Blocked on a crowded escalator, wandering alone through an empty parking lot, swinging together on a covered porch watching the rain fall down: through the inevitable control of human behavior, the design of structures, spaces and programs has great repercussions on our psychological well-being. Dictating the direction of our movements - up, down, left, right - it also identifies the possible locations of activities and positions of our bodies - playing, sitting, standing, laying down. Through the scheduling of events, it distinguishes the type and number of people who can and will be found together. Interacting with our senses through color, temperature, texture, weight, and spatial mass (void), architecture and urban design can create both beautiful and horrifying experiences.

I am dedicated to using design at this large scale to direct meaningful human encounters, allowing for inner reflection and an interaction with history, memory and place at a higher level of consciousness.

Examples in my projects: putting programs of contrast (museum and rough work area) adjacent to one another, highlighting their differences so as to allow for a possible relationship to flourish; removing the floor in a funerary chapel to let the dead body symbolically rest on its "birthing" soil; floating communal bath houses above a soft open landscape; opening up a space surrounded by visual and aural chaos, peacefully, only to the sky.