01 · Practice
Work from what exists.
A site, archive, behavior, or half-working tool is never empty. I begin by making its existing conditions usable.
I work where architecture, atmosphere, storytelling, and computation fuse to become one deliverable.
My background begins in physical space and extends through fabrication, experiential systems, product management, AI workflows, and cultural experiments.
A fondness for pre-existing conditions flows through all of my endeavors as does transparency regarding the motivating design drivers of each and every output.
AtmosphereComputationArchitectureStorytelling
02 · Figure
Reason through the artifact.
The drawing, model, deck, or diagram is where the problem gets worked out, not where the finished idea is announced.
03 · Broker
Build a shared language.
I construct the terms and intermediary artifacts that let separate disciplines understand one another and act together.
04 · Temper
Design beyond the handoff.
The work meets unanticipated conditions and untrained hands. What survives becomes more useful while its decisions remain legible.
Disciplines kept in productive collision.
- 01Experiential & media architecture
- 02AI systems, corpora & agent workflows
- 03Fabrication, permitting & delivery
- 04Real-time spatial systems
- 05Product strategy & operating models
- 06Research, prototyping & participatory design
Ten years making rooms, systems, and handoffs hold together.
Cairn
Company Brain architect · sole builder
A private, local-first operating system for 345,000 files, 4.5 TB of evidence, and a human-gated vocabulary of 119 projects.
Tricky
Independent practice · AI product builder & experience designer
Release Intelligence
Gleanings
RFP automation
Civic investment mapping
Applied-AI systems built for operating teams
String — co-founder, product strategy, and model operations for a Solana signal platform used by 5,000+ traders.
AIntivirus — AI character and publishing system used by 10,000+ chatbot users across a 1.2M-follower audience.
Downstream
Experiential strategy · project management · media systems
Vanderbilt Passage, a confidential physical-AI client, Red Hat, and other confidential enterprise programs; $6.9M in scoped budgets with $1.48M in documented savings.
BrineSpace
Co-founder · architecture and fabrication
Caleta & Bad Habit, 88 East Broadway, three cultural pop-ups, and the third-place Nestlé BioDesign proposal Booch Lab.
WeWork
Spatial experience design · portfolio strategy
Conversion logic across 900+ locations, initiating 200+ projects through a playbook distributed teams could run.
MassRobotics
NSF-funded HRI research
Gymnast CoBot, developed under NSF Award #1928654.
Landing Studio
Public realm design · research and fabrication
Charlesgate Park, Richardson Plaza, Ouellette Bridge, Covid Food Distribution Hubs, and Marginal Street Community–Industry Seam Improvements.
Signify
Experiential design research
Gesture-controlled task lighting, bio-responsive systems, and waterfront experience planning across light, place, and interaction.
Northeastern University.
Master of Architecture
Graduate study in architecture, technology, research, and delivery.
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Five-year co-op program integrating practice with studio education.