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Winner of the AIA New York State Design Award of Excellence 2010
PROJECT Commissioned proposal for the MoMA Architects-in-Residence Program
LOCATION New York City
ROLE Design team member, lead fabricator for Matthew Baird Architects
Select press & publications:
Purchase the MoMa book Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront
Read the Metropolis Magazine article: Hope Floats
Read the NY Times article: Imagining a More Watery New York
Image Credits: © 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo: Thomas Griesel, © Juanita Wichienkuer, © Matthew Baird Architects
PROJECT Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, 2016
47,000 sq ft Ground Up Construction (History Galleries)
LOCATION The National Mall, Washington, DC
ROLE Lead Exhibit Designer for the History Galleries with Ralph Appelbaum Associates
AWARDS
Winner of the SEGD Merit Award 2017
Gold Award, Best Scenography for a Permanent Collection - International Design & Communications Awards, 2017
Good Design Award, Environments - Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design
Fast Company Innovation by Design award, Honorable Mention - Spaces, Places & Cities
Silver International Design Award for Interior Design, Museum Exhibits, 2017
THEA Award for Outstanding Achievement, Museum, 2017
Select Press Links:
NY Times: Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa
PROJECT
3,000 sq ft Design Build Gut Renovation for non-profit Common Ground
LOCATION
New York, New York
ROLE
Principal Design Builder
Parsons Design Workshop designed & built a lobby space for the Prince George Hotel run by Common Ground, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing safe, attractive and affordable housing for the formerly homeless. The new lobby acts as a stand-alone entry & exhibition space for the World Monuments Fund.
Rather than advocating a pristine return to the building's original condition, the design revealed the building's complex history by selectively stripping architectural layers away by hand to reveal the brick and terracotta tile beneath. A new steel mezzanine with a backlit floor, a raw concrete wall defining the entry vestibule, and a wood bench made from the ballroom's salvaged wood flooring were inserted into the space, sitting hand-in-glove inside the old walls. Historic plaster detail were stabilized and preserved in their peeling state high in the space, contrasting the new architectural elements below.
Drywall, electrical, and plumbing work was subcontracted, but the rest of the work was built by the students themselves, including structural steel installation, demolition, carpentry, cast-in-place concrete formwork & pouring, specialty plaster finishing and restoration, and general fabrication working with new and salvaged material.
As one of the principal design builders, Juanita was responsible for materials procurement and management of the budget, in addition to design and physical construction.
CLIENT Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
PROJECT 3,000 sq ft Installation
LOCATION the Equitable Building, New York, New York
ROLE Principal Design Builder
Published in Metropolis Magazine, January 2006
PROJECT The Design Workshop:
Seven Years of Design Build at Parsons Exhibit
LOCATION New York, New York
ROLE Lead Design Builder
PROJECT Visual Concept Study
LOCATION Fort Rucker, Alabama
ROLE Exhibit Designer for Ralph Appelbaum Associates