Designed as an exhibition space for patrons of Ship in the Woods Art House Gallery.
The concept of a buoy was inspired as a brutalist monolithic landmark in the two acre site. Rhodopsin will be experienced in the dome. The flash of light will be transferred through the strip, allowing people to navigate through the woods to find the exhibit space.
Originally planned as a traveling installation, this project will provide a permanent site to continue research and explore the boundaries of light.
In collaboration with Paradox team members: David Harrison and Julio Medina
Infilled to the hill, the Recording Studio serves as a mix use space for the Ship in the Woods artist residency program. It is hidden through a rolling topography and vegetation.
The main floor serves as a multi-purpose space for art shows and performances from musicians. Patron’s entering the studio, will notice the material is made of corten steel resembling the hull of a ship. It gives the illusion of buoyancy above the green room, held by a steel beam.
Along with the science + education themed Orb placed couple of meters away on site, this studio will serve as a cultural hub for creatives to share and experience in a unique way.
RHODOPSIN is an interactive installation that was created to challenge the constructive process of our perceptual experience.
A colloaborative project designed, and fabricated by Paradox Design Group,
WSOHOIDPS (A Ship in the Woods) co-founder RJ Brooks, Salk Institute Neurobiologist John Reynolds, sound artist Greg Smaller and researcher Daw-An Wu. Based on research of visual scientist Patrick Cavanagh, Rhodopsin blurs the threshold between art and science. where individual’s photoreceptor’s are activated in complete darkness creating a unique bodily and visual experience.
In collaboration with Paradox Team members: David Harrison and Julio Medina
This project was a submission for the 2017, Evolo Skyscraper Competition.
The project is a provocation intended to unveil the inhumane conditions of the industrial meat industry through the relocation of the processing facility from the rural to the urban context. Located in the Meatpacking District within the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it draws on the historical context of the site.
The design takes advantage of the vertical expression of the high rise typology through a series of architectural “lesions” containing public programming, which spills onto the adjacent High Line Park in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. This provides an ideal foreground for an architectural dialogue between the consumers and their product.
The program provides a closed-loop food processing plant which acts as a memorial to the victims of the industry, raising awareness on their living conditions and leveraging the power of architecture to inspire political action. As intellectual beings that have the capacity to understand our influence on our environment and the organisms we share it with, it is our responsibility to conduct ourselves respectfully within it. The first step towards a solution is to reveal the problem.
In sight. In mind.
Collaborators: Subrato Roy, David Harrison and Chris Voltl
The Polytechnic Energy Research Center or P.E.R.C is an engineering building that is meant to be a catalyst for connecting the campus of UCSD to the greater community of San Diego. UCSD serves as one of the leader’s in biotechnology and innovation in Southern California. The school creates an collaborative environment to bring scientists, engineers, professors and students to study and improve culture of innovation. P.E.R.C provides engineering breakthroughs in sustainable energy research. to innovate locally and make global solutions to the ecological challenges facing our planet.
The interdisciplinary laboratories to be implemented consist of Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy Technologies, Solar Energy, Geothermal Engineering, Energy Tech., and Energy Efficient building design which includes testing facades for energy analysis and consumption.
This project was for a bridge competition for the AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction).
A 700 mile fence runs along the 1,900 mile border separating the United States and Mexico. The fence serves as a physical boundary between people and ecology. The conditions of this must change to support a new kind of infrastructure.
A binary bridge set above the border fence, between San Diego and Tijuana set out to the Pacific Ocean. As you go along, the bridge merges as an incubator, bi-cultural
identification, interactive spaces that create dialogue shared between the two nations. Unique spaces created for open conversation between the citizens of the two nations.
This installation was inspired by Japanese architecture and theme of the year’s YOUtopia, Revelation- Revolution.
Specifically temples, help provide consciousness and stillness to one’s psyche, served as a major inspiration. Worked at CoLAB Headquarters with fellow designers, artist’s and engineer’s . This is the local San Diego Chapter for Burning Man Events. This was designed and prefabricated at CoLAB Headquarters. Taking into consideration structural stability, lateral loads, site analysis of weather and terrain. And of course live load and safety of people for this four day event.
Served as one of the lead designers of the Pagoda from Japanese architecture. This was to represent an agnostic yet seminal place of worship for the burner community.
Alpha Rho Chi students from Newschool were approached to provide lounge seating for the Art San Diego fair. The year’s central theme, “creative collisions” served as inspiration for design to fabrication. We had collaborated with Noble Environmental Technologies, to incorporate their sustainable material: Ecor. .
As Operational Manager, I supervised production of routing the cnc files of ribs and framing templates in the Materials Lab. This also included helping with moldings of Ecor as the seating. These (40) 12’ chairs, were designed to address the flexible program i.e; bar, silent disco and lounge seating.
A pocket park for the impoverished neighborhood of Euclid and Imperial Avenue.
Commissioned to complete a construction document set for a restaurant. The owner wanted to retrofit a van to make their food mobile. Direct to the customer.
Researched City of San Diego Chapter 11: Temporary Food Facilities. Followed Code Requirements for permit approval from SD County Operations Center.
A Case Study set for a commercial and business high rise in New York City.
I was interested how a flat surface can be manipulated into 3D forms. This “organized chaos” on the art of folding into patterns can be an impetus for ideation in the design process.
It is good to be back to “low tech” and not use a third party tool. Just my hands folding paper to create complex geometries.
Commissioned to complete a construction document set for permit approval of a contractor. Renovation of a dilapidated garage and restoration of home in North Park. Proposed fiber insulation and 2x4 balloon framing with drywall to give a structural and clean finish. Washer and dryer along with electrical and plumbing fixtures were moved to the rear to create more space for parking.
The safety standards are code compliant while adding value to the owner’s property overtime
