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Outside-In/ Inside-Out: Pratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects
Pratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects plays a fun game of inside/ outside. Pratt Pavilion is a small pavilion with big ambitions, on the main Pratt campus in Fort Green, Brooklyn. The pavilion floats in the air, above a glass entry vestibule. The pavilion is a single room, which is used as the main teaching gallery for Pratt's Design Center, which houses all of the main design programs at Pratt Institute.
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The plan above shows the plan of the Pavilion, to the south of a new courtyard, to the north. The courtyard and the Pavilion Gallery were designed to occupy approximately the same area, with similar shapes: to be mirror images. 'Mirror' – meaning – that we include the distortions inherent in the reflection.
I would argue that the Courtyard could be seen as 'Inside-Out'; and that the Pratt Pavilion Gallery is 'Outside-In' – as a spatial experience.
Outside-In: hanrahan Meyers Pratt Pavilion Courtyard Victoria Meyers architect
Inside-Out: hanrahan Meyers architects: Pratt Pavilion Gallery Victoria Meyers architect
These dispositions and juxtapositions of what is normally outside, being inside, and, vice-versa, what is normally inside being outside, have a history in architectural design projects. This would include the vestibule at Michelangelo's Laurentian Library, which is very much an Inside-Out space, through its extreme height, and its details.
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Before and After: hanrahan Meyers architects, Ash 4Ways
hanrahan Meyers architects's Ash 4Ways (also known as 'White Space') is shown here, in construction, and finished. I think it's always interesting to see works in progress, and to look at 'before' and 'after' images of architect's works. As an architect, I often see the space more clearly when it's framed and without any sheetrock. The possibilities are endless at that moment! For us architects, it's always sad to see things finish up!
Ash 4Ways : BEFORE in construction 09.14.2007. Panels are unfinished
Above you see the apartment unfinished, in construction, but almost ready to occupy. Below, you see the finished design, in its full glory, photographed in an iconic shot by Michael Moran.
Ash 4Ways : AFTER shot by Michael Moran, in 2007, after construction is finished.
hanrahan Meyers architects have designed several unique residential projects including a new residential dormitory for the Won Buddhist organization which is opening in Claverack, New York, this week-end, with a grand opening ceremony on October 1 – 2.
To see more of hMa's projects, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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STATIONS LOST | 3 week run of TONY FITZPATRICK’s play at The BOILER Cultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects
Pierogi Gallery presents:
Tony Fitzpatrick's STATIONS LOST at The BOILER
October 20 through November 6, 2011
Performance Schedule: Thurs & Fri 8pm; Sat, two performances 6 & 9pm; Sun 7pm
Get your tickets now!Tony and Stan took a journey to find the dark heart of America. Stan went to Cleveland.
Tony took a detour…to Istanbul. This is their story.From America’s border-towns to Istanbul’s Taksim Square, Station’s Lost is the story of two friends, Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein, and their commonalities and divergent paths in an ever-expanding world. Tony takes us through his childhood as a rebellious Catholic schoolboy obsessed with superheroes, reading MAD Magazine, and meeting Chester Gould through his adult understanding of the superhero mythos that leads him to strike out in search of the everyday superhero in the world via a journey to Istanbul.
Tony is a visual artist, poet, actor, playwright, and raconteur—a modern-day Renaissance man. This is his second play, following "This Train," and features Tony and his sidekick Stan Klein, with live musical accompaniment. Adapted and directed by Ann Filmer.
This will be a three-week run of Tony's second theatrical performance
with five performances per week (Thursday through Sunday) beginning October 20
following his recent successful run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
For tickets contact Pierogi at 718.599.2144 / info@pierogi2000.com
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Natural Light in Architecture Part 1: Red Hook Center for the Arts, Holley House, Won Dharma Center, Arts International
skylight detail: hMa's Redhook Center for the Arts in Brooklyn, NY click here to view more photos of the project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
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. Redhood Center for the Arts, above is a public building where the public spaces are bathed in natural light, mediated by painted surfaces that create washes of color.
Holley House, below, 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.
skylight detail: hMa's Holley House in Garrison, NY click here to view more photos of the project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
skylight detail: interior view of Meditation Hall: hMa's Won Dharma Center in Claverack, NY click here to view more photos of this project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
Won Dharma Center in Claverack, NY, is a Buddhist Retreat where hMa designed a campus including five building. Shown above is the Meditation Hall, in construction. The rear wall of the Hall has a niche topped with a skylight, to create a powerful play of light on the rear wall. Windows on this wall and the adjacent, east facing wall are low, so that they allow light into the space, but talk about the low eye level of the seated meditators. The west wall features large expanses of glass, with unobstructed views toward the Catskill Mountains.
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.
hMa's Arts Inernational Headquarters in NY, NY click here to view more photos of the project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
To read more about hMa and the firm's use of natural light in architecture, please visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
hMa is a firm of five architects, as well as interns, and the practice is run as a collaborative design studio.
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Water, Architecture and hanrahan Meyers architects: Water References
hMa (hanrahan Meyers architects) is a great fan of water. Plain simple pure water. Water symbolizes purity. The sound of water is soothing. Religious rites of purification revolve around water. The bulk of our body weight is water. Babies in the womb float in water.. Water is part of our nature.
In homage to this precious and threatened vital commodity hMa's collaboration with sound artist Michael Schumacher addresses water directly. Michael Schumacher has been commissioned to write a piece called: WaTER. WaTER is the basis for the facade of DWiP (Digital Water Pavilion), and our collaboration has been published extensively in previous postings. Visitors can check the blog history for other posts.
DWiP: Digital Water Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects click here to see more images of DWiP on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
We address ideas that pertain to water from other designers and thinkers in this posting,
First, we would like to commend WET Designs, who New Yorkers are probably familiar with from their design for the new fountain for New York's Lincoln Center. WET (Water Entertainment Technologies) was founded by Mark Fuller, and the company is based in Los Angeles. We are linking to an article about Mr. Fuller and his Lincoln Center fountain HERE. Most people know Mr. Fuller from his amazing water works for Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Fountains of Bellagio by WET Design
Our other recommendation for water imagery and thoughts is Craig Childs' book: The Secret Knowledge of Water, published in March 2000. The Secret Knowledge of Water is a wonderful book and gives its readers a new respect for the qualities of water. For a preview of the book, see our exerpt below:
Cover "The Secret Knowledge of Water" by Craig Childs link to Amazon
'My mother was born beside a spring in the high desert, just north of where West Texas and Mexico meet along the Rio Grande. Born three months premature, she was kept alive in an incubator heated with household light bulbs. An eyedropper for feeding. The water from the spring bathed and filled her body, tightening each of her cells. It filled the hollow of her bones. Years later, as the water passed from mother to child, like fine hair or blue eyes, I grew up thinking that water and the desert were the same. …'
hMa pays homage to water with their collaboration with Michael Schumacher on WaTER. WaTER will be available as an App being developed for the i-Phone as well as Android platforms.
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hMa Recommends NYT : A Master of the Stone Wall Discusses the Perfect Fit
photo of Andrew Pighills: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Andrew Pighills has devoted much of his life to stone walls. He began building them as a boy, on his father’s farm in the Yorkshire Dales, in north England. Now, at 56, he is the North American representative of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, a group dedicated to the art and preservation of dry laid stone.
“A dry stone wall is a wall built without mortar,” he said. Unlike a mortared wall, which those in his profession refer to as a “wet wall,” he said, “only two things hold a dry stone wall together: gravity and friction.”
Mr. Pighills, who lives in southeast Connecticut, creates landscapes of garden and stone for private and public clients and teaches walling at workshops throughout New England. We spoke with him about his work.
Why did you start building stone walls?
I am the son of a farmer, and I had to build walls to retain the stock on the property. And having had to do it, I found that not only was I good at it, but I also enjoyed it.
What brought you to this country?
I came over to visit a friend, literally for a couple of weeks, and he said, “Oh, no, you should stay at least a month or more.” So I asked him if he knew anybody who might like some stonework done, to pay my way, and he put me through to a gentleman who had quite a large property. I did maybe a week’s work for him. He invited me back the following year to repair all the walls on his property, and while I was there I met my now-wife and eventually moved over here to live full time.
You hold workshops in New England, where there are lots of stone walls. Why is that?
The original walls were nothing more than a heap of stone that was cleared from the land so farmers could plant; they’re what I call clearance walls. Then they became boundaries. Farmers would build a little better than clearance walls to retain the stock, and then, as farming became more profitable and farmers had a little more time — it was probably second or third generation before they got to this stage — they started building actual walls. If you walk through the woods in New England, you will see all three types.
Click here to read the article in full on nytimes.com
Below are two views of hMa's Holley House in Garrison, New York, which incorporates an existing dry stone wall into its minimalist tableau. The house design features two stone landscape walls that grow out of the ground plane. To either side of this three-dimensional occupied wall, pavilions project into the landscape. The house is designed as an atmosphere of nature: the ancient stone wall in the landscape becomes a centering device for dwelling.
Holley House, photo by Michael Moran
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hMa Recommends NYT : A Master of the Stone Wall Discusses the Perfect Fit
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Andrew Pighills has devoted much of his life to stone walls. He began building them as a boy, on his father’s farm in the Yorkshire Dales, in north England. Now, at 56, he is the North American representative of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, a group dedicated to the art and preservation of dry laid stone.
“A dry stone wall is a wall built without mortar,” he said. Unlike a mortared wall, which those in his profession refer to as a “wet wall,” he said, “only two things hold a dry stone wall together: gravity and friction.”
Mr. Pighills, who lives in southeast Connecticut, creates landscapes of garden and stone for private and public clients and teaches walling at workshops throughout New England. We spoke with him about his work.
Why did you start building stone walls?
I am the son of a farmer, and I had to build walls to retain the stock on the property. And having had to do it, I found that not only was I good at it, but I also enjoyed it.
What brought you to this country?
I came over to visit a friend, literally for a couple of weeks, and he said, “Oh, no, you should stay at least a month or more.” So I asked him if he knew anybody who might like some stonework done, to pay my way, and he put me through to a gentleman who had quite a large property. I did maybe a week’s work for him. He invited me back the following year to repair all the walls on his property, and while I was there I met my now-wife and eventually moved over here to live full time.
You hold workshops in New England, where there are lots of stone walls. Why is that?
The original walls were nothing more than a heap of stone that was cleared from the land so farmers could plant; they’re what I call clearance walls. Then they became boundaries. Farmers would build a little better than clearance walls to retain the stock, and then, as farming became more profitable and farmers had a little more time — it was probably second or third generation before they got to this stage — they started building actual walls. If you walk through the woods in New England, you will see all three types.
Click here to read the article in full on nytimes.com
Below are two views of hMa's Holley House in Garrison, New York, which incorporates an existing dry stone wall into its minimalist tableau. The house design features two stone landscape walls that grow out of the ground plane. To either side of this three-dimensional occupied wall, pavilions project into the landscape. The house is designed as an atmosphere of nature: the ancient stone wall in the landscape becomes a centering device for dwelling.
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Architectural Digest Names Pratt Institute Among Top Ten Colleges in US for the Architectural Significance of its Campus
hanrahan Meyers architects' Juliana Curran Terian Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) opened on the Pratt Campus in 2007 click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com post Victoria Meyers architect
Here is an excerpt from the article on Archinect.com, click the link at the end for the full version:
"Pratt recently opened a 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building named Myrtle Hall at 536 Myrtle Avenue between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street that houses the college's Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices." This building, along with hanrahan Meyers architects' Pratt Pavilion, which launched the Pratt Design Center in 2007, have reshaped the Pratt campus. Pratt Pavilion was the first project to initiate the redesign and refocusing of the Pratt campus, with buildings facing in toward the campus green, instead of facing out toward the neighboring streets.
second floor gallery interior: JCT Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Post Victoria Meyers architect
The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, opened in 2007 was designed by hanrahan Meyers architects to bring together two older loft buildings with a contemporary bridging structure to create a 200,000-square-foot complex. The Center brings together Pratt's design disciplines — interior design, fashion design, industrial design, and communications design — under one roof that allows Pratt designers to better develop their creative processes. hMa principal Victoria Meyers was the lead designer for the project, completed in 2007.
rear courtyard: JCT Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) by hanrahan Meyers architects click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center has received numerous awards including Building Brooklyn Awards from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, which recognize construction projects that enrich Brooklyn's neighborhoods and economy.
Click here to read the article in full at www.archinect.com
To view the full list of recogized colleges, please visit Architectural Digest's online slideshow at www.archdigest.com/go/campus
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Won Dharma Center featured on Architecture Week
Won Dharma Center: Meditation Hall looking west toward Administration porch click here to view more photos of Won Dharma Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com post Victoria Meyers architect
Below is an excerpt from the article; click the link at the end to read it in full at architectureweek.com:
"Claverack · 2011.0610
Construction continues on the Won Dharma Center in Claverack, New York. Hanrahan Meyers architects of New York City designed the 28,000-square-foot (2,600-square-meter) recreational and spiritual retreat for client Won Buddhism of America, Inc. The center is located on a 500-acre (200-hectare) property on a gently sloping hill. Sited as far as possible from the rural access road, the buildings are oriented toward the west and south to maximize views and daylight, and are also organized around the dual concepts of spiral and void.Won Dharma Center: interior of Meditation Hall in construction click here to view more photos of Won Dharma Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com post Victoria Meyers architect
The 3,000-square-foot (20-square-meter) 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 views of the Catskill Mountains from the meditation space itself."
http://www.architectureweek.com/2011/0615/people_and_places.html
Won Dharma Center: Permanent Residence entry and porch in construction click here to view more photos of Won Dharma Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com post Victoria Meyers architect
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Stair design 101: hanrahan Meyers architects
Laurentian Library stair: Michelangelo
Architects spend a great deal of time thinking about stairs. Personally, I've always been fascinated by gorgeous stairs. This would include the Laurentian Library stair by Michelangelo, the famous staircase by Louis Barragan, John Pawson (his own house); and Louis Kahn (the Yale Art Museum).
John Pawson: Pawson House stair
Lou Kahn's stair at the Yale Art Museum
hanrahan Meyers architects have designed a few stairs, and we've put a lot of thought into each of them - not that we believe that we equal the efforts cited above.
Below I'm showing the stair hMa designed linking Pratt Pavilion to the bridge that links Steuben and Pratt Studios together.
Pratt Pavilion stair, Brooklyn, NY; post Victoria Meyers architect
The Pratt Stair was designed using hot rolled steel shaped into a single folded plate to make treads and risers. The landing is a larger steel box. The blackened steel is a result of the industrial process used to roll the steel (hot roll) – and the rails and balustrades are in the same material. The stair is framed by the leftover remnants of the original Stueben Hall brick wall, excavated and opened, to create a new stair hall facing the Entry Lobby for the new Pratt Design Center.
Holley Stair at Holley House in Garrison, New York, is a simple maple wood stair that follows the pitch of the adjacent hill. The stair becomes cinematic in relationship to the movable wall panel that separates the stair view from the living area. (see below)
Holley House in Garrison, NY: post Victoria Meyers architect
Schrom Studio Stair is a free-standing sculpture in maple - a solid carved block of wood – that lands on an open steel deck. (see below).
Schrom Studios: post Victoria Meyers architect
At Ash 4Ways (White Space) hMa designed a 2-step down into the apartment, layering structural glass over old growth Ash from our collaborator, Hisao Hanafusa (Miya Shoji). See below:
Ash 4 Ways/ White Space post: Victoria Meyers architect
This iconic photograph by hMa photographer Michael Moran captures the spirit of this composition.
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