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Interactive Art to Promote Urban Planning and ‘Buy Local’

Art

The event, titled Northport Artwalk, was organized through the cooperation of the local business community and the organization of local artists, with the aim to support both the local business and the local artist community. My exhibit included 8 paintings that together presented a short story about a village and its struggle to revive local [...]

Design Guidelines

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The Design Guidelines documents provide an opportunity to visually illustrate the desired way of development. Although the zoning provisions provide a legislative intent to regulate the development, it is not easy for users to understand these large and complicated documents or easily visualize the desired outcome. The Design Guidelines are not a substitute for zoning [...]

Emotional Side of Places

Art

The art of creating places requires the sensibility to recognize emotional effects of existing places. What is it that excites or comforts, attracts, and what is it that makes us walk away; what exactly creates these bookmarks in our memories? The thing is, like in cooking, there is no one magical component. The success of [...]

Urban infill

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The proposal presents an infill project within walkable distance from the vibrant downtown of Huntington, with multimodal improvements to mass-transit connections. The idea of densification of the Town core is one of the principle strategies for Smart Growth and New Urbanism. The 80 unit anchor prototype buildings are situated on 1.06 sewered acres in southern [...]

Sustainable development of harbor cities

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The sustainable development of harbor cities was investigated during an International Workshop of design professionals organized by a French non-for profit organization. The focus was on examining the synergies of Dunkirk, a strategically positioned Harbor-City in terms of: international business relationships, cultural exchanges, migratory phenomena, synergy with the hinterland (territory of mining passageways located in [...]

Transit Oriented Development

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Mineola has a rare advantage for a bright future. Its regional position as one of the main hubs on the Long Island Rail Road, with potential for closing the gap between two main lines, it has a great potential for redevelopment. Its current disadvantage in terms of placemaking and its lost identity- a sea of [...]

Visualization Studies

Architecture

Architectural design is a collaboration process between the client and the designer. The design flow is also a series of the decision making steps, and often this process gets interrupted. Quick, freehand studies and sketches created for comparison of schemes and architectural details can efficiently unblock the process, and push both the designer and the [...]

Designing the Eco-City in China

Eco-City

In early 2009 I was invited by a French NFP organization, Les Ateliers, to participate as one of 16 international experts in a two-week long International Workshop of designing an eco-city in Hu Lu Dao, Liaoning province, Northeastern China. It was exciting to learn more about China and its culture; to meet and work shoulder to [...]