Turner Residence
Understanding Client Needs
Working closely with the clients to understand their unique personalities, aesthetic preferences, and functional needs led to a project based on connecting the family to the remarkable natural surroundings while providing a home that achieved a functional and spiritual haven. .
Designing Elegant Solutions
The design of the home was centered around making the building disappear as much as possible, in order to accentuate the natural surrounds. The particular challenge was accomplishing this both internally and externally while allowing the building to provide a true sense of place.
Detailing Form & Function
Through working closely with the clients, manufactures, engineers, and fabricators, we tailored the design of day to day needs specifically to the envisioned usability. The products designed supported daylighting, views, and privacy with simplified user interaction.
Ohana Pod
Creating A Unique Facade
Designing a functional facade allows the building skin to perform for better use. Here, the facade works to provide shelter and encourage air flow creating a comfortable interior space.
Designing for Context
Having worked and lived in various climates, both in terms of weather and presence of nature vs. cityscape, I design to engage the user in their environment.
Collaborating with Fabricators
Developing communication across design platforms achieves new and thoughtful solutions through engaging with fabricators both in the initial design phase and through the construction process.
Creative Studios: Eleven Inc. + Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Flexible Spaces
Merging the functional and ambiguous needs of our client we devised a space that allotted anchor points within an open concept, connecting the users both within and beyond the interior space to the greater community.
Fast-paced Delivery
Communicating directly with clients, engineers, and builders deliverables were met between various platforms to enhance communication and innovation between team members.
Challenge & Innovation
Innovation of material and how it lends itself to the ultimate use of space inspired our design. Working directly with sound engineers our final product utilized the quality of sound absorption to inform spatial function.
Oakland Museum of CA, Event Space
Designing Flexibility
Our challenge was to take an existing courtyard at the OCMA and transform it to better encourage interactions of daily visitors while lending itself to planed events.
Imagining Events
Slow Food demonstrations, live music, children's story time, yoga class; how can space elevate experience? We cultivate space through both built environments and objects to further connection.
Welcoming the Visitor to Create
Chairs mounted on a large chalkboard perform a dual purpose; allowing the user to take a singe chair or create a venue, while giving a surface for the user to make their mark.