FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape
A 100-foot parametric installation built by CCA faculty and students — interlocking ribs, adaptive scripts, and two weeks of organized flux.
flow-zone
A 1,700-foot field of light beneath a bridge, Flow-Zone maps the invisible currents of the city. Two thousand green aluminum fins ripple across the underside of TriMet’s Orange Line overpass, turning traffic, wind, and light into a continuous motion field.
KidRunner
A design process that had to keep moving when everything else slowed down — turning scarcity into method, and visibility into a tool for invention.
Inflated in Stages
A civic artwork built inside the very vessel meant to contain it. Covid closures forced a pivot offshore, where the rainscreen panels were flat-packed for shipping. Yet the design called for dimensionality — a bottle assembled inside a ship. Reflective Fresnel-like pieces were hand-folded in Grass Valley, while offshore crates delivered the flat system. In the building’s own basement, the work was staged, sequenced, and finally lifted into place.
onshore to offshore
rehearsing the build-craft
in-house prototyping
prototyping at arms reach