shit storm

can someone tell me what's going on here?

one man's trash...

in the beginning there was a pile of shit.

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what happened?! i blacked out.
when i came to, i had this thing in front of me.

two overlapping paths wrap around a central theater space.
one public path, is rendered with solid floors and light walls, the other, below, is rendered in opposite materials.  reveals provide visual and auditory connectections between the paths and enhance the atmosphere of each through reverberation and echo.

orpheus. down down down. underground!

articulated cloud

by ned kahn
Pittsburgh Childrens Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. 2004

Composed of thousands of translucent, white plastic squares that move in the wind, the artwork is intended to suggest that the building has been enveloped by a digitized cloud.

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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction."

 _albert einstein

"Imagination to more important than knowledge."

... i think this was my high school graduation quote. he also said that.

KICK START

For my final project as a first semester MArch I at the GSD, I hastily created this stop action in the wee hours of the morning and began my presentation showing this film.

Lock Project

The project program, while perhaps in a way arbitrary, is a series of theaters and tight gallery spaces. The spring board for the work for each of us was a simple mechanism; mine was the Oldham Coupling Unit. I concentrated on the subtle movement that creates big shifts when the pieces are allowed to slide past each other, requiring inscription. Each sequence in the story of the building creates a new arrangement of program, allowing and disallowing passage, opening and closing the theaters and expanding them. At one special moment, the very bottom gallery reveals a secret corridor, allowing a body to pass into the wet grotto below, and to step out into the inscribed and carved earth work.

Structure studio pt. 1

 

 A study on bending concrete waffle systems. 

 The studio focuses on how to manipulate structural ideas, and of course for me a new set of protocols! This study is created by 7 different sets of protocols which not only creates density into the surface but coffers each panel different. There is a gradient of subdivisions from base to cantilever and also a gradient of porosity. The overall form is based off of 3 flowers created from A triangle, basically creating 3 over sized pilotis which connect to each flower at a point more like a point arch. The center space you see here is an that was created naturally due to how the flowers were created. That is all for now, i'll get into more specifics when I have time, and i'll update you all on my tensile structure in a couple days :P


Until then!

spring is here!

the steps came alive in front of alma mater this afternoon. spring is here.

[interrogating] hades chamber

the icon: the pear

 

 

plan strategies

formal taxonomies

model photos coming!

...into the underground

the images are edited from my midterm presentation.  my first, of the advanced studio sequences.  it started out the same as most.  pushing abnormal schedules, and working through the night to plot, model, and do the presentation mash-up.  oh what fun we have in 500S (gotta say, sick view of campus - overlooking the central square. nosy pigeons and water color sun sets [/rises]).

carving out terra firma for a pear shaped performance space, light and air.  the sequences leading up to 'hades chamber' (complete with three-headed guard dog) are meant to architecturally spatialize the story of orpheus entering the underworld in search of eurydice.  the procession is broken (for now) into four acts; the threshold into the underground; the grotto; the river of styx; hades chamber.  haunting reverberations of civic infrastructure and orchestral maneuvers in the dark echo as one approaches hades pear-shaped performance pit.

check it out... so this is all happening at the old trolley station at delancey and essex!  after receiving (surprisingly enthusiastic) feed-back the push begins to re-organize and re-visualize this project in sexy (but, informative) images and models, models, models. 

more clues coming later!

experiments in motion

EiM_ Mark Wigley

underground inspirations

here's some images i've been coming back to over the past few weeks... 
more being added to my pinterest board all the time - these are a simple snapshot

little bits of imagery.  what is space like underground?  it's weird not to think about facade and a dialogue between external and internal experiences: now the external experience is totally conceptual (and rooted in architectural drawings) - it's all about that internal procession.  section is super important - and i'm digging that.

cut, carve & dig on!

native states of america

new show that just went up.

[picture forthcoming]

riding off the intense foreclosed: re-housing the american dream (a whole other post) one week to fabricate and install!

Annie Siris Coombs and Zoë Malliaros present:
Native States of America: Lakota Housing, Infrastructure and Economy

after winning the Percival and Naomi Goodman Fellowship as well as a couple Kinnie awards the two spent some time out in the good old midwest, on the reservations.  interviewing, recording and investigating the complex, convoluted relationship between those on the reservation and outside forces (mostly the government).  a few case study projects are on display along with a couple short films and an awesome glowing map.

check it out.  down on the 200 level of Avery Hall.

experiments in motion

EiM

an advanced studio option for the third years @GSAPP is partnered with Audio of America to seek answers to the questions: "what is the future of our cities?"; "what is the future of mobility?"


there's some great interviews following the link, and a nice shot of my boy e.Ben Brichta
this is highly curated, which is terrific to see.  lots of collaboration.

a year behind, but still asking the same questions, our studio is concerned with the same site....
let the conversations begin.

i argue poetics over motion, but that's still motion.  i guess it's a question of pace, and scale...
an argument for slower over faster maybe.

VOTE4CENTRIPETAL

vote here!

singing- ringing tree

insanely beautiful.

Centripetal_ zoomscapes

 2A_eM collaborates with Situ Studio.

today's technology (the camera) allows one to experience architecture through a new medium (film) at new speeds beyond the human experience. we can replay, distort and adjust reality along new trajectories at various elevations and perspectives creating new opportunities for experiencing space, the city and the architecture surrounding us.

this is the result of an exercise in design fabrication. a prototype was constructed using CNC technology combined with reclaimed bicycle parts to produce a mechanism to rotate a camera about a Y-axis. the revolutions combined with a forward vector produces a loopty-loop or corkscrew condition.

occupying a subway, we shot these clips looking across and down the tracks out the side and front windows (respectively) of the J train. the result is a disorienting experience of the city.

here is a link to the vimeo album.  

a short edit is up for voting in the videotect architectural film competition,NOW!

buffalo: then and now

reminds me of detroit, or the american economy.
ugh. the ugly side of urban 'progress'

short article of buffalo then and now.  one hundred years pass, and a whole lot of mistakes to show for it.

Reassuring

News... Some good. Some bad. So, architecture is apparently the highest in unemployment for the newly graduated. That's great (pick up my sarcasm please). But, the bright side; our unemployment rate is still under the national average at 7.7%. Let's hope 2012 sees some turn around... For everyone. Seriously

A-Periodics?!?! NO....just A tile.

Finishing up my final studio project this quarter for the M.Arch 1 program and this is what i'm left with. 1) a piece of code for danzer tiling, 2) Connection points to make clean connection among tiles, and 3) 100 extra pieces I was never able to put together.....

The built portion of this project consist of roughly 6oo surfaces glued together (4 straight days of building)....the process was a difficult one due to the scale of the pieces. Its a little odd to say that the 1 to 1 scale mock up might have been easier to build then this 3/4 model was...but time will tell after break. Hopefully I'll be able to build this during break! Wish me luck!!

ice cube celebrates the eames

yes! meet your new meme

the [dark] cloud

so.... a few days ago we were thrown for a psychological loop.
here's why:

winy maas came to lecture in wood auditorium and two days later a studio mate sent us this link to "the cloud" MVRDV's new project.  basically, it's our housing project [but, of course we like out gesture more...].  so, in an attempt to maintain our design genius we - jokingly - said winy must have seen our project and stolen our idea.

i hope that's not the case, but it helped us feel better about our work.  then, look what pops up on msn's homepage [not mine] and being hotly debated.
seriously?! get over it people.  support the arts, and optimism!

[update]: housing studio

a little more tweaking.  can't wait to get the unit models in there.
whoa.  get ready folks.  we're coming for ya the 14th!

 corner of 125th and lexington

 look up!

 porosity | pixelation



hovering corner

marketplace bridge

[update]: housing studio

live : work

in full on production mode. learning to tame the vray beast....

semeseter is wrapping up [wrapped for most]

i want to keep working with my partner!

a reluctant enemy

a reluctant enemy

#occupywallstreet

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