The Pathogenium was my first experience with adaptive reuse. Our site was the historic Smallpox Hospital ruins on Roosevelt Island, New York. My partner and I wanted to preserve the existing structure as much as possible and take advantage of its ruinous state. We achieved this by creating a concrete shell that reinforces the existing walls from the inside, while continuing upwards to become the new roof structure. As an homage to its new function as a pandemic museum, we decided to use the building's form as a visual parasite feeding off the historic structure and beginning to grow beyond it.

This was a collaborative project completed in Rhino, with all representation completed in Adobe Illustrator. The design was developed jointly with my partner. I was responsible for interior modeling and graphic representation. All hand drawings were completed by me.