The house constitutes a playful entanglement of ancient mythical narratives, modern structural ideals, contemporary infrastructures and everyday local building methods.

2022

Competition entry for Guggenheim Helsinki. The proposal asserts its presence by formally negating its figure.

2014

A networked moss culture designed for standard T-bar drop-ceilings.

2013

X-Stock is a concept for a line of clothing that uses the “deadstock” or “new old stock.”
2012

Located in a historic preservation neighborhood, the design addresses a double condition.

2012

A human scent emitting mannequin.

2012

IM Blanky is a blanket with an IP address. The basic v. 1.0 is self-modeling. It is wirelessly linked to a digital model that registers and reprocesses its changing state in real time.

2011

Research lab at the University of Toronto founded by NMO partner.

2011 –

The Farnsworth Curtain takes its cue from Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. The famous glass house made its inhabitant uneasy by its complete transparency to
the outside.
2012

The Farnsworth Wall is an architectural wall module that harvests solar energy to illuminate the interior.

2009

The yard becomes an organic machine for the harvesting and filtration of a single body of water that is perpetually recycled in a semi-closed system.

2009

A space that responds to fluctuating light levels by continuously modulating its surface to enhance light and mood.

2008

Gardens, with their devotion to the sensual pleasures of the body have always been extra-ordinary sites, releasing us from our normative/ordinary routines though the artificial enhancement of natural phenomena. In this post-nature garden, a bio-machine supports and delights us.

2009

Skate Shop

2006

By distributing the HVAC system into the glazing system, glass becomes a haptic transmitter.
2011, with Valenina Mele

A sealed glazed curtain wall module is capable of supplying fresh air.

2011, with Valentina Mele

An NMO image blog

In order to create a necessary densification/intensification of activities within the boundaries of the site, all form is programmed not just once… but twice.
2008

2007

2004

Being commissioned by a professional snowboarder, the strategy takes its cue from the intimate engagement of a shredder following the line of a mountain; it is one of maximum engagement with the site.

2005

2005

2005

Un-Edited, Un-Curated, Un-Rated, Un-Ruly

The Sky House achieves one of the oldest ambitions of architecture… to suspend the body in space.
2004-2008

2003

2003

In the Invisible House, lighting is the primary shaper of one’s spatial experience.
2004-2007

2000

The Gallery House is inverted, in that every opening is a window onto its own domestic activities.

1999

Behind the one-way mirror, harmless activities inevitably take on subversive implications.

1999

In the Pool House, the house has invaded the pool. The bedrooms inhabit the deep end.

1999

1999

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