The conceptual design of a new park on the grounds of the National Aquarium in Baltimore serves three equal functions: outdoor event space adjacent to an indoor reception hall, public space for dining and rest, and a new public face at a secondary entrance.
(responsibilities: conceptual design)
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100 Light
The rehabilitation and activation of a brutalist stone plaza in downtown Baltimore gives human scale to a barren space and brings much needed vegetation into the city, while re-using existing material for planter walls and site amenities.
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The Crescent
One public courtyard connects the local community to a multi-use trail and two private courtyards provide lush amenity space to residents of this 214-unit, mixed use, transit-oriented development in Falls Church, Virginia. All three courtyards are on top of a parking structure.
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Domus
An installation by Dennis Oppenheim is featured in this public plaza intended as a visual and social connection between the 290-unit development, "Domus," and Hill Field on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A private pool deck allows residents a place of respite in the city.
(responsibilities: design and construction documentation, planting design, and construction administration) -
West Towson Elementary Green Roof
Built with Baltimore County's first LEED Silver school, the green roof links the school's art and science departments with three outdoor classrooms among a 60 degree grid of sedum mounds.
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Kilmer Plaza, Rutgers University
The 1.5 acre plaza to be built with a 1500-bed student housing complex offers an open lawn for student activities and an expansive hardscape for campus events and a farmers' market.
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Gunther Square
The adaptive re-use of Baltimore's old Gunther Brewery into an urban apartment community and dining location offers unique opportunities for shared public/private space and recycles remnant brewing equipment as planters, cisterns, and art.
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PTRP Rails-with-Trails
Conceptual design for the transformation of a derelict heavy rail line into an amenity space for the adaptive re-use of historic tobacco warehouses in Winston-Salem, NC. This linear park concept works with the possibility of future transition of the tracks to serve light rail.
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School of Architecture and Planning, Bhopal
Designed as part of a master plan competition for India's national school of architecture, the plan takes the golden mean to a campus scale while using shade, water retention, and evaporative cooling to condition outdoor space.
(responsibilities: conceptual landscape master plan)