Category: Architecture
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Above: v.Ma_Studio's interpretation of WaTER: WaterFall Table
Water: Oil on Canvas: Karen Gunderson
Above: v.Ma_Studio: DWi.P: a 30,000 square foot public Community Center at Battery Park City:
A 320 foot long glass facade with an etched finish referencing WaTER.DWi.P: a building whose ground floor houses pools of WaTER.
A building that sits West of the World Trade Center Memorial fountain and east of the Hudson River.
Karen Gunderson: WaTER: oil on canvas
Takemitsu: photograph of Water/ Sky
Above: WaterFall Table: vMa_Studio
Each of these images are artistic interpretations of WaTER.
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Victoria Meyers architect has conducted investigations into WaTER and how WaTER affects architecture. Projects by vM.a_Studio that reference water. Research into aesthetic interpretations of WaTER include works by artist Karen Gunderson. Gunderson is an artist who devoted her art to revealing aspects of water, sky, and the natural world through the manipulation of oil on canvas, as well as through pencil drawings on paper. I've used Gunderson's paintings as teaching tools in architectural design studios at Columbia University, Cornell University, and elsewhere.
Karen Gunderson: Studies of WaTER
Above: Karen Gunderson: Water
Above: Water on display at Battery Park City's Teardrop Park. vM.a_Studio, with hMa/ with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. vM.a_Studio, with hMa, had design oversight for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood.
Above: WaterFall table designed by Victoria Meyers for vM.a_Studio.
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Prototype: Urban Outfitters Maker space, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
Studio Focus:Design the Roof /. Why the Roof? The Roof is the principal surface that determines the ability to 'Make' in the space. IE: It's very difficult to install a 15 foot high Digital Printing Machine in a space that has a ceiling lower than 20'. MaKE THE ROOF!
BE PREPARED TO MAKE DYNAMIC DRAWINGS THAT MAP YOUR ROOF CONCEPT!
BE PREPARED TO MAKE DYNAMIC DRAWINGS THAT EXPAND YOUR CONEPTUAL IDEA:
WHAT ENCOMPASSES THE IDEA OF 'ROOF'?
BE PREPARED TO WORK WITH NEW TYPES OF MATERIALS WHEN YOU BUILD YOUR MODELS
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Hack-Make: Use origami paper to study form and color.
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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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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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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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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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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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