A new typology for the typical San Francisco lot rooted in an ethos of sharing and collectivity.

Life After Property examines how the territory, neighborhood, block, and home can be reclaimed for more collectivized ways of living and being

Expanding our notion of ‘family’ needs to be complemented with housing forms that seek not to individuate the family members and reaffirm private property but rather to find moments of sharing, care, and acknowledge the evolutionary nature to new family forms.

A design-research project examining the range of barriers—physical, social, financial, and cultural—that make it difficult to grow older with dignity and community in West Oakland.

A solo-exhibition at the David Ireland House that examines the form, social structures, and protocols of living together.

The Bronzesheet is a series of large-format prints that catalyzes new forms of solidarity as a coalition. They are categorized by the same themes that organize the design project’s spatial network—food, making, ecology, and care. 

A design-research project on Bronzeville that proposes a decentralized model of sharing wherein new forms of solidarity can empower residents to take action on the available city.

A design-research project on collective living experiments. Research into the hardware, software, and orgware of a series of case studies serves as a catalyst for a series of design prototypes.

The following five prototypes examine differing relationships between the private and public realm—from highly defined and delineated to fluid and malleable. In each case, a technique of form informs the typological arrangement.

Situated on a deep lot in Noe Valley, the Enfilade House employs an enfilade plan of different sized rooms to create a flexible framework of occupation.

A series of images that interrogate the basic elements of the room and critique the territorial environment outside the door.

At Home Together investigates the intentions and institutions of contemporary collective living experiments in San Francisco—identifying the political governance that structures the public and private realm.

Ways of Life is a project that examines new domestic conditions of living and working in close proximity to nature. A series of 19 diverse architects were selected to produce prototypes that are currently being realized.

Habitactory proposes a new model of development that commons the resources of the city to create a resilient framework for differential users and uses.

The Depth of Fields house begins with simple geometric orders that create distinctions within the domestic/ work realm to ensure that the tasks of domestic life, work, public appearance, and privacy are protected.

The Mountain House splits the typical San Francisco house into three stacked units — a two-bedroom townhouse, a three-bedroom family apartment, and a one-bedroom roof terrace apartment; layering these lifestyles and increasing the density of San Francisco.

This design-research exhibition explores the typology of the secondary unit and its interaction with the larger systems of a city in an attempt to understand the feedback systems between the individual unit of the interior and the collective framework of the city — in essence, how the interior can reformat urbanism from within.

Taking cues from the context, En Pointe! employs a large multi-programmed public surface that is timeshared through a schedule to allow a more diverse and larger set of public programs.

Sited in the periphery of London, this house renovation opens up the once compartmentalized interior into a larger room that extends to the exterior. This enables light to penetrate deep into the house’s interior, while transforming the garden from an accessory to an integral element that reconfigures the interior program.

The Drift House hybridizes the intelligence of tradition and technology in both indigenous Inuit housing types and Cold War era government sanctioned prefabricated housing by leveraging snow fences, a typically static infrastructure that is used to protect roadways from snow accumulation.