studio ammonite

studio ammonite



an interdisciplinary design practice exploring how architecture can cultivate new relationships between people, ecology, and collective life.
 The Ina CollectiveThe Ina Collective is a speculative world that imagines architecture as a catalyst for collective care, ecological reciprocity, and shared futures. Manifested as a book, it follows a community where subtle glitches reveal that the land is not simply inhabited, but is capable of responding to care in return. (See Project...)

Collective Kitchen: A Culinary Artist Residency 
Life unfolds through small, repeated rituals, growing, cooking, making, and gathering. This project explores how architecture can bring these rituals together to support new forms of collective living. (See Project...)


New Monuments: Glitches Off-Modern Revolution  


The Off-Modern Revolution imagines an ongoing cultural shift that reconsiders the relationship between the body, architecture, and the natural world. Through moments of "glitch" and transformation, the project explores how forgotten connections between humans, history, and ecology might be rediscovered. (See Project...)
IncubatorHow might architecture transform the relationship between artists and the communities they inhabit? This project reimagines the artist residency as a shared civic environment where making, learning, and everyday life become collective acts. (See Project...)
Spaital CompositionsA study in planes, curves, and triangles, Spatial Compositions explores modular systems and sculptural furniture through repetition, proportion, and simple geometric relationships. (See Project...)
Weeds, Seeds, Flowers, Insects, & BugsWeeds, Seeds, Flowers, Insects, and Bugs become the foundation for a new material language. Through collected imagery printed on canvas and assembled into suspended, draped, and encased sculptures, the work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world while examining how nature is represented, remembered, and reimagined. (See Project...)
The Spells of The SpiralThe spiral has appeared across cultures for millennia, as a symbol of life, change, resistance, and renewal.Through a speculative tarot deck, this project explores its evolving meanings and enduring power. (See Project...)
Shell City or City of Ammonite Monuments
What if the greatest monuments were not monuments to power, but to transformation?
What if the oldest architects were not human, but living systems?
What can an ammonite teach us about how places grow, adapt, and endure? (See Project...)
Overgrown GardenWhat if cities grew food as naturally as they distribute water or electricity?
What if a city could grow food through a connected network of cultivation systems?
What if food production was woven into everyday urban life? (See Project...)
Seeds Traveling HomeEvery seed carries a journey, of place, displacement, memory, and possibility. The Traveling Seed imagines a world in which seeds held far from their origins begin traveling home, not to recreate the past, but to take root in an unknown future. (See Project...)
The Gathering of the Major ArcanaA shared table becomes the ground for an unlikely collective. The Gathering of the Major Arcana brings the twenty-two archetypes of the tarot into a shared landscape. Gathered around a continuous table, figures, creatures, objects, and vegetation form a temporary society shaped by proximity, difference, ritual, and exchange. (See Project...)
AgnosiaAgnosia explores how architecture can become a tool for feminist worldmaking, collective learning, and experimental spatial practice through speculative research, installations, and the Theory of Rooms. (See Project...)