LAWN LOUNGERS

Mobile, neighborhood platform for inclusive community design

PANDEMIC PORTAL

A prototype for a digital community platform dedicated to communicating critical issues related to COVID-19 during the global pandemic crisis.

PLAN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Web app for real-time community design in Hawai‘i

FUTURE OF HAWAI‘I’S HOUSING

A bottom-up, design research project exploring Housing for All

A-FRAMES

Performative patterns for displaying creative work

PLURAL TERRITORIES

Reimagining the role of the architectural pavilion as a political agent, claiming public space “without permission”

P1CT Infusion Suite

Full-scale mock-up of a private infusion suite and proof-of-concept design for an Early Phase Clinical Research Center

BUILDING VOICES DESIGN COMPETITION & EXHIBITION

Promoting the power of design to citizens while addressing critical issues of the city

DESIGN ISLANDS

Design Islands is a cultural artifact, a graphic construct, and a space-making device

DESIGN FRAMEWORK FOR HAWAI‘I’S BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Framework that addresses multiple topic areas and lenses specific to the Hawaiian context.

INSIDE / OUT

A traveling, neighborhood stage exposes “behind the scenes” aspects of the performing arts to facilitate job skills training while bringing the Goodman Theater’s programming into Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods.

COME TO THE TABLE

Non-hierarchical installation for design dialogue celebrating the CAC's 130th Anniversary for the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. 

THE SHINING MAZE

A hedge maze for the historic Stanley Hotel, where Stephen King was inspired to write “The Shining”, while staying in the now famous Room 217.

COLLABORATIVE TEAM SPACE PROTOTYPE

Hackable framework that allows students at IIT's Institute of Design to deploy and test their own tools and technologies, while forming micro-environments inside the larger studio space.

BASE CONDITIONS

Reimagining the future of urban living through the design of a dwelling in a mid-century icon.

LEARNING EXPERIENCE PROTOTYPING

A Learning Space Strategic Plan that explores new learning experiences, their spatial implications and multi-disciplinary initiatives.

NEXT STOP: DESIGNING CHICAGO BRT STATIONS

Single-stage, international, ideas competition to design iconic, sustainable, and functional designs for Chicago’s BRT. 

COWORKING RESIDENTIAL PILOT PROJECT

User experience strategy for a high-rise, residential, coworking community in Chicago's South Loop.

MEDICAL SIMULATION EXPERIENCE CENTER

Strategic plan and innovative program for a new, inter-professional Simulation and Innovation Center.

CHINA GUARDIAN

User experience strategy for an immersive auction environment in one of the world’s largest art markets. 

FUTURE PRENTICE & RECONSIDERING AN ICON

A collective call to action exploring possible futures for Old Prentice Memorial Hospital, an endangered, iconic building in Chicago by renown architect Bertrand Goldberg.

75TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

Exhibition design that marks the Institute of Design’s 75th Anniversary and highlights the current student works in the annual End of Year Show event.

ONE BEDROOM LIFE IN MUMBAI

Exploratory research project for Godrej, one of India's largest and most trusted companies, resulting in a strategic design proposal for a new ecosystem of service offerings.

INTERACTIVE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT

Reimagining the processes and spatial experiences across Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's check-in/check-out environments. 

ZERO ZERO

Experimental, interactive installation in a historic Louis Sullivan building on Chicago's famed State Street, designed to gather demographic data while engaging visitors.

SKI ON HOME

Ski-in, ski-out home located on the main run of the ski slopes of Squaw Valley, California directly below the nation's only funitel.

ARTLINE CHICAGO

An extant elevated train track reimagined as a programmable, multimedia linear park, hosts cultural resources from regional museums and nonprofits, providing access to the arts to underserved neighborhoods along the Bloomingdale Trail.

HISTORY CHANNEL'S CITY OF THE FUTURE

A super-dense, independent city powered by a cutting-edge hydrogen-based energy infrastructure composed of floating skyscrapers over Lake Michigan.

FREEDOM IN NUMBERS

Signature work of art for the McCormick Tribune Foundation's new Freedom Museum, located in the base of the historic Tribune Tower on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

FIELD OF PLAY

A temporary pavilion for the Olympic bid in Paris, composed of a kit-of-parts including tower cranes, scaffolding, and bagged trees, highlights the environmental impact of mega-events and the structures needed to support them.

ENDEMIC SYTHETIC

A mobile structure fabricated with reclaimed PVC pipe, reflects biophilic patterns from the surrounding natural environment, drawing attention to the impact of the construction industry waste stream.

ECOLOGY OF FOREIGN OBJECTS

An environmental center, protected with a hybrid enclosure of car hoods, reclaimed utility poles, endemic vines, and energy generating devices, acts as a foreign object in the landscape, establishing a dialogue between nature and artifice.

DUAL MEMORY

An evolving, participatory, memorial for 9/11 at the World Trade Center site is composed of two pavilions, one dedicated to the individual and one centered on the collective, responding to the complexities of memory and loss.

OPENING

DESIGN ISLANDS

Traveling community gallery launches at the Hawai’i State Capitol on Earth Day 2017 for the BUILDING VOICES design festival.

ARTICLE

FINANCIAL TIMES

Strawn Sierralta’s Ski On Home is included among projects by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Mork-Ulnes Architects, and Florian Busch.

ARTICLE

HAWAIʻI BUSINESS MAGAZINE

Hawaiʻi Business shares a research project investigating new models for vertical schools developed for the Department of Education.

TALK

WORLD DESIGN SUMMIT

Holistic planning approach for the future of Hawai'i's built environment presented at the first World Design Summit.

WRITING

PLANNING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

Society for Campus and University Planning includes strategic design framework in their innovation issue.

ADVOCACY

ARCHITECTS ADVOCATE

As architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities and guided by scientific consensus and reason, we advocate for action on Climate Change.

AWARD & EXHIBITION

9/11 MEMORIAL FINALIST

Strawn Sierralta selected as one of eight finalists in the largest architecture and design competition ever held.

PRESS

FAST COMPANY

Ski On Home featured on Fast Company's CoDesign.

EVENT

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO'S PLACE LAB 

Sierralta moderates "Intentions & Provocations in Design" as part of the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

ARTICLE

DWELL MAGAZINE

Ski On Home selected for "Houses We Love".

PRESS

ABC'S NIGHTLINE

Cynthia McFadden story with Airbnb CEO about new rental trend in America features "Ski On Home".

UPDATE

CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB

Strawn Sierralta are active members of the design community, serving as Co-Presidents of the Chicago Architectural Club from 2012-2014.

PUBLICATION

TRENDSETTING MOUNTAIN TREASURES

Swiss publisher, Braun, includes Strawn Sierralta in a curated look at mountain residences.

ARTICLE

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

Clifford A. Pearson, deputy editor of Architectural Record, spotlights Strawn Sierralta in "Chicago Moves On".

PUBLICATION

UTOPIA FOREVER

German publisher, Gestalten, includes Strawn Sierralta in a compilation of futuristic urban designs.

AWARD & EVENT

IBM ENGINEERING INNOVATION AWARD

Strawn Sierralta honored in a multi-city design competition hosted by the History Channel.

AWARD

MODERN MOUNTAIN HOME AWARD

Strawn Sierralta's Ski On Home wins Lake Tahoe's modern residence of the year.

PRESS

THRILLIST

Strawn Sierralta invited to recommend our favorite spaces and places in Chicago.

PUBLICATION

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

National Geographic publishes "A Place of Remembrance",  the official book of the 9/11 Memorial, including Strawn Sierralta's award winning design.

PUBLICATION

CELEBRATING FREEDOM: 12151791

The University of Chicago Press publishes book featuring Strawn Sierralta's award-winning sculpture, "Freedom in Numbers".

WRITING

CLOG

Strawn Sierralta invited to write about Betrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital for CLOG's "Brutalism" issue.

ARTICLE

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Blair Kamin, the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, selects Strawn Sierralta for "Ones to Watch", a list of emerging young architects.

ARTICLE

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

Blair Kamin includes Strawn Sierralta in
"Chicago Comes Back", highlighting the city's return as "America's architectural capital".

ARTICLE

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

John Czarnecki, deputy editor of Architectural Record, profiles Strawn Sierralta in a collection of "Young Firms".

AWARD & PRESS

THE SHINING MAZE FINALIST

Strawn Sierralta selected as finalist to design a hedge maze inspired by Stanley Kubrick's movie, "The Shining".

UPDATE

IIT COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE

Sierralta serves as Curator of the first year of the graduate program centered on "Re-thinking the Metropolis" at IIT's College of Architecture under dean Wiel Arets.