Silence, Lines, Fractals, and Woven Operations

Silence

Lines

Woven Operations

Fractals

S.e. M. P. e . R.

System

EDUCATION

Materiality

PROGRAM

Energy

RESEARCH

Klein Bottle / Fractal Space

folded surface

a complex

CartesianCube

1. System:

Dynamic algorithmic

surfaces

Won Buddhist Meditation Hall

Space of Stasis

Architecture

Stasis

Zero and Infinity

Infinity Chapel: A Formal

Surface

A warped Cube

Infinity Chapel

Geometry + Light

Light and Sound Boxes

Form + Circulation stated through Sacred

Geometries and Ritual

Won Buddhist : Silence

Won Buddhist Active:

Movements determined by Spiral Circulation building to building

System : Movement through Space

Above: 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:

Contains 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

Bridge Studio : Line in Landscape Two crossing lines -

line is a geometric construct with no thickness;

line extends in both directions without end

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 Connectivity through the Glass Façade

DWi-P and the Transmission of Sound

DWi-P Sound Field Battery Park City North Neighborhood

Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Center: Building as Energy Source :

Solar Panels / Wind Turbine / Water Turbine

Materiality:

Architecture : at the Scale of the Hand

Hand / LED Screen -

Touch Light / Touch GlassHand: Cave in Patagonia

Painting on Stone by Hand

3. Materiality : Materials Reference the World Itself with the

most basic language - Materials

LightScore

Waterfall Table

DWi-P

Form / Water

thru

Sound + Light

Timbre

Mathematic Scaling /

an Organic System

Parallel Walls of Stone

Create a house

DWi-P –

Glass Divisions mark Calibrated Systems

of Circulation

4. PROGRAM: The cultural and Narrative Aspect of Design

Flatness of Space: ‘Infrathin’

Queens Museum of Art

Flatness of Space:

DWi-P

Program: Repetition

Repetition:

Benches / Lines of Lights

Infinity Chapel

Repetition: Screens at Buddhist Retreat

Repetition: Frit Pattern at DWi-P

Program:

Buildings with Embedded Objects / Buildings as Embedded Objects

Pratt Pavilion: Box embedded

between Existing buildings

Infinity Chapel:

Box deformed by Spheres

Program:

Projects Shaped by Sound

Ojai Pavilion: Sound Vortex

Education: Architecture Is Education

Cincinnati Sound Sections

Sound Urbanism/ Sound Ecology

Course Spring 2014

5.

Urban Analysis

Through Sound

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

2012

Studio Work:

University Texas Arlington

Cube Engages

Subway line

building lines cross subway tracks

Studio Work:

Spring 2015

Hacker-Maker

Building,

Brooklyn, NY

Roof cracks :

Fractal Crystals fill openings

2 systems meet :

Fractal / Regular Geometry

BPC Master PlanDWi-P

Global Architecture at the Scale of the Hand

6. Research : A Testing Process used to Understand our Environment

Dr. Lene Hau –

Research On Light

Infinity Chapel, NYC : Lack of Specificity of Edge

Light and Sound :

Questioning the Edge of 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 Patterns in Nature create systems of Form in

Art and in Architecture

‘Relationships, Physics, Sleep, Tragedy, and Plant Life’

NY Artist Bruce Pearson

Encyclopedia III

Pearson /hMa Sculpture collaboration: Contains Real Hard Won Insight

‘On / In’ Landscape : Text in the Urban Field / FRACTAL FORM

Pearson Text:

‘Contains Real Hard Won Insight’

Sculpture as Urban Intervention:

Pedestrian Circulation / Urban Gallery for Text + Communication

Walking, Moving, Thinking : Fractal Form : System

=

ABSOLUTE ZERO

GEOMETRY

+

NO SPACE

IN THE LANDSCAPE

Won Dharma Center : Absolute Zero

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

S i l e n c e

Areas of Sound :

Meditation = Silence / Residential Buildings = Sound

Walking Paths = Nature

Dining Hall

meditate

dine

Meditation

Live

‘Dynamic Courtyards’ : Open Spirals : movement diagrams

Silence void to Sound void =

Meditation / Dining

Permanent

Residents

CourtyardOutdoor Courtyard

with Trees

Mountain view

Courtyard 2

forest

Mountain view

forest

Nature loop = Permanent Residents Courtyard

Courtyard 1

forest

Mountain view

Dine

Meditate

walking meditation loop = guest residence 1 + 2

Retrea

t

World

visiting residences connect

Sound SpacesA dynamic connection through site // paths

Sounds of Nature

Wood Screen Frames : Infinite Bleed of Edge : 0/+

single tree single meditation

meditate

wood buildings with wood screens = disappearance at site

Materiality : LINE

BRIDGE - STUDIO : Line in Landscape

Joe Amhrien

‘Little More Than Testosterone

Driven Post Adolescent Derivative

Kitsch” 2012

Joe Amhrein presents Pierogi Gallery,

Williamsburg, to visiting SVA students

THE BOILER : STEEL OBJECT

BRIDGE-STUDIO : WOOD OBJECT

commissioned and built by Artist Joe Amhrein

BRIDGE = line in landscape (eg : Serra Sculpture at Storm King sculpture park )

LINE = that which is extended equally between 2 points

plywood boxes - Donald Judd

plywood boxes: Donald Judd

Formalism : Materiality of Wood

vs. the idea of repetition of idealized

objects (rectangles) in a Line

Cedar wood box : Bridge Studio

Formalism : Materiality of Wood vs. the Formalism of the object as a Line

Cedar-lined box frames view

Ramp = secondary Line

a crossing of 2 lines

Bridge = x-axis / Ramp = y-axis

hMa study : Bridge-Studio

Cedar Rectangular box

With embedded Stone Object (fireplace)

Framed view to trees (east) /

Framed view to water (west)

Bridge-Studio Construction

Study model Below

Landscape Lines /

Wood Boxes

Snow

linear wood box

in landscape

Bridge-Studio

2 crossing lines

Ramp crosses Bridge

Juxtaposition:

Irregularity of site vs.

Pure geometry of lines and

rectangles

wood :

an organic system

rationalized by

calibrated cuts

stone –

an organic system

rationalized by

calibrated cuts

Golden Section rectangle

Frames view

Program : CELLULAR COMMUNICATION

THROUGH GLASS

DWi-PProgram is the Cultural / Narrative aspect of Design

PRECEDENT STUDY

PROCESS : DUCHAMP : FRAMED GLASS

Sound field

Duchamp Roto-Reliefs: DWi-P Sound-Field: Recording architecture as Sound

DWi-P Entry / Green Roof (Ballfield Terrace) / SCAPE Landscape architects

Warren – Murray Passage

view from Ballfield Terrace entry to

teardrop park

Entry to Ballfield Terrace

Ballfield Level - Plan

Warren – Murray Passage

Ballfield lobby

Ballfield Level

Ballfield Terrace Stair to

Ballfield / Warren-Murray Passage

sound, water, movement

Gym

Dance Studio: Wood, Glass, Green

Dance Studio: View to Ballfields

Education : Warped Cube / Pratt PavilionArchitecture Itself Is Education

Pratt Pavilion:

Process: Drawings

Models

Hand sketches / watercolors

Pratt Pavilion: Warped Cube

‘Warp’

by artist Robert Lazzarini

Violin as Anamorph.

hMa:

site condition -

gap between buildings

too small to fit Gallery.

Solution: Warped Cube

public face : hMa Pratt Design Center

Pratt Design Center Entry todayEntry in 2006

Entry Ramp

Entry vestibule : stair to gallery

Menashe Kadishman – ‘Suspended’ - Storm King Art CenterPratt Pavilion: Suspended Object

VISCERAL SPACE PRATT PAVILION:

SUSPENDED VESSEL

Research : Woven Fabric

Research - a Process of examination

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

Battery Park City North Neighborhood Parks:

Walk North To South

Dog Park

To

Irish Hunger Memorial

Dog Park

Nelson

Rockefeller

Park

Teardrop Park

Teardrop : Boulders from upstate NY

Teardrop

Teardrop –

light

DWi-P glass / ballfields

North End Place Walk

ballfields and ballfield terrace

ballfield terrace benches : view

Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

Irish Hunger Memorial

Irish Hunger Memorial

Scale (mathematics); materiality (timbre); program; energy

PUBLISHED WORKS

Designing with Light - 2006Shape of Sound – 2014

architecture as information: architecture as sound/ as light

hMa RESEARCH

DWi-P LightScore

façade: sound is information soundscore: light is information