Website design and implementation for DCPParquitectos, a young architecture firm based in Mexico City.  The architects wanted a clean, flexible site that juxtaposed image and text and could function in both Spanish and English.

The three-column design runs on the wordpress engine and incorporates a number of back-end plugins into the core structure for easy updating on the client side.

Visit the project here.

Beer battered chicken illustration for New York City Wingfest, a competition featuring the city’s top wing joints for a year’s worth of bragging rights.  Event sponsored by Streaker Sports and Brobible.

Competition renderings for Brooklyn Seeside, DCPParquitectos (Pablo Perez Palacios, Alfonso de la Concha Rojas, Emmet Truxes) submission for Williamsburg Waterfront Performance Venue, an ideas competition held by suckerPUNCH in summer 2010.  Submission text after the jump.

BROOKLYN SEESIDE: BRINGING THE POOL BACK TO THE PARTY. As the heart of New York City moves deeper into a service-based economy, there is increasingly less need for a functional, efficient waterfront that caters to the needs of industry and its infrastructure.  As a result, many of the city’s former industrial areas are being rezoned for use as public parks.  There have been many interventions along the Hudson and East Rivers that turn disused piers into public green spaces, relinking communities like Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Hoboken to the waterways and spurring a wave of redevelopment.

With Brooklyn Seeside we propose an intervention that actively questions the city’s connection to its rivers.  Not content to merely build up and over, we push down, turning one third of the East River State Park site into an artificial beachfront with an autonomous swimming zone separate from the river.  This tangible connection to sand and water provides a fresh way to experience the waterfront and the view over to Manhattan.

Our next move, peeling up, creates a sloping field that dips beneath the water zone and rises out over the river as an island.  Beneath this grand gesture are three architectural interventions that seamlessly merge the sloping fields into green roofs.  The resulting interior zones serve as a means to cluster program, minimizing the impact of physical structures on the site.

In the summertime, Brooklyn Seeside will reinvent the festival experience by tying The Pool Parties and other events neatly into the site.  The main stage will rise on the island, bringing the pool back to the party by inviting fans to stand, swim, and play in the water zone to get closer to their favorite acts.  Second stage, dodgeball court, and general beach activities will happen at the edge of the water, and the fields will provide plenty of space for picnics and lying out.  The Kent Avenue Visitor Center, located at the corner of Kent and North Seventh, will provide a large interior space for ticketing, vending, and promotion, while the Food Court will offer a permanent roof for local restaurants and bars to offer their wares.

Most importantly, Brooklyn Seeside provides Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and greater New York a unique platform for public events, simultaneously catering to the needs of leisure, promotion, and event production.

See the winning entries here.

Renderings for “Archifice: A Sukkah for the City”, DCPParquitectos (Pablo Perez Palacios, Alfonso de la Concha Rojas, Emmet Truxes) design proposal for Sukkah City, open competition held in summer 2010.

More information here.

ARCHIFICE: A SUKKAH FOR THE CITY seeks to redefine the manner in which nature is inserted into the modern city as artifice.  Defining the urban as a field, we see three ways in which figural interventions occur.  The first is the urban park, in which nature is artificially fitted within a preexisting context.  Such urban parks exist as a direct result of local conditions.  The second is the urban landscape, a response that actively creates a new artificial figure within its context.  Self aware, urban landscapes actively engage in the act of artifice through carving, digging, and twisting the groundplane.  The third, landscape enclosure, captures the artifice and adds definition via spatial, architectonic boundaries.  In Archifice we push these ideas further with a design that merges the act of artifice into a modular construction system.  The resulting architectural figure, therefore, is the product of a localized field condition that incorporates the concepts of the natural.

Traditionally, sukkahs served as a means to be outside and connect with nature.  In the modern urban context, this particular connection with nature is hard to achieve; therefore, Archifice brings the experience of nature into the interior, re-presenting the traditional role of the sukkah.

As such, Archifice is constructed from raw, unfinished materials: ½” thick plywood boards define the module, in which we insert a soil container of coconut fiber netting.  In each container we place a variety of plants, all of which are open to the sun and the elements through each module’s lightwell.

The geometry of Archifice ensures that the sukkah acts as an object that responds to the urban nature of Union Square, while the inside functions as a world apart.  Interior views are limited upwards to the sky through the lightwells, forcing an immediate reaction from the user.  This exteriority and interiority speaks to the true nature of the sukkah, which exists as a porous structure whose spaces are by definition neither interior nor exterior.

Web Design for the anthRoaster, Kara Cooperrider’s blog about all the anthropological things that you were too under-caffienated to notice.  Wordpress development included the creation of a strong, coffee-oriented graphic theme.

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Web Design and wordpress theme development for U.S. Creative Consulting, a full-service creative consulting agency providing professional expertise and resources to Asian companies in all creative fields.  The client required sites in two languages, English and Chinese.

The site was the final product of an extensive build which included branding (full logo design) and print packaging (company booklet and business cards).

View website here.

Web design for Thomas M. Truxes, an author and a member of the faculty of New York University where he teaches courses on Irish history and the history of the early-modern Atlantic world.

This website’s intent was to highlight the author’s range of academic interests while simultaneously showcasing published work.  The sidebar features the cover illustration of Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York. Design work included full wordpress theme development.

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Poster design for the Ricky Lewis set at Parkside Lounge, NYC.

Logo development and poster design for Guerilla Party.

Renderings of the Centre of Competence for Mobility, first place competition entry by studioMDA for a complex combining the electrical + information engineering, mechanical engineering + mechatronics, and aerospace engineering departments at the University of Applied Science Aachen / Campus Hohenstaufenallee.

Project description at Europaconcorsi.