Location: Austin, Texas
Semester: Spring 2010
Professor: Carlos Jimenez
In collaboration with: --
Description: The CCA-M, located between the University of Texas and downtown Austin, is a sanctuary where songwriters can find inspiration among program framed by nature.
Location: Delft, The Netherlands
Semester: Fall 2008
Professor: --
In collaboration with: Tait Kaplan, Timothy Kunkel, Ali Naghdali
Description: an open ideas competition exploring options for TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture after its tragic and unexpected destruction earlier that year. The 50.000 sq m program includes studio spaces, offices, lecture halls, a library, and labs, to serve the school's 3000 architecture students.
Location: Shenzhen, China
Semester: Spring 2008
Professor: Sean Lally
In collaboration with: Tait Kaplan, Timothy Kunkel
Description: By exploding the traditional wall into several separate boundaries to individually mediate spatial qualities such as light, sound, and climate, nested atmospheres give greater curatorial opportunity. Visitors experience the 80.000 sq m program in various environments, rather than the typical museum's homogeneous white box condition.
Location: Houston, Texas
Semester: Fall 2007
Professor: Carlos Jimenez
In collaboration with: --
Description: The World Music Center, on an infill site in downtown Houston, includes a 250-seat theatre, gallery space, courtyard, cafe, and music archive. The theatre and gallery act as anchors from which all other program cling, so that the visitor alternates between observing and animating each space.
Location: Paris, France
Semester: Fall 2009
Professor: Andres Souza Blanes Y Cortes
In collaboration with: --
Description: Retail on the island becomes not only a place to showcase a product but a museum of production and a celebration of craft, trade, and the people behind the product.
Location: Dallas, Texas
Semester: Spring 2009
Professor: --
In collaboration with: Tait Kaplan, Timothy Kunkel, Mimi Kwan
Description: Off The Grid is designed to educate its residents and the community about the accessibility and availability of sustainable living. Residential, live/work, and light retail form three courtyards that showcase essential cycles and encourage community involvement.
Location: Houston, Texas
Semester: Fall 2006
Professor: Christopher Hight, Sean Lally
In collaboration with: William Garris
Description: The HIWI Center gives its visitors a dynamic sample of the city's culture, developing Houston's interests and self-awareness. It becomes a topographical icon and unique environment for social interaction.
Location: Houston, Texas
Semester: Spring 2006
Professor: Michael Morrow, Gordon Wittenberg
In collaboration with: --
Description: a transit facility linking inter- and intra-city bus lines, metro line, automobiles and pedestrians on a site slipping underneath Houston's busy Highway 59.
Location: Galveston, Texas
Semester: Fall 2005
Professor: Doug Oliver, Clover Lee
In collaboration with: --
Description: The program for this aquatic research center includes a 30,000 cubic ft tank, aviary, research laboratories, exhibition space, and offices. The different programmatic volumes are arranged around a central atrium, across which a dialog between public (exhibition, tanks) and private (laboratories, offices) is created.
