nature
hMa's architecture of abstract and minimal form both reveals and opens itself to nature by allowing natural spaces and materials to come into buildings. It also reveals nature by contrast, where the single architectural gesture frames complex topographies and views. In this way, the architecture of hMa both absorbs and measures nature. HOLLEY HOUSE
GARRISON, NY 2006
WHITE SPACE
NEW YORK, NY 2004
WATERFALL TABLE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2004
SEE-THRU HOUSE
DALLAS, TEXAS 2008
WATERCOLOR SKETCHES FOR INSIDE-OUT HOUSE; LEFT: MAIN ENTRY; RIGHT: BIRD'S EYE PERSPECTIVE
This project, a summer lake house, was commissioned for a location in Starlight, Pennsylvania just south of the New York border. The house is a cube, which has been subjected to the action of carving. This action has created a new space, which becomes at once interior and exterior. Inserted into the exposed surfaces of the original solid are objects that mediate between the remaining cubic volume and the new inside/out space. These mediating elements act as conduits for communication between interior and exterior spaces of the house; they also become accoutrements, or exterior furniture for the new inside/out space. This project was commissioned in 1993 and received a P/A Design Award and an AIA NYChapter Award the same year.
The materials for the house are concrete block and concrete slab, with painted steel and interiors which are sheet rock with a skim-coat of plaster.
See more of Inside-Out House on hanrahanMeyers.com
LEFT: INSIDE-OUT HOUSE MODEL, PHOTO : ESTO; RIGHT: SECTION / MASSING DIAGRAM
hMa is pleased to have been featured recently on a Dwell.com design blog. Here is what Dwell blogger Jamie Waugh had to say about the project:
Approaching 9/11, New York's unspoken heart is in Battery Park. Relevant, then, is the community center Hanrahan Meyers is developing immediately north of Ground Zero. It's condo central in those parts, and the community center will be the base of two new residential towers; but the North Neighborhood structure will be a public works project drawing modernity and peacefulness to the area that once knew hideous chaos.
The structure's highlight is a public 500-foot long glass "Wall of Light" with an LED light installation the firm designed along with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. It will bring to light the passive energy systems fueling the Community Center: a program including swimming pools, a gym, a theater, classrooms and recreation and dance spaces. Completion date: 2010.
Visit Jamie's blog on Dwell.com
Battery Park City Community Center : view of arcade looking north
NOEI : perspective view
The New Orleans Economic Incubator is a proposal by hMa for a new facility for experimental entrepreneurial endeavors. The project will provide an economic incubator in a single production and exhibition complex. hMa designed a new 'wall' building that makes a façade in front of a rehabilitated warehouse building. The wall building is a gallery for the display and sale of articles produced by the entrepreneurs who work in the Incubator. The Warehouse will be renovated as a large interior work place.
hMa is proposing this project at the edge of the Lower Garden District and the western part of the Warehouse district. Entrance to the NOEI is toward the southwest corner under a new elevated bridge and conveyance system. From the lobby, entrance to the gallery is to the east. A display and projection screen is suspended on a steel truss at the second floor gallery. Exit from the new building is under the outdoor bridge at the first floor, or through it at the second floor. The bridge links the two parts of the complex at the second floor. The courtyard is a primarily private space that all interior spaces share, except on the occasion of public shows. There is a paved market space that is primarily public for temporary outdoor stalls, also for the display of new entrepreneurial concepts by persons linked to the Incubator.
Read about and see more pictures of the NOEI on www.hanrahanmeyers.com NOEI: model view of courtyard
Holley House exterior photo by : Paul Warchol
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are honored to have the Holley House featured as an interactive floor plan on Wallpaper*.com, the online version of Wallpaper Magazine. The interactive plan features exterior, ground, and first floor plans with corresponding photographs that pop-out throughout.
Holley House is a sustainably designed residence, using green materials and green technologies to achieve superior performance with regard to energy use and a non-toxic approach to every day living. To read more about hMa and their approach to Green Architecture and Green Design, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
The following is excerpted from Wallpaper*.com :
A remote upstate getaway is now de rigueur for the modern Manhattan urbanite, and Hanrahan Meyers architects have crafted a sophisticated sanctuary for one such client. As a place where crowds, noise, and a lack of privacy are all part of the hectic routine of urban life, the nature of the city provides the architect with a formula for its perfect antithesis: solitude, quiet, and privacy. Far removed from Manhattan lofts, The Holley Residence, situated on a picturesque site near Garrison, New York, embodies the modern country retreat…
See-Thru House, hMa's design for the Urban Reserve development in Dallas, TX. Read more about Urban Reserve here and here.
Next month, on September 17th and 18th, Victoria Meyers will participate as Juror Chair for 2008 Design Awards Program at The Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Joining Victoria as part of the Unbuilt Project Jury is Edward Keegan, AIA, Associate Editor of Architect Magazine, and Andres Lepik, curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, FAIA, of Morphosis Architects, Rick Clarke, AIA, of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca and James McGrath of Foster + Partners will make up the Built Project Jury.
For more information about the 2008 Design Awards please visit www.aiadallas.org. For more information about hanrahanMeyers architects please visit our website at www.hanrahanmeyers.com.
The new hMa research section of hanrahanMeyers.com features examples of the firms research into cutting-edge materials and technologies while providing insight into the idea process.
Wave Structures: A graph from one of several researches by hMa into wave forms. Wave research was applied to WaveLine performance pavilion in Queens, NY.
Architects Design Music: A collaborative performance at The Kitchen, NYC in 2004. hMa's investigations into sound and form are part of the firm's ongoing investigation into natural phenomena, space, and materiality.
Infinite Structures: Klein bottles, moebius strips, and infinity signs were researched and turned into space at hMa's Infinity Chapel, NYC.
The hMa store features hMa's custom furniture pieces for sale by hMa and others.
'Waterfall Table' designed by Victoria Meyers is available through the hMa store. Follow this link to see Waterfall Table installed in the reception area of Theory's office in NYC's meatpacking district.
'Topo Table,' designed by Victoria Meyers and seen here in the conference room at hMa, is exclusively available through the hMa store
hMa's Holley House; completed in 2005 in Garrison, NY
hMa is pleased to be featured in the July 11, 2008 issue of Hampton Style Magazine. hMa is recognized along with other established architects and designers who work in and around the Hamptons in the the article The Who's Who of Making of Making Your House a Home.
The following is excerpted from the article :
"July 19 marks the opening of the much-anticipated Hamptons Showhouse in Sagaponack, and accordingly we present a list of the men and women who toil in the fields of interior design and architecture. Some of them span both fields, and all of them excel at their craft. Working in concert, they create the homes that draw us out to the Hamptons every summer. Borrowing the brainpower of many of them, we have also compiled a Hamptons-based resource guide for compelling decorative elements and furniture." To view this issue online, visit : www.danshamptons.com.
Dune House
hanrahanMeyers architects (hMa) are included in the Hamptons guide to architects and interior designers in recognition of the firm’s national reputation for award-winning design. hMa are one of the internationally known firms included in the ‘Houses at Sagaponac’ group of architects. hMa is in the process of designing the Dune House, a new residence in Amagansett, including state-of-the-art green features: geo-thermal heating and cooling, solar panels, and renewable, sustainably harvested materials. The firm’s researches into light can be viewed in Victoria Meyers’s 2006 book, ‘designing with light’. The firm’s reputation for design includes internationally known projects including the Holley House in Garrison, New York, featured in a monograph published by Architectura Viva.
Original model for Sagaponac House; now in re-design
hMa’s Holley House was featured in AV Monographs (No.127) for 2007 (published summer 2008) as part of the publication’s focus on The Natural House
“The 650 square meter house in the town of Garrison, New York is planned around the contrasting spatial experiences of landscape walls and horizontal decks and roofs. Two parallel walls extend in the direction of the access path and separate the two living pavilions, made of horizontal decks that cascade up and down following the slope of the site. These walls seem to emerge directly from the ground to create a sequence of interior spaces, bathed by the light proceeding from precise openings that also frame the views of the landscape.”
“When crossing the house from east to west the itinerary begins at the master bedroom, descends through a flight of stairs until reaching a space delimited by two solid walls that accommodate the guest bedrooms, and extends the views towards a small pond. From the north down, the itinerary would begin at the road, continue through the guest bedroom wing and end at the swimming pool that is detached to the south. The point of intersection of these two itineraries marks the position of the main entrance. The house is constructed from steel and wood framing, thinly cut limestone blocks, cedar siding and maple flooring and millwork.”
To contact hMa, call our New York office: 212 989 6026. For more information about hMa please visit our website at www.hanrahanmeyers.com.
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