Dilworth Park, in front of Philadelphia's iconic City Hall is one of my favorite places in the city. A collaboration between OLIN and Kieran Timberlake and I am pleased to say that I was part of the team. Image: © OLIN / Sahar Coston-Hardy

It's one thing to create a rendering and to export a JPEG. But when you build a model that is milled into half ton blocks of granite, things get exciting. As part of the team at OLIN, I did the parametric modeling for all of the walls and benches at Dilworth Park. Image: © OLIN

OLIN's mission is to create places that enhance life. It sounds simple. But I've seen how challenging it is to bring all of the elements together. I'm honored to be working with such an amazing team at OLIN. Image: © OLIN / Sahar Coston-Hardy

I had the pleasure of working at OLIN on the new Met Plaza on Fifth Avenue from the very start. This image looks a-whole-hell-of-a-lot like one of our renderings. Image: © OLIN / Sahar Coston-Hardy

NextFab founder, Evan Malone, asked me to design a bike parking area for their Philly studio. I grabbed a few friends to help me (Will Belcher and Henry Moll). We were able to make a space for bikes as well as an outdoor patio.

As part of Bike Garden, I designed a parametric motif to show off the capabilities of NextFab's newest toy, the waterjet cutter. Think water laser.

This simple multi-use park is an amazing precedent for the kind of things a landscape can achieve: Amenity, economic development, stormwater management, and sheer joy. I worked on renderings to convince the client to make the project a reality. Image: © OLIN / Sahar Coston-Hardy

Located just next to the Washington Monument in DC, this wall will keep DC safe from the biggest of floods. I worked on modeling and visualizations. Image: OLIN

I love the smell of sawdust in the morning. Digital fabrication has given me a way back into making physical objects. Whether it's CNC milling, 3D printing, or cutting stuff up with a laser, it's a nice reason to step away from the computer now and then. 

I did a lot of visualization work at OLIN for a few parks in the Syracuse Connective Corridor. Now there are people who eat lunch there every day. Image: © OLIN / Sahar Coston-Hardy

One of the first rendered plans I worked on at OLIN. Image: OLIN

We got to create a super cool model for our awesome design proposal at the Presidio. If we had only won, we could have built our design at full scale. But the smaller scale was still a lot of fun to make. The model now lives at the Presidio. Image: © OLIN / Sahar Coston-Hardy