Pyeongchang Larchiveum
Seoul, Korea
cultural, featured, institutional, organizational, public, transparency
Heyri, Korea [ AIANE Design Award, AIA/BSA Honor Award, American Architecture Award ]
institutional, preservation, public, recycling
In terms of preservation strategies, armories are truly a difficult urban building type. Once a place for military training, they are now becoming almost wholly obsolete: Their vast interior drill hall and their monumental footprint makes them difficult to convert to any other urban program including housing. Meanwhile, many of them appear on highly restrictive state or national historic registers. … [continue]→
plaza, public, urbanism, water
Thu Thiem, Vietnam The proposed plaza, park, and bridge hosts ceremonial and everyday events in a new mixed-use district for Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Our project creates a kilometer long plaza, green in its physical presence, green in its construction and dynamically scalable to the events of the city. Floating above the entire … [continue]→
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]→
cultural, plaza, public, structure, sustainable
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]→