Tag: designing with light

Museum of light and shadow Museum Design; Museums and Light; Queens Museum of Art

May 17th, 2010

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.
Light in ArchitectureDesigning with Light by Victoria Meyers; Natural Light; Natural Light in Residences

June 5th, 2009

Victoria Meyers of hMa published her book Designing with Light based on several projects by the firm that use natural light to create architectural space.

exterior detail: hMa's Holley House in Garrison, NY

interior: Holley House

Several of the firm's projects, including Holley House, White Space (featured on the book's cover), Pratt Pavilion, and the soon to be completed Battery Park City Community Center, feature light as a major component of the overall design.

gallery view: hMa's Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion

Designing With Light by Victoria Meyers on Amazon.com.

To read more about hMa's use of natural light in their projects, go to the website about the book, www.designingwithlight.us. To see more of hMa's projects, visit their website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
Light ResearchInfinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects

March 11th, 2009

HANRAHAN MEYERS ARCHITECTS: LIGHT STUDY MODEL

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have pursued investigations into light as an area of special interest. hMa has pursued light by developing new window and skylight prototypes, and through the use of color both as a direct and reflected medium.

The above project is hMa’s prototype study for a glass screening device. The screen can be adjusted to allow differing aspects of light through a set of metal pieces, which forms a flexible ‘fabric’ in front of a clear glass window. The window looks toward a busy urban street, and sits in front of a private library collection; a space for reading and storing books. The screen removes the disruption of an urban landscape, while allowing natural light to filter into the library. The library contains rare books, and the screen is designed to control the quantity of natural light.

Read more on Light research in Victoria Meyers' book Designing with Light.

LIGHT MONITOR DIAGRAM FOR HMA'S INFINITY CHAPEL

INFINITY CHAPEL SKYLIGHT ON CHAPEL STAGE, GARDEN CHAPEL IN BACKGROUND. PHOTO: MICHAEL MORAN

For more information about Infinity Chapel, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.