Yosi Hoffman: 2026 Portfolio by yosihoffman

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In collaboration with Irfanul Chowdhury

A house for everything is a flexible construction, one described by its responsiveness to community needs: past, present, and future.

The site, located in Vatero, Greece, consists of an existing vacant structure seeking reuse. In mimicking the development of a community, this house celebrates the evolution of a structure over time. A careful structure, designed for adaptation and coexistence.

With a dedicated group of community members constantly bringing attention to spaces that are needed or no longer required, the structure becomes a house for everything.

Exploded Structure Oblique

Above: Model Photos

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Project for Bienenfeld Architecture

In collaboration with Vered Sharabi

The site, located in Rockland County, NY, is a residential property with two homes. This pavilion, currently under construction, looks to service the existing pickleball court in offering players and spectators a space to relax, recharge, and socialize.

These drawings, renderings, and construction details were developed through direct coordination with both the client and construction manager. The open-air structure features wood framing with horizontal siding and integrated lighting to create a comfortable courtside retreat for pickleball enthusiasts at all hours.

Pavilion Render Across: Detail A / Front Header

Above Left: Detail B / Lighting Integration

Across: Pavilion Plan

Above Right: Detail C / Back Wall Pavilion Render

In collaboration with Irfanul Chowdhury

Located on the corner of Chippewa Street and Delaware Avenue, one of the most vibrant intersections in Buffalo, NY, Beacon reshapes the Buffalo skyline and sets its social scene alight.

Unlike a traditional facade, Beacon’s excites the neighborhood with a display of its life and contents. Open at all hours, open to all possibilities, and always shining.

play●○ground

Featured in Intersight 26

In collaboration with Ryan Osborne

A playground is a space that maximizes freedom of expression and interaction. As such, play/ground encompasses the site in Buffalo, NY in its entirety, carving the exterior spaces as voids to organize the homes and studios throughout the site.

The site’s muted facade maintains its mystery, while internally it expresses its openness boldly with curved glass courtyards and flowing, interconnected pathways.

From the moment one steps off the street, the sequential nature of the spaces offer leading views, constantly keeping inhabitants in an ambiguous state of experience that can only be alluded to in its anticipation. This is the enthusiasm of the play/ground. What will happen next...what is right around the corner...

Courtyard Section Above: East Elevation Top: Model Photo

Opposite: Model Photo

Axonometric

(re)development careful approaching

In collaboration with Allison Lavis

A historic structure, approached with care, rooted in community. Located in Black Rock, NY, the site is engaged by establishing a Community Land Trust, with an understanding that care is an investment without expectation of personal gain.

Emergency shelters, community kitchen, shared learning spaces, and a tool library focus the (re)development around community needs and shared values. By turning to the vernacular telescope home the construction process is slow, responsive, and deliberate.

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Nominated for 2026 UB Student Academic Excellence Award s c a i [in progress]

This thesis explores photography as a tool for architectural criticism. Recognizing that images shape how we understand and navigate space, the project asks how architectural photography might challenge conventional, form-based representations of buildings and instead construct relational narratives of the built environment.

Drawing on Gordon Matta-Clark’s logic of architecture understood through removal, the work develops a photographic practice that constructs representational voids—intentional openings, cuts, and omissions within architectural images that reveal spatial relationships.

Through these interventions, the photograph becomes a site of architectural production, actively generating spatial knowledge rather than merely recording form.

The project operates on existing spaces, using absence as a critical force to expose latent narratives and reframe the built environment as relational, contingent, and resistant to complete capture.