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As an expanding and evolving company, TEA Collection (the well-known children’s wear brand) was at full capacity within its existing space. After acquiring an adjacent loft space, a strategy was needed to connect between the spaces and organize flow between departments/programs. With a modest budget for the renovation, selective demolition was used to maximize physical [...]
Categories: Architecture, Fabrication, Furniture
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The BEND lamps seek to achieve visual thinness and functional simplicity with minimal means. Using only a single piece of ½” steel tubing, both the desk and floor lamp incorporate 4 and 5 ‘bends’ respectively to give structure and form to the lamps. The tube bending was visualized digitally and designed around readily available die [...]
Categories: Architecture, Fabrication, Prototyping
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Barrier Island Stair For the Barrier Island Residence, Sanders/Pace Architecture hired PATH to provide schematic designs as well as develop and fully detail a custom stair for a current residential project in Florida. Several schemes were investigated before arriving at a continuous steel-slat design which conceptually “wraps” the staircase, integrating and scaling the stair within [...]
Categories: Architecture
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Bayou-luminescence is an architectural installation that fuses material surface, structural volume and lighting effects into an immersive spatial experience. Its title is a play-on-words that refers to bioluminescence, a phenomenon whereby living organisms produce and emit light. Like a strange creature in the night, the installation glows from within, casting intricate shadows onto adjacent architectural [...]
Categories: Architecture, Competition, Fabrication, Installation
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CLOVE lamp PATH was commissioned to design and fabricate a custom lamp fixture for the lobby of a new building, known as the West Jackson Workshops in Knoxville, TN – with offices and workspace for several creative professionals. As an exercise in parametric variation + control, the CLOVE lamp was developed with nearly the entire [...]
Categories: Fabrication, Lighting, Prototyping
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VICE Table This project was done in collaboration with Mark Hash at the Yale School of Architecture in Aluminum Design and Fabrication and represents an interest in the testing of architectural ideas and tecniques at the furniture scale. Fit, tolerance, and material properties were carefully considered and embedded in the computer model. Understanding the overlap [...]
Categories: Fabrication, Furniture
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Random Ornament The Ornament series uses different geometric processes coupled with pseudo-random parametric tools on the computer to quickly create multiple configurations which can then be digitally configured into unique one-off jewelry pieces. The final objects are then printed using 3D rapid prototyping machines from Stainless Steel, Nylon, ABS or other materials. The first experiments [...]
Categories: Fabrication, Prototyping
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RBR:360, 2nd Place Entry the Concrete Garden The American Federal Building The beauty of Bob Murphy’s pre-cast concrete facade manifests in the crisp repetition and subtle shifts in shadow from panel to panel, creating a layered depth within the brise soleil. The building’s curved form and the repetition of the articulated panels enhance [...]
Categories: Architecture, Competition, Urban
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LAMELLAE lamp series Along with the CLOVE lamp, the LAMELLAE series was developed simultaneously as a possible fixture for the West Jackson Workshops. This series shares a similar degree of parametric variability and control available within the digital model, but also exploits the material properties of thin wood veneer. By varying the degree of twist, the [...]
Categories: Fabrication, Lighting, Prototyping
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RECESS Recess is a break from the norm – whether it is the time that we take off from work in order to play or the space that we go to for some rest from the activities that surround us. As an economic phenomenon – recession – it is also the period when we collectively [...]
Categories: Architecture, Competition, Installation
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(re)STOCK (re)STOCK is an ongoing speculative design and fabrication investigation looking to exploit the potential in coupling the efficiencies of off-the-shelf standard stock sections with the adaptability of parametric design and digital fabrication. Specifically this project takes advantage of emerging rapid prototyping technology which can effectively print stainless steel– the prints therefore carry a measurable [...]
Categories: Fabrication, Prototyping
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2011 Burnham Prize: McCormick Place REDUX (3rd Place Entry Horto in Urbs with Brandon Pace) Horto in Urbs (garden in a city) merges modern relic with bucolic landscape. Once a discrete object lodged in the landscape, McCormick place now acts as a flexible framework for synthesizing natural habitat with architectural ambition. By stratifying park passages and circulation through [...]
Categories: Architecture, Competition, Urban