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Urban Design: American Campus Design Phase Two: Form – Timeline 2005
Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion: Phase Two: Form – Timeline : 2005
hanrahan Meyers architects present their design studies for the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. The project opened to international acclaim in 2007. To see the finished building, visit hMa's post on the hMa blog dated: July 23, 2009. To read more about the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, click on 'projects' and go to 'educational spaces'.
The studies show the following, starting from the top of the post: hMa's initial water-color / massing study for the building design. This is the building's earliest study presented to the Pratt Institute Board. Next to that are two physical model studies, showing the massing for the building from the front and from above.
Below, hMa's massing study / isometric showing: the entry ramp / building ground plane; adding the stair and infrastructure; and adding the shapes of the two adjacent loft buildings. Pratt Pavilion was designed as a new 'front door' to a larger complex, the new Pratt Design Center. The Design Center connects together the floorplates of two large loft buildings, totalling 200,000 square feet. These buildings house all of Pratt's Design programs including industrial design, graphic design, interior design and fashion design.
Below the isometric are two of hanrahan Meyers' early perspective studies for the Pavilion's exterior and interior finishes. This collection of images were originally catalogued for hMa's winning entry in the Architectural League of New York's competition: Starts and Finishes.
Pratt Pavilion is the first building built on the main Pratt Campus as part of a larger master plan strategy to reorient the front facades and front doors of the campus buildings from neighboring streets, toward the main campus. When Pratt Institute was originally founded by the Pratt family, the central campus did not exist and was bisected by a street with a trolley. In the one hundred years since the Institute's original founding, the original street was de-mapped and removed, and Pratt formed an internal green campus to replace the street, around fifty years ago. Recently, the Institute has embarked on a cohesive master plan strategy to complete the School's orientation toward its central campus by turning the facades of the Insitute's buildings away from the surrounding streets, and toward the campus. hMa played a key role in this planning process, developing the first building to implement the new Master Plan.
To see more about hanrahan Meyers' master planning projects, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and go to: Projects: masterplans and landscapes.
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Urban Design: American Campus DesignAmerican Campus Design; Pratt Institute; Pratt Pavilion; Masterplan Architects; Phase One: Concept – Timeline 2004 – 2005
Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion
In 2003 hMa was commissioned by Pratt Institute to design a new pavilion for the center of the Institute Campus. The new pavilion was to serve as a new campus center for Pratt students, and would also be the first piece of an overall Pratt Campus master plan and redesign, giving focus and form to the Institute's main green quadrangle. The pavilion was also commissioned to join two existing loft buildings together into a single entity: a new 200,000 square-foot Pratt Design Center, housing all of the design arts under one roof. The Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion officially opened in 2007.
Pratt Pavilion began with a gift by Pratt Board Member Juliana Curran Terian. The Center evolved through a series of discussions with the Pratt Board, who wanted a pavilion that would serve as a public building for student gatherings, as a new gallery to showcase Pratt student and faculty work, as well as a building that – through the beauty and thoughtfulness of its construction details and materials - would be a physical example of the creative design work that goes on at the Institute. The new pavilion was also the first building to be built in an overall Master Plan re-design for the Pratt Campus, which refocused campus buildings toward Pratt's main green quadrangle. Previously, the Institute buildings had their main entries turned away from the quadrangle, entering from surrounding urban streets. The backs of buildings faced the quad. Pratt Pavilion was the first of a series of Master Plan interventions to turn buildings around 180 degrees, so that they faced the main quadrangle, and gave a sense of importance to the school's primary public green space.
Pratt Board member Bruce Gitlin participated in the design, donating hand-rubbed stainless steel panels that he developed in conversations with the architects for the pavilion's cladding. The hand-rubbed panels are a key aspect of the final project's overall projection of design values about Pratt Institute to the general public. Pratt is a Design Institute based in Brooklyn, New York, with a long history of ground-breaking studies in all aspects of design, including fashion, industrial design, interior design, graphic design, and architecture.
Belwo are images from hanrahan Meyers' presentation of their design process for the Pratt Pavilion project for the Architectural League of New York's design competition: Starts and Finishes. The images include hMa's original massing watercolor for the building presented to the Pratt Board. The images also show hMa's original massing model of the project.
To see more about Hanrahan Meyers architects' works, including Master Plans, public buildings, and educational buildings, visit their website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Glass and Steel Pavilion: time, distance, form, and architecture Minimalist Architecture; Glass and Steel Design; Public Architecture; Victoria Meyers Architect
Time : the diagram for Hudson River House as a hieroglyphic
Distance : Digital Water Pavilion facade incorporates a musical score
Form : Pratt Pavillion: a deformed cube floated above a glass entry
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) is a cutting-edge contemporary architectural office known for their mathematically pure and sophisticated building designs. The illustrations above show details from the design of a house in New York; a new facade for Battery Park City, in Lower Manhattan, where a precisely calibrated facade marks the distance a person travels along an arcing wall leading from a series of parks in Battery Park City, to the World Trade Center site; and the finished steel and glass facade of a new academic building for the Pratt Institute Campus. All three of these projects share a precise crafting of form and space based on ideas from mathematics.
In early modernist architectural thought the clearest thesis that connected the modernist idea of spatial design to geometry was Le Corbusier’s ‘Modulor’ – a small booklet published by Le Corbusier in 1948, describing his method of laying out architecture using the golden section rectangle. More recently, in 1995, Robin Evans' The Projective Cast , a collection of essays, traced mathematical thought as it informs architecture from the Renaissance through modernism.
covers of Le Corbusier's 'Modulor'
Any great architecture stands in recognition of mathematical ideas. Mathematical principles applied to space brings us in contact with:
time : the Cartesian grid; distance : space; and form : geometry.
Through the application of mathematical forms, we are put in touch with great mathematical minds:
Pythagoras, Decartes, Newton, Fibonacci, Euler, And Nash – for example.
It is in this vast reconnection through space and time that architecture can produce a profound revelation for each of us: connecting back through time for thousands of years; and, vice-versa - connecting us to the open-ended future state of human exploration and endeavor.
Projection and its analogues: The Arrested Image, Robin Evans (from The Projective Cast, MIT, 1995)
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Infinity Chapel in Construction : Curved Walls
Infinity Chapel- chapel view looking out toward storefront
In construction – curved wall and stair to mezzanine
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NY Apartment design by hMa featured in Met Home’s Glamour : Making it Modern Book
Green architects Hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are pleased to announce the publication of Metropolitan Home's Glamour : Making it Modern. The book features hMa's Ash 4 Ways / White Space Apartment both inside and on the cover.
hMa Green Architects are well known for being the authors of the design guidelines for the Solaire Apartment Tower in New York City - the first Green residential apartment tower in the United States. hMa wrote the Solaire guidelines as the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. As the BPC Master Planners, hMa overviewed the construction of over 5 million square feet of Sustainable, Green architecture. hMa was also responsible for overviewing the development of over 100 acres of sustainable Landscaping. hMa specializes in building Green Architecture, including Zero Carbon Footprint houses.
More about the book from barnesandnoble.com:
'Glamour. It's hard to define yet most know it when they see it. Today, glamour may still invoke the sophistication and refinement of the golden years of Hollywood art deco, but country, industrial and even nature glamour have joined the more traditional modes.
The 21st century has brought glamour-and her sisters, decoration and ornamentation-back into home design news. Today's most cutting-edge homes embrace design of every kind from every corner of the globe. It's a marriage of disparate styles that finds no contradiction. Glamour is in vogue in homes that are castles (literally) and in one-bedroom rentals at the fringes of downtowns.
Looking at homes recently featured in Metropolitan Home, Glamour, Making It Modern reconsiders them through the following sections:
• concepts: looks at the defining general notions of Modern Glamour, such as sheen and scale,
• objects: examines elements of home decoration which are inherently glamorous,
• rooms: tours homes where everything comes glamorously together.'With a directory of the designers, some of the best in the business, and a list of resources for available products, Glamour, Making It Modern is purely inspirational and absolutely accessible. The book includes the White Space / Ash 4Ways apartment designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa). hMa are an internationally known architectural firm specializing in award-winning design that is also at the cutting-edge of Green architecture.
For more information about hanrahan Meyers architects, and to see more of the firm's cutting-edge Green Designs, visit their website: http://www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
Click here to view more photos of Ash 4 Ways / White Space Apartment on hanrahanmeyers.com
Click here to view and/or purchase the book at barnesandnoble.com
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Houses of Sagaponac : Glass House: Contemporary ResidenceGreen Home Design; American Houses; Modern American House; Victoria Meyers Architect
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were recently contacted by Richard Reinhardt, who took over the Houses at Sagaponac Development, and asked to revisit their design for the original development. hMa's new house design is a modernist glass box poised on top of an artificial 'ground plane' (the lower level of the house housing the bedrooms, garage, and swimming pool). hMa's house design is scheduled for construction in 2009.
bird's eye view facing the street
About the Houses at Sagaponac project (http://www.housesatsagaponac.com/) :
"Houses at Sagaponac is an acclaimed development by the late Harry J. Brown with the assistance of Richard Meier. The project features 34 summer houses designed by internationally recognized architects to acheive design excellence on a modest budget and scale, leading to a community by and for thinking people. The houses represent an appreciation of artistic vision and sensiblity, challenging the current standards of gradiosity and repetition."
American Dream: Houses at Sagaponac was published by Rizzoli NY in 2003.
swimming pool
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Urban Reserve in the Wall Street Journal
The following is from an article published
in the Wall Street Journal on 5/01/2009." Some residential suburban communities
insist on tiled roofs; others dictate color palettes and lot sizes. Often, the
goal is to capture the look of a time in the past, before modern living and
high housing costs changed tastes and materials.But a small number of new developments is
taking the opposite tack. Here, buried amongst a middle-class community and
near the Central Expressway, is a street where the construction of Colonials
and Tudors is expressly forbidden. Even mid-century modern is considered passé.
"Make no mistake. It's a dictatorship and I make the rules," project
developer Diane Cheatham says half-jokingly.The result is Urban Reserve, a 13-acre
development devoted to contemporary design. Pass a neighborhood of standard
issue brick tract ranches and turn onto Vanguard Way and suddenly one confronts
what looks like scene from a science fiction movie…." -written by Nancy KeatesClick here for the full article and slideshow at wsj.com
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left: Exterior of See-Thru House, hMa's design for the Urban Reserve
development. Above : Interior view, See-Thru HouseLearn more about See-Thru House on hanrahanMeyers.com
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Light in ArchitectureDesigning with Light by Victoria Meyers; Natural Light; Natural Light in Residences
Victoria Meyers of hMa published her book Designing with Light based on several projects by the firm that use natural light to create architectural space.
exterior detail: hMa's Holley House in Garrison, NY
interior: Holley House
Several of the firm's projects, including Holley House, White Space (featured on the book's cover), Pratt Pavilion, and the soon to be completed Battery Park City Community Center, feature light as a major component of the overall design.
gallery view: hMa's Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion
Designing With Light by Victoria Meyers on Amazon.com.
To read more about hMa's use of natural light in their projects, go to the website about the book, www.designingwithlight.us. To see more of hMa's projects, visit their website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Victoria Meyers featured in ArchNewsNow
hMa partner Victoria Meyers was quoted in an article by Norman Weinstein entitled, “WORDS THAT BUILD: Translate Images Into Touching Performances”. The following is an excerpt from the article, which is part of a series by Norman Weinstein focusing on the overlooked foundations of architecture: oral and written communication:
A crucial and commonplace communications breakdown between architect and client occurs when an architect does his or her detailed presentation. The architect and educator Victoria Meyers addresses this disconnect incisively: “Space is a very abstract art form and it is very difficult to communicate to a client ahead of time what they are buying into. We will build very specific physical models and computer models, we’ll do renderings, we’ll provide material samples, and I know exactly what the space consists of before it goes into construction. Still, it’s always a shock for the client.”
Read the full article here.
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hMa: Sustainable Design featured on houzz Green Home Design; American Houses; Modern American House
hMa has been added to houzz, "the Flickr of design idea sites."
Featured projects include Ash 4-Ways, Delmonico-Washburn Residence, Glaser Residence, Holley House, Holley Loft, and Singer Residence. More information about these residences can be found here, at hanrahanmeyers.com.
Singer Residence
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