r o s e r e i l ly / wo r k S A M P L E S

Interior perspective of the ground floor lounge area. Freehand sketch & Photopshop.

The subject of the adaptive re-use studio “Private Realms” was to design a small urban hotel catering to a niche market based on visiting tattooists and their patrons. My project turns the existing building into a “matrix” of sorts, tak-ing design inspiration from the grid-like structure of the building and it’s siting along exact cardinal points, by insert-ing an interlocking interior and exteri-or grid-like structural system into the existing building. At the center of this layering of grids, a sole tattoo stu-dio exists. The ritualistic aspect of tat-too is heightened and the artwork it-self becomes the focal point of the site.

SCAL MODEL OF HOTEL. PLEXIGLASS, CARDBOARD, BRASS.

B IG HOUSE, L ITTLE HOUSE, BACK HOUSE, BARN

PROPOSAL FOR LIVE/WORK RESIDENCES AT THE CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART

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Light brings clarity and a sense of space to the interior. Meditation brings clarity and a sense of space to the mind. Both light and meditation provide definition to the landscape of the interior by increasing our awareness of it.

Meditation’s beneficial applications have just begun to be explored from a scientific, Western, non-secular standpoint. The Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University is one of the pio-neers in this feild of study. By designing a research facility for this group I explore the role archi-tecture plays in linking the scientific understanding of the mind and the inuitive process of turning inward.

Is it possible for architecture to promote this process? It is my position that, by defining the path-way from the exterior to the interior with light and letting a practioner be guided by his/her perception, architecture can cultivate a awareness of turning inward, acting as a beacon to deeper and deeper levels of interiority. In turn, creating physical proximities, visual vantage points and pathways between areas of study and areas of practice opens the interaction on the spacial plane between science and contemplative practice.

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THESIS PROJECTPROPOSAL FOR THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES

AT BROWN UNIVERSITY

Beach wood, blackened steel, veg leather.

La courbe Banc