Memory Exchange
A project exploring the connection between memories and objects and how memory can be used as a tool to start dialogue. Spring 2007
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PassivPaad
PassivPaad was a collaborative project with George Gladstone. The project centered around a Life Cycle Analysis of a typical 15 story apartment building in NYC and then a comparison when that same building was retrofitted as a highly insulated pod style living, with insulation at Passiv Haus standards. The Life Cycle Analysis was done using SustainableMinds an online LCA program.
Spring 2010
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P4P Process Flow Maps
These were analytical maps showing the current organizational process for Partnership for Parks in 2009 and also a proposed working process. The final project ended up being the The sharades and mapping class developed for their academy.
Spring 2009
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Lets make people smile — A game concept
The goal of this game is to see if i can make a brighter day. I went out with a really ugly self portrait that i had done of myself. I then showed it to people and asked if they thought that it looked like me. The goal was to make people smile, because it was really hideous. I then tallied these results, and determined if i made more people smile than frown.
Spring 2009
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Persona for the DOT
This was a persona developed in order to understand the values of the DOT, this was not an actual project for the DOT. The quotes are pulled from interviews with actual DOT commissioners and most of the information is based off of research on what DOT does
Spring 2009
My name is Dave, I am the borough commissioner for lower manhattan and i love the streets. I work for the Dept. of Transportation and technically i am always at work. Anytime i am outside i can be working and i don’t have a problem with that. I have a lot of responsibility because we at Dot have a lot of customers. This is what i like: Everyone uses DOT. “You’re walking down the sidewalk, you’re in a car, you’re on a bike — you’re our client. And that means we are in charge of how you experience New York. And that is a daunting task because we have to try and make everyone happy.” We are in charge of the streets, the sidewalks, the bridges, the tunnels, the ferry, the streetlights, the street signals, the street signs and the street markings. Basically speaking we are in charge of a lot. And thinking about all of those things and the size of NYC that is a lot to be worried about and a lot to keep under control. Thats why we divided up all of NYC into sections: staten island, manhattan, the bronx, brooklyn, queens and lower manhattan. We each work with each other and all answer to our boss the first deputy commissioner who in turn answers to his boss the Commissioner.
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I really want to love NY
This is a bad video i made about a project i did back in freshmen year with my friend Young Soo Kim.
Fall 2006
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The Space Between
An exploration on playspace, or the temporal spaces that are created when people engage each other in a public location. These become playspaces.
Spring 2010
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Mapping and sharades class
This was a class that i designed for Partnerships for Parks Academy, that was meant to teach Park Groups how to discover problems in their parks and work out solutions collaboratively through mapping and sharades.
Spring 2009
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Open for Conversation
This was an urban intervention exploring the ramifications that twitter has on conversation by imagining what it would be if it was an analog conversation, not a digital one.
The premise. “Open for Conversation – a public debate in 30 words”
Fall 2009
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00 Not Not
what is the 00, its not not, the not not.
Essentially the not not or infinity, is nothing that is everything. It is 0(a-z)0 . It is a nothing that contains within it everything.
It is a container, it is a house.
But it is also the circle with no beginning middle or end.
It is something with the potential for everything. It is the blank page, the empty canvas. But it is also the crumpled page, that went from nothing to something and then back to nothing. Containing within its lines and contours and shadows, everything ever imagined and everything that will be imagined. That is the not not, the 00.
Spring 2010
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C City Center Cupola
What is a city, How can we understand it? How do we experience it?
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K Kitsch Kunst Kamera
K is for Kitsch, the Commercialization of our world, of the city that we live in, at most it is a poor imitation.
K is also the kunst kamera, the collection of oddities and curiosities, containing the uselessness of our minds, our hopes and our ideals. It holds everything that we discarded, everything we hid in the deepest darkest corners of our minds.
Taking the form of a fleamarket table, K sells you the poor imitation of my hopes and dreams
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F for Found Foto Fiction
Initially the concept of the house was an object that protects us from external forces, allowing us to believe that we were separated from them, the home was the haven, it was the separate sphere where we could live in the illusion of safety and autonomy.
Heidegger once said that the house is the most primitive form of a line that creates an inside opposed to an outside.
(In Mark Wigleys “Architecture of Deconstruction”)
This is F for find force fiction and foto
Crafting together a fictional narrative referencing the ways in which photography is used to speak about the natural environment around us to tell its own narrative, F is overlaid over our eyes, creating an augmented reality by making an illusional line that separates us from the actual world around us. Offering us the same illusion of separation and autonomy as the house does.
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E for Egg Experience
You never really know the city without time. It always looks so pretty, as if through glass, shining, sparkling.
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B Boat Beauty
what is urban beauty?
urban beauty is maneuvering through the sea of encounters and experiences. Just like the ocean there are waves and tides, that cover and reveal, they envelop and encase, they break and sever, they hide. Walking through the city the things and people that we encounter are the same, they are unpredictable, and they are fleeting, able to flow another way with the wind, relations spill from one into another and they mix together creating a whirlpool. This is urban beauty, it is about hidden meanings and messages. The boat is a bottle, it contains a message, but the vessel disintegrates leaving the message bare, to be enveloped. It melts, feeding the massive sea, giving it food, sustenance and definition, becoming a new message.
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0 for zeitgeist
What would the zeitgeist be as spatial form representative of city?
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A is For Apple Architecture Aedicule
What is the city? What is apple as metaphor for the city? what is aedicule as metaphor for the city? How can this be explored?
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P is For Poetry
There is arguably much in the city that is poetic. But what is the Poetic city? What is urban Poetry? The poem resounding through every city is the proof that it is alive. It is heard in the song the skyscraper sings to the sky, the serenade the trees give to the sidewalk, it is the force of the building standing on the street. The poem is visible every time you open a door, every time a dog runs up a staircase, every time a tourist looks starry eyed at the sky. It is the sound of the touch, the interaction and relation as people crash into one another, or as the buildings flow into the sidewalk which flows into the street, it is the tree that sits in street. Life is in the poem of the touch.
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Why Cant WE
