Projects

IQON is Quito's tallest building, located at the Eastern edge of the Andean city's La Carolina park. The building is expressed as a stack of room scale concrete boxes that rotate towards the best views and shift from floor to floor to create outdoor terraces for residents. Tree planters are integrated in the structural walls of the facade expressed as board form textured concrete that helps regulate the building temperature in the unique equatorial local climate.

Designed by Lorenz Krisai during his time at BIG.

EPIQ is a mixed-use building at the Southern tip of La Carolina park in Quito, Ecuador. A series of green amenity terraces break up the overall mass of the building and separate it into distinct volumes - 'buildings withing a building'. Each volume is clad in a different shade of rose colored tiles referencing the sidewalks of the UNESCO heritage historic center of Quito.

Designed by Lorenz Krisai during his time at BIG.

A horse barn with a stepping roof marks the centerpiece of an equestrian center in Ocala, FL. The building shape is driven by the desire to maximize airflow and natural daylight inside the barn for improved conditions for horses and staff compared to conventional barns.

The Robert Day Sciences Center is will house the Kravis Integrated Sciences department at Claremont McKenna College - one of the top 10 US liberal arts colleges. The building design aims to break down barriers between disciplines and encourage cross pollination of ideas. The jenga-like appearance of the building is created by rotating each floor 45 degrees to the next, which results in shaded outdoor terraces and a light-filled central atrium that encourages social interactions between students, faculty and visitors.

Designed by Lorenz Krisai during his time at BIG.

KING Toronto is a large scale mixed use project that occupies an entire city block at the intersection of the skyscrapers of downtown Toronto and the low-rise residential neighborhoods of King West. The building is arranged around a central mid-block courtyard that serves as a connector and negotiates existing heritage buildings that needed to be preserved. Instead of the conventional tower + podium model, KING proposes a new type of human centered architecture: A building shaped like a mountain to provide outdoor terraces for all apartments, unexpected view corridors and let light and air reach deep into the courtyard.

Designed by Lorenz Krisai during his time at BIG.

House Z is a private residence nestled into the hillside of a property dominated by century old live oaks. The linear building zig-zags between the existing trees to take advantage of the views of the stunning landscape while minimizing disturbance to the land.

The FOLD chair is designed to be manufactured from a single piece of folded metal. Its rounded elements give the chair a soft an flowing silhouette despite its formal simplicity.

The design for the new S.Pellegrino Flagship Factory is inspired by the production process of the world famous sparkling water, which makes its way through the rocks of the alps in a 30-year journey before emerging, enriched with minerals at the source in the Brembo Valley, an hour North of Bergamo, Italy. A functional grid of concrete walls with arched cutouts creates a sculptural and organic appearance, marrying influences of the inviting Italian arcades and the restrained alpine architecture.

Designed by Lorenz Krisai during his time at BIG.

Silvis Contemporary - a New York art gallery - embarked on a new model of presenting art shows during the pandemic with a series of online exhibitions hosted in a virtual, immersive environment designed by Lorenz Krisai Architects. During a time when most people spent the majority of their time scrolling on phones, this virtual gallery offered a spatial experience.

The ARCH chair family consists of a stool, a chair and an armchair - all based on the same pure geometry of an arched vault.

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Carved from wood, the chairs evoke classical elegance while their geometric simplicity reveals a contemporary approach to furniture design.

High-end fixture brand BRIZO collaborated with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation on a series of products inspired by the American architect's design principles. The marketing launch was centered around architectural models that made the fixtures appear as building scale objects. Lorenz Krisai Architects developed the design concepts for the campaign.

A series of marketing books including plans, axonometric diagrams of floorplans, renderings, illustrations and material boards were created for the purpose of the launch of KING Toronto, which coincided with the exhibition 'Unzipped Toronto'

This tote bag design transforms to a backpack with a simple, yet elegant mechanism. Developed in 2016, the design went through a series of prototypes before entering limited production.