Category: Projects

Lots in Common First Prize, Mixing Middle Competition | Urbanarium, Vancouver | 2022Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass Re-Forming Domesticity Current attempts to address the housing crisis too often rely on conservative, nostalgic models of ownership—in turn largely failing to impact the interrelated problems of scarcity, homogeneity, unaffordability, unsustainability, and isolation. Rather, the very…

Too Many Cooks! Drawing Kitchens Together Research paper, series of three drawings and fabulative recipes, 2020—ongoingPublication for Room Journal no.2 “The Kitchen” (forthcoming)Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass Perhaps more than any other conventional room, kitchens form a link between domesticity and larger networks. Everyday kitchen activities implicate us in multifarious webs of relation—from…

Home in the Era of the Platform:Nine Theses on Decentralized Domesticity Research paper presented at the ACSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 12-14, 2020Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass Digitally networked platforms are transforming interpersonal relations and the occupation of urban space, including how home and the domestic are understood and enacted. Despite a…

Bloc/Party:Sharing Against the Sharing Economy Research paper and series of four drawings, published in Bracket Journal no.4 [On Sharing] (forthcoming).Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass As the age-old notion of ‘sharing’ passes into contemporary capitalism to become the basis of ‘the sharing economy,’ its character changes fundamentally—taking on deeply aporetic implications. On one hand,…

House S3:Shared Social Stories Missing Middle Competition / Urbanarium, Vancouver / 2018Special Mention PrizeCollaborators: Neal Qiongyu Li, Lőrinc Vass, Daichi Yamashita House S3 is a social platform where the stories of everyday life are shared. Proposed as an alternative to both the virtually unattainable and outmoded ideal of individual homeownership, as well as the increasingly unaffordable…

After NatureCrow’s Eye View & Blackberry Picking Public installation for the City of Vancouver Art Wrap Program, 2017Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Pengfei Du, Jennifer Leung, Nicole Sylvia, Daichi Yamashita, Lőrinc Vass After Nature is an ongoing series of drawn investigations on the ever-evolving environments of Metro Vancouver. Looking beyond the conventional view that treats nature as something…

Game Changer Proposal for Pop-up at the Square design-build competition, City of Victoria, Canada, 2017Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Pengfei Du, Jennifer Leung, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass, Daichi Yamashita Game/Changer is a reconfigurable playscape for Victoria’s Centennial Square that catalyzes a diversity of activities for people of all ages. The installation comprises a series of modular components of…

Home in Common Shortlisted entry, HOME-LY, ASA International Ideas Competition, 2017Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Pengfei Du, Jennifer Leung, Nicole Sylvia, Daichi Yamashita, Lőrinc Vass As the homeownership models that sustained previous generations slip further out of reach, more and more people are left in a precarious relationship with domestic space—locked out by the shifting tides of…

Architecture After Cultivation: Four Grids for the Great Plains Master of Architecture graduation project, UBS SALA, 2015-2016Authors: Roy Cloutier and Nicole SylviaAdvisors: John Bass and Blair Satterfield Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, 2017.Full document available via this link. Architects can extend their reach by selectively loosening their grasp—understanding architectural…

Constellations of the In-between:Architectural Speculations in Metro Vancouver’s Interstices Master of Architecture graduation project, UBS SALA, 2014-2015Author: Lőrinc VassAdvisor: Blair Satterfield Awarded the Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence, 2016 Published in Canadian Architect Magazine, December 2016Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Fall Conference, 2015 and Annual Meeting, 2017. The city, far…