FINDING ELEGANCE WITHIN COMPLEXITY Our approach to design is both open-ended and rigorous. It begins with a careful study of the opportunities and constraints presented by each project while drawing inspiration from all sources ranging from urban context to biology to literary allusion. Our goal, however, is consistent for all of our projects: to formulate a design problem that is a synthesis of this careful study, and to find a solution that is a narrative thread tying together the building’s experience, context, and design concept. Like the urban fabric within which most of our projects are embedded, our designs simultaneously hold multiple and diverse layers of meaning.
BROWNSVILLE CLUSTER This cluster of sites forms a threshold in the urban fabric between industrial uses to the south and residential uses to the north, near the edge of the city’s Transit Zone, and at the edge of low-lying areas at risk of coastal flooding. Collectively, they represent an opportunity to seed a new type of resilient and adaptive urban development in the area. The sites’ connectivity is made legible by designing the three buildings to be seen both as individual entities and as a connected whole at the urban scale.
47 New Lots Avenue
95 New Lots Avenue
609-21 Osborn Street
Osborn Street
Hegeman Avenue
New Lots Avenue