PROJECT / This five-story building, in Puglia, Southern Italy, includes twenty-five residential units and a ground floor commercial space served by multiple elevators and staircases. The building plan is “O”-shaped, and the private windows of the residences face a central courtyard. The terraces around the building
PROJECT / 2007 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD / Seed House is a conceptual design for a 1400 square foot country home set in the woods in upstate New York commissioned by a NYC art collector. The shape of the house was conceived as an organic form, deeply
COMPETITION PROJECT / This hundred-meter tower was designed for a competition to create a tower to sit next to the Roman Coliseum, the core task being to design a high-rise structure that relates to its surroundings and belongs to The Eternal City, Rome’s nickname for centuries. The
PROJECT / The house designed for the Australian gold medal diver from the 2008 Beijing Olympics is inspired by the architecture of the Sydney Opera House and the natural structure of seashells. Saracino designed the house’s shell, made of reinforced concrete, using an algorithm describing the
COMPETITION PROJECT / Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial – Voices of Victims Lost The Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial is conceived as a stacked layer of planes standing 58’ tall along the boardwalk. Visitors are drawn in to the center of the memorial where the heart
COMPETITION PROJECT / Inspired by the aerodynamic design of a tennis ball, the Sodra tennis pavilion was morphed into a wood-clad dome resting on a landscaped platform. The entrance to the center is clearly marked by an arched glass façade set back from the wood-clad exterior. The
PROJECT / At the core of the idea is the building’s expanding ground plane, which ascends upward to shape the roof and sinks downward to form the floor. Within the enclosure, the rooms expand and contract as mobile walls slide on a recessed metal track embedded