Videos

A.R.chitecture

A.R.chitecture set out to explore and capitalize on mixed reality environments (virtual and augmented reality), as tools that can better facilitate the collaboration between architects, clients and construction professionals.

If a rendering is worth a thousand words, then augmented reality (A.R.) should speak millions.

Since the beginning of my architectural practice, the design community and the construction community have always suffered a rivalrous rapport. At its most insidious, the contracting firm of a large job will accrue heavy cash sums, over the scope of a build, for the errors, omissions or otherwise misalignments of the architect's contribution in a traditional design-bid-build collaboration.

The Public BROWNSVILLE

The studio took, as its creative position, the idea that all information is filtered through the author of the information and the reader. The Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, was the research site that fed the studio the data to create the architectural response. In architecture's influences over culture, economics and social relations, so our analysis of this area informed our propositions.

These propositions focused on the construction of public places in the neighborhood. The work of the studio was invested in the tactics of reading, where the nuances and tendencies hidden beneath the surface—between the lines—form the structure of that which appears in plain sight. The act of rewriting the site (with the tools of our trade), using the data at hand, must take the form of propositions—concrete proposals about new forms of public life. Finally, engagement was production, and our studio production executed the design and construction of large scale prototypes, using CNC, Laser cutting and other digital modalities.

Portfolio Workshop for Architects

At any stage of their career, it's imperative for architects + designers to present their work in a way that is celebratory, succinct and audience-appropriate. There are several ways to succeed at creating work-winning portfolios. The key is to know which tools to use at what stage and why.

This video here was the first chapter of a five-part series to burgeoning architects.

PreBuilt Start-up Spaces, NYC

This fly-through, along with 4 other single fly-throughs for each respective suite, showacses a prospective development for a high-profile NYC development group by which they commission the design / build of one or more floors to be "pre built" and then find leaseholders for the space(s). Working under the design direction of Meridian Design Associates, Architects, P.C. I produced renderings and these fly-throughs for what [the development group] hopes will be crisp, new commercial leaseholds made available to a burgeoning growth of NYC tech startups.