NE RESIDENCE #1
Residential
| Historic Custom Remodel & FFE
A historic residence was restored and reinterpreted as a contemporary home, with traditional craftsmanship through hand-applied plaster and custom moldings being paired with refined millwork and a curved skylight.
A sculptural floating stone staircase was introduced as a central anchor, while custom furniture and discreet systems, including home automation, tuned acoustics, solar roof tiles, and integrated blackout shades were embedded to support comfort and effortless control.
SF SPA
Hospitality | Ground Up
A spa and gym were added to a private residence in Northern California, with the new structure set into the hillside to preserve uninterrupted views from the main house.
Access was introduced from the existing pool to the pavilion, while a glass ceiling with expressed
wood beams was integrated to draw daylight into the spa hallway and maintain a visual link back to the home.
Board-formed concrete walls were paired with wood flooring and ceilings, and a hot tub, cold plunge, and dry sauna were incorporated to support a complete thermal circuit.
SF RESIDENCE #1
Residential
| Major Remodel & FFE
A traditional style was favored to complement the home’s classic architectural character in one of San Francisco’s oldest neighborhoods, with the residence being fully remodeled and expanded through custom millwork articulated with traditional detailing.
The front façade was preserved, and the landscape was fully reimagined to reinforce the home’s historic presence.
Furniture and accessories were selected to play off the interior’s traditional architectural details, with Windsor and Shaker pieces being embraced for their unadorned simplicity, functionality, and structural integrity, and a modernist clarity being achieved within a traditional vocabulary.
Additional ensuite bedrooms were created, and an attic family room with two balconies was introduced to extend flexible, family-oriented living while a cohesive interior language was maintained throughout.
BH RESIDENCE #1
Residential
| Ground-up
This is an unrealized hillside residential project where the house is a minimal intervention within the natural terrain, prioritizing continuity with the landscape. The proposal carefully pulls along the existing edge conditions, allowing the building to humbly settle into the hillside.
Generous glazing was introduced to dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior, framing expansive views while maintaining a quiet architectural profile. A linear walkway on the pool becomes the primary connective element of the project, linking interior living spaces to the landscape beyond and extending the experience of the house outward toward the hillside.
In this proposal, architecture is explored as a subtle threshold rather than an object, where edge conditions, reflection, and transparency collectively mediate the relationship between dwelling and terrain.
BH RESIDENCE #2
Residential | Major Remodel
This large-scale remodeling of an existing house on a hillside is structured around a central courtyard that acts as the main feature of the program and design. The building itself is shaped at the periphery of this negative space, with its volumes being oriented to frame city views.
The courtyard operates as both a spatial and experiential core, structuring circulation and establishing a continuous relationship between interior and exterior space. Skylights are strategically integrated throughout the residence, drawing in natural light that shifts over the course of the day and animates the interior with changing patterns of brightness and shadow.
BRANDING PLAYBOOK
Commercial
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Guideline
A comprehensive document to maintain the integrity of the brand on a global scale through strategic interior design guideline.
PORTO RESIDENCE #1
Multi-Family | Historic Major Remodel
A 1913 Porto townhouse was restored and reimagined as a 4-unit residence, with historic limestone, handmade tile, and ironwork being renewed at the front façade and a contemporary rear addition being introduced in champagne corrugated metal.
Corrugated metal with humble origins was redefined as a polished, timeless material, with perforated panels being developed as a light filtering screen that provides sustainable solar protection and becomes a defining element of the project’s dual character.
Traditional plaster walls, moldings, and arches were reinstated within each unit and paired with contemporary materials, with outdoor access being integrated to support an easy indoor and outdoor flow.
EAST VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL
Multi-family | Minor Remodel & FFE
This project is a small intervention within a 25-year-old condominium, reworking the interior through color, contrast, and curated furniture pieces. A new palette introduces vibrancy into the interior, shifting the atmosphere to emphasize a greater sense of community within the shared spaces.
Eclectic furnishings and layered material accents create moments of tension and warmth, disrupting the neutrality of the original condition. The project operates through a series of selective moves and small interventions that collectively build a more expressive environment.
The result is an interior where colors and objects work in tandem to reframe everyday domestic space.
HOLLYWOOD HILLS RESIDENCE
Residential
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Exterior Remodel
A full exterior remodel was undertaken for a single-family residence in the Hollywood Hills. The intervention focused on refining the building envelope through a careful selection of new façade finishes and exterior cladding, chosen to respond to both the scale of the hillside context and the character of the surrounding fabric.
Rather than imposing contrast, a restrained contemporary monotone palette was introduced, unifying the structure's previously fragmented elements that had accumulated over time through successive construction projects. This approach softens the expressive tendencies of the original composition, allowing proportion, shadow, and material texture to take precedence. The result is a more cohesive architectural expression that quietly aligns the house with its setting while maintaining a clear, contemporary look.
RGB
Mixed-Use | Prototype
The RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is a scalable, prefabricated mixed-use development designed to foster a sense of community, ensure equal residential unit quality, and maximize the potential of a non-conforming site. Its concept centers on shared ownership and is distributed across three distinct residential towers: the Red, the Green, and the Blue Tower.
The design highlights circulation and egress pathways by projecting them outward into the building’s exterior volume and giving them an independent structural expression. These areas are intentionally designed not only for circulation and safety but also as channels for natural light and air ventilation, ensuring that all units benefit from improved airflow and daylight access from all sides. While maintaining the required separation between the Red and Green towers, this design principle provides shared amenities pockets that serve a flexible activity node for residents on each floor.
The proposed project is an innovative development initiative aimed at branding the infill lots owned by the City of Los Angeles. Each property is named using the RGB identity, with an appendix referencing its specific location within the city (i.e. The RGB Westlake, The RGB Canoga Park.)
JUNGLE GYM SLATE
Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts
Jungle Gym Slate is a playful dialogue between two creative individuals, exploring the canvas on which their architectural practice unfolds within a new milieu. It serves as a manifesto to their bicoastal, inter-scalar design studio with lead designers based in New York and Los Angeles.
The slate unfolds a narrative that embraces architectural discourse in a multi-dimensional drawing stretching coast to coast, time zone to time zone.
Though grounded in the cartographic outline of the United States, the work resonates with echoes of heritage, mapping a dialogue that is as much about practice as it is about memory, identity, and translation.
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OILSCAPES:
REMAPPING THE POLITICS OF OIL
Arthur A.Houghton Jr.Gallery
This project delves into the geography and politics surrounding oil. Rather than being a blessing, this valuable natural resource becomes a curse, a rigid territorial determinism in which the presence of oil brings misfortune and disaster. In Oilscapes, global mapping is deployed as an agent to shift the boundaries of oil politics and the corresponding equations of power and economics.
Oilscapes implicitly raises the question of how mapping as an architectural tool can push the boundaries of spatial understanding of a phenomenon and consequently expose and activate the political dimension of architecture.
The work is activated through sequences of maps [in two chapters] that outline the spatial trajectories of oil consumption and production. The first maps out natural borders, geopolitical boundaries, and spatial trajectories of oil extraction and exploitation protagonists. In the second chapter, as a critique of the geographic determinism that entails the oil curse and its specific co-dependencies, the globe is considered a designable space. In this speculative situation, fragments of tectonic plates become a design tool for imagining an alternate configuration of the globe. Using this representational process, the objective of this thesis project is to explicitly re-map oil co-dependencies, considering correlations between physical borders of tectonic plates and geopolitical borders.
S.M.L. CHAIR
Private Collection
The S.M.L Chair was developed for a private collection as a contemporary reinterpretation of the mid-century shell chair, with today’s fabrication methods being used to support versatile variations in size, color, and material across a wide range of settings. Luxurious finishes including antique brass, rich woods, fine textiles, and premium leather were integrated, while signature details such as a sculpted carved base and accent piping were employed to create precise transitions and emphasize bespoke craftsmanship.
A contoured seat was shaped to cradle the body, and an organic yet geometric silhouette was composed to balance natural softness with architectural precision. Three scalable configurations were established, with the S. as the most compact for dining and desk use, the M. as a more generous lounge option, and the L. as a two-person settee for shared seating.
CONVERGENCE TABLE
Private Collection
Convergence was designed as a sculptural coffee table inspired by the instant a droplet breaks water’s surface and by the conical geometry of a tornado, with a calm, gravitational presence being established as a centerpiece.
A marble top was pulled downward at its center to evoke the tension of the waterline, while a glass cylinder was introduced to anchor the piece and provide a delicate counterpoint to the stone and wood.
A fluid material dialogue was composed, with the wood base rising into the marble, brass trim being integrated as a refined edge, and the composition being drawn into a sunken marble core that converges with the glass.
URBAN HOLES
Arthur A.Houghton Jr.Gallery
New York in 2057 was framed as a built reality shaped by decades of zoning and building-code evolution, with regulations such as the 1916 Zoning Resolution and later updates being used to enable massing separations that produced a city of steel and glass above the block.
Air-rights and development codes were described as continuing to influence growth, with a 2030 update being positioned as a catalyst for intensified vertical repetition in the pursuit of profit and technological display.
A new 2030 provision, described as the “law of the urban hole,” was introduced in Lower Manhattan, with directives being established to maximize and improve privately owned public spaces, allow additional floors when public voids were provided, and open interior public space within towers to bring light and air to the streets below.
NEW NOUVEAU
HAADA Gallery
New Nouveau was conceived as a group exhibition in which technology was combined with physical objects to explore the enduring return of organic style.
Biophilia in art and design was framed through historical precedents from Rococo to Art Nouveau, with the movement’s late-19th-century flowering in Belgium being referenced through figures such as Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, and Paul Hankar.
Curated by Elien Haentjens and Christian Larsen, the exhibition’s digital spaces were used to present contemporary objects as progressive, futuristic interpretations of organic design, with AI-rendered and 3D images being developed by AA | FF STUDIO to imagine a future organicism informed by the psychology and decadence of the Belle Époque.
A BODY WITHIN THE BODY
Arthur A.Houghton Jr.Gallery
In the article “This Sex Which Is Not One,” Luce Irigaray argues that the conceptualization of female sexuality is based on masculine parameters. This position applies to architectural studies as well. Historically, the female body has been neglected in human anatomy studies and, consequently, in the architectural standards established upon the human body.
This project focuses on the female body as it goes through the transformation in the reproduction process that her body is equipped for. This transformation is most apparent during pregnancy as the female body goes through both physical and non-physical alteration while a new body develops within hers, prompting the necessary changes to create within the mother’s body the conditions and environment for its development and growth, and for the close interaction between these two bodies for nine months. With pregnancy, a temporary vital organ, the placenta, develops in the female body as a mediator between mother and fetus, from which the umbilical cord emerges as the connecting channel between them. This organ makes all transactions concerning oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and most other exchanges in this process possible.
The project attempts to look at some specific moments of this process as an architectural phenomenon: the restructuring of one body and the structuring of another. The moment of birth is the ultimate culmination of the process when the fetus leaves the womb, as a baby enters an environment external to the mother’s body, as the umbilical cord is cut. From the female body, seen as a place of nourishment, another male or female being will be born.