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Prefab Housing : Ritual Flux

Design Studio 403 - Prefab China

Ritual flux reflects the synthetic nature of ideas, technology, and the reciprocal relationship between the body and the built environment. The anatomy of any domestic terrain requires an engrained flexibility to sustain a broad spectrum of generic processes shared by all human, while maintaining certain cultural or regional specifics.

The ritual is seen as a rhythmic performance which fluctuates between states of habit and conscious decisions and the "unexpected". Through the cohesion of daily, monthly and yearly rituals, performance can begin to co-exist, creating hybridized zones of opportunity where architecture begins to fuse. When the rhythm of ones daily life abruptly alters due to the "unexpected", changes become inflicted upon the domestic terrain to customize to the new performances that the architecture must address.

Academic Work 2005-2008

Media Scape:

New York, NY

Design Studio 501/502 - Degree Project

In the 21st century, the age of technological advances, there is no question that our ability to access knowledge has broadened with the use of computers and the internet. Today many people have the ability to enlighten one’s self, without leaving their homes, by searching on the world wide web. Although this phenomenon has been for the greater good it has potentially initiated a decrease in the usage of the public library.

Media Scape faces the challenge to defer the idea that libraries are becoming obsolete and that historic institutes such as the NY Public Library on 42nd can remain as a predominant source of knowledge in an ever fast and constantly changing world.

S house:

Brooklyn, NY

Design Studio 301 - Urban Housing

Urban Housing in New York has seen tremendous growth in the last decade, but often many projects have been glued to formulas of economic efficiency. As a metropolitan area that houses sixteen million inhabitants in the total area of 469 sq mi, the need for a different formula has been needed for sometime. In attempts to reconstruct the underlining method of urban housing five manifestations were declared.

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Long Island Aquatic Center:

Queens, NY

Design Studio 302 - Long Span

Located in Queens at the boader of Brooklyn and Manhattan, the Long Island Aquatic Center is the epicenter for profesional and recreational activity. The center’s facilities strives to creates a utopian training ground for professional athletes while allowing the public to be in a leisurely environment.

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Tiber Institute: Think Tank

Rome, Italy

Design Studio 402, Rome - Cultural Museum

The Tiber Institute for Studies in Development and Environment is an independent, nonpartisan think-tank, studying issues related to global water consumption. Situated in the piazza Bocca della Verti, Romes oldest public space, the institute sits adjacent to the Palatine Hill and along side the Tiber River.

The Tiber Institute consists of the three parts that are situated around a new public forum. Each component is derived through the transformation of urban volumes using series of strategies that change the relationship of part to whole. When reassembled each unique volume is linked to a specific program.