O Z I I O

Fixed for Fashion A bicycle boutique with a focus on fixed gear & urban riding, Superb is a full service shop offering repairs and sales in an environment designed to stylize the act of bicycle shopping.  Expanding on the shop’s original 1900′s motif, the retail store is a marriage of Victorian esthetic and minimalist design [...]

South End Loft Build-Out As the excitement of  an open-plan loft space subsided and the realities of clearly defined spaces and storage solutions become a need rather than a want, our clients in the South End of Boston asked us to convert their 1000+ square feet of unfinished loft apartment into a functional two-bedroom for [...]

A benefit for the homeless empowerment project. Unite aims at bringing artists and musicians together for a night in support of homeless Americans.  Members of O Z I I O participated in preparing an exhibit of photography and street art during the end of summer street fair held in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA.

This poster was designed for Net Impact’s kick-off event at Brandeis University. The event’s main feature was Jeffrey Hollender co-founder and chief inspired protagonist of Seventh Generation. The design goals for the poster were to reinterpret the iconic seventh generations graphics to generate interest and to celebrate the focus on sustainable business practices.

Various Branding / Logo Design

Pop-up Gallery Exhibition Curated by members of O Z I I O, Locally Grown is a rotating gallery show of young, local artists in alternative art spaces around Boston.  Most recently: Fort Point, the seaport warehouse district of Boston. The pieces chosen for the shows reflect the current DIY ethic and trends in parodied social [...]

Forgotten Urban Lots Competition In a city whose infrastructure continues to change, the number of construction sites and abandoned lots provide nothing but wasted space. The goal in this competition was to created City Dwelling out of a forgotten urban lot adjacent to the service corridor behind Newbury Street and the emergency exit on route [...]

The Cost of Living: Boston is on par with San Francisco and New York as the most expensive cities to live in across the United States, and with housing prices grossly stripping income levels, is one of the hardest cities for a person to own equity. The Pre-Fab Approach: Pre-fabrication challenges architects to simplify their [...]

Thoughts on Designing in a Sub-Culture In today’s design world, the possibilities to pursue a career in the field have become available independently from a traditional education. A new influx of non-formally trained designers has brought a new approach that invigorates the Industry through the eclectic artistry and unconventional methods of marketing that occur in [...]

This project re-imagines the freeway’s contribution to urban space by demonstrating regional, environmental, and community strategies integral to the system’s reformation: PROBLEM In the 1940’s and 50’s a new system of mobility revolutionized how we think about cities. It was a system thought to relieve congestion and increase connectivity throughout metropolitan regions. In the Bay [...]

In the 1990′s military bases across the US were shutdown leaving thousands of government workers unemployed and hundreds of cities with large budget deficits that most have not been able to remedy. Mare Island in Vallejo California was home to a ship building Naval base that served as a major hub of San Francisco Bay [...]

Urbanism in the face of population growth and ecological sustainability: In the next 30 years the San Francisco Bay Region will add three quarters of a million people to its population. If that number were translated into single family detached homes, each on more than an acre of land, the foot print would fill that [...]

Local bicycle advocates joined Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne to discuss the critical role cycling will play in Boston and other cities working toward sustainability. The event also marked the US launch of the Copenhagen Wheel, a SENSEable City Lab project. The images shown are from Jacqueline Douglas’ presentation given at M.I.T. this past [...]

SHIFT boston competiton What if we could walk from Boston to East Boston?  A question we have asked ourselves for as long as we’ve been living in this city.  We propose a Harbor Walk bridge to make such a connection.  By linking both sides of the harbor it is our hope that disused urban fragments [...]

A Lantern for the City The ArtsUnion Beacon aims to create a symbol for Union Square that celebrates its multicultural and artistic richness while creating a landmark for Somerville and the city. The concept developed out of the analogy of a cultural quilt stitched together by different local culture’s ornamental patterns. We found this idea [...]

O Z I I O’s proposal for the Swanboat Pavilion and Duck House recognizes the iconic nature of the swan boats as an image of Boston’s most significant qualities: tradition and innovation. Our intention is to use these two qualities to generate a legacy to future generations. The proposal recognizes the rich historic tradition of [...]

Fast Trash, the 2010 exhibition on the history and future of Roosevelt Island’s pneumatic garbage system is now on the web. Fast Trash asks what a community built around progressive policies and technologies can teach us about how we choose our infrastructure. In the 1970′s Roosevelt Island was fitted with an Automated Vaccuum Collection System [...]