A collection of carpets that use fiber length and density as well as color and type to recast the material properties of conventional cut pile carpet. Paint’s ubiquity as a transcendental material is not surprising; it’s been so long accepted that paint can take on just about any quality there is that contemporary painting has mostly shirked the idea and come back around the circle and allowed paint to be about itself (again). Other materials, like carpet, have not seen such halcyon days. Most have barely started an arc, much less a circle, with respect to transcendence. So the idea with this project is to make landscape (literal) paintings (analogy) with the conceptual kicker being to make familiar the thought that allows spatial/ visual/tactile properties of a given material a degree of exibility. Not so rigid in the limits that have been drawn around them. A nice part about the project is that the carpets work like carpets and aren’t precious and there’s no need to take your shoes off if you don’t want. Let them become a new type of background.

A chair made out of foam padding folded and through bolted together. The finished chair will just be a light blue, not speckled. Not really in progress anymore. It didn't really work out.

Another competition done for Paul Preissner Architects. This one is for a little tech center at the nice rundown Oscar Neimeyer campus in Tripoli. The buildings are large scale, human scale really, models made out of concrete.

This indoor/outdoor table made from Coroplast® brand corrugated plastic is lightweight and straightforward assembly-wise. It can be flatpacked and shipped once the 32 pieces are cut. It can be hosed off. Colors for the table are blue, white, black, and yellow. The table costs $1200 if you want one.

A three bedroom shack slated to be built in Pleasant Springs, WI. The building is not overly strict and fits nicely in the bucolic midwest.

This project had to do with separating the image (the reliefs) from the medium which is the image is applied, its bounding box (the wall frame). But at the end of the day what's built is a 3 / 4 scale model of two walls with some lines on them that meet at a corner. Done in collaboration with Stephen Adzemovic. Model photographs by Gabriela Gamboa.

Some renders and a model for a community and youth athletic center on the south side of Chicago done with Paul Preissner Architects. As few pre-cast molds are used as possible which makes for some curious corners. We're hoping it gets built someday.

A scipt for sloppy cast-in-place houses. Part of the point of this project was to come up with a drawing set that would elimate the architect from as many design decisions as possible. Kind of like Sol Lewitt instruction drawings with crane operators. Turns out it's not a very good idea although it does look pretty nice.

In this one the door hangs off the side and doesn't really make sense in elevation. To make it work you would need twenty door slabs, three knobs, one lockset, and some strong hinges.

Here are some squiggly columns made of stone. They're big but not big enough to be inside of even if you could. Somewhere between rooms and walls. It's a minor critique on how exciting plan shapes only really work at computer scale.