SUSTAINABLE HOUSE
Early Sustainable House
WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK
This is a house that both grows out of the landscape and is open to the landscape, emerging from the ledge upon which it is built. Constructed on a wooded lot, it straddles the northernmost part of the site like a line in the earth, delineating the spare cultivated land to the north form the heavily wooded forest to the south. This high-performance house is a model of sustainability, containing radiant heat, multi-zoned air conditioning, low-energy glazing, and low VOC plaster interior finishes that are the core of today’s green LEED thinking.
KIGUTU STAFF HOUSING
Village Health Works Staff Housing
KIGUTU, BURUNDI
Merging architecture and landscape, the design of the 18 bed Staff Housing for Village Health Works in Kigutu, Burundi is a romance between east African elemental aesthetics and inventive off-the-grid sustainability. Cutting a skewed line in the terrain, the 6,000 square foot dormitory is sited to capture the breathtaking mountain views. The porosity of the porches encourages sociability, enhances air flow, and frames magnificent unobstructed transverse views of the landscape beyond.
CHELSEA COURT
Chelsea Court Affordable Housing
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Chelsea Court, an affordable housing project specifically designed for previously homeless and low-income tenants, is a tribute to the belief that aesthetic environments enhance the lives of all people, whether rich or poor. Chelsea Court is composed of 18 studio apartments and community facilities including a lounge, conference room, laundry and offices complementing the layout of apartments. The design attempts to expand the typical boundaries of SRO housing within the context of a tight budget. This is low-income housing. Design counts for a lot.
HOUSE AT NINEVAH BEACH
House at Ninevah Beach
SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK
This residence has its roots in the African-American tradition of Sag harbor, New York and its soul in the contemporary California beachfront towns located on the Pacific coast Highway. Set upon the highest elevation in the town, this beachfront home projects out over the bluff like a perched animal ready to spring forward toward Long Island Sound. Its slightly angled yet continuous roof, reinforced by its four and one half foot overhang, gently moves upward and outward toward the water, creating an ever-present relationship with the sea..
TURN OF THE CENTURY APARTMENT
Turn of the Century Apartment
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Situated in a residential neighborhood in the heart of Manhattan, this apartment is part of a building that was erected at the turn of the twentieth century. Built for a married couple whose children had recently moved away from home to start their own adult lives, the design of this home reflects the clients desire to simplify their own existence in a highly innovative way in a much smaller apartment than the home in which they raised their children.
CENTRAL PARK WEST APT
Central Park West Tower Apartment
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
An apartment, such as this, located in a tower atop an apartment building on Central Park West in Manhattan affords a unique design opportunity. It is rare to find a site that presents views in three directions, east toward Central Park, west toward New Jersey and north toward upper Manhattan. Built in the 1940’s, this apartment was originally composed of a rabbit warren of small rooms that blocked the potential for long vistas leading the eye to the outdoors. Our task was to bring the outside in.
5TH AVENUE APT
Fifth Avenue Apartment
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
The challenge of this project that consisted of renovating and combing two dilapidated apartments into one expansive home for a married couple with grown children. The ultimate outcome was an expansive art and book-filled two-bedroom apartment facing Central Park. The shape and scale of the large curved white oak cabinet that spanned the length of the apartment were a clear reaction to the expansive view and ease of movement within.
2018 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
PLACES WHERE CONVERSATION CREATES SOCIAL FABRIC
