This is a project from 2013, but I include it here because it speaks to our current political situation.
3rd place entry in the Storefront for Art and Architecture's Competition of Competitions. In our scenario, Amazon, the world's largest retailer, is given a 99 year lease on the city parks of San Bernardino, a city in Southern California's Inland Empire. For Amazon, who has recently opened a fulfillment center in San Bernardino, this failing civic infrastructure is a laboratory for testing new markets and methods of distribution; in exchange, the city and its citizens are offered well-maintained and secure recreational and public spaces run by a new form of corporate government.
I have been working on a few small design projects, the most recent of which is a collaboration with Yeh Studio on a house rebuild in Altadena, California. Images to follow.
Meanwhile here are some images from the archive. The only selection criterion is that I still like them. This selection is from my work as a designer for Saucier + Perrotte, Peter Rose, Saia Barbarese, and Marosi Troy (Montréal, 1989-1995), and some independent projects and collaborations. These images focus on my own drawings rather than photos of the completed buildings, including experiments in analog-digital hybrids from the early 1990s.
Between 2005 and 2015 I worked on various projects that roughly fall under the category of robotics. These included the design and coding for the NETLab Toolkit, a hardware/software platform that allowed artists and designers to quickly assemble networks of sensors and other hardware. In several collaborations with designers and artists, I designed and wrote the navigation, sensing, and behaviour control systems for large installations.