WROT [rot] / WROUGHT [rôt] [rawt] / ROT [rät]

Suspended in the grey area between disciplines and mediums, WROT is a studio intent on exploring the frayed relationship between the natural and constructed world. Habitually aiming to tease the unexpected out through the details.

PROJECTS

QUARRY HOUSE CARPORT

2022-2023 | A carport addition to the Quarry House site designed to look like a chainmail box using security roll-up gates.

QUARRY HOUSE

2020-2021 | A small single family retreat sited on a small abandoned quarry.

INSTITUTE FOR CONTROLLED SPELEOGENESIS

2011-2014 | Automated generation, exploration, and documention of subterranean cavities.

CONCRETE HONEY

2011 Collaboration with Geoff Manaugh | A series of vignettes that explore a science fiction environment inhabited by Apis Caementicum or "cement bees", and the resulting designed/spontaneous products of their creation.

ANATOMICAL REIFICATION

2012 | A pair of clothing hangers with anatomical forms are mechanically manipulated to perform their function.

MEDIUM

The tools used in the design process inevitably skew and guide our decisions, defining the final output. Imperfections introduced by the hand can surprise us, producing unexpected results. Working by hand is a process of discovery, and the lack of perfection translated during the pursuit of an idea is an opportunity for exploitation.

Digital production affords the designer an ever-growing toolbox and a freedom and scale in 3d space not afforded to analog mediums. Tool sets and technical limitations have a way of inhibiting and marking your work, digital or physical.

The barriers between these media are permeable, and the faults in each are your ally. Our vision gains clarity through our medium, and the tools we use. WROT is not tied to a medium, but uses varied techniques to focus a lens around common ideas.

STUDIES

Ongoing | Sketches, concepts, and formal explorations. This is where ideas are first explored and shared in their infancy.

ARCHIVE

  • LOWER MANHATTAN NATIONAL PARK

    2012 Collaboration with Geoff Manaugh | A trail map exploring Lebbeus Wood’s drawing Lower Manhattan. Created for an exhibit at Storefront for Art and Architecture.

    Full Project

  • ROBOTIC AUTOPSIES OF THE EARTH

    2011 Collaboration with Geoff Manaugh | Much of humanity's buried history lies in war torn or inhospitable landscapes. The future of archaeology may just be remote. 

    Full Project

  • XNOT SUKKAH CITY ENTRY

    2010 Collaboration with Morgan Reynolds and Ravi Raj | Design for the Sukkah City competition in NYC. Intended as a flexible kit of parts consisting of rope, block, and posts.

    Full Project

  • AN ATMOSPHERE EXCAVATED

    2010 | Historic agricultural practices are exploited as a marketing scheme for an ever more precious resource. 

    Full Project

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS