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Victoria Meyers interview on FIXr.com

February 8th, 2011

Victoria Meyers recently sat down for an interview with the FIXr.com blog. In the interview, Ms. Meyers discusses her inspirations, life as an architect in New York City, as well as several current projects including the recently completed Infinity Chapel in Greenwich Village, NYC and Digital Water Pavilion, a community center currently under construction in Battery Park City.

Read the full Interview on FIXr.com

Infinity Chapel – sanctuary view click here to see more photos of Infinity Chapel at hanrahanmeyers.com

DWiP: Digital Water Pavilion- looking north along interactive wall click here to see more photos of Digital Water Pavilion at hanrahanmeyers.com

Link to the full Interview on FIXr.com
Sacred Architecture and Green Design : Victoria Meyers to speak about Infinity ChapelGod Comes to Earth: Designing Sacred Spaces for Environmentally Sensitive Times 10/26

October 22nd, 2009

Infinity Chapel by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to see all photos of Infinity Chapel on hanrahanMeyers.com

Victoria Meyers of hanrahan Meyers architects will be participating in a panel discussion on Sustainability and Religious Architecture at the Center for Architecture on Monday October 26th, details below. hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have completed one church in Queens, New York (Church of the Light). In addition to Infinity Chapel, the firm currently has a new Buddhist retreat in construction in Claverack, New York.

In addition to developing a track record for religious buildings, hMa has a reputation for sustainable and Green design. hanrahan Meyers have been the master plan architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood since 1997. In that capacity, hMa has overviewed the construction of over 1 million square feet of green construction, including several acres of sustainable, green landscape design. hMa wrote the design guidelines for all buildings built in the North Neighborhood since 1997, including the Solaire, the first LEED certified high-rise residential building. hMa currently has a 65,000 square foot community center in construction at Battery Park City which is headed for Platinum LEED certification.

To read more about hMa's architectural projects related to sacred spaces, as well as the firm's cutting edge green designs, go to the firm's website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and click on 'sacred spaces' or 'green', under 'Projects'.

God Comes to Earth : Designing Sacred Spaces for Environmentally Sensitive Times

When: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

Where:

The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
NY, NY 10012
(212) 683-0023

info@aiany.org

For many religious groups, caring for the environment is not an option but a spiritual imperative. For such congregations, green design goes beyond building materials and systems to address the relationship of the building to the site and of the congregants to nature. The relationship of man to nature and nature to spirituality has dramatically changed in this era of environmental awareness.

The program God Comes to Earth explores ways in which architects can design places of prayer that acknowledge this paradigm shift. Sustainability will be a key factor.

Panelists

– Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., AIA, Editor of Faith & Form
– Rabbi Lea Cohen, Congregation B’Nai Chaim, Georgetown, CT
– Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, Alexander Gorlin Architects
– Victoria Meyers, AIA, Hanrahan Meyers Architects
– Henry Stolzman, FAIA, PKSB Architects, P.C.

Click this link to read an article on the "God Comes to Earth" Panel in eOculus

view of Reading Room: hanrahan Meyers architects' Infinity Chapel click here to see all photos of Infinity Chapel on hanrahanMeyers.com
Award winning Sustainable Architecture : Hyper-Practice (as slow as possible) contemporary ideas in architecture; sustainable design

September 1st, 2009

Just as a hyper-cube has ever changing facets, hMa aspires to have a ‘hyper-practice’. Even with its infinite folding and unfolding - the hyper-cube is a unique and singular object. Even as it incorporates, time and infinite possibilities of form and information, the hyper-cube retains its ability to be recognized.

hMa has a similar image of their practice which they see as a unique figure intellectually joined to a hyper-spherical object. As a ‘hyper-sphere’ – hMa is a generative practice that grows, stretches, and morphs over time, without losing its original form. Idea diagrams for hMa's most recent project, 'Infinity Chapel', are presented below, relating Infinity Chapel to the shape of an infinity sign, as well as the three-dmensional shape of a hyper-cube. Infinity Chapel is designed as a minimalist chapel with the form of a perfect cube, deformed, through time, by light. This deformation process pushes Infinity Chapel into the form of a hyper-cube.

hypercube diagram

If we could, hMa would leave the planet with our own architectural version of John Cage’s musical composition, Organ² / ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) – currently being played over 639 years by its interpreters in Germany. Cage’s piece is an all-encompassing time-piece that touches the earth lightly. Using a similar approach to our architecture, hMa hopes to achieve a similarly powerful impact, using minimal means.

Infinity Chapel represents hMa's overall concept of buildings that move and transform, over time. The Chapel is dynamic in form and self-sustaining.

Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects

hMa sees their practice as a sustainable approach to creating buildings and places of beauty. John Cage’s engagement with the world made an impact on people’s lives through works that were often silent, but powerful. hMa strives to impact human life through a similar relationship between art and beauty by building projects that respect the environment and occupy the planet with minimal impact.

To see hMa’s version of an ‘infinite unfolding over time’, visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com. Pass through the site’s main portals by hitting: ‘hMa blog’; ‘Cultural Conversations’; and ‘hMa Research’. These three portals keep hMa engaged in the world in a way that changes, in reaction to time, just as you would expect a hyper-practice should.

left: John Cage; right: the bellows for the custom-made organ currently playing Cage's "ASLSP" in a performance in Halberstadt Germany scheduled to take 639 years to complete

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Tag: chapel design

Victoria Meyers interview on FIXr.com

Sacred Architecture and Green Design : Victoria Meyers to speak about Infinity ChapelGod Comes to Earth: Designing Sacred Spaces for Environmentally Sensitive Times 10/26

Award winning Sustainable Architecture : Hyper-Practice (as slow as possible) contemporary ideas in architecture; sustainable design