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Natural Light in Architecture Part 1: Red Hook Center for the Arts, Holley House, Won Dharma Center, Arts International

September 1st, 2011

skylight detail: hMa's Redhook Center for the Arts in Brooklyn, NY click here to view more photos of the project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have designed most of their buildings around the use of natural light. hMa works with natural materials, light and nature using a minimal palette to achieve unique spatial experiences for clients. hMa's clients include private and public organizations who build public buildings, including monasteries, churches (Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, NY), Community Centers (Battery Park City Community Center), institutes and universities (Pratt Institute, for whom hMa designed Pratt Pavilion), as well as private clients, who build residential projects, including Holley House, and Ash 4Ways. Redhood Center for the Arts, above is a public building where the public spaces are bathed in natural light, mediated by painted surfaces that create washes of color.

Holley House, below, uses a palette of natural materials. The various materials, including local stone, wood, and glass, create a powerful transitional sensibility through the house, and light creates the sequences from public to private spaces.

skylight detail: hMa's Holley House in Garrison, NY click here to view more photos of the project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com

skylight detail: interior view of Meditation Hall: hMa's Won Dharma Center in Claverack, NY click here to view more photos of this project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com

Won Dharma Center in Claverack, NY, is a Buddhist Retreat where hMa designed a campus including five building. Shown above is the Meditation Hall, in construction. The rear wall of the Hall has a niche topped with a skylight, to create a powerful play of light on the rear wall. Windows on this wall and the adjacent, east facing wall are low, so that they allow light into the space, but talk about the low eye level of the seated meditators. The west wall features large expanses of glass, with unobstructed views toward the Catskill Mountains.

Arts International, below, was designed as as a large interior gallery, surrounded by private offices. The office areas had large windows, and clear glass panels to the Gallery, so that even as an interior gallery, this inner space is still flooded with light.

hMa's Arts Inernational Headquarters in NY, NY click here to view more photos of the project on www.hanrahanMeyers.com

To read more about hMa and the firm's use of natural light in architecture, please visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.

hMa is a firm of five architects, as well as interns, and the practice is run as a collaborative design studio.
hMa / Myonggi Sul collaboration: Won Buddhist Retreat in Claverack, NY

October 28th, 2010

Won Buddhist Retreat site – southwest view

hMa's latest Green project, designed in collaboration with Myonggi Sul, is the new Won Buddhist Retreat compound to be located in Claverack, New York. This is to be a Green community designed with a zero carbon footprint.

Ms. Sul brings great strengths to the hMa / Sul collaboration (hMa/S). Ms. Sul was formerly the Director of Interior Design at Gatje, Papachristou and Smith Architects, and an Associate at GN Associates. Currently, Ms. Sul is a Professor at Pratt Institute's Interior Design Department.

Ms. Sul's clients have included: Samsung Corporation; JP Stevens; Westinghouse Corporation; Kolon Corporation; Random House; Chemical Bank; kNBC;and GE Medical Systems; in addition to private residential clients.

Click here to read more about the Won Buddhist Retreat on hanrahanmeyers.com

Meditation Hall interior looking west

At the Buddhist Retreat in Claverack, Ms. Sul brought great strengths to the project, with insights into the interior design of every room in the project. Ms. Sul designed most of the project interiors, and was instrumental in the high level of discussion that occurred throughout the project. This includes the powerful manner in which the team linked interior spaces with the exterior views to Nature.

Guest Residence #1 – courtyard view

The Won Buddhist Retreat is a retreat in rural, upstate New York for spiritual reflection and discussion. The property gently slopes toward the west, offering views of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. The buildings for the center, which include permanent and guest residences, an administration building and a large meditation hall, are placed in the northern end of the site, set back from the highway. The buildings are all oriented towards the west and south to maximize view and light, while each building is organized around an internal courtyard.
Infinity Chapel and Won Dharma Center win Faith & Form Design Awards for 2010

July 22nd, 2010

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are pleased to announce that two hMa projects have won awards in the 2010 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Design Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture. Infinity Chapel has won an Honor Design Award in the Religious Architecture – Renovation category and Won Dharma Center won a Merit Design Award in the Unbuilt Work category.

These and all winning entries will be published in the Winter 2010 Awards Issue of Faith & Form magazine. Read more about the awards program, Faith and Form magazine, and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture here.

detail: Infinity Chapel by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to see more images of the Chapel at hanrahanMeyers.com. Post: Victoria Meyers architect

The Infinity Chapel for the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist features a cubic sanctuary deformed by light. The new sanctuary is a place where the sacred geometries of squares, golden section rectangles, and ‘spheres of light’ will surround worshipers. Three curving walls – one from the south, one from the north and one from the east – suggest the large spheres. These forms evoke the shape of a ‘Klein bottle’ or moebius strip, simple figures that suggest infinity by having no beginning and no end.

view of Meditation Hall: Won Dharma Center by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to see more images of Won Dharma Center at hanrahanMeyers.com, Post: Victoria Meyers architect

hMa's latest Green project for a spiritual group is the new Won Dharma Center compound to be located in Claverack, New York. This is to be a Green community designed with sensitivity to Nature and issues of Sustainable design.

The Won Dharma Center will be a retreat in rural, upstate New York for spiritual reflection and discussion. The property gently slopes toward the west, offering views of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. The buildings for the center, which include permanent and guest residences, an administration building and a large meditation hall, are placed in the northern end of the site, set back from the highway. The buildings are all oriented towards the west and south to maximize view and light, while each building is organized around an internal courtyard.
In Construction : Won Buddhist Training Centercampus master plan; buddhist retreat design; modern campus design

December 3rd, 2009

hMa is pleased to announce that construction has begun on the Won Buddhist Training Center in Claverack, NY. The Won Buddhist Center will be a Green campus designed with sensitivity to Nature and issues of Sustainable design.

Here are some current photos of the Won Buddhist Center campus under construction:

Administration Building : Won Buddhist Training Center in construction click here to view all photos of the Won Buddhist Training Center at www.hanrahanmeyers.com

site view from Guest Residence Buildings click here to view all photos of the Won Buddhist Training Center at www.hanrahanmeyers.com

view through office window : Won Buddhist Training Center in construction click here to view all photos of the Won Buddhist Training Center at www.hanrahanmeyers.com