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Furniture Design Minimalist furniture design: Design Furniture: Furniture + Nature; natural furniture design
Victoria Meyers architect, hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) partner, designs custom furnishings to fit clients' needs. Many projects result in spaces where off-the-shelf furniture doesn't fit. For White Space / Ash 4Ways, for example, this included most of the apartment furniture.
White Space / Ash 4Ways dining room table : hanrahan Meyers architects with Miya Shoji. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com; Post: Victoria Meyers architect
For the living room hMa designed a coffee table that opens to become a bed. For the dining area, hMa worked with hMa collaborator Miya Shoji to design a custom dining room table that fit within the confines of a limited dining space. For the Bedroom, hMa designed a bed that incorporates storage and also elegantly controls the flow into and out of the room. The solution faces the bed toward the apartment's Central Park view. Closets lining the bedroom open to reveal an enclosed work desk. Tight New York spaces work when furnishings are customized to fit the space.
Master Bedroom custom bed : hanrahan Meyers architects with Miya Shoji. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com; post: Victoria Meyers architect
In addition to designing elegant and beautiful solutions to everyday living, hMa designs award-winning, one-of-a-kind specialty furnishings. This includes WaterFall Table, hMa's winning design entry to the 'Wonder Women' furniture competition.
WaterFall Table by Victoria Meyers, available through Dune Furniture. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com, Post: Victoria Meyers architect
WaterFall Table was designed as a simple slab of (sustainably harvested) ash, supported on two planar leg supports, so that you read the horizontal line of the table-top as a strong line, floating in space. At the two edges, steel beads make a translucent WaterFall. The table was designed to transport interior spaces into Nature.
Music Box: Designed for New York Composer Michael Schumacher; hanrahan Meyers architects. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
The Music Box, commissioned by New York Composer Michael Schumacher, was designed as a container for an ambient sound art installation. Schumacher's ambient sound pieces use everyday sounds to make compositions. Schumacher requested an object that would perform as the sound-art equivalent of Duchamp's urinal. To create a box that took the everyday, and force it into a new geometry, hMa designed an anamorphic cube. An Anamorph is a figure that appears randomly distorted, that pops into its normal shape when viewed from the correct angle. The Music Box is a distorted cube.
To read more about hMa's furniture designs, visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Infinity Chapel in ARCHITECT magazine
Infinity Chapel: View toward Garden Chapel. All photos: Michael Moran Studio
(excerpt from Architect magazine June 2007)
Christian Science Reading Room
by Amanda Kolson HurleyFor members of a religious denomination that prizes outreach and engagement with the wider world – hence it’s signature publication, the Christian Science Monitor – the Greenwich Village home of New York’s Tenth Church of Christ Scientist, posed a problem.
A six story building on MacDougal Street had belonged to the Church since the 1920’s. The building received a startling facelift in 1966 when the façade was bricked over, leaving only one narrow slit of a window. The chapel inside was invisible from the street and the reading room – meant to be a welcoming space – was sad and cramped, tucked into a corner. Thus the decision in 2005 to hire an architect and reinvent their space.
Infinity Chapel: Podium wood overhang provided by Miya-Shoji. Photos: Michael Moran StudioTwo church members were searching for architects online and came across a book by hMa, designing with light. They loved it, and in 2005 the church approached hMa principals Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers. Andrea McCormick, the Church’s manager, says that they clinched the commission during the first interview. “They just got it. We were at their offices; they pulled out a book, opened to a picture, and said, ‘something like this?’ I said, ‘That’s it.’ It was a picture of Le Corbusier’s 1954 masterpiece, Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France. Meyers had compared Ronchamp to a church designed by mathematician and architect Guarino Guarini as an architecture student.
Guarini seemed a natural model for Meyers who is fascinated by higher mathematics. She and Hanrahan started the project with the concept of a space defying clear limits, exemplified by geometric figures like a hypercube, an infinity sign, and a Mobius strip. The goal was to ‘push’ surfaces so that the space turned into something more interesting than a box, says Hanrahan.
Infinity Chapel: Christian Science Reading Room, NYC. Photos: Michael Moran StudioVisitors to the new Christian Science Reading Room will see the church’s new Infinity Chapel, its double-height, curved back wall refracting light from the courtyard beyond, allowing more light in through large skylights. The viewer’s sightline will stretch all the way to the bamboo-planted courtyard. At night the plane of the chapel ceiling will be washed with light, and the entire space will glow.
When the new reading room and Infinity Chapel are finished, McCormick predicts, “It’ll be intriguing enough that (people) will come in and say, ‘What is this all about?’ Anyone even interested in design will want to come in and see this incredible space.”
visit ARCHITECT online to read full text of article. To see more about hanrahan Meyers architects, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Sculptural Form ArchitectureArchitecture and Mathematics; Infinity Chapel; WaveLine; Guarino Guarini
the curvilinear forms of the Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects are based on a hypercube concept click here to view more photos Infinity Chapel on hanrahanMeyers.comhanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) Infinity Chapel is an exploration of a square deforming into an infinity sign; and a cube deforming into a hypercube. The square and the cube historically represented a static approach to design. Infinity signs, moebius strips, klein bottles and hypercubes represent an active interpretation of classic shapes and space. Infinity Chapel is a project that uses these dynamic mathematical forms – deforming through the action of light – to create a unique, sacred space.
Contemporary architects have taken an interest in forms that defy logic by creating bounded, but infinite spaces. These interests take the form of klein bottles and moebius strips. Many of the cutting-edge architectural investigations in recent years have incorporated these bounded but infinite forms.
The influence of mathematics in architecture has varied over time, but its influence can be found in Greek temples laid out as demonstrations of the golden section rectangle. In medieval Europe, cathedrals were laid out by stonemasons using 'sacred numbers', generating forms according to principals handed down within free-mason families.
Guarino Guarini, a 17th century mathematician, designed baroque cathedrals using ideas from contemporary mathematics. His use of the calculus to create baroque forms within cathedral oculi earned Guarini, an Italian monk, a greater place in history than his treatises on descriptive geometry.
Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin
The current trend in architecture has been toward sculptural and dynamic forms, similar to the Baroque period. Contemporary architects including Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have designed buildings with highly dynamic forms to invoke movement and drama. Working in that tradition, hMa's Infinity Chapel employs dramatic mathematically based forms and light to embody contemporary ideas from science and mathematics.
hMa references mathematical forms in their works, using classic formal shapes: circles, lines, and squares (Light Score; Holley House; Inside-Out House); as well as dynamic forms: moebius strips, klien bottles, hypercubes and hyperspheres (Infinity Chapel; Ojai Festival Shell; WaveLine) - to construct their projects. Every hMa project depicts a projection in the physical world of a set of theoretical concepts. By giving clients physical access to these forms in physical spaces that they occupy on a daily basis, hMa's projects become physical bridges to a cerebral interpretation of Nature and the universe beyond.
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Minimalist Modern Chapel Design: Architecture and Light: Infinity Chapel, NYC Modern Church Design
view of sanctuary: Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects click to view more photos. For information contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com. All photos by Michael Moran.
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are pleased to announce that Infinity Chapel is opening to the general public on June 30, 2010. Infinity Chapel is designed around mathematical ideas based on hyper-cubes and infinity.
The Chapel uses shaped walls, and openings based on precise mathematical forms: squares; golden section rectangles, and lines - to create a unique spiritual environment within the chapel: a perfect cube. Articulated lines, squares, and shaped apertures flood light into the Chapel from each of the cardinal directions. The mathematically precise apertures bring formally articulated areas of light into the Chapel sanctuary. The combination of curves and light create a symphony of form and light.
curved wall detail: Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects. For information, contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com. Photos by Michael Moran.
Located at 171 MacDougal Street, Infinity Chapel will be open to the General Public after June 30, 2010. The congregation welcomes visitors to the Chapel. To tour the Chapel, visitors would check in with the librarian at the Christian Science Reading Room, located in front of the Chapel, facing MacDougal Street.
The Chapel is visible from MacDougal Street. The front facade of the building is glass, looking into the Christian Science Reading Room. Beyond the Reading Room, separated by a floor to ceiling glass wall, is Infinity Chapel. Beyond Infinity Chapel, separated by a third glass plane, is an outdoor Chapel.
Standing on MacDougal Street, Visitors can see the Reading Room, the Chapel, and the outdoor Garden Chapel beyond.
sanctuary view looking toward Reading Room and MacDougal Street. For information contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com. Photos by Michael Moran.
Click here to view more photos of Infinity Chapel on hanrahanMeyers.com
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ExecSense Webinar with Norman Weinstein 6/16:”What You Would Learn from Reading the Top 10 Architecture Books of All Time and How to Apply the Concepts Today”
In What You Would Learn from Reading the Top 10 Architecture Books of All Time, ExecSense examines how architects can apply the most important and timeless design concepts from these books to their practice today. Take the 60 minutes to view this webinar (on your computer, mobile phone, iPod or printed out) to learn everything you need to know from these “architect classics,” without having to spend the hours reading each book, and be able to capitalize on new ideas and design concepts that you can immediately implement.
If you cannot call-in to attend the webinar and view the presentation at 4:30 EST, Wednesday, June 16th, ExecSense will email you the PowerPoint, audio and supplementary files by the next day for viewing at your convenience (you simply need to register before the webinar occurs). If you would like to ask an anonymous question or request a specific topic to be covered during the webinar, please email the moderator at lauraj@execsense.com after you have registered to attend.
Read more + register here: http://execsense.com/details.asp?id=1342
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Digital Water Pavilion: Cloud Architecture: Google, Twitter and ArchitectureWater Wall facade
The Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center) is a new project by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) for Battery Park City Authority, in downtown Manhattan, across from Ground Zero. The project is a 550-foot long digitally interactive facade that will feature a sound composition, 'WATER', by New York Composer and hMa collaborator, Michael Schumacher. The Pavilion's glass facade will have interactive links, so that music (WATER), and the Pavilion's architecture will link directly to contemporary social networks, Twitter and Google.
sample of arcade wall pattern for Battery Park City Community Center, cover for soon to be released CD for WATER, composed by Michael Schumacher for the Digital Water Pavilion
hMa's Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center) will integrate the cloud into the architecture by using a smart phone app as an integrated part of the building's public facade. Pavilion's east facing facade is a 550-long glass wall engraved with a frit pattern representation of New York composer Michael Schumacher's sound piece: 'WATER'. This piece joins Pavilion visitors thru Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, integrating with them through a smart phone app that will allow visitors to use cell phones to read different parts of Schumacher's 'WATER' as they walk along the glass wall.
The Water Pavilion's main facade is imprinted with digital code, embedded with a digital soundtrack from the hMa / Schumacher collaboration, 'WATER'. Visitors will wave their smart phones at the Pavilion wall and 'play' the wall.
interactive wall detail : Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center) by hanrahan Meyers architects, collaboration with Michael Schumacher
For more information about hMa's Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center) visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Modern Public Building Designmodern minimalist public buildings; Pratt Design Center; Award winning Public Buildngs, steel and glass
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have a twenty-year track record designing public buildings. If you are an institutional client – a college, university, church, or other public institution – hMa brings a full roster of outstanding and award-winning experience to public projects. hMa has experience designing the master plan for over 1,000,000 square feet of sustainable, green construction for Battery Park City Authority; designing a campus center for Pratt Institute; and creating the unique interior space for the Infinity Chapel in Manhattan.
This is what people are saying about hanrahan Meyers architects' award-winning public works:
"Pratt Design Center is extraordinary because it achieves a visionary model not only in concept, but also in purpose and design"
Juliana Curran Terian on Pratt Design Center, Real Estate Weekly 3/21/2007hanrahanMeyers architects' Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion in Brooklyn, NY click here to see more on www.hanrahanMeyers.com
"With its curved roof, this multi-use theater looks like a grey sea wave playfully lapping at the base of the bland public housing tower next to it"
Lisa Delgado for The Architect's Newspaper, Issue 17, Oct 17, 2007 "Studio Visit : hanrahanMeyers"hanrahanMeyers architects' WaveLine Pavilion in Queens, NY click here to see more on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
"When the new reading room and Infinity Chapel are finished, it’ll be intriguing enough that (people) will come in and say, ‘What is this all about?’ Anyone even interested in design will want to come in and see this incredible space.”
excerpted from Architect magazine, June 2007 "Christian Science Reading Room" by Amanda Kolson HurleyhanrahanMeyers architects' Infinity Chapel in Greenwich Village, NYC click here to see more on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
"Finding a way to do that [create spiritual places that put you in direct contact with nature] in urban spaces like Battery Park City or a 1,600-square-foot urban loft in midtown Manhattan may seem impossible, and that's why [hMa's] work has won so many architectural awards"
Kris Frieswick for Arrive Magazine, May/June 2007 "Six People Changing the Way We Live"hanrahanMeyers architects' Battery Park City Community Center in NYC click here to see more on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
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Infinity Chapel on dezeen.com Minimalist Modern Chapel Design; Light and Architecture
curved wall detail: Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects see more photos of the project here
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa's) recently completed Infinity Chapel, featuring a cube shaped sanctuary deformed by light, was recently published on dezeen.com. To read more about hMa's modern, minimalist Chapel design, visit the firm's website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
Click here to view the post on Infinity Chapel on dezeen.com
view of sanctuary: Infinity Chapel by hanrahanMeyers architects LLP
photo by: Michael Moran
sanctuary view looking down hallway toward offices: Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects LLP
photo by Michael Moran
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Museum of light and shadow Museum Design; Museums and Light; Queens Museum of Art
Perspective Model of Queens Museum of Art concept. For more information, contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com.
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were one of four architectural firms selected to redesign the Queens Museum of Art in New York City. hMa's design is focused around the idea of building a new shell around the existing building that brought light into the existing building. The shell also incorporated screens that could be cut, bent and formed to create apertures for displaying art and events happening inside the museum on the building's new exterior skin.
Queens Museum of Art: Site Plan. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com.
The site plan above shows hMa's building concept, of creating a building that reads in a series of layers as visitors walk from north to south, starting with a new free-standing paviling located at teh north end of the parking lot, through the lot, which is designed to incorporate planting as part of the layering of the building experience and the site experience, with the layering continuing as visitors walk through the building. the linear bands on the plan represent new 'light tubes' that would be installed on top of the existing building, to add gallery space, and to bring light through new roof top skylights into the building below. The site is the location of the 1964 / 65 World's Fair in New York City.
Perspective View: Queens Museum of Art, hanrahan Meyers architects. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com
Bird's Eye View: Queens Museum of Art, hanrahan Meyers architects. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com
hMa's design for the Queens Museum was featured on the cover of Concept magazine (No. 37) as the most innovative solution for the museum from the competition entries. For more information about the Queens Museum of Art, visit http://hanrahanmeyers.com.
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BP Oil Spill: What can we as architects do to help?
The BP (British Petroleum) oil spill is perhaps one of the worst ecological disasters of our century. The Oil Companies have been drilling ('drill baby drill'?) for oil, with one thing in mind: money. They've been cutting corners, and lying to the general public and to the U.S. Government about how safe their operations really are.
Drilling 5,000 feet below the ocean, in turbulent waters with highly variable conditions, including hurricanes (which can destroy oil rigs) and frigid temperatures at the ocean floor, combine to create a highly volatile, uncontrollable situation. It puts the world's oceans and the wildlife who live there, at risk. This is not acceptable. (Hint to DEMOCRATS: if you want to win the next election, why not post images of the REPUBLICANS chanting 'drill baby drill' from the last election, and post, right next to that, images of the disaster in the Gulf.).
If ever there was a siren call for the world to wean itself off OIL - we're there. This is a disaster.
The world's oceans are at grave risk. The oceans are a resource we need to treasure and protect. Oil Executives don't care about clean water, and they don't care about ocean wildlife. I think even REPUBLICANS ('drill baby drill') - may recognize that the time has come for them to back off from their attacks and intimidation tactics against environmentalists who have been calling for CLEAN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS to our energy and living needs.
What can we as Architects do to support this conversation?
We can all get behind sustainable and green infrastructure in all of our projects, especially when it comes to energy sources in our projects.
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are currently working with the Won Buddhist Organization of America to build a five-building project on a 700-acre site, that is GREEN and 100% 'off the grid'. Through a combination of geo-thermal wells, solar panels, and the implementation of wood-chip technologies, the Buddhists are doing their part to help the planet, and we, as architects, are doing everything we can to help them achieve that goal.
I would encourage all clients considering projects in their future - to heed this call to action. Support clean, green renewable energy solutions in your projects. Go 'off the grid'. Put money into the development of clean, sustainable, renewable energy sources for your new building or master plan.
America can take the lead in this change. Go green! Our future (and our future generations' futures) depends on it.
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