(2023-2026) An AI native feasibility engine translating regulatory, spatial, and financial complexity into decision-making frameworks for real estate.

(2025-2026) A world model tracing the hidden dependencies between physical reality, digital intelligence, and human decision-making.

(2026) A study in anatomy and cognition. User’s guide words to the associated region of the brain. Turn on the colored regions and study how each part of the brain functions.

(2025-2026) Designing conflicting AI personas. A dual-voice AI platform reasons from incompatible foundations while challenging in open dialogue.

(2025-2026) Render as application. This R&D project examines how static imagery can become an interactive AI application using real-time environmental controls.

(2015-2016) Primitive robots combine the Internet of Things with steel frames and motors, providing a unique take on the wine cellar typology.

(2025-2026) A Multi-Agent consensus trading architecture. Four AI models generate and challenge investment theses through structured disagreement.

(2019-2021) First volucap studio. Research mapped spatial relationships between tech infrastructure, human ops, and production workflow.

A framework for the built environment, traced from a single lot line to planetary scale. New classifications frame how natural and synthetic systems interact.

(2026) An extension of the new assemblies research, a vision for health, explores human/synthetic relationships and the spaces networked for an embodied IoT.

(2020-2021) Quant and Qual insights reveal user preferences for the future of EV retail, integrating digital configurators and augmented reality.

(2022-2023) Research collaboration with Harvard Business School and a Boston-based Fortune 100 company explores the future of work and hybrid modalities.

(2016-2018) Reposition, program, and design for a multi-generational wellness resort. Western and Eastern medicine practices form a new wellness lifestyle entity.

(2018-2019) FabO Shanghai seeks to create a knowledge playground for grade schoolers to explore robotic fabrication and biology.

(2019-2021) Exploration of stratospheric launch capabilities for global and interstellar logistics and travel.

(2018-2019) Narratives for Augmented Design in Architecture is a phygital exploration of authorship, graphic arts, and digital overlays.

(2010-2011) This research traces urban morphology through ecological layers and time, while creating new frameworks for education and programming

(2025-2026) Symbiogenesis, an irreversible merger producing new assemblies. Spatial actors are emerging as a new synthetic ecology in our built environment.

(2016) A controlled five-month experiment tracking PM2.5 and CO2 concentrations to measure the atmospheric efficacy of interior planting systems.

(2019-2022) Off-grid, net-zero medical campus in Haiti. CFD-modeled passive cooling, earth-block, solar array. Designed for hurricane and seismic resilience.

(2018) Computational analysis of solar radiation on glass envelopes. Research modeled optimal frit scale and pattern to mitigate solar gains on lobby facade.

(2016-2017) CFD-modeled experiment testing passive air filtration in the built environment, 1:1 scale model of bamboo and CNC steel joints.

(2017-2019) NIO Houses incorporate air filters and living walls, tackling IAQ through active and passive measures, tracked on a digital interface.

(2022) Fighting malnutrition in Senegal. Pavilions create thermal stack ventilation while capturing 274,000 gallons of rainwater annually into deep cisterns.

(2011-2012) The KIC Campus, designed at Gensler for ShuiOn Land. Designed to be Shanghai's first LEED Platinum project.

(2012-2015) WPP HQ, designed at Gensler, used digital simulation to validate vertical louver patterning for solar shading and natural ventilation.

(2025-2026) As an Algoma project in KSA, this subterranean system of cool air, vegetation, and water creates engineered microclimates for passive cooling at a campus scale.

(2015-2016) Winning tower competition design integrating sustainable passive strategies with complex site constraints along Shanghai’s Huangpu River.

(2019-2021) A residence exploring the interplay between nature and physical space through the juxtaposition of solid and void, and the interplay of light.

(2011-2012) A 2.12 million-square-foot, LEED Gold office campus in Shanghai designed at Gensler for Tishman Speyer. Leased to Nike, Henkel and Douyin.

(2020-2021) An interactive showcase exploring clean energy products and education for Envision Group.

(2021) Research documenting benzene exposure in communities adjacent to petroleum infrastructure. Health, policy, and spatial justice.

(2013-2016) Research documenting the economic relationship between GDP trends, CO2 emissions, and the policy frameworks governing atmospheric quality.

(2015) Research mapping altitude-dependent behavior of anthropogenic particulate matter and its interaction with the built environment.

(2017) Earth blocks are fabricated into an interior finished wall and natural acoustical motif to reduce the project’s carbon footprint

(2022-2023) Research examining the financial case for mass timber as a carbon-negative construction material. Economic modeling of mass timber.

(2022-2023) Documentary film tracing mass timber from forest management through robotic fabrication to construction and replanting.

(2013-2014) Excavated stones from the site combine with recycled rebar to create a new covering for this museum cavern.

(2015) This hand-modeled installation mirrors the flow of wine as it hovers, made completely of recycled wine crates.

(2023-2026) CLT with glulam beams and columns. A twelve-unit mass timber residence reducing embodied carbon. An Algoma project in permitting.

(2022) Examining how forest management practices influence fugitive carbon emissions and the case for sustainable harvesting as climate mitigation.

(2016) Originating as a studio project at Tongji Design School, the pavilion emerges as a physical parametric bamboo cloud installation.

(2021-2022) A challenging divided site combines timber and earth materials to create an indoor and outdoor living.

(2013-2016) Recycled wine cases bring new life to a pre-World War II military bunker outside of Shanghai, which now serves as a wine museum.

(2018-2019) The Sheridan Residence in Chicago, IL, implements a low-carbon material strategy utilizing timber and terracotta.

(2014-2016) Terracotta was selected as a low-carbon material in this project for Gensler. Tiles were custom designed with NBK and manufactured locally.

(2024) An Algoma project: the terracotta facade of this Manhattan residential high-rise fades, giving way to an aluminum and glass tower crown.

(2023-2024) This 300k SF mixed-use tall-timber project for Algoma is planned as a type VI-A and VI-B hybrid construction in the heart of Atlanta.

(2021) A folding sky exposure plane shapes the tower while preserving GFA in this Manhattan real estate feasibility.

(2017-2018) One million square feet of unused maglev rail station finds new life as a destination for the Yangtze region.

(2019) Inspired by the historical Shanghai Tea House, this lounge for Flask inside WeWork Shanghai uses recycled and reclaimed bricks and tiles to compose its surfaces.

(2018-2019) This project’s red-rock gabion facade embodies the terroir-to-table design philosophy as the primary aesthetic and finish of this wine lounge in Shanghai.

(2019-2021) Art and sustainability inform next-use strategies for this wine cellar, uniquely glazed terracotta tiles, and design for disassembly.

(2015) Fabrication research exploring CNC machining using cardboard and fiberboard prototyping for carbon fiber furniture design.

(2018) Composed entirely of multiples of three, the pavilion was designed and built for the World Entrepreneurs Expo in Shanghai, China.

(2019-2020) The Hive Mind Pendant's design combines a glass hive with an inspirational idea at its core to illuminate a space.

(2018) A series of totem tables designed for NIO Houses and inspired by the axel of the NIO ES8.

(2011-2012) Past and present collide at the Godolphin Bunker, where wine tasters experience a multisensory wine lifestyle.

(2019) A material prototype for the Flask Tea House. The Gabion brings the dried spices used within the menu directly into the entry wall finish.

(2014) An installation moment at the core of this cellar enables visitors to climb to a second-floor lookout through a secret stair.

(2009-2010) Awards for Best in Show: Transformed Herman Miller Aeron Chair fabric in 2009 and vinyl wallpaper in 2010 into couture dresses with StudioV.

(2017) Layers of secrecy conceal a special collection of wine hidden within a private cellar behind a hidden door.

(2013-2014) The industrial design strategy for the wine locker brings luxury products to scale through manufacturing.

(2018) A modular mobile flagship. Pieces roll and snap together from a shipping container for national deployment.

(2016-2020) Prototyping for mass-production wine cellars explores reducing material waste through fabrication design and the use of bamboo.

(2018) Experimentation with acrylic fabrication and craft. Using materials as structure and shaping for continuous lighting without breaks.

(2016-2017) A series of four rings: Promise, engagement, His/Hers wedding rings. Birthstones at the base grow into a diamond vine and terminate in a feature stone.

(2017-2019) A sensory dining experience is programmed to combine the colors and flavors of dishes with vibrant interiors.

(2012-2013) A private cellar in Shanghai, China, is triple-curved in the shape of an egg with a halo in the ceiling. The central sphere hides the MEP in the ceiling.

(2019) A new wine-racking system explores a curved form to hold various sizes of bottles for the artistic, avid collector