W/ Snow Kreilich Architects
Currently under construction
Minnesota
This outdoor cooking pavilion centers itself around a central hearth which evokes the imagery of earlier, more primitive, plains structures. The hearth is made up of a cast-in-place concrete fire pit with a copper clad chimney running to roof. The hearth, while establishing the functionality of the structure, also determines the geometry of the 4 sided roof. Slightly off centered, the hearth creates a more differentiated set of elevations. This is also resolved in the framing - never to have a symmetrical alignment within a square plan.
with Viktor Forchammer Mortensen
The pavilion constructed during the Residency at HomeBase Berlin is a space for Working, Performance, and Leisure(and a variety of activities in-between). The residency is host to creatives from around the world who represent different disciplines(visual art, writing, performance, etc). The pavilion, which is situated in the inner courtyard of a former brewery which the residency now occupies, acts as a condenser of these activities in a semi-public space. The summer residency culminated in three days of festival programing, which included exhibitions, lectures, performance, and open studios. The activity of the festival gravitated around the pavilion space, with nightly performances. The pavilion is designed as a flexible framework for creative production. It's impossible to predict the desires and uses of a space that hosts such a variety and quickly rotating group of artists(residencies last 3-4 months, 3 times per year), so structure is intentionally unspecific, and is defined by the users projective programming.
With Julia DiCastri. 2015
With Mathew Vibberts. 2015
Our design for the 2015 Ragdale Ring is a product of what we see to be three essential qualities of Ragdale; history, craft, and the garden. These essential qualities come together to create a unique opportunity for design, one which we believe should naturally embody the spirit of the space.
Ragdale’s history is the starting point for the concept, with Howard Van Doren Shaw’s design that marries architecture to landscape, through special attention to view’s, natural light, and material choices. But most of all it is Shaw’s original design for the outdoor theatre, which used elements of the landscape and garden to define space in a way that was especially of that time and place. This seamless blending between a typical architectural space and the landscape is where our concept for the 2015 Ragdale ring is born.
Our concept for a new performance and leisure structure, like Shaw’s, occupies a space somewhere between garden, landscape, and architecture. The structure, which is not unlike a typical residential deck, allows audience and performers to occupy the same space that new elements of the garden resides in. The structure becomes a container for people and place simultaneously. Punches in the deck structure allow for a simple seat that puts the spectator at the same level as the natural world that surrounds them at Ragdale. Over time, the deck surface allows for a controlled growth to emerge from below through it’s special joinery techniques, furthering the melding of the garden with structure.
With José oubrerie
This proposal for a tall building questions the idea of a tower being a solid mass with a typical (plan) stacking of space and program. Instead, it proposes a collection of heterogenous volumes that are united within a transparent skin and connected by a common circulatory core. This collection of figures, held together by a common core, is a product of the city itself. If the experience of being in the city is one of independent figures simultaneously competing and supporting each other, then this logic can be extended to the composition of one the city's most dominant types, the tall building. Both autonomy and contingency are dominant traits of the building, and this interior conflict is displayed through the vitrine-like transparency of the skin. The interior figures are further united in the common-interstitial spaces, which are a product of the loose-fit between non-normative interior figure and normative outer container. This formal contradiction is productive in its ability to create public spaces within the building. These interstitial public zones are both occupied and unoccupied space, with the idea that even the unoccupied space is productive in its potential for atmospheric qualities and it's atypical dimensional scale.
Through their programmatic animation, the interior figures become abstract characters within their common container. The container displays moments where these characters snuggly nestle together, intersect to create connections, or tensely hover above one another. This new family of figures is inwardly focused through these characteristics, but at the same time leaving these sets of relationships exposed to the city outside, thus the introverts also become the exhibitionists.
With Miles Mendenhall. 2013
With Tamara Kalantajevska and Margo Zalite. Berlin. 2013.
