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Art CenterLocation: Toronto, Canada2016
Sitting within a park in Toronto is an Art Center that both serves as a community center and a public gallery space. The form of the building defines indoor public display space along with exterior courtyard spaces. Each program is divided into its own cluster of volumes that either serve as places to gather or places to exhibit. They swarm together to create a village of rooms that offer smaller, semi-private outdoor spaces. A distinctive feature of the building is the tall solar chimneys that offer both passive heating and cooling. 

Program: Community Center, Art Gallery
Personal Work

San Pellegrino Flagship FactoryLocation: San Pellegrino Terme2018
The San Pellegrino Flagship Factory required an expansion to its existing bottling facilities while adding an additional visitor program. The visitor program flows out of the warehouse building through a series of arches that sculpts an entry and exhibition spaces. Formally, the arches both reflect the classical Italian building element, the arch,  while expressing the flow of water.

The building works seamlessly to allow for the visitor flow, the staff circulation and the functioning of warehouse operations. 

Program: Exibition, Manufacturing, Event
Role: Project Designer DD
Bjarke Ingels Group

       http://www.big.dk/projects/san-pellegrino-flagship-factory-4908
Upstate HouseLocation: Chatham, New York2023

Upstate House is renovation is an existing converted farmhouse from the 1980’s. The interior planning has been reconfigured to allow for a ground level intended for hosting and entertaining with a second level for guest rooms and an office. 

Program: Residential
Personal Work - Ongoing

Lincoln LaneLocation: Miami, USA2021
The current parking requirements of Miami Beach are a challenge to the future development of the city, and specially at the heart of the city, around Lincoln Road. To resolve this, we have forced ourselves with the task of injecting social purpose into the structures that come from our industrial heritage.

Rather than waiting for the parking infrastructures to be decommissioned in the future and reborn with a new social program, could we create our infrastructure facilities to carry intended social side effects from day one?

What if we could harness those parking investments and imbue them with positive social side effects from the get-go, rather than in retrospect? By proactively crossbreeding infrastructure with social programs, we can propagate new urban lifeforms in the heart of Miami Beach.

Program: Office, Residential
Role: Project Designer
Bjarke Ingels Group


Local Pavilion
Location:  Omneberget , Sweden2014
This project respects and highlights nature’s role as a provider. Nine cabinsarebuilt using stone that is excavatedtwo metres awayfrom where theystand. Nature has provided the resource to build these structures. Nine pits remainfrom the excavation in order to emphasize the relationship between material and structure.

Anyone is able to rent these cabins, and to stay the night. The visitor will hike up to these cabins, they will see the void, theywillgain an apprecia-tion for nature. They will spend the night within walls that are made of the stone that the cabins sit upon. Each cabin holds a small second storey that pushes the visitor to the sky. A huge glass ceiling sits less than two metres above an inclined wooden sky viewing platform, and a bed.

Program: Art Gallery, Hotel
Personal Work
Competition: Hello Nature
Parque de La Innovación Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina2021
Five towers of residential, office, and hotel programs rise in what was an existing park space. The project maintains as much as possible the former green space.  The footprints have been tuned in order to maximize continuous open park space on the groundfloor. Terraces on the tops of the towers carve inward to create open outdoor space for the upper residential units. Out from each terrace grows a garden of trees and low shrubs that brings the park upward to the residents. Carving at the bottom of the towers open the public space by increasing plaza area and softening the urban corners of the towers. Small retail buildings lift from the ground in a similar form as the towers, they are a miniature reflection. Together the buildings dance together as a vertical park. 

Program: Residential, Office, Hotel
Role: Project Designer
Bjarke Ingels Group

       http://www.big.dk/projects/parque-de-la-innovacion-6485
Hill of the ArtsLocation: Turin, Italy2020
Built in the 1730s, Villa Altissimo sits nestled on a hill, overlooking. Turin, witnessing the history and development of the city. The design intervention embraces the cultural history of Turin as an important place in Italty that celebrates food, drink, and art. The program for the project is a hotel, gallery space, spa and artist residences.

The new site is harmonious blend of landscape, history, art, architecture, and culture. A retreat for relaxation, contemplation, and connection with others. This design celebrates and preserves the history and context of Villa Altissimo while also embracing contemporary ideas of art and architecture. The exterior elements of the existing buildings on the site have been largely preserved while the interiors have been revitalized with contemporary materials and clean, modern lines. Respecting both the old and the new, equally.

Program: Art Gallery, Hotel
Personal Work
Competition: Hill of the Arts, YAC
Winter Stations PavilionLocation: Toronto, Canada2020
Rocks from a local quarry are moved to the beach and piled together around the lifeguard stand. This is the migration of materials, and land. Two rotated reflective frames sit atop the rocks. The lightness of these juxtapose the heaviness of the rocks. They reflect the houses, boardwalk, trees and people. All brought to this area through migration. The visitors can crawl under the frames and through the rocks into a second experience. The four sided mirrored room reflects an infinite field of rock bed floor and the bright red of the lifeguard stand. It’s an experience that focuses on the manufactured landscape. Migrating rocks, steel, people. The transportation and resettlement of objects and materials by humans.

Program: Pavilion
Personal Work
Competition: Winter Stations

Embedded TemporalityLocation: Toronto, Canada2014
Temporarily vacant commercial properties that are “for rent” create sites that are charged with an ideal spatial
and temporal environment for an exhibition. This gallery occupies these spaces for brief moments, while they are

“for rent”, moving to another next site once rented. The length of the exhibition is the time it takes for the prop-
erty to be rented out. Furthermore, the transitory nature of the project creates galleries that embed themselves

within the community. In order to provide appropriate environmental conditions to display art an inflatable
membrane fills the occupied space, and provides climate control.

Personal Work
Exhibition: To Be Destroyed - a Call For Ideas
Museum of Contemporary Art

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