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:

CBS News 60 Minutes: A Monumental Project. It took over 80 years, but a museum dedicated to African-American history and culture is finally taking shape on the National Mall in Washington

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

http://www.metropolismag.com/January-2006/Swing-Space/

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