“nature … holds attention taxlessly and calms the mind and recharges us in effect so we can work more effectively.” -Frederick Law Olmstead, in 1865 Bioclimatic European School Complex, Crete, Greece (International Architectural Competition 2012) The fundamental mission of a school is not only to provide a sensible environment for learning but moreover to produce a [...]

Client: School Buildings Organisation S.A.
Date: January 2013
Categories: Architecture, Competitions, Design

LOVE TRIANGLE NEW YORK 2013, by EASTON+COMBS has been designed at the invitation of the Times Square Alliance and the Design Trust for Public Space. The LTNY was a semifinalist project proposal for the annual Times Square Valentine Heart program for emerging architects in New York City. Project Description: LOVE TRIANGLE NEW YORK IS A MULTIFACETED [...]

Client: Times Square Alliance
Date: December 2012
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Competitions, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations

The Passive HOUSE ONE is the first of a series of domestic prototypes designed by EASTON+COMBS for living in the 21st century. Passive HOUSE ONE mediates and forges environmental relationships through the orientation and environmental performance of the exterior volume, and the living courtyards in the interior. The exterior wall is a precast structural building [...]

Date: June 2012 - Ongoing
Categories: Architecture, Current & Ongoing, Design, Process, Prototypes, Research

Open Source NERVI: Research at the American Academy Rome from EASTON+COMBS on Vimeo. Draft version of the construction / fabrication material research related to the Open Source NERVI project at the American Academy in Rome during 2012 EASTON+COMBS residency.

Date: June 2012 - Ongoing
Categories: Installations, Process, Research, Videos

The Open Source NERVI project emerges from an interpretive architectural analysis and material / historical research pursued during the 2011-12 Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. The research focuses on the material, structural, and geometrical practices of Pier Luigi Nervi, with a specific analytic focus on the Palazzetto dello Sport, built for [...]

Client: American Academy in Rome
Date: June 2012 - Ongoing
Categories: Architecture, Current & Ongoing, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations, Process, Prototypes, Research

Ohne Titel INSTALLATION COMPILATION from EASTON+COMBS on Vimeo. This video is offers an introduction to the installation process and the ideas for the Ohne Titel Concept Showroom designed by EASTON+COMBS for the BOFFO Building Fashion 2011 Series. Special thanks to all of the volunteers involved in the instalation process over Thanksgiving 2011!

Date: December 2011
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Design, Design Build, Fabrication, Process, Prototypes, Realized, Research, Videos

THE TEXTILE TRADITION CREATES A COMMON THREAD FOR ARCHITECTURE AND FASHION. BOTH PURSUITS INVENT THROUGH PATTERN, STRUCTURE, GEOMETRY AND FORM. WE REDEFINE THESE DISTINCTIONS AS A PLAY OF SCALE AND MATERIALITY. The Ohne Titel Concept Showroom is a temporary retail / gallery environment for the display of the fashion designers fall / winter 2011 collection [...]

Client: Ohne Titel / BOFFO Building Fashion
Date: November 2011
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Competitions, Design, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations, Process, Prototypes, Realized, Research

CHANGING ROOM is a mirage of the intimate in the realm of the public. As the daydream is to daily life, a momentary slippage that can re-qualify the onslaught of a quotidian continuum, so too is the CHANGING ROOM to the urban field. CHANGING ROOM redefines boundaries and expected conditions of intimacy while transforming into [...]

Client: Extension Gallery
Date: May 2011
Categories: Architecture, Design, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations, Process, Prototypes, Realized, Research

CHANGING ROOM from EASTON+COMBS on Vimeo.

Date: April 2011
Categories: Design, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations, Process, Realized, Videos

The New Aldgate is a temporary entrance and landmark to the City of London in celebration of the 2012 Olympics. The historic site is the location of the Aldgate entrance of the era of London as a walled city 250 years earlier. The Aldgate was the only entrance to the City of London that was [...]

Client: Architecture Foundation London UK
Date: July 2010
Categories: Architecture, Competitions, Design, Urban

Color, shape, shade, light and play are the ingredients to the kinds of urban events that temporarily unlock the city from itself. The ‘City of Dreams’ becomes a live dream, a day dream come to life. The cultural events of the Governors Island in the summer of 2010 constitute the infrastructure for the unfolding of [...]

Client: Figment Progect
Date: April 2010
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Competitions, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations

[Draft Text: Presenting material research into the use of extruded polycarbonite material applied as full scale structural lattices with exceptional weight/strength ratio and structural performance]

Client: E+C Research InitiativeDate: March 2010 - Ongoing
Categories: Design, Design Build, Fabrication, Installations, Process, Prototypes, Research

The history of architecture is laced with moments of simple invention that reinforce the link between material practices, social practice, and the narrative of environments. In addressing the question of an environmental structure for the MoMA PS1 courtyard we were inspired by the story of an old material and it’s reinvention that profoundly affected the [...]

Client: Museum of Modern Art PS1
Date: January 2010
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Competitions, Design Build, Fabrication, Process, Prototypes, Research

The parking facility for the Bush International Airport is a private commercial extension of the airports infrastructure and economic fabric. The project functions as an intermodal link from automobile travel to the airport terminal. Two primary values of landscape and threshold express and reinforce the ritual of travel throughout the project. The volume of program [...]

Categories: Architecture, Realized

Summary: Three dimensions of urban consciousness integrate in this proposal, establishing the connection between the larger intervention in the city and the curatorial organization of a dynamic historical narrative. The Museum of Polish History is a terrain, an edge, and a spire that gain significance through the simultaneous autonomy and integration of their relationships both [...]

Categories: Architecture, Competitions

Summary: There are two organizing strategies of the programmatic and spatial texture of the Contemporary Museum- the horizontal banding of program and the vertical binding of public circulation, referring to the stacking of horizontal galleries around vertical spatial punctures, through which people, light and atmosphere become bound in a spatial matrix. The horizontal banding strategy [...]

Date: September 2008
Categories: Architecture, Competitions

The Hunter Douglas Light Research Studio is a material research based design studio that addresses the window treatment products of the Hunter Douglas Company, an international manufacturer of building products. The studio explores new trajectories of the manipulation of this material as a means of extending and modulating the basic performance of the product. The [...]

Client: Hunter Douglas
Date: January 2008
Categories: Fabrication, Installations, Process, Prototypes, Realized, Research

The Jeongok Prehistory museum houses several hundred artifacts of Achuelean and proto-Acheulean hand axe technology in a series of suspended galleries cut diagonally through the building. The site of the building is located within the territory of the archeological excavation fields of the museums subject matter. The strategy of the building addresses this site condition [...]

Date: January 2007
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Competitions

The strength of any community hinges upon the success of its public institutions. The social function of the public courthouse and the town square as the cornerstone of public life in the early twentieth century has arguably been transferred to the public art institutions of the early twenty-first century. In the case of the Mill [...]

Date: September 2005
Categories: Architecture, Awarded Competitions, Competitions