Jacinda Ross’s interest in spatial relationships led her to study Architecture at the University of Wisconsin, with semesters in Europe and Chicago. These studies led her to Parson’s integrated MFA Lighting Design and Masters of Architecture program. While in New York City she had the privilege to do installations with e+i architecture and Situ Studio, intern at James Carpenter, work at the Guggenheim Museum in the exhibition design department on the 2013 James Turrell retrospective, and learn lighting with Cooley Monato and Derek Porter Studios. Jacinda’s work for Arup New York led to her current position on their San Francisco team.

The rooflines
This presentation strives to create both public and private architectural interventions that interconnect the underutilized rooftops of New York City. The forms of these interventions seek to negotiate geometries of human habitation with geometries of each space’s corresponding light sources, of which there are a unique plethora in the context of these rooftops. This process of negotiation and deformation gives rise to chambers that both beautifully express the forces they are tuned to and functionally allow for meaningful interactions.