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This is a tri-fold design com­pe­ti­tion poster done for a pro­posed project located at 47–50 West Street in down­town New York City, show­ing site plan, floor plans, build­ing sec­tion, facade ren­der­ing, win­dow details and elevations.

(with Fox & Fowle Architects)

Another fan­ci­ful ink illus­tra­tion for Spac­ing Mon­tréal, and part of the “Know Hope” series. Inspired by a bike ride down one of the myr­iad laneways found in Montréal’s Mile End neigh­bour­hood, where quaint struc­tures can be found (see image below left), I encoun­tered a short­ened door — seem­ingly made for peo­ple of gnomish pro­por­tions — and fronted none too coince­den­tally by a spray-painted sign (below right).

Print avail­able on Etsy.

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Pen & ink illus­tra­tion for urban liv­ing blog Spac­ing Mon­tréal:

The ubiq­ui­tous mansard roofs* of Mon­tréal have always fas­ci­nated me. From the mon­u­men­tal to the ordi­nary ver­nac­u­lar, these dis­tinc­tive roofs inspired by the once-popular Sec­ond Empire** style give the built sur­face a tac­tile depth to the multi-layered char­ac­ter of the city. Some stand rot­ting on dilap­i­dated cor­ners, now only silent wit­nesses to bet­ter times. On other streets they are painted in proud colours, bask­ing in the rosy light of another set­ting sun, some­how open­ing onto other dimen­sions of imag­i­na­tions about the city.

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Cre­ated in Adobe Pho­to­shop and meant to be read as one long strip, “Meta­morph” depicts the birth, life and death of the fic­tional Jes­sica Papil­lon, told in dig­i­tal comics style. It’s inspired by a quote by the founder of Auroville, dubbed “The Mother”, which goes: “Death is merely a trans­for­ma­tion of the con­sious­ness, noth­ing more.” This per­spec­tive finds a basis in other tra­di­tions such as Tibetan Bud­dhism, which talks of phowa, or “the prac­tice of con­scious dying”, “trans­fer­ence of con­scious­ness at the time of death” and “mind­stream trans­fer­ence” — ie. pro­ject­ing one’s con­scious­ness at the time of death into a more favourable plane of existence.

Here are the pan­els close up:

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In the sum­mer of 2009, I attended a treehouse-building work­shop held by Tree­house Work­shop, a Seattle-based com­pany that builds gor­geous tree­houses, run by Peter Nel­son and part­ners. The work­shop was held at Finnriver Farm, where over the course of the week­end par­tic­i­pants learned the basics of select­ing trees, design and struc­tural con­sid­er­a­tions, which tools to use, and using ropes, har­nesses and other gear to climb up and down trees and to rig com­po­nents nec­es­sary for the build­ing process.

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Turn­ing a ho-hum bal­cony into a lit­tle oasis of bloom­ing green (or at least start­ing to!) one July week­end in 2009. For this one-day work­shop / per­ma­cul­ture blitz, we made self-watering con­tain­ers, trans­planted toma­toes, cucum­bers, pep­pers, one banana and herbs, made a climb­ing wall, and started a rain­wa­ter col­lec­tion sys­tem, made out of recy­cled elec­tion boards (before we got rained in.)

Check out this video of the rain­wa­ter har­vester in action.

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This was a project part­ner­ship with Archi­tec­ture For Human­ity and the Pitchandiku­lam Bio-Resource Cen­tre of Auroville, India, for a com­mu­nity build­ing for three local Women’s Self-Help Groups (WSHGs), located in Nadukup­pam Vil­lage, Tamil Nadu, India.

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