The Westside Riverway Park unites social and ecological goals in the heart of a historic neighborhood. The linear pavilion is a bridge between the street and the water, providing seating and a stage to revive a tradition of Block Parties, and a canoe launch for recreation and stewardship of the Housatonic River. The shaped landscape creates gathering points within a large lawn, bounded by a buffer zone of native plantings.
An aging-in-place house with a softly curved interior and a hard shell. Interior lofted spaces are carved out of plaster forms that reflect light from expansive windows that frame views into the surrounding forest. The exterior peaked forms are organized into three volumes for different programs.
We founded The Mastheads, a public design program focused on the literary heritage of Pittsfield, MA. The Mastheads operates around five mobile writing studios that represent fragments of historic author’s homes and activate landscapes throughout the city.
A house for one, overlooking an agrarian valley to expansive views on all sides. The interior is organized around blocks of saturated color and material, set within an otherwise quiet shell.
A structure to distribute free hats in the winter, built onto a guardrail on an otherwise unbuildable piece of land in the Westside neighborhood where kids wait for the bus in the mornings and get dropped off in the afternoons.
A corner park in Pittsfield’s densely populated Morningside neighborhood, this space was designed in partnership with the local elementary school as an outdoor classroom to inspire literary, spatial, and mathematical learning. The 26 concrete sculptural forms at the park each represent a letter of the alphabet.
We transformed two adjoining closets within the Spencer Art Building at Williams College into a space for processing natural dyes, removing a dropped ceiling to expose high windows and utilities in the ceiling, and expanding the requirement for a “backsplash” to cover an entire wall with 800 bisque tiles hand painted by artist and professor Pallavi Sen.
We inscribed a circular library into the shell of a Greek Revival Carriage House. The thickened walls of the library accommodate all the structure, utilities, and circulation necessary to serve the entire structure, which allows for the project to be a direct conversation between the the historic detail of the rectangular shell and the curving wood of the central circle.
A two-part installation of poems on trees, designed for The Mastheads using arboretum supplies. Tree Poems Part I includes 80 poems etched onto green aluminum tree tags, hung within the branches of the street trees in the Downtown Pittsfield walking loop. Text is written by Pittsfield elementary school students within the Fireside program, developed by Mastheads Literary Director Sarah Trudgeon.
A two-part installation of poems on trees, designed for The Mastheads using arboretum supplies. Tree Poems Part II includes 60 poems embroidered onto tan tree straps, wrapped around trees throughout the campus of The Clark.Text is written by Pittsfield elementary school students within the Fireside program, developed by Mastheads Literary Director Sarah Trudgeon.
What we’re working on now.