archifreese With work internationally across categories and scales of architectural design research; patterns, products, tessellations, buildings, spaces, urban design and installations. Specialist in parametric design modeling with Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper by Robert McNeel & Associates, TLM.
archifreese.design is a portfolio where each project has a description at the top listing the contextual information for the project
Team Program Categories Location Client Year Press forAwards
With Team containing inks to principals of the project and Press containing online publications. each project has a story either taken from the principals website (link at end of the story) or written by us.
The griddy series is our first attempt at constructing a fictional narrative of architecture as folklore. A serious first attempt at writing a story for a project with one image. This approach is to bring playfulness to the storytelling of fictional architecture with an emphasis on interpretative imagination. Reading an architectural drawing in order to give it a story or a past in a way of revaluing the composition and appreciating the complexity of being able to compose in music, writing, fine arts, architecture, cooking. Lest we forget, some of architectures greatest works are fictional and paper architecture is equally important to the education of architects, the history and future of the practice of architecture.
Built on the spirit of fiction, imagination, fantasy and provocation, architecture is agency; architecture can be political, cultural, revelatory - architecture can be an advocate, a catalyst and a character albeit charming, ironic or tragic. Architecture in writing reading and drawing is sufficient grounds to make a difference - without having to build the building.
The theater of life takes place you think!
EST 2012
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Partners & Projects
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!melk landscape architecture & urban design
• Suhewan Park Invited Competiition (Won) Shanghai, 17
• ZilArt Park / Tyufeleva Roshcha Park Moscow, Russia 16
• The Barn / Drake's Brewery Barn West Sacramento, CA 12-16
• Hance Park Phoenix, AZ 13 15
• Pier 57 New York City, NY 12
• Jackie Chan / Kowloon Boardwalk Competition Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 12
• Vegas Strip Public Realm Las Vegas, NV 12
• Vegas Strip Shading Structure Studies Las Vegas, NV 12
port urbanism
• Oval+ RFQ (won) Philadelphia, PA 17
• The Big Shift Chicago Architecture Biennale 2015 Chicago, IL 14 15
• peg office of landscape + architecture
• Simulating Natures Symposium UPenn 15
• Simulated Natures UPenn 14
• Simulated Natures Harvard GSD 14
• P.o.w.e.r. UP! Movement on Main Invited Competition (Runner-Up) Syracuse, NY 13
• The Hachure Philadelphia, PA 12
HWKN Architecture
• Guggenheim Museum Competition (unentered) Helsinki 14
LANDAU Design & Technology
• Stacked Strips LED Systems Philadelphia 19
OLA Office Lou Arencibia
• Verdant Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands 19
• Vertical Ventilator Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands 19
Draughtsmen N.Q. Belcher AIA, T McCaan ASLA
• SEPTA Bus Station Concepts Philadelphia 17
• Monument Mile Competition Richmond, VA 18
Installations
• a maze @ Oval+ Philadelphia, PA 17
• Silver Linings Lewiston, PA 17
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!melk Project Awards
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the Barn by !melk + archifreese + MKA + Bimtech Inc., + Brown Construction
2018 Architecture Master Prize
2017 WoodWorks Design Award
2017 Gold International Design Award
2017 Award of Merit Gold Nugget Award
2017 Design Citation Award from AIA Central Valley
2017 Best Real Estate Projects by the Sacramento Business Journal
2017 WoodWorks Design Award
2017 Best Project Award,Landscape/Urban Development Category • Engineering News Record California
Tyufeleva Roshcha Park @ ZilART by !melk +Project Meganom + archifreese
2018 Gold International Design Award
2018 World Architect Foundation Finalist
2019 International Architecture Award • Chicago Atheneaum Museum of Architecture and Design / European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Suhewan Park by !melk + Chunlan Zeng + archifreese
2017 Winner Suhewan Park Invited Competition
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archifreese is not a licensed architecture practice. archifreese is a registered business in Pennsylvania, an architecture and design services provider.
Joshua Freese and Michael Robinson are not licensed architects,
Joshua is pursuing licensure via NCARB.
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