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WOJR . renders: © D-Render

The project weaves within rows of apple trees on a rolling landscape in rural, upstate New York. From individual tree canopies in linear allées to broader agricultural patterns, environmental relationships inform sensitive design strategies. There are six guest quarters, each of which has a sunken lower volume that houses a cozy place to stay, as well as a tall perch that offers a luxurious place of repose. Upon ascent to the perch, an intermediary level provides access to a roof deck atop the lower volume. The vertical attenuation of the guest quarters extends the range of visual connection to the site. The lower level nestles into the ground and the underside of apple tree canopies, the roof deck floats in the treetops, and the perch reaches a privileged vantage of the orchard and mountains in the distance. The lower volume is oriented within the rows of trees to afford privacy on the site, and its openings face away from those of their neighbors. The rotation and angle of the perch protect private vistas threaded through and beyond the others, and the perch can seem both impossibly thin and quite wide from the ground. Continue reading WOJR

WOJR . renders: © D-Render

House of The Woodland is an elemental building that aspires to frame the slow and deliberate rituals of respite. The use of the nine-square grid was initially born of utility, being articulated via four large plywood trusses that sit atop eight walls allowing the structure to span the square space. The nine-square grid secondarily fostered an important dialogue with the myriad of historically-rich architectural projects that make use of it as a spatial ordering device. Its role as a spatial ordering device in such precedents is commonly experienced planometrically, while in House of The Woodland the volume on the ground level of the building is evacuated of structure allowing the nine-square grid to be present only in the figures tracing the large-scale coffers above. Continue reading WOJR

WOJR . + architizer

Dwelling is a long house on Atlantic coast for the families of three siblings. The site has a rich history; it was once home to the Narragansett people, which is evidenced by archeological findings indicating the Narragansetts settled on the site.
The house is lifted off of the ground. The lower level of the house is horizontally-expansive and allows for there to be a continuity from inside to outside connecting the interior space to the views of the site and beyond to the water. The upper level of the house consists of a series of sleeping compartments that are organized in enfilade, allowing one to view the water from the far end of the house. Continue reading WOJR

WOJR . renders: © D-Render . + dezeen

Ongoing dwelling for a hillside property in the city of Los Altos. Continue reading WOJR