Modern Vernacular

Merging modern sensibilities and design with the vernacular influences of materiality, geography and culture specific to the western North Carolina mountains.


Featured Projects

01Family Vacation Residence
02
Sauna & Artist Studio
03
Froman Residence
04
Kenilworth Renovation
05
Asheville Prototype 01
06 
Asheville Prototype 02
07 
North Asheville Residence
08Trailridge Residence
09
Birkshires Residence
10
Flower House
11
Calvin Klein Specialty Retail
12 Culver City Showroom 
13
Nike Vision Traveling Pavilion
14
Merimon Avenue Addition
15
Carport + Potting Shed
16
Still/Action Wall/Desk
17 
Jj Residence 



Projects by Type
Residential 

Renovations + Additions

Retail + Commercial

Institutional + Industrial

Sculpture + Installations




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Awards + Exhibitions

Associated Works

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Folks

Musings




Locations
Asheville Office
35 Lynndale Avenue
Asheville, North Carolina 28806
Brooklyn Office
232 27th Street, #2
Brooklyn, New York 11232


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Adaptable Exhibition Modules
Blacksburg, Virginia

Tectonic Permutations - Modular Artistic Intervention

Conceived as an open-ended dialogue between space, inhabitant, and form, this site-specific artistic intervention introduces a system of radical architectural mutability to an existing gallery framework. The design relies on a series of modular components constructed entirely from humble, off-the-shelf materials, elevating everyday components into a sophisticated language of spatial theory. Each module is carefully articulated as three solid planes of an otherwise implied six-sided cube, consisting simply of a floor component and two perpendicular walls.

By defining only half of the architectural envelope, these minimalist volumes relinquish the traditional ego of fixed authorship, granting the exhibiting artist or architect absolute freedom to continuously reconfigure the landscape. When juxtaposed, aligned, or nested with one another, the modules undergo tectonic permutations, shifting effortlessly from open rooms and linear galleries to dense, maze-like spaces or singular contemplative cells. The intervention challenges the static permanence of traditional interiors, transforming the gallery into a living, participatory field. This modular exhibition design effectively blurs the line between sculpture and architecture, proving that humble, standardized materials can generate infinite spatial realities and empower the occupant as the ultimate co-creator of the environment.