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SCCF Conservation Intern Housing
Following hurricane Ian, the new Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation Intern Housing buildings choreograph a collection of barrier island specific resilience strategies to mitigate weather impacts and nestle into a uniquely biodiverse site along the “conservation corridor.”
SCCF Conservation Intern Housing
Plum Island House
Plum Island House
Plum Island House celebrates the vernacular, the voluptuous, and the volumetric. Rising from the dunes of a New England barrier island, the house appears as a found object. Cedar shingles generate new form while responding to existing conditions: patterning a gradient over the façade that both invites and receives weathering; mediating seamlessly as three curvilinear volumes peel back from their orthogonal base.
HillGarten
HillGarten punctuates a sense of meander. Nestled within a leisurely landscape, a pointed gabled roof provides a communal respite, propped up by belly columns in the round.
HillGarten
Brookline House
Brookline House
Brookline House hacks a 1940’s Sears Roebuck catalog home through an uncanny rearrangement of familiar architectural elements (doors, windows and stairs) to navigate an atypically steep site. It unravels the traditional iconography of the home and frames contemporary living as a negotiation between new and former ideas of domesticity. The volume is wrapped in anodized aluminum, draped over the ridge of a gabled roof to meet the line of a concrete foundation on all sides. Standing seams on the façade determine the house’s appearance—flickering between 2D and 3D, between black, bronze, and copper hues.
Kaffeology
Kaffeology is a cafe composed of curves surfaced in plaster.
Kaffeology
Rip Rap House
Rip Rap House
Rip Rap House gathers the geology of Johnstown, Ohio, into an above-ground shelter. Rubble discarded from local limestone quarries is collaged into liquid concrete; when cured, the composite assembly is tilted vertically. Exterior corners slip past right angles, exposing volumes that are both rugged and smooth. Carr House reappraises the value of debris, utilizing riprap as a finish material.
Phippsburg Coast House
A weathering cedar clad house at the edge of the coast of Maine. Local cedar cladding was sourced and milled just 20 miles from the site.
Phippsburg Coast House
Porter Loft
Porter Loft
A polycarbonate movable wall, diaphanous linen curtain, extruded plywood bench, monolithic marble kitchen and polished stainless steel ‘mirrors’ transform a dilapidated studio into a materially rich, and cloud like, live/work loft.
Tesuque Studio
Tesuque Studio is a concrete tilt-up structure that hovers between earthbound and ethereal. Five walls are poured directly on the ground, taking its texture with them into the vertical plane. Flat formwork translates to a five-sided volume as curved edges collude in three cylindrical roof slopes. The resulting building, a ceramic workshop and gallery in Tesuque, New Mexico, all but dissolves into its desert site.
Tesuque Studio
Hingham House
Hingham House
Hingham House plays on the traditional beadboard and board and batten originally found throughout the historic cape style home. A continuous repetition of the 4″ vertical groove makes its way across surfaces, blending figure and void.
Tilt-Up Pavilion
Tilt-Up Pavilion brings a playful approach to generic construction techniques. Conceived as an unbuilt experimental concrete pavilion and an early design study for Loose Fit, the proposal explores the expressive potential of tilt-up concrete construction. Five concrete walls are poured on-site and hoisted into place, their exposed edges revealing – layer after layer – the time it took to make them. Cold joints, pick points, and structural embeds become central actors, as the construction process reveals its theatrical leanings.
Tilt-Up Pavilion
Not Quite a Saltbox
Not Quite a Saltbox
Not Quite a Saltbox is a contemporary residential addition in Hingham, Massachusetts, on Boston’s South Shore. The project reinterprets the familiar New England saltbox form through an unconventional roof profile, contemporary materials, and a playful relationship between old and new.
Detroit House
Detroit House is a new contemporary residence in Detroit’s East Village neighborhood, near the emerging Little Village arts and cultural district. Situated on a corner lot, the project explores how a compact urban home can create generous domestic spaces while engaging with the neighborhood’s evolving architectural and cultural landscape.
Detroit House
Halo
Halo
Halo is an unbuilt salon and wellness interior design proposal in Dublin, Ohio, envisioned by a breast cancer survivor for women and girls coping with cancer. Part-salon, part-school, and part-clinic, the project reimagines a traditional beauty salon as a supportive space for care, education, and community. Multiple compounding textures present the idea of “cosmetic” as generating both ornament and figure. Perimeter walls emulate the sensibilities of their surface material: playful, dreamy, and cloud-like.
Loose Fit
Somewhere between puffy shingles (a New England staple), an heirloom quilt, and the loose fit of a favorite pair of jeans, the pavilion speaks to the familiarity and nostalgia of our collective favorite things. 80 quilted panels are stuffed with recycled denim turned into building insulation and supplemented with fabric waste from the garment industry. The result is a chromatic speckling and indigo hue. Casually draped over the frame, each puffy panel invites us to walk, bump, hug, and lounge freely between the pillow-like walls.
Loose Fit
Serriframe
Serriframe
Serriframe is an architectural competition proposal for a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station in Boston, Massachusetts, developed for the 2017 BostonBRT Station Design Competition. Reimagining the conventional bus shelter as a piece of civic architecture, the design draws on the familiar brick masonry of Boston’s neighborhoods, translating a traditional bond pattern into an inverted screen of weathering steel. Low in profile and adaptable to different urban contexts, Serriframe operates as conspicuous camouflage—simultaneously recognizable and unfamiliar, solid and transparent. Experienced in motion, the shelter becomes a flicker in the urban streetscape, transforming everyday transit infrastructure through a playful reinterpretation of familiar building conventions.
Dimple Chair combines traditional handcraft with digital fabrication. Timeless woodworking techniques shape the chair’s figure, while the pre-programmed CNC machine carves sundry impressions into the grain of the seat.