How to Recreate the Dean & DeLuca Experience in an [Outdoor] Environment? / June 5, 2020 by Hepburn

One of Dean & DeLuca location was just closed after 25 years of operation. The store uses its typical three-parti layout with additional rest area to enhance visitors’ shopping experience. What would it look like if we can have the same experience outdoors?

How Can We Adapt Small [Restaurants] To Meet Social Distancing Guidelines? / May 11, 2020 by Hepburn

Both NRA and FDA listed “social distancing and protective equipment” as their top recommendations. Yet, restaurants say reopening only half-full will not work financially. So how can we adapt dining space to meet this requirement?

How Can We Adapt [Farmer's Market] To Meet Social Distancing Guidelines? / May 4, 2020 by Hepburn

These existing parking grids are a good reference for us to easily layout an outdoor shopping modality. The adapted lots will meet social-distancing guidelines without much cost or altering the existing site.

[Pod]: How Can We Increase The Wellbeing Of Healthcare Workers? / April 5, 2020 by Hepburn

The chance of making errors was significantly increased when work shifts longer than twelve hours. Creating these cozy napping environment is something we can thank to our frontline workers.

[Pod]: How Can We Maximize The Capacity Of Our Healthcare Facilities? / March 25, 2020 by Hepburn

From seeing Wuhan's Huoshenshan hospital constructed in ten days, the construction industry has already brainstormed how to quickly prefabricate these medical pods to meet the rapidly growing number of patients.

Prototype. [Pod]: How Can We Respond Humanely to “Shelter-In-Place” Crisis? / March 21, 2020 by Hepburn

Having spent the past two weeks in social isolation myself, I am asking now how we can confront this crisis around the need for the homeless to shelter-in-place in a more humane way.

[Historical Resource] Case Study: Port House vs. Museum of the Bible / March 12, 2020 by Hepburn

Most of projects adjacent or connect to the historical building tend to replicate whatever has already on the site. Adding a modern glassy ship volume seems a provocative statement….

[Marketplace]: Art? Architecture? a Reflection From IKEA’s Müpolash / January 19, 2020 by Hepburn

The thoughts behind this campaign from the Belgian company- Ogilvy Social.Lab is this: if Ikea’s mugs, pots, lamps and shelves are getting a ton of attraction on social media, then the Müpolash, whose name is a portmanteau of all those products, should be the “most Instagramable thing ever made”