Located in Brooklyn in an apartment overlooking the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the challenge for the design consisted of adding usability and functionality to a kitchen while unifying - both aesthetically and spatially - it with an existing living and dining area.
Originally separating the kitchen from the sunken living and dining area, a wall was removed in favor of millwork running virtually the entire length of the space. This allowed for the maximization of counter surface area, storage and services (accessible on each side), a zone capable of accounting for the height difference between the two spaces, and an addition of visual width and natural light into the original living and dining space.
The design focused heavily on implied definitions of space with use of alignments of new and existing massing, allowing for both unification and independence of spaces in their own right while promoting a visual connectivity through a set of implied axis'.
The project was designed and completed from 2014-2015.
Located in a small fishing village in New Mexico, about an hour outside of Santa Fe, Terrero Cabin is a small seasonal vacation home. Designed and constructed on a limited budget, architectural emphasis was placed on maximizing the home’s interaction with the Pecos River immediately to the west of the site.
The village of Tres Lagunas employs its own aesthetic architectural code on all new construction. Designs for new homes must comply with a series of fairly rigid rules and be approved by a board. Although the color of the stark red roof and use of timber for exterior walls are mandated, the application of elements and form of the structure was entirely up to the architect.
The main living space of the house is open from east to west, with a set of strip windows at the building’s entry and a long set of lift-and-slide doors opening out onto a large outdoor deck extending beyond the start of a steep decline in topography to overlook the river below.
The project was designed and completed under the direction of Mark DuBois at the firm of Ohlhausen DuBois Architects.
Located in the town of Millwood, NY about forty miles north of New York, the Millwood Fire Station is a new construction project commissioned to replace an existing station which was built in 1910.
Aside from updating the capacity for the building’s integrated technological capabilities, the new station had to maintain the programmatic capabilities of the current station which commonly hosts community functions and gatherings.
Sited on an inclined plot of land, the building is built into a steep rise on its south side. The building is composed of long bars with integrated two-story apparatus bay projecting perpendicularly away from the strong north-south axis. The building’s entry is a double height open atrium which provides a visual break through the long solid bar from the building. Anchored on the southern edge of the apparatus bay, the lobby acts as a programmatic filter for the fire station, enabling the necessary divisions between the publically used zones of the building and those designated for fire crew and officials.
The project was designed and completed under the direction of Mark DuBois and Deborah Fantera at the firm of Ohlhausen DuBois Architects.
Located on the 16th floor of a Central Park West apartment building, the project was designed to put an architectural emphasis on the client’s extensive art collection. Working with a renowned contractor, the quality of work was extremely high.
A long corridor was established to connect the east reaches of the apartment to the door leading out to terrace overlooking central park to the west.
The library was clad completely in millwork, a collaboration between the architect and interior designer. As in each space throughout the apartment, locations were carefully considered and designated for particular pieces of the client’s art collection.
This project was designed and completed under the direction of Mark DuBois at the firm of Ohlhausen DuBois Architects.
