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Virtuality
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Sound Art/ I wrote Shate of Sound through the various influences in my work from friends who work in Sound Art installations.
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Chapter images with Introductory texts
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hMa’s Won Dharma Center wins AIA Honor Award for 2013
view of Meditation Hall from Administration porch : Won Dharma Center by hanrahan Meyers architects
hMa is pleased to announce that the Won
Dharma Center has won an Honor Award from the AIA NY Chapter. Won Dharma Center is a 28,000 square-foot spiritual and recreational retreat
in Claverack, New York for the Won Buddhists, a Korean
organization that emphasizes balance in one's daily life and relationship to
nature. The center is located on a 500-acre site on a gently sloping hill
with views west to the Catskill Mountains.
The buildings for the Center, including permanent and guest residences, an
administration building and a meditation hall, are sited as far as possible
from the local rural access road, and oriented west and south to maximize views
and light. The symbol of the Won organization is an open circle, suggesting
both a void without absence and infinite return. The buildings are
organized around the dual concepts of void and spiral.
view of Meditation Hall and Administration from west : Won Dharma Center by hanrahan Meyers architects
The 3,000
square-foot Meditation Hall is conceived as a simple rectangular void and a
lightweight frame to the natural surroundings. Its wooden structure is
exposed on three sides to form entrance and viewing porches, while the interior
offers expansive views of the mountains.The
four residential buildings include the dining hall/ administrative building,
and three residential dormitories for guests and permanent residents. The
design of the residential buildings draws on the formal organization of grass-roofed
Korean farm-houses, loosely clustered and organized internally around a single
central void. The roof shapes of the 4,000 square-foot residence
buildings transform in section around a spiral organization, from a simple
slope in section to a complex triangulated geometry where the roof transforms
into an open-air entrance porch. The internal organization of the residence
buildings allows silent walking meditation from courtyard to courtyard.
The courtyards act as passive cooling systems, and when the sliding doors
facing the courtyards open, cross ventilation through the public areas and guest
rooms provides passive cooling. All of the residential buildings are wood
construction, like the Meditation Hall, and deeply shaded to the west and south
to allow natural daylighting without excessive heat gain.view of guest residences 1 and 2 : Won Dharma Center by hanrahan Meyers architects
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Ribbons of Green create new Urban Connectivity: Battery Park City Parks, North Neighborhood
In 1990 hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were hired by Battery Park City Authority to design a new concept about urban space in New York City. Hired as Master Plan Architects for the Battery Park City North Neighborhood, hMa were asked to develop new spatial paradigms for urban place-making, applying the latest ideas about green and sustainable design technologies, and Green Urbanist ideas (Green Urbanism/ Ecological Urbanism).
In 2005, hMa was hired to design the last building in the North Neighborhood, a new community center,and hMa responded by designing DWiP: Digital Water i-Pavilion. DWiP is hMa's first digitally activated building. DWiP is a 65,000 square foot community center that will include pools, gymnasium, and dance studios, as well as classrooms. A primary feature of the building is its Green Roof, a 1/2 acre space, accessed from BPC's North End Avenue to the west, from Warren Street from the north, and Murray Street from the south, and along the Ballfield Walkway, from the east. DWiP's roof is a permeable plaza with planted areas, park benches, and play areas. DWiP's roof, Battey Park City's newest Park, is shown below:
DWiP's Green Roof Entry at North End Avenue, entry from the west. post: Victoria Meyers architect
DWiP's Green Roof at North End Avenue: Planting detail. Post Victoria Meyers architect
hMa started their design for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood Parks and Landscapes designs with a Master Plan diagram, shown below. The BPC Parks Diagram establishes a methodology for the designs of all of the Green Areas in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood.
Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan Diagram for Green Areas. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
DWiP's Green Roof includes four granite staircases, and four handicapped ramps, that reach out into the Ballfields and the adjacent streets (Murray and Warren Streets and North End Avenue) to create connectivity between DWiP's Green Roof, and the adjacent Parks and Green Streets.
DWiP: Granite Stair connecting DWiP's Green Roof to the Ballfields Walkway below. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
DWiP: Granite Stair with adjacent Granite Wall, and Planted area with Trellis, connecting DWiP Green Roof to Warren Street. SCAPE Landscape Architects. Post Victoria Meyers architect -
Turing’s Cathedral, Architecture, Green Urbanism, and Social Networks
Thinking about where we find ourselves today, I see a myriad of forces and challenges.
Turing's Cathedral: the origins of the digital universe, the most recent book by science historian George Dyson, traces the effects of computers on humanity, starting with the development of the first computer, 'Maniac', at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. The computational power of machines, embodied today in the internet, and in the influence of Google, is creating massive changes, faster than humanity can track.
left: science historian George Dyson; right: Google. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
In response to changes in population, species extinctions, Globalism, global warming, and other concerns, the rising interests in architecture include several different 'ism's': variations on themes that encompass sustainable values applied to urban design. The newly emergent movements include Ecological Urbanism, Green Urbanism and Urban Agriculture.
food urbanism and ecological urbanism. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
In the wake of these fields of interest, architecture as the study of singular buildings has been eclipsed by the fields of urban design and landscape design.
My terminology for the changes in the study of architecture is a move toward 'Porosity'. Porosity meaning a move toward the design of buildings that mesh with landscape, and where the edge between building and landscape becomes obscured.
Ballfield Terrace view : DWiP: hanrahan Meyers architects; post, Victoria Meyers architect
hanrahan Meyers architect's DWiP building at Battery Park City is Porous, and embodies ideas represented in Green Urbanism, Ecological Urbanism, and Urban Agriculture. The building features a half-acre occupiable Green Roof linked to Teardrop Park and other Battery Park City parks through a series of ramps, stairs and walkways. The building is sustainable, and on track to receive a Platinum LEED rating. DWiP's Porosity extends to the glass wall facing the Ballfields. The glass wall is an 'Intelligent Wall' with an interactive interface between visitors' cell phones and the frit patterns on the facade, and will be launched in September 2012, with its own cell-phone App.
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Won Dharma Retreat Wins Award of Excellence from the 2012 AIA NY State Design Awards Program
view of Meditation Hall and Administration Building
Won Dharma Retreat by hanrahan Meyers architects
photo: Michael Moran/ ottoarchive.com post: Victoria Meyers architectVictoria Meyers architect is proud to announce that hMa's Won Dharma Retreat has been recognized with an Award of Excellence by the 2012 AIA New York State Design Awards Program.
The project is comprised of five buildings on a 500-acre site in Claverack, New York. The architects designed the campus with a zero-carbon footprint, and all buildings are designed using sustainable materials and state-of-the-art green technologies to minimize energy use.
The area where the buildings were sited had been a brownfield site, used as a rock quarry, and qualified as a Brownfield site. The project included mitigating the quarry area, which has been covered with organic soil, and planted with meadows.
The Won Dharma Retreat is a spiritual center in Claverack, NY for the Won Buddhist Organization; sited on a 500-acre site. The Won Dharma Retreat officially opened in October 2011. Click here to visit the Won Dharma Center website.
Click here to view more photos of the Won Dharma Retreat on www.hanrahanmeyers.comPermanent Residence porch
Won Dharma Retreat by hanrahan Meyers architects
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Won Dharma Center featured in Architectural Digest August 2012 Issue
Won Dharma Center : view of Meditation Hall from Administration porch post: victoria meyers architect
photo : Michael Moran/ ottoarchive.comVictoria Meyers architect (hMa) is pleased to announce that the Won Dharma Center is featured in the August 2012 issue of Architectural Digest. The project is featured in the "Good Works" column in an article written by Fred A. Bernstein. Pick up a copy of AD's August issue – on newsstands now – to read the review.
The Won Dharma Center, located in Claverack, New York, officially opened in October 2011. Hanrahan Meyers has won both an Honor Award from Wood Design Awards program and a Design Award from the Faith&Form/IFRAA Awards program for their design of the 426-acre retreat.
Click here to learn more about the Won Dharma Center on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
Click here to visit www.architecturaldigest.comMeditation Hall porch
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DWiP :Digital Water Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects
DWiP: view up ramp toward ballfield level, posted Victoria Meyers architect
DWiP: ballfield terrace, posted Victoria Meyers architectThe Digital Water Pavilion (DWiP) is a new 55,000 square foot building conceived as a built landscape and situated at the base of two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood. The primary architectural feature of the new Center is a curved 550-foot long glass arcade wall facing West Street immediately north of Ground Zero. The arcade wall features a patterned interpretation of a composition, ‘WaTER’, commissioned from New York City composer Michael Schumacher. The glass wall sits opposite two swimming pools and a gymnasium inside the building and two ballfields and a soccer field outside the building. A new public promenade follows the curve of the arcade adjacent to the ballfields, connecting north to south from Murray to Warren Streets, providing access to the Ballfields.
The arcade has three courtyards (see photos below), with a stair in the central courtyard connecting the Ballfields to the Ballfield Terrace above, the Green Roof above DWiP. The 16,000 square foot Terrace designed with SCAPE landscape architects has a series of ramps and stairs that reach out to the landscape and other parks in Battery Park City. DWiP's roof, the Ballfield Terrace, is an occupiable Green Roof with benches and planted areas, linked to other BPC Parks, including Teardrop Park to the west.
DWiP: north courtyard
DWiP: south courtyard posted Victoria Meyers architectOther program areas in the Pavilion include a gymnasium (pictured below), pool room (pictured below), dance studios, a state-of-the-art theater, and classrooms on the second floor. Digital Water i-Pavilion is scheduled to receive a Platinum LEED rating. hMa are also the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood, and developed the guidelines for the buildings, landscaping, and walking paths in the North Neighborhood. DWiP is scheduled to open in September 2012.
DWiP interior: gymnasium
DWiP interior: pool room posted Victoria Meyers architect
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