Wrong Turn2025|Winnipeg,MB,CanadaA winning entry to the 2025 Warming Huts competition hosted by The Forks, Wrong Turn brings a playful critique of climate change to life on the frozen Red River. A toy-like replica of the iconic Acadian Canso appears to have crashed through the ice, its body sinking into the frozen surface. Next to the sinking vehicle, a vintage gas pump raises questions—was this an accident, or the intended destination?
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Architecture, Under Construction, Cultural, Competition
Forest Spirit 2024|Bastrop,TX,USAForest Spirit is the 2nd Place Winner of the Tree House 2024 competition organized by Volume Zero Magazine.
Located in Texas’ Bastrop State Park—the site of a 32,000-acre wildfire in 2011—the Forest Spirit stands near the Lost Pines hiking trail on the edge of the main burn path, overseeing the regrowth of the pine forest. Embodying aspects of dragons, insects, beasts, and reptiles, it is a chimera, a creature suspended between myth and reality.
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Architecture, Speculative, Residential, Competition
Murky Waters2024|Winnipeg,MB,CanadaA winning entry to the 2024 Warming Huts competition hosted by The Forks, Murky Waters situates a pavilion in the form of a catfish skeleton on the frozen surface of
the Assiniboine River. The design is comprised of an
occupiable skull that provides visitors a space to catch their breath and retie their skates out of the wind, a series of ribs connected by a thick rope spine, and a boney tail, its base merged into another bench. The presence of the catfish on the river’s surface aims to provide a reminder of the ecologies humans are entangled with throughout our different cultures and contexts.
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Architecture, Built, Cultural, Competition
Bay All Day
2022|Chicago,IL,USA Design for a three-flat housing project with a commercial ground
floor, located at 1953 West Chicago Avenue in the East Village
neighborhood.
The building leverages the bay window, considered vernacular to the
three flat typology, as an organizational language that shapes the
interior program and informs the placement of light wells.
The residential floors are designed to accommodate a variety of living
styles, utilizing minimal architectural adjustments to create maximum
variety. The difference produced by the floor plans allows for varying
levels of rental costs offered, ideally creating an architecture that encourages a high level of diversity
reflected in the building’s future inhabitants.
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Architecture, Speculative, Residential
A Necessary Weevil
2020|Uncertain,TX,USA
Uncertain is the fifth smallest fully-incorporated city in Texas by population (2020).
In addition to a shrinking population,
one of the largest issues facing the city is the presence of
an invasive waterweed on Caddo Lake, the main economic driver of the area. The invasive species giant salvinia
impedes boat travel, spreads at an exponential rate, and harms native aquatic
populations by stifling water oxygenation.
The
creation of a dedicated Research and Weevil Farming Center enhances efforts already present in the community. The center, operated by the non-profit
the Caddo Biocontrol Alliance, aims to eliminate the giant salvinia
threat through the rearing and release of salvinia weevils, the plant’s natural
predator. In addition to weevil farming, the building accommodates spaces for
educational tourism, weevil deployment, public events, and civic
assemblies.
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Architecture, Speculative, Cultural, Civic
Table No.1 | Play
2022
Play is multi-faceted, complex, and dynamic. It
is usually felt to be a universal activity and presented in relationship to childhood. While children may have an natural desire and capacity to play,
it is an inherent part of gathering for all ages. Table No.1 presents a space for gathering that embeds potentials of play through game pieces in its surface. The table itself provides its users with everything they need to play tic-tac-toe, checkers, and a block stacking tower game.
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Furniture, Built, Table
Table No.2 | Hex
2023Using three Eames Eiffel-esque wire chair legs pulled from a dumpster, Table No. 2 builds on the uneven tops of the mass-produced legs to create a multi-leveled surface at coffee table height. The legs are connected through a cross-laminated bamboo tabletop made of four hexagonal pieces in two sizes. The resulting table provides an excellent and functional space to place or display all manner of objects.
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Furniture, Built, Table, Readymade
Table No.3 | Work2023Table No.3 was developed alongside a new model for teaching design studio courses based off tabletop role playing games. Split into three pentagonal forms, the tabletop can be separated to allow for various arrangements or assembled into an irregular hexagonal form. The shape of the table corresponds directly to facilitate the different roles and structures of the studio pedagogy with various arrangements and scales of gathering.
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Furniture, Built, Table,
Readymade
Stool No.1 | Sand Dollar2022Designed with quick disassembly in mind, the Sand Dollar stool slots together to create the iconic sand dollar form on its seat. The stool is comprised of five elements: three identical legs, an aluminum ring, and a circular seat. The accent pieces that connect the legs to the structural ring could be produced in a variety of colors.
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Furniture, Speculative, Seating,
Readymade,
In-Progress
Plan It!
2023Plan It! is a boardgame designed to educate players on basic planning
principles in relation to sea level rise. The game is geared towards general audiences
requiring no prior knowledge of urban planning principles and takes about one hour to play.
Plan It! covers the entirety of the 21st century, divided into 20-year rounds.
Players
select a team out of four options — Ecological, Industrial, Urban, and Rural — and begin
developing the region, updating existing structures, and creating productive landscapes. The
adjacency of other teams greatly influences how players are able plan their futures and
manage their limited resources. Players earn points by meeting climate targets at the end of
each round, as well as through actions like developing wetlands to mitigate the immediate
effects of rising sea levels.
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Objects, Built, Game
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