Research
Essays on the invisible wall.
A slowly-growing library of writing, case studies, and references. Not a manifesto — an inquiry.
01
Hostile Architecture
The Bench That Doesn't Want You
Growing up between two very different Chinese landscapes, learning early that a room could welcome you — or quietly refuse you.
MARCH 2026
02
SACRED SPACE
Grief, Threshold, and the Church Door
Notes from a Chicago renovation on how sacred space can hold contradiction mourning and welcome, silence and speech.
JANUARY 2026
03
JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE
SANAA and the Ethics of the Almost-Not-There
On thinness, transparency, and how the near-disappearance of the wall becomes an ethical stance.
NOVEMBER 2025
04
INCLUSIVE DESIGN
Ramps Are Not Enough
Accessibility as an afterthought is still exclusion. A study on integrating dignity into a building's basic geometry.
SEPTEMBER 2025
05
ADAPTIVE REUSE
The Grandmother's House
Turning a courtyard house into a village library-a small case study in what belonging costs and returns.
JUNE 2025
06
COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE
Who Draws the Fifth Wall?
On participatory desian, and what happens when the community holds the pencil
APRIL 2025