On Friday, June 9, at this year’s national AIA conference in San Francisco, Nader will join The Met’s vice president of construction, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, and architects Frida Escobedo and Kulapat Yantrasast, Ph.D. for a session on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural projects. The panel will give a behind-the-scenes look at how The Met works with architects to refine its mission, make decisions, and solve problems.
More info on the session HERE. Register for the AIA Conference on Architecture 2023 HERE.
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“Arts and cultural institutions are living sites of memory. They create narratives of the past informed by the present. The architect’s ability to mediate between the two is crucial.” -AN’s Malika Leiper writes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural and curatorial undertakings.
This Sunday, April 30, get a sneak peek of plans underway for NADAAA’s Turkey Bend project in Houston with a tour of the site and a panel discussion on the role of graffiti in the project. Turkey Bend is a former industrial site that is being repurposed as a community recreational space by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected Nader Tehrani as a new member of the Visual Arts. The Academy, founded in 1790, is an honorary society for excellence across academic and professional fields. The Academy brings its members together for cross-disciplinary research “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
Nader joins the company of many past notable members including Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Georgia O’Keeffe, Albert Einstein, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Nelson Mandela. Among his Visual Arts peers are Jasper Johns, Maya Lin, Peter Zumthor, Wong Kar Wai, and Francis Kéré.
All the 2023 newly elected members are listed on the Academy’s website HERE.
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On Monday, May 15 at 6:30 pm Nader will present The Animate Analytique at Perloff Hall/Decafe at UCLA in their free spring public lecture serires. More HERE.
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The US Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas building program for the Department of State and the U.S. Government community. OBO’s mission is to “provide safe, secure, functional, and resilient diplomatic facilities”. OBO has announced its 2023-2025 term Industry Advisory Group (IAG) which will be tasked with advising the OBO on best practices and innovative methods. Read on HERE.
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Nader will be presenting The Animate Analytique Monday, April 10, for Portland, Maine’s architecture, landscape, and design series Architalx. The lecture will begin at 6pm at Aura, 121 Center St, Portland, ME.
On Friday, March 31st at New York’s Center for Architecture, Nader Tehrani and Toronto-based Nima Javidi will join AIANY guests for conversation and a custom cocktail. Using “Circles & Grids” as mapping devices and metaphors, Tehrani will be in dialogue with Javidi to explore the state of the profession as a response to the urgent question, “What is at stake?”
NADAAA is participating in the Chicago Come Home: Missing Middle Infill Housing Competition, organized by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Architecture Center. The intention of the competition is to build much-needed new housing stock in Chicago’s South and West Sides. An exhibition of the 42 submitted projects that range from single-family houses to six-unit buildings are now exhibited at the CAC and will be on view until March 26. Public feedback is welcomed both in person at the exhibition and online.
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URBANISM: The doubling of plots sets up an opportunity to transform what would conventionally be two row-houses into multiple dwellings that creates a community within a single structure. HELIX2 achieves this by creating an inner court that is shared by all units, while each unit also gets its own separate terrace.
A TYPE TRANSFORMED: The proposed circulation of two traditional row-houses is merged into a double-helical staircase that accesses all units, one interior and another exterior, as the second means of egress. The row-houses are rotated perpendicular to the street, separated to form a court, with an exterior stair providing terraces for social interaction.
UNIT ‘TETRIS’ LOGIC: Most units are organized on two levels in a sectional L-configuration, creating a public/private level, or allowing a separate suite on another floor for the independence of an in-law/parental suite. While the units stack in a bespoke organization, all plumbing is stacked vertically to allow for flexible planning around units, should transformations be needed.
TECHNOLOGIES: While economy suggests wood-stud framing is the most economical for a single building, if multiple structures were considered on varied sites, mass timber, and modular systems allow for pre-fabrication and enhanced sustainable solutions. Veneer wood resin composite or fiber cement panels make for a flexible cladding rain screen envelope.
THE REAL ESTATE PROFORMA: An apples-to-apples comparison between a conventional double row-house and this proposal establishes a net-to-gross difference of 9500/900sqft of circulation for the row-house and 9500/840sqft for HELIX2, with the added advantage of a courtyard and multiple terraces.
Read more about the competition and initiative to build in Chicago’s South and West Sides via the Chicago Sun Times, Dwell, and Austin Weekly.
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