These photographs were taken at the Adlershof Science Park in Berlin.  They illustrate the potential of a bioretention strategy to structure a landscape around a building.        

The JBB Jardin Botanico Barcelona carves a series of pathways and rooms in the hillside topography of Barcelona using cast-in-place concrete lined with a cor-ten skin to retain and define subtractive edges.

There is/was a butterfly exhibit at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC that allowed visitors to interact with the butterflies in an indoor, synthetic habitat.  The structure was a translucent tube that the visitor entered one end and then exited at the opposite end.  Air blowers and airlocks prevented the exit of butterflies [...]

The Boston Children’s Museum has a climbing structure in the main lobby that allows kids to climb a series of bent-plywood surfaces that spiral up several stories.  It’s a little scary for the youngest and for the parents who don’t want to have to climb through claustrophobic spaces to retrieve their toddlers.  However, it’s a great [...]

A second view of a public space formed by two terraces, a wall, and stair activated by skateboards.

The public space of the MACBA by Richard Meiers attracts skateboarders in Barcelona.

I have been rotating student models 90 degrees around a longitudinal axis because the proportions of the rooms and buildings is instantly transformed into a more vertical proportion.  Often it doesn’t require a complete remapping of program, although the circulation has to be re-thought.  In this case, although the circulation is intended to be in [...]

This model has the agenda of designing the circulation, which is structured around a path way between a skateboard fabrication shop and a kinetic landscape of ramps and half pipes.  It also starts to add architectural strategies of screen and programmatic containment, which might better left out.  The model could be strictly limited to the [...]

Investigate the relationship of your Project 02 constructions in the context of the Project 03 group site model. Even if it is not a key part of your project, it instantly generates a relationships of material, scale, aperture, and figure-field, which should be documented as part of the concept definition process.