CAD

A collaboration with

THR.D Studio

Garet Ammerman

Matt Lopez

Strata House places users in a vertical datum distributing mixed realities and material form. Our world is almost entirely mediated by the digital. The term post-digital has been used ad nauseam to describe the blurred distinctions between what is digital and non-digital. Experiences are embedded in algorithms and neural networks perpetually operating behind the scenes to re-represent the world in the name of convenience, social interaction, and entertainment. Additionally, Mixed Reality (MR) technologies merge and blend our physical and digital objects in real-time. Strata House leverages these synchronous experiences through a tripartite organization: Roof - Plenum - Vault. Synonymous with a shield, the Roof absorbs the external environment projected onto it and protects the interior segments of the house. The Plenum contains the traditional public and private spaces, and the Vault is a subterranean cluster of voids housing MR environments. Strata House is contextual in a macro sense, appropriating our post-digital sphere as its site. This condition suggests that the two previously antagonistic models of the world (virtual and physical) are compressed to describe a modified relationship between domestic space and its architectural object. Strata House is an elaboration of this new relationship between experience and material.

New York. Vertical Neighborhoods

A Collaboration with:

Billy Wang

Emma Tyrer

West Soho Tower

A mixed use tower perforated with open air atriums that split the different programs and offer fresh air to the occupants and visual relationships between the different segmented zones.

Public Space

Public Park

Public Plaza

Public Cathedral

Los Angeles X-Point City: Discrete Interiorities

A collaboration with:

Drew Grandjean

Michael Zimmerman

suburbia in CMYK

Brooklyn Bridge Park Ferry Terminal,

Brooklyn Bridge Park; historically dominated by industrial sites, currently has become a growing public development, reconnecting the city with the water.

As a design strategy, the force that pulled the city to the water continues.  The pressure begins to make a piece of the park break away and further the reach.

In the same character as the park reconfiguring the industrial bounds and stretching the city out; this piece attempts to reconfigure the water boundary that separated Brooklyn and Manhattan. 

There is a conflict, as it reaches it tears the tissue of the park.  The industrial roots of the site wrap around the tissue resisting the stretch and maintaining a relationship between the terminal, site and history.

Now the flow is conditioned to go from park to terminal to ferry to Manhattan, each piece reaching further than the last and once combined erase the boundaries with their connection.

Holland Tunnel Toll Booth

Critic: Jeff Nesbit

Pressured by movement, rooted in site

High Line LoLux Tower 

The New York City High Line is creating a new growth in the Chelsea district, with many new housing towers being built around it.  Among these towers surrounding the High Line, as well as the overall housing market of the city.  The primary focus has been luxury or high price apartments.

In order to balance this luxury tower agenda, this design focuses on building a housing tower with both luxury and affordable housing units that follow a combinatory logic which can benefit all residents.

The design creates a community within 3-floor clusters, that center around a shared space, where the residents can gather, and a have versatile shared space.

On the lower levels, the tower integrates into the growing high line network, and offer a public realm of a discotheque, bar, and coffee house, benefiting the urban environment and residents. 

Lake Dallas - Water Sports Pavilion

Between water and land

Dallas Filmplex

Treating the sites infill condition as scar tissue.  The filmplex attempting to  close the wound, yet cut through by pedestrian traffic helping to invigorate two public zones on either side of the theatre.