Sweat Building (The Samba Dance School)

The building is a response to the annual Brazilian Carnival. The building design augments the festive atmosphere from the public space into a series of interior and semi public space. The articulated volume is derived from the complex circulation paths, and site condition defined by the highways and space underneath them.

The ambition for the project is to achieve a surface that appears homogenous and continuous, and vary the skin formation - undulations, bifurcations, folds, and inflections – to create broad range of spatial quality to accommodate different functional space.

Carolyn is an architectural designer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work stretches across the fields of architecture, art, and product design. Intrigued by forms and materials generated in and by nature, her interest lies in reshaping how we relate to our environment, by incorporating design with material research.

Carolyn's projects have received numerous international recognition and awards. Her projects have been featured worldwide, including the Financial Time, Dezeen, ArchDaily, and Domus Magazine.

2021 - Marvin E. Goody Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021 - Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019 - Young Ones Portfolio Awards Winner, New York Art Directors Club
2019 - Architecture in Perspective Student Competition Student Juror Award, ASAI
2018 - KI Awards Grand Winner, Imperial College London & Royal College of Art