Portfolio


A Gigantic play experience at the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco


An annual experiment in reclaiming metered parking spaces


A performance stage built entirely with repurposed, recycled materials


A human-powered, open space distribution system.


PSSDs: Personal Space Softening Devices.


Claiming civic space for food production


Parking meters grow improbably tall


Artist-led community engagement


Great food and great urban space go well together on the streets of San Francisco


Zoomy courtyard and edible landscape make space for residents to play, eat together


A wind-powered object of reflection.


Popup instant summer in the far North.


User generated urbanism as a modular mini-park in the parking lane.


Designing habitat for a seabird in need


Rebar proposes a fantastic scheme for “constructively” repurposing a vacant lot in downtown San Francisco.


Double-billed at the world’s most famous architecture exhibition


Exploring the playful potential of urban Amsterdam


Playful intervention in the Texas heartland


We brought our slides to the West Coast’s largest design event.


A landscape and architecture studio at UC Berkeley


All hands on Hooper Street for a design-build studio with California College of the Arts


Temporary street interventions lay the groundwork for a green connection between neighborhoods.


Tactical urbanism, Spanish style


Bushwaffle unleashed on the streets of the French capital


Rebar gets a big microphone.


Rebar authored a chapter on its practice for the book Insurgent Public Space, published by Routledge.


The revolution will not be televised. It may be blogged.


Land art + sustainable power generation = ARTOCOS


Juicecycle runs on muscle power. And Love. Did we mention Love?


A garden for the homeless and housed springs up on an interim use site


Interim garden transforms vacant lot while development stalls


Urban farm makes use of former freeway site while development waits


Architecture for animals leverages repurposed and prefab materials


Rebar storms Paris with a mobile, bike-powered personal park infrastructure.


Exhibit design and curation at SPUR


The Cabinet National Library: New and Improved!


A semi-monumental repository for Cabinet magazine’s organizing documents


Valuable urban real estate, reprogrammed.


An experimental project to explore and redefine a novel kind of urban territory: privately owned public spaces.


Processed, canned, distributed art gallery.


Iterative design turns pavement into park.


Tracing the global network of food flows.