The Vizcaya Mansion Grotto
Last May I was lucky enough to be included in a team, along with Courtney Magill and led by Frank Matero, to travel down to the Vizcaya Mansion in Miami, Florida to have a discussion of the conservation of the grotto there, the ceiling of which was the canvas for one of Robert Chanler’s few […]
Optimized Program Design
A ‘fast and dirty’* study for my current studio project, done early on in the design process, that aims to size the environmental features of a prototypical building section. This analysis uses Honeybee and Ladybug for Grasshopper and DesignExplorer to map the resulting patterns. In this case, a residential(north) and office(south) space are bifurcated by […]
Interpreting & Reacting to Forces: Structural Form Finding Excercise
This was a short exercise in studying the literal interpretation of flows on a site. This was a precursor study for the current studio project this semester. The site for the project is on an abandoned pier in Elliott Bay, Seattle. Although the climate is rather benign, the increased exposure of the site on the […]