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Text and images from BMW

The  Visionary Model. Innovative approach and optical expression of creative freedom.

The key to affecting the development of tomorrow’s mobility lies in our readiness to challenge what is established and in the ability to present new options. In order to meet these objectives, BMW Group Design taps into the potential of the GINA principle (Geometry and Functions In “N” Adaptions) which promotes innovative thinking by allowing maximum freedom of creativity. GINA produces dramatically different solutions that affect the design and functionality of future cars. The GINA Light Visionary Model is an optical expression of selective, future-oriented concepts which provide an example of the manner and extent of this transformation. read more

Three Pratt Institute Sponsored Research Studios for Sustainable Architecture and Design

Containing work from the studios of Richard Sarrach, Lonn Combs + Mark Parsons, Anthony Caradonna + Francine Monaco

OPENING & RECEPTION
TUESDAY MAY 20, 6-9PM.
PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY
144 WEST 14TH STREET, 2ND FLOOR

“Manufactured Surfaces” is an exhibition of design research that represents a unique collaboration between Pratt Institute and three progressive corporations that make architectural products and materials. Each corporation is partnered with a design studio comprised of architecture and interior design students. The intention of their research is to transform the character and performance of a particular product into something completely new that draws upon recycled material sources, enhances the sustainable qualities of buildings and spaces, and is adaptable to new geometries that respond to natural light. The work in these studios, while experimental in nature, is applied research that results in full-scale design-build proposals or achievable deployment strategies. These studios present a magically new and exciting direction in design research and education, made possible by the imagination and generosity of the sponsors and their faith in the creativity of our students. read more

Instructors Lonn Combs and Mark Parsons conduct a collaborative studio environment of material research based on the window covering products of Hunter Douglas. Using an inherently energy efficient material, new applications of architectural space are explored that expand the potential product uses from a window covering to architectural partitioning of space that emphasizes light, acoustic, and thermal properties. The research includes the development of a full scale structural weave that integrates into the lightweight fabric to achieve free-standing material configurations. In parallel to the real concerns of construction and environmental effect, the fundamental phenomena of the material and its reaction within the environment address the cultural concepts of beauty, transparency, publicity, privacy, and the ability of manipulated light to induce specific categories of ambience. read more

Brooklyn - McCarren Park Natatorium Integration

The project proceeded from a developmental exercise that begin to establish form. The development of the long span configuration would then go through a series of alterations and refinements that would enable it to critically approach integration into the site and into the neighborhood at large. read more

A performing arts library requires different sources of knowledge, such as, books, media, computers, and live visual performances. The objective of this project is to house the vast variety of these resources in one building while allowing each section to flourish without disrupting one another. read more

Evolution, the latest addition to the Bowery, is not just a library, but more so a center to expand the mind and network information. The exclusive collection documents New York’s morphosis in becoming what is believed to be the capital of the world. read more

Close to the final building of the library of mody and mind.

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 Advertising gives visual cue to a passer-by, making them a consumer of visual information. What if we had the ability to create the same affect but in a more educational, informative way physically? By funneling people into the public domain of a building you are not forcing them to enter. You are simply suggesting it by ingulfing them with a system that interjects itself into the public realm of the sidewalk. I propose my library to engulf the sidewalk, providing shelter and easy access to its facilities from someone walking down Lafayette.

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In this kind of space, no one can hear you scream. Anechoic chambers use spiked walls to eliminate echoes, the end result might literally sound dull but the visual effect can be stunning, such as at the enormous anechoic hangar see more from oobject

So our midterm is coming up a week from monday, and I justwrote a cool script to grow a differntiated set of apartment typologies, programmed solely on localized neighborhood conditions. This couples with the other research my partner, oliver, and I have been working on with Cellular Automata as a computational tool for organization of dwellings.

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