Work | Institutional + Commercial
Industry City Motivate + Citi Bike Offices
On the harbor's edge of Industry City, the weight and history of the cast in place concrete and wood flooring is ever-present. The design of the Citi Bike / Motivate office and bike development spaces required a ruthlessly efficient plan that balanced the desire for collaboration and open-ness with the challenges of mitigating noise and providing privacy.
University of Pennsylvania | Forman Active Learning Classroom
Educational institutions must constantly evolve their approach to re-align how their respective discipline confronts the modern world. An old engineering library at the University of Pennsylvania was no longer being used in a meaningful way as an informational repository having been replaced by the accessibility of the internet as a research tool.
Thomas Jefferson University | Curtis Seminar Suite and Study Salon
Working within existing spaces often means considering missed opportunities and uncovering remnants of the previous life of a building. These unobserved artifacts lie dormant until they become the focal points of a modern design intervention that can bridge the gap between the new and the existing situation.
University of Pennsylvania Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will be a welcoming space for engineering students of different racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual and/or gender identification, abilities, and perspectives. It is a space to gather, to learn, and to share. The new space will be centered on a “living room” that will provide a dynamic space for events, conversation, and difficult conversation.
Thomas Jefferson University Historic Medical Archives
A collection of storage, exhibition, and collaborative teaching spaces in the center of a Medical University campus in Philadelphia. The project echoes the brick detailing of the mid-century modern building it resides within and introduces a dynamic acoustic art wall into a center for study.
University of Pennsylvania Creative Writing Building
A late nineteenth century residential rowhouse receives a new life as the anchor for meeting, teaching and gathering. In order to serve the new use, the building was gutted and re-built from the inside out with a new, generous staircase and a multi-purpose classroom and event space.
Design Advocates COVID Café Protoypes
As part of the Design Advocates Pro-bono design initiative, Studio Modh has provided design services to small businesses and non-profits negatively impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Working with contractors and other consultants, the efforts help businesses to maximize revenue while considering the long term impact of COVID on the design of interior and exterior spaces.
University of Pennsylvania Critical Writing Center
A mid-twentieth century brutalist building is converted into a dynamic new learning center for teaching, events, tutoring, offices, and a writing studio anchored by a café. The variety of formal and informal spaces encourages a variety of teaching methods for a new generation of writers.
Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia Hallahan Girls Catholic High School Chapel
Creating spaces that have meaning is a fundamental goal of architecture. When a space comes with meaning as a programmatic mandate, the design should have the confidence to be intrinsic to the mission without unnecessarily shaping it.
Chelsea Piers Pier 61 Events Space
Chelsea Piers is a massive, multi-function super-building. It houses boat slips, horseback riding rings, athletics, film-making, workshops, storage, and event spaces. The design of the Pier 61 event space entry is intended to shepherd this early-twentieth-century pier into a twenty-first century use, echoing the continued evolution and growth of the complex.
Historic Tribeca Facade + Lobby
History can be a designer’s welcome collaborator. The search can reveal missed opportunities that, when recognized, change the building in an instant without losing the grounding that is so appealing. A careful rehabilitation of a historic sandstone façade, ornament, and windows was paired with a modern new lobby.
Pier 60 Events Space
A large, existing events space required a new, more generous entry lobby and image for the future. The design adds more generous space to the lobby for inclement weather and check-in, a coat-check, and a new gallery unified under a rippling ceiling plane. The materials add warmth, soften-ness, and luminosity to the new path to the event areas.
Barnes Foundation | Visitors Services
As buildings learn how to be lived in, they change. An analysis of visitor data, new technology, and the need evolving demands on the program of the building required new designs for the primary public facing areas of the Foundation building.
Princeton University | Engineering Suite
A dis-used basement space is converted into a new theory laboratory and gathering space within the engineering quadrangle. The design relies on color, materiality, and dynamic ceilings to add light and life in a space absent these qualities,
Chelsea Piers | Amenities
In a building under constant use, the upgrading of amenity spaces required speed, efficiency of design, and careful material selection that enabled minimal disruption to the operations of the Facility. A tapestry of wood, colored tile, and delicate detail.
Court Street Multi-Use Development
A pair of existing early twentieth-century masonry buildings are unified to form a multi-use development involving apartments, luxury town-houses, and a pair of commercial spaces along a major thoroughfare in brownstone Brooklyn. The project required significant structural reconfiguration and re-design to create a logic between two buildings with mis-aligned floor levels.
Princeton University | Humanities Suite
Existing buildings, in particular historic ones, afford little room for expansion. The formal strength of these buildings couple with layers of previous renovations require a careful assessment of options in relation to value. This analysis and conceptual design is intended to add faculty offices and organize lecturer spaces in a more cohesive manner.
Area 17 Media Company Offices
A growing digital media company housed within an existing warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn sought a plan for the future. The design examines how to incrementally grow the spaces as the company expands its staffing and space needs.
Princeton University | Princeton Investment Corporation
A pair of buildings that house the Princeton University Investment Corporation are being renovated to more accurately reflect the contemporary investment values of the group. The design features a conference center, new collaborative and flexible work areas reflecting a post-COVID era, and amenities for events and conferences.
Smithsonian Institution | Air and Space
Using the depth of knowledge the studio has in large institutional and masonry facade design, Studio Modh was the architectural member of a team of engineers and experts from the construction, testing, facade, and mining industries who evaluated a suitable replacement stone for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.