tower house exterior
tower house kitchen
tower house dining
tower house tatami
tower house drawings
tower house model
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Tower House

An urban Toronto home with careful slots and skylights to bring the sun into the narrow lot. A lofty tatami mat tower is a retreat for quiet contemplation, views through the treetops, yoga. Detailed drawings, structural coordination, contract administration. With AGATHOM Co., photos 1–4 by Scott Norsworthy.

ramen illustration
ramen books
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Ramen Book Cover Illustration

For sankaku Volume 02: Ramen, I drew up this ramen noodle block to be gold foil-stamped onto the cover of the paperback edition — the partner to the hardcover collector's edition with a real block of ramen embedded in the cover.

offcut stool
bark legs
tapered tenon and a nail
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Offcut Stool

An improvised little stool made entirely from offcuts I picked out of the bin — sugar maple bark edge trimmings and a narrow strip of walnut.

  1. Cut the walnut in half and glue it up to make a wider board.
  2. Shape the maple trimmings into legs with a spokeshave.
  3. Cut the tops of the legs into tapered round tenons so that continued use tightens the joints over time.
  4. Keep it simple: a single nail pins each leg in place.

Blender Render

Mockup for sankaku Volume 01, a book of stories about people rethinking craft traditions, creative collaborations, and community-building in and around Tokyo.

dendrite table
dendrite table
dendrite table
dendrite table
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Dendrite Table

Sugar maple frame, buckeye burl top. Hand-cut joinery including wedged thru-tenons and angled dovetail. Inspired by George Nakashima's Conoid Cross Leg.

steel frame
steel-frame side table
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Bayview Pine Table

Square tube & solid round bar frame with beeswax finish. Salvaged pine cookie top with tung oil finish.

cliff house
cliff house
cliff house
cliff house
cliff house
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Cliff House

A rural house perched off the edge of a rocky cliff. With AGATHOM Co., visualization by Michael Yoshimura.

walnut eating spoon
Walnut Eating Spoon

Roughed out with an axe, carved by hand, knife finished, and oiled.

drystone bridge
drystone formwork
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Salem Drystone Bridge

Built of dry-stacked, hand-shaped limestone over 2 weeks with a crew of 10; during a workshop led by John Shaw-Rimmington.

balanced stone
Finding Balance

Stacking river rocks on the Athabasca River.

wasagathom model
wasagathom model
wasagathom model
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Wasagathom

A house in Wasaga Beach, for which I made this model and brought the drawing set up to building permit.

With AGATHOM Co., photo 1 by Pascal Arseneau, p.2–3 by Steven Evans.

Cary Leeds Tennis Center physical model
Artist Retreat model
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Architectural Models

Cary Leeds Tennis Center 1/16" = 1' scale model and Artist Retreat 1/8" = 1' scale model. I made these while working at GLUCK+ (f.k.a. Peter Gluck & Partners).

marble slab salvage
Material Salvage

Weathered marble slab awaiting processing — transformation pending.

bottle opener
bottle opener
bottle opener
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Bar Opener

Cold-rolled steel bar, shaped by hand and hot-blued. With a flat so it won't roll away.

wood workbench
chopping block
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Workbench

Tusk tenon knockdown design. Friction-fit oak planing stop.

Chopping Block

Pine cookie with tapered-tenon maple legs.

prototype
Prototyping

Scale model of a table with a spalted maple top.

prototype
Bike Repair

Wheel hub bearing cones: pitted, and re-ground. The setup: a wood-oil bearing block, cordless drill drive, and rotary tool.