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
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Asheville Prototype 02
07 
North Asheville Residence
08Trailridge Residence
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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 



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


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Selvedge Wall Installation
Hendersonville, North Carolina

Conceived as an ephemeral artistic intervention within a historic textile mill, this site-specific installation explores the poetic transformation of industrial waste into a sacred architectural threshold. Commissioned for a wedding, the design utilizes miles of discarded selvedge—the frayed, manufactured waste material cut from the edges of woven fabric during the industrial weaving process. Rather than introducing alien materials into the space, the architecture reclaims this localized byproduct to construct a monumental, highly permeable "wall" suspended from the steel structure above.

This diaphanous partition serves a dual programmatic purpose, orchestrating a soft spatial separation between the solemnity of the wedding ceremony space and the celebratory energy of the reception party space. In a theoretical nod to Gottfried Semper’s theories on the textile origins of architecture, the hanging strands create a non-structural barrier that remains profoundly tactile and dynamic. The shifting veil of selvedge responds to the slightest air currents, catching light and shadow to create a ghostlike blur between the two distinct realms. This adaptive reuse textile installation effectively recontextualizes industrial refuse, turning an overlooked remnant of labor into a poetic, celebratory boundary that honors both the history of the site and the transformative nature of ritual.