 Delta Fabrics2017The project exposes dangerous differences in official, reported air quality measurements in the Hong Kong/Shenzhen border region from Chinese and international sources, and the realities ‘on the ground’ in one of the world’s most rapidly advancing citi… Continue Reading >> |
 Desert Food Hub2017The project transforms a deserted city block into a hub for regional food, consolidating warehousing, co-cooking spaces, food service, and performance programs to support an emerging Chihuahuan Desert culinary culture. A folded metal roof reinterprets … Continue Reading >> |  Silenced Surface2017The project works as an acoustic baffle to muffle sound and heighten other senses, providing a temporary environmental enclosure around 12 diners. AGENCY designed a rapidly deployable friction-fit frame, comprised of over 1200 individual components, wh… Continue Reading >> |
 Breach2017BREACH considers the material rituals of the securocratic training apparatus, proliferating rapidly in a growing constellation of militarized, simulated urban environments across the US and around the world. Each year, in hundreds of ‘mock cities’, mil… Continue Reading >> |
 Cloud 92016AGENCY reinterprets the work of Wendy Mark in this video installation for the Pas de Calais SoHo showroom. The looping digital animation records a custom-scripted image sampling process, which progressively scans Mark’s paintings, translating values in… Continue Reading >> |  Selfie Wall2016Photo Credit : Andrew Lara Photo Credit : Andrew Lara Photo Credit : Andrew Lara Photo Credit : Andrew Lara SELFIE WALL creates a range of lighting conditions day and night, offering a dynamic and interactive space for self-photography. The wall is bui… Continue Reading >> |
 Twenty One Feet2016Encounters between police and civilians are inflected by the spaces in which they occur. The complex coding of space around armed and unarmed bodies creates a securocratic dimensional calculus demanding further investigation. When responding to armed s… Continue Reading >> |
 Feral Federation2016FERAL FEDERATION reveals emerging, contested geographies – a growing constellation of urban enclaves governed by non-state actors. So-called ‘feral cities’ operate beyond the control of nation-states, outside the rule of law. Instead of local governmen… Continue Reading >> |  Evolving Skyline2016Photo Courtesy Dov Kupfer Photo Courtesy Lance Levine Evolving Skyline is a set design for a production of Bizet’s ‘Carmen’. The opera is staged in four acts, each with its own environment – the Factory, the Tavern, the Mountain, and the Arena. AGENCY… Continue Reading >> |
 Confluence Park2016Confluence Park | View Toward Depot Square Confluence Park | Park Elements Confluence Park | Garden Wall Confluence Park | Fire Pit Confluence Park | Retaining Wall Confluence Park | Site Section Confluence Park repurposes an unused easement for new pu… Continue Reading >> |
 StereoTypes2015StereoTypes | Installation StereoTypes | Camp StereoTypes StereoTypes | Dump StereoTypes | Installation StereoTypes | Graveyard StereoTypes imagines new frontiers in military urbanism. AGENCY presents STEREOTYPES, an exhibit of three near-future urban … Continue Reading >> |  Flash Installation2015Flash Installation occupies an infrastructural artifact on the US/Mexico border. AGENCY Principals Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller directed students at TTU-El Paso to realize Flash Installation, a temporary event space occupying an underused transit c… Continue Reading >> |
 Cloudspace2014Cloudspace | Detail Cloudspace Cloudspace Cloudspace | Elevation Photo Collage Cloudspace | Elevation Photo Cloudspace (Photo by AGENCY) Cloudspace is a custom-fabricated spatial and optical device. The project is a collaboration with artist Wendy Mark… Continue Reading >> |
 Elements of A Tactical Urbanism2014AGENCY’s forthcoming book, entitled Elements of a Tactical Urbanism, compiles analytical research in architecture and urbanism with design proposals for the contemporary city. Cataloging the successful tactics of communities throughout the developing w… Continue Reading >> |  Selfie Park2014Selfie Park is a public sphere for private celebrities. EXCERPTS FROM A SELFIE PARK SCREENPLAY: The contemporary city needs a new kind of park – one appropriate to its many intersecting cultures, bridging the worlds of the celebrity, the artist, and th… Continue Reading >> |
 Terraforming Pavilions2014These minimal interventions actively restore ecologies and orchestrate activities on an erosive coastline. The erosion of beachfront and arable land is a problem facing a majority of the world’s most populated areas. Strategies must be developed to bot… Continue Reading >> |
 ElastiCity2013ElastiCity is an adaptable city center and performative landscape in an emerging region of Southern Europe. Urban Strategies Breaking the Axis to Create Public Space The project ‘breaks’ the monumental axis to enclose intimate and civic plazas, creatin… Continue Reading >> |  Helioscopic2013Helioscopic is an articulated, multiscalar roofscape, providing a flexible framework for year-round activities and providing a new model for a developing coastline. The sculpted roof maximizes the use of a restrictive built area in a fragile site, inse… Continue Reading >> |
 Parking Park2013Parking Park is a model partnership and reuse for low-density retail parking lots in cities with lagging stormwater infrastructure. AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, in partnership with an interdiscipinary team of design professionals w… Continue Reading >> |
 Mnemoscape2012Mnemoscape explores memory and loss through poetic material assembly and constructive techniques. The ‘mnemonic landscape’ is constructed of a delicate lace, a fragile and complex spatial matrix. The aleatoric nature of the landscape’s form finds patte… Continue Reading >> |  Vacuform2012Vacuform transforms vacant lots into uniquely productive material and social ecologies. The project suggest policy alternatives to support ‘soft’ civic infrastructures and the emergent needs of urban communities. Radical reuse on the lots foster a land… Continue Reading >> |
 Remix2012Remix is an initiative to change the future of waste and recycling in Tirana. Remix is a transformational urban recycling initiative in Tirana, the capital of Albania, which seeks to provide an interim, low-cost intervention to improve public awareness… Continue Reading >> |
 Skyfill Land Art Generator2012Skyfill is an energy generating infrastructure and participatory energy park on the site of a former landfill. Since the end of landfill operations at Fresh Kills, the skies above the land are empty and quiet, voided of their former activity, where cir… Continue Reading >> |  Rescape2012Rescape is a public ‘infrasculpture’ for an historic city facing a dramatic and temporary increase in tourism. The project expands the urban fabric from a fragmented horizontal and vertical composition to a fluid, continuous landscape of shifting datum… Continue Reading >> |
 Hackable Infrastructures2011Hackable Infrastructures is an ongoing research and design initiative mining emergent infrastructures and contemporary urban protocols. Metropolitan Rome is a vibrant and dynamic collision of the pressures of globalization, urbanization, and migration…. Continue Reading >> |
 X Locus | Abluvion2011X Locus transforms a public courtyard into a space for introspection and reorientation. ‘X Locus’ explores senses of dislocation and repatriation in the communities of the American Academy in Rome, and the respective backgrounds of those who pass throu… Continue Reading >> |  30S (Thirty Seconds)201030S foregrounds the autonomous and anonymous space of architectural production for the Venice Biennale. The installation addresses the themes of the 2010 Venice Biennale, suggesting that, while “people meet in architecture”, the architect often operate… Continue Reading >> |
 Super Levee Urban Farm2010The project expands necessary infrastructural and environmental improvements to propose a more productive urban and personal life. To safeguard against future disaster from rising sea levels, the world’s cities must invest heavily in new forms of infra… Continue Reading >> |
 Core House2010Core House is a private family residence and weekend mountain retreat that balances the privacy of family life with the needs of a growing wine business…. Continue Reading >> |  Mediaswarm2009Mediaswarm is an immersive media environment modeled on complex interactions in the natural world. Using crowd intelligence to generate complex behavior in a field of autonomous digital agents, AGENCY created a dynamic environment for a popular event s… Continue Reading >> |
 Artist In Residence (AIR)2009With changing patterns of living and working, the artist’s studio – once a respite spatially separated from the domestic realm – is increasingly subjected to domestic demands. The activities of daily life not only clutter the space with an ambiguous se… Continue Reading >> |
 Filter Bridge2009Filter Bridge couples informal economies with infrastructure for water and sanitation. The increasing density of the urban core is putting ever-greater pressures on the city’s ability to provide basic water services and safe passage for its residents a… Continue Reading >> |  Responsive Monument2008Responsive Monument is a proposal for a mobilized national capitol capable of reacting to the people it serves. A design for a new White House, which serves as a mobilized, responsive monument, accountable to fluctuating public opinion, domestic, and i… Continue Reading >> |
 Urban Wetland2008Urban Wetland activates an underutilized urban axis to promote ecological and artistic production. The project proposes diverting the river through abandoned and under-used sites in the city, transfusing natural wetlands and parks that provide a buffer… Continue Reading >> |
 Street Decay Index2006Street Decay Index crowdsources street improvement with untapped human resources. The roads of Albania are notoriously ill-conceived, poorly used, and inadequately maintained. In city centers they are crowded with pedestrians and highly polluting traff… Continue Reading >> |  Hydropotential2006Hydropotential provides a visual map of a country’s forgotten resource, activating public space. Albania is the benefactor of a “geologic impossibility”, where most major rivers originating from its mountains drain directly westward to the sea, cutting… Continue Reading >> |
 Recycle Tourism2006Recycle Tourism balances international investment and tourism with national resource preservation. A 362 km coastline along the Ionian Sea has been the victim of years of neglect followed by a burst of unchecked development. Beaches once dotted alterna… Continue Reading >> |
 Nation Building Aesthetics2006Nation Building Aesthetics explores the recent urban and architectural history of Tirana, an emerging world capital with unique developmental logics. Drawing on first-hand experience of the urban environment and personal interviews with its residents a… Continue Reading >> |
