NASA

Lunar Habitat

Design studies leading to a design for the first permanent habitat on the moon's surface.

SATOR

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS, a series of stained plywood furniture that uses CNC technology to make pieces that produce almost zero waste, pack flat, are useful and fun (pictured are ROTAS and AREPO).

photos by Lynn Massimo

LOW COST HOUSING COMPETITION ENTRY

A simple to source and erect modular construction system was developed for a competition where a primary goal was to have the local community be involved in the erection of the houses. High performance was achieved through use of SIP panels and passive and active solar design.

Furniture

Candlesticks of forged steel

Bed of cherry and forged steel

Chairs of cherry with cork laminated aluminum structural panels

Town Hall

Town Hall for Arrowsic, Maine

a theoretical project that explored the definition of a local architecture not through form but through the skills and materials of the region.

Furniture

Sam’s Chair, Sam’s Bed

SOcKseries (designs for Sam and Other certain Kids) a growing set of furniture made of painted plywood and steel inspired by my son Sam. This is simple, tough stuff designed for climbing, bouncing, playing, reading and sleeping in comfort.

Pool

Pool at La Louve, Bonnieux, France

a lap pool that completes and ends a terraced garden in Provence. We worked with local artisans and materials to make a pool that is simple, clean and invisible from outside the property.

Finney House

Georgetown, Maine
(with Martha Finney)

a 2200 sf vacation house on a tidal river in Maine. Simple frame construction and a massive stone wall combine to make a house that blends in with the local terrain. This house has almost no visual presence on the river but has sweeping views of the water and the land beyond.

photos by Cathy Tigue

CRICKET

A lean, comfortable, sustainable, performance camping trailer for people who love the outdoors.

Library

Library at La Louve, Bonnieux, France

a renovation and installation of wrought iron and heavy plank shelves, desks and railings

Drawings from Rome

a set of drawings that study disorder within order.

Competition Entry

World Trade Center Memorial

a proposal to make a whole by being both memorial and park. The proposal was to be made of light and crafted of brick, stone, tree and grass. It was to be high tech and hand crafted.

Each day the sun”s rays were to be collected and used to project the names of each victim of the disasters into the shifting shaded portions of the site. These projections would move throughout the course of the day, tracking with the sun. The names would dance and float over the glass, brick, stone, concrete, trees, grass and people that are the site. The names would be there and then not as they were projected into shadow and then lost in the sunlight.

Island House

Isle au Haut Maine
(with Martha Finney)

a 1400 sf vacation home, mildly eccentric but perfectly at home in its fishing village site.

photos by Cathy Tigue

NASA

Wardroom Table and Area for the
International Space Station

The Wardroom Area is where the crew will eat, talk, relax, have meetings, conduct conferences with Earth, watch movies and look out the window for their pleasure and mental health.

As there is no gravity computers, food and the crew do not simply stay at the table. They float about unless restrained. The table is a system of movement and restraint for people and the things they use. ‘Table’ is almost be an inappropriate word except for that fact that the form of a table might be comforting to a crewmember who needs to stayed "grounded" as they fall around the Earth at 17000 miles per hour.

Indian Bean

Guesthouse / near Louisville Kentucky

an 1800 sf guesthouse on a former tobacco farm. The house will recycle the materials of a dangerously decrepit barn and replace this barn on the same site. When not in use the guesthouse will be closed up, disguised as a small tobacco barn. When in use the sliding doors will be rolled open to reveal large window areas designed to let summer breezes blow through and give views out to the rolling farmland. Words will be stenciled on the exterior and interior of the house and two inverted sundials will track time’s passing.

Texas Society of Architects Design Award 2008

Published in:
House and Garden, June 2007
Grazia Casa, May 2008
Texas Architect, September 2008

photos by Jason Schmidt