Résumé
These projects, both built and unbuilt, represent my experience as an architect. I have eight years of architectural experience, and four years as an architectural historian. Currently, I am a design project manager at MADE Architecture for a five-floor townhouse residential conversion. I began working at MADE in November 2012.
At HWKN I was the project architect on their built projects for over two years. My role included schematic design, design and construction documentation, and construction administration. I was also key to their competition submittals. Although I also worked at Platt Byard Dovell White (PBDW) for three years, the work at HWKN best represents my design aesthetic and my responsibilities as a project architect. However, I learned a great deal from PBDW and can provide more information about my work there.
My work as an architectural historian was centered around 19th century American architecture. I also have a M.A. History of Art, and after writing a graduate thesis about Kirkbride model insane asylums and the history of asylum care, I went on to work at the Ohio Historic Preservation Office and a private consulting firm that investigated threatened historic resources. I also learned a great deal from these positions.
Please excuse my evolving web abilities. But do feel free to contact me with inquiries and comments.
Marc
HWKN: Il Laboritorio del Gelato NYC 2010
This 3500sf fit-out includes a small retail space and a large production facility. In response to the clients wish for a ‘raw’ space, the retail area is left with an exposed concrete slab ceiling, mechanical systems, and a concrete floor. In response to health and building code regulations, the production space required a new, hung ceiling to cover dust-collecting pipes and conduits. Here was an opportunity to use a luminous ceiling of polycarbonate panels to provide the required enclosure as well as a cool, clinical atmosphere. With slick, white epoxy flooring, the production space lives up to its ‘laboritorio’ namesake.
Project Architect: Design, Bid, and Construction Documents, Construction Administration
HWKN: Hudson Street Apartment NYC 2010
This partial gut renovation focused on combining slick, minimal detailing with sensuous and rough materials, and simple strategies for creating intensive effects. Calm, white spaces are contrasted with rooms saturated with color and pattern. The plan remained relatively unchanged. However, bleaching existing hardwood flooring and new finishes, the new custom kitchen, and the walnut paneled master suite helped to complete the transformation.
Project Architect: Design, Bid, and Construction Documents, Construction Administration
HWKN: HighLine Loft NYC 2009
Specific interventions are designed to simultaneously open up and define spaces in a loft that was compromised by an earlier renovation. A new dining area is sandwiched between an inset epoxy floor and ceiling pattern, and the new master bedroom is tucked behind a new dressing room with a dual-acting door…complete with cat access. This work took advantage of the newly renovated HighLine Park: large old loading dock openings were re-opened and fitted with solid glass brick, flooding the apartment with light and parkside views.
Project Architect: Schematic Design; Design, Bid and Construction Documents; Construction Documentation; Construction Administration
HWKN: 980 5th Avenue NYC 2008
This gut renovation was for a couple that wanted a contemporary, urban apartment in the city that also reflected their fondness for ‘traditional’ design. As a result, classicism is compressed: the kitchen wrapped in a stack of plaster moldings and classical profiles. Meanwhile, the rest of the apartment, complete with new kitchen, new finishes, and central AV system, is a quiet, minimally detailed refuge from the city.
Project Architect: Construction Documents, Details, Construction Administration
HWKN: Mini Rooftop NYC 2008
As part of BMW Mini Cooper’s ‘Creative Use of Space’ campaign, a rooftop hill emerges from an integral, ubiquitous grid - much like park space in NYC. The floor is a responsive LED installation that interacts with music and video performances. The hill itself is a wood, light frame construction with underlit seats supported on Sonotubes, with grass panels and a fiberglass hilltop stage. Stadium lighting is added for maximum impact, and a boxy stage is inserted into the exiting billboard frame.
Project Architect: Schematic Design, Design, Bid and Construction Documents, Details, Construction Administration
