The Architectural League
proceso proyectual
The Architectural League’s 2007 New York Designs es uns instancia que reune a diversos disenadores neo-yorkinos de varias firmas, para ser mas exacto 6 firmas. Esta serie de firmas proveen y configuran una presentacion que configura por una semana una serie de charlas sobre las formas de cosntruccion culturales y ademas de focalizarse sobre el trabajo-construido en NEw York City. El titulo de la exposicion se llama “Starts and Finishes" y para este anho el foco estubo sobre la seleccion de trabajos y desarrollos proyectuales que debatieran y pusieran en crisis la evolucion del proyecto desde la concepcion a la cosntruccion. El encargo se dividia en 2, primero se pedia una obra que configurara parte del manifiesto de la firma y despues como segundo encargo la construccion.
Los arquitectos que fueron seleccionados han dsarrollado una serie de lecturas curatoriales de sus obras las cuales se encuentran en exposicion y ONLINE, para que sus comentarios y ademas exposicion de ideas.
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The Architectural League es una fundacion independiente ubicada en la ciudad de NYC, que apuesta al desarrollo intelectual y mas creativo de los campos teoricos y material de la disciiplina de la arquitectura. El campo transdiciplina es muy importante no solo por el encuadre geo-cultural que hoy se depositan en las lecturas cotidianas sino que bajo el orden de la educacion de arquietctos, disenadores no solo se deberia entender la disicplina como una expresion espacial sino que tambien con una caracter socio-cultural. The Architectural League busca a traves de exibiciones, charlas, seminarios y otros programas crear, estimular que el trabajo de jovenes arquietctos exploren nuevos recursos ha problemas de habitabilidad frente al dialogo dentro de la misma comunidad. El trabajo de The Architectural League es un tipo de trabajo interdisciplinar, intergeneracional y de intercambio internacional.
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ARQUITECTOS EXPUESTOS
Markus Dochantschi, studioMDA
“The Twist” West Village Townhouse
studioMDA, founded by Markus Dochantschi in 2002, recently completedthe project “The Twist.” The goal was to turn a landmarked West Village townhouse into a modern, flexible home. On the entry level, dark wood floors and white walls preserve the traditional character of the building. On the upper levels, the floor and walls invert, forming a “twist” that creates a continuous ribbon of dark wood throughout the townhouse. This ribbon terminates in the enclosure for the top floor bathroom’s shower. “The Twist” simultaneously unifies the townhouse into a modern home and acknowledges the building’s historical container and context.Tom Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers, hanrahan Meyers
Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion
• Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers founded hanrahan Meyers in 1987. The firm’s recently completed Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion for Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute connects two existing buildings, Steuben Hall and Pratt Studios, into a unified Design Center for the campus. The initial design idea was a floating box above an entry ramp. As completed, the pavilion maintains this concept of a volume suspended in air. Clad in brushed stainless steel panels with a glass façade, the pavilion rests in the narrow gap between the buildings, serving as a new focal point and entry to the complex. The pavilion’s high level of craft and attention to materials serve as an analogue to Pratt’s design legacy and its interior provides an exhibition space for work from the design program.
Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, WORK Architecture Company
Diane Von Furstenberg Headquarters
• Dan Wood and Amale Andraos founded WORK Architecture Company in 2002. The soon to be completed Diane von Furstenberg Headquarters began with a conceptual sketch of a building penetrated by a shaft of light. This concept evolved into the “stairdelier” (stair + chandelier), a stairway that cuts through the center of the block, connecting the building’s floors and unifying its diverse program. Heliostat mirrors and railings of glass crystals reflect and carry light throughout the building. The building’s brick façade, which is landmarked, is maintained, while the stairdelier pierces through and opens up the interior, culminating in a diamond-like faceted glass pavilion, serving as a penthouse and creating a new profile for the building.Thursday, June 14Lynn Gaffney Architect, Matter Architecture Practice, and Studio SUMO will present their work on the second night of New York Designs. Each of these smaller scale projects was inspired by a form or motif that informed material selection and generated spatial organization. Click on the thumbnails below for images.
Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels, Studio SUMO
• Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels founded Studio SUMO in 1996. Their project for the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art consists of gallery, reception, store, and office space in the BAM cultural district. The museum asked Studio Sumo to include a map at the museum’s entrance, showing the extent of the African Diaspora. Taking the concept of a world map marked with cities and routes linked to African migration, the firm built an installation comprised of overlapping slats of ash wood. Demarcated into the twenty-four time zones, the ash map becomes sculptural, taking form variously as a display wall, desk, and screen. The installation serves the didactic purpose of mapping the African Diaspora, giving the museum its identity, while also organizing the entry space.
Lynn Gaffney, Lynn Gaffney Architect
Tank – Quandt Heyer Roof Project
• Lynn Gaffney is the principal of Lynn Gaffney Architect, founded in 1997. New York’s iconic roof water tanks provide the inspiration for the Tank – Quandt Heyer Roof Project, a residential roof deck. The firm imagined the unraveling of water tank planks to create a model for the decking and trellis work. To achieve varying degrees of privacy, sound attenuation, and light filtration, the distance between the Ipe wood planks surrounding the deck was modulated, allowing for moments of enclosure, while keeping the space connected to the city through the maintenance of view corridors. The project’s iconic urban starting point further connects the space to the landscape of the city.
Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger, Matter Architecture Practice
Ecotopiaries
• The project Ecotopiaries by Matter Architecture Practice, the firm co-founded by Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger in 2002, is an installation created to house Ecotopia: the Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. Matter Architecture Practice first developed the exhibition’s media installations, light screens, and seating by sketching organic “growths” from the walls, floor, and ceiling. Once it had established the parameters for these “growths,” the firm sought a material solution that would respond to the conceptual challenges of the exhibition and the pragmatic needs of construction. The search lead to non-biodegradable but recyclable petroleum-based polyethylene foam tubing, a product often used in domestic plumbing. Cut into rings, the interlocked tubing achieved the appearance of biological growth, while at the same time providing a material counterpoint to the exhibition’s examination of the natural world under environmental stress.
Jose Llano
editor aparienciapublica
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