Happy Birthday aarboretum!

She's one year old now. Awww

More Library Progress

This is all a work in progress.

Found This While Going Through Some Old Files

This is a painting I made 5 years ago.

Acrylic on Canvas
16"x12"
Spring 2005

Private Living In Times Square

Just found this video of Tanaz on YouTube. Made me smile.

LightFall

Light Fall
Installation, Spring 2007
In collaboration with Tanaz Moddaber




A multi-layered curtain of hair was suspended outside the house, across two support columns of the elevated subway track in Brooklyn, New York.  The curtain of hair becomes a landscape through which one can traverse, and is a physical manifestation of the vibrations and wind created by the subway just outside of a bedroom window.  At first it is observed from a distance.  After observation, complete submersion.

In addition to assisting with the installation, my role was to photograph the hair and record a video of Tanaz submerging herself in the hair.  To the right are still frame images from the video are shown on the upper right.

Tanaz, if you're reading this...I miss you and I'm coming to visit you in Berlin!

Test Ramp Renders

These are some really simple unofficial test renders of the library floor slabs and ramps as they are right now.

Modeled in Rhino and rendered using V-Ray for Rhino.

Next step, facade and structure. And bathrooms.
Click here to read about the concept. And here to see some diagrams.

Ipad Sprocket Pocket

Rolex Learning Center

I died when I watched this. (In a Rachel Zoe sort of way)

MVRDV Brabant Library

The music is a bit scary, but this is really cool.


The animation of the never realised plan for a central library for the Dutch province of Brabant. The project ran from 2000 - 2001 and is published in KM3 (Actar, Barcelona) and of course on the MVRDV website.

Library Facade

Just some sketches, ideas, and inspiration.

Tommy Guerrero

Photo via TommyGuerrero.com





Skateboarder + Musician = Tommy Guerrero = GOODNESS





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Library Diagrams

Click here for more.

Solar Beat

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CLICK HERE.



I dare you.



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Bunnies Laying Eggs

Happy Easter!

Library Site Sun Study

A study of the position of the sun on the corner of 23rd St and 10th Ave in Manhattan, the site for the library I'm designing in school. The smaller pauses are on every hour from 9am to 5pm. Where you see a more drastic change in the lighting is where it is switching seasons. First is winter, then Spring, Summer, and last is Autumn. Made using Google SketchUp.


(See that floating cylinder and odd looking swirling ramps? Yeah, um that's the beginning of the library. Well, you'll just have to check back in 5 weeks to see how it turns out. I still have no idea myself.)

CAC Facade

These are photos of the exterior of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio - a museum for exhibiting progressive contemporary art, but not collecting it.
Designed by Zaha Hadid.
Read Part 1 of this post here.

Urban Krag

My friend Jordan recently moved to the Oregon District, a historic neighborhood near downtown Dayton, Ohio (near where I grew up). Its a neat little neighborhood. The best part about it is The Urban Krag - its this really old church that has been transformed into a rock climbing gym, right next door to Jordan's house (which happens to be the oldest house in the neighborhood).