Research, which informs the breadth of projects, spans from upcycling land-use and latent renewable energy to urban ecologies and archi-infrastructures to material research to currently Map Sampling, cartographic remixing and redrawing alternative futures from within and for disenfranchised communities.

map sampling

participatory cartography

Choose your own adventure: map sampling histories and alternate futures currently in progress

Cartographic interventions representative of and alternative to socio-spatial inequities in communities through the medium of map sampling. Map sampling is a means to represent urbanistically and historically contextualized conditions and opportunistically redraw alternative futures from within the community.

Bathysphere | Gowanus By Design Axis Civitas Project

Bathysphere is a prototypical archi-infrastructure proposal in the air and off the grid, upcycling latent el-space (underutilized space below and adjacent to elevated railways) as its site, and the geothermal potential of the sewer system below and solar potential above as its renewable energy sources.

Mulletowning | Buffalo Creek, West Virginia

Mulletowning posits an archi-infrastructural planning and design strategy whose impetus is to redevelop Hollow mining communities through interconnecting them with the reclamated mountaintop mining sites above and agglomerating passive as well as active infrastructures.

Ground Exposure Plane | Redesign Remediation Workshop | Gowanus Brooklyn NY

Ground Exposure Plane is flipped zoning with new green infrastructures, continuous and variably open terrains, and development patterns organized as much by access, public land use and environmental remediation as light, air and private ownership.

Community and pro bono projects represented in magenta > private projects represented in yellow (apartments), orange (homes), red (multi-family) and blue (commercial)