Dirt Vault

Dirt Vault

East Davison Village Edging Plan, Detroit MI, 2020
Design strategies for revitalizing the edge of vacant expanses to reinvent a depopulated neighborhod.

Kohler Creative Campus, Kohler WI, 2017
Industrial site plan and sustainable systems for operating plant to join corporate employees with manufacturing workers.
 
Four Mile Run, Arlington VA, 2009, 2017
Art installation along 2-mile stretch of channelized Four Mile Run river focused on water quality and fish habitat.

Standard Quarry, Millville WV, 2016
Conceptual design for abandoned limestone quarry and mill, historic landmarks of stone industries as well as the Civil War.

Discovery Center at East Reservoir, Philadelphia PA, 2014
Activity hub and habitat for Audubon Society and Outward Bound around an historic abandoned reservoir.

Chain Works District, Ithaca NY, 2014
Adaptive re-use of gigantic former Morse Chain factory incorporating remediation strategies for new neighborhood in the city.

Skyway Park, Jersey City NJ, 2013
Design rescue of engineered landfill using educational habitat creation on Hackensack River and under the Pulaski Skyway.

Vertical Screen Headquarters, Warminster PA, 2012
Company headquarters reworked with sustainable on-site loop of water treatment and energy production.

Marine Corps Depot Living Machine, San Diego CA, 2011
Redesign of existing memorial as a gathering place oddly paired with an ecological sanitary water treatment system.

Europa City, Berlin, Germany 2011
Short-listed entry for international competition with focus on a degraded urban landscape in Berlin.

Superfund Redevelopment Initiative, 2007-2009
Over two dozen Superfund sites across the US investigated for potential remediation + reuse strategies.

Carleton College, Arts Union, Northfield MN, 2008
Adaptive reuse of historic buildings and courtyard as an arts center for the Carlton College campus.

Westport Waterfront, Baltimore MD 2008
Redevelopment of former industrial sites along the Middle Branch for mixed use and public parks.

Voelcker Park, San Antonio TX, 2007
Winner of national design competition for city-wide park on post-agricultural land called a “cultivated wild.”

ShotgunLOFT Affordable Housing, New Orleans LA, 2007
Global Green USA National design competition for housing in the Lower Ninth Ward.

Cincinnati Manufacturing ReHab, Birmingham UK, 2007
Winner of international design competition for mixed-use development of industrial canal.

Golden Belt, Durham NC, 2007
Landscape design for mixed-use redevelopment of Durham tobacco mill buildings.

The Brewery, Milwaukee WI, 2007
Site strategies for mixed-use redevelopment of the historic Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery site leading to inaugural Zilber Park.

NYC 2012 Olympic Village, Queens NY 2005
Design competition to transform manufacturing site and railyards for Olympic, local neighborhood and waterfront park.  

Camilla Wood Preserve, Camilla GA, 2004
Remediation and redevelopment strategies for Superfund site on former lumber processing.

Polishing the Copper Basin, Polk County TN, 2004
Design potential study for US EPA for reclamation strategies of contaminated mines and waterways in historic mining district.

Spencertown House, Spencertown NY, 2003
Post-agricultural land sculpted to embed modernist house in the Berkshires.

S.O.S. Lower Manhattan, New York NY, 2003
Strategic Open Space design strategies for financial district transforming into residential neighborhoods after 9/11.

Antioch Community Park, Antioch IL, 2002
Landscape framework for closed landfill energy production for nearby high school and community park.

Hudson Yards, New York NY, 2001   
Site design for New York Jets stadium’s public landscape infrastructure incorporating the nascent High Line park.

Reclaiming Bauxite, Bauxite, AR, 2001
Design potential study for reclamation and redevelopment of ALCOA 13,000 acres of mined land.

Ravenswood Quarry Winery, Sonoma CA, 1999
Productive landscape for wine-making facility capitalizing on juxtaposition with active basalt quarry.

Sahara West Library + Museum, Las Vegas NV, 1992
Cultural center with sculpted landform, native botanical collection and sculpture plinth overlooking the Strip.