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  • A Pagan Cathedral: Reinventing the Roman Bath width:321;;height:480
  • The final project of first year core consisted of the design of a large bathhouse in Brookline, Massachusetts. My proposal, to reinvent the Roman bath prototype in the context of a new urban environment, explores the role of icon and form, signification and abstraction in architecture. width:229;;height:480
  • The site, a small irregularly shaped footprint, required careful consideration in order to satistfy the dense programmatic requirements. width:507;;height:480
  • Inevitably, most design proposals swallowed their urban surroundings... width:600;;height:376
  • Using the Stabian Baths as precedent, I proposed a stacked, and reformed version, an oddly deformed system of bath and recreation units enclosed by an outer glass shell. The idea --to play with individual forms, but ultimately obscure (or abstract) them with the glass envelope. width:320;;height:480
  • final model width:640;;height:428
  • plan of first and second floor width:600;;height:420
  • plan of third and fourth floor width:600;;height:420
  • interior pool view width:640;;height:428
  • atrium view width:640;;height:428
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