Tag: Ash 4Ways

Before and After: hanrahan Meyers architects, Ash 4Ways

September 29th, 2011

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.
Furniture Design Minimalist furniture design: Design Furniture: Furniture + Nature; natural furniture design

June 24th, 2010

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.
Ash 4 Ways : wood, stone, metal, and glass

March 26th, 2007

Ash 4 Ways
2005
New York, New York

Design awards:

AIA New York Chapter, Merit Award 2005
Wood Design and Building Council, Honor Award, 2005

Ash 4 Ways is a Manhattan apartment where ash is used in four different states of finish within a minimalist white envelope. The apartment finishes are primarily ash, with different finishes: white finished, sandblasted ash (wall panels); sand-blasted, acid washed and wire-brush scrubbed ash with high gloss white finish (bedroom furniture); natural finish ash door panels; and natural hand-rubbed, wax finished 5” thick wood from ancient ash trees.

Most of the ash has a white, shop-applied finish, to make the apartment envelope relatively silent. Throughout the project, pieces of old, ash planks with a hand-rubbed finish float within the neutral, white envelope. The white envelope is differentiated on inspection, however, by the varying degrees of wood grain. The painted ash is acid dipped and wire brushed, or sand-blasted, so that the wood grain appears more or less prominently. Painted panels are juxtaposed to natural-finished ash door panels and free-form ash planks from ancient ash trees harvested locally in upper New York State.

The principal materials for the two bathrooms are: natural finished solid ash doors: white-painted sand-blasted ash wall panels; translucent, hand-made glass tiles by MBC studios, a family owned glass atelier in upstate New York, as well as translucent glass panels. One bath makes the eastern edge of the living room, with translucent glass. This bath has a shower. The other bath has a privacy window (painted sand-blasted ash), which can be opened to the adjacent master bedroom.

The desired overall effect was to create a space of calm where the large pieces of free-form ash from ancient trees could float. This wood is in reference to the Nature in Central Park, which the apartment overlooks.

Tag: Ash 4Ways

Before and After: hanrahan Meyers architects, Ash 4Ways

Furniture Design Minimalist furniture design: Design Furniture: Furniture + Nature; natural furniture design

Ash 4 Ways : wood, stone, metal, and glass