A doughnut shop famed for fresh, artisanal ingredients is meticulously crafted like the doughnuts themselves. A central island display and the surrounding solid, oak-clad walls have been dipped into a mixture of smooth, hand-poured terrazzo. Its soft curves are echoed throughout the ceiling geometry.

Tired of their old dark and compartmentalized office space, this financial firm was ready for a new open environment filled with light; a space that promotes collaboration and communication, with a focus on workplace wellness. Fully glazed office fronts, non-partitioned work stations with flexible meeting areas, and large break rooms, all foster teamwork. The light material palette of bleached oak, white and neutrals is residential in feel, and just like at home, everyone ends up gathering in the kitchen.

Inspired by the ideas of the Anarchitecture Group and Gordon Matta-Clark, the house consists of two buildings standing on a hillside, in opposition and balance, conceding to the site in form and scale. The spatial schism between them is the core of the domestic environment, making space without building it. One structure houses the bedrooms, the other the public spaces, the arrangement intentionally challenging conventions about privacy and publicity, of inside and out, while bringing awareness to the environment as you move through the house. The building facing the street is wrapped with a light filtering screen, ethereal and bright, while the rear building, carved out from the rocky terrain, is made from cast in place concrete.

A weekend retreat for an artist and his family sits on a forested acre of land near Sag Harbor. Not unlike historic homes and barns of the area that grew overtime, the project is a formal aggregation of three house-shaped volumes, each dedicated to a separate function of the program: public life, private life, and art studio. The wood shingle façade responds to the vernacular building language, however slight variations in the roof geometry provide a more evolved expression. While the natural landscape is left largely untouched to allow its appreciation, a courtyard provides a tamed outdoor experience.

As far back as Piranesi’s depictions of Rome’s remains, artists and writers have found creative inspiration in abandoned sites and crumbling buildings. Urban and architectural ruins are a testimony of the passage of time, providing a canvas for imaging the site’s history while igniting the imagination with the promise of its future. The missing parts or voids become loaded with meaning as they hold the key to the site’s interpretation, a narrative unique to each observer. The architecture for this intervention takes clues from both the language of the site’s lighthouse remains, and from the architectural vernacular and materials of the area. The building form is laid out in a long sequential path, creating a communal space with the ruins at its center and bound naturally by the coastline. Actual voids in the slab and the roof and screened facades allow the landscapes to permeate the structures in all directions. The material cladding the building is a roman flat pan clay tile, used as a whole on the solid facades, and modified with diagonal cuts to create screens on the translucent facades.