recommended flagship project in the invited competition for haitian schools organized by Architecture for Humanity how to - design for disaster, ecology, economy? design for any site? create spaces for teaching & community gathering? enable scalability, flexibility, evolve with local materials? create dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces?

offices and program space for a 3000sf community center that provides training and workshops to red hook area residents. the design involves simple but innovative intervention to a warehouse space using community participation, straightforward sustainable materials and passive environmental strategies. red hook initiative center opened in february 2010

sustainable, affordable housing proposal for global green competition site and building strategy maximizes south facing riverfront site and passive solar effect, offers double-height space, private terrace, and views for each unit

1800sf country house in upstate new york for a restaurant owner and chef local materials, small footprint, and minimal disturbance to the meadow and woods landscape design emphasizes fluidity and movement, with programmatic niches around a large open living area

concept design for a 9000sf chapel & retreat center design accommodates the disparate program elements with a simple stacked diagram and transverse landscape approaches, one half up, one half down

fourth place prize in the international architectural design competition newark visitor center emphasizes ecology and celebrates local action. new tidal marsh wetlands enables visitors to engage with nature, and functions as bioremediation system and a barometer of sort, allowing us to gauge climate change as sea level rise affects the wetlands edge habitat

sustainable single-family house, competition-entry the house reimagines both modernist glass boxes and houses-on-piloti by proposing an unsolid box, eroded by voids and wrapped with a "green skin"

in collaboration with kollektivark, competition entry how can an addition and renovation strengthen the ownership and participation of parents and the community? how does the existing 100-year-old building participate within a modern educational philosophy?

design and fabrication of a 2500sf flexible fashion retail and exhibition storefront in the port authority bus terminal. in partnership with the Times Square Alliance and the Fashion Center. BLANK SL8 opened may 1 with Save Fashion organized by Refinery 29