Hyatt Regency hosted a design composition focused on green/sustainable materials and their changing guest. Our teams idea was to create sections of space with wrapping units, allowing each area for the room to be its own separate space while still being connected to the whole.

Images of scale model.

Rendering for rebranded room design.

Second place winner: Collaborators Julieta Larriba and Vicki Wong.

This project is an adaptive reuse of an existing SRO in Skid Row. The idea behind this project was to create a more livable home for people who formerly lived on the streets. The building needed to be more than a shelter it needed to be a home, assisting residents to rebuild their lives.

A home is a place an individual can allow their personality to be on display. A home is a place for emotion connections, nostalgia or familiarity, a place of comfort defined by the user. This idea of home was taken into the existing site of Produce Place, consisting of Skid Row Housing Trust offices, SROs, Artist lofts and a parking lot. The design extracts the space to be renovated and reused in order to create a more livable space. Critical measures were taken in order to reuse the existing structure and outer shell of the Produce Hotel, hallways were widened and windows were opened, apartment thresholds were given special attention and public space on the ground floor was created to allow the user to interact with the green space created for public use.

The goal of the planning was to create openness and layers of transparency within the site, to allow light and air to circulate and to create a much-needed green space in Skid Row, while not reducing the number of apartment units on the site. This goal created a need for a new construction to house the extra units that would be lost in the renovation of the SRO units into efficiency units in the existing Produce Hotel.

Studio Project to renovate an existing flower shop in the heart of Brooklyn, NY. The goal of this project was to update this shop and make it stand out and draw customers in.

Renderings: exterior of the flower shop.

Terra-cotta tiles naturally adapt to there environment so they seemed like a perfect fit for both indoor and outdoor use. The terra-cotta coloring was also important to the location, starting out on the patio the tiles were darker and became lighter as you move into the space. The concept behind this was to give the illusion of consistent daylight as a customer drawn into the space.

Images of lighting models