2. Extro-Intro-Excavate [2024] Advised by Ron Witte
3. Off: On A Tangent [2025] Advised by Sean Canty
4. Diffusion [2022] Advised by Shawn Protz
Unfolding in the Longhouse
Advised by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
Cornwall, Connecticut [2025]
art gallery
the spectacular vernacular studio description
Situated within a rural Connecticut, Unfolding in the Longhouse explores the spatial logics of two vernacular typologies: the ad-hoc additions of the New England saltbox and the seriality of the longhouse. The saltbox’s form—historically shaped by pragmatic, ad-hoc expansions—offered a strategy for spatial accumulation over time, while the longhouse introduced a serial order aligned with the repetitive nature of gallery programs.
By borrowing from these types, the building expands in both plan and section as one moves through. The eastern elevation echoes the saltbox’s asymmetry, creating a parallel relationship to the natural drop in topography. Acting as a diptych, the western façade establishes a rhythmic aperture sequence, referencing the longhouse while creating a datum against the landscape. Following an open lobby, the plan bifurcates to circulation space and repetitive double-height galleries, culminating in a triple-height community event space. Formally restrained on the exterior, the project unfolds slowly in section, creating a telescopic experience where repetition makes subtle differences more perceptible. This episodic spatial rhythm mirrors the quiet, expansive quality of the landscape itself. The gallery becomes not only a vessel for art but also a device for framing movement and terrain—foregrounding process over monumentality.
telescopic view expands overtime
1 lobby
2 gallery one
3 gallery two
4 gallery three
5 event space
west elevation
1/2” = 1’ section model
plans: 0, -1, -2
1 lobby and cafe
2 service
3 art storage
4 gallery
5 gallery
6 gallery
7 storage
8 community room
9 event space
1 lobby and cafe
2 service
3 art storage
4 gallery
5 gallery
6 gallery
7 storage
8 community room
9 event space
Extro-Intro-Excavate
Advised by Ron Witte
Taipei, Taiwan [2024]
taipei little big studio description
mixed-use commercial, cultural, and housing
Within the city, an individual moves between outwardness and inwardness, at once alone and part of the whole. Architecture here is carved to exploit this double condition, allowing circulation to oscillate between outwardness and inwardness. An architectural and urban enfilade, circulation stitches interior to exterior, the self to the collective.
The collective is interpreted through urban precedents, such as Taipei’s outdoor markets, where individuals act as parts of a larger whole or exist independently. This oscillation becomes tangible in moments of transition, such as emerging from a crowd or viewing across expansive spaces. Architectural strategies like scale shifts, programmatic layering, and spatial carving heighten this duality, fostering interactions between city and building. Architecture here does not serve the individual over the collective, or the collective over the individual. Instead, moments of respite are carved intentionally to frame city, and to contrast points of congestion at the atrium spaces. In effect, different slivers of the city are framed throughout the experience, creating a layered urban montage that resonates with Taipei’s cultural and spatial complexity. In all, Extro-Intro-Excavate explores the duality of self and collective through spatial excavations, stitching interior to exterior, the part to the whole, the individual to the city.
Off: On-A-Tangent
Cambridge, Massachusetts [2025]
link to seminar description
explorations in geodeisics and tangential geometry
Line to the Corner (final project partner Alirezah Khalatbari) is a spatial proposal for MoMA PS1 that reimagines the courtyard through the manipulation of linear geometries and the articulation of corner conditions. Taking the latent axes of the existing site as a starting point, the project plays with their extension, intersection, and inflection to generate a new public intervention.
At its core is a conical corner intervention that operates both as a visual anchor and a spatial condenser—drawing movement inward while unrolling outward to define zones for gathering, performance, and rest. The geometry transforms as it moves across the courtyard, modulating shade, views, and sound in support of the Warm Up concert series. The use of the unrolled cone geometry appears in the partial shelter zones created with fabric over the dominat metal frame. Using minimal yet expressive forms, Line to the Corner operates through continuity and disruption—where moments of tangency generate tension, shelter, and engagement. The result is a dynamic, adaptable environment that balances formal clarity with playful ambiguity, inviting new ways to occupy and perceive the courtyard.
Advised by Sean Canty
maggie_kroening@gsd.harvard.edu
@maggie.kroening
Education
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master of Architecture II
North Carolina State College of Design
Bachelor of Architecture, Minor in Landscape
AIA Henry Adams Medal
Faculty Award for Design Achievement
Faculty Award for Academic Achievement
Experience
WW Architecture
Projects: Mixed-use housing Albania
Katherine Hogan Architects
Projects: Farmworkers Housing Prototypes
Sasaki
Projects: John Pierce School in Brookline
Vines Architecture
Projects: NC Civil War History Museum
Academic
Teaching Assistant / Preston Scott Cohen
Harvard GSD
Fall 2025
Research Assistant / Ron Witte
Harvard GSD
Spring 2025
Architecture Instructor / Summer Immersions
NC State School of Architecture
Summer 2024
Teaching Assistant / First Year Studio
NC State School of Architecture
Spring 2023
Research Assistant / Coastal Dynamics Design Lab
NC State Landscape Architecture and Planning
2023-2024