ethnobotanical architecture workshop!

next weekend i'll be heading down to the new school to participate in the futurefarmers workshop.
really excited to work with some of my friends at GSAPP.  hope to represent!

check it.
thanks amy franceschini and myriel!

FIGMENT

project

this weekend!

FY-Langes: the second showing

come one, come all down to Governor's Island this weekend!
FY-Langes, a digitally fabricated installation will be showing at FIGMENT .

"Constructed almost exclusively out packing foam, FY-Langes is a tactile, interactive, reconfigurable installation designed and built by students at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation."



a small blurb leaked on the CC:GSAPP website last night.  and more information can be found on the FY-Langes blog!

surface tension @eyebeam

super excited about this one:

"The future of water is the subject of tension. Water is both disposable and sacred, a muse for artists and a necessity for life – a source of healing and of conflict. The Earth has abundant water, but only a very small proportion is available for human use. How should this be managed and sustained, and what would a water-scarce future look like?"

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

Among the many water-themed exhibits, events, workshops, and interactive experience, exhibition highlights include:

• An open source prototype for a robotic swarming, sailing ship that could clean up oil spills in the future
• Umbilical filters, artificial insemination kits and precocious puberty dolls, all responding to rising levels of chemicals and hormones in our drinking water
• A water pump that requires the same amount of energy to fill a plastic bottle as would go into producing it—approximately 3 hours of pumping per liter; 1,000 times more energy than would be required for tap water
• Water themed films screening in the Eyebeam Project Space

see you WEDNESDAY!

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.

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.

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!

#occupywallstreet

occupyprints

#occupywallstreet

below is a preview of some of the poster art i've been putting together. 
monday's rally should be epic!

a few more details to polish up and they should be ready to print.

"the status quo has got to go" (2011)

"who are you protecting?!" (2011)

"brutality" (2011)

...more to come.

#occupywallstreet

some reading for those wanting to know more about what is happening

paul krugman: nytimes
matt taibbi: rolling stone
reinhold martin: design observer
jd sachs: nytimes

data visualized: by the gaurdian


charts, charts, charts


...and this ariticle highlighting the bat signal of the 99% that showed up at the 11.17 rally.  first across the federalist buildings in the financial district [the cops caught wind and coralled everyone marching from folley park across the brooklyn bridge].  it was a much needed inspirational lift at the time... and then to see it occupying the verizon tower facade. remarkable!

#occupywallstreet

r. black

OWS week of action.  student and laborers. shut the city down.

massive canvassing @GSAPP [just in time for zaha].  this is a call to action.