Big Dig House
As a prototype building that demonstrates how infrastructure can be salvaged and reused, the structural system for this house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig. Utilizing over 600,000 pounds of…
Psychedelic Architecture: Form and Allegory
The 2013 Sciame Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. There are uncanny parallels between the 1960s and today in terms of social, political, and environmental issues. However…
John Hong at Research by Design Symposium NUS
Please join us for the ‘Research + Design Symposium’ at the National University of Singapore. 17 January 2018 \\ 15:00-18:30 \\ NUS Create Tower Level 7 \\ 1 Create Way, 138602 Singapore Title: “Making + Scholarship” Moderator: Lilian Chee , Associate Professor National University of Singapore Speakers: Michael Budig, Assistant Professor Singapore University of Technology […]
Verdant Recording Studio
This recording studio for innovative recording engineer and musician Pete Weiss, solves issues of acoustics while engaging the site and context. An extension of an existing century-old barn, the new structure utilizes a variation on the pitched roofs in the area: a simple ‘scissor’ truss is mirrored to create both east and west skylights while on the interior, the asymmetrical space works acoustically to [continue]→
Valentine Houses
Valentine Houses Cambridge, MA | 2003[BSA/AIA NY Housing Design Award 2004, BSA Honor Award 2003, Dwell Magazine Feature Oct 2009 ] The 3 new townhouses transform Cambridgeport’s woodframe type, dynamically addressing boundaries between inside and outside, private and community. A critique of the inward looking ‘winterized box,’ the project incorporates double height interior/exterior spaces, cantilevered […]
Tung House
Located on a strictly preserved wooded area, this project converges with the site and environment through a zero-energy strategy. While the massing adheres to tight setback restrictions, the roof breaks free of the house’s orthogonal geometry to optimize orientation of the solar panels. At the same time, the resulting roof overhang shields the interior from hot summer…. [continue]→