core.form-ula

Easton + Combs are currently getting ready for their CHANGING ROOM exhibition at the Extension gallery for architecture in Chicago and have set up a kickstarter project to help assist w/ the photography documentation and archiving. With each contribution you will receive some form of limited edition prints. After seeing some of the prototype pieces we are sure that this is going to be an amazing show and if you are in the Chicago area it is a must see. You can find more information below and if you have the means please help support the project at any level that you can.

CHANGING ROOM redefines boundaries and expected conditions of intimacy while transforming into a subtle spectacle of the expectations and boundaries of intimate experience in the public realm. Expressed as a structural and material veil and suspended from above, the lightweight structural skin dilates along the bottom edge creating oblique visual corridors to the interior as well as passages for the body to move through. The skin culminates in an undulating skirt edge suspended above the surface of the gallery floor. Like a closet of two way mirrors, the limit and perception of the interior belies the condition of transparency and spectacle from the exterior.

Situated in the context of the gallery, this installation proposes it’s oscillating redefinitions of the intimate and the public as an experimental architectural expression. The psychological conditions associated with transparency, reflectivity, illumina-tion and lightness intersect with their material expression in a lightweight semitrCHANGING ROOM redefines boundaries and expected conditions of intimacy while transforming into a subtle spectacle of the expectations and boundaries of intimate experience in the public realm. Expressed as a structural and material veil and suspended from above, the lightweight structural skin dilates along the bottom edge creating oblique visual corridors to the interior as well as passages for the body to move through. The skin culminates in an undulating skirt edge suspended above the surface of the gallery floor. Like a closet of two way mirrors, the limit and perception of the interior belies the condition of transparency and spectacle from the exterior.

Situated in the context of the gallery, this installation proposes it’s oscillating redefinitions of the intimate and the public as an experimental architectural expression. The psychological conditions associated with transparency, reflectivity, illumina-tion and lightness intersect with their material expression in a lightweight semitransparent dichroic polycarbonate surface. This surface is the temporary veil that creates the ambient conditions of CHANGING ROOM. At the same time the surface is organized by the textile and tectonic logic of a herringbone weave to perform as a structural skin shell and create faceted surface conditions that allow for maximum visual dichroic and transparent effects ansparent dichroic polycarbonate surface. This surface is the temporary veil that creates the ambient conditions of CHANGING ROOM. At the same time the surface is organized by the textile and tectonic logic of a herringbone weave to perform as a structural skin shell and create faceted surface conditions that allow for maximum visual dichroic and transparent effects.

PRESS RELEASE

Extension gallery for architecture

CONTACT: Paula Palombo

1.773.742.0983

ppalombo@extensiongallery.us

Extension Gallery for Architecture located at Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsbury St. presents Changing Room — an installation by Rona Easton and Lonn Combs of Easton+Combs.

The installation, Changing Room, opens on Friday, April 8th from 7 to 10pm and runs through Friday June 3rd. Prior to the opening, at 6 pm, Lonn Combs will lecture on recent work from Easton+Combs.

Extension Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is free.

CHANGING ROOM is a mirage of the intimate in the realm of the public. Situated in the context of the gallery, this installation proposes its oscillating redefinitions of the intimate and the public as an experimental architectural expression. The psychological conditions associated with transparency, reflectivity, illumination and lightness intersect with their material expression in a lightweight semitransparent dichroic polycarbonate surface. This surface is the temporary veil that creates the ambient conditions of CHANGING ROOM. At the same time the surface is organized by the textile and tectonic logic of a herringbone weave to perform as a structural skin shell and create faceted surface conditions that allow for maximum visual dichroic and transparent effects.

EASTON+COMBS is an architectural office that operates as a laboratory for innovative building strategies at the intersection of material practice and applied architectural research. EASTON+COMBS approaches the production of architecture as a context for exploration of environments and the development of new spatial typologies towards critical models of social and cultural production at the scale of architecture and urbanism. Rona Easton holds architectural degrees from the University of Strathclyde and the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, UCL. Lonn Combs holds architectural degrees from the University of Kentucky and Columbia University and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

EASTON+COMBS were recently awarded the NY AIA New Practices New York 2010, 2010-11 Independent Projects awards by the NY State Council on the Arts as well as participated in the MoMA P.S.1 Young Architects Program in 2009-10.

EASTON+COMBS’ installation proposal the CHANGING ROOM just won the 2011 Unbuilt Work Merit Award by the NY AIA chapter.

Changing Room is sponsored by Extension Gallery, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY.

Extension Gallery is sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Archeworks, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP and Gensler.

For more information about Extension Gallery and the CHANGING ROOM installation please visit the gallery’s web site www.extensiongallery.us or contact Paula Palombo at 1.773.742.0983 or via email at ppalombo@extensiongallery.us and Easton+Combs at http://www.eastoncombs.com/

For more information about Archeworks please visit www.archeworks.org , contact info@archeworks.org  or 312.867.7254.

Extension 625 N. Kingsbury Street www.extensiongallery.us gallery for architecture Chicago Illinois 60654 tel: 1 773 742 0983