Portfolio Category: Architecture Collaborations

1,800 sq.ft. custom home designed collaboratively with Architect Jack Smith FAIA. Landscape Architecture by Peter Ker Walker. The design maximizes the tight and challenging lot allowing for views to Mount Baldy from the interior at all levels as well as from the exterior balcony and terrace. The roof is warped in a hyperbolic paraboloid by…

3,700 sq.ft. custom home designed by Architect Jack Smith FAIA. The design has expansive glazing allowing for views to surrounding mountain peaks, exposed glulam beam structure that acts as a vierendeel truss for snow loads, and retaining walls, trellis, and large tracked shutters for avalanche mitigation. Responsible for coordination, design drawings, detailing, and full construction…

Co-invention with Jack Smith, FAIA for a Thermally Isolated Building System. Principle goals of design include solving an inherent problem in steel detailing, thermal transfer, and advancing low cost building systems. The system is inspired by the steel detailing of Mies van der Rohe, most specifically the Barcelona Pavilion. Proportions are based on Fibonacci sequence…