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Wagner Farms 
An addition to a 1940's farmhouse, extends the living space on the upper floor while providing a bedroom suite at the lower ground level opening on to the...
residential, projects 
Outside In House 
The ultimate version of the weekend house was precipitated by yet another shift in parameters imposed by the client. Economic constraints were tightened...
residential, projects 
Elert House (Crane Residence)  
The challenge in restoring of Dean Robert Metcalf’s 1953 Crane Residence is striking the balance between maintaining the original design aesthetic which...
residential, project 
101 W Liberty St Loft 
This project for a two-story apartment in a converted racket club in downtown Ann Arbor reconfigures and redistributes the spatial arrangements of the apartment...
residential, projects 
Ayaka Sushi 
Ayaka Sushi makes a strong use of color in an attempt to pull people off the sidewalk and into the space. Depending on the perspective, the amount of color...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Case Study House, Cleveland 
residential, projects 
Saica Japanese Restaurant 
This project developed as a synthesis of dual research agendas – articulation of a furniture / field relationships and investigations into fabrication...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Storm Glass House 
A second version of the weekend house was precipitated by a substantial increase in programmatic scope of the house, including a second bedroom and a separate...
residential, projects 
Parkridge House 
This project redefines the internal organization and exterior form of an existing 1960’s single story ranch house. The project for a new master bedroom suite...
residential, projects 
Orchid House 
The commission of a weekend house in Three Oaks, Michigan was the first opportunity to explore the storm glass wall system at the full spatial and architectural...
residential, projects 
Photostudio 
In 2003 a photographer shot the Horton Kuwada Residence for a magazine advertisement. He liked the project so much that he decided to work with us to develop...
residential, projects 
Park House / Ply Studio 
The Park House addresses generic and specific aspects of residential construction. The site specifics are the adjacency of a city park on the North and a...
residential, projects 
Horton Kuwada House 
Thomas Jefferson’s Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 created the regulations for surveying and land acquisition for the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains....
residential, projects 
Terumo Heart 
This project for a new office wing of a newly renovated clean room research and manufacturing facility attempts to provide interconnected relationships between...
office, projects, commercial 
PLY Lights + Surfaces 
The paper luminaries investigate the translucent qualities of paper by exploiting its ability to transmit light and cast shadows. Constructed from laser-cut...
products, research, projects 
Big Ten Burrito II 
Experiments for the second BTB interior also emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Big Ten Burrito 
Experiments for the Big Ten Burrito interior emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Robbins Elementary 
The Assembly Required proposal responds to an expansive attitude toward education and community where the potential of each emerges from its relationship to the...
school, projects, public 
Woodside Drive Addition 
The exterior cladding for the residence uses pre-manufactured fiber reinforced concrete planks to unify the exterior form of the addition and capture exterior...
residential, projects 
Mies van der Rohe Plaza 
This project is an installation to honor Mies van der Rohe, and was the winning entry for a two-stage competition to revitalize the central area of the...
public space, projects 
Omi Sushi 
The design of Omi grew from a desire to make a very clear, bold, and graphic statement with the space that would function as a place and as an identity. The...
restaurants, projects, commercial 
Joy Road House 
We approached the interior from both the inside out and the outside in. The three existing living rooms (kitchen, dining and living) were opened and combined...
residential, projects