Y Interact, a website and print design studio, asked us to delineate different zones within the office which includes a main work area, meeting room, storage space and display system.

The concept of the exhibition was to relate similar themes, color & light, materiality, inner worlds, etc., inherent in the different projects by cutting view channels which allowed one to see an overlap of projects. On view from 19 September - 8 December 2007 at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NY NY.

The exhibition, located on both Governors Island and the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, used similar devices to tie the spaces together. The design used a blue line as representative as a datum, waterline and horizon.

A traveling exhibit featuring artists, architects, filmmakers, and journalists who examined the phenomenon of urban decline within changing urban landscapes.

A sound studio surrounded by an air gap was added to renovations made in this Brooklyn residence. When music is produced, the air gap contains the sound.

The goal was to have the apartment utilities unfold into the space and then appear as a large plywood box when closed.

This installation for The Architectural League of New York was inspired by the city and building’s structure which give measure and scale to space. Navigable paths are determined by the perspectival alignment of points defining lines or edges.

A bathroom renovation directs attention to spaces beyond the bathroom. Variations in transparency, mirrors, and reflections were used to shift the view inward and outward at given points inside the bathroom.

Custom shelving wraps two walls of the store. Wine bottle necks are placed into the perforated back of the shelving resting at an angle to keep the cork wet.

String was used to extenuate existing architectural geometries.

Made with corn-based fabric, quilted pockets contain soil to grow vegetation.

Artisan Inc. contacted Freecell a second time to help develop their second New York office. The space offered advantages the first did not, notably windows and light on two adjacent sides of a square plan.

Two rookies ventured to purchase and renovate a 90-year brownstone that had been unoccupied for over 10 years. The clients asked us to push the limits of the building by extending it outward and upward. They required that the building house two residential spaces, one commercial space, and a private sound studio.

Designed and constructed on a tight schedule, the goal was to balance maximized display with visual simplicity.

The kitchen responds to site, use, and the aesthetic desire for physical and material durability. Simplicity in organizing programmatic use allows the inventions of overhead refrigerators and integral dish rack / cabinet supports.

This project served as the armature for an art display at the Miami Basel Art Show 2004 for Henry Urbach Architecture.

As an opportunity to explore the play of the natural within the artificial, we constructed a three-dimensional steel matrix inset with panels of living mosses and enclosed within by translucent volume.

Type A is a collaboration of two multimedia artists. One central theme of their work is the relationship between victim and aggressor; to reflect this connection, we divided the space along a central axis.

This project started with a standard efficiency kitchen, which we expanded and transformed into a space that is both a functional cooking and eating area and a valuable space for entertaining.

The owner, a collector of reproduction Arts & Crafts furnishings, needed a setting that was both open and modern in amenities while also respectful of the Craftsman style - wood, horizontal banding, detailing, positioning of stained glass.

A traveling exhibition, “OPEN: new designs for public space” contrasts current public use of space with ideas of potential improvement.

This exhibition of Le Corbusier and Claude Parent’s drawings was designed to be viewed from all angles.

An indispensable tool for a D.J., these crates carry, store, and transport records. The materials are rough and durable - intended for applied graphics.

A small studio apartment on 14th Street was renovated to maximize space. Our strategy was to design folding, pivoting, and built-in furniture for flexible living.

A pathway of shelving meanders within the existing space providing both storage and privacy, to form the gallery volumes.

Volumes are set into a surface. This surface and its supporting structural system create various spaces and levels for participants to explore. A relationship of open space to its structure is exemplified; the simple sustained by the complex.

The Verb Media office design consists of three parts: private offices, a storage cabinet, and flexible room enclosures.

Shortwave is the first bookstore of Soft Skull Press. It was important that the bookstore have a strong visual impact, but also be able to store all the press’s overstock.

The reading ramp for Soft Skull Press stands out among the Book Expo booths at the Jacob Javitts Convention Center.

Fourteen hanging balls provide an excellent landscape for climbing and swinging. A bent steel frame acts as a ladder to suspend soft and colorful balls.

This window shade for film projections allows captured images to be viewed from both sides - within the apartment and from the street.

A listening space is constructed from stacked cardboard bales. Inside the space, embedded speakers play live processed audio from two shortwave radios.

The interior of a vintage Airstream trailer was converted into a traveling gallery exhibiting artists' books, zines, and independent publications.

The intention of the Tractor Chair design is comfort, durability, and simple form in contrast to the standard hyper-articulated office chair.

Illuminated vinyl wraps around storage components to form a workspace divider.

The needs of tight living spaces are met with a simple dual purpose form. In an attempt to satisfy both the temporary need for seating and the constant need for storage, nine blue stools act as covers for compartmentalized wall shelves.

Artisan’s narrow floor plan constraints were negotiated through sectional changes. To counteract the lack of natural light, the offices protrude from the yellow spine wall, allowing daylight into the lowered ceilings.

Liquid Design Group, a New York computer animation company, wanted a convivial atmosphere that would simultaneously energize and contain the flow of its busy space.