The Silk Building - in use

Noho, New York City 2010
space in use...

Thu, Aug 12, 2010  Permanent link

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The Silk Building

Noho, New York City 2010


Scenario:

_gut renovation of 1200sq.ft. duplex loft
_liberating open space by deleting walls
_transparent exhibitionist bathroom
_integrated corian kitchen wall
_semi walk-in closet/storage wall
_steel fireplace also dubbing as bbq
_minimal stair-railing









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unknown author,

Sometime ago, I disappeared in the dust,
I had to abandon and keep on going,
till I forgot to forget what had to be.

I wanted to see
the golden sun rise beyond my oceans,
experience what doesn't have shame nor ever will,
what can't be obeyed nor ever will,
what doesn't have truth

Some of us never came back
to gaze at the silent river waters,
to hear the birds sing their stories
of those who at once must fled their nests,
of what all the warnings couldn't avoid,
of what doesn't allow rest nor ever will.
I had to leave to find myself.

I want you to tell me,
even halt me if you must,
in case I dare to ask you,
if what made you even more beautiful
was my rushing need to return without a warning,
because it had to be.

Thu, May 27, 2010  Permanent link

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The Fireplace that is really a BBQ Grill

New York City 2010


with:
Gabriel Renz (Consultant)
Richard Aragon (Metal Fabricator)





all images courtesy of Richard Aragon_go to link

Sun, Apr 11, 2010  Permanent link

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CANOPY TOWER Concept

Panama 2009

Scenario:

_completely off-grid site
_lightweight structures touching the earth "lightly"
_harvesting of water through rainfall and passive desalination methods
_solar power generation using PV panels





























Canopy Tower Family_go to link

Tue, Feb 16, 2010  Permanent link

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NY indiefest in Panama

Panama City, Panama 2008.05.15

w/ editoris

Scenario:
The Naked Hearts and SUSU from New York City come to Panama to play with Panamanian local band Los Yegueros in underground venue "La Casona" in Casco Viejo.

sponsored by:
LG Electronics
Rockistmo Foundation
+23 Music Channel

...more to come

SUSU on +23 interview
The Naked Hearts in Madame Blanche Press Conference
Los Yegueros

The Naked Hearts
SUSU



_links:
myspace.com/thenakedhearts
myspace.com/susuband
myspace.com/losyegueros

Mon, May 18, 2009  Permanent link

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The Golden Earhorns 08.08.08

Scenario:
Jean + Gabriel's wedding_go to link

_small project on making 150 brass earhorns with Gabriel Renz
_machining and welding the male+female steel molds
_stamping brass sheets for horn-halves
_assembling halves by corrugated seam joint

Tue, Jul 22, 2008  Permanent link

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Heyri Bang Bang

He Shot Me Down

chimera robot design by Stephan Henrich

Venice Biennale 2008 _go to link



He Shot Me Down _go to link

Heyri, 2006-08, Korea
Architect: R&Sie(n)… Paris

Situation: Heyri / Korea / South Korea just in front of the North part, touching the DMZ and JSA (Demilitarized Zone and Joint Security Area Zone)

Design of a multi purposes house, including private house, dancing center, shop, restaurant, children museum…

Scenario:
1) Recognition of the situation / on the north of south Korea, on the DMZ zone, where the danger is weaved with the paranoia of danger and its own Theatralisation

2) Recognition of the specificities of the urbanism of Heyri, where domesticity are fully embedded in the public area, where the client become the support of public services.

3) Erotisation of the paranoia, by sweet ballistic impacts in the extended volume of the mountain absorbing the program

4) Trajectories of shooting as walk way access and light providers (stainless steel and glass as a homage to T1000).

5) Development of a bachelor-machine, running (on specific track) in the forest to bring back the biomass on its back, smearing the bio-grass and bio-leaves in decomposition on all external surface to maintain the insulation of the building.

Wed, Mar 19, 2008  Permanent link

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QUASAR

@ Southern California Institute of Architecture |SCI-Arc Gallery - 960 e. 3rd st. Los Angeles| 2008


Quasar is an immersive light and sound space made from prototype membranes and realized as an interactive light/sound field comprised of a dense array of interlinked elements describing an intricate three-dimensional structure. The gallery is fitted with sensors that draw real-time data from the installation and the people within the exhibition, which is then synchronized with streamed real-time data of solar activity and nuclear processes provided by SLAC and NASA. This information is then fed back into the object through layers of LED strands, re-visualizing the space in order to create an interactive spatial experience.

The word "quasar" is a contraction of the term quasi-stellar-radio-source, used historically by astronomers to describe entirely unknown cosmological objects. Today, it is believed that quasars are the most distant, and yet still detectable, objects in the universe. Giving off enormous amounts of energy produced from massive black holes in the center of their own galaxies, quasars are intensely bright; their emitted light drowning out all other stars in the same galaxy.

The exhibition draws on slap!’s continued interest in developing an awareness of the interconnectedness of space and material, with a goal of extending established notions of volume and scale. Quasar is an artificial counterpart hovering in response to the currents and activities of the visitors, and in doing so, stretches and collapses the horizons of the unknown. The possibilities of interrelated synthetic and natural processes begin to define new emergent ecologies. Quasar questions the boundaries of scale and the psyche, offering immersion into a vastly expanded space which renders perception permeable, and in the end, disperses identity.


slap!:
Jean-Michel Crettaz
Jong Hwa [Duly] Lee
Markdavid Hosale
Aaron Bocanegra
www.quasarexhibition.com


rendering by John Peck






















photo by Joshua White



quasar @ SCI-Arc from Aaron Meyers on Vimeo.

Quasar Exhibition from Aaron Bocanegra on Vimeo.


"...From then on, I, a nebula of confused elements, move among finished worlds - you have complete laws and pure order, your thoughts are assorted, your dreams are arranged, and even your visions are enrolled and registered. I measure time according to the movement of countless suns; and you measure time by little machines in your pockets. Now tell me, how could we ever meet at the same place and the same time?”

(Xiao Xuan Lu)

Wed, Jan 2, 2008  Permanent link

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Apparatus for Forgetting...

"Is it not at the moment when the human being disintegrates into cruelty that his humanity comes to light? Human rights can only be affirmed in the places and times when they are held up to ridicule. We would not bear the captivating succession of famines, earthquakes, wars and hostage-taking that we see in the media everyday if it did not show the awakening of a human quality at the very moment when it seems to be fainting in the face of these horrors. And cultures, like intelligence and beauty, never appear more dazzling than on the day of their ruin. In all of this, humanness finds its beginnings."

(Francois Roustang)

Fri, Dec 28, 2007  Permanent link

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Sponge-wall Artifact from Lost Memories...

Somewhere lost, this dried up section of a wall-pore was found and brought to attention. It appears to be a piece of what used to be a fleshy and muscous membrane: a wet, gelatinous, spongie skin - behaving in semi-liquid state; dynamic, moving, adaptive and always in state of "changing". Animal and sedentary both at the same time...

Sat, Oct 6, 2007  Permanent link

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