape was more of the […]
