In collaboration with Jacob Cook
Subterranean Site Plan
Erogenous Zoning examines spaces where the pursuit of pleasure is permitted as a method to investigate how architecture can challenge entrenched power dynamics and restore the potency of interpersonal relationships. Focusing on Williamsburg’s waterfront, it critiques the transformation of a once-industrial and countercultural hub into a sanitized, commodified zone driven by luxury development. Williamsburg has transformed into a site for luxury development, fetishizing the blue collar worker and the bohemian artist as an economic product and commercializing identity as something that can be bought, performed, and sold.
Kent Ave. Section
Through immersive and psychosexual tactics of desire, fantasy, and identity, the project emphasizes the body as an instrument for political resistance, resetting the political body and mind to awaken our understanding of the current states of political framework to allow for new models of collective agency to emerge.
Subterranean Axonometric
The project proposes a new form of community center for those who fall on the margins of social structure. The project revives this subcultural framework that emerged from the age of Williamsburg bohemia, bridging these programmatic spaces through a network of sewage infrastructure to create an underground subcultural network right underneath the feet of those who capitalized on it.
Canal — an Architectural Foreplay
Diagramming relationships and movements between the factory, its commodity, and the urban fabric during the industrial era presented an interconnected web of exchange that influenced neighborhood behavior and ownership. This unified network survived into the subcultural zeitgeist, yet took on a new form of social exchange within the same buildings. That relationship cannot be seen today as each space more self-contained, posing an alienating and passive behavior on the environment. Our project aimed to re-establish the network of social exchange, superimposing it underground and inverting the vertical form of the commercial skyscrapers and offices above.
Section below The Refinery
Section below 1south1