This Master’s thesis enters the dialogue regarding the role of emergent systems in architectural research by seeking to to understand through application the role that self-organizing emergent growth systems can play in the advancement of architectural theory, and how these emergent systems can simultaneously inform and be the product of multiple design considerations, including the application of program, structure, distribution of space, and architectural effects.
The Urban Farm is a studio project whose response to the brief of creating a futuristic community-based utopia in Queens, New York is a sustainable and agrarian residential complex.
The Distortion Music Festival is an annual five-day event set in Copenhagen, Denmark. In a collaboration between students at both the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, this intensive design/build studio project realized a mobile pavilion that accompanied the festival in three locations.