Theoretical design proposals that look at death, containment,
and movement.
A Catafalque for Mies and Lafayette
Sited in a disused rail line adjacent to a Mies van der Rohe housing development in Detroit called Lafayette Park, Catafalque proposed the re-development of this industrial/residential land as a cemetery.
In the way it dealt with the city’s “dead” downtown and “lifeless” neighbourhoods, the project made explicit connections to the residential fabric of the area surrounding Lafayette Park and to Detroit's status as a post-industrial city.
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Kingston AiRail Link
The AiRail Link proposed a radical re-appropriation of Kingston’s existing infrastructure and historical architectures that acknowledged the border town's past and present obsessions with security.
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Invisible Storage
Invisible Storage proposed a large (65,000 square meters) off-site art and artifact storage facility for Toronto’s two largest collecting institutions (The Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario). This off-site storage was merged with a publicly accessible Self Storage facility. A dialogue between keeping, storing and collecting was made literal in the physical space of a building whose dual purposes brought the institutional together with the personal. Essentially a large warehouse, its form is derived from an extrusion of the triangular site upon which it sits.
