Garitage park sofia, bulgaria

Murphy Burnham and Buttrick Architects

Type of project I Residential and commercial high-rises, site design

Where I Sofia, Bulgaria

My role Concept development and design, production of competition deliverables

MBB architects won an international competition for the design of Garitage Park Phase IV; a 1.6 million square foot high-rise mixed-use development in Sofia, Bulgaria. While working with MBB architects, I collaborated with a small team on the design for a competition entry for two high-rise condominium towers, one commercial tower, retail and restaurant spaces, as well as the design of 6 acres of landscaping and site amenities within the park. The project was designed with particular focus on the space between the buildings rather than treating the towers as objects within the landscape. To that end, the key design objectives were to create a grand point of arrival, a sense of enclosure and human scale between the towers with an elevated perimeter path.

Murphy Burnham and Buttrick Architects

Type of project Addition to existing public school building

Where New York City

Construction 2016-2018

My role I Concept design, development of SD, DD, CD drawing sets

Software Revit

While working with MBB architects, I assisted with the design of a ground-up 97,000 s.f. addition to an existing 1922 public school building in Queens, New York. For the three decades preceding the construction of the school addition, PS 19 had been the largest, most overcrowded public elementary school in New York City. Temporary structures had been erected on the site in the early 1990s to alleviate the problem. The new expansion nearly doubled the size of the existing school, replacing the inadequate classroom trailers to finally create a facility that is sized appropriately for the more than two thousand students it serves.