Roy Projects is a transdisciplinary design studio led by Lindy Roy. Interrelationships among individuals, ecosystems, and societies ground each project.

CANCER ALLEY

Louisiana, USA
Industrial barges in the Petrochemical Corridor repurposed, collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach

ALASKA RENDEZVOUS LODGE

Southern Alaska, USA
Risk and pleasure encoded in an extreme-skiing base and hub

HIGH LINE 519

New York, USA
Manhattan high-rise apartment building on a downtown slither lot

CASSETTE LOCALE

Venice Architecture Biennale Offsite
Hypersonic soundscape transmits a contrapuntal composition in Serra dei Giardini

MoMA P.S.1 SUBWAVE

Long Island City, USA
Field hospital or party scene? A micro-climate of care in a premonition of a pandemic

OKAVANGO DELTA SPA

Kalahari Desert, Botswana
Human and more-than-human networks cohabit wildlife resources in a desert wetland

VHOUSE

Houston TX, USA
Affordable single-family house for Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation

SARAH BARTMANN CENTRE OF REMEMBRANCE

Hankey, South Africa
Fynbos roofscape envelops a civic center for indigenous Khoi and San peoples

NERVOUS SYSTEMS INITIATIVE

The climate crisis compels us to imagine other forms of human existence. The converging ecological, technological, and societal upheaval we confront, however, is immune to conventional thinking. The Nervous System Initiative releases siloed imaginations to tell a different story in a transdisciplinary platform for collaboration between architecture and neuroscience – among designers, researchers and theorists.

POOLHOUSE

Sagaponack, USA
A compact summer house commissioned as antidote to the 'McMansion syndrome'

VITRA

New York, USA
Swiss furniture manufacturer's United States headquarters in Meatpacking District warehouse

TAHAMA STREET INCUBATOR

San Francisco, USA
Fog harvesting rooftop addition with drought-resistant gardens

‘NAVIGATING A NERVOUS ECOLOGY’

Urban design borrowed the idea of the cognitive map from neuroscience in the 1960s and got it wrong. Today, as A.I. and other cognitive, biology-based technologies infiltrate life and reshape architectural thought and production, the expanding view of cognitive maps now emerging in neuroscience could provide insight to designers negotiating the sociopolitical, ecological, cultural, economic, and technological into melded assemblies of matter and data where artificial, human, and more-than-human intelligence commingle. Read article here.

THE TIMES CAPSULE

New York, USA
At the dawn of the new millennium The New York Times commissioned a time capsule

HOTEL QT

New York, USA
24/7 bathhouse and bar is the social hub of a Times Square hotel

THE VOTING BOOTH PROJECT: WMD

New York, USA
Votamatic machine from the Florida Bush vs Gore 2000 US Presidential election reimagined

NOAH’S

New York, USA
Meatpacking District refrigeration locker repurposed as a suspended speakeasy

WEST STREET TOWER

New York, USA
'Thinking Big: A plan for Ground Zero and Beyond': Residential high-rise over Manhattan's Westside Highway

HYBIRD BY QUESTLOVE

New York, USA
Food truck and pop-up lunch counter in Chelsea Market

HOW COOKING MADE US HUMAN

‘Man-the Hunter’ is a popular hypothesis to explain human evolution. Primatologist and evolutionary anthropologist Richard Wrangham offers a counter narrative to a weapon-wielding patriarchy: Cooking food around a fire set in motion the evolutionary cascade that made us human. The reciprocal relationship between jaw and brain size is illustrated in this animation. Freed from generating sufficient force to pulverize raw food, the jaw shrinks, the face flattens frontally, facial expression and speech emerge, and complex social relationships develop.

DESTE FOUNDATION: MONUMENT TO NOW

Athens, Greece
New warehouse exterior for the Dakis Joannou Collection

ARTISTS SPACE: MEATSPACE

New York USA
Industrial meatpacking refrigeration room repurposed

DEITCH PROJECTS: THE GARDEN PARTY

New York, USA
An erotic garden for performance and art

ISSEY MIYAKE

New York, USA
Optical fiber ceiling networks a historic Tribeca warehouse

SWATCH : ICE

New York, USA
A limited edition watch

MOBILE GRACELAND

Across USA
An eighteen-wheeler on a thirty city tour commemorates the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death

‘GEOMETRY AS A NERVOUS SYSTEM’

What is a stimulus? A stimulus is a physical record of an adaptation, specifically that of a sensitive system registering the difference between one momentary impression or attack upon it and another that just precedes it. Can the stimulus-world in which our behavior takes shape be seen to have a historical dimension? Perhaps so. The rapid crowding and kaleidoscoping of images and experiences that characterized the early-20th-century metropolis were both a physical and psychoneurological condition. Read article here.

CAIRNHILL CIRCLE TOWERS

Singapore
Three residential towers and interconnected sky-gardens

CANOPY TOWER BASE

Soberania National Forest, Panama
Military infrastructure repurposed for rainwater harvesting

GIBBS FARM: GIMBLETT PAVILION

Kaipara, New Zealand
Art pavilion in a 1000 acre sculpture park

LINCOLN CENTER GALLERY MET

New York, USA
Art gallery at the Metropolitan Opera

THE BRIDGE BAR

Bridgehampton, USA
Clubhouse bar at the former Bridgehampton Race Circuit

FIFA FOOTBALL FOR HOPE

Khayalitsha, South Africa
Football field and clubhouse for Grassroots Soccer

DESIGN MUSEUM: THE PETER SAVILLE SHOW

London, UK
Retrospective exhibition of a career in music and fashion

CCA: TRACES OF INDIA

Montreal, Canada
Architectural photography and the politics of representation