As a partner, Chris is an architect and sustainability leader focused on systemic thinking to address challenges in the built environment. Chris believes we can learn how to live on this planet if we start listening to nature again.
| Terrapin works across a broad spectrum of areas—environmental strategy, biophilic design, ecological design, and bioinspired innovation—but all of our efforts aim to create a healthier world. Supporting human health has implications at all scales of the built environment and unites our work across these diverse fields. — Read More
| If I’m lucky, during the winter I have enough time and mental space to read one real book before other commitments distract me. This year, I dove into Daniel Wahl’s Designing Regenerative Cultures. In our current age of rapid evolution, Daniel offers a framework to co-create a plan to move beyond our destructive world order […] — Read More
| I spent the last week of November in Mexico City at the C40 Mayors Summit and I wish you had all attended. I was invigorated by the actions and goals of the participating cities. The current C40 chair and Rio mayor Eduardo Paes, former mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Mexico City mayor Miguel Angel Mancera were […] — Read More
| Terrapin, as part of HDR’s team, identified GHG emission reduction strategies in the building sector to achieve the city’s 80×50 carbon reduction goal. — Read More
| To combat the adverse health effects of climate change, we must align modern systems with resilient natural processes for healthier communities and people. — Read More
| With the inevitable climate change, we must fundamentally rethink how we design and retrofit buildings to adapt to this new, rapidly shifting baseline. — Read More
| The Terrapin charrette allowed stakeholders to focus on occupant health, indoor environmental quality, and best practices to reduce tenants’ energy bills. — Read More
| Terrapin helped develop the ELEMENT Goes Green guidelines for green hotel properties will hopefully serve as an influential example for the entire industry. — Read More
| Terrapin worked closely with Urban Green and other Task Force members to refine over 100 proposals to advance NYC resiliency. — Read More
| Terrapin Partner Bob Fox was appointed to the NYC Sustainability Advisory Board, to develop strategies for greening NYC as part of PlaNYC 2030. — Read More
| In Manhattan’s West Village, near Jane Jacobs’ loved Greenwich Village, 150 Charles Street is a multi-family residential building designed by COOKFOX. — Read More
| Terrapin’s recommendations for the Hospital included improving the quality of environment and quality of care in every aspect of the organization. — Read More
| Terrapin was asked by Gale International to facilitate an Environmental Opportunities Charrette to identify ways to improve environmental performance. — Read More
| Terrapin was engaged on a 3,200 acre site in the Arizona desert for a project to create a new urban, business, residential, and social core for the region. — Read More
| The Environmental Guidelines for Battery Park City have provided a foundation for innovative ideas that improve the vision of what cities can become. — Read More
| Big-picture performance strategies for Cacique, a 686 acre site in Costa Rica slated to become a world class destination for eco-resorts and residences. — Read More
| Terrapin participated in the Task Force’s 200+ volunteers that produced a work of great specificity and depth. — Read More
| Informed by Terrapin’s strategies and research, and drawing on elements of Cambodia’s heritage, the building expresses a modern ethic of sustainability. — Read More
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