“Duty Free Zone” is an exhibit that parodies the airport experience, addressing issues of borders, climate, tourism, consumerism and non-places. It challenged the notion of duty-free, and asks “when living in a duty-free world, what are our duties?”

Situated within the former NS offices of Eindhoven Centraal, The Duty Free Zone exhibits work from 15 artists based in the Netherlands. Visitors are invited above the main station hall into an interstitial world overlooking the railroad tracks.

The duty-free zone is a strange yet familiar place of commercial meandering, one that you can’t point to on a map, a clock or your bank account statement. However, in the Duty Free Zone exhibit, kitsch souvenirs are replaced with thought provoking works that speak to the complex interconnectness of the world outside the airport.

Opened in February 2020, Galleria is a unique luxury department store in Seoul designed by OMA. The building’s design recognizes the market requirement for a profitable department store to consist of primarily leasible rectangular retail plates, and leverages this cubic inevitability with a spectacular “Loop” that straddles the building facade, offering moments of interruption to the typical floorplate with spaces for pop up retail and cultural programs.

Within the retail floor plate is another exceptional element of the building, the stacked “void tower.” I worked on the retail interiors, with a focus on the “void tower,” the vertical experience traveling up the center of the store. While the majority of each floor is a typical shop island layout, the area surrounding the escalators on each level features a unique design strategy for material, display and lighting, lending a corresponding ambience for the type of retail on that level.

In honor of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Museum of the City of New York, this exhibit showcases and explores the many ways that the city has inspired storytelling across artforms. Featuring work in film, television, painting, music, poetry and performing arts, the exhibit paints a collective and moving image of the city.

The full floor exhibition is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told. The Main Gallery features “Tempo of the City,” a space of undulating wall surfaces that juxtapose various ways that artists have emotionally expressed sentiments of the public crowd, either in joy or alienation, fear or pridel This gallery also includes the interactive “Songs of New York” where visitors can explore the five boroughs and the songs they have inspired. In the South Gallery, “Destination: NYC” showcases work about the city’s spaces for gathering and spectacle, its nightlife spots as well as its iconic parks and waterfronts. The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery includes “At Home in New York” showcasing literature works that depict New York domesticity. Finally the North Gallery includes an immersive 16-screen experience drawn from hundreds of films about the city.

Private Residence in Zell am See, Austria
Architectural Designer, Renderer and Model Maker, 2018
OMA with Rem Koolhaas, Clement Perisse and Marco Gambare
Completed 2023

Looming over Lake Zell in the Austrian Alps, this house is designed for a man and his adult children to visit and respite around the year. Subsequently the house is divided into three general zones: an apartment for the daughters, a level for cohabitation and social uses like cooking, and an independent apartment on top that takes advantage of the site’s spectacular views. As a result of strict plot regulations, much of the house’s volume is achieved through excavation, thereby giving each programmatic zone its own distinct connection to earth and sky.

In the decade following the attacks on 9/11, the mayoral administration of NYC incentivized film production in the city. During this period, the romantic-comedy genre thrived, effectively transforming New York’s image from a zone of trauma into a playground for the rich. As the image of the city changed, so too did its architecture and social fabric. Wasteful icons were built as symbols to the parody of late capitalism the city had become, including The Vessel, Little Island and The Oculus. During this transformative period, I created Birrean, an invented language spoken by urban bird characters in New York. As an invented language, Birrean can pierce through the normalized depictions of NY of the rom-com era, and offer parody and critique of its hometown.