Chungnam Art Museum
Chungcheongnam-do, Korea[finalist, invited competition]
cultural
Pyeongchang Larchiveum
Seoul, Korea
White Block Gallery
Heyri, Korea [ AIANE Design Award, AIA/BSA Honor Award, American Architecture Award ]
Cloud
Heyri, Korea [ Featured in Domus and the CreatorsProject ]
Cade Museum
Gainesville, Florida [ 2nd Place, National Competition ] The needs of museums are shifting: Instead of merely being places of display, they are becoming places of interactive learning that promote multidisciplinary, synthetic ways of thinking. Many institutions like the CADE are also shifting the definition away from the passive to the active tense with the … [continue]
White Stadium
Seoul, Korea [finalist, invited competition] Water, digital technology, and sustainability are merged in this new reinterpretation of the iconic but now underutilized Seoul Olympic Stadium. A temporary structure to house the international Seoul Design Olympiad (SDO) events, an inflatable arch is held away from the structure of the historic stadium. Through a simple process of … [continue]
Czech National Library
Prague, Czech Republic [international competition, jury selection] As both a secure repository of books and a symbolic civic building, a national library must negotiate the spatial dichotomy between storage and display. Through a strategy of ‘light monumentality’ the book stacks are formed into a curved two-way truss that protects and defines a public winter-garden below it. … [continue]
Asian Cultural Complex
Gwangju, Korea [honorable mention, international competition] The act of encircling has both literal and metaphorical meanings: In an urban environment like Gwangju, encircling implies both the demarcation of a special precinct within the city’s existing fabric as well as the creation of a new public common ground. Providing a porous, non-hierarchical edge to the urban … [continue]
Mass College of Art
Boston, MA [RFP winner] A new undulating screen of recycled polyester seat belts engages traffic flows while providing new places for the experience of education and the arts. The screen itself has a dual purpose: The vertical straps produce a Moiré illusion by interacting with a silk-screened base layer. First, these Moiré patterns convey … [continue]
Providence Plaza
Providence, RI [finalist, national rfp] An electronic “cloud” canopy formed of an array of LED’s and speakers are triggered by passerbys and weather patterns heightening otherwise invisible relationships between publics and their environments. As groups begin to gather, the interactive electronics intensify, promoting impromptu performances and conversations. Urban landscape mounds form lounging areas as … [continue]
Boston Harbor Pavilion
Boston, MA [honorable mention, international competition] It is the reciprocal edge between water and land that makes an island an extraordinary natural resource and public amenity. As an urban gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands, the structural roof-form or this design becomes a literal/metaphorical reference to this junction of water and land. Where the ‘actual’ … [continue]