The New Hampshire Retreat and Villa Varoise (Dortoir Familial) are on display as part of the University of Miami’s Tecnoglass Lecture Series 2014-15, CALL TO ORDER: Exhibition from April 8 – August 15 in Glasgow Hall. Learn more about the exhibition here.
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The New Hampshire Retreat and Villa Varoise (Dortoir Familial) will be on display as part of the University of Miami’s Tecnoglass Lecture Series 2014-15, CALL TO ORDER: Exhibition from April 8 – August 15 in the Korach Gallery. The opening event tomorrow includes Roberto Behar’s Call to Order lecture on Building Stories: Some Works by R&R Studios, which begins at 6:30 p.m. in Glasgow Hall. Learn more about the exhibition here.
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NADAAA’s “Disciplined Negotiations with the Architectural Type” opened on Friday at the Keller Gallery at MIT. It will be on display through early April. For more information click here.
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NADAAA’s “Disciplined Negotiations with the Architectural Type” Exhibit is on display at the Keller Gallery at MIT through early April. The exhibit compares two seemingly disparate projects, Ordos 20+10 and the New Hampshire Retreat, to reveal their common preoccupation with the figural clarity of architectural typology. These two projects negotiate the constraints and conventions of type by introducing the bespoke, the aberrant, and the unique in addressing the specificities of each architectural challenge in inventive ways.
The opening event will be tomorrow at 6:30pm in conjunction with Happy Hour.
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Dortoir Familial (winner of 60th Annual PA award, AIANY and BSA Unbuilt Awards) is on display at the Wolk Gallery as part of the MIT faculty research and design collection entitled Building Discourse. On view until April 17th.
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A final opportunity to view Urban Timber, in what is the final week of the exhibition at the BSA Space. Curated and organized by Yugon Kim, the exhibit was the result of a competition, resulting in dozens of submissions. Targeting innovative ways of building with wood, the agenda of the competition was to assemble four design teams to develop their proposal with the guidance of architectural mentors —Alan Organschi, Alex Anmahian, Andrew Waugh, and me, Nader Tehrani– towards full scale mock-ups that demonstrate through making. With the four projects, also an expansive overview of the uses of wood in history, new means and methods developed in recent times and the range of products that are the result of the wood industry. Not to be missed!
I helped mentor Christina Nguyen and Sean Gaffney, two brilliant young designers who took on the structural challenge of fabricating laminated plywood slabs –post-tensioned– that could take on variable geometries to construct a landscape: a new ground. Also participant to their project, C W Keller Associates, who have done amazing work with us in the past, with Steven Holl and Mark Goulthorpe.
http://www.architects.org/bsaspace/exhibitions/urban-timber-seed-city
Duck-Work: Sean Gaffney, Christina Nguyen
Coopered Column: Timothy Olson
Four Corners: Yasmin Vobis, Aaron Forest, Ultramoderne
M2X3: Christopher Taurasi, Lexi White, Jeffrey Lee
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Construction of NoMa art installation has begun. Stay tuned for the final photos!
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Hana Kassem, Design Director at KPF and myself have put together a great roundtable discussion on the programming of public art. The speakers are fantastic and a lively discussion is inevitable. Open to all, free admission and refreshments served.
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Unable to find suitable stands for our architectural models, we commissioned ourselves to build a custom set of steel tables.
Each table has a simple frame of 1″ square tube. The steel is cut to length with double-bevels (yay for our new lubricated band saw), jigged square, and tacked together.
Resolving the corners of the implied box is the key detail of the design. The cleanly-executed welds are left unground and exposed.
The frames are topped with a raw 3/16″ plate and fitted with leveling/locking casters.
Our models, in the NADAAA gallery space.
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For the Manhattan office of engineering firm Simpson, Gumpertz and Heger we harnessed the material and processes frequently analyzed by SGH staff to produce minimal furniture for their copy-room and reception area. The pieces were built by NADAAA in our Boston fabrication space.
Plate steel is plasma-cut off-site. Extruded stock is cut and prepared in-house.
The CNC-cut plates are used to jig the steel frames of the shelving units, which are fully-welded, then tacked to the plate.
Blocking and clamps are used for fit-up, ensuring all elements are square and parallel.
The randomized fin pattern of the reception desk is achieved with spacers of different widths. These spacers ensure that all fins are perfectly parallel. The fins are subtly tacked to the back of the frames so that the connection is not visible.
The 3/8″ thick base plates of the reception desk are leveled and the vertical elements are plumbed, clamped, and welded.
The reception desk is built in three monolithic elements, each carefully designed with respect to the clearances necessary for installation.
Parke failed to measure the truck… good thing he’s lucky.
The robust copy-room tables and shelves resolve functional requirements with an absolute minimum of details: Vertical planes float past slender vertical members.
The reception desk operates as an “inflated” I-beam, with blackened-steel plates connected by a web of irregularly spaced fins.
The patterning of the fins creates shifting perceptions of transparency and opacity from different vantages.
Welds are placed in such a way that the end product reads as a pure assemblage of orthogonal planes.
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