s.e.m.p.e.r. : system, energy, materiality, program, education, research
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S.E.M.P.E.R : System; Energy; Materiality; Program; Education; and Research. How hMa's system of design addresses the overall edcuational experience of architecture. Victoria Meyers architect presents Urban Design (Battery Park City Master Plan); public buildings (DWi-P); and student works (Sound Urbanism Research by Meyers' University of Cincinnati School of Architecture Graduate Studio and Research Seminar).TRANSCRIPT
S.e. M. P. e . R.
System
EDUCATION
Materiality
PROGRAM
Energy
RESEARCH
Pratt Pavilion
Dynamic Space
Ryoan-Ji
Static Garden
1. System: mathematical forms/ manipulate environments
Klein Bottle / Fractal Space
HyberCube
Infinity Chapel 4th Dimension Warped Cube: Anamorphic Space
Cube
Form / CubeThru
Spiral + HyperCube
Duplication and Biogenesis Thru Dynamic Systems of Space
1. System:
Dynamic algorithmic form
Won Buddhist Retreat Meditation HallStatic Cube: Space of Stasis
Architecture as Stasis
Infinity Chapel
Geometry + Light
Light and Sound Boxes
Form + Circulation stated through Sacred Geometries and Ritual
Movements determined by Spiral Circulation building to building
System : Movement through SpaceAbove: John Cage (composer) and Marcel Duchamp (visual artist) play chess.
Chess:Cartesian Grid Actors move through Space - Space generates the Program
Movement: Arts and Culture Robotics create Sculpture
Skylar Tibbits: SJETS: self-assembling programmable materiality
Spirals by hMa:
Real Hard Won Insight
Sculpture collaboration with Bruce Pearson
Spiral Walking Diagram
Won Buddhist Spiral buildings
Tenth Church
of Christ,
Scientist
1. System:Static Form :
Bridge Studio : Line
hMa Logo : Sound Waves // Energy // Light
ARCHITECTURE IS ENERGY WAVES
2. Energy: the Catalyst for Human Life + Culture
hMa - books that deal with Energy Waves/ and Architecture:
Designing with Light (light waves)
Shape of Sound (sound waves)
DWi-P (Digital Water i-Pavilion, Battery Park City, NYC
Event Horizon of internet cell-phone connectivity thru glass façade
Reflection of Sound
DWi-P Sound Field Battery Park City North Neighborhood
Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Center: Building Designed in Response to Temperature, Sunlight, Water Collection, and other natural factors
Materiality: Architecture : at the Scale of the Hand
Hand / LED Screen -
Touch Light / Touch Glass
Hand: Cave in PatagoniaPainting on Stone by Hand
3. Materiality : Materials Reference the World Itself with the most basic language - Materials
LightScore
Waterfall Table
DWi-P
Form / Waterthru
Sound + Light
Timbre
Wood – collaborator: Miya Shoji
Holley House: Stone + Wood
DWi-P Digital Water i-PavilionLower Manhattan
A conversation between Glass, Steel, and Stone
4. PROGRAM: The cultural and Narrative Aspect of Design
GLOBAL NETWORKS
Mark Lombardi, artist used mapped research to create diagrams, including this one, showing every major player involved in the September 11th plot - in 2008.
The FBI descended on NYC the day after 9/11, demanding Lombardi’s works from the Whitney Museum + Pierogi Gallery.
5. Education: Architecture Is Education
Cincinnati Sound Sections
Sound Urbanism/ Sound EcologyCourse, Spring 2013, and 2014
Manhattanville “M(w)EE”
Studio Work:
BPC Master Plan DWi-P
Global Architecture at the Scale of the Hand
6. Research : A Testing Process used to Understand our Environment
Dr. Lene Hau –Experiment with control of speed of light
Infinity Chapel, NYC : The Lack of Specificity of Edge wrt Light and SoundQuestions Edges of the Space Lack of Edge = Infinite, Fluid Space/ Liminal Space
hMa Projects:
1) System:
Pearson Sculpture
FRACTAL FORM
2) Energy:
Won Dharma Center:
Absolute Zero / Silence
3) Materiality:
Bridge-Studio:
Line
4) Program
DWi-P :
Porous Edge / Sound Urbanism
5) Education
Pratt Pavilion
Warped Cube
6) Research
Battery Park City Master Plan Woven Fabric
System : FRACTAL FORM how human beings use Mathematical Formulations to
manipulate environments
NY Art friends : Bruce Pearson (painter)hMa Artist/ Architect Collaboration
Bruce Pearson Sculpture : Text On (In) Landscape
Pearson /hMa Sculpture collaboration: Contains Real Hard Won Insight
‘On / In’ Landscape : Text in the Urban Field / FRACTAL FORM
Sculpture as Urban Intervention: Pedestrian Circulation / Urban Gallery for Text + Communication
Energy : 0 = INVISIBILITYEnergy is the Catalyst for Human Life + Culture
=
ABSOLUTE ZERO
GEOMETRY
+
NO SPACE IN THE LANDSCAPE
Won Dharma Center : Absolute Zero
A POROUSCOURTYARD INNER
MEMBRANE
WON DHARMA CENTER
Dynamic Open Spirals / vs / Stasis beneath a Rectangular Roof
Plans – Through the landscape
Meditation : Roof Plane // a space for introspection
Spirit
+
Silence
World
+
Sound
A “chord” that
connects World to
Spirit
Sound
Silence
Areas of Sound: Meditation = Silence/ Residential Buildings = SoundWalking Paths = Nature
Dining Hall
Meditation
Live
‘Dynamic Courtyards’ : Open Spirals : movement diagrams
2 visiting residences connect Sounds of Life
A dynamic connection through site // pathsSounds of Nature
Wood Screen Frames : Infinite Bleed of Edge : 0/+
Materiality : LINEMaterials Root us in our World
BRIDGE - STUDIO : Line in Landscape
Joe’s art
Joe Amhrein presents Pierogi Gallery, Williamsburg, to visiting SVA students
SERRA IS AN ARTIST WHO CAN’T BE SEPARATED FROM MATERIALITY: STEEL
BRIDGE-STUDIO IS AN OBJECT BUILT MOSTLY FROM WOOD
COMMISSIONED AND BUILT BY AN ARTIST WHO UNDERSTANDS + APPRECIATES MATERIALITYABOVE: THE BOILER, ALSO FOR JOE AMHREIN
BRIDGE = LINE IN LANDSCAPE (serra)
LINE = A 2-DIMENSION GESTURE
Program : CELLULAR COMMUNICATION THROUGH GLASS
DWi-PProgram is the Cultural / Narrative aspect of Design
Digital Water i-Pavlion
DWi-P : Porous Edge
PRECEDENT STUDY
PROCESS : DUCHAMP : FRAMED GLASS
Sound field
Marcel Duchamp Roto-Reliefs - circular objects / space/ Sound-Field
DWi-P Entry / Green Roof (Ballfield Terrace) / SCAPE Landscape architects
view from Ballfield Terrace entry to teardrop park
Entry to Ballfield Terrace
Entry – Glass, Water, Stone
Ballfield Level - Plan
Ballfield level lobby
Ballfield Level
Ballfield Terrace Stair to
Ballfieild Level
Pool (WaTER)
Gym
Dance Studio: Wood, Glass, Green
Dance Studio: View to Ballfields
Education : Warped Cube / Pratt PavilionArchitecture Itself Is Education
Pratt Pavilion:
Process: Drawings
Physical Models
Hand sketches / watercolors
Ideas : Pratt Pavilion: Warped Cube
Operation of WarpageRelated to the operation performed by artist Robert Lazzarini on a Violin - for different reasons
hMa confronted with a site condition - the gap between two buildings – too small to fit a decent sized public Gallery.
Solution: Warped Cube
the public face of new Pratt Design Center
New Campus Entry Original entry 2004
Entry Ramp
new entry vestibule : stair to gallery
Menashe Kadishman’s “Suspended” at Storm King Art Center
VISCERAL SPACE
PRATT PAVILION: SUSPENDED VESSEL
Research : Woven Fabric
Research is a Process we use to Learn about our Environment
Woven Fabric
Battery Park City Master Plan : ‘Woven Fabric’
Isometric diagram showing green roofs and green landscapes
green roofs
Diagram showing park spaces Diagram showing woven fabric of the cities’ buildings and parks
North End Avenue dog park
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park
Teardrop Park
Teardrop Park
DWi-P glass wall; ballfields
North End Place Walk
bird’s eye view of ballfields and ballfield terrace
ballfield terrace park benches for sitting and watching
Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza
Irish Hunger Memorial
Irish Hunger Memorial
Making and the Scale of the Hand / The Scale of the BodyhMa Projects Incorporate the Body through the Senses
By Referencing Sound - Light - and other Sensory Experiences
PUBLISHED WORKS
Designing with Light - 2006Shape of Sound – 2014
Books that link space through natural phenomena
hMa RESEARCH
Dwi-P LightScore
Sound embedded facade SoundScore – based on Formed Light