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Victoria Meyers Architect, hMa, and DWi-P
DWi-P , posted Victoria Meyers architect, click here to see more photos of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
DWiP (Digital Water i-Pavilion) by hanrahan Meyers architects proposes an interactive surface (edge) where visitors can be at an edge within the city of New York and share an interactive experience. The experience is interactive, both as a live event, as well as through an App, developed as a mirrored experience of the building.
DWiP's 550-foot long etched glass facade interacts with smart devices through an interactive media surface that embraces urban design, and encourages social interactions between participants, at the edge between Battery Park City and the lower west side of Manhattan.
DWi-P glass facade in construction June 2012 click here to see more photos of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect
DWiP marks the eastern edge of Battery Park City at the Ballfields. DWiP connects pedestrians within Battery Park City's North Neighborhood to the West Side Highway pedestrian crossing from Battery Park City to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and the World Trade Center site.
DWiP's 550-foot long glass facade is an interactive space of mediated interaction where visitors will be encouraged to post ideas, reactions, and thoughts about New York City, the waterfront, the Irish Hunger Memorial, Poets House, Teardrop Park, and other significant sites in the area. The edge is also interactive through the DWiP App, where visitors will be able to interact with the frit pattern on the building's glass, as well as the Michael Schumacher sound piece, WaTER.
DWi-P : view up ramp toward Ballfield Terrace click here to see more photos of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post
DWiP is on track to receive a Platinum LEED rating.
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Victoria Meyers architect, hanrahan Meyers architects, posts Master Plan Diagrams for Pratt Institute Campus Design
In 1999, hanrahan Meyers architects were hired by Pratt Institute to overview the development of a new campus master plan, and to design Pratt Pavilion, linking two 1890's brick warehouse buildings: Pratt Studios and Stueben Hall. Pratt Pavilion was completed and opened to the public in 2007. Pratt Campus Master Plan is ongoing. The Main Walk will be reconfigured and repaved this summer, with work starting in June 2012.
The plans below demonstrate the progressive changes to the campus, initiated in 1880, when the Pratt family began developing the Pratt Campus to educate young people in engineering and the arts, to maintain American competitiveness.
Pratt Institute circa 1900 : Small Privately Owned Institute: Three buildings with distinct programs: Library, Engineering, Art / Architecture Victoria Meyers architect post
Pratt Institute circa 1990 : Unplanned Dispersion Victoria Meyers architect post
- Enlarged campus with diverse buildings
- Programs dispersed randomly throughout various large, anonymous brick industrial lofts
- No distinct image
- Building Entrances oriented toward streets instead of campusPratt Institute circa 2007 : Convergence Victoria Meyers architect post
- Rebranding of the campus, making campus mall the focal point
- Programs focused into single building entities with entrances turned to face the mall
- Original buildings plus new buildings and additions give a 'branded' image to the mall/ campusPratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects: exterior view click here to view all photos of Pratt Pavilion on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post
In 2007 hMa's Pratt Pavilion opened, to press and fanfare. Pratt Pavilion was the first building constructed that begins to develop the concepts outlined in the Pratt Master Plan. Pratt Pavilion creates a new main entry into Stueben Hall and Pratt Studios from the Pratt campus. The original building entries were from DeKalb Avenue to the south. With the opening of Pratt Pavilion, the Pratt campus became more cohesive and branded as Pratt Institute's main public space. Pratt Pavilion was recognized with design awards from the AIA NYChapter, as well as the Architectural League of New York for design excellence.
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hanrahan Meyers architects Develop New Ecological Urban Design for Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood
Diagram Relating Green Areas Throughout Manhattan to Battery Park City's North Neighborhood: Victoria Meyers architect postIn 2000 hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were hired as the Master Plan Architect for Battery Park City Authority’s North Neighborhood, the most forward-thinking urban master plan in the United States. The North Neighborhood is the location of the first green high-rise residential tower in the United States and is the first sustainably designed high-rise neighborhood in the world. When the North Neighborhood is complete in 2012 it will include a total of 5 million square feet of sustainable buildings, an array of new technologies and operating practices and a unique integration with the spectacular natural features of New York's waterfront.
Isometric Diagram showing Battery Park City North Neighborhood's Green Roofs and Green Landscapes. Master Plan by hanrahan Meyers architects, master plan architects for the North Neighborhood, Green Urban Design guidelines for buildings built in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood Victoria Meyers architect postThe configuration of the buildings also emphasizes this engagement with nature by creating an interweaving grid of outdoor spaces – including 4 major parks – with 11 residential and public buildings including the renowned Stuyvesant High School. Individual buildings are designed to complete the urban blocks by aligning with lot lines up to the 11th and 14th floors, after which towers are placed up to the 25th and 32nd floors in a complex pattern of offsetting alignments to open up view corridors and bring light and air into the parks below.
Every building and every park built in the hanrahan Meyers master plan is LEED certified. hanrahan Meyers are building the last building in the North Neighborhood, the Battery Park City community center, called DWiP – Digital Water i-Pavilion. DWiP is on track to receive a Platinum LEED rating.
Click here to view all images of the Battery Park City North
Neighborhood Master Plan on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
hanrahan Meyers architects Victoira Meyers architect post
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Victoria Meyers on Heritage Radio Network’s “Burning Down the House” Show: Interview with Curtis B. Wayne
L to R: DWi-P in construction, view looking north from gym room; digital rendering of DWi-P glass wall; Curtis B. Wayne click here to view all images of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
From heritageradionetwork.com:
On this episode of Burning Down the House, our host Curtis B. Wayne is in the studio with architect Victoria Meyers of Hanrahan Meyers. Tune in to hear about how poetics, music, and sound art has become entwined in Victoria's work. Listen to works by Harry Partch and John Cage; Curtis says these works speak to the architecture of John Johansen. Hear about Victoria's collaboration with sound artist Michael Schumacher: a building covered with frit patterns that trigger sound and music on the iPhone. Hear some architecturally influential pieces from musicians and composers such as John Cage's "Sonata No. 5 for Prepared Piano", and Philip Glass's "1,000 Airplanes on the Roof". Finally, listen to hear about some of Victoria's other projects, including the Bridge Studio on the Delaware River and the Infinity Chapel above Washington Square Park.
Listen to the interview on heritageradionetwork.com
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Link to an article on "Burning Down the House" with Curtis B. Wayne from architect's newspaper
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Natural Light in Architecture Part 2: Red Hook Center for the Arts, Holley House, Won Dharma Center, Arts International
Holley House, hanrahanMeyers architects click here to view all photos of Holley House on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have designed most of their buildings around the use of natural light. hMa works with natural materials, light and nature using a minimal palette to achieve unique spatial experiences for clients. hMa's clients include private and public organizations who build public buildings, including monasteries, churches (Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, NY), Community Centers (Battery Park City Community Center), institutes and universities (Pratt Institute, for whom hMa designed Pratt Pavilion), as well as private clients, who build residential projects, including Holley House, and Ash 4Ways. Holley House, above, uses a palette of natural materials. The various materials, including local stone, wood, and glass, create a powerful transitional sensibility through the house, and light creates the sequences from public to private spaces.
Won Dharma Center by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to view all photos of Won Dharma Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
Won Dharma Center in Claverack, NY, is a Buddhist Retreat where hMa designed a campus including five buildings. Shown above is a view of the site looking west toward the entrance to the Permanent Residence building, with a view of the Administration Building and Meditation Hall beyond. The Won Dharma Center is the winner of two Design Awards, from the Wood Design and Building Council and from the Faith and Form/ IFRAA Design Awards competitions.
Redhook Center for the Arts, below, is a public building where the public spaces are bathed in natural light, mediated by painted surfaces that create washes of color.
window detail : Redhook Center for the Arts by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to see all photos of Redhook CFA on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post
Arts International, below, was designed as as a large interior gallery, surrounded by private offices. The office areas had large windows, and clear glass panels to the Gallery, so that even as an interior gallery, this inner space is still flooded with light.
Arts International Headquarters by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to view all photos of Arts International on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post
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hMa Recommends: ARNO GIL MÜLLER NEUMANN SCHUMACHER – Modular collaboration for Eyebeam’s Main Space: Opening reception: May 10, 2012 6PM
exhibition diagram from from www.eyebeam.org
ARNO GIL MÜLLER NEUMANN SCHUMACHER – Modular collaboration for Eyebeam's Main Space
Opening reception: May 10, 2012 6PM*
Open to the public: May 11-12, 12PM-6PM
EYEBEAM @ 540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY 10011Within this collaboration, its participants develop and experiment with a hybrid between sound installation and live performance in Eyebeam's Main Space. Some elements happen in real-time, others are programmed or generated algorithmically. The participants engage in a process of systemic composition, which uses the space as an instrument, encouraging a “topological listening” practice. "Topological listening'" means that there is no focus on sound elements themselves, rather, sounds call attention to the potential for meaning in their relationships to each other, to the space and to the individual listeners engaging with them. A collaborative approach to creating these environments highlights complex interconnections which can hardly be reduced to a single narrative.
Participants:
GILL ARNO (small sound sources as localized islets; and subjective documentation through recordings made by the audience)
WOLFGANG GIL (spectral response, custom spectrum analysis/synthesis software),
CORNELIA FREDERIKE MÜLLER (individual space, headphone sculptures),
DANIEL NEUMANN (feedback apparatus consisting of multiple microphones, filters and delays, as well as large speakers and speaker objects),
MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER (live response, guitar/synthesizer processed through custom multi-channel sound system)
*(Opening reception is in conjunction with http://eyebeam.org/events/exhibition-wired-frames)
Bios:
GILL ARNO was born in Italy, where he studied art and typography before moving to New York in 1997. His current work includes video, photography, print, sound recording and composition, installations and live performance.
In the project mpld old modified slide projectors are used in a live setting. Static images from found slides become pulsating and fade one into another, while the projectors' mechanical sounds are tapped and processed to reveal their musical possibilities.
Arnò often collaborates on- and off-stage with other artists. He publishes books, recordings and other multiples via his own imprint, unframed, and runs Fotofono, a small studio in Brooklyn where sometimes public events are held.
WOLFGANG GIL is a New York-based Venezuelan sound artist using computer-generated sound and multichannel speaker systems to facilitate the creation of sonic environments. Gil’s aesthetic emphasizes the idea of a sonic environment and its physical correlation to sound, architecture, and audience. More specifically, he is interested in the transformation of sound as a direct consequence of architecture, as well as how audience members transform the sound by their physical presence inside the sonic environment. Gil has presented work in venues such as Diapason Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), the XXI Subtropics Biennial (Miami, Fl), and the Organización Nelson Garrido (Caracas, Venezuela).
For more info please visit http://www.wolfganggil.com/
CORNELIA FREDERIKE MÜLLER
Cornelia Friederike Müller aka CFM ist bildende Künstlerin und Soundkünstlerin, sie lebt und arbeitet in Leipzig.
Nach dem Studium der Philosophie und Psychologie, wandte sie sich als DJ, Redakteurin und Veranstalterin, während ihres Medienkunststudiums, intensiv der elektronischen Musik zu.
Seit 2002 produziert sie Musik, basierend auf Samples von Feldaufnahmen und dem Spiel auf der Midi-Klaviatur, die zum einen als melodische Minimal Music charakterisiert, zum anderen am besten als experimentelle Soundscapes oder Scores bezeichnet wird.
Als Künstlerin im Bereich Konzept-Kunst, schafft sie Objekte, (Klang-)Bilder und Installationen, die häufig gewohnte Sichtweisen, Begriffe und Zusammenhänge des gesellschaftlichen Lebens hinterfragen oder auch die Poesie des Alltäglichen aufspüren.
Das Hörspiel „Die Sicherheit einer geschlossenen Fahrgastzelle“, wofür sie die Musik komponierte, erhielt 2010 den Deutschen Hörspielpreis, den Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden und den Online Award der ARD.
CFM arbeitet/e mit FZML, Hof Klang, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Heike Hennig & Co, Hörbild Verlag Berlin, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Bühnen der Stadt Gera, MDR Figaro, Theater in der Josefstadt Wien, Bless Showroom Milano und veröffentlichte DJ Mixes, Remixes und eigene Tracks bei, Doxa Records, tellerrandmusik und nowthatiam.
DANIEL NEUMANN is a Brooklyn-based sound artist and audio engineer, originally from Leipzig, Germany. In Leipzig, besides getting his degree in media art at the Academy of Visual Art, he co-organized ‘AlulaTonSerien’, a platform for sound art and electro-acoustic music that featured concerts, workshops, soundwalks, CD releases and a radio show. He also studied electronic music composition under Emanuelle Casale in Catania, Sicily.
In his artistic practice he is using conceptual and mostly collaborative strategies to explore sound and sound material and it's modulation through space and media. Pieces are developed in different formats and variations as ongoing processes, which can result in performances, installations, or radio shows amongst others. The leitmotif for these processes is the development of a poetry of the fragile, and a skepticism towards demonstrations of power. Impermanence is understood as temporal fragility. For his collaborative practice Daniel coined the term ‘modular collaboration’, which describes a non-hierarchical and decentralized form of organization, where collaborators interact as equals. Context and site are important parameters and often used as a starting point.
MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER is a composer, performer and installation artist based in New York City.
He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, making computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time periods. In their realization, Schumacher uses multiple speaker configurations that relate the sounds of the installation to the architecture of the exhibition space. Architectural and acoustical considerations thereby become basic structural elements.
Schumacher was recently the Edgard Varèse guest professor at Berlin’s Technical University. While in Europe he had exhibitions at Q02 in Brussels, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg and at Ultraschall Festival in Berlin. Recent publications include a shared LP (with Jerome Noetinger) released by Entr’acte of London and a CD, and “Weave” also on Entr’acte. XI Records has published a DVD set of five sound installations as computer applications, playable on up to eight speakers, which may be installed on a computer to create sound environments in the home. Schumacher’s latest project is the band “Else” with Timur Yusef, drums and Nisi Jacobs, bass.
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RYAN MROZOWSKI at Pierogi. Opening Fri. 27 April. 7-9pm
Book Page #26, 2011, Single book page frame, lightbulb, dimensions variable (paper size, 8×6 inches)PRESS RELEASEPierogi is delighted to present a third one-person exhibition of Ryan Mrozowski’s recent work. The exhibition title references the potential for something to happen, or the ability for a static image to feel animated or potent, and Mrozowski’s interest in transforming the meaning of source material. This exhibition consists of paintings, drawings, video, and several found image light sculptures. Working in these varied approaches, Mrozowski explores the way formal digressions can warp and shift the symbolic meaning of representational imagery. By overlapping faces, cutting away, folding, cropping, obscuring imagery, among other techniques, he creates a sort of banal surrealism. He works with the images, whittling them away, wearing them down like a bar of soap.
In several sculptures, a single found book page is floated in front of a light bulb. The pages were collected over several years and have images printed on both sides that serendipitously create a third hybrid image when exposed to the light source. These previously hidden collages inform a series of paintings in which still life and portraiture are collapsed on the picture plane. Mrozowski is interested in using generalized imagery, stand-ins or surrogates as test subjects for his formal paint explorations. Faces, audiences, plants, flowers, birds, dogs, pieces of tape from his studio floor, are all employed to investigate themes of enlightenment, technology, magic, illusion, and perception.
A short animated film, Palimpsest, was created by cutting and layering scenes from the film Night of the Living Dead on top of one another to create an infinite loop. The film plays forward and backward simultaneously and serves as a jumping off point for his interest in bringing together incongruent ideas and images, chance encounters and disparate symbols, within a painting practice.
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Glass Research and hMa: Visual Sound Waves become StructureCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects
hMa Research: transforming sound waves into visual pattern: architecture presents sound, visually
In 2006 hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were hired by a public client to design a new Community Center adjacent to Ground Zero. hMa responded by designing a community center, DWiP (Digital Water i-Pavilion), that is a built landscape, a long horizontal expanse of public spaces with a Green Roof, and a glass wall facing the Ballfields. The building is scheduled to open in May 2012.
DWiP, birds eye perspective
The public face of the building is a 550-foot long glass wall, facing West Street. The Architects collaborated with composer and sound artist Michael Schumacher, who wrote a composition, 'WaTER' , to be etched onto the glass façade as a frit pattern. The Architects, in collaboration with Schumacher, selected WaTER as an appropriate image for a building designed with a Platinum LEED certification. Water is a huge issue in the contemporary world, where clean water is desappearing. The frit pattern on the glass talks about water, both visually, and through Schumacher's composition. The glass wall is being designed with an App, so that visitors will be able to point smart phones at the glass, and hear the Schumacher piece.
DWiP: in construction March 2012
WaTER on the façade immerses visitors to DWiP (Digital Water i-Pavilion), in a sound as well as visual experience as they walk from South to North, in an arc pointing toward the new wordl trade center buildings, and the park commemorating 9/11. The walk in front of the building links to street crossings at West Street. The glass façade will have three openings, where visitors can walk up from the Ballfields below, to an upper plaza, where the architects designed a Green Roof, in collaboration with landscape designers SCAPE. A full-length version of Schumacher's WaTER will be available as a download after the opening of the building, planned for May 2012.
The project and research bring a prominent sound artist into collaboration with hanrahan Meyers architects to produce a visual artifact. The interpretive process took many iterations as the Clients had several parameters for the design. In addition to requiring the design to clearly demonstrate the WaTER composition, the architects also needed to identify a pattern that was not overly intrusive in visitor's view from inside the building. The pattern acts as a solar screen, preventing solar heat gain and provided a point toward the LEED certification.
for more information about hanrahan Meyers architects and DWiP, visit hanrahanmeyers.com
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hMa in Collaboration with Bruce Pearson : Sculpture InstallationCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects
model for Contains Real Hard Won Insight by Bruce Pearson in collaboration with hanrahan Meyers architects
hMa diagram showing 2 entrances into the sculpture
hanrahan Meyers architects are pleased to present this first look at a recent collaboration with New York City based artist Bruce Pearson. The piece spells out the phrase: Contains Real Hard Won Insight, the title of the piece. hMa assisted Bruce by scaling his text design, normally placed within the context of a painting, and developing Mr. Pearson's text into a free-standing spiral-shaped sculpture: two 7' tall arcing walls of text that invite visitoris to walk a sprialled path through the text, presented as free-standing, painted steel 7 foot tall letters. hMa built a scale model of the future installation (see images below). The full-scale sculpture will be approximately 90 inches tall, and constructed from laser cut, baked enamel-finished steel. The model shows the future installation as it would appear, if the piece is built over a pool of water.
View more of Bruce Pearson's work here.
various model views
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An Ecological Urbanist approach to Designing the City of the Future: The Green Urbanist
The conversations taking place today about new approaches to designing cities of the future center around new urban ideas, including Moshen Mostafavi's discussion from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mr. Mostafavi's discussion of urbanism can be seen in his recently published book, Ecological Urbanism. Ecological Urbanism looks at how the world may be able cope in the future as cities become increasingly dense, using new strategies for urban and spatial design. As the need arises for sustainable dense urban development, including ecological and sustainable food sources grown locally within cities, new building types that incorporate landscape from the natural surroundings, will help mitigate the effect of millions of people living in very close and dense arrangements.
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have been master plan architects for green city spaces since 1990, when hMa were hired as the master plan architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. The BPC North Neighborhood was developed, under hMa's guidance, as the first high-rise green neighborhood in the world.
Idea Diagram : Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan, Victoria Meyers architect for hanrahan Meyers architects click here to see more of this project on hanrahanMeyers.com. The Green Urbanist Victoria Meyers architect post
Teardrop Park South is an example of how even very dense urban spaces can still be experienced with natural light. The Park was laid out by hMa, and designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates using Heliostat mirrors to beam light into an otherwise dark park. The final park offers an array of natural greenery, native New York stones, and water to create a space that feels part of the original Manhattan landscape. The park exists as a tiny envelop of green tucked into a dense high-rise block.
Teardrop Park south (photo from "Teardrop Park South Unveiled" article on tribecacitizen.com – click to read more). Victoria Meyers architect for hanrahan Meyers architects. The Green Urbanist Victoria Meyers architect post
hMa has been at the forefront of designing ideas for new ways of making cities of the future since 1990. hMa's approach to urban places includes radical new approaches to creating eco-systems within places that were thought to be unnatural and unsustainable.
Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan : site plan showing parks. Victoria Meyers architect for hanrahan Meyers architects. click here to see more of this project on hanrahanMeyers.com. The Green Urbanist Victoria Meyers architect post
All of the buildings and parks in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood were designed using guidelines developed by hMa, to create green, sustainable urban living.
Click here to read another article on Teardrop Park on NYCurbed Blog.
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